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Describe your day in the manner of an 18th century english aristocrat

  • 30-10-2011 12:33am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭


    :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    T'wasnt bad!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Spiffing old bean... shneet, sniff sniff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Verily, off to the infirmary went I, not before taking mine pair of stately hounds for a brief constitutional, to the infirmary where alas lays mine most beloved young sister. Following a lengthy stay by said siblings bedside off home set I, partaking to gaze upon warbling wannabes and judges in a cunning test of skill whilst all the while munching upon a delightful concoction of bread and cheese and tomato and sausage and pepperoni washed down with caramel flavored carbonated beverage.

    T'wll not be til the morrow which I discover which wannabe hast ended thy journey upon the road to stardom, and which shall continue to enthrall me in the coming weeks, indeed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭HLecter


    Arise Sir the noon has past,
    Bedraggled by thine own crust,
    To sweat in vain for vanity sake,
    To swim for sake of swimming
    And thence to dine,
    The forbidden mini fish box,
    Gaze from distance,
    Upon lustful times of past,
    And wenches fine,
    Rest thine wrist,
    Upon paper sheet.


    (woke up in a ball, went to the gym, watched filth)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I always liked this, read it years ago

    They hang the man, and flog the woman,
    That steals the goose from off the common;
    But let the greater villain loose,
    That steals the common from the goose.

    Was to do with landowners taking over common land

    You could almost apply it to today, mortgage holders going to court while the golden circle are being looked after ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭edgesgirl


    Arose I, this early morn and prepared a feast for a wench I am well accustomed with. Much wine we drank and laughed heartily till I, noticing the hour, invited them to return in the morn for tea and pigs insides encased in matter. They agreed and gleefully we bid them good night until the morrow. When we shall meet again.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭Broads.ie


    I have a penchant for proclivities.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    I doth playeth well in a pastime calleth CoD4: Modern Warefare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Ones Matriarchal Figurehead.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Manach wrote: »
    I doth playeth well in a pastime calleth CoD4: Modern Warefare.

    Was that line not in Hamlet??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭Mr Trade In


    I got me brain medcine from Nation Healt...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    "Our hedge master died in 1805 and since then weve had no school, and for what we see of the CIE sure we might as well be in Kabul.
    And yet we might get the auld electric light and then again... We might not, and the Christmas mail arrives without fail after Easter in Drumsnott."
    Brian ORourke.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭Kanoe


    I slumbered mostly, in my chambers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Ones Matriarchal Figurehead.

    No. Your matriarchal figurehead


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    What ho you c*nting aristocrats what?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    :D

    You dont want to do your homework?

    This makes me puke. The internet is there..hes too lazy.

    OMG we used BOOKS. WE HAD TO READ THEM!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭weeder


    it was shi te


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    Bringith me another kitchen boy, I've just split this one


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    Surely, by God while fiddling with this new Babbage difference engine, I have recently become cognisant of the fact that Master Tesco and Sons will deliver all one's weekly wares and needs right to the tradesman's entrance of one's manor. How convenient but if I was avail of such dispensation, I fear the kitchen boy would become to indolent and focus his attentions on pilfering from my good self.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    I am contemplating on summoning my carriage, so as I could attend an evenings entertainment accompanied by some fine ale at the gentlemen's club.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    Bloody Sunday - U2.

    I'm playing too?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭4Sheets


    It was the best of days it was the worst of days.
    Im sure someone will point out my quote is 19th century!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    Sitec wrote: »
    excreted foul movements from last moons antics, yondered 2 metric mile to partake in a quick alcoholic brew with humerus chums.

    Why Lord Sitec, i do believe your governess has failed you. Lest your intention was to equate your quaffing company to the upper bone of ones arm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,126 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Scatter he withal vile water


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    i arose early noon, had brew and crumpet in the portico, i doth errand with hounds on toe, i doth dug the poppies, swede and carrots and handed into scullery to be prepared for meal,


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Its been a rum bollox!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    My head aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
    My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
    Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

    Last night I imbibed to much spirit at the gentleman's club, one mustn't, but I dearly suspect cook is trying to poison her good master, that foul creature, I will notify my very good friend Sir Robert Peel of her foul and immoral transgressions.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    what 0 old bean i say it was jolly spiffing of you to invite me to lunchon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    "Our hedge master died in 1805 and since then weve had no school, and for what we see of the CIE sure we might as well be in Kabul.
    And yet we might get the auld electric light and then again... We might not, and the Christmas mail arrives without fail after Easter in Drumsnott."
    Brian ORourke.
    WHAT:eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Good sirs and Mistresses of the forum, this indeed is a wondrous thread, for which mine own heart has heavy beatings.

    My own fair day which of course was not yet today but rather the day of yesterday went as follows in this missive:

    I arose from my nightly bed and completed my toilet, before I journeyed to from my domicile to my erstwhile location for manual labour. Here I soundly beat my serfs into action for the coming day's employment. As a caring overseer, please note that I seldom issue more than twelve lashes at the start of the day. And from this auspicious start we then went hence to our stations and proceeded to complete a full days grafting employment. Once the day's work was completed I didst allow my serfs to rest, whilst I returned to my loving home to partake of an excellent meal, prepared for me by the finest of gourmet chefs by the name of TESCO Ready Meals.

    Finally at the end of such an arduous day I proceed to my chambers whereupon I took the opportunity to avail myself of my bed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    The day began, as many a day before it, as I was awakened from my slumber, by what seemed in my still somnambulant state, to be the loud squeals of some misbegotten animal in distress. Eventually, I determined the sounds to be emulating from myself – no doubt the effects of last night’s wine had affected the delicate balance of my brain once again.
    I rose quickly, performed my toilet and breakfasted on the remains of last night supper.
    I spent the day in quiet reflection, meditating on the beauty of my surroundings while reading aloud some of my favourite prose.
    Alas, as evening fell, my mood did match the changing of the light, turning to darker thoughts. After a meal of fortified port, to town I did speed and into a tavern of ill repute did I enter. It is said (though by who, I know not) that the Inn of Jack of the Copper Face contains the dregs of society, poor tormented souls whose solitary aim in life seems to revolve around the sating of the most basest of human urges.
    Though I know I would admonish myself in the morn, I did now wholeheartedly join these twisted souls in their macabre dance, delighting in the pleasures of the flesh with a young nursing wench from some god-forsaken town in the countryside.
    Tomorrow, I will admonish myself most severely, but for tonight, i beseech ye – let me be!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    Sitec wrote: »
    excreted foul movements from last moons antics, yondered 2 metric mile to partake in a quick alcoholic brew with humerus chums.

    Mile is imperial, not metric.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    One rises at the dawn, breakfasts lightly, dresses in the fashion of the day and takes out the motorcar for a jaunt to the office. There one endeavours to give satisfaction to all and any before tootling home to a feast to stagger the senses. Thereafter, a snifter or two of port is consumed, the papers are browsed and marital relations commence forthwith. Having sampled temptation's unending torrent, one lays one's sated head on an adjacent bosom and allows oneself to be carried into the waiting arms of Morpheus, there to sleep, perchance to dream.

    And that's how I roll, bitches.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    I was writing a fictional message from the 18th century eccentric aristocrat Lord Rokeby and his weird and unnatural love for water, but when I was part of the way through doing that the fire alarm went off and we all had to leave the building, so I logged off.

    And now I can't be bothered starting to do it again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    The day began, as many a day before it, as I was awakened from my slumber, by what seemed in my still somnambulant state, to be the loud squeals of some misbegotten animal in distress. Eventually, I determined the sounds to be emulating from myself – no doubt the effects of last night’s wine had affected the delicate balance of my brain once again.
    I rose quickly, performed my toilet and breakfasted on the remains of last night supper.
    I spent the day in quiet reflection, meditating on the beauty of my surroundings while reading aloud some of my favourite prose.
    Alas, as evening fell, my mood did match the changing of the light, turning to darker thoughts. After a meal of fortified port, to town I did speed and into a tavern of ill repute did I enter. It is said (though by who, I know not) that the Inn of Jack of the Copper Face contains the dregs of society, poor tormented souls whose solitary aim in life seems to revolve around the sating of the most basest of human urges.
    Though I know I would admonish myself in the morn, I did now wholeheartedly join these twisted souls in their macabre dance, delighting in the pleasures of the flesh with a young nursing wench from some god-forsaken town in the countryside.
    Tomorrow, I will admonish myself most severely, but for tonight, i beseech ye – let me be!
    then you got syphilis and died in agony,where i in fact,just had a sore bum


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I arise to labor in a dawning light
    Tent to tiddlers upon their sight.
    Clothe, feed and toil till evenings best
    Only then do thus I thee rest.


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