Irish drunks

Circle of life.....

Now I'm inspired.






BTW Y'all should read The Dubliners by James Joyce.

You won't regret it.

Promise.








Pinky promise.

 

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly on the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.

 

Quick history on the origin of the word whiskey which translates to "water of life" for yous.

Latin: aqua vitae "water of life"
Gaellic: uisce beatha "water of life"
English: whiskey (from uisce) "water of life"


Boom.

 

"I say, he's a queer old josser!!"

Bahahahahahahahahaah

 

more than 10 years on, the thought of Joyce still gives me the cold sweats. too much time spent in the stacks of the university library doing research for my irish literature thesis. it will be a VERY long time before i reread "Dubliners" again.

 

Heh.

What was your thesis?

 

"The Influence of Celtic Mythology on Modern Irish Literature and Drama and the Easter Rising of 1916".

 

Cool.



...so was the old josser masterbating or what????

 

Well… as someone is has a large percentage of Irish stock coursing through my veins, they do have a point.

HOWEVER

Imagine the outcry if some Irish people denied a Korean a job because they eat dog.

HAHAHA BTW type in "do koreans" into Google and see what come up

 

I did a semester abroad in Dublin during my 5th year of undergrad. I went to school (ACD) in the Oscar Wilde house, and had a history class across from the room that was his childhood "home".

What I learned was that despite Irish people have a reputation for being brawlers, this is not entirely true. My apartment/dorm was right between two bars, so I would watch the consistent closing time last call late night street fights while elevating my green consciousness in my street side room. The fighting skill of the average Irishman was poor, consisting of stumbling haymakers and lunges. But their resilience was unmatched, and these SOBs would not stay down. These fights would drag on because some mickey was too proud to be beaten, and he would drag himself up to one knee, they would exchange haymakers again, he would end up on his arshe, stagger back up, and repeat process. Fist fight-resilient. Famine-resilient. 1000 years of occupied colonialism, brutality, and subsequent alcoholism--we've got this.

Ireland was a wonderful experience. Dublin is a great city for a young man to get pissed and stick his chest out. Get me in an elevator with Thiery "Handball" Henry and I will repay my debt to the great nation of Ireland for all the bashful ginger fanny it threw at me.

 

Come day, go day
wish in me heart it was Sunday

Drinkin buttermilk through the week
whisky on a Sunday

 

Not quite sure as to the purpose of this thread, but here are two more quotes from a couple Irish poets.

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
- Williams Yeats

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it."
- Oliver Goldsworth

 

Aer Lingus had Oscar Wilde quotes written on their seats about a dozen years ago. My favorite was "We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

 

Well who were these Irish guys fighting? I-talians? Blacks? Puerto Ricans?

How come you spent 5 years+ as an undergraduate? Booze and pills. I spent a semester shy of 6 years, but I transferred and .......well, booze, weed, coke..........

NJSURFER42, holy mackrel vagina, you did a thesis on that. Dude, as Spicoli would say, you must be wicked smart.

Guys from Mass like the term, "Wicked."

I hate it.

So NJSURFER42 are you, like, Irish? You seem a bit uptight to have roots from the Emerald Isle, plus I don't think you have any substance use disorders which makes you unauthentic. Real Irish people have substance issues.

ok, ok some might say, " Well Spicoli is Irish and he don't have any problems."

HA, yes he does, but he has a alternative universe problem. He's addicted to healthy food and drinks. Trust me those health food nuts are insane. And they don't have any good stories about their addiction.

I will give 3 boxes of crackerjacks to anyone who can spot something different in the above text.

 

I went home on a monday night......drunk as drunk could be!!!!

 

This is the only thread on this forum that makes complete sense to me!

 

yes, i am irish. but don't let that delude you into thinking you know me.

 

Better than Wayne's weapon of ass destruction.

 

Irish on Irish violence... so sad. Team up and fight an Englishman.

5 years... 1 in community college, 2 in state school, 2 in private college in a different state, different requirements, etc. "senior" thesis was two years long. Weed and booze.