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This site is vaguely addictive in a dopamine feeding sense. What will the next image be? ...One more click won't hurt... :-)
by kreelman 3mo ago
This site is vaguely addictive in a dopamine feeding sense. What will the next image be? ...One more click won't hurt... :-)
- ggm 3mo ago200 clicks later... I often find myself drowning in things like the Qld state library photo archives of the suburbs of Brisbane. They name street junctions which still exist, you pull up a modern photo in google maps, you look at the old one with Trams and wooden houses.. And another..
- defrost 3mo agoNi bheidh ar leitheidi aris ann. A line much abused in Myles na gCopaleen's (aka Brian O'Nolan's, aka Flann O'Brien's) An Béal Bocht (trans: The Poor Mouth)(1947) It translates as "Our likes will not be there again." and is originally from An toileánach (1929) - https://archive.org/details/toileanach0000ocro https://archive.org/details/toileanach0000ocro about remote island life.
- tclancy 3mo agoI’m not sure what’s happening in this thread, but so happy to see Myles mentioned on HN. Every time I post one of De Selby’s research papers, it gets downvoted to oblivion for some reason.
- ggm 3mo agoThere's two kinds of dark suckers. you've met the second kind. It's always saddened me I've been to Dublin 3 times and never made it to Dalkey. I want to pay a courtesy caul..
- osullish 3mo agoDalkey is lovely, i used live there for a few years, but couldn't afford to buy a house there. Great to see Flann O'Brien in the comments - an under appreciated genius
- inopinatus 3mo agoMy gateway drug was The Third Policeman, as read aloud by Patrick Magee on the wireless in 1986, a feat all the more remarkable for a man that was, quite appropriately, dead at the time.
- selimthegrim 3mo agoPity that they couldn't get him to read the latest audiobook release in the US.