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Thereâs a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while âOops I Did It Againâ played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it
Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11
You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.
"Irish doesn't have a word for please, you have to say if it be your will" buddy do I have news for you about "please"
"Irish doesn't have a word for hello you have to use a shorthand religious blessing" buddy do I have news for you about "goodbye"!
"In Polish the word for car is that which walks by itself" BUDDY what do you think an AUTOMOBILE is?
you have got to understand that your mother tongue is not the model of language. all your words have secret histories and layers of meaning just the same as other people's words. the word you think of as just a word has etymology, it wasn't handed down from God as a finished word. English doesn't have a word for movie you have to either refer to the recording medium or use a short version of "moving picture", isn't that cute?
official linguistics post
These are suggested for serving to recovering alcoholics, but I think theyâre just fun and cool anyway? I like a fancy beverage, it doesnât have to have booze. That cucumber Collins sounds refreshing AF
Do not quit alcohol cold turkey
Do not suddenly stop drinking alcohol as a new years resolution if you have been consistently using alcohol most days
Your body gets used to the presence of the alcohol as a sedative in your system
Suddenly removing the sedative you are chemically accustomed to is like suddenly removing the wall you are leaning on - you will topple over
You brain electricity gets overexcited
This causes seizures
This causes sudden onset dementia (Wernicke's encephalopathy)
This causes brain damage
If you use alcohol often (even in moderate amounts)
Or in large amounts
Or you have ever noticed you get shakey tremors and anxious when you stop drinking
Then your body is chemically dependant and you need to be very careful coming off alcohol otherwise you will cause brain damage
Slowly wean down the amount you drink over days or weeks
Talk to a doctor about your goals to quit and ask about support options
Medically supported withdrawal is a lot safer
If alcohol withdrawal goes badly there is a 15% chance it will kill you.
Do not go this alone
You deserve to be safe
Please reblog this or other similar posts and talk about it with people around you
Support your friends to be safe
Remember the Cold Turkey Rule:
Quitting drugs can make you feel like you're dying
Quitting alcohol can make you actually die
Do No Do This Alone
You Are Worth Helping
gaeilge <3
listen. i understand it when young people say learning irish is a waste of time because it's a dead language - i get it! 39% of people speak it fluently in its own country, it's taught horribly in schools, nobody in their right mind would go to a party, or a gathering, or meet up with a friend and start speaking irish to them unless they were in the gaeltacht.
but there is some beauty in keeping a language like irish alive. whether you feel a sense of national pride, you feel you owe it to your ancestors; maybe you just want to add another language to your list, despite how densely it's spoken. personally, im in the middle category. knowing that the older generation of this country were once - and probably still are - utterly fluent in gaeilge, they knew how to write it and speak it and think in it in a way so many young people won't be able to do.
over the summer, i was at work one afternoon when two elderly gentlemen walked in. before i could greet them, one nodded to me and said, "dia dhuit! conas tĂĄ tĂș?"
despite my being taken aback - it was, without a doubt, the first time someone had approached me and spoken in irish - i answered as well as i could, "tĂĄim go maith, go raibh maith agat!"
i don't think i'll ever forget the way he lit up when he heard me say that. his voice took on a joyful tone and he continued to fuel a short conversation with me, almost entirely as gaeilge. i reverted back to english at the end, apologising for my imperfect irish. he assured me i had a fine accent, and he said, almost proudly, that it was so wonderful to see young people speaking their language. i led them to the restaurant and returned to my seat, but all i could think about was that. how those two old men had been raised in a language like irish since birth, and who had had to witness each new wave of youngsters stray further and further from that language. i wonder if there are more elderly people like those two, who greet workers as gaeilge in every establishment they walk into, just to do whatever they can to relight the flame of their beloved language that they probably feel burnt out an age ago.
The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)
I love stuff like this. Didnât a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help
It was not a potato famine. The famine didnât happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldnât be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.
The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were âbreeding too muchâ and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.
This is why itâs important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.
Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.
This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.
In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.
Then in 2020:
Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the âgood in all of the bad that is going onâ
Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:
A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun
Reblog this to ease the back pain of the person you reblogged it from
"I'd destroy the world to protect you" but it's a parent/child relationship
"I hate everyone but I love you more than anything" but it's two best friends
"you're the only one who can bring me back when I lose myself" but it's siblings
one of the more upsetting things you notice if you look back at older european weapons is that nobody fucking named any of the types of flail so you've gotta describe them by appearance every single time
me: this is so clearly a distinctive and recurring type of flail that would have to be used in an entirely different way than a normal flail. people fought with and against this hundreds of times. people died to this. they had to have a name for this. it CANNOT just be called a flail again
over 700 years of european history:
meanwhile in polearm land
Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet
from the same thread:
I once wore green cargo pants with a black hoodie in Belfast in the mid 2000s and two separate people yelled "alright there Kim Possible?"
I believe in Scottish independence. Irish independence, of course. And Welsh independence. Manx independence. Cornish independence, if they so desire. If they all decided to create a commonwealth and kick England out, Iâd support that too.
Northumbrian independence babeyyyy!
cheers to that
wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factorsâŠâŠ.whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britainâs invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never knowâŠ.
âwhy do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldnât have been *that* bad!!â
This was in place till 1973.
Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy
The stereotype of âthe Irish are drunksâ is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. Itâs bullshit.
Hey guess what alcohol is often used as a coping method by poor and disenfranchised people in order to get away, if only for a few minutes, from the absolute shithole that is their lives
I WONDER WHY a group that wasnât permitted to own media, have privacy in their own homes, go to church or any other desired social gathering, and which was considered guilty until proven innocent might have turned to alcohol.
I also wonder why that might have happened at a time when drugging your children with alcohol would quiet their starving screams because the English stole all your food and you had nothing left to feed your babies.
I WONDER.
(In other words any time you see the accusation of âtheyâre all drunksâ leveled at any particular group, itâs a good time to ask what the Irish, Native Americans, Black men, American men in general in the 1930s, Soviet Russian men, and Indians have in common. If you came up with âoh! Absolutely crippling levels of poverty in the face of a government that either valued profit over lives or actively oppressed them, and an inability to change this due to the structural nature of said oppression,â congratulations, you know a depressing amount about history.)
why are british people always so mad when people make jokes about their accents. sorry you say yewchube. itâs funny though innit
This is something Iâve been dying to talk about.
Thereâs something called culture. People (especially USAmericans) think of culture as cultural dress, cultural food, cultural music. These are culture, but they are only the very superficial aspects of it. Like the icing on your cake. Far more deep rooted is the more meaty bits of culture: the attitudes, the ideas, the taboos.
Thereâs a guy on tiktok who has done a series that shows this very well, of Germans Vs Irish. In one video the German offers the Irish person two kinds of tea, green or black. The Irish person keeps putting off the choice with things like âOh sure whatever is easiestâ, âWhich have you more of?â and, âAh sure I donât want to cause a fussâ whereas the German just wants a straight answer. This is a cultural difference of politeness.
Here in the UK, accents mark your class very openly. They let everyone know where youâre from (though this has become less pronounced in the last 50 years,) and what your background is. A lot of people (especially northerners, but also a fair contingent of working class southerners) face discrimination on the basis of their accents.
Some of us (myself included) even change register (though I believe USAmericans call it code switching) in and out of our regional accent and a close approximation of RP. We learn to do it because it makes us seem more intelligent (even though it shouldnât) and helps us be taken more seriously.
Thus, our country carries a lot of baggage when it comes to accents. Especially those of the working class who have had their accents made fun of, or have faced discrimination based on it.
So when someone outside the country (usually USAmericans) makes fun of our accents theyâre stepping on a lot of cultural taboos and boundaries. Especially because the âItâs Chewsday, gonnae wot-ch sum yewchube innitâ is a working class accent.
Now, thatâs not to say we canât take a joke, but this is the kind of joke you share with someone who you have been friends with for a while. My boyfriend often will pick up on the way I say certain words, in much the same fashion I pick up on his idiosyncrasies of speech (English isnât his first language so he says stuff like close the lights, which is adorable.) If we arenât predisposed to liking you, then the joke youâre trying to make is more like an insult.
The way I like to think of it is if you were in a pub, and made those sorts of jokes to someone. If they knew you, and they liked you, theyâd probably laugh along. If they didnât like you or know you, they would punch you in the jaw.
HOWEVER: I recognise this post as a joke. I donât personally find these jokes offensive, but then no one really makes fun of me or considers me stupid because of my accent.
Oh that actually makes a lot of sense! Itâs like how itâs assumed in media that the southeastern Appalachian (âhickâ or âredneckâ) accent is audible shorthand for âthis American character is stupid.â That sentiment reinforces negative stereotypes about that region which has historically been home to a large working class population that has suffered from an underfunded education system and other systematic abuses. It is ultimately an underhanded joke, but not everyone from America (or even the region necessarily) considers it to be offensive despite its classist nature.
yes, thatâs basically it! it grinds my gears when certain Very Online Americans will quite rightly say that europeans have no right to mock the usâ lack of healthcare/gun control and working-class accentsâŠbut then turn around and act like working-class british accents and foods are hilarious and should be mocked âbc of colonialism and the bp oil spillâ as though all british people are directly responsible for the oil spill. and then some of them conveniently forget that there are in fact british people of colour - in the wake of brexit, a smug american blog defended saying that british people upset by the referendum were getting âkarmaâ for the british empire, even when british poc pointed out that they were the ones most likely to be negatively affected by brexit, by saying âobviously i donât mean youâ, to which said british poc responded âTHEN WHY DID YOU SAY BRITISH PEOPLEâ
The hatred, by the privileged of England, towards Scotland and any Scottish accent was so pervasive that my mother wouldnât let my brother and I develop a Scottish accent. She was born in Jamaica but her family moved to London when she was 11. She moved to Scotland when she was pregnant with me. Both my brother and I were born in Scotland and spent out entire childhood there. Mum was adamant that neither of us would have the local accent. It was âcommonâ and âlow classâ and âwould hinder us in the futureâ. She used to fine us half our pocket money if we used any Scottish slang or said anything in a Scottish accent. I got bullied at school for having a âposh English accentâ but she thought my job prospects were more important than a modicum of happiness at school. My outsider status was doubled by that. I was brown and âEnglishâ.
Even now, after decades in Scotland, I still donât sound Scottish. The English hear a slight lilt but that disappears as soon as I spend any time with them.
I feel alienated on two fronts now, skin colour and accent. And one of those was avoidable if it hadnât been for the prejudice against against perceived lower class accents. Even in Jamaica Mum learnt to speak in an English accent like the white girls at her school. She could switch between the two. Jamaican with her parents, posh English everywhere else. Why couldnât I have had that?
The fact that a lot of regional actors are expected to code-switch their accent patterns the a kind of neutral English accent in Britain shows how pervasive the classism is.
When Christopher Eccleston was cast as the Doctor in Doctor Who, people were surprised that he used his own northern accent, instead of performing with an accent like every Doctor before him. That was only 15-ish years ago.
Even now, this still happens - James McAvoy made a very vocal protest a couple of years back about a critic who complained about the use of Scots accents and only applauded the âplummy Englishâ accent of one character in a play.
Regional and working class accents were used as joke accents for decades in British media. Look up old broadcasts and notice how many people only speak RP English (ie. the formal pronunciation that smacks of elocution lessons and enunciation). As media accessibility and productions expanded, there have been more regional accents showing up, but itâs still a big problem.
Putsimply when you mock âinnitâ youâre mocking poor people and often people of colour. Boris Johnson doesnât say âinnit bruvâ.
I would like to add that there was a study by the Worcester College that found that people talking with a Birmingham accent were twice as likely to be accused of a crime as people who speak RP. Accents carry huge baggage in Britain.
official linguistics post
Apparently KAOS is the first thing David Thewlis has ever done in which he used his normal Blackpool/Lancashire accent. (This was apparently a Whole Thing for the entire show, actually. No one used an accent other than their regular-degular everyday accent.)
wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factorsâŠâŠ.whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britainâs invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never knowâŠ.
âwhy do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldnât have been *that* bad!!â
This was in place till 1973.
Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy
The stereotype of âthe Irish are drunksâ is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. Itâs bullshit.
Hey guess what alcohol is often used as a coping method by poor and disenfranchised people in order to get away, if only for a few minutes, from the absolute shithole that is their lives
I WONDER WHY a group that wasnât permitted to own media, have privacy in their own homes, go to church or any other desired social gathering, and which was considered guilty until proven innocent might have turned to alcohol.
I also wonder why that might have happened at a time when drugging your children with alcohol would quiet their starving screams because the English stole all your food and you had nothing left to feed your babies.
I WONDER.
(In other words any time you see the accusation of âtheyâre all drunksâ leveled at any particular group, itâs a good time to ask what the Irish, Native Americans, Black men, American men in general in the 1930s, Soviet Russian men, and Indians have in common. If you came up with âoh! Absolutely crippling levels of poverty in the face of a government that either valued profit over lives or actively oppressed them, and an inability to change this due to the structural nature of said oppression,â congratulations, you know a depressing amount about history.)
