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[Lili Marlene]

Yeah but I actually worked in the business for a few summers so I know I’m shite at it despite their best efforts.

Fair play, it was all wound up at my grandfather's generation. My dad has never gotten over it.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I'm genetically a Garda lads, just so's you know

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I'm genetically a Garda lads, just so's you know
Narc.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Name taken

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm genetically a Garda lads, just so's you know

That's my other side, but sure Garda and "psychiatric nurse" (i.e. beating people up and throwing them in a room) were the only jobs out of farmer poverty back then.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

My granny’s side were soldiers, she was actually born in the Curragh but denied it because she didn’t want people to think she was from the country.

 

[ann post]

You can trace my history on one side back 400-500 years or so as Coopers. Can I make barrels? Well i've never tried but I assume so, yes.

Make hipster barrells. You've got the bio already

 

[Lili Marlene]

Make hipster barrells. You've got the bio already

Believe me i've looked into it, there's a bit of a market there for sure. Need to find someone to apprentice you though and Ireland doesn't have much in that regards, especially for anyone over about 25

New coopers drawn to old craft at Tullamore Distillery

Two Offaly teenagers have been hired as apprentice coopers at the Tullamore Distillery.

www.rte.ie

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Why isn't Lili cancelled for being a garda? It's not fair.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

That's my other side, but sure Garda and "psychiatric nurse" (i.e. beating people up and throwing them in a room) were the only jobs out of farmer poverty back then.

the clever ones could get 'called' to teaching..
which was pretty much the same as psychiatric nursing in many cases, just with kids,

 

[ann post]

Because he's a cooper?

 

[seanc]

Welding is a highly skilled one though. I think you have to be good at measuring and sizing things up... they're sort of like unglorified engineers. I'd say you need to have the maths and the physics... At least that's what everyone says the top welder around here should have been - an engineer. My uncle says he measures a piece one time and one time only, and he never needs to check it again. My mother taught the same lad and said he was one of the brightest students she ever had.... advanced for his age at maths etc.

Yeah. Just threw that out there as a skill that is in particularly short supply. And as you say, much underappreciated. In Events world, the chippies and painters and lighting guys are the cockiest and loudest, but the engineers and riggers are really the only ones worth listening to.

 

[magicbastarder]

I'm genetically a Garda lads, just so's you know

you should be well able to take the heat so, as you're genetically conditioned to be able to wear a shirt, wool trousers and stab vest in any weather.

 

[seanc]

I come from a family of welders but can I weld? No. I can solder a little bit but I’m not the best at that (I do like it though).

I'm genetically a welder/farmer/psychiatric nurse/truck driver. I can't weld. I can barely solder a guitar lead.

A strange mix of isolation mixed with messing up peoples heads.

 

[magicbastarder]

a friend of my dad's was a trained cooper, but his main trade was making spinning wheels. they made an episode of 'hands' about him.

 

[Lili Marlene]

a friend of my dad's was a trained cooper, but his main trade was making spinning wheels. they made an episode of 'hands' about him.

The cooper episode or the spinning wheel episode??

My grandfather was very disparaging about the episode on coopering, god he was such a prick haha

 

[magicbastarder]

spinning wheels:

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[Lili Marlene]

It's such a great show. All the mad auld fellas living in the middle of nowhere with these insanely specific and difficult skills.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

this is one of my favorites - just for the Kris Kistoferson sing song at the end.

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[magicbastarder]

It's such a great show. All the mad auld fellas living in the middle of nowhere with these insanely specific and difficult skills.

in the one i posted, i winced at 17:00 in - why not mount the piece the other way around? that hook spinning round that way would be lethal. at least it'd just bruise you if it caught your hand the other way.