The Octonaut

Oh its pretty broad. Actual idioms my British colleagues have used in my presence:

• “That’s a bit Irish isn’t it?” - something done nonsensical or confusingly (to a Brit)
• “She had a bit of a paddy.” - she got angry and aggressively. Because, y’know, how aggressive we’ve been to them I guess?

Other words like Hooligan and paddywagon have indeed passed the threshold of correctable to “sorry that’s just an English word now”.

“brits” isn’t derogatory.

That really depends who is saying it. Cat Deeley? No. Me, 5 minutes into what was supposed to be a neutral discussion of Irish history? Weeeellll…

I don’t think the meme should be exclusively about building/fixing PCs though. Half the young people starting in our business show the same ineptitude as my parents when tasks with clicking stuff.

That would have been a great article to post here a year ago

Them not being part of the region doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

I fully support the Palestinian cause - I’m Irish, so that’s not a shock - but the quotes just looks petty and childish, like the Americans still saying “Drumpf”.

Acknowledging something is real is probably the first step to dealing with a threat.

Do we post opinion pieces on news communities now?

Be careful, I heard that having strong opinions on seed oils lowers your testosterone

I do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony

tax dollars

What

Ukraine certainly was one of the most corrupt nations in Europe. Pre-pandemic its CPI score was 30, placing it between Bolivia and Myanmar.

Russia scored 28 (ie, worse). So I’m not sure what outcome you expect from Ukraine losing. I’m also interested to hear if you think countries like Mexico, Nigeria or Cambodia, also below Ukraine in the ranking, are “evil” and don’t deserve statehood.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019

One point to disagree on: less teens than ever are having sex, and with no actual experience, their imaginations are based on porn. No wonder they’re terrified of it, if their first impression is what comes up when you Google “boy girl have sex”.

It also reminds me of “and then everyone clapped”

One of the good things about living in Ireland is that I’m 99% our government is neither competent enough to perpetrate elaborate crimes against its people without being exposed almost instantly, nor powerful enough that even fascists getting into government would have a meaningful impact bar providing a colourful humorous segment of the inevitable documentary on Europe’s second fall to the Axis.

I work for a telecom. In my country there is well regulated legislation that specifies how and when the police can ask the telecoms for cell location data, usually used for missing people.

They also provide large scale, anonymised data for crowd movement analysis. For example it was used to demonstrate how 60,000 people moved into and out of a stadium located for historical reasons in an old-fashioned, dense residential area, in preparation for the arrival of English football fans.

You are correct. In my defence:

In Old English, ⟨ð⟩ (called ðæt) was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone /ð/, which exist in modern English phonology as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

They’re using Thorn Edd, the single character that represented the Th sound in old English (still used in Icelandic).

It’s a harmless little quirk in their own writing, although editing the title of a book to include it seems pretty silly.

Yes you are. But that’s not how school credit works?

Is that a school subject in America?

Which subject did “show up on time” give you credit towards?

Um.

Does Ev have an Iron Cross on his hand?

Edit: questions bad?