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Reblog to give the person you reblogged it from the energy to do one (1) chore or maybe many
*crying and shaking* please reblog from me, please i beg of you
Competionist taking a massive L
Actually watched the video. I take it back
@ people who were not born in Ireland and particularly Americans
- It is not Patty’s Day, it is Paddy’s Day. Patty is short for Patricia, Paddy is short for Pádraig which has been anglicised to Patrick. - It is not Gaelic, it is Irish. In Irish, the language is called Gaelige but that’s pronounced Gwayl-geh. - Literally no one in Ireland has ever eaten corned beef and cabbage - We have also never said top of the morning - If you pinch an Irish person for not wearing green on Paddy’s Day they’re likely to slap you. - Why do you dye your drinks green? - It is not “North Ireland” it is “Northern Ireland”. It is not “South Ireland” it is “The Republic of Ireland” or just “Ireland”. - No, I do not know the Dohertys of Mayo. - Please, if you must, do things for the craic and not the crack. Cocaine is not a great habit lads. - Drinks like the “Irish car bomb” and the “black & tan” are incredibly offensive (you wouldn’t drink a “9/11”)
However
- Wearing green is grand - Having a few drinks is also grand, they don’t even need to be Irish (I drink a Swedish cider most of the time) - Aye sure queue up some Irish music on youtube it’s great. - If you want one Irish word to use throughout the day a good one is Sláinte (pronounced slawn-sha) - it’s the equivalent of saying “cheers” before you drink!
Please be respectful on Holidays like this! It’s great to join in and show your respect & appreciation for other cultures celebrations, but remember to actually do that! Have fun, but stay respectful to the culture and religion. 😊
Fun history of corned beef and cabbage.
Beef is cheap in America (lots of land, lots of cows, so there’s such a thing as cheap cuts). So a lot of immigrants who could never afford beef in their home country now had access to beef.
(Example spaghetti and meatballs is an Italian-American invention).
Now Americans hated immigrants (plenty stilldo sadly) and hated anyone who wasn’t Protestant so you had segregation. So in New York the Irish Catholic area was next to the Jewish area. There was solidarity between American Irish and American Jewish immigrants. So Irish-Immigrants bought corned-beef from Jewish butchers.
(In Ireland, you may eat bacon or lamb for St Patrick’s Day, but lamb was (and is) expensive in America, and Irish Immigrants got their meat from Kosher butchers - no bacon).
Brisket is a cut of meat from the front of the cow. It’s a very tough cut of meat. The salting process (it’s like soaked in salt for over a week) and cooking for hours and hours (it’s an all day stew) makes it tender.
So corned beef and cabbage is a dish that evolved out of affordable ingredients (tough cut of beef, cabbage and carrots and potatoes are dirt cheap) and proximity to Jewish immigrants.
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations as we know them now (parades and the like) were started in America by Irish-American immigrants. Because WASP Americans (white, Anglo Saxon, Protestants) hated Catholics and hated the Irish.
And for all immigrants there was a big push to assimilate (give kids English sounding names, forget your language, become Protestant). But people don’t give up religion easily, names and language maybe, but not God.
So still today you have Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, Mexican Catholics, etc and even Americans who aren’t practicing Catholic or aren’t religious may view being raised Catholic as part of a cultural identity linked to their heretage (the same way someone who doesn’t practice Judaism is still Jewish, some difference since Judaism is a hereditary religion, but for immigrants in a country that hates Catholics, being Catholic, having that tradition was and is part of being an outsider to American, part of an identity those in power hated and tried to erase).
So holding giant Irish pride parade celebrating the Catholic patron Saint of Ireland was sort of a “fuck you” to anti-Catholic anti-Irish sentiment. A “fuck you” to the idea that being an American meant erasing your traditions and history and pretending to be a White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
Look at us being proudly Irish and still Catholic. Obnoxiously, visibly Catholic and acting ways that the puritanical Protestants hate.
So what was a family religious Holiday became a big, visible celebration of heretage and homeland (a shared identity). And since it’s a celebration immigrants splurged by buying a big cut of beef (beef is cheaper in America, but immigrants did not have a lot of money and meat is still more than vegetables, so any cut of beef was still a special occasion thing) and supported their Jewish neighbors who ran the butcher’s shop.
(also, since it’s a St’s Feast, Lent restrictions on meat and drinking alcohol didn’t count, so eat a lot of meat and drink).
St Patrick’s Day in the US has its own history, heretage and ties to religion (and persecution for that religion). Traditions are tied to that history. So Corned Beef and Cabbage may not be a thing in Ireland but it’s a part of Irish-American tradition, history and culture.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/
What a lovely explanation of diaspora culture!
Cross your fingers for Disney losing full Avengers rights
Just to be clear this would not make them unable to make the movies they’d just have to properly pay the creators and their families for the use of the characters.
I fucking hope they lose so bad.
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some dude on survivor outed another survivor who happened to be trans and called it “deception” like this was some damn soap opera and everyone was like ”lmao that’s personal and not your fucking problem?” and the host immediately said “We don’t need to vote, just grab your torch” and had him kicked off. that’s some instant fucking karma.
IT’S REAL (two parts, second half here)
Video links are broken, but I wanted to clarify:
the outer wasn’t even particularly anti-trans, he was just desperate to stay on the show
everyone was less “lmfao that’s personal” and more “wtf that’s personal”
When he did it, everyone’s head whipped around– not at Zeke, the transman, but at the asshole
While poor Zeke is stunned into silence, all of the people who just found out are restraining themselves from dragging this fucker under the water
Guy has the realization ON CAMERA of exactly how low he’d sunk while everyone is ripping him a new one
The host lets it go on for about a minute and then is just like, yeah, we’ve got consensus, grab your torch and get the fuck out
afterbonus:
CBS was prepared to scrap the episode rather than out Zeke, but Zeke and GLAAD said “No, show it. Let people see that shit.”
The asshole’s day job also told him to grab his torch and go home
He never tried to play himself as the victim, and publicly apologized for what he himself described as “assault.”
Once when I was five my grandmother tucked me into bed and just before she kissed me goodnight/went to leave I stopped her, with soft urgency, and spoke a small, "🥺 Grandma? Does it hurt to die?" And she smiled down at me, sat more firmly on the bed and tucked me in a little more snugly before saying "Oh sweety, of course it does. Your heart stops 😊" and then just fucking left.
The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.
Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.
Checkmate, nihilism.
This is a powerful positive message..
I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.
There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.
No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.
Knit a sock.
If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.
This is really good advice for ADHD people because when executive dysfunction gets bad it’s easy to fall into this pattern of thinking. Do just one thing. It doesn’t have to be your homework, or a chore. It can be something small, it can be something you enjoy. But do just one thing to remind yourself that you can.
This is what “humans want to be productive” really means
We want to make things. We want to do something and at the end of the process see that something has changed. We want physical proof that we did something. We want to be able to point at something and say “I made this”. We want to be creators
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"I don't support it in real life"
Then stop normalizing it Then stop romanticizing it Then stop pretending it’s “hot” Then stop pretending it’s “cute”
will you ever understand that fiction is NOT reality
the brain reacts to fictional situtations they same way it does with real situations
a collection of links to articles about how fiction affects reality
but yeah, fiction totally doesnt impact reailty
you cant say “representation is important” and then in the next breath say that “fiction does not affect/ isn’t reality” like of Course fiction affects people, why the fuck would it make us feel things otherwise
just gonna leave this here…
Everyone who says that fiction doesn’t affect reality needs to read about The Jaws Effect
A tree trunk throne in Kendall, England.
Doesn’t look safe for a mortal.
if you sit there you belong to the fae
That’s the Fae’s problem
That is such a strong, bold, confident statement and I respect you for it.
Aromantic people who desire and want to be in relationships are valid ✨
Asexual people who desire and want to have sex are valid ✨
Both labels are very complex and can mean something a little different to each individual while still remaining under the umbrella. Just because you may feel little or no attraction in either regard doesnt mean you can't still enjoy the concepts and feelings. Please remember that ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
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