Ireland


I got accused of being from Dublin yesterday for pronouncing RPG as “or pee gee” rather than “ar pee gee” 😭

I blame my parents sending me to elocution lessons as a child to get the culchie out of me



Irish politics

the president doesn’t have much power or particular influence but if Miggeldy gets replaced by some Fianna Gael gombeen it is really going to drag down the vibes of the whole country a little bit





the thing about Ireland is it might only be 16°C but it’s also 100% humidity so walking up hill to the train station with a backpack on I am drenched in sweat and it just doesn’t evaporate because the air is made of water




Everyone in Ireland in the eighteenth century seeing a rat for the first time: That cunt is French!

Context

Rats were introduced to Ireland around the 1720s and the word for rat and French are the same, a clipping from luch Fhrancach which literally means French mouse.