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Phrases we'll never use again

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,141 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Your arse looks big in that.:eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Your arse looks big in that.:eek:

    Since youre still alive Im betting you havent even used it the 1st time :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    One of those phrases that was "cool" at the time but you'd be laughed out of it if you used it now. "Act your age, not your shoe size!"


  • Registered Users Posts: 763 ✭✭✭EIREHotspur


    "It's just great that I have a lot of money"


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    So I'll buy that with the money I had left over from last pay day.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,141 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Thank you for that interview Terence Flanagan.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    "It's a business, not a charity"
    He's working like a black.
    ttenneb wrote: »
    Apart from not using the phrase any more I'd like to think you'd never used it in the past.
    Last heard it 9 years ago
    09/01/2006
    SEANAD leader Mary O'Rourke was last night in hot water after saying some of her campaign helpers had worked "like blacks". She used the phrase while thanking her campaign workers for getting her selected for the third spot on the Fianna Fail general election ticket for Longford-Westmeath.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/orourke-sparks-row-over-blacks-remarks-26403140.html

    Enda had a loose racist tounge too.
    Enda Kenny bows to mounting pressure to apologise:'I had no excuses and failed to exemplify my own standards'

    THE Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny was at the centre of a major controversy last night after he told an anecdote which included the racist epithet "******" during a function attended by parliamentary colleagues, party workers and political journalists.
    FG leader storm after 'nigger' joke


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    "The Ryan line is open..."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    "Those bl00dy blue tits have been at the milk again."


  • Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭ttenneb


    my3cents wrote: »
    "Those bl00dy blue tits have been at the milk again."
    Oh that we could buy our milk in glass bottles. I miss the clink of two full bottles being deposited at the front door. Progress?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Cornflakes with top of the milk.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Turn the telly over, see whats on the other side.

    I'm walking into town to make a phone call.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    My car wont start. Can you give it a swing? Theres a handle in the boot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    2 stroke wrote: »
    My car wont start. Can you give it a swing? Theres a handle in the boot.

    Ah come on, how old are you? :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Ah come on, how old are you? :D
    I've swung at least 5 different vehicles in the last century.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    2 stroke wrote: »
    I've swung at least 5 different vehicles in the last century.

    What with - a branch? :D



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    What with - a branch? :D

    Felt like doing that a few times but what I meant was something like this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    Is it a round or square plug?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,662 CMod ✭✭✭✭Shield


    "Can I have a Lucky Bag for a boy please?"

    "Send a Bean Garda to break the bad news."

    "Father Thomas is so kind to bring his Alter Boys swimming every week."


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    The Ryanline is open..


    I'll have a Marathon bar.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,790 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I'll have a Marathon bar.

    And a packet of Opal Fruits...


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    And a packet of Opal Fruits...

    and some ToffoLuxe


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    unless it's for a soft drink

    When were you last in Temple bar?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    syklops wrote: »
    When were you last in Temple bar?
    Why won't we be hearing that phrase again?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    2 stroke wrote: »
    Why won't we be hearing that phrase again?

    Someone said "5 euro for a drink please, said a temple bar barman"and 'somesoldiers' responded, 'unless its a soft drink'. Last time I was in Temple Bar a 330ml bottle of coke came to 5.20. Hence my comment.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭magentis


    Anyone remember that saying in Irish "co caneasta le sagairt"as honest as a priest lol.


  • Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭filbert the fox


    magentis wrote: »
    Anyone remember that saying in Irish "co caneasta le sagairt"as honest as a priest lol.



    Now then Now then!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,787 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Can I have a Marathon Bar please?
    July the 19th. A day that will live forever in infamy. Except in Galway.


    "How much are the penny sweets ?"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Mallagio


    Ate da gate


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