Bambie Thug Eurovision and anti-war ogham

Fun activity: I was thinking of getting people to decode Bambie Thug's ogham. Might be quite a bit too much for younger ones ? 😀 But fun and perhaps mind opening for older ? :-7 😮 pushing boundaries too much? :-p Should not have to be, but possibly wiser(and more boring) to be a bit careful around this.

Note to self correct pronouns for Bambie Thug are they/them/fae. :-) Well done to RTE newsreaders last night getting them right.

Accidental discovery of another "fun" activity: in blog html css how to rotate ogham script. :-p Holy God. jaypers. Down a twisty tight rabbit hole there we went!

In the News ...

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0508/1447898-eurovision-ogham/ Bambie Thug changed Ogham message after EBU 'order'

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41390479.html

https://eurovision.tv/participant/bambie-thug-2024 Official Eurovision site image has the "ceasefire" ogham.

https://twitter.com/MarkAgitprop/status/1787754522196017368 Humm, Republican Irish twitter account, some haters in the comments, #WereNotInKansasAnymore

https://twitter.com/PantiBliss/status/1787971762430374144 Good one for a walking debate sometime.

Tweeting ogham and tuathal/deisal

https://twitter.com/WeirdAndWindy/status/1788654760377073873

Fabulous stuff from #BambieThug @Gaeilgeoirí please be kind in case of errors! ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜ corónaigh an cailleach = crown the witch. #Eurovision2024 #Ireland #CrownTheWitch #BambieThug #Eurovision

Please rotate your screen widdershins(tuathail) or your head in the opposite direction(deiseal) to enjoy the most optimal reading direction for the ogham. ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜

Cool how Irish has separate words for clockwise and widdershins/sinister (not that English is short of them). Deiseal related to ar deis on the right. Ar deis, ar clé on the right, on the left. Tuathal related to tuath - the people, the tribe, the territory. https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/clockwise https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/clockwise

tuathal, "Direction against the sun, wrong direction" "turned the wrong way" "in disorder" "~ a dhéanamh, to make a mistake, to blunder." Somewhat sinister indeed. https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/tuathal

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/tuath

The ogham used ...

Face: ceasefire ogham.co

Leg: Saoirse don Phalestine ogham.co

Face: Crown the Witch ogham.co

ceasefire	Saoirse don Phalestine (hmm, could be an e too many there on the end :-p	Crown The Witch	Sos cogaidh agus corónaigh an cailleach (for the twitter gaelgóir hatersunhappies - ceasefire as gaeilge = Sos cogaidh)	Saoirse do Phailistín agus an Úcráin (hoy, have we forgotten about Ukraine ? (sorry Myanmar, Sudan, elsewhere with war (and people of Russia also)
ceasefire ᚛ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ᚜	Saoirse don Phalestine (hmm, could be an e too many there on the end :-p ᚛ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑᚅ ᚚᚆᚐᚂᚓᚄᚈᚔᚅᚓ᚜	Crown The Witch ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜	Sos cogaidh agus corónaigh an cailleach (for the twitter gaelgóir hatersunhappies - ceasefire as gaeilge = Sos cogaidh) ᚛ᚄᚑᚄ ᚉᚑᚌᚐᚔᚇᚆ᚜ ᚛ ᚐᚌᚒᚄ ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜	Saoirse do Phailistín agus an Úcráin (hoy, have we forgotten about Ukraine ? (sorry Myanmar, Sudan, elsewhere with war (and people of Russia also) ᚛ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑ ᚚᚆᚐᚔᚂᚔᚄᚈᚔᚅ ᚐᚌᚒᚄ ᚐᚅ ᚒᚉᚏᚐᚔᚅ᚜

Oh google translate translates "crown the witch" as "coróin an cailleach" URNNNNNNK(wrong honking sound). It should be something like tabhair coróin don cailleach ? Or corónaigh an cailleach .. oh weird. the coronation in english, corón and corónaigh as Gaeilge, corón = crown. Which came first I wonder ? https://www.etymonline.com/word/coronation https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/coróin https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/corónaigh

Ogham transliteration tools and html css stuff

Tool #1 https://ogh.am/ gives transliterated and bottom to top unicode. In .css we can see this class is defined and can use e.g. in h2 tag like class=vertical.

  .vertical {
    writing-mode: tb-rl;
    transform: rotate(180deg);
  }

Or, in table add id=ogham and in css template add this:

  #ogham td, #ogham th {
    writing-mode: tb-rl;
    transform: rotate(180deg);
}
  

https://support.google.com/blogger/../how-can-i-add-css-code-to-my-posts-not-to-the-theme-or-layout-of-the-blog "Theme > Customize > Advanced > Add CSS > then paste your custom table css here..."
Design (on blog page) - Theme - Customize - Edit

Tool #2 transliterate latin chars to ogham: https://ogham.co/ But, annoyingly, outputs images, not the unicode string. Humm. Other stuff from that website: Test test ᚛ᚋᚐᚊ ᚉᚓᚏᚐᚅᚔ ᚐᚃᚔ ᚐᚈᚆᚓᚉᚓᚈᚐᚔᚋᚔᚅ᚜ = MAQ CERAN[I] AVI ATHECETAIMIN Son of Ciarán, descendant of the Uí Riaghan ᚄᚓᚐᚅ = Seán

EXPERIMENTs

	TABLE WITHOUT ID, using class=VERTICAL style where needed
PLAIN: ᚛ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ᚜	Saoirse Don Phalestin'e ᚛ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑᚅ ᚚᚆᚐᚂᚓᚄᚈᚔᚅᚓ᚜	᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ How do we word wrap? ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜

P CLASS=VERTICAL ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ

H2 CLASS=VERTICAL ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ

	TABLE ID=OGHAM
VERTICAL and TABLEOGHAM: ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ TABLEOGHAM: ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ PLAIN: ᚛ᚉᚓᚐᚄᚓᚃᚔᚏᚓ᚜	ᚄᚐᚑᚔᚏᚄᚓ ᚇᚑᚅ ᚚᚆᚐᚂᚓᚄᚈᚔᚅᚓ	ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜ How do we word wrap? ᚛ᚉᚏᚑᚒᚒᚅ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚒᚒᚔᚈᚉᚆ᚜	Sos cogaidh agus corónaigh an cailleach (for the twitter gaelgóir hatersunhappies - ceasefire as gaeilge = Sos cogaidh) ᚛ᚄᚑᚄ ᚉᚑᚌᚐᚔᚇᚆ᚜ ᚛ ᚐᚌᚒᚄ ᚜ ᚛ᚉᚑᚏᚑᚅᚐᚔᚌᚆ ᚐᚅ ᚉᚐᚔᚂᚂᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜

REFERENCEs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham

https://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6028128/how-do-i-rotate-text-in-css

This blog page was brought to you, from and with thanks to https://ogh.am/, google translate, stackoverflow, teanglann.ie foclóir gaeilge-bearla, wikipedia, etymonline and various others.

Two kids on time, existance, music, writing, other stuff and education. And PARKLIFE songs.

I've got to get my kids to read that interview see what they think. :-)

Maybe they won't want to goto school anymore!! 😮

Will Smith's kids give an interview on time, existence, music, writing, fashion, values, breathing and education.
I think you could set their interview answers nicely to the parklife song. 
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/?_r=1
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/tmagazine/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

WILLOW: "There’re no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it’s the best thing."

PARKLIFE.

JADEN: "The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them."
PARKLIFE.

WILLOW: "I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, “Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.” But it was the worst experience because I was depressed."
PARKLIFE.

Two kids on time, existence, music, writing, fashion, values, breathing and education. PARKLIFE.

You can hear other voices coming through in some of their comments. PARKLIFE.
Brainwashed - as everyone is by their parents, their teachers and everyone, . . . but in a good way. PARKLIFE.

Ugh-inducing or cute or refreshing or amusing or eyebrow raising or face palming depending on your . . . PARKLIFE.

[Chorus]
ALL THE PEOPLE
SO MANY PEOPLE
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH THEIR PARKLIFE

What is that are reading? 

Quantum Physics. Good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh = Osho, an Indian mystic and guru.

The Ancient Secret Flower of Life.
http://www.themeasuringsystemofthegods.com/The%20Secret%20The%20Flower%20of%20Life%20%28vol.1%29.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Secret-Flower-Life-Vol/dp/1891824171

Whooo. Somewhat slightly la-la. But all good :-) Actually looks quite interesting.
Subject to having a pinch of scepticism and a medium dose of critical thinking.

What's that parklife thing?
I have come late to the Russel Brand being slagged on parklife meme but at the point where he has put out this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11221342/Parklife-Russell-Brand-makes-own-parody-video-after-Twitter-ridicule.html

With the rubber bandits no more no less.

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/10/parklife-russell-brand-releases-parody-after-being-mocked-on-the-internet

"Verbal dexterity plus estuary accent is what leads to parody of
PARKLIFE
But words used efficently can be a dangerous tool that slices through propaganda like a
SHARP KNIFE
We can’t get our heads around the fact that five families have as much dough as 12 million Brits, that can’t be right in any accent
CLASS STRIFE
You can’t be polysyllabic or talk about important things unless you went to school in a top hat and tails"

Lovely job.

The original . . . 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIEsmGzo2UE

"Parklife"

Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as (parklife)
And morning soup can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as
(parklife)
John's got brewers droop he gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons
They love a bit of it (parklife)
Who's that gut lord marching... you should cut down on your porklife mate... get some
Exercise

[Chorus]
ALL THE PEOPLE
SO MANY PEOPLE
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH THEIR PARKLIFE

Know what I mean
I get up when I want except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen
(Parklife)
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea and I think about leaving the house (parklife)
I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a sense of enormous well
Being (parklife)
And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit
Of my heart devoted to it (parklife)

[Chorus]

Parklife (parklife)
Parklife (parklife)

It's got nothing to do with vorsprung durch technic you know
And it's not about you joggers who go round and round and round
Parklife (parklife)

[Chorus x 2]

Cailleach An Airgid - new videos and verses

Cailleach An Airgid == Hag/Witch of the money as Gaeilge - in Irish. 

We caught this new version + video on TnG4 tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAE-8SGYgrs&NR=1
Cailleach an Airgid - Róisín Elsafty and Damien Dempsey - Anam An Amhráin

And then saw more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbMU4qfd5mU
Niamh Ní Charra - Cailleach An Airgid


The lyrics vary a bit, 3 new verses 1950ish in the Róisín Elsafty version.

Curfá
'Sí do mhaimeo í, 'sí do mhaimeo í      (nó 's cailleach go deo í)
'Sí do mhaimeo í, 'sí cailleach an airgid
'Sí do mhaimeo í, ó Bhaile Iorrais Mhóir í    (nó ón Iorrais Mhóir í)
'S chuirfeadh sí cóistí ar bhóithre Cois Fharraige

Dá bhfeicfeá' an "steam" 'ghabhail siar Tóin Uí Loin'
'S na rothaí 'ghabhail timpeall siar ó na ceathrúnaí
Chaithfeadh sí 'n stiúir naoi n-uair' ar a cúl
'S ní choinneodh sí siúl le cailleach an airgid

(Curfá)

Measann tú, 'bpósfa', measann tú 'bpósfa'
Measann tú, 'bpósfa', cailleach an airgid?
Tá's a'm nach 'bpósfa', tá's a'm nach 'bpósfa'  (nó tá sé ró-ólta)
Mar tá sé ró-óg 'gus d'ólfadh sé'n t-airgead


'S gairid go 'bpósfaidh, 's gairid go 'bpósfaidh  
'S gairid go 'bpósfaidh, beirt ar a' mbaile seo
'S gairid go 'bpósfaidh, 's gairid go 'bpósfaidh
Séan Shéamais Mhóir is Máire Ní Chathasaigh
(nó Tá beirt ag gabháil ag pósadh, beirt ag gabháil ag pósadh
 beirt ag gabháil ag pósadh ar an mbaile sin againne
 Tá beirt ...)

And new verses (to me they are new, eangach = net):

(Curfá)

Bhí mise aréir i mbealach an chinn
Bhí mo chuid eangacha sinte agam siar leis an bhfarraige
Ach céad faraor géar dearnadh orm sléacht
Ó tháinig ná fíogaigh is rinneadar slag orm

(Curfá)

Nuair a bhí mo dheaideo ina leaidín beag óg
Ó cheannaigh sé an eangach seo thiar i gCois Fharraige
B'fhearr liomsa go mór mo dhá laimh a dhó
Ná eangach Dheaideo a bheidh caite cois balla agam


(Curfá)

Éirigh suas, a Sheáin, is beir ar do bhiorán
Agus feach a ndeasófá piosa den eangach seo
Mar bhí sé i do dhream is tá sé i do láimh
Is ba mhaith an fear báid tú ar thalamh is ar farraige

(Curfá)

'Sí do mhaimeo í, 's cailleach go deo í
'Sí do mhaimeo í, 'sí cailleach an airgid
'Sí do mhaimeo í, ón Iorrais Mhóir í
 .... is iosfaidh sí feoil on Fridays and Saturdays

"on Fridays and Saturdays"! :)


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http://www.omniglot.com/songs/irish/sidomhaimeo.php
Lyrics with English translation

http://www.celticlyricscorner.net/cliar/cailleach.htm

And the new verses:

eangach = net
an chinn = ?
sléacht = slaughter/kneel
fíogaigh = ? big scary sea monster / fish?
rinneadar slag orm = ? 
dhá laimh a dhó = ? two hands a 2 ?
bhiorán = pin/needle?
dhream = ?group/party?

Bhí mise aréir i mbealach an chinn
Bhí mo chuid eangacha sinte agam siar leis an bhfarraige
Ach céad faraor géar dearnadh orm sléacht
Ó tháinig ná fíogaigh is rinneadar slag orm

   I was last night near ?an chinn?
   My nets were spread out on the sea
   But oh woes oh noes even alas and alack oh húfás *ahem* a tear did ?slaughter? me
   There came a ?big scary sea monster/fish? and ?slag?ged me.

Nuair a bhí mo dheaideo ina leaidín beag óg
Ó cheannaigh sé an eangach seo thiar i gCois Fharraige
B'fhearr liomsa go mór mo dhá laimh a dhó
Ná eangach Dheaideo a bheidh caite cois balla agam

   When my grandaddy was a young boy
   Buying this net here across in Cois Farraige
   I'd prefer myself much more my two hands ?a dhó?
   Than my grandaddy's nets which are with me thrown beside the wall

Éirigh suas, a Sheáin, is beir ar do bhiorán
Agus feach a ndeasófá piosa den eangach seo
Mar bhí sé i do dhream is tá sé i do láimh
Is ba mhaith an fear báid tú ar thalamh is ar farraige

   Get up Sean and take your ?needle?
   And look to ?fixing? this piece of the net
   Because it's in your ?group/party? and in your hand
   And the boatman would prefer you on land rather than at sea

 .... is iosfaidh sí feoil on Fridays and Saturdays
    .... and she eats meat ar Déthe hÁonaigh is ar na Déithe Sathrainigh
  how do you pluralise those days and is that why it's sung as Bearla?

happy-shiny jolly Christmas song

We're still selecting happy-jolly tunes but we've some from hi5 and Johnny Mathis and others which are good: kids songs with singing .... I was up till 5am on Monday grepping youtube.
I'm looking for a very happy-shiny jolly Christmas song.
Alvin and the Chipmunks are not jolly enough.
 Looney Tunes are not jolly enough!

TODO: links
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?pi=7&ps=20&sf=&sa=0&sq=&dm=0&p=41D83C5287331CCB
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?pi=7&ps=20&sf=&sa=0&sq=&dm=0&p=D531FB80CBB0916E
Some possibilities: Boney M, Hi5, Johnny Mathis, The Supremes, Michael Jackson, Slade, The Wiggles, Claymation

This is what it is for: http://www.milltheatre.com/shows/seasons-greetings
Season's Greetings by playwright Alan Ayckbourn.   (in Dundrum on 24-28 Nov)
Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society.
Season's Greetings is a black, though often farcical comedy about a dysfunctional family Christmas, set over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day in an average suburban house.
And incidentally on the odd musical note, my brother is releasing a single:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPh7SBUoec
 http://music.bcoleman.com/

Sound clips for choral festival songs

Rehersals on Tue + Thur nights 7:30 in Tiernans.
And Choral Festival on in New Ross on Sun 24 May.
http://www.aims.ie/events_choral.asp
We'll probably arrange a bus.
Girls and fellas very welcome to join in at this stage - we've a reasonable gang we thing but the more the LOUDer!

Some sound clips for the boys are up here:
http://www.dspsrv.com/~jamesc/music/notes-FoolOnTheHill_and_IDreamedADream.html
... and a couple of links to the internet and YouTube for The Fool.
The quality is terrible :-7 I REALLY hope I don't sound that bad :( but some of them are slightly helpful hitting the right notes.

amr to mp3: http://miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverterDown.htm
find /home/jamesc/Music/ -name "Dream*" |xargs /opt/MIKSOFT/MobileMediaConverter/lib/mmc
find /home/jamesc/Music/ -name "Fool*" |xargs /opt/MIKSOFT/MobileMediaConverter/lib/mmc