Me and lbon considered that someone's dick was sticking up a sock puppet in pm's. It just sseemed wrong although I can't explain why.klr wrote:Damn straight.Devogue wrote:I sort of based UB40 on my own Irish Catholic upbringing and my next door neighbour's attitude to religion. It's very curious in Ireland - religion is seen almost as a one of the week's chores, something to be done and got out of the way, and an excuse to see other people from the community - the God bit is sort of secondary. There are very few hardcore Irish Catholic religious nutjobs about - it was interesting to see how that mindset fitted in quite well with the prevailing ethos here. It really wasn't exaggerated otherwise Ani and klr would have caught on quicker.Thinking Aloud wrote:The welcome was warm and geniune, although I did end up wishing that UB40 would leave a little more of his Catholicism at the door - it felt a little like we'd been invaded. (Says the guy who went to church two days ago... Amen.)Devogue wrote:... just as a one off chance to see the reaction to a theist here (it was very good).
Good to see you, Dev. Hope you're well.
It looked like the real McCoy to me, although non-Irish people might have been more suspicious to begin with, meaning that they would have been right, but not necessarily for the right reasons ...
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More or less how it was for me here too for a long time - and until the influx of folks from elsewhere in the world, how I suspect most folks in the congregation viewed it too: a required tradition and social get together.Devogue wrote:I sort of based UB40 on my own Irish Catholic upbringing and my next door neighbour's attitude to religion. It's very curious in Ireland - religion is seen almost as a one of the week's chores, something to be done and got out of the way, and an excuse to see other people from the community - the God bit is sort of secondary.Thinking Aloud wrote:The welcome was warm and geniune, although I did end up wishing that UB40 would leave a little more of his Catholicism at the door - it felt a little like we'd been invaded. (Says the guy who went to church two days ago... Amen.)Devogue wrote:... just as a one off chance to see the reaction to a theist here (it was very good).
Good to see you, Dev. Hope you're well.
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My emphasis....You have such a charming way of phrasing things AniAnimavore wrote:Me and lbon considered that someone's dick was sticking up a sock puppet in pm's. It just sseemed wrong although I can't explain why.klr wrote:Damn straight.Devogue wrote:I sort of based UB40 on my own Irish Catholic upbringing and my next door neighbour's attitude to religion. It's very curious in Ireland - religion is seen almost as a one of the week's chores, something to be done and got out of the way, and an excuse to see other people from the community - the God bit is sort of secondary. There are very few hardcore Irish Catholic religious nutjobs about - it was interesting to see how that mindset fitted in quite well with the prevailing ethos here. It really wasn't exaggerated otherwise Ani and klr would have caught on quicker.Thinking Aloud wrote:The welcome was warm and geniune, although I did end up wishing that UB40 would leave a little more of his Catholicism at the door - it felt a little like we'd been invaded. (Says the guy who went to church two days ago... Amen.)Devogue wrote:... just as a one off chance to see the reaction to a theist here (it was very good).
Good to see you, Dev. Hope you're well.
It looked like the real McCoy to me, although non-Irish people might have been more suspicious to begin with, meaning that they would have been right, but not necessarily for the right reasons ...
Hi Devogue... I don't know you... but I'm sure I will soon enough
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DEV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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I wish I knew how to give you a proper welcome.. oh hang on...Devogue wrote:You are nice people. I have missed you.
I want to come home.
No more flouncing, no more falling out.
Promise.
Welcome back you disgusting fat obnoxious cunt..
I love you!
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Not many people get as many chances as you have, it' a measure of how nice and fun you are to have around when you're in a good mood. Don't fuck it up again mate, please 
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Ditto - a national treasure in the making, if he would only drop selling wine and go to writing full time!Flora wrote:I love Devogue in all his guises!
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I just want his toe nail clippingsRumertron wrote:
Ditto - a national treasure in the making, if he would only drop selling wine and go to writing full time!
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(Don't forget a bit of hair and some spittle. Meet you at the crossroads at midnight, under the hanged man.Elessarina wrote:I just want his toe nail clippingsRumertron wrote:
Ditto - a national treasure in the making, if he would only drop selling wine and go to writing full time!
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Could he be a wine writer and combine the two?Rumertron wrote:Ditto - a national treasure in the making, if he would only drop selling wine and go to writing full time!Flora wrote:I love Devogue in all his guises!
I can imagine a hilarious book about wine written by Dev - I'd definitely buy a copy.
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Flora wrote:Could he be a wine writer and combine the two?Rumertron wrote:Ditto - a national treasure in the making, if he would only drop selling wine and go to writing full time!Flora wrote:I love Devogue in all his guises!
I can imagine a hilarious book about wine written by Dev - I'd definitely buy a copy.
Dev wrote:Happy Bye Bye!
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That'd be Happy Buy-Buy.CJ wrote:Flora wrote:Could he be a wine writer and combine the two?Rumertron wrote:Ditto - a national treasure in the making, if he would only drop selling wine and go to writing full time!Flora wrote:I love Devogue in all his guises!
I can imagine a hilarious book about wine written by Dev - I'd definitely buy a copy.Dev wrote:Happy Bye Bye!
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