Field Day.

kneemos · 02-08-2015 01:01AM #1

Tis the season of the Field Day around the country,well groomed dogs,beautiful babies and guess how many pennies in a jar.
Must be quite a surprise for some that come across these well hidden fields of gambling,boozing and air rifle shooting.
What's the oddest thing you've seen in your parish Field Day?

The_Valeyard · 02-08-2015 01:06AM

kneemos wrote: »

Tis the season of the Field Day around the country,well groomed dogs,beautiful babies and guess how many pennies in a jar.
Must be quite a surprise for some that come across these well hidden fields of gambling,boozing and air rifle shooting.
What's the oddest thing you've seen in your parish Field Day?

Beautiful babies? All babies look like giant mutated potatoes.

Old Perry · 02-08-2015 01:09AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Beautiful babies? All babies look like giant mutated potatoes.

Or completely normal wet teabags

corner of hells · 02-08-2015 01:12AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Beautiful babies? All babies look like giant mutated potatoes.

Speak for yourself , I was a beautiful baby , I'll have you know.

Anyway I was at a village field day years ago when an unexploded grenade was found in a hedge by some kids.

D'army bomb disposal team rocked up with all their fancy stuff and poked around at it for a few hours before deciding it was harmless.

Next year I didn't go to the field day so I never found out if it was any better.

dreamers75 · 02-08-2015 01:15AM

wtf is a field day?

kneemos · 02-08-2015 01:19AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

wtf is a field day?

Aha.A novice to the dens of inequity.

corner of hells · 02-08-2015 01:19AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

wtf is a field day?

Its where people get to show off their odd shaped vegetables , nothing more funny than a bollix shaped potato. Also kids get to finger each other and get drunk on hot cans of harp and where members of local communities get to kick the heart out of each other in a game of football refereed by a priest.

wylie · 02-08-2015 01:22AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

wtf is a field day?

One eyed Jack · 02-08-2015 01:30AM

The Rathdowney fashion show -

"Sure they all have lovely bottoms"

It's also where I learned how snax are made, and swiped a handful with the guy chasing after me. I didn't know then that they needed hot oil to puff up, saliva just was never going to work. I practically ran a marathon for nothing! Surprisingly fit fcuker for a fat lad

gctest50 · 02-08-2015 01:44AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

wtf is a field day?

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Jotunheim · 02-08-2015 01:51AM

Field days don't exist, they are a figure of speech meaning something you must deny others, eg "keep it to yourself, if the media found out they'd have a field day", or "tighten up the defence or the striker will have a field day".

uch · 02-08-2015 02:35AM

I take it that this is a Culchie only thread

wylie · 02-08-2015 03:11AM

uch wrote: »

I take it that this is a Culchie only thread

Thats racist;)

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-08-2015 04:27AM

Birr's 'Vintage Week' launched tonight. It's nice stuff with all sorts of cultural events and boring parades with agricultural steam contraptions. There's a carnival in town for the week for the young, ass and cart rides around the town for kids and their folks are also on offer. Discover south Offaly, a beautiful part of this island.

retro:electro · 02-08-2015 04:43AM

Kiss me arse

Menas · 02-08-2015 08:34AM

Never heard of them called a field day before. But the farmers wives association (or whatever they are called) usually have a stall with the best scones in the county. Love one of them now.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-08-2015 08:40AM

Menas wrote: »

Never heard of them called a field day before. But the farmers wives association (or whatever they are called) usually have a stall with the best scones in the county. Love one of them now.

Irish Countrywomens Association (ICA), a sexist organisation, the Lions Club (it's not the Lioness club) had to admit female members so why can't I join them?

God dam it makes me angry.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-08-2015 09:12AM

I've lived in the country for over 70 years and we have never had a field day. The OP sounds a bit like the school sports days but surely not in August. Field days? Never heard of them.

dirtyden · 02-08-2015 09:35AM

Averi Putrid Syllable wrote: »

I've lived in the country for over 70 years and we have never had a field day. The OP sounds a bit like the school sports days but surely not in August. Field days? Never heard of them.

They are called festivals around here. Is a field day not a UK thing?

kneemos · 02-08-2015 09:38AM

dirtyden wrote: »

They are called festivals around here. Is a field day not a UK thing?

Maybe it's a Wexford thing,but every parish has a fund raising field day.
The Fr Ted sketch was based on it.

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius! · 02-08-2015 12:41PM

kneemos wrote: »

Maybe it's a Wexford thing,but every parish has a fund raising field day.
The Fr Ted sketch was based on it.

Yeah same in Carlow. You literally spend the day in a field.

The local school/hurling club or whoever has a fundraising day, with everyone from the villiage helping out. My local one was great. Thered be a big cake sale, toy sale, guess the amount of sweets in a jar, loads of games, competitive races for the children, and parents. It was really successful too, they always raised a few grand.

Super-Rush · 02-08-2015 12:46PM

Spiderbaby

Capt'n Midnight · 02-08-2015 05:41PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Beautiful babies? All babies look like giant mutated potatoes.

Father Ted Crilly: This sounds terrible to say but if you take...
Father Ted Crilly: this baby's facial hair, this baby's moustache and this baby's sideboards, I think you'll get...I think you get Pat Mustard!

TrustedApple · 02-08-2015 06:06PM

They used to make a small pen in witch you would buy a square and if the sheep shi.ts in that square you win lol.

They also have a yearly crazy boot race in witch people would make rafts out of what ever and race them down the river and to be fair it's quite fun to watch as you be watching the boots falling over and sinking lol.

Berserker · 02-08-2015 06:08PM

Never heard of this. Is it a RC thing?

Timberrrrrrrr · 02-08-2015 06:10PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Beautiful babies? All babies look like giant mutated potatoes.

If all babies and brides are beautiful then where do ugly wives Come from?

looksee · 02-08-2015 06:11PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Irish Countrywomens Association (ICA), a sexist organisation, the Lions Club (it's not the Lioness club) had to admit female members so why can't I join them?

God dam it makes me angry.

Have you actually tried? Come back when you have tried to attend a meeting and been thrown out.

Edit, actually, thinking about it, don't bother. I tried it (as a woman) and found it very stultifying and unwelcoming unless you are a 3 generation local.

Truckermal · 02-08-2015 06:34PM

Also known as sports days but yeah it's cruise control to drink like a hoor. .

byhookorbycrook · 02-08-2015 06:41PM

A field day is not like a country show, field days tend to be quite local and have a lot less competitions but does have things like 3 legged races, egg and spoon, perhaps a tent with the burco boiled staffed with the ladies who bake. The bouncy castle and dunk tank have also featured in later years.

"Field Day @ Sallins Gaa,
Bouncing castles & Slides, Wet sponge throwing, Hook a duck, Penalty kicking, Mini Golf, Basketball, Hurling target board, Beat The Beep, 2nd Hand Book Stall, Pony Rides, Ice Cream van, Tea & Food stalls, Shop, Races including Egg & Spoon & Three legged & Sack races. Darts, Strong Man Competition, Guessing Games, Fun Stalls, ect... Ps. Bring Sun Cream for the whole family. " would be a good example of a typical field day.

Capt'n Midnight · 02-08-2015 08:25PM

Keats and Chapman once lived near a church. There was a heavy debt on it.

The pastor made many efforts to clear the debt by promoting whist drives and raffles and the like, but was making little headway. He then heard of the popularity of these carnivals where you have swing-boats and round-abouts and fruit-machines and la boule and shooting galleries and every modern convenience. He thought to entertain the town with a week of this and hoped to make some money to reduce the debt.

He hired one of these outfits but with his diminutive financial status he could only induce a very third-rate company to come. All their machinery was old and broken. On the opening day, as the steam organ blared forth, the heavens opened and disgorged sheets of icy rain. The scene, with its drenched and tawdry trappings, assumed the gaiety of a morgue. Keats and Chapman waded from stall to stall, soaked and disconsolate.

Chapman (unwisely, perhaps) asked the poet what he thought of the fiesta. ‘A fête worse than debt,’ Keats said.

Chapman collapsed into a trough of mud.

— ‘Carnival’, The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman, by Flann O’Brien.

Borzoi · 02-08-2015 08:33PM

uch wrote: »

I take it that this is a Culchie only thread

Sheep racing

D24

Field Day.

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