Things I learned today (Part 1)

[Gary_Birtles_Lovechi]

@TreatyStones

Pretty sure there is/was a lad playing with Croagh who wouldn’t play on a Sunday because of religious beliefs.

Yeah, David Lowe. His family are Dippers.

https://forthefainthearted.com/2010/09/23/not-standing-at-the-churchyard-gate/

[Gary_Birtles_Lovechi]

@gilgamboa

V odd. He left his home club as well did he to go to croagh? Wouldn’t be that great a distance between them

Married a Croagh girl, who’s family are big into the church.

[myboyblue]

@ahhfeckit

Sitting here in Malaga airport and all I can say is the Brits and the paddy’s are on ugly race, obese and pale, the mainland Europeans have a much better gene

You micks are an odd shower of cunts

[Corksfinedtboy]

[Corksfinedtboy]

That’s his story

[glenshane]

The German word for tortoise is schildkröte, literally a shielded toad.
The German word for slug is nacktschnecke, literally a naked snail.

Somehow this came up in conversation with a German colleague. I wanted to know why the Germans couldn’t be consistent and call a snail a shielded slug, or a toad a naked tortoise. I got no answer. I’d say Germans are as thran as the Irish

[TheBlackSpot]

@glenshane

a German colleague.

Is he a handy boy for putting the mallet to the oul stakes?

[habanerocat]

@glenshane

The German word for tortoise is schildkröte, literally a shielded toad.
The German word for slug is nacktschnecke, literally a naked snail.

Somehow this came up in conversation with a German colleague. I wanted to know why the Germans couldn’t be consistent and call a snail a shielded slug, or a toad a naked tortoise. I got no answer. I’d say Germans are as thran as the Irish

It’s simple really.

When German was first invented they had no tortoises in Germany, so when they came along after colonisation they simply called them a shielded toad for simplicity.

Slugs and snails were always there so that’s self explanatory.

It’s a bit like the Irish calling a Black Man, “Fear Gorm”. We already had the ghostly black man “An Fear Bubh”, so we had to go for the Blue Man. I’d a called him “The purple Man” myself, but that would have probably made him sound too royal.

[glenshane]

@habanerocat

It’s simple really.

When German was first invented they had no tortoises in Germany, so when they came along after colonisation they simply called them a shielded toad for simplicity.

Slugs and snails were always there so that’s self explanatory.

It’s a bit like the Irish calling a Black Man, “Fear Gorm”. We already had the ghostly black man “An Fear Bubh”, so we had to go for the Blue Man. I’d a called him “The purple Man” myself, but that would have probably made him sound too royal.

Outstanding. Though how you can know so much about this and so little about marksmanship is beyond me.

[habanerocat]

I was only in the FCA. I never made the IRA proper…

[glenshane]

I’m only joking about the marksmanship. I ordered the bipod. It arrived, didn’t fit the barrell, then I realised that fitting one to the barrell is a bad idea so I’m back in the hunt. Funnily enough the german lad is a deadly shot…caps of bottle, wings off flies etc. He mentioned that he’s a national champion in an historical class…shooting with an Enfield I believe
What’s this fca business?

[Thomas_Brady]

Lowe would be Palatine

[TheBird]

@glenshane

What’s this fca business?

Free clothes association

It’s an acronym

[habanerocat]

@glenshane

I’m only joking about the marksmanship. I ordered the bipod. It arrived, didn’t fit the barrell, then I realised that fitting one to the barrell is a bad idea so I’m back in the hunt. Funnily enough the german lad is a deadly shot…caps of bottle, wings off flies etc. He mentioned that he’s a national champion in an historical class…shooting with an Enfield I believe
What’s this fca business?

@TheBird will give you a few pointers on marksmanship.

Army Reserve (Ireland)

[TheBird]

I’m a shotgun man…. So here goes.

Keep both eyes open lead your target, follow through tail to noes and pull the trigger. Don’t stop the gun or you!lk be behind the the bird.
Pull the gun in tight to your shoulder.

As to rifles. Press the trigger after you exhale. Boring.

The thing I enjoyed the most was snipe. Speed and reaction shooting.

[glenshane]

Did either yourself or @habanerocat ever try your hand at archery…with a lightweight wooden flat or long bow rather that any of those contraptions you see. It’s very hard to bate once you get away from the obsession with gear etc.
If you Google instinctive archery you’d encounter all sorts of avenues to explore

[habanerocat]

That’s one of my arrows sticking into that fellow there.

[glenshane]

It didn’t stand a chance

[TheBird]

Seems vaguely familiar

[Massey]

@glenshane

What’s this fca business?

Fools Carrying Arms