Paper Cuts

This topic was created in the Aquarius forum by MellowDee on Thursday, September 14, 2006 and has 19 replies.

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I wonder if anyone's ever seriously injured themselves by giving themselves a paper cut?

I'm just after giving myself a deepish paper cut when I was shirvelling something up to throw it in the bin.

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It's just 10:20am here in Dublin, Ireland now. So that means you're 4 hours ahead there? Yip that makes sense.

Well first off it's an exageration expressed using an idiom that happens to link up with the literal interpretation of the sentence in a ironic kinda way.

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Hey archer that sounds "nice" indeed where you are. I have never been to the South of France. It's pretty nice here too on the east coast of Ireland. Nice gentle nippy breeze and the sky is still bright blue, before the overcast grey rainyness of winter sets in.

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Yeah Ireland's pretty cool. And definitely the place to go if you're looking for the "craic" (that's Irish for fun/excitement/entertainment/a laugh) and we have it down to a fine art here in Ireland 🙂

I didn't think there was still really a chill between England and France anymore, but does it persist?

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Yeah and the Irish are unofficially the "paddys" or the "stupid Irish" which is a throw back from the way it was nearly 2 hundred years ago between the English and the Irish but I personally have never encountered this type of subtle racism whenever I am around English people. I really think all this kind of silliness is fading out with each new generation. I think the bonds of the EU are also contributing to a sense that we all are EU siblings with eachother and that there is strength in numbers and being part of a larger extended community as opposed to being arrogant, alone and isolated.

Yeah and I know it's a pain the way there are still visa and passport restrictions for travelling between UK & Ireland and the rest of the EU. But I can see why they do have to be a bit more careful at filtering and checking all flow of travellers to these countries as they act like the outernmost boundary of the EU community and as a portal to the USA for example.