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Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

  • 27-07-2016 10:31pm
    #1
    The Backwards Man
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    I'm in the pub, listening to stories of 14 young wans heading off to a dance on a Massey 35x with no cab and one mudguard, and I'm here to thinking to myself, what stories can we pass on to the young wans? That we were full of brandy or yoked out on E on a Christmas night in our Daffy Duck tie and woke up in a shuck?

    Depressing thoughts


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    What's a shuck?


  • #3
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Ferguson 20 more classy, they're clearly trollops


  • #4
    Mr. Incognito
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    How about the time Finna Fail bankrupt the country and within ten years they were topping the polls. Followed by... But we are not idiots.

    Then stare them down till they learn not to be ashamed.


  • #5
    The Backwards Man
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    Candie wrote: »
    What's a shuck?

    A small stream that runs along the side of a road or field. What the yanks call a ditch. In Donegal a ditch is a hedge, so if you're digging one, you're a bit of an eejit :)


  • #6
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    A drain no?


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  • #7
    Tombi!
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    Only in fúcking After Hours does a thread start talking about being in the pub then become about geographical features of the ground. :D


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    A drain no?

    Na, a drain is man-made, a shuck ploughs its own furrow


  • #9
    lazybones32
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    Nostalgia was better back in the good oul' days.... when a bag of Tayto were 13p and wallpaper was used to cover schoolbooks. You knew who the rich wans were by the fanciness of their bookcovers.


  • #10
    Wiseman Drinkwater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭Wiseman Drinkwater


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I'm in the pub, listening to stories of 14 young wans heading off to a dance on a Massey 35x with no cab and one mudguard, and I'm here to thinking to myself, what stories can we pass on to the young wans? That we were full of brandy or yoked out on E on a Christmas night in our Daffy Duck tie and woke up in a shuck?

    Depressing thoughts

    No offence, but opening posts from yourself on about turf, clichéd rural life, doing a proper days work, heading for a few pints etc is the type of nostalgia that gets very tiresome.


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
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    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    How about the time Finna Fail bankrupt the country and within ten years they were topping the polls. Followed by... But we are not idiots.

    Then stare them down till they learn not to be ashamed.

    There's three things we never discuss in the pubs up here, politics, religion and Bernard McHugh


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  • #12
    Tombi!
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    Wiseman Drinkwater wrote: »
    No offence, but opening posts from yourself on about turf, clichéd rural life, doing a proper days work, heading for a few pints etc is the type of nostalgia that gets very tiresome.
    In fairness, better OP's threads than a lot of the negative news stories these days.


  • #13
    Junkyard Tom
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    It's terrible when d'hoort are hoortin' d'hoorted.


  • #14
    The Backwards Man
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    Wiseman Drinkwater wrote: »
    No offence, but opening posts from yourself on about turf, clichéd rural life, doing a proper days work, heading for a few pints etc is the type of nostalgia that gets very tiresome.

    None taken, but when I'm stoking up the stove on a cold November night, and heading out for a crisp clear pint, staring at the Plough and Orion as I dander down the trafficless road, I'll remember your kind words :)


  • #15
    The Backwards Man
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    It's terrible when d'hoort are hoortin' d'hoorted.

    We sing a song from your town in our pub, Mickey Marley's Roundabout. Do you know it? None of that oul rebel against rubbish.

    If the world had more Donegal people it would be a damn happy peaceful place.


  • #16
    failinis
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »

    If the world had more Donegal people it would be a damn happy peaceful place.

    If NI had far less Donegal rednecks on the roads it would be a damn happy peaceful place....


  • #17
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    Do ye remember the days when the backwards man used to go to the pub on Mondays and start these threads? Is it dementia or alcoholism he has I wonder?☺


  • #18
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    We sing a song from your town in our pub, Mickey Marley's Roundabout. Do you know it?

    My Granny's house's front window looked north across the Lough Foyle to your Peninsula in the 'south'. ;)


  • #19
    lazybones32
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    None taken, but when I'm stoking up the stove on a cold November night, and heading out for a crisp clear pint, staring at the Plough and Orion as I dander down the trafficless road, I'll remember your kind words :)

    Do you live in a Guinness advert, by any chance? In order for you to become the epitome of a stereotypical Irishman you need to use this...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjSNrg7T0Wo


    Yup, just a normal day in Donegal...wrestling and showering in the woods


  • #20
    The Backwards Man
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    My Granny's house's front window looked north across the Lough Foyle to your Peninsula in the 'south'. ;)

    Was her name Finvola?


  • #21
    Junkyard Tom
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Was her name Finvola?

    Her name rhymed with Finvola. Liked a bit of poached salmon from the Roe too.


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  • #22
    The Backwards Man
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Her name rhymed with Finvola. Liked a bit of poached salmon from the Roe too.

    Knew she had to be up Drumsurn or Dungiven country if she could she my fine land from her house.

    A blessed lady indeed


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