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Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

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  • 26-10-2016 7:39pm
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    veryangryman
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    Just flicked past TG4 and saw some auld lad doing Sean Nós singing and it gave me an idea for this thread.

    Like whats the point of Sean Nós. Stinks of making it up as you go along
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    MilesMorales1
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    Is christmas pubs Irish or? Its a stupid tradition either way, if its a tradition at all.


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    arayess
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    rock the boat.

    I just don't get it - why?


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    Junkyard Tom
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    Cultural cringe, in cultural studies and social anthropology, is an internalized inferiority complex that causes people in a country to dismiss their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries. It is closely related to the concept of colonial mentality and is often linked with the display of anti-intellectual attitudes towards thinkers, scientists, and artists who originate from a colonial or post-colonial nation. It can also be manifested in individuals in the form of cultural alienation.

    wikipedia.org


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    Pac1Man
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    Traveling football fans who bring flags with Father Ted references.


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    LordSutch
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    The Rose of tralee.


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    looksee
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    Christmas pubs?


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    BorneTobyWilde
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    Mass


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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Cultural cringe, in cultural studies and social anthropology, is an internalized inferiority complex that causes people in a country to dismiss their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries. It is closely related to the concept of colonial mentality and is often linked with the display of anti-intellectual attitudes towards thinkers, scientists, and artists who originate from a colonial or post-colonial nation. It can also be manifested in individuals in the form of cultural alienation.

    wikipedia.org

    That's a well aimed torpedo to the centre of the OPs nether region. :D


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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
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    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Mass

    Doesn't every country in the world have mass, or at least some kind of way to worship god/gods?


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    Miss Demeanour
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    Clapping when the plane lands.


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    LordSutch
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    Thanking the bus driver when he stops at the bus stop!


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    [Deleted User]
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    People blessing themselves when they pass a church.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Singing ole ole ole at absolutely everything.
    It's not even Irish.


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    [Deleted User]
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    The 'good' front room - especially odd in tiny houses with limited space to begin with.


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    PowerToWait
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    Any Father fcuking Ted related shiite.

    I don't mind a bit of sean nós. It's just singing.


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    LordSutch
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    Candie wrote: »
    People blessing themselves when they pass a church.

    You don't see so much of that nowadays, although back in the 80s I remember the whole top deck of the smoke filled 46a frantically blessing themselves as we passed every Chapel :)


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    lawred2
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    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Mass

    Grown ups being fearful of Mummy and Daddy finding out that they don't go to mass


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    frag420
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    When you're really young and your dad spitting/licking on a tissue and cleaning your face with it...


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    tomwaterford
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    Bringing every celebrity/offials person visiting the country to that Guinness place for a pint of Guinness


    Lame as fcuk


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    Gaillimh1976
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    Fianna Fail


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    LordSutch wrote: »
    You don't see so much of that nowadays, although back in the 80s I remember the whole top deck of the smoke filled 46a frantically blessing themselves as we passed every Chapel :)

    My Granny does it in the car in Ireland. If she's in the UK she doesn't bless herself, because she 'can't be sure the church isn't a Protestant one'.

    I guess she doesn't want to waste the effort on a godless Prod church. Another extremely Irish thing to do. :)


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    MilesMorales1
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Thanking the bus driver when he stops at the bus stop!

    Sure they do that in the UK/Aus/NZ as well.


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    Harry Palmr
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Thanking the bus driver when he stops at the bus stop!

    While it's a thing that happens in Ireland, it's not an Irish thing as it happens in other countries.

    Funeral cortèges on (often busy) national routes.


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    LordSutch
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    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    Sure they do that in the UK/Aus/NZ as well.

    UK?

    Not in London, thats for sure.


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    bodhrandude
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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    That's a well aimed torpedo to the centre of the OPs nether region. :D

    Did you not notice, it ended up in Clare. :)

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    Harry Palmr
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    Happens on country routes in England - seen it myself.


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    MilesMorales1
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    UK?

    Not in London, thats for sure.

    Happened every day in Liverpool/Birkenhead :)


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    looksee
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Thanking the bus driver when he stops at the bus stop!

    I was in the US a couple of weeks ago and travelled on a lot of buses, and not only did many people greet the driver and thank him as they got off, the driver often held long shouted conversations with people sitting on the bus.


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    Sweetemotion
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    Tractors being allowed to drive on motorways.


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    looksee
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    I still want to know what the 'Christmas Pubs' tradition is?


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