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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #2132
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    That the children of lir didn't actually become swans, they were killed instead

    Say what now???:eek:


  • #2133
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    that we have two hands because we need two hands....even with 2 feet and a mouth we need 2 hands....having a broken wrist teaches these things...


  • #2134
    snaphook
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭snaphook


    humbert wrote: »
    Come again?

    It's an inverted V not a capital A.


  • #2135
    yeahimhere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭yeahimhere


    snaphook wrote: »
    It's an inverted V not a capital A.

    Had to google that one, you are of course correct.


  • #2136
    DavyD_83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,991 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    That the children of lir didn't actually become swans, they were killed instead

    Eh??
    Do you mean that the crazy step-mother drowned them in the lake and the whole swan thing was a fairy tale way of explaining what happened to them....

    Not sure that's the point; the whole story is fictional/mythical, so is allowed to have magic and inexplicable changes etc.


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  • #2137
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    DavyD_83 wrote: »
    Eh??
    Do you mean that the crazy step-mother drowned them in the lake and the whole swan thing was a fairy tale way of explaining what happened to them....

    Not sure that's the point; the whole story is fictional/mythical, so is allowed to have magic and inexplicable changes etc.

    They are still on the lake in the form of swans....... :rolleyes:


  • #2138
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    DavyD_83 wrote: »
    Eh??
    Do you mean that the crazy step-mother drowned them in the lake and the whole swan thing was a fairy tale way of explaining what happened to them....

    Not sure that's the point; the whole story is fictional/mythical, so is allowed to have magic and inexplicable changes etc.

    Spoilers????


  • #2139
    kiffer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    sopretty wrote: »
    They are still on the lake in the form of swans....... :rolleyes:

    Well... you are what you eat.
    She fed them to the swans, now the swans are them.
    At the very least they are inside the swans.
    Inside the form of a swan.
    ...


  • #2140
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Not really obvious but pretty cool and I'm going to try it on my mouse cable.

    How to shorten cables.


  • #2141
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    snaphook wrote: »
    It's an inverted V not a capital A.
    Ah, put it down to stylisation since the Korean spelling sounds the same.


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  • #2142
    drunk_monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭drunk_monk


    Being a non catholic Englishman, I always thought the priest was saying Holy Uterus during the communions of relatives that I went too.
    When I did finally ask why the uterus was holy everyone fell about laughing!


  • #2143
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    drunk_monk wrote: »
    Being a non catholic Englishman, I always thought the priest was saying Holy Uterus during the communions of relatives that I went too.
    When I did finally ask why the uterus was holy everyone fell about laughing!

    For which part?


  • #2144
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    For which part?

    Eucharist?


  • #2145
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    mauzo! wrote: »
    Eucharist?

    Ah ok. That makes sense.


  • #2146
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    The first little piggy that went to market probably wasn't there to do a bit of shopping:(


  • #2147
    cactuspaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭cactuspaw


    you need to be able to drive in rural ireland.


  • #2148
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    It's not that obvious but I always thought that the Freemasons were a bunch of trades men that worked for free.


  • #2149
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    "Votáil Sinn Féin” say the posters.

    Just remembered that there's no letter "v" in the Irish alphabet. And I'm not too sure if the word "votáil" exists either, even without the "v".

    Hmmm! Maybe there's a special West Belfast dialect with extra letters?
    Or has Bill Gates "improved" Irish as well as all of his adjustments to the English language?


  • #2150
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    "Votáil Sinn Féin” say the posters.

    Just remembered that there's no letter "v" in the Irish alphabet. And I'm not too sure if the word "votáil" exists either, even without the "v".

    Hmmm! Maybe there's a special West Belfast dialect with extra letters?
    Or has Bill Gates "improved" Irish as well as all of his adjustments to the English language?
    There is a letter V in the Irish language, however seldom used.

    And vótáil is a word.


  • #2151
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    byte wrote: »
    There is a letter V in the Irish language, however seldom used.

    And vótáil is a word.

    I bow to your superior knowledge but, with bh and mh (or b seimhihe and m seimhihe in old money) I can see how "v" isn't often used. My Irish is from the 60's and 70's (with a heavy leaning towards Pádraic Ó Conaire) when we learned two longhand scripts - Irish and English - but I have no recollection even of the shape of the Irish version of the letter "V", let alone examples of "V" words.

    My de Bhaldraithe is long since lost; I'm not overly impressed with the online version but I am interested in learning how the language has evolved so, other than "vótáil" (which still sounds a bit makey-uppy to my ageing ears, being more comfortable using words based on "select" or "choose") and probably words derived from "volt", have you other examples of "v" words?

    By the way, other letters that I didn't think were in the Irish alphabet are "J", "K", "Q", "W", "X", "Y" and "Z" but de Bhaldraithe online has examples of most of these. However, they too sound very makey-uppy to me.

    Or is this all too far off-thread?

    Gets coat.


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  • #2152
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    I bow to your superior knowledge but, with bh and mh (or b seimhihe and m seimhihe in old money) I can see how "v" isn't often used. My Irish is from the 60's and 70's (with a heavy leaning towards Pádraic Ó Conaire) when we learned two longhand scripts - Irish and English - but I have no recollection even of the shape of the Irish version of the letter "V", let alone examples of "V" words.

    My de Bhaldraithe is long since lost; I'm not overly impressed with the online version but I am interested in learning how the language has evolved so, other than "vótáil" (which still sounds a bit makey-uppy to my ageing ears, being more comfortable using words based on "select" or "choose") and probably words derived from "volt", have you other examples of "v" words?

    By the way, other letters that I didn't think were in the Irish alphabet are "J", "K", "Q", "W", "X", "Y" and "Z" but de Bhaldraithe online has examples of most of these. However, they too sound very makey-uppy to me.

    Or is this all too far off-thread?

    Gets coat.
    I just took it from my old Learner's Irish-English Dictionary from a couple of decades ago.

    It states:
    The letter V is used
    a) initially in such words as vaigín, véarsa, vóta, etc., but in all other positions its sound is represented by bh; aidbhint, réabhlóid, veilbhit

    b) initially and internally in foreign proper names;
    An Iúgslaive, An tSeicslóvaic, An Ghinéive, An Eilvéis, An Vatacáin, Veiniséala

    c) in the combination sv in a few words of foreign origin;
    svaistíce, svaeid

    (A few words which are long-established in Irish retain b (initially), eg. bigil, bíocnta

    Also vaigín means wagon :)


  • #2153
    Hotale.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    byte wrote: »
    Also vaigín means wagon :)

    Read my mind. :P


  • #2154
    Eeden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Here in Galway we have Éamon Ó Cuiv as a candidate (this is in national rather than local elections, I should add). Who, interestingly, always appears on the ballot papers as Cuiv, Éamon Ó (so as to bump him up higher on the ballot paper). :rolleyes:


  • #2155
    BearBanjer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭BearBanjer


    Back in the day while watching MacGyver and the like on TV, 'in stereo we're available' would come up during the opening credits - I thought it meant you could buy the song that plays during those credits for your stereo!


  • #2156
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 17,001 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    It's "Leap Card" not "Leaf Card" :o


  • #2157
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,666 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    I always thought the place in UK was called Westminister.
    Only realised it is Westminster** when the President was there recently.
    Felt stupid.

    ** looks wrong,I have to say.


  • #2158
    peewee_44
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭peewee_44


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    The first little piggy that went to market probably wasn't there to do a bit of shopping:(

    And why was the other little piggy given roast beef?


  • #2159
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Day day, is the opposite of night night.
    I'm 39 years old and this hit me like a ton of bricks the other morning saying goodbye to my to my baby daughter on my way to work!:D


  • #2160
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    In Game of Thrones, Westeros and Esteros are so called because Westeros is the continent in the west and Esteros is the continent in the East.


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  • #2161
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Not a recent revelation and I was reminded of it in another thread but there are no grey hairs. Once the hair stops producing melanin, all the hairs grow white and they only look grey when they are mixed with natural (especially darker) hair.


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