Farming and Relationships

Charliebull · 26-01-2015 12:53PM

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

So many options. ....so little time:)

ah its easy to make up for lost time daisy

farm might get neglected mind

Charliebull · 26-01-2015 12:54PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I know for sure that there's somebody out there for everyone.
You seem to me to be somebody worth knowing!

WTF were you drinking the weekend

Genghis Cant · 26-01-2015 12:58PM

Charliebull wrote: »

WTF were you drinking the weekend

The usual, turpentine, anti freeze and blackcurrant cocktail.
I'm starting to feel sounds in my head now :-)

Charliebull · 26-01-2015 01:01PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

The usual, turpentine, anti freeze and blackcurrant cocktail.
I'm starting to feel sounds in my head now :-)

are ya sure it wasnt a slush puppy, yer gone all soft, I thought you Offaly boys were as hard a nails, Sort of lads that if you cant eat it or drink it you just break it

Damo810 · 26-01-2015 01:10PM

Charliebull wrote: »

ah jayus daisy

could you not go to Thailand for a husband

or there is knock

Knocks a great spot alright, get her on her knees.......

Say a few prayers and all that :pac:

Blackgrass · 26-01-2015 01:18PM

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Would say we all know people in that situation.
My mam - who used to have a lot of sayings etc- used to say ' you're better off being single than wishing you were (single)
Or maybe she knew nobody would want me.

Daisy, there's nothing quite as strange as life.
My old boss changed job early last year to facilitate his new family having spent the previous 15 years working and working and working to try forget about mourning the lady he thought he was to spend his life with. One of his mates from university works high up in a large machinery company and got him a trip to Agrotechnia in germany 2013.
Over the course of 3 nights in the hotel he stayed he met a lady he thought was American but was actually Russian but has spent along time traveling and was high up in a company that facilitates Ag equipment deals to the big Russian/Eastern Europe firms. A few months later he arrived into work to announce he was finishing as had got a new job and had a baby on the way

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Some folk strike gold the first time,
Some folk it can take a couple of pans,
Some folk think they strike gold, only to later realise it was 'fools gold',
Some folk can pan they're whole life and never really know what they want.
Maybe your problem is you just need to change which part of the river your in

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AP2014 · 26-01-2015 07:15PM

Blackgrass wrote: »

Daisy, there's nothing quite as strange as life.
My old boss changed job early last year to facilitate his new family having spent the previous 15 years working and working and working to try forget about mourning the lady he thought he was to spend his life with. One of his mates from university works high up in a large machinery company and got him a trip to Agrotechnia in germany 2013.
Over the course of 3 nights in the hotel he stayed he met a lady he thought was American but was actually Russian but has spent along time traveling and was high up in a company that facilitates Ag equipment deals to the big Russian/Eastern Europe firms. A few months later he arrived into work to announce he was finishing as had got a new job and had a baby on the way .

Some folk strike gold the first time,
Some folk it can take a couple of pans,
Some folk think they strike gold, only to later realise it was 'fools gold',
Some folk can pan they're whole life and never really know what they want.
Maybe your problem is you just need to change which part of the river your in .

Jesus that's emotional, with valentines day coming up will Daisy be getting a PM Blackgrass?

Reggie. · 26-01-2015 07:27PM

AP2014 wrote: »

Jesus that's emotional, with valentines day coming up will Daisy be getting a PM Blackgrass?

Long distance relationship. Now there's a tester

Blackgrass · 26-01-2015 07:45PM

AP2014 wrote: »

Jesus that's emotional, with valentines day coming up will Daisy be getting a PM Blackgrass?

No no it's ok you can fire ahead if you want a little company. Herself has a trip to the cinema arranged for that day, not like any encouragement is needed but should a fella be concerned :eek:

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 07:52PM

Blackgrass wrote: »

No no it's ok you can fire ahead if you want a little company. Herself has a trip to the cinema arranged for that day, not like any encouragement is needed but should a fella be concerned :eek:

Should probably be concerned alright if she has planned the trip to the cinema on her own.

Base price · 26-01-2015 08:20PM

A true story from before my time -
My Uncle met a nice girl and began courting her. When my Grandmother found out who the girl was she immediately forbid my Uncle from seeing this girl again. Threatened to disown him etc because she did not consider this girl to be good enough for her darling son. My Mam (Uncle's sister), Dad and Granddad tried to intervene at the time but to no avail. My Uncle remained a bachelor until his death.
Thankfully those days are gone now but the legacy still lives on. There are many elderly single men and women living around me due to similar interference from parents

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 08:24PM

Base price wrote: »

A true story from before my time -
My Uncle met a nice girl and began courting her. When my Grandmother found out who the girl was she immediately forbid my Uncle from seeing this girl again. Threatened to disown him etc because she did not consider this girl to be good enough for her darling son. My Mam (Uncle's sister), Dad and Granddad tried to intervene at the time but to no avail. My Uncle remained a bachelor until his death.
Thankfully those days are gone now but the legacy still lives on. There are many elderly single men and women living around me due to similar interference from parents

Infairness the majority of them are gay and couldn't come out. Only option was to become a priest or nun or live the single life. Times are changing thankfully especially in the countryside!

Base price · 26-01-2015 08:33PM

AP2014 wrote: »

Infairness the majority of them are gay and couldn't come out. Only option was to become a priest or nun or live the single life. Times are changing thankfully especially in the countryside!

For fecks sake, what head of cabbage did you crawl out from :mad:

Nekarsulm · 26-01-2015 08:34PM

Blackgrass wrote: »

No no it's ok you can fire ahead if you want a little company. Herself has a trip to the cinema arranged for that day, not like any encouragement is needed but should a fella be concerned :eek:

Is "50 shades of Grey" launching that weekend?

Bring a few baler twines with you, just in case !

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 08:38PM

Base price wrote: »

For fecks sake, what head of cabbage did you crawl out from :mad:

It's the truth like it or not, maybe not in your uncles case but in the alot of cases. No point burying the head in the sand about it. Those days are over and I'm not afraid to come out and say that was the way it was.

Base price · 26-01-2015 08:43PM

AP2014 wrote: »

It's the truth like it or not, maybe not in your uncles case but in the alot of cases. No point burying the head in the sand about it. Those days are over and I'm not afraid to come out and say that was the way it was.

Can back up your preposterous statement with fact?

mf240 · 26-01-2015 08:44PM

AP2014 wrote: »

It's the truth like it or not, maybe not in your uncles case but in the alot of cases. No point burying the head in the sand about it. Those days are over and I'm not afraid to come out and say that was the way it was.

:D:D

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 08:51PM

Base price wrote: »

Can back up your preposterous statement with fact?

Are ya serious? I think the dogs on the street knew how homophobic Ireland was, especially in the countryside the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years. Do you think many men/women came out then? They struggle now even public profile figures such as our minister for health.

Its common knowledge that the priesthood was rampant with gay men(words of my uncle a priest not afraid to say it).

Jesus I certainly knew a few gay bachelor farmers around my area. Loads of bachelors who struggled with it and still do I would say, it's only slowly and particularly in the past few years people have become more tolerant, ironically largely due to the church not having such a stranglehold over people.

Jesus lads on here like to rewrite history or bury their heads in the sand. So your uncle met a nice girl, his mammy said no and he remained a bachelor for the rest of his life, now that's convenient :rolleyes:

brownswiss · 26-01-2015 09:05PM

Base price wrote: »

Can back up your preposterous statement with fact?

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Just trying to figure what preposterous statement he made?? Was it that those days are over?

They are and not before time.

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 09:09PM

brownswiss wrote: »

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Just trying to figure what preposterous statement he made?? Was it that those days are over?

They are and not before time.

Slowly ending not fully over unfortunately, as you can even see by some of the childish behaviour on this thread on such a subject. Interesting to see how many likes your statement will get and from whom.

Mad4simmental · 26-01-2015 09:10PM

I love lamp

Base price · 26-01-2015 09:12PM

AP2014 wrote: »

Are ya serious? I think the dogs on the street knew how homophobic Ireland was, especially in the countryside the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years. Do you think many men/women came out then? They struggle now even public profile figures such as our minister for health.

Its common knowledge that the priesthood was rampant with gay men(words of my uncle a priest not afraid to say it).

Jesus I certainly knew a few gay bachelor farmers around my area. Loads of bachelors who struggled with it and still do I would say, it's only slowly and particularly in the past few years people have become more tolerant, ironically largely due to the church not having such a stranglehold over people.

Jesus lads on here like to rewrite history or bury their heads in the sand. So your uncle met a nice girl, his mammy said no and he remained a bachelor for the rest of his life, now that's convenient :rolleyes:

A week before he died he reminisced to me about the girl and how much he regretted not following his heart for "this place" - 30 odd acres of middling North Longford land.
He knew he was dying as he was suffering from esophageal cancer. I am glad I had that conversation with him. When I told my Mam about it she got very upset and annoyed both for him and her Mother.

I strongly dispute your assertion that sexual orientation is the basis for the number of elderly single farmers/landowners living today.
I believe that in some cases it is due to circumstances simular to my late Uncle, in others due to fear of loosing the land to some land grabbing husband/wife (evident to this day from comments on this very thread) and in other cases due to sexual orientation.

brownswiss · 26-01-2015 09:13PM

AP2014 wrote: »

Slowly ending not fully over unfortunately, as you can even see by some of the childish behaviour on this thread on such a subject. Interesting to see how many likes your statement will get and from whom.

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The guy was accused of stating something that was not fact and asked for proof. From I read he had only stated what he was told about Ireland in the past

brownswiss · 26-01-2015 09:16PM

I think I see now where you are coming from.. I did not think he was inferring anything about the Uncle as it was obvious the Uncle was broken hearted. Maybe he should have posted twice

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 09:22PM

Base price wrote: »

A week before he died he reminisced to me about the girl and how much he regretted not following his heart for "this place" - 30 odd acres of middling North Longford land.
He knew he was dying as he was suffering from esophageal cancer. I am glad I had that conversation with him. When I told my Mam about it she got very upset and annoyed both for him and her Mother.

I strongly dispute your assertion that sexual orientation is the basis for the number of elderly single farmers/landowners living today.
I believe that in some cases it is due to circumstances simular to my late Uncle, in others due to fear of loosing the land to some land grabbing husband/wife (evident to this day from comments on this very thread) and in other cases due to sexual orientation.

Shame he hadn't the courage in his own convictions to tell his mother where to go. Unfortunately no doubt this still happens.

Of course in some cases like your uncles it is due to circumstance, but no doubt the vast majority of bachelors were gay men as was the case with priesthood. Unfortunately alot of these men lead lonely lives, alot due from pressures from society. Could you imagine two men moving in together to farm in North Longford 30 years ago? I am not far from you and unfortunately it would just about be tolerated now. As a country we still have a bit to go on certain issues.

Land grabbing husband/wife? :cool: Now these miserable lads and ladies deserve to be single.

Base price · 26-01-2015 09:22PM

brownswiss wrote: »

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The guy was accused of stating something that was not fact and asked for proof. From I read he had only stated what he was told about Ireland in the past

AP2014 wrote: »

Infairness the majority of them are gay and couldn't come out. Only option was to become a priest or nun or live the single life. Times are changing thankfully especially in the countryside!

Wrong - he clearly uses the present tense.
This has nothing to do with my Uncle. AP2014 has made a sweeping statement and all I want is for him to back it up with fact or withdraw it.

brownswiss · 26-01-2015 09:25PM

AP2014 wrote: »

Are ya serious? I think the dogs on the street knew how homophobic Ireland was, especially in the countryside the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years. Do you think many men/women came out then? They struggle now even public profile figures such as our minister for health.

Its common knowledge that the priesthood was rampant with gay men(words of my uncle a priest not afraid to say it).

Jesus I certainly knew a few gay bachelor farmers around my area. Loads of bachelors who struggled with it and still do I would say, it's only slowly and particularly in the past few years people have become more tolerant, ironically largely due to the church not having such a stranglehold over people.

Jesus lads on here like to rewrite history or bury their heads in the sand. So your uncle met a nice girl, his mammy said no and he remained a bachelor for the rest of his life, now that's convenient :rolleyes:

... You might rolleyes but in those days the Mammys wore the trousers and the priests wore the skirts and if one or both of them said NO!! to a potential wife No meant Never and many of those people stayed single because no girl would ever be good enough for those mammys

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 09:25PM

Base price wrote: »

Wrong - he clearly uses the present tense.
This has nothing to do with my Uncle. AP2014 has made a sweeping statement and all I want is for him to back it up with fact or withdraw it.

You are right, it has nothing to do with your uncle, that seems like just a tragic case of a domineering mother and your uncle lost a lady he loved and regretted it and brought it to his death bed. That is just tragic.

I have no intention of withdrawing my statement. Jesus it is fairly common knowledge to anyone who lived in the countryside the last 40 years!

brownswiss · 26-01-2015 09:28PM

Base price wrote: »

Wrong - he clearly uses the present tense.
This has nothing to do with my Uncle. AP2014 has made a sweeping statement and all I want is for him to back it up with fact or withdraw it.

.. I see that now... He used a gross generalisation

AP2014 · 26-01-2015 09:29PM

brownswiss wrote: »

... You might rolleyes but in those days the Mammys wore the trousers and the priests wore the skirts and if one or both of them said NO!! to a potential wife No meant Never and many of those people stayed single because no girl would ever be good enough for those mammys

Totally agree and good chance the priest was gay. Also good chance that a bachelor in the countryside over the last 40 years was actually gay and homophobic Ireland as it was then meant he had to struggle with it and live a lonely life.

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