Another video moment (commercial this time)

[dianeduane]

Possibly my favorite of the Amstel ads that have been airing for a while. (This one was shot in 16:9, so you may find it looking a little squeezed. Sorry about that.)

Before the Flood...

(A few dialogue / dialect notes: 

"I'm waitin' on yer man": "Yer man" used colloquially is "That fella/guy," "this/that person here/over there." Cf. the famous poem about "A pint of plain is your only man."

"It's lashing out there":  It's "lashing down rain":  pouring, coming down really hard.

"He's after forgettin' these yokes!"  "He's after...":  the idiom translates an Irish-language verb phrasing that with "forgetting" equals, in this case, "He forgot / he's just forgotten ..."  "Yoke" is Irish slang for some unnamed or unspecified object. The closest US translation would probably be "these guys".)

Comments

Re: "half-irish"

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

He considered himself English when he wasn't in the pub and Irish when he was, more or less. :-) It's rather like one of my colleagues at work, who was born in Birmingham of Indian parents, got three Master's degrees, and is now doing his PhD. He is English to the core until I get him on the subject of cooking, at which point he instantly becomes Indian, which I think is just as it should be.

Re: "half-irish"

[(Anonymous)]

Gives the concept of situational ethnics a whole new meaning, doesn't it?

Re: "half-irish"

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Now that's delicious. :-D Please let me know if you ever get your own LJ, because I should like to add you!