Who here is from Ireland...

...too?

There's some durty durty stuff on this site. Filthy pictures an' all. Some awful Godless types...

today we lost a great good mediocre statesman

Ive to go to confession everyday after browsing this site. I get 72 hail mary's.

We will miss Willie's moustache.

in fairness willie actually helped me before by hurrying along some tedious government paperwork that was taking an age (he is was my local TD).

he must be very pissed off tonight. also his moustache is pretty damn awesome.

It had to be the Limerick minister with the gun though didnt it. lol

The name "Ireland" sounds like an ethnic joke on the irish

"intense and openly displayed anger land"

The standard 360 days of rain is the joke on us.

My avatar is a pic taken from the back of my house on one of the handful of sunny evenings last year. When the sun shines it's the greatest country on earth, Willie or no Willie.

  On 2/22/2010 at 2:09 AM, Conor74 said:

The standard 360 days of rain is the joke on us.

 

My avatar is a pic taken from the back of my house on one of the handful of sunny evenings last year. When the sun shines it's the greatest country on earth, Willie or no Willie.

Ye but you live in Kerry. Where everything is beautiful, cause nobodys there to destroy it.

kerry is the best bit of ireland.

the 'sleeping giant'

my favourite place in the world

I went down on a surfing/drinking holiday and I had fucking great time. So beautiful. If it wasnt so darn close to Cork....

best pub/leather shop in the world. you can have an excellent pint of guinness whilst having a belt and shoes made.

i have danced on tables here.

i would add krugers and tig bhric, except renovation ruined both, like so many pubs on the dingle peninsula

some of the best music i've ever experienced live was in tig bhric, sitting next to an open turf fire, with some boyos going mental on the uileann pipes and tin whistle

i was about fifteen. i miss it terribly

this says more than i could:

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=52.1979277&lon=-10.2536774&z=11&l=0&m=p

i'm jobless in three weeks. think i'll head down with a laptop and a few baggies and make some music with the most beautiful surroundings in the world as inspiration.

  On 2/22/2010 at 3:02 AM, chassis said:

If it wasnt so darn close to Cork....

In South Kerry so near West Cork, and gotta say love that part of the world. Crookhaven and Mizen Head is stunning, all around there in lovely, Glandore, Union Hall, Clon, Glengarriff etc. etc. Plus loads of hippies and great for parties. Dingle is lovely but can be a bit Deliverance-ish around there, some of them like to fight.

this girl im dating has a lot of family in Scotland. She was telling me that the government provides her aunt with a house and a car. A new car. She also said that outside of the cities a lot of houses have no electricity. I don't know what to believe

wow, ireland looks beautiful. i'd like to live in a place like that.

  On 2/22/2010 at 4:41 PM, marf said:

She was telling me that the government provides her aunt with a house and a car. A new car. She also said that outside of the cities a lot of houses have no electricity. I don't know what to believe

All true. And if you slide down a rainbow and catch a leprechaun and shake him, gold will fall from his pockets!

No free cars around here. And all electrified for a few decades now. Though if you look at my avatar there is a valley near that mountain range which was the last area in Ireland to get electricity...but back in 1967.

  On 2/22/2010 at 4:41 PM, marf said:

She also said that outside of the cities a lot of houses have no electricity.

that was true for a lot of places out in the english-welsh no-man's-land i used to live in. absolutely nowhere had gas either, had to buy in shitty canisters.

i *really* want to live somewhere as rustic as that again. somewhere in the wilds of the UK or ireland

ireland has a really good klezmer scene.

  On 2/22/2010 at 6:35 PM, ezkerraldean said:

i *really* want to live somewhere as rustic as that again. somewhere in the wilds of the UK or ireland

If by rustic you mean remote, we sure got that in some places round here. Know of some houses that are miles from their neighbours. Of course they are completely fucked from the inbreeding, but they are happy.

Its been a while since Ive visited Fungi really. Last July I was right out on the legs in a Gaeltacht area which was sweet cause I could speak with the locals but there werent very many around. The name of the place escapes me.

  On 2/22/2010 at 7:18 PM, Conor74 said:

  On 2/22/2010 at 6:35 PM, ezkerraldean said:

i *really* want to live somewhere as rustic as that again. somewhere in the wilds of the UK or ireland

 

If by rustic you mean remote, we sure got that in some places round here. Know of some houses that are miles from their neighbours. Of course they are completely fucked from the inbreeding, but they are happy.

i guess i mean both, but yeah i love that shit

although i want there to be a massive mead hall within 10 minutes walk of my house (alternatively 5 minutes drive in the mk2 Golf GTi that i will own when i live there)

  On 2/22/2010 at 6:43 PM, maoam said:

ireland has a really good klezmer scene.

awesome

How did Conan O'Brien become so popular without any discernible sense of humour? I guess Bob Hope carved out a career with okay writers too.

The village he was in at the start was Adare, Co. Limerick, which is beautiful.

I didnt laugh, then I realise Americans find this stuff hilarious. Then I laughed.