i am not a (bleep) eater.

***parental advisory***
Hello all, i have a funny story conversation to tell you about but if you don't like the swears you shouldn't read this blog. so today my flatmate and i were eating lunch and we started talking about how our flatmate Paul eats stuff from boxes and just all around not so good. and fransesca was having her friend Frederico over for dinner and sarcastically i said to her perhaps you would like to prepare your pasta with some traditional irish meats like bangers or rashers or blood pudding, or one of those other shitty meats the irish prepare. and fransesca said "but why? i am not a shit eater." and we both started laughing histarically about neither of us being a shit eater and that to say you are a shit eater is to say you are not irish in our slang world...which brings up irish slang for you all so here it goes irish slang:

so we all learned, "sorry about that". yesterday

another one is to say "i am going to get change and some" now this is a direct quote from one of my multiple bosses at the health food shop. when you say ...and some you mean to say i am going to do this one thing and then go and get lunch or a tea.

your man or your lady...this refers to a mutiual person that you feel the other person will remember you talking about or knowing the situation. this was one Eileen i work with taught me so the example i have of its use is "that's right i remember i saw your man" (she was refering to a delivery driver and where the boxes on the counter came from because we were both standing there when he delivered but she forgot he delivered.)

now on to the swears and durrogatory terms woo hoo...so we all remember the terminology knackers. another fun one that i have heard multiple irish say is bollucks or bollux which is essentially a testical but you say it when someone says something you feel is outlandish, we would say bull shit in the states but here they say bollucks.

a funny one that Eillen has used instead of swearing and saying fuck off she says fick off, it's really quite cute when she says it.

so some random words as well...
cart (like in the supermarket)-trolley
i will phone you later-i will ring you later
aluminum-aluminium pronounce the extra i
omega(i say o mega)- omeega
vitamin- vitamen
diaper-nappie
stroller-pram or buggy
corgettes-zucchini

my flat mate paul likes to say "top of the mornin' to you" whenever i see him in the morning.

so i will try to write more of these down but here are a few to throw into your vocabulary, perhaps you have a dinner party that is going down hill, throw out an irish word, i'm sure jarggle should be in there as well but that is Ormond Quay speak.

so this evening i met frederico and had fransesca's experimental dinner with pasta, mozzorella, corgettes, onions and apples. quite good, i made stuffed peppers with apples 3 nights ago. and frederico brought some tiramisou from the italian wine bar he works at. wonderful. so we were talking about how to make the tiramisou and i told them my bastardized american version which frederico thought was very funny to say. and i didn't help with dinner, nor did i do any dishes i just left to go to an outdoor film, which was kind of a bust but here is what i got. the film was called AWOL filmography and soundtrack composition by daniel figgis and was the third in i have no idea how many installments of an opera shot of a dancer under water and using hypnosis. so the film was a whole 5 minutes long, i watched it twice through but i have no idea why this even made the section of the newspaper about events around town, i asked Eillen from work if she would like to come and see it and i am glad she was tired, because i would have felt awful if she would have stuck around city centre for that long for a pretty lame lenght film. to sum it up it was weak. but the colors and the hypnotic effect of the small ripples was definately beautiful and i think i give the film more credit then deserved because of how tired i am. so now i will go home and continue to read the book i have been reading for close to 2 months now. so goodbye.

xoxo,
christie