Plain people of Ireland come forward and be counted

Simeon said:
We may not know our metaphors but we certainly know our black pudding. Incidentally, Vanilla, after a recent visit to my doctor ....... I've been warned off such things as I mentoned earlier. Triglycerides or something. Also bananas for some reason. Now I don't want to go off topic, but if we descended from those banana-loving bipeds, how come they didn't die out from this triglyceride thing.:confused::D:confused:
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Maybe you are the missing link?
 
If the plain people eat their dinner in the middle of the day does that mean if you want your kids to be good looking you have to give them their dinner in the evenings? :confused:
 
Purple said:
If the plain people eat their dinner in the middle of the day does that mean if you want your kids to be good looking you have to give them their dinner in the evenings? :confused:
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Yes, that's right. Because 'plain people of Ireland' has only one meaning- the literal one. :rolleyes:

I'm guessing poetry was wasted on some of the posters to this thread.:p
 
Vanilla said:
Yes, that's right. Because 'plain people of Ireland' has only one meaning- the literal one. :rolleyes:

I'm guessing poetry was wasted on some of the posters to this thread.:p
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Yea, because Patrick Kavanagh had such a high opinion of the same constituent (it was only him, it seems, who was gifted with a "thick tongued mumble". I can only assume that Yeats was refering to the same people when he talked of them as being "gombeen men". Romantic Ireland's dead and gone and with W.B. in the grave; all we have left are shop-keepers and farmers who eat their dinner in the middle of the day, between fumbling in a greasy till (or so Jackie would like us to think). I don't think our greatest poet had a very high opinion of the plian people of Ireland. His fascist tendencies do tend to support this notion. ;)
 
Jackie Healy Rae is hardly an example of one of the plain people of Ireland. Apart from his son, I've never seen or heard of anyone else like him.
 
csirl said:
Jackie Healy Rae is hardly an example of one of the plain people of Ireland. Apart from his son, I've never seen or heard of anyone else like him.
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I'd often meet/ know characters like Jackie Healy Rae. Thats just the way they are but I think the son over does it though.
 
What about the famed carvery dinner in a punb at lucnhtime???

I partake of same most days. Proud to be a plain person of Ireland. Warped with the hunger by 12 most days.
 
We have a subsidised canteen - Id estimate about half the staff (600) eat their dinners in the middle of the day. Some admit to eathing another in the evening. They are easy to spot.
 
ClubMan said:
Maybe you are the missing link?
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Yes, but only for the weekend! Went back to my roots and met some of those that were earlier metaphored. I think I may have spotted J H-Rae ...... as I only got a glimpse of the back, can't be sure. Or it may have been an escaped Silver Back Gorilla, wearing a tartan cap. Foto was only a few hours drive:)
 
I think an exception should be made for anyone who eats spuds and cabbage and bacon every Monday, and fried herring of a Friday, regardless of what time they choose to do so. Clearly they are the true plain people of our Emerald Isle.

Anyone who eats standing up is a heretic, and probably a foreigner anyway. ;)
 
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