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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 23:35:17 GMT
Everybody knows that conservatives are angry, hate-filled, insecure, fearful, and wretched. At least, that description fits me to a tee. However, I imagine that even reactionaries have their happier side, and activities or states that fill them with joy or pleasure. What makes you happy, aside from denouncing SJWs? I think everybody would say, "Being with my loved ones and friends". Here's a list of other things that make me happy: Snow The cinema The sound of voices in the air The sound of two people having a conversation about something that really interests them and about which they are knowledgeable A cold, crisp morning Traditions of every kind There are many more, of course. Sitting at the shore engulfed by wind and the hypnotic pounding of the waves. I enter a state of mind so serene not even the presence of my brother-in-law can disturb it.
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Post by cato on Jul 14, 2018 12:28:42 GMT
Great to see large crowds of people out at the Trump Pride Marches in the Uk. That ammount of social justice warriors , lefties and sore losers having a collective melt down was the high point of the week. Trump's blunt talk on Brexit and rebuke of May had to be cheering to those who voted leave. He radiates strength and she weakness and duplicity. Recalling our recent discussion on dictatorships, you can understand why frustrated voters might give up on democracy and turn to the wrong solution. May illustrates the temptation. May illustrates the temptation to elect politicians who have no views of their own and for whom power is an end in itself. Trump surprisingly has bucked a trend and does keep most of his pledges to the fury of the opposition. At our last election we elected a large number of prominent pro life TDs who then abandoned that stance a year later. This was one of the biggest U turns in Irish politics .They in fairness probably knew which way the wind was blowing socially and jumped rather than be left stranded . One of the great lacks of our age are conviction politicians on the democratic right. Anyone looking for a dictator is asking for trouble. Things may be bad but they can always get much worse. Dictators of left and right have more in common than divides them.
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Post by cato on Oct 16, 2018 20:07:09 GMT
A few additions : Cork accents.I love listening to them. They are like short bursts of joyous birdsong.
Discovering a beautiful church. St Peter and Paul in Cork is a Pugin creation which I only discovered yesterday. Stunning.
Nostalgic return visits to places I once lived even when sadly buildings I once knew have vanished or been rebuilt.
Watching the mist in the Irish midlands from the train as the day dawns.
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Post by cato on Apr 8, 2019 10:46:09 GMT
I probably have said this before but being off work on Mondays is blissful especially if the weather is miserable. It is lovely listening to the traffic reports of delays and jams outside on the wireless while stroking my cats and dog and waiting for the kettle to boil the water for the first coffee of the day.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Apr 8, 2019 12:01:02 GMT
I probably have said this before but being off work on Mondays is blissful especially if the weather is miserable. It is lovely listening to the traffic reports of delays and jams outside on the wireless while stroking my cats and dog and waiting for the kettle to boil the water for the first coffee of the day. I'm with you! Staying in bed for as long as possible on such days is also good!
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Post by cato on Apr 8, 2019 14:44:39 GMT
I probably have said this before but being off work on Mondays is blissful especially if the weather is miserable. It is lovely listening to the traffic reports of delays and jams outside on the wireless while stroking my cats and dog and waiting for the kettle to boil the water for the first coffee of the day. I'm with you! Staying in bed for as long as possible on such days is also good! That's a given.
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Post by Stephen on Sept 19, 2019 13:37:16 GMT
What makes me extremely happy is my Children. They are uncut diamonds and are priceless.
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Post by cato on Sept 19, 2019 16:22:09 GMT
Seeing the king of wokery and prime minister of Canada squirm over the racist photos and videos showing him black facing. A resignation in disgrace would be too much to hope for I suppose.
The BBC tonight admitted his liberal reputation is in tatters.I normally hesitate to use the language of pc victimhood but it seems appropriate to state that his (wealthy and narcissic) privilege did lead to this repeated , stupid and gross behaviour. Had a conservative behaved like this he would have already been forced to resign in ignomy.
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Post by cato on Sept 19, 2019 21:18:04 GMT
Jean Claude Junker today opined he " has no erotic attraction to the backstop". Those of us who remember channel 4s Eurotrash from the 1990s will not be suprised to hear about the wilder frontiers of Euro-decadence but it seems to imply some politicians may in fact be erotically attached to the backstop.
Does this fetish involve wearing green jersies for the team? Perhaps admitting a backstop attraction might become the latest right on trendy cause.
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Post by Tomas on Sept 20, 2019 8:25:13 GMT
Simple comedy like this makes me nostalgically happy each replay (up to a number) so full to the brim in its references like "the younger of the Elder brothers, etc" all winking hard to the venerable man of fun Wayne classics. Since Walter Brennan may have Irish heritage it may be passed here. Times may have been different and all things are apt to change, except some hilariously daft tv sketches never (?) do!
Red Skelton and Walter Brennan saloon sketch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMf-k-dLsKg
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 25, 2019 13:03:17 GMT
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Post by cato on Jul 15, 2020 9:53:53 GMT
On Saturday last I went for a walk in Howth with friends and then went for some seafood.
I had my first pint of Guinness since February. I don't remember ever enjoying a drink as much. 40 minutes of quiet contentment.
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Post by Tomas on Sept 19, 2021 19:58:04 GMT
This could also be posted under Whatcha Reading? Tonight a chapter from "Ways and Crossways" by Paul Claudel (translated by no other than Fr. John O'Connor, and dedicated to G.K. Chesterton!) kept me in best mood. The last line after this essay in particular stated when and where it was written: "At Sea, Indian Ocean: September, 1921." Exactly hundred years ago... Such lines nearly gives me goose pimples all by themselves!
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Post by Tomas on Nov 19, 2021 19:28:33 GMT
Tonight rememberance of St. Elisabeth of Theuringen with reading from Proverbs that ended with the same lines (Prov 31:31) as in this wonderful song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgV8vw8k-REStella Parton: Virtuous Woman from "Tell It Sister, Tell It" album. I may have posted it before but it can well be replayed! The entire Holy Mass made me most HAPPY and lifted this whole weekend up to heaven in sentiments. High/Tridentine and Low/secular coincidence. Could it be near to a small little miracle if it (attending Mass) turned my whole being from tired into blissful for some time??
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Post by Séamus on Nov 22, 2021 2:54:20 GMT
Tonight rememberance of St. Elisabeth of Theuringen with reading from Proverbs that ended with the same lines (Prov 31:31) as in this wonderful song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgV8vw8k-REStella Parton: Virtuous Woman from "Tell It Sister, Tell It" album. I may have posted it before but it can well be replayed! The entire Holy Mass made me most HAPPY and lifted this whole weekend up to heaven in sentiments. High/Tridentine and Low/secular coincidence. Could it be near to a small little miracle if it (attending Mass) turned my whole being from tired into blissful for some time?? Due to it's length, not the most popular Common Epistle for priests, especially if it's a sung Mass. It's one of mysteries of the history of devotion that saintly women who had given birth rarely had a popular patronage for childbirth. Newspapers have reported that a nurse and amateur archeologist Yorkshire-woman has recently found what we would probably call a medal (but shaped as an open book) dating to just before the Tudor era depicting Sts Margaret of Antioch and Leonard- both in invoked for safe delivery;it had obviously belonged to a lady concerned about her own or her child's safety. I'd admire the simple technology of the time- etching the image on less than a third of an inch of 22ct gold involved a pretty strong magnification. But would a male and a virgin be accepted as gynecologic patrons today? "wot about the wimmin!?"
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