[07:25] <codesmith> Hello
[08:00] <zmoylan> hi
[08:02] <codesmith> How are you zmoylan?
[08:03] <zmoylan> grand, yourself?
[08:04] <codesmith> Fabulous.
[08:05] <codesmith> Do you live in Ireland where the policeman are called Gards?
[08:05] <zmoylan> gardai, yes
[08:05] <codesmith> Yeah, the the Garda, exactly.
[08:06] <codesmith> Did you hear about the Irish policeman who tried to arrest a Polish driving licence?
[08:06] <codesmith> You know this story?
[08:06] <codesmith> You might...
[08:06] <zmoylan> yeah, made the news a few years back.  the layout and lack of exposure to polish driving licences caused the muck up
[08:07] <codesmith> He had fifty offences against him, he was fast becoming the most wanted motorist in Ireland
[08:07] <codesmith> Prawo Jazdy
[08:09] <zmoylan> no worse than all the american software that mucks up when there's a ' in the name like o'brien :-)
[08:12] <codesmith> Can you name a saint who comes from Ireland?
[08:12] <codesmith> without looking it up :D
[08:12] <zmoylan> colm cille also known as columba
[08:12] <zmoylan> brendan who discovered america
[08:13] <zmoylan> if i were to stop and think about it i could probably dig up about 10 names with some bios
[08:14] <codesmith> very good.
[08:14] <codesmith> Cunningly avoided the St Patrick trap
[08:14] <codesmith> he didnt come from Ireland
[08:15] <codesmith> St George is Palestinian
[08:15] <zmoylan> well, no one is sure where he came from.  welsh, french have all been suggested
[08:15] <codesmith> British, certainly. He came from around the River Severn area, apparently
[08:16] <zmoylan> the information is not 100% sure.  the pirates and slave raiders of the time got about
[08:16] <codesmith> Theres been St Bridget
[08:16] <codesmith> Do you know what her great miracle was?
[08:16] <zmoylan> her cross of reeds and explaing the trinity by using a shamrock
[08:17] <zmoylan> the bar for sainthood was lower back then
[08:17] <codesmith> she had proper miracles.
[08:18] <zmoylan> so had the druids
[08:18] <codesmith> She wanted to build a convent so they said you cant have whatever land your cape covers and she laid it down and her cape grew like ginger beer!
[08:18] <codesmith> until it take over an entire field.
[08:18] <codesmith> Thats one of her great miracles.
[08:18] <codesmith> The other one, was that she could transform her used bath water into beer.
[08:18] <codesmith> A very Irish sort of miracle.
[08:19] <codesmith> St Kevin
[08:19] <codesmith> What did they teach you in primary school in Ireland about him?
[08:22] <zmoylan> a hermit who lived in glendalough
[08:23] <codesmith> It is astonishing to imagine an education like that
[08:23] <zmoylan> why?
[08:25] <codesmith> sounds like a recipe for childhood scars.
[08:26] <zmoylan> well it's hard to cover the history of ireland known as the 'land of saints and scholars' without covering the early history of the christian church.
[08:27] <zmoylan> the profusion of monasteries brought the vikings initially on raids and then settlement
[08:28] <zmoylan> as the lights went out in the dark ages. irelands remoteness and monasteries kept information alive as books were created and ended up all over europe.
[08:28] <zmoylan> it'd be like learning the history of europe but trying to ignore the reformation
[17:37] <czajkowski> aloha
[17:50] <slashbel> hello czajkowski, have you arrived?
[18:04] <czajkowski> narp not till tomorrow
[18:04] <czajkowski> bene out looking at pugs :)
[19:44] <codesmith> Have you guys heard of the durable Mike Malloy?
[19:45] <codesmith> he is a man who really wouldn't die.
[19:45] <codesmith> This is a very extraordinary story.