You have to watch this because it’s funny as it gets.I've decided this is directed exclusively to an Irish audience. Bc Americans don't know there could be another word for a weed whacker. (I subjected spouse to this after he called something by its fussy Irish term.)
— EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check (@emptywheel) November 15, 2026
And Oscar Wilde: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."
That is good. I have used "eejit" and "sleeveen," Which I got via people I knew from Newfoundland and, as I recall, Brian Friel's plays. Very useful for making up mocking limericks when the subject is an eejit or a sleeveen.
ReplyDeleteI doubt Americans get the humor of the final line, either.
DeleteSadly, I remember when I first got on the internet. I read a column in an Irish paper, by a young woman who grew up in Belfast (?). I’m not sure now, but she talked about living on the Catholic side of an unofficial line dividing her area from the Protestants. The way she described it, the Protestants lived an unknown and bizarre existence unimaginable to her Catholic neighbors. After the Easter Accords it was finally safe (and allowed) to cross that line. She was working out not considering the “other side” a foreign land.
It was an insight into Ireland I couldn’t get in America; but now I could get it straight from Ireland. I thought that kind of access would really change things.
But of course, all we did was build more invisible walls. Still, now I have hope some of those walls, especially the local ones, will start to come down. And we’ll learn to use “strimmer” and even see ourselves as others do. And appreciate the joke.
A guy can dream, can’t he? 😸