October 24th, 2008
Stop Compulsory Irish in schools
Yes, stop making the Irish Language compulsory in schools. Read this for more.
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So besides trying to increase my Google ranking for my pet hates I’ve been messing around with Corel Painter this week.
Looking at it now the textures are a bit corny but it was fun playing with them. The only other time I’ve used textures really was this thing and it drove me mad with all the layers.
The easiest way to add textures to your pics is to use the ‘Overlay’ layer option in Photoshop or Painter. Just grap a photo of some rust and plop it on top and you look like you know what you’re doing. It’s like having one dance move that you can milk for 4 hours.
I’m going to Brussels tomorrow for the Smurf exhibition in the comic museum thing. I love the Smurfs, Always have and always will.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
That top shot’s the biz. Textures or not. Enjoy Brussels. Smurfs are an allegory of Alqaeda and the capitalist state living in harmony in trufffles.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
God,how to defend the Irish language when on oneside there`s the Paddy Pearsers who follow some shit English team,enjoy shit English pop music while “hating” everything to do with england.speaking broken,illiterate Irish and then proclaiming themselves “Irisher than thou”.
And on the other side there`s a group of yuppie middle class Kevin Myers lookalikes who call everyone who speaks Irish “dirty Shinner voting cunts” because Irish speakers don`t fit in with their Eurofile Sarkozy sucking view of European life or whatever.Fuck em both in the ear.
There`s very little ground for people like me who love the language but don`t watch bogball or eat in Supermacs everyday or hate “d`foreigners”.
October 25th, 2008 at 3:14 am
I agree with you Bob, it really is fucking pointless.
Plus, it’s a horrible language. Everything about it. It’s a chore to talk in, even, and it sounds just as retarded. In my Irish class we’re reading a play called “An Trial”, and if you translated it into English, you’d fucking laugh at how ridiculous it is.
I probably hate it this much because it was shovel-fed into me in Primary…
Lovely textures on the left fella in the first pic! I’ll be keeping an eye out for the prog it’s in…
By the way, a friend of mine got into the Shiznit yesterday after I gave him the first issue, and I was just wondering, d’you have any copies of Mbleh or Shizzer left at all these days?
October 27th, 2008 at 8:56 am
At least Irish doesn’t sound gay - like Welsh.
Smurfs rock - but it’s still dedication to go all the way to bloody Belgium. Smurfette Bukake……
Why the fuuuuuuuck doesn’t Photoshop have nice, smooth bruch-damping like Painter?!?!?!?! Is it because Adobe want us to have to buy Ye Olde Illustrator to do smooth lines?!?!?!
October 27th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Are you using Painter x,Bob?
Good sweet jesus,how can you work that bollocks of a program?
I`m using the free trial and I`m busting a nut trying to work it.Give me Artrage and GIMP anyday!
October 27th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
They should change Irish class to an “Irish Culture” class. It can be once or twice a week, where you learn the language, Irish history, Irish music and dancing, Irish writings, etc. It could be made fun and interactive. I think people would be way more willing to view the Irish language in a positive light if they did!
They should introduce a new class as well called “life skills”. This would be basic stuff like how to be a good parent (e.g. don’t beat your kids, don’t ridicule them, etc.) and things like money management, safe sex, sexuality, etc.
Yay.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Steve’s right, there should be a Life Skills class. Of course, most schools have “Social Personal and Health Education”, but half of those are free classes and are about utter rubbish.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Agree with Steve too, definitely on the Life Skills thing. The first thing I want to explain to kids is how advertising works and that most if not all media is produced with the view to making cash. Politics could be explained in an hour too. Simple things like how an airport works, I had no idea the first time I traveled on my own.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
When I was studying Irish at a grammar school in the north, the other language teachers thought it was a fucking joke, a dead language that had no practical application in the modern world.
Never mind the fact that all the chaps studying French and Spanish got to fuck off to Paris or Barcelona, whereas all we could hope for was a cloth tit at the back of the some shitty Gaeltacht disco.
At GCSE level, there were 25 ‘A’ grades in my class.
Every single one of those guys kept it up to get an easy pass at A level, but realising how acutely retarded it is, gave up halfway through meaning only ten of the 25 even passed.
The Irish teacher retired the next year.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Schools got their foreign language teacher budget reduced last week so now they’re under even more pressure. Teaching Irish to poor kids from Nigeria and Poland that don’t have full command of English. Ridiculous.