Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Eejit

One of the more famous Irish insults, an ‘Eejit’ is someone that’s foolish or someone that has done something foolish.

For example, ‘Yer man is some eejit – he stuck a load of petrol into the car and sure hasn’t it got a diesel engine!’.

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Today's music:

ARCH ENEMY – Break The Spell

https://youtu.be/J3zJ1MtE0HY

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Today's music:

BATTLE,READY - HADES

https://youtu.be/J4oJY3xmZII

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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt

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Bibdu is a hand-painted exploration and card battling game set in ancient Ireland. You play as one of the legendary Tuatha Dé, a race of immortal beings who rule Tír na nÓg.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ratandmonkeystudio/bibdu-irish-mythology-rpg

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Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Gobshite

Few Irish words have achieved widespread fondness like ‘Gobshite’, a bit of slang generally used to describe someone foolish.

For example, ‘I don’t believe it – that gobshite has put bleach on the carpet instead of water’.

But it seems this word was used in the USA first:

https://www.newstalk.com/news/susie-dent-gobshite-popularised-irish-used-us-first-1090791

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