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Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

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    #302
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    fryup wrote: »
    can't understand that either, why are the irish obsessed with country & western music??

    can't think of any other country in europe where it has the same following

    We're the most westerly English speaking nation in Europe and we have close cultural ties to the US?


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    #303
    kowtow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    The constant overuse of the word "avail", presumably in an attempt to demonstrate a wide vocabulary.

    You don't "avail" of a complementary breakfast, despite what the radio ad says. You eat it.


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    #304
    Cyril T Squirrel
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    kowtow wrote: »
    The constant overuse of the word "avail", presumably in an attempt to demonstrate a wide vocabulary.

    You don't "avail" of a complementary breakfast, despite what the radio ad says. You eat it.

    Like using 'complementary' [sic] instead of free...


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    #305
    BabyE
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    fryup wrote: »
    can't understand that either, why are the irish obsessed with country & western music??

    can't think of any other country in europe where it has the same following

    Very big among Irish hockey circuit in Austria and germany. American country is simple but it's feel good and suits certain times, Ireland's **** climate doesn't exactly lend itself to the right mood though


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    #306
    byhookorbycrook
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I presume the newly founded state could not afford to run an independent education system.
    The national school system was established in 1830.It was originally supposed to be non-denom, but the various churches eventually took them on well before the foundation of the state.


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    #307
    fryup
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    BabyE wrote: »
    Very big among Irish hockey circuit in Austria and germany. American country is simple but it's feel good and suits certain times, Ireland's **** climate doesn't exactly lend itself to the right mood though

    wha :confused:


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    #308
    Fridge
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    Claiming traditions not exclusive to Ireland as purely Irish.
    Only in Ireland :rolleyes:


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    #309
    jackinthemix94
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    iLikeWaffles wrote: »
    The Christmas jumper. Why just why?

    So many countries have these?


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    #310
    TheRiverman
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    The Late Late Show:rolleyes:


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    #311
    retalivity
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    The lads lifting elected people on their shoulders at counts while shouting 'YEEEOOOOOOWWWWW'


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    #312
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,082 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Does Bloomsday qualify? It is definitely cringeworthy.


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    #313
    Crea
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    Anyone over the age of 12 calling their mother "Mammy".


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    #314
    BabyE
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    fryup wrote: »
    wha :confused:

    I know a few Austrians who tell me


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    #315
    ygolometsipe
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    My dad has no intrest in GAA but when the "match" is on, he transforms into #1 fan telling us to shush when anything remotely significant happens. It's horribly cringy and even worse if you ask him to name a player :D

    So what irish ism's do you find really cringe :)


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    #316
    ancapailldorcha
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    People blessing themselves when they pass by graveyards.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #317
    Harvey Normal
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    What I find cringeworthy is young people with Southern California accents they've picked up from watching too much US TV. Or Irish people like Kevin Myers who has retained a pseudo-aristocratic English accent in an attempt to lend his servile pro-British/Unionist attention-seeker views more 'authority'.

    There was an Irish drink-driving awareness advert, a couple of years back, that had a gormless foxy-haired drunk driver being admonished by an English-accented Irish judge (apparently these cultural cringers believe an anglo-aristocratic accent imbues its speaker with authority)

    That makes me cringe.

    Myers was educated in the UK, nothing fake there. In fact a posh English accent was common in Ireland for generations.


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    #318
    finooola
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    It really does happen.
    A lad at work told me his father would "turn in his grave" if he didn't vote for Fianna Fail. I have heard loads say similar.
    Yeah, it is a real thing. My mother says that Clare is full of "Fine Gael f**kers". Not that I put a great deal of stock in my mam's bitter remarks, but familial political alliances are definitely a thing/a perceived thing.


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    #319
    Fred Swanson
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    #320
    happyday
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    Crea wrote: »
    Anyone over the age of 12 calling their mother "Mammy".

    Like Podge in Red Rock. Ah that's kinda sweet.


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    #321
    Stasi 2.0
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    Throwing the Child of Prague in the ditch the evening before a wedding

    LordSutch wrote: »
    Naver heard of that before, and what does itactually mean?
    Never heard of it either but sounds like child abuse and terribly racist and besides what did people do before the days of EU enlargement and the fall of the Iron curtain. I mean there cant have been many suitable children in the country back then ?


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    #322
    Stasi 2.0
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    Lying on the census (particilarly on the language and religion questions)

    Voting in ones parents constituency even though one hasnt lived there for ten years.
    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    An Irish person falls over in Sydney, RTE must report it as news.

    Alternatively RTE reports on some major disaster/mass killing abroad but assures us that "no Irish people are thought to have been involved" as if to say ah sure it doesnt really matter.


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    #323
    conorhal
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    Stasi 2.0 wrote: »

    Alternatively RTE reports on some major disaster/mass killing abroad but assures us that "no Irish people are thought to have been involved" as if to say ah sure it doesnt really matter.

    Yeah, that's exactly what it says, as opposed to 'we'd like to reassure you that nobody you might know was likely to have been harmed'.

    What I'd like to dispense with is the cringy Irish tradition of self flagellation that occurs when anything bad happens to a foreigner here. Any number of Irish women can die due to substandard health care and negligence, but god forbid it happens to an Indian women.
    The same when it comes to international criticism, we just cower and feel bad. Well I've no interest in the Saudi UN ambassador lecturing us on human rights or the EU for that matter. I really wish this country had the confidence to tell them to go take a flying leap, we'll be acting for (and interested in) our own interests and people for a change rather then wringing our hands and wondering what the Yanks, Brits, Germans or Saudi's think about us.


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    #324
    Stasi 2.0
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I presume the newly founded state could not afford to run an independent education system.

    Newsflash: The state was founded in 1922
    It is now 2016
    That is all !


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    #325
    Capt'n Midnight
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    seamus wrote: »
    Even things like the rose of tralee. There's no polish to these things.
    It's about time we had a Polish Rose.


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    #326
    BabyE
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    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    People blessing themselves when they pass by graveyards.

    I don't know, I look it as a good thing in an era where people are so consumed by themselves, an act such as the above shows a sense of awareness all too missing in an increasingly narcissistic world.


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    #327
    Sam Kade
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    The D4 accent, it needs to die a quick death.


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    #328
    RobbingBandit
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    What's wrong with thanking the bus driver when you're getting off the bus?


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    #329
    delaad
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    Candie wrote: »
    The 'good' front room - especially odd in tiny houses with limited space to begin with.

    Very Nordie thing, the "good" room.

    Here's another house one.
    Maybe a country thing, but never using the front door to enter your house.


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    #330
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Don't we have Joe Duffy for those old weirdos who get off on that sh*t? I wouldn't be tuning in to an entertainment show on a Friday night to see kids with cancer etc.
    I suppose that's why I never watch it. On a side note, I passed by Tubridy not too long ago and he has one of the skinniest waists I've ever seen on a man.

    That's amazing! Was in Spar in Baggot St one night heading for the till and he walks, lunges, past the front door. I freeze when I cop his profile. its so sharp I'm shocked. He is utterly, remarkably thin.


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    pgj2015
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    RTE, showing a brendan grace stand up show filmed in the 90's every bank holiday weekend, such a lack of effort.


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