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What do you consider a 'culchie' to be?

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  • #92
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    dirtyden wrote: »
    Only my opinion too, but I visit Manchester a lot for work and as a city it does not have a huge amount to recommend it. Pretty dour city centre, lots of sprawling run down estates, has some positives too but overall i would consider it far from cosmopolitan, its almost always cold and wet too (maybe that is clouding my opinion somewhat).

    Manchester is rubbish to go out in as well all the main night spots are too far away from each other to walk.Go to Liverpool much better spot especially since the Liverpool one development.


  • #93
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    dirtyden wrote: »
    Only my opinion too, but I visit Manchester a lot for work and as a city it does not have a huge amount to recommend it. Pretty dour city centre, lots of sprawling run down estates, has some positives too but overall i would consider it far from cosmopolitan, its almost always cold and wet too (maybe that is clouding my opinion somewhat).

    Good description of it, dreary and dirty I would say. It has a few nice areas in the centre but some run down areas as well.


  • #94
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,342 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Sauve wrote: »
    What about Dublin footballers? :)
    You're a culchie like. Just in case you were in doubt. :D


  • #95
    Sauve
    Registered Users Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    awec wrote: »
    Sauve wrote: »
    What about Dublin footballers? :)
    You're a culchie like. Just in case you were in doubt. :D

    :(
    You would point out my worst fears, wouldn't you?
    :pac:


  • #96
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,342 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Sauve wrote: »
    :(
    You would point out my worst fears, wouldn't you?
    :pac:
    You mean you hadn't realised? :eek:

    Ah I suppose it's not your fault. :D


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  • #97
    rubadubduba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭rubadubduba


    just about everyone in dublin are descendants of culchies, so i guess that would make us culjackies.


  • #98
    mattjack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    ThatsAWrap wrote: »
    I've been living in Dublin half my life but from the country. Am I sill a culchie, even if I live here until I die?

    You're living in a kind of limbo, a purgatory situation..


  • #99
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    It says a lot about the ignorance of some Dublin people when they refer to someone who grew up in a city as a culchie just because it wasn't Dublin.

    Anyone from Dublin with an very pronounced Dublin accent my mother would refer to as a cheap Dub.


  • #100
    Fight_Night
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭Fight_Night


    woodoo wrote: »
    It says a lot about the ignorance of some Dublin people when they refer to someone who grew up in a city as a culchie just because it wasn't Dublin.

    Anyone from Dublin with an very pronounced Dublin accent my mother would refer to as a cheap Dub.

    Says a lot about the ignorance of your mother.


  • #101
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,884 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    woodoo wrote: »
    It says a lot about the ignorance of some Dublin people when they refer to someone who grew up in a city as a culchie just because it wasn't Dublin.

    Anyone from Dublin with an very pronounced Dublin accent my mother would refer to as a cheap Dub.

    she sounds like a right snob


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  • #102
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Fight_Night wrote: »
    Says a lot about the ignorance of your mother.

    Its a two way street. The disparaging comments can go both ways.


  • #103
    dirtyden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    Brekfeast rolls for culchies, paninis for jackeens.


  • #104
    marathont
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭marathont


    saywhatyousee wrote: »
    I love the Waterford city forum its by far the best regional forum on boards there so Insecure about where they live it hilarious.I loved the thread where there were going to merge the city and county forums.It was quite obvious they didnt want them merged because Waterford would be seen as "less " of a city

    Ha ha. I also love that forum, some of the threads are hilararious. A couple of posters have serious chips on their shoulders.


  • #105
    srm23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭srm23


    a person with eyebrows on their cheeks


  • #106
    flyswatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    Non Dublin people I guess.

    I'm not from Dublin by the way.


  • #107
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,884 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Things Culchies love...
    01 : A nice bit of ham.
    02 : Buttered biscuits.
    03 : Diggin' Houles.
    04 : Saying it's too cold to snow
    05 : Pretending to know about The Ra.
    06 : Tayto Cheese & Onion
    07 : Pretending they're in The Ra.
    08 : A stretch in the evenings
    09 : Lucozade
    10 : Accordians
    11 : Pretending to like Holy Week.
    12 : A dinner dance
    13 : Gettin clattered in muck.
    14 : Shania Twain.
    15 : Heifers
    16 : Spittin in their hands before doing anything manual.
    17 : Steel toe caps.
    18 : A big bowl of carrots & parsnips.
    19 : Eating sangwiches out of the boot of a car at GAA
    20 : Saying someone's 'Opened a Book' on something.
    21 : The smell of fresh dung.
    22 : Slice-Your-Own Loaf.
    23 : Work Clothes.
    24 : A bottle of mineral.
    25 : Fightin'.
    26 : Puttin on a ganzee to stop them from bein foundered.
    27 : 'The' Hurling/Fitball.
    28 : Being overweight.
    29 : Weemin wha resemble Heifers.
    30 : Saying "Aaah" after taking their first sup of tae.
    31 : Drink driving.
    32 : Red diesel.
    33 : The Fear of Change.
    34 : A nice bit of barn brack.
    35 : Lying.
    36 : Building walls.
    37 : Being starved with the cold rather than with a lack of food.
    38 : Pretending to like mass.
    39 : Talking about ****e like Flax and the Corncrake.
    40 : A good blackthorn walkin stick.
    41 : Shouting 'Yeeeeeoooo' when something good happens.
    42 : Muhammad Ali.
    43 : Machinery.
    44 : Strange uppy-downy walks.
    45 : A good f**kin read of Ireland's Own.
    46 : Gelling their 1cm fringe tight to their forehead.
    47 : Scandal, as long as it's about other people.
    48 : Turf, because Sentirl heatin's for weemin.
    49 : Soda farls.
    50 : Sponge 'n Custirt.
    51 : Newmerica', and anything to do with it.
    52 : Givin the dog the wildest baytins.
    53 : Givin the wife the wildest baytins.
    54 : The Ra.
    55 : Winning a leg of lamb in a raffle.
    56 : Wrecking the house whilst steaming.
    57 : Club Orange.
    58 : Rubbing their hands together before tucking into their dinner.
    59 : The Foot & Mouth.
    60 : Aetin' a big feed of spuds.
    61 : TK Red Lemonade.


  • #108
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Someone who knows what 'Condition Scoring' is.


  • #109
    Sar_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭Sar_Bear


    Damn you I'd love some buttered rich teas & a big mug of tea now


  • #110
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I thought I was a culchie but after seeing that list I'm obviously not.


  • #111
    narddog
    Site Banned Posts: 165 ✭✭narddog


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Things Culchies love...
    01 : A nice bit of ham.
    02 : Buttered biscuits.
    03 : Diggin' Houles.
    04 : Saying it's too cold to snow
    ..........

    Things Non-Culchies love...
    01 : Cut and Paste


    Culchies or not, we're all just Paddies.


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  • #112
    flyswatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    God, I'm gaggin for a bottle a mineral at the moment, jaysis hey, if there's no TK goin' I'll have a Cadet.


  • #113
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    A lad who thinks baler twine is a good substitute for a trouser belt.


  • #114
    kevmol88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭kevmol88


    When proposing marriage they ask "Do you want to be buried with my people ?" :D


  • #115
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Moved to the parish 30 years ago?

    Hah, you are still a blow-in. Sure you arrived only yesterday


    You will not be a local unless you own land in the parish for three generations


  • #116
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,342 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    A lad who thinks baler twine is a good substitute for a trouser belt.
    Someone who calls string bailer twine.


  • #117
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    Tuam was officially a city at one point, doesn't mean it still is. Waterford isn't a city, hell it isn't even a town, it's a ****hole.

    Tuam was never officially a city, the locals only claimed as such because it had a cathedral. That doesn't make a town a city however, otherwise Ballaghaderreen would also be a city.


  • #118
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    summerskin wrote: »
    And anyone from Dublin is a culchie to those of us who lived in real cities.

    Dublin is the biggest and best we could do in the country and it's a village compared to other country's capitals! So Dubliners, I don't get why you're all so smug about it.

    But that's a generalisation though, like all us from outside the city are culchies and all the Dubliners are arrogant dick heads. Not always the case.


  • #119
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    culchies are the best of the irish people
    we are superior in every way


  • #120
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Dublin is the biggest and best we could do in the country and it's a village compared to other country's capitals! So Dubliners, I don't get why you're all so smug about anything outside it


    Dublin is 48th biggest out of 100 European cities and is ahead of Manchester,lisbun, liverpool,No other Irish city is on the list.To me I dont differ from anyone you are what you are.

    http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFcQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLargest_cities_of_the_European_Union_by_population_within_city_limits&ei=3Zb8T8zDG8WphAfF2vG8Bg&usg=AFQjCNFnweDaZPRLkmuXXQc8Z1MXyOiWYQ&sig2=VmxOI2UzYzgkJdUc61SISA


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  • #121
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Tuam was never officially a city, the locals only claimed as such because it had a cathedral. That doesn't make a town a city however, otherwise Ballaghaderreen would also be a city.

    Tuam has two cathedral's. Is that not why it's a city?


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