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GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Shaw Tarse said:
GetCarter said:
Sunday was better than expected. Took this in the glen:



You did well on timing. Today is rubbish. 4C, gales and snow at the moment
I'd mock, but 10 iomins later, it could have changed
Indeed. Shieldaig this morning:



pb450

1,301 posts

159 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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coppice said:
Banter and craic ..or blokes being blokey about bloke stuff .The two worst words in the language !
laughthumbup

jock mcsporran

5,001 posts

272 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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GetCarter said:
Indeed. Shieldaig this morning:

Hope you've got that melted off by the weekend

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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jock mcsporran said:
GetCarter said:
Indeed. Shieldaig this morning:

Hope you've got that melted off by the weekend
I'll have a word.

jock mcsporran

5,001 posts

272 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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GetCarter said:
jock mcsporran said:
GetCarter said:
Indeed. Shieldaig this morning:

Hope you've got that melted off by the weekend
I'll have a word.
Cheers, might be a tough day on the bike if it's still snowing.

Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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coppice said:
Red Devil said:
Otoh you don't get the craic/banter afterwards in the evening. Horses for courses. Make two trips and get the best of both worlds. thumbup
Banter and craic ..or blokes being blokey about bloke stuff .
In your world maybe, not ours. Besides, the wives and g/fs wouldn't appreciate that sort of thing.

coppice said:
The two worst words in the language !
The words are from different languages for a start. rolleyes
Craic is not easily defined or explained. If you try, you'll kill it off.

Worst word, eh? I mentioned that to my Irish friend.
I can't quote his reply. It might break the site's swear filter!

Blown2CV

28,695 posts

202 months

Wednesday 27th April 2016
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coppice said:
Anti-social means, inter alia , 'not wanting the company of others' . I don't stand corrected.
it can mean either that or not caring about norms and rules - you're both right - move on!

coppice

8,561 posts

143 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Craic is a word hijacked from Gaelic (I assume ) but now assimilated into English , just as status quo or a la carte. It carries a tragic subtext of half drunk blokes laughing too long and loud at stuff that isn't really very funny .

Anyway ...enough already (bit of a nod towards Yiddish usage there) I have now decided to make first week in June my special treat - Applecross, Ullapool , Kylesku and Altnaharra revisited - 33 years after my first trip North.But in R400 Seven now , not a Visa Super E ...

SmilerFTM

829 posts

149 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Crack is an English word nicked by the Irish and turned into Craic. We've then gone and pinched it back off them using their spelling instead of our own original one. It's not very old either, early or mid 1900's I think

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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The road into Shieldaig this morning:


coppice

8,561 posts

143 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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SmilerFTM said:
Crack is an English word nicked by the Irish and turned into Craic. We've then gone and pinched it back off them using their spelling instead of our own original one. It's not very old either, early or mid 1900's I think
Damn me - never knew that. So..an Englishman using the term craic is presumably somebody who once went to Dublin on a stag weekend (or knew somebody who did )and now feels compelled to affect the Irish usage so as to sound a bit of a Celt? Or something like that anyway...

SmilerFTM

829 posts

149 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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coppice said:
Damn me - never knew that. So..an Englishman using the term craic is presumably somebody who once went to Dublin on a stag weekend (or knew somebody who did )and now feels compelled to affect the Irish usage so as to sound a bit of a Celt? Or something like that anyway...
Yeah it's all a bit weird. Why we've taken up the Irish version I don't know. Maybe it's the whole Irish like to drink and have a laugh whereas we (English) are all lager louts and hooligans so let's sound more Irish as everyone likes a daft pisshead rather than an arse of a one.

SmilerFTM

829 posts

149 months

Thursday 28th April 2016
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Decided to have a look into it and it looks like its a northern English and Scottish word. Crack being the original and was started by the looks sometime in the 19th century and then the Irish started using it and changed it into craic in the mid 1900's

Kieranv

465 posts

183 months

Friday 29th April 2016
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I have just returned home from my wee trip.








giveitfish

4,030 posts

213 months

Friday 29th April 2016
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Love that first photo

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Friday 29th April 2016
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giveitfish said:
Love that first photo
Indeed. Did you walk all the way back up to take it - or clamber up the hill?

Red Devil

13,055 posts

207 months

Friday 29th April 2016
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Speaking of clambering I did some to get a pic of some Matchbox cars last year. smile



Will post some from 2016 when I can find the censored cable to transfer them from my camera. I may have to go out and buy another one. mad

Kieranv

465 posts

183 months

Friday 29th April 2016
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GetCarter said:
Indeed. Did you walk all the way back up to take it - or clamber up the hill?
I hiked back up through the snow. I also took this picture at the same spot.


GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Friday 29th April 2016
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Kieranv said:
GetCarter said:
Indeed. Did you walk all the way back up to take it - or clamber up the hill?
I hiked back up through the snow. I also took this picture at the same spot.

Excellent work that man.

GetCarter

29,358 posts

278 months

Saturday 30th April 2016
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Just a heads up. The Bealach na Ba will be closed next Saturday (7th May) between 10.30 am and about 13.30 - cycle race.

ETA ....and for the rest of the day it'll be:



You get the idea.

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 30th April 10:45