Coronavirus Thread - Pause before - The Final Battle (Part 1)

[Lazarus]

I play up or down to my opponents level. You fucking cunt

[jellyfish]

RTE Prime Time just cancelled Christmas.

[bill]

Which vaccine will be the best to take ?.I’m leaning towards the russian one myself.

[Iggy]

German one on Prime Time wants Christmas cancelled.

[jellyfish]

I think Christmas might be allowed to go ahead if you leave a window open.

[peddlerscross]

If it’s good enough for Putin then it’s good enough for me too.

[Lazarus]

More of this type of positivity required right now

[bill]

Ya , it’s strange he didn’t offer trump one tho !

[Iggy]

If I leave the windows open tonight I’d be better off sitting in a canoe than on the sofa.

[Malarkey]

@Fagan_ODowd

@Malarkey

@Lazarus

Have you ever written any fiction? No I don’t mean on this thread before someone gets cute, genuine question

No. Not the kind you mean…! Have made hurling predictions that were off the mark…

Extremely difficult to write worthwhile fiction – and I do not like or rate at all a lot of stuff that is generally rated, Joseph O’Connor, Sebastian Barry, Colm Tóibín et al. There is enough poor fiction in the world without going adding to the pile…

Why do you ask?

What about all the stuff you wrote about Locky Byrne?

Ah now…

There might be more about Locky. I often think about him.

[Malarkey]

@Lazarus

I think you couldn’t be more wrong about @Tim_Riggins mind you, one of the best posters on the board and a gent to boot.

Well, you cannot win them all, alas… I have a very narky side.

[Lazarus]

You nailed @Bandage that time if it makes you feel any better

[EstebanSexface]

That’s like kicking a pup

[Lazarus]

I heard ol’ Bando deleted the guts of a weeks entire postings on the forum he was so rocked

[flattythehurdler]

@Lazarus

The entire hospitality sector are forming an alliance

Ye should threaten to go on strike

[flattythehurdler]

Christ Harry, will you stop humping his leg in public. You resemble michael duignan fawning over Henry shefflin.

[Tassotti]

that is one of the greatest things ever written down here, apart from @EstebanSexface describing himself running off to Kerry in the first lockdown

@mickee321

[Malarkey]

@Lazarus

Your best posts on here have lit the place up. I think you’d be rather good at it. You have a capacity for affrontive prose which is equally hilarious and cutting, and a predidposition to an Ireland that, on suface level at least, appears to be disappearing before our very eyes. I was just wondering was there something I might be able to look up

Ah now… Thanks for the kind words hut I think you are being overly generous and then some. My skills are modest at the level that counts. There is far more to durable writing than thinking clearly.

You would be right about my attraction to the Ireland that is quietly sophisticated and fascinating in a way entirely lost on the Patrick Freynes of this world. A calling card in Irish journalism – a union card, almost – is setting up this false opposition between metropolitan knowingness/class and rural ignorance/deviousness. There is a sort of bumptious insecurity to such craic but most people lap it up.

I detest all that shite, Bridget and Eamon and Hardy Bucks and all the tedious rest of it, the same (non) joke told over and over again. To me, one of the great Irish artists of the last three decades is Pat Collins the filmmaker – in part because he has no truck with such neurotic oppositions. Kevin Barry the writer is somewhat similar. And Niall Williams is a terribly underrated Irish novelist. Anthony Munnelly (‘An Spailpín Fanach’) is a really underrated columnist precisely because he explodes those oppositions.

There are a lot of good young(ish) Irish writers around now, I think. Wendy Erskine, Mary Costello (but not her last novel), Oisín Fagan, Danielle McLaughlin, Nicole Flattery, Adrian Duncan. Thomas Morris nearly counts as Irish…

[Malarkey]

@Lazarus

You nailed @Bandage that time if it makes you feel any better

Waste of time… For everyone involved.

I do not enjoy my narky side. Waste of time.

[Lazarus]

@Malarkey

false opposition between metropolitan knowingness/class and rural ignorance/deviousness. There is a sort of bumptious insecurity to such craic but most people lap it up.

Very true. In fact you dont need to go any further than the Cork weirdo page for evidence of this