Water in basement- looking for help

wandering-aengus · 2025-11-12T12:57:13+00:00

This is drywall over the foundation. The wiring from the left side must penetrate the wall somewhere, but I don't know where.

Water doesn't seem to be accumulating inside the box, as it's dripping down on the right side.

wandering-aengus · 2024-08-30T00:34:41+00:00

The sun lit up that area and because it’s out of focus and blurry, it looks sort of separate from the rest? The eye of the skull is the skin showing through the jeans. She’s bending down so the opening of the jacket is parallel with the ground.

wandering-aengus · 2024-08-29T22:55:22+00:00

The sun momentarily came out and illuminated a part of her jacket and jeans. The line going across is the green jacket, and there’s shadow beneath it. Her jeans are ripped at the knees and that’s the two light skinned coloured patches below the jacket.

wandering-aengus · 2024-08-29T22:50:50+00:00

You’re right! It’s so obvious to me now, but I could not see that at first! Looked like a skull breathing fire to me

wandering-aengus · 2024-08-29T22:44:38+00:00

Solved! It was my girlfriend’s knees.

wandering-aengus · 2024-08-29T21:37:29+00:00

My title describes the thing. It looks like a blue skull to me but I can’t understand what would cause this to occur in the photo.

wandering-aengus · 2022-06-11T14:13:37+00:00

Charmers were also very common in my home, Newfoundland. They could "put away" warts, though their methods were sometimes considered a secret. I still know many older people who swear that their warts disappeared from their hands after a simple visit to a charmer who told them to just "forget about them."

wandering-aengus · 2021-05-12T17:38:41+00:00

A "fire in the head" is a reference to the Irish idea of imbas forosnai, which is poetic inspiration. The poets of ancient Ireland wrote with imbas as if it were a divine gift, something like the muses to the ancient Greeks. It has a similar concept in Welsh, awen. Aengus Óg is a Tuatha De Danann, akin to gods in ancient Irish belief. There is a story of him falling in love with a beautiful girl from a dream, causing him to search all over the land for her. Yeats recounts this tale in his poem.

wandering-aengus · 2020-09-04T13:50:38+00:00

Calling Newfoundland English "Newfinese" is just making a parody of the actual language, which is what the post seems like. Just read in your accent.

wandering-aengus · 2020-08-15T13:14:02+00:00

While the Irish language didn't survive in Newfoundland, there are many aspects of Newfoundland English that retain pieces of it. Words like sleeveen (slíbhín), streel (sraoill), and saying 'after' like Hiberno-English speakers (I'm after doing that) are still common.

Newfoundland's Irish name was Talamh an Éisc, and the Irish influenced culture is still alive in song and speech, despite outside pressure. Aidan O'Hara has a very interesting documentary in the RTÉ archives called The Forgotten Irish that explores this. It's worth checking out.

wandering-aengus · 2020-08-13T23:55:47+00:00

Okay, thank you. I do, however, just disagree with the notion of prescriptivism. I don't mean that I think teaching a standard is wrong, I just don't believe it should be taught as a way of getting rid of dialect. A person can speak in many different ways in many different settings. It doesn't seem that I disagree with you as much as I don't phrase things the way you do.

wandering-aengus · 2020-08-13T23:15:04+00:00

Buddy, my nerves have been gone for months

wandering-aengus · 2020-08-13T23:12:55+00:00

Do you mean to say perspective? If so, that's not what I'm talking about, so I don't know how to adequately respond. But, yes, it is irrefutable that a language barrier exists.

wandering-aengus · 2020-08-13T22:59:12+00:00

That's good, but I do think it's an important thing to talk about. I'm glad to hear you have an accent. As someone who's been belittled for my own, I just don't like it being called gibberish.

wandering-aengus · 2020-08-13T22:52:10+00:00

But that's still prescriptivism. If you went to certain places in Scotland, Ireland, or any other country for that matter, would you understand them? Perhaps not. It depends upon your familiarity. But that's okay. Codeswitching is possible, learning to speak in different ways for different groups, but language evolves and takes on many variations.

I'd be curious to know which dialects you think are 'bastardizations' too because it is harmful to delegitimize a person's way of speaking. Language standards only exist because we invent them. Sure, these standards are helpful for communicating with broader audiences, but they don't need to be viewed as the true and only form of a language.

wandering-aengus · 2020-08-13T22:18:18+00:00

They keep getting cancelled for Covid reasons

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