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8 hours ago, Huevón said:

Lived in Chile many years ago where ‘huevón’ was almost a carbon copy of ‘lid’ in terms of meaning / frequency of use / way of demonstrating uber-Chilean credentials. 

What does it mean? Is it "big egg" or "big balls" or something?

 

(btw, Ernesto Guevara became Che for a very similar reason.)

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Déiseach, pronounced 'day-shogk', describes someone from County Waterford. Specifically it was the pen name of a GAA writer in a local newspaper many moons ago, who also happened to be a very prominent individual in the association as a whole. Early on in the days of the internet I adopted it as my catchall username, adapted to deal with  how websites struggled with capital letters and accents. I'm glad I did.

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13 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

I go all misty eyed whenever I see that image.

I have this in front of me in my home office. I work in IT and we have a regular turnover of staff from India coming onshore. One of them is a talented artist and drew this himself and gave it to me as a farewell gift. I love it. 

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1 minute ago, GR10 LFC said:

He did one for the other lad I work with - City fan - of David Silva which was just as good. A very talented guy and wasted in IT!

It must be brilliant to have that sort of talent.

 

My brother in law is a massive Beatles fan and he came across an unusual black & white picture of them sat in a room with Ringo playing a guitar.

 

He has a massive family and one of his nieces was going out with some lad who was a bit of an artist.

 

He took the picture which was only about 5 × 3 inches and turned up a few weeks later with an absolutely amazing copy of it in pencil but 3ft × 2ft.

 

So that got framed and has had pride of place ever since.

I'd post a picture if I could, but they live in America now.

 

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4 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

What does it mean? Is it "big egg" or "big balls" or something?

 

(btw, Ernesto Guevara became Che for a very similar reason.)

Yeah, literally speaking it’s ‘big egg’ but depending on the context it can mean all sorts of things: mate, dude, bellend, idiot, you name it. Also the greater the elongation of the ‘o’ the greater the degree of mateness / dudeness / bellendery being implied.

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3 hours ago, Huevón said:

Yeah, literally speaking it’s ‘big egg’ but depending on the context it can mean all sorts of things: mate, dude, bellend, idiot, you name it. Also the greater the elongation of the ‘o’ the greater the degree of mateness / dudeness / bellendery being implied.

Whereabouts were you in Chile? 

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