Was It For This?

24 thoughts on “Was It For This?”

1. Clampers Outside! July 13, 2017 at 12:14 pm

   But it’s an “American” question….

   ‘do you speak American?’

   As in… ‘put out the trash’ instead of ‘its brown bin day today, put the feckin’ thing out will ya’…. or, a ‘clamp’ is a ‘car boot’, or a ‘fanny’ is the small of your tummy above your bits….

   Or have I read that wrong… :)

   ” Car Boots Outside! ”

   Nah…. doesn’t do it for me.
2. Bertie Blenkinsop July 13, 2017 at 12:15 pm

   A little piece of you,
   The little peace in me,
   Will die (This could be a miracle),
   For this is not America.
3. bisted July 13, 2017 at 12:18 pm

   …that survey was not conducted in Dundrum Shopping Centre…
   1. dav July 13, 2017 at 12:39 pm

      like, I know!
      1. Daisy Chainsaw July 13, 2017 at 2:17 pm

         Todally.
   2. Graeme July 13, 2017 at 11:08 pm

      That would be covered by the blue Vocabulary marker which you can see is much further along than the UK.
4. Tony July 13, 2017 at 12:20 pm

   We’re the worst at speaking American English!

   Get in moy sahn!
5. Paul July 13, 2017 at 12:23 pm

   The immigration cost to the UK in graphic form…
6. Frilly Keane July 13, 2017 at 12:25 pm

   hey its a win
   1. bertie blenkinsop July 13, 2017 at 12:38 pm

      and stuff
7. Janet, I ate my avatar July 13, 2017 at 12:48 pm

   well I think know that’s rather to our credit
8. Termagant July 13, 2017 at 12:58 pm

   In this context though “British” just means “correct”.
   1. Janet, I ate my avatar July 13, 2017 at 1:02 pm

      correct
   2. Brother Barnabas July 13, 2017 at 1:59 pm

      Not at all. American English spelling (endings in -or, for instance) derive from Latin, whereas British English spelling (endings in -ur etc) derive from French. Neither is more correct than the other. Little bit of trivia for you: Shakespeare used both more or less equally.
      1. Janet, I ate my avatar July 13, 2017 at 2:11 pm

         well sir I put it to you
         Shakespeare was a bum
         1. Brother Barnabas July 13, 2017 at 2:19 pm

            an ass, you surely mean
9. Steph Pinker July 13, 2017 at 1:15 pm

   Why was the Profile in Pettiness post removed, and what was it about – anyone?
   1. Vote Rep #1 July 13, 2017 at 1:28 pm

      I am curious about that as well
   2. Termagant July 13, 2017 at 1:28 pm

      It concerned our current Taoiseach being asked a series of searching and incisive questions based on a report by Rory Hearne and replying that he was at Trinity with Rory Hearne and he met him once and he wasn’t pleasant.

      I have no answer for your other question.
      1. Steph Pinker July 13, 2017 at 1:33 pm

         Thanks.
         1. Birneybau2 July 13, 2017 at 1:35 pm

            I came in here to ask the same.
   3. Bodger July 13, 2017 at 1:36 pm

      Steph, Rotide and Vote Rep, sorry, we should have a new version of that post up in a moment.
      1. Steph Pinker July 13, 2017 at 1:50 pm

         So, no conspiracy then? Pity, I like a good old-fashioned conspiracy of a Thursday :(
10. Murtles July 14, 2017 at 9:19 am

    Surely this is a win for us that we’re not as easily influenced by the tide of American TV that we are subjected to. Although there are too many Irish kids interspersing “like” and “uhmmm” into their sentences.

    And it’s Mammy not Mom.

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