Sinfest

[kame]

[rm]

what? I thought he was asking me if I had erectile disfunction.
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[mouse]

you know, there's an irish expression, "bad cess" as in "bad cess to the luck that brought me through, to work upon the railway" (from an old song).

i always wondered what that meant. apparently, it is cursing someone or something with a nasty tax.
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[rm]

well, I've found something that says cess is irish for luck. so that would be, "bad luck to the luck that brought me through..."
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[kame]

I find it difficult to believe that the Irish could possibly have such a pessimistic outlook on life, their literature is always so bright and bubbly.
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bi-chromaticism is the extraordinary belief that there exists only two options
each polar opposite to each other
where one is completely superior to the other.

[rm]

then there's the meaning "pool", from which the whole cesspit/pool/swampy miasma thing comes from. it's very confusing. I suppose there could be more than one etymology.
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[rm]

[kame]

This is Ireland we're talking about, happy drunks dance and sing, mean drunks write.
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bi-chromaticism is the extraordinary belief that there exists only two options
each polar opposite to each other
where one is completely superior to the other.

[mouse]

well, and you have to know the song. apparently, railroad work wasn't all that great.
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[rm]

not necessarily mean. maybe just lonely. no one to dance with.
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[rm]

[Major Tom]

[rm]

you're not saying o'neill was bubbly, are you?
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[Major Tom]

i'm saying it's as if irish literature were being viewed through a thick fog

[rm]

a... haunted fog?

o'neill was just as drunk as the rest of them. but I am sure there's got to be at least one exception.
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