Christian arrested in Reading Pennsylvania at a Pride March.

[Gondwanaland]

While you appear to have never psychologically developed beyond the anal phase given your fixation on scatological language and imagery, while your sexual repression looms large.

You seem inordinately interested in scatology (and imagine being so intellectually retarded that you follow the ramblings of the whackjob Sigmund Freud and his 'stages'), almost as much as your obsession with fantasizing about children seeing the private parts of parents and other children.

So again, I'll gladly take your label of 'prig', you perverted, sick, pedophilic creep

[Diogenes]

Who is Kevin Myers? And who made him the spokesperson on all things Gaelic?

Both he and Diarmaid Ó Muirithe have criticised the term. Given that they've both worked for The Irish Times, they're certainly more authoritative than you. The criticism of "pseudo-Gaelic" and a "bogus neologism" are up your bailiwick or pretense.

I take it you have never been to a pub in Kilburn?

Further criticism of the term is the commodification of the term of Irish stereotyping.

[Diogenes]

Sue the heck out of this town and cop...

Good news everyone:

Charges dropped for man arrested for disorderly conduct at Reading Pride flag-raising. Now the cop needs a refresher on the 1st Amendment though comments by the police chief make that seem unlikely to happen.

[Machinist]

Good news everyone:

Charges dropped for man arrested for disorderly conduct at Reading Pride flag-raising. Now the cop needs a refresher on the 1st Amendment though comments by the police chief make that seem unlikely to happen.

That's good news!

[Cow Poke]

While you appear to have never psychologically developed beyond the anal phase given your fixation on scatological language and imagery, while your sexual repression looms large.

Such accusations from Tweb's resident pervert should warm the cockles of our hearts.

[Cow Poke]

Good news everyone:

Charges dropped for man arrested for disorderly conduct at Reading Pride flag-raising. Now the cop needs a refresher on the 1st Amendment though comments by the police chief make that seem unlikely to happen.

And we all knew this would happen - just a matter of time.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Good news everyone:

Charges dropped for man arrested for disorderly conduct at Reading Pride flag-raising. Now the cop needs a refresher on the 1st Amendment though comments by the police chief make that seem unlikely to happen.

I suspected as much. A metaphorical slap on the wrist.

[Diogenes]

I suspected as much. A metaphorical slap on the wrist.

There mere fact he was arrested for a speech crime and that his arrest self-evidently violated the 1st Amendment, it's not a "slap on the wrist" but rather evidence of freedom of speech and religion are in real danger. Not that Germany is known for freedom of speech or the UK knows freedom of religion.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Both he and Diarmaid Ó Muirithe have criticised the term. Given that they've both worked for The Irish Times, they're certainly more authoritative than you. The criticism of "pseudo-Gaelic" and a "bogus neologism" are up your bailiwick or pretense.



Further criticism of the term is the commodification of the term of Irish stereotyping.

I found an article on the topic by Myers, was it this https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/h...ake-irish-word to which you refered?

The term “craic” defines the Irish people. It expresses a sense of fun and joy that only we Irish can provide and a love for life that other nationalities could never properly conceive of.

However, akin to many other cultural phenomenona, traditions, and personalities that the Irish hold dear – see Saoirse Ronan, Eamon De Valera, many of our traditional musical instruments, and even St. Patrick himself – the word craic may not have originated in Ireland at all, but may well be a blow-in from our neighbors in Scotland and northern England.

Some English language linguists have even criticized the spelling of craic as a false attempt to claim the Irish origins of a word that originated elsewhere and should be spelled “crack.” This battle was recently taken up by Nelson McCausland, MLA and former Minister for in the Northern Ireland Executive for Culture, Arts and Leisure, in a scathing opinion piece in the Belfast Telegraph.

In his column, McCausland said that although the word is now taken as meaning fun, gossip, news, entertainment, or simply an enjoyable experience in Irish, “crak” originated in middle-English, appearing throughout northern England and Scotland to mean conversation or news before being adopted in Ireland, especially throughout Ulster, in the mid-20th century.

Read more: Irish craic explained - the top six levels of craic you can reach

References to “crak” or “crack” can be found in English and Scottish folk songs dating from the mid-19th century, but it is believed that the first written records of the use of “crack” in Ireland did not appear until the 1950s.

The word gradually worked its way into the natural dialogue, however, even appearing in the work of the renowned playwright Brian Friel in the “crack” form.

From here, the word was adapted into the Irish language, changing the spelling as it did so to represent the same sounds phonetically but in a way that is true to the Irish language.

It continued to go from strength to strength, becoming the catchphrase of legendary Raidió na Gaeltachta broadcaster Seán Bán Breathnach: "Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn" ("We'll have music, chat and crack").

Others have argued, however, that craic was a word used in Old Irish that had fallen out of use during the post-medieval period. These linguists argue that the word was subsequently borrowed from Scots Gaelic by those living in the Northern British Isles and its return to Ireland was simply a revival of a word that had gone out of fashion for a period of time (as many words do).

McCausland is not alone in his dislike for the Gaelicization of “crack,” however. In 2013, Irish Times journalist Donald Clarke lambasted the sudden surge in the use of “craic” instead of “crack” that occurred during the 1990s as a linguistic lie brought on by the renewed confidence of the Irish people post-Italia ‘90 and "Riverdance."

In his article, Clarke quoted the former lexicographer and Irish Times columnist Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, who also implied that the use of craic is a flagrant attempt by the Irish to cash in on the memories of the “good aul’ times” i.e. the Ireland of a more rural era.

“The constant Gaelicisation of the good old English/Scottish dialect word crack as craic sets my teeth on edge,” Ó Muirithe said of the spelling.

“We find advertisements proclaiming ‘music, songs, dancing and craic’; the implication is that craic = boozing and high jinks, great fun as it used to be.”

The outspoken Irish journalist Kevin Myers also slammed the transition from “crack” to “craic,” maintaining that throughout the Celtic revival right up to the music revolution in the 1970s, “crack” was used. It wasn’t until the arrogance of the Celtic Tiger convinced us that nothing was better than being Irish, he claims, that the “craic” emerged to gloss over “an entirely new form of Irishness that pretended to be ancient, but was really quite modern.”

Read more: Remember the Celtic Tiger? Now it’s the ‘Celtic Phoenix’

“For changing the spelling from ‘crack’ to ‘craic’ coincided with the moment that Irishness became self-conscious, winsome, stylized, conceited, boastful, Dingle became Daingean, and most of all, everything became phoney, phoney phoney,” Myers wrote.

Whichever side of the argumentsyou are on, the spelling as Gaeilge of craic is the one that has become the most common and widely used in Ireland today, spreading from its usage in the media in the 1990s to become an iconic attribute of Irish identity - the ability to have the craic.

But if the claims of the likes of Myers, Clarke and McCausland are true, has “the craic” become a form of elitism for Irish people still overly confident that they are the best nation and diaspora in the world?

Or are we simply just better at having the craic?

That article also contained the following comment:

The origin of the word "craic" (as opposed to "crack")
A lot of nonsense it talked about whether crack/craic originated in English, Scots or Irish language. I can immediately scotch the fulminations of outspoken Irish journalists who should know better and who claim that "craic" was Gaelicisation of the English word "crack" in the mid to late 20th century; if they had done a tiny bit of research they would have been able to discover that the Irish Gaelic word "cracaire" (a boaster, a jester, a talker) was current when Dinneen published his 1927 edition of his great dictionary (Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla). Indeed the word, in various spellings, is probably as old as the hills, and is also probably one of those words which shares an origin from way back when Middle English and medieval Irish Gaelic were rubbing shoulders as equals.

[Gondwanaland]

Good news everyone:

Charges dropped for man arrested for disorderly conduct at Reading Pride flag-raising. Now the cop needs a refresher on the 1st Amendment though comments by the police chief make that seem unlikely to happen.

Great to hear. I'd still sue if I were him, at the very least for defamation and harm to name and character and future job prospects because those articles of him will exist forever on the internet.

[Gondwanaland]

I suspected as much. A metaphorical slap on the wrist.

a 'slap on the wrist' for exercising his rights. And his name forever linked to articles on the internet and people like you spewing venom toward him, all for simply exercising a basic right that you and your fascist buddies got your panties in a twist over.

[Diogenes]

Great to hear. I'd still sue if I were him, at the very least for defamation and harm to name and character and future job prospects because those articles of him will exist forever on the internet.

Oh yeah, the guy should sue the cop for civil rights violations. Unfortunately the most likely thing to happen is that the cop will get some gay ally award.

[Mountain Man]

Great to hear. I'd still sue if I were him, at the very least for defamation and harm to name and character and future job prospects because those articles of him will exist forever on the internet.

I don't know if there's a defamation case here, but certainly the cop should be charged with unlawful arrest.

[eider]

So, the supporters of gay pride can be who they are, but anybody who opposes them does not have the right to be who THEY are?

Give me an example.

[eider]

Good news everyone:

Charges dropped for man arrested for disorderly conduct at Reading Pride flag-raising. Now the cop needs a refresher on the 1st Amendment though comments by the police chief make that seem unlikely to happen.

Of course they were.......!! Our cops can arrest... to get a troublemaker out of an area.
That cop acted just fine.