Things that make you go What the F**k?

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Keyser soze

Quote from: Hound on November 13, 2018, 11:53:20 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on November 13, 2018, 08:54:31 AM
https://news.sky.com/story/ufo-investigated-in-ireland-after-multiple-aircraft-sightings-11552908
Among the most interesting lines from this is the last one:

"This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process."

Why does it have to be confidential?
It's not like Ireland is conducting important air defence manoeuvres and we want it kept secret from adversaries!

Nobody knows  ;)

Orior

Quote from: seafoid on November 13, 2018, 08:38:39 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_Cruach

Crom Cruach was a god of pre-Christian Ireland. According to Christian writers, he was propitiated with human sacrifice
According to an Irish dinsenchas ("place-lore") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood on Magh Slécht ("the plain of prostration") in County Cavan, and was propitiated with first-born sacrifice in exchange for good yields of milk and grain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magh_Sl%C3%A9cht

This area has been in constant occupation from pre-4000 BC up to the present day, as is evidenced by the huge number of ancient monuments which still survive. In a small area of 3 square miles (7.8 km2) there are over 80 monuments of different types, with many others bound to be discovered by future archaeological searches. It is the densest grouping of such monuments in County Cavan and possibly in Ireland.[4]



Included are[5]
9 megalithic tombs
7 Ring barrows
3 different stone circles
9 different standing stones
2 stone-rows
5 enclosures
6 crannogs
33 ráths or souterrains
3 Early-Christian church-sites
2 Early-Christian Holy Wells
2 Bullauns
2 Medieval castles.

Are there any football teams named after this geezer, Crom_Cruach?
Cover me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians

seafoid

Quote from: Orior on November 13, 2018, 02:39:51 PM
Quote from: seafoid on November 13, 2018, 08:38:39 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_Cruach

Crom Cruach was a god of pre-Christian Ireland. According to Christian writers, he was propitiated with human sacrifice
According to an Irish dinsenchas ("place-lore") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood on Magh Slécht ("the plain of prostration") in County Cavan, and was propitiated with first-born sacrifice in exchange for good yields of milk and grain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magh_Sl%C3%A9cht

This area has been in constant occupation from pre-4000 BC up to the present day, as is evidenced by the huge number of ancient monuments which still survive. In a small area of 3 square miles (7.8 km2) there are over 80 monuments of different types, with many others bound to be discovered by future archaeological searches. It is the densest grouping of such monuments in County Cavan and possibly in Ireland.[4]



Included are[5]
9 megalithic tombs
7 Ring barrows
3 different stone circles
9 different standing stones
2 stone-rows
5 enclosures
6 crannogs
33 ráths or souterrains
3 Early-Christian church-sites
2 Early-Christian Holy Wells
2 Bullauns
2 Medieval castles.

Are there any football teams named after this geezer, Crom_Cruach?
There should be, really. Macroom is named after him though
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

north_antrim_hound

Quote from: hardstation on November 13, 2018, 03:43:23 PM
My own club's crest has "Crom Abú" attached to it.

Never noticed that on your crest
How's the milk and grain yields up round the falls these days
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

Tyrdub

Quote from: hardstation on November 13, 2018, 03:43:23 PM
My own club's crest has "Crom Abú" attached to it.

many moons ago, while waiting for a teacher to turn up in secondary school, myself and a fellow Rossa man looked up the meaning to the club motto, all we could find was that its an ancient Irish battle-cry, totally different from the direct translation  ::)

seafoid

Quote from: hardstation on November 13, 2018, 03:43:23 PM
My own club's crest has "Crom Abú" attached to it.
"In ainm Chroim" is an exclamation in Irish like "in the name of God" or "namajaysus" 
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

Over the Bar

Switzerland were 2-0 down to Belgium and are now 5-2 up!



seafoid

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/why-the-government-should-fund-research-on-incel-culture/

The Florida shooting may have taken place seven months and nearly 1,500 miles away from the attack in Toronto, but the two perpetrators had something in common: they both described themselves as incels, or involuntary celibates, and had a long history of threatening women online.
Incels are members of an online community of primarily men that has proliferated in recent years. An abbreviation for the term "involuntary celibates," incels believe that because of their appearance, or the bias and behavior of women, they are unable to find a partner despite wanting one. With an emphasis on "involuntary," incels often feel that they are entitled to sex. Some believe the government should provide women for sex, while the more extremist members of the group have even proposed that female relatives should be forced to be their sex partners. 
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

Owen Brannigan

Making up that one of your players has been killed to have a game postponed?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46363865

Dire Ear

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-46366674/this-baby-gender-reveal-sparked-a-week-long-us-wildfire
Fire cost $8m over a firework/blast thingy for a baby gender revealing party,  daddy-to-be fined $8m,  sounds about right

seafoid

Piers Morgan is a Biffo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan
Piers Morgan was born in 1965 in Newick, Sussex, England[9] as Piers Stefan O'Meara, the son of Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, an Irish dentist originally from County Offaly.
His father died when Morgan was 11 months old; his mother later married Glynne Pughe-Morgan,[14][15] a Welsh publican later in the meat distribution business, and he took his stepfather's surname.
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

seafoid

Not sure what to get the girlfriend for Christmas ?

Henrikh Mkhitaryan
@HenrikhMkh
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"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

thebuzz

A student newspaper editor has called for the word "f**got" to be censored from The Pogues' popular song "Fairytale of New York" over claims it is offensive.

Tom Haynes, the assistant editor of The Tab, shared his opinion about the classic Christmas song in an article titled: "Dear straight people, stop singing the word 'f**got' in 'Fairytale of New York'" - which has since divided people on social media.

According to Haynes, the line in question, sung by Kirsty MacColl, "you sc**bag, you maggot, you cheap lousy f**got," is homophobic - but despite being censored on some stations, including the BBC and MTV channels, continues to be sung by "straight people" when it comes on.

The story behind The Pogues' 'Fairytale of New York'

"Only when you take a step back does something seem off with that picture in 2018," Haynes wrote.

He also points out that, despite being repurposed by the gay community, the slur can "evoke very specific memories of being bullied either online or in real life" and is comparable to the n-word.

Haynes concludes by suggesting that people simply skip the word when singing the 1987 song - which has faced lyrical controversy numerous times in the years since it was released.

"That's all - one word, two syllables. Not too much of a stretch, right?" he wrote.

The response to Haynes critique of the beloved Christmas song has been varied - with some disagreeing and labelling the editor a "snowflake" millennial, and others recognising that he has a point.

According to some people on social media, who have defended the use of the word in the song, f**got has a different meaning in old Irish slang.

"I won't be refraining from singing the lyric 'cheap, lousy f**got' in 'Fairytale of New York' because it's not in reference to any homophobic intent - in old Irish f**got simply means a lazy person," one person wrote.