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[huariqueje]

Boy - Catherine Patrickson , 2025.

Irish , b. 1970s

Watercolour and gouache on cloth.

[markovchaingang]

summer heat forcefem

[markovchaingang]

top tips to beat the heat!

shave your body hair to reduce your natural insulation

try wearing a skirt for maximum breeziness

take these pills to reduce your metabolic rate and cause your body to generate less heat! there are some side effects though

[kaylmao]

the public transportation pervert gets off at every stop

[fellshish]

i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era

[romanitas]

#weird way to describe 1973 but i guess it’s accurate

[furthian]

[furthian]

[crazysodomite]

[erratic-meowmeow]

[an-spideog]

Did you know that -igh is pronounced differently in every dialect of Irish?

This can confuse people a lot when they're learning verbs, especially when they're taught with a mix of the dialects but each dialect is quite internally consistent with it.

This also applies to -idh as slender dh and slender gh have merged in every dialect.

In Connacht these are entirely silent, so in an unstressed syllable they're just pronounced like a schwa, a neutral vowel.

Cheannaigh (bought) -> Cheanna

Bhailigh (collected) -> Bhaile

Cuirfidh (will put) -> Cuirhe

Samhraidh (of summer) -> Samhra

In Ulster and Munster, the pronounciation is also a schwa when it is a verb form before a pronoun:

Cheannaigh sé (He bought) -> Cheanna sé

Cuirfidh sé (He will put) -> Cuirhe sé

But, if it isn't before a pronoun then it is pronounced like 'í' in Ulster and like 'ig' in Munster.

Cheannaigh Seán -> Cheannaí Seán (Ulster), Cheannaig Seán (Munster)

Nigh (Wash) -> Ní (Ulster), Nig (Munster)

Samhraidh -> Samhraí (Ulster), Samhraig (Munster)

[mf-dude]

[befikra]

i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

[befikra]

[wholefamilydeadringerforsimpsons]

its called béarla, cos you can béarla stand ta hear it!

[killue]

the world is my whale carcass

[sadclowncentral]

i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

[sadclowncentral]

no you don't understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[energyprison]

yeah man open it up in tf2 for me

[txtapollo]

put Sam Reich on Taskmaster. i wanna see the psychosexual tension between him and Greg Davies.

[snorlaxatives]

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

[kaiyves-backup]

[afurioushawk]

[aliengee]

they invented vapes not 2 cure smokers, but to get the younger generation back into smoking