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    #2342
    New Home
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    A rather grim one: all the blue areas add up to the same number of annual murders as Brazil (in red).

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    #2343
    Yurt2
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    New Home wrote: »
    A rather grim one: all the blue areas add up to the same number of annual murders as Brazil (in red).

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    Wow, that's quite something. No wonder so many Brazilians are desperate to get out.


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    #2344
    New Home
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    I know I'm exaggerating, but by the looks of it they seem to be as frequent as parking violations elsewhere....


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    #2345
    New Home
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    #2346
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    #2347
    New Home
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    #2348
    New Home
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    Map of all the countries with their respective camouflage patterns.

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    Of so it says on the caption, 'cause I can't see anything.


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    #2349
    New Home
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    #2350
    Capt'n Midnight
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    New Home wrote: »
    Map of all the countries with their respective camouflage patterns.

    https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/5f86c43e45469_oehykn1qm0d31__700.jpg

    Of so it says on the caption, 'cause I can't see anything.
    We didn't used to have a camo pattern because our green was fairly uniform.


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    #2351
    New Home
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    We didn't used to have a camo pattern because our green was fairly uniform.

    That would explain the leprechauns, and also why nobody can see them any more.


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    #2352
    Professor Moriarty
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    New Home wrote: »
    A rather grim one: all the blue areas add up to the same number of annual murders as Brazil (in red).

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    A core reason why Bolsonaro got elected.


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    #2353
    upupup
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    The Phantom island of Hy-Brasil 546005.jpg
    546003.jpg
    546004.jpgON the ocean that hollows the rocks where ye dwell
    A shadowy land has appeared, as they tell;
    Men thought it a region of sunshine and rest,
    And they called it Hy-Brasail, the isle of the blest;
    From year unto year, on the ocean’s blue rim,
    The beautiful spectre showed lovely and dim;
    The golden clouds curtained the deep where it lay,
    And it looked like an Eden, away, far away!


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    #2354
    Gregor Samsa
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    An actual screenshot I took many years ago

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    #2355
    Pherekydes
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    New Home wrote: »
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    They ended up in Mar-a-Lago? :pac:

    I remember Samwise's quote: Frodo, if I take one more step I won't be in Kansas any more. :pac:


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    #2356
    LarryGraham
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    An actual screenshot I took many years ago

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    I read that as a riot breaking out at a presidential primary.


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    #2357
    magicbastarder
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    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I remember Samwise's quote: Frodo, if I take one more step I won't be in Kansas any more. :pac:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHzF5KnoN20


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    #2358
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    If Super Mario World was set in Britain And Ireland.


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    #2359
    Charles Babbage
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    Gaelic speaking ability
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    #2360
    MY BAD
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    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    Gaelic speaking ability
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    2011 census of those who speak Irish daily
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    And those who can speak Irish
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    Irish speakers over 60 in 1911
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    #2361
    cnocbui
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    Just shows how many people lie on the census, or perhaps its worded in such a way as to get an answer sought.


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    #2362
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    I'm lost - why does it say pre-famine, based on 1911 population?

    On a side note, while it's great that more people can speak Irish now, I think it's a shame that the old Irish dialects have been lost.


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    #2363
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    Just shows how many people lie on the census, or perhaps its worded in such a way as to get an answer sought.

    Maybe it's down to the Gaelscoils? (I can't speak it, BTW).


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    #2364
    yagan
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    New Home wrote: »
    I'm lost - why does it say pre-famine, based on 1911 population?

    On a side note, while it's great that more people can speak Irish now, I think it's a shame that the old Irish dialects have been lost.
    Wasn't there a civil war in the dept of ed in the 1930/40s over which version of Irish was to be applied.

    Personally I find some accents on Raidio na Gaeltachta impossible to follow, whereas I find Raidio na Life much easier.

    The whest coasters make no allowance for listeners like mise.


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    #2365
    MY BAD
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    New Home wrote: »
    I'm lost - why does it say pre-famine, based on 1911 population? .
    Over 60 year old in 1911.To give a better idea of Irish speakers before the famine is what I think.


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    #2366
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,727 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    New Home wrote: »
    Maybe it's down to the Gaelscoils? (I can't speak it, BTW).

    Look at all those faint green bits outside the gaeltachts. I have never heard people speaking Irish outside one, not once. I have heard people in gaeltachts speak it when they thought an outsider was listening but I'm pretty sure most speak english at home.

    My children are out the other end of the education system and they can't speak it either.


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    #2367
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Upgrades to New York Subway since WWII.


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    #2368
    Gregor Samsa
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    New Home wrote: »
    Maybe it's down to the Gaelscoils? (I can't speak it, BTW).

    Don’t live in a Gaeltacht, but my kids are in a Gaelscoil, so we make an effort to speak it a bit at home. We certainly don’t speak Irish 100% of the time (I would have the ability anyway), but a lot of the small stuff to the kids world be said though Irish, both in the house and out and about. I know a lot of the other parents in our school would do the same.

    My mother-in-law would happily speak Irish exclusively if anyone could understand her. Actually, sometimes that doesn’t even stop her.


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    #2369
    Nqp15hhu
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    Look at all those faint green bits outside the gaeltachts. I have never heard people speaking Irish outside one, not once. I have heard people in gaeltachts speak it when they thought an outsider was listening but I'm pretty sure most speak english at home.

    My children are out the other end of the education system and they can't speak it either.

    I’ve never heard anyone speak Irish in my life. I went to western Donegal to see if I could hear it and nothing there either.


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    #2370
    Nqp15hhu
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    New Home wrote: »
    I'm lost - why does it say pre-famine, based on 1911 population?

    On a side note, while it's great that more people can speak Irish now, I think it's a shame that the old Irish dialects have been lost.

    What dialects? The dialects people speak now are influenced by past dialects.


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    Gregor Samsa
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    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    What dialects? The dialects people speak now are influenced by past dialects.

    There were a number of Leinster dialects that are all extinct now. Even within Munster, Connaught and Ulster, there were dialects that haven't survived. President Douglas Hyde spoke a Roscommon dialect that is no longer spoken.


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