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What's anachronistic about converting in a modern encyclopedia the currency of the time to the modern currency of that very country? It is also adjusted for inflation.
Yeah, you can't exactly adjust a no longer used currency for inflation - it makes sense to me.
This has to be the most 'Irish' mishap in history ever, perhaps. >People drank from the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe. Can't help but laugh hysterically whilst imagining this scene. Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers. The Irish have been amongst the nicest and the most 'jolly' group of people I've known/wor…
Yeah, maybe don’t. I’m Irish and I’m sick to death of the stereotype of Irish as jolly drunkards. I recently went to see “The Glass Menagerie” play and the biggest (maybe only) laugh of the night was when the mother expressed surprise that an individual was “Irish on both sides but not an alcoholic”. Ha fucking ha. If I could go to the theatre and not have my nationality be the butt of lazy racist jokes that would be…
This has to be the most 'Irish' mishap in history ever, perhaps. >People drank from the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe. Can't help but laugh hysterically whilst imagining this scene. Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers. The Irish have been amongst the nicest and the most 'jolly' group of people I've known/wor…
Needless to say, this probably happened, but I'd take the specific details of the events described with liberal handfuls of salt.
> Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers.
I really wouldn't. They'll probably laugh politely, we're very used to this. But this won't endear you.
This has to be the most 'Irish' mishap in history ever, perhaps. >People drank from the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe. Can't help but laugh hysterically whilst imagining this scene. Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers. The Irish have been amongst the nicest and the most 'jolly' group of people I've known/wor…
Yeah, maybe don’t. I’m Irish and I’m sick to death of the stereotype of Irish as jolly drunkards. I recently went to see “The Glass Menagerie” play and the biggest (maybe only) laugh of the night was when the mother expressed surprise that an individual was “Irish on both sides but not an alcoholic”. Ha fucking ha. If I could go to the theatre and not have my nationality be the butt of lazy racist jokes that would be…
- Strongly dislike the cultural glorification of getting excessively drunk, but can't deny it's there - the stereotype is not based on fiction. - Also strongly like the international reputation we have as being hospitable, fun, and friendly (as evidenced by the comment above), which is essentially a positive stereotype. - In my experience when meeting new people, acknowledgement-that-the-Irish-are-drinkers (in a non-antagonistic way) is not in itself harmful, and can often be a good ice breaker and rapport builder. As in, the stereotype itself is not the harmful part. Most people I've encountered tend not to make negative assumptions, are smart enough to reason about group vs individual behaviour, and give the benefit-of-the-doubt, and those who don't have a being-an-asshole problem, not a infected-by-a-stereotype problem. - My reading of the comment above was that the spirit was non-asshole-y.
Just my two cents
This has to be the most 'Irish' mishap in history ever, perhaps. >People drank from the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe. Can't help but laugh hysterically whilst imagining this scene. Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers. The Irish have been amongst the nicest and the most 'jolly' group of people I've known/wor…
Yeah, maybe don’t. I’m Irish and I’m sick to death of the stereotype of Irish as jolly drunkards. I recently went to see “The Glass Menagerie” play and the biggest (maybe only) laugh of the night was when the mother expressed surprise that an individual was “Irish on both sides but not an alcoholic”. Ha fucking ha. If I could go to the theatre and not have my nationality be the butt of lazy racist jokes that would be…
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Yeah, maybe don’t. I’m Irish and I’m sick to death of the stereotype of Irish as jolly drunkards. I recently went to see “The Glass Menagerie” play and the biggest (maybe only) laugh of the night was when the mother expressed surprise that an individual was “Irish on both sides but not an alcoholic”. Ha fucking ha. If I could go to the theatre and not have my nationality be the butt of lazy racist jokes that would be…
Irish also, but different perspective. (Have lived away for past 5 years & reflected from afar on our relationship to alcohol) - Strongly dislike the cultural glorification of getting excessively drunk, but can't deny it's there - the stereotype is not based on fiction. - Also strongly like the international reputation we have as being hospitable, fun, and friendly (as evidenced by the comment above), which is essent…
I 100% agree with you though, part of the Irish culture people look to experience is the good times around a few pints and some traditional music, with the reward of a hangover in the morning to mark it as a successful night.
The few negative things I've ever experienced were off hand comments about the famine, and some nonsense about the North of Ireland.
> The fire is believed to have started in Laurence Malone's bonded storehouse on the corner of Ardee Street, where 5,000 hogsheads (262,500 imperial gallons or 1,193,000 litres or 315,200 US gallons) of whiskey were being stored... Hogsheads sound like a fictional unit of measure made up to mock the imperial system.
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Yeah, maybe don’t. I’m Irish and I’m sick to death of the stereotype of Irish as jolly drunkards. I recently went to see “The Glass Menagerie” play and the biggest (maybe only) laugh of the night was when the mother expressed surprise that an individual was “Irish on both sides but not an alcoholic”. Ha fucking ha. If I could go to the theatre and not have my nationality be the butt of lazy racist jokes that would be…
Irish also, but different perspective. (Have lived away for past 5 years & reflected from afar on our relationship to alcohol) - Strongly dislike the cultural glorification of getting excessively drunk, but can't deny it's there - the stereotype is not based on fiction. - Also strongly like the international reputation we have as being hospitable, fun, and friendly (as evidenced by the comment above), which is essent…
In a large majority of situations in my experience, like being a senior manager of a new team, the CEO of a company meeting clients or negotiating with vendors and partners, it’s utterly irrelevant at best.
Also, the fact that Ireland has a major, major alcohol problem is no justification for the stereotype; so do many northern hemisphere countries. London had its Gin Crisis of the 18th century, with huge death toll and virtual breakdown of society, and the UK still has astronomical alcohol consumption, but they don’t get labelled the same way as the Irish
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Good question actually, after all even whisk(e)y usually contains > 50% water (not sure about 19th century whiskey though). I would say: as long as it can be identified (by smell, taste or color) as non-water, it is a non-water flood. Or, better still, you could go by the source: if the flood is caused by rain, melting snow, a river, a dam failure etc. etc., it's a water flood, if it's a failed fruit juice tank, it's…
I think whisky is usually stored at "cask strength", which implies a higher concentration of alcohol, and diluted with water at bottling time.