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What do you consider a 'culchie' to be?

  • 10-07-2012 6:30pm
    #1
    Medusa22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭


    I was born and raised in the city of Cork and I don't consider myself a culchie because I've always lived in a city.

    I've been living in Dublin for a year and it seems that I am considered to be someone who came from the middle of a bog because I am not from Dublin.

    I would also consider Limerick, Waterford and Galway to be cities. I think of the word ''culchie'' as applying to someone who lives in the countryside or a very small village. So, is it just Dubliners who think that all of us outside of Dublin are culchies regardless of where we're from? Let the slagging about Cork begin ;)


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  • #2
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    A culchie is someone who was raised and lived on a farm, away from a city IMO. Idiots think its anyone outside Dublin.


  • #3
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I'm a culchie and proud.


  • #4
    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    The word is used virtually exclusively by people who are from large cities.


  • #5
    Darkglasses
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    People who eat their dinner in the middle of the day.


  • #6
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    cork is not a ****ing city :/

    there's one city in the republic and it's Dublin. It's also a kip.


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  • #7
    MichaelGUFC
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭MichaelGUFC


    Anyone who lives on a farm and is a bit thick,I live in rural Ireland but I'm not a culchie


  • #8
    MichaelGUFC
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭MichaelGUFC


    Oh jesus,the city debate again!


  • #9
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    One who calls the real football, 'soccer'.


  • #10
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    cork is not a ****ing city :/

    there's one city in the republic and it's Dublin. It's also a kip.

    Surely however, you can recognize how somebody growing up in Cork city centre has more in common with somebody from Dublin than with somebody like me who grew up in the countryside?


  • #11
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Surely however, you can recognize how somebody growing up in Cork city centre has more in common with somebody from Dublin than with somebody like me who grew up in the countryside?

    i have no opinion on this. my opinions are strictly limited to dublin being the only city in the republic and all dubliners being arseholes.


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  • #12
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Anyone that lives outside of Dublin is considered a culchie.


  • #13
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    hondasam wrote: »
    Anyone that lives outside of Dublin is considered a culchie.

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


  • #14
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,265 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    MichaelGUFC wrote: »
    Anyone who lives on a farm and is a bit thick,I live in rural Ireland but I'm not a culchie

    And what would you call someone who lives in a town and is a bit thick.
    Or are all townies super intelligent.


  • #15
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Oh piss off with the X is not a city argument. Who gives a flying fúck? It has city in its official name then so be it, christ it doesnt matter how big it is really.


  • #16
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Dinner in the middle of the day


  • #17
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Everyone from Dublin is a jackeen and everyone not from Dublin is a culchie. Thats the rules OP, live with it.


  • #18
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    One who never misses the death notices on the local radio.


  • #19
    Chauncey
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭Chauncey


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

    Go on then, what real cities have you lived in?


  • #20
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Salute people you meet as you are driving or walking always. You must salute, it's the rules


    You know what 10-10-20 is :cool:


    You always go to mass but you never actually go into mass, you stand outside on the porch with the men
    Those inside are women and children


  • #21
    CavanCrew
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭CavanCrew


    Your surroundings and your way of life.


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  • #22
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


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


    I disagree. You cannot call a dub a culchie, it's an insult to us real culchies.


  • #23
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    can't we all just agree they're **** though?


  • #24
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ya ok with one exception.


  • #25
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Are you looking for geographic/regional boundaries are what?

    A culchie is someone who is considered by someone not a culchie to display traits common among rural folk that are significant to Ireland. A thick accent along with a quintessential Irish attitude and deportment. It depends on the person who is using the term or designating some one as a "culchie", whether they themselves are county folk or whether they are city dwellers as to what they would classify as a "culchie" but it usually includes the above.


  • #26
    good logs...
    Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭good logs...


    a culchie is someone thats narrow minded, there usually someone that neaver left there, lane county or country,


  • #27
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,183 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    steelcityblues wrote: »
    One who calls the real football, 'soccer'.

    Oh, didn't realise it was the corollary of a scobie!


  • #28
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,419 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    good logs... wrote: »
    a culchie is someone thats narrow minded, there usually someone that neaver left there, lane county or country,

    Can we say the ones that left the lane are posh culchies ?


  • #29
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    good logs... wrote: »
    a culchie is someone thats narrow minded, there usually someone that neaver left there, lane county or country,
    I usually hate this wee fella but anyway, here goes:


    :rolleyes:


  • #30
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,920 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Everyone from Dublin is a jackeen and everyone not from Dublin is a culchie. Thats the rules OP, live with it.

    He speaks the truths


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  • #31
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


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

    Go on then, what real cities have you lived in?

    Manchester, London, Geneva, New York, Lyon and Miami.


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