u/Reek_0_Swovaye

Sometimes, in the 70's/80's when my parents were conversing/bickering; my mother would express her indifference,( to whatever my father was saying), by declaiming; " soap my arse and slide backwards up a rainbow " in a musical way. Both of them are 'gone to god' twenty years by now; I'm just wondering-- was she an original poet? or is this an expression that was once popular and since fallen out of use? context: ma from donnycarney/ballybough da from pleasant st.

[edit: this is not a joke post, I'm genuinely curious]

This is an absolute shot in the dark, but,- does anybody know what the calendar featured in the Wicker Man is? Calendars are not the sort of things that people hang on to, but a friend of mine is turning 56 in August and I thought a that fun present (he loves this film) would be a reproduction of the calendar with May day circled in red, as it appears in the film.

An actual calender from 50 years ago is a near impossible find; that, I get. But I reckon I could make some sort of facsimile if I knew what calendar it was. It features a nice picture of scottish landscape, a stags head in red as a logo, and something additional in a blue rectangle that I can't make out.

Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask about this, I'd be very greatful if someone could just tell me where the right place, on reddit, to ask this question would be; posting images is not possible here, but I that feel Scots, of a historical bent, might be able to help me.

A British-made alternative to American muppet comparisons...

I'm wondering where historians land in general; have Richard Carriers, (it was all myth-fed by other myth) ideas gotten more respect over the years?

No wish to inflame any animosity, just trying to take a quick general survey.

This isn't about mocking the administration, I'm just wondering what the chemistry is behind it all ( I recognise that there is biology at work also ) some news outlets are alluding to the addition of hydrogen peroxide as the reason that the coating is lifting. I'm asking about it here because I'm clueless and reporters talking about it don't seem any more well-informed than I am.

I've been running a shanty night for 17 weeks now, (Wednesdays, upstairs, in the poolroom, over a pub, from 7.30-9.30 with an intermission). It generally feels, at the end of each weekly session, as if things have gone well, but...

both in terms of: attendance numbers overall, and in terms of the actual individuals who turn up from week to week,-- the vast majority of attendees are either occassional, or else they are complete once-off never-to-be-seen-again types and so I'm wondering if there's something, ( either about myself or the way that we're doing things) that's discouraging more regular attendance?

I'm in Limerick, Ireland, a city of about 100,000.

Clarity edit: Wednesdayness, weekliness and the time have been dictated by the pub; the session is free to participants, the room is free for me, but a bar is a business, and it suits their business best to give people a reason to attend on an otherwise unpopular night, I'm not sure how much wriggle-room they'd give me to change any of that-- but I'll certainly ask.

We have a sixty-page lyrics booklet and almost never do all the songs in it. I encourage others to lead, ( my notion was that a stable group would eventually dole out the shantyman roles -- but in practice, it's so often myself and a bunch of new people that I have to do most of it ) .