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He’s a massive fan if The Beatles. He has their entire discography on vinyl records in good condition. (He bought them in the 1970s; I don’t know if that is more or less impressive).
He also likes Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzie, and The Horslips. He has a bunch of their records, too. There’s also some Pink Floyd in there.
I was raised Catholic in Ireland. Catholics, like most Christians, tend to quietly ignore the church teachings they don’t like and emphasise the parts they do.
Cuir na cathaoireacha i gceann a chéile ar críoch an lá, le do thoil
(Irish)
The Phoebus Cartel was objectively terrible, but it turns out there are perfectly good engineering reasons to limit them to 1000 hours. It has to do with the chemistry of tungsten. Those bulbs that last forever give off exceedingly little light, and the 1000 hour rule is from a standard that predates the cartel.
Have a popular, wildly successful YouTube channel with slickly-edited videos. The second-lwbel handshake is to be personal friends or professional collaborators with somebody already in Nebula.
At one point, Frankie made a fake boyfriend out of rags, but it later came to life and was incredibly socially awkward.
I am Frankie’s fake boyfriend.
Mr. Powers, everybody says that nudity and cursing aren’t Internet-safe. How much poem could there possibly be?
The one with naked people on it.
I agree. This doesn’t seem any more egregious than clicking a button on a website that says “I am over 18”.
Family Guy should never have been uncancelled.
What do you get if you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?
Nothing. You can’t cross a vector with a scaler
Irish is somewhat similar to how @jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de describes German.
-ín is a diminutive added to the end of a noun. So for example you can have:
Beag is the word that literally means small, and there are slightly different connotations. Buachaill beag is a boy who is small in size, while buachaillín is a term of either affection or derision depending on tone of voice. Bóithrín specifically means a winding country road with unkempt vegetation on the side, while a bóthair beag would be any small road.
Adjectives do not affect the words they are attached to. For example, the Irish word for red is dearg. Hence, a red rose is simply róise dearg, and a little red rose would be róisín dearg, though róisín is rarely used for flowers; it’s basically exclusively a name. If you’re talking about a flower, you’d be much more likely to say róise beag dearg, though róise dearg beag would also be correct.
Adjectives, however, can be altered by some adverbial prefixes, such as an- (very) and ró (too [much]). So, for example, very small is an-bheag, while too small is ró-bheag. (The BH there is pronounced like the English V. It can also be pronounced as W. I know the rule has to do with which vowels are adjacent, but I can’t articulate what the rule is).
The past tense of many verbs is formed by changing the initial letter. Cuir, (put), for example, becomes chuir (put [in the past]); CH here is pronounced the same as in German, which is like the sound J makes in Spanish. Negation also tends to change the first letter of a verb; for example, cuireann (puts) → ní chuireann (does not put).
Cheese isn’t a mould. It is a dairy product, whereas mould is a fungus. Some cheeses use fungi in production, such as Roquefort and Stilton, but the majority do not. Cheese is made by processing raw milk using various enzymes; if there is fungus in there, it is added towards the end of the process.
But for a real example: diamonds and graphite (pencil “lead”) are both pure carbon crystals, but one is hard and the other isn’t.
Do you have just a few minutes to discuss our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?
We mostly speak English in Ireland, so I’ll stick to Irish.
Róise (rowisha): Rose
Róisín (rowsheen): Little Rose
That’s all I’ve got.
The unification of the Italian peninsula by Rome. Because fuck the Roman Empire and fuck imperialism. (Also most of what you think you hate about Christianity is stuff the early Christians inherited from Roman culture).
Smith. Also Murphy.
Philip II of Makedon, Qin Shi Huangdi, and the person who invented salted caramel.
I rsync my home folder across installs. These are my standard extra folders.
~/Books, with subfolders by topic.
~/Comics, with subfolders by publisher, then by title, possibly with an intermediate folder for author or franchise.
~/Programming, with subfolders by language, then project.
Rye, barley, oats, and rice are also grasses.
Rye used to be a weed that evolved to resemble wheat so early farmers wouldn’t uproot it. But it evolved to resemble wheat so much that it became an edible crop in its own right.