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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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


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


  • #5
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭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: 5,382 ✭✭✭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: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Anyone that lives outside of Dublin is considered a culchie.


  • #13
    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.


  • #14
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭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
    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.


  • #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, Registered Users 2 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
    CavanCrew
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭CavanCrew


    Your surroundings and your way of life.


  • #21
    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


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  • #22
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭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: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,427 ✭✭✭✭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: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭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: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #32
    Sar_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭Sar_Bear


    Someone who grew up in the country, village or small town.

    Eats hang sammichs and tae out of the boot of the car on the way to the match.

    Adds a "h" to words such as "stick" turns into "shtick"

    Road frontage is important when lookin for a fella.

    Hearding the cattle.

    Bringing in the horses.

    Owning a pair of green wellies for the fields, not fancy ones for music festivals.

    Culchie & proud :cool:


  • #33
    hadepsx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭hadepsx


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


    dublin forum:D;)


  • #34
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    I remember being in The Big Tree after a Croker match one day and I was talking to a lad I know from the country. He had blue jeans on and shoes. I thought "I bet he's wearing those shoes to get into the 'disco' later on". He then said that he was.

    You just know one.


  • #35
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    hondasam wrote: »
    Can we say the ones that left the lane are posh culchies ?

    anyone with a lane is a fecking pretensions bogger or blow in, them the rule


  • #36
    MarkHitide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 233 ✭✭MarkHitide


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    People who eat their dinner in the middle of the day.
    People who eat their dinner in the middle of a field.


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  • #37
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I was in Liverpool at the weekend and none of the ladies were impressed with my 25 good acres and an acre and a half of rough ground.

    Apart from one Welsh wee cuttie.

    Funny eh?


  • #38
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Barrell arse blockhead.

    Heavy-set, with a harsh scowl eminating from a white, round face


  • #39
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    hadepsx wrote: »
    dublin forum:D;)

    Are you insinuating I'm a Dub?


  • #40
    Chauncey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭Chauncey


    summerskin wrote: »
    Manchester, London, Geneva, New York, Lyon and Miami.

    I see. So you would consider yourself a culchie in the eyes of people from Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai and all the other cities that are larger than the tiddlers you lived in?


  • #41
    Johnny Bitte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭Johnny Bitte


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

    And what the Queen says goes isn't that right!! :D


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  • #42
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    A culchie is someone who heads straight for Coppers the minute they arrive in Dublin with sandwiches wrapped in tin foil in their pocket. Usually wear a shirt under a round neck jumper.


  • #43
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,492 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    You are a culchie when you can watch D'Unbelievables and genuinely know someone exactly like the characters being portrayed.


  • #44
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    When the boss asks a question you say "shure that does be the way I do be doing it"

    You are not named Anto or Jaaaaaaaacinta. And you have supper, you would never shout "come in for yar taaaaaaaaay" as you hear in the rough parts

    You buy Toyota as everyone knows the Japs make the best cars

    You shall never ever buy a car with a reg plate from the neighboring county. GAA reasons

    You don't know how an americano or a pannini is made and you have no desire to ever buy one

    You are aware that a Massey is classy but a Zetor is better

    It's ye, not yous

    County first, country second

    During championship season you write good luck in chalk on the main road in the village

    You will write messages in white paint on silage bales and you might even paint your sheep if they are going to the show. The show, yes everyone knows the show, it's once a year

    Your TD will attend your funeral, it's a sleight if they do not!

    Your parish priest will talk about GAA in the sermon

    You read the death notices every week and check them on local radio

    One of your lifes goals is to build your own house on your site. That site has been promised to you since you were a young lad :)

    You think Dublin drivers are far too aggressive and impatient. What's the rush? So your stress levels increase if you have to go there. Not their fault, just pushy city folk.


  • #45
    tommyboy2222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭tommyboy2222


    People who wear their county jersey when they go abroad to identify themselves to fellow boggers and to let the natives know that they are Irish and "great craic".

    Their main topic of conversation will be "What pubs are showing the match ?"


  • #46
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    real culchies

    Real and original culchies are from Kiltimagh. The rest are culchie-lite or boggers:p:pac:


  • #47
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Chauncey wrote: »
    summerskin wrote: »
    Manchester, London, Geneva, New York, Lyon and Miami.

    I see. So you would consider yourself a culchie in the eyes of people from Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai and all the other cities that are larger than the tiddlers you lived in?

    Nope. It's the cosmopolitan nature of a city that makes it what it is. Beijing and Shanghai are great cities but hardly very cosmopolitan(and yes I've been to them) as they have quite a homogenised feel to them and not much in the way of international influence. as for Mumbai, any city where there are millions of people living in rubbish dumps can't really be considered sophisticated or cosmopolitan. All the cities I lived in, though, can.

    Dublin just has a small town, culchie feel in comparison.


  • #48
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,087 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Is there a difference between culchie and bogger?


  • #49
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    tricky D wrote: »
    Real and original culchies are from Kiltimagh. The rest are culchie-lite or boggers:p:pac:

    Everyone from Mayo is a culchie/bogger. :D


  • #50
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    awec wrote: »
    Is there a difference between culchie and bogger?

    To a dub? No


  • #51
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,087 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    To a dub? No
    Just wanted to make sure I hadn't been labelling people incorrectly, y'know. ;)


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