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    Question about cultures

    Irish is a first language for over 130,000 people and a second language for around 2,000,000. As to the question, I think that as long as there are people who want to participate in a national culture, it should be promoted and preserved. I don't necessarily hold with preserving culture for its...
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    What are you reading? II

    Finished The Butcher Boy and The Sun Also Rises and have since chewed my way through Animal Farm, A Scanner Darkly, The Quiet American, Maus and some other things I can't think of, my brain is too fried. Currently rereading Frankenstein, thinking of starting a dystopia binge once I'm done...
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    Your Top 10 Favorite Albums, Take 2

    Hmmm, mine has changed somewhat since last time. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver The Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens Bon Iver, Bon Iver by Bon Iver The Division Bell by Pink Floyd Born Villain by Marilyn Manson Everybody Jam! by Scatman John Wish You Were Here by Pink...
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    A Survey of Favourite Things

    If you had a girlfriend who had English as her second language, it mightn't be necessary for you to learn her first language, but it sure would be nice. All the Irish-speakers I know vastly prefer to speak to each other in Irish than in English because it's more natural to them. It's not just...
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    A Survey of Favourite Things

    Music Favourite Artist: Sufjan Stevens Favourite Album: Illinois by Sufjan Stevens Favourite Song: "Hey Ya" by Outkast Favourite Composer: Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky Favourite Genre: American folk Favourite Album Art: Ghost by Radical Face Literature Favourite Author: Sir Terry Pratchett...
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    What are you reading? II

    Finally finished The Inferno, The Colour Out of Space, The Handmaid's Tale, gave up on The Republic, just finished The Ten-Cent Plague and am working my way through The Butcher Boy and The Sun Also Rises.
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    Cool words!

    I like palimpsest and canoodling.
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    What are you reading? II

    You can add The Handmaid's Tale and The Butcher Boy to my English reading and Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy to my philosophy reading and I still haven't finished Dante.
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    No problem.

    No problem.
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    What are you reading? II

    I'm trying (read: failing) to finish the translation of The Inferno by Dante that I was given as a present by my secondary school English teacher so I can work on reading Watchmen before I have to return it to the library and Jane Eyre for my English course. Then I need to hammer away at The...
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    Behind the Avatar, Redux

    A little drunk. I'd only had a pint and a few shots at that point.
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    Suggest Movies for Me

    The Prestige, another one of Chris Nolan's mindfucky films. Uh, the director's cut of Daredevil is one of the better pre-Nolan superhero films. Hot Fuzz, In Bruges and Scott Pilgrim vs The World. The Quiet American. Mean Girls.
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    A friend made the flag, I made the maps myself in paint. The Siroccolo picture is Deliblato...

    A friend made the flag, I made the maps myself in paint. The Siroccolo picture is Deliblato Sands in Serbia, the komodo dragon and hippo are just from Google Images, my general is the Irish hero Michael Collins, the tower is a tower in Boston, I think? The high-speed train is a picture of a real...
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    Last Album You Listened To?

    Hate Culture by William Control, one of my guilty pleasures. Can sometimes lack variety and the lyrics get really odd now and then, but overall it's one of my favourite modern synthpop albums.
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    Behind the Avatar, Redux

    Have I ever posted in this thing?
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    Well, I unashamedly admit that I lifted large segments of it from the Wikipedia pages of the...

    Well, I unashamedly admit that I lifted large segments of it from the Wikipedia pages of the three countries I was basing mine on - Ireland, Spain and Indonesia - so that cut down a lot of time. But total time, including research on Wikipedia and other websites for some of the really difficult...
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    Uh, sure, go for it.

    Uh, sure, go for it.
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    Six Degrees of Separation

    I have a Bacon number of 4 thanks to my connection to Richard Harris.
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    Six Degrees of Separation

    My grandfather played rugby against Richard Harris and my fianceé is a niece of John B. Keane, so I have two degrees with each of them.
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    Ever Meet Anyone Famous?

    I've met The Darkness in a shitty little pub in the backarse of nowhere in Dorset and I met Phill Jupitus just after seeing him in Spamalot in Dublin. That's about it, iirc.
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