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Plastic Paddy

  • 23-11-2011 9:45pm
    #1
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭


    Apologies if this thread has been done to death, but this term gets thrown about quite regularly, but what does it actually mean?


    For example, I've been called it before. I play traditional Irish music, I'm a big fan of Irish folk music, I've an Irish family, and I've grown up surrounded by Irish culture. As a result, I'm very interested in Irish history too. At Uni, I've applied to do Irish studies.(with English)


    Am I a plastic? Actually reading that back it does look like I am, but I've never felt like that!

    How would you define one?


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  • #2
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    It means you're a wannabe stereotypical Irishman.

    Diddly i


  • #3
    AlmightyDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭AlmightyDublin


    brummytom wrote: »
    Apologies if this thread has been done to death, but this term gets thrown about quite regularly, but what does it actually mean?


    For example, I've been called it before. I play traditional Irish music, I'm a big fan of Irish folk music, I've an Irish family, and I've grown up surrounded by Irish culture. As a result, I'm very interested in Irish history too. At Uni, I've applied to do Irish studies.(with English)


    Am I a plastic? Actually reading that back it does look like I am, but I've never felt like that!

    How would you define one?
    Are you fom Ireland?


  • #4
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Bullshít phrase. you sound more Irish than most people with a harp on their passports.

    Hit us up if youre looking to play at a session in dublin anytime


  • #5
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    brummytom wrote: »
    How would you define one?
    You can't really define somebody with a word that's just as plastic as the the term of reference itself Brummy .


  • #6
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,117 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    AlmightyDublin wrote: »
    Are you fom Ireland?

    He's from da ghetto, innit.


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  • #7
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Any relation of rubber jonnie?


  • #8
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    You dont sound plastic, more polycarbonate.


  • #9
    AlmightyDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭AlmightyDublin


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    AlmightyDublin wrote: »
    Are you fom Ireland?

    He's from da ghetto, innit.
    Bhaile Mhun? ;)


  • #10
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    brummytom wrote: »

    Am I a plastic? Actually reading that back it does look like I am, but I've never felt like that!

    How are ya at weilding a giant inflatable hammer in tricolour shades.


  • #11
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,497 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    To me it means anyone who pretends to be Irish just to gain something from it or because it's trendy. You wouldn't fit into that category at all Tommy.


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  • #12
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    hold a lighter to yourself, do you melt or burn ?


  • #13
    slapbangwallop
    Registered Users Posts: 684 ✭✭✭slapbangwallop


    Its a horrible and ugly little term. It started its life as a stick to beat young second generation Irish people that were proud of their roots and hadnt assimilated 100% into British culture.

    Even sader is that it has been adopted by some insecure Irish people that have most likely never lived outside of Ireland and dont realise how proud second and third generation Irish are of their roots.

    I would never use the term unless is was in jest and with someone I knew because I know it can be an acidic barb, and I generally make a point of pulling people up on it if they use it.

    Irish people should be proud of people that werent born on the island of Ireland that consider themselves Irish or hold their Irish hertitage dear to them.

    Good luck to you Tom.

    Digbeth Abú


  • #14
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,117 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    AlmightyDublin wrote: »
    Bhaile Mhun? ;)

    Bhaile Brum.


  • #15
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    pickarooney wrote: »
    To me it means anyone who pretends to be Irish just to gain something from it or because it's trendy. You wouldn't fit into that category at all Tommy.
    That's usually because brand Ireland has been sold to them in their own countrys ie , Britain so you can't blame them if they want to join in the 'craic ' even if it's just to vist temple bar for piss up or follow Ireland in football competitions (euro 88,italia 90 ,Seoul 2000 ...euro 2012 )
    slapbangwallop wrote: »
    Its a horrible and ugly little term. It started its life as a stick to beat young second generation Irish people that were proud of their roots and hadnt assimilated 100% into British culture.

    Even sader is that it has been adopted by some insecure Irish people that have most likely never lived outside of Ireland and dont realise how proud second and third generation Irish are of their roots.

    I would never use the term unless is was in jest and with someone I knew because I know it can be an acidic barb, and I generally make a point of pulling people up on it if they use it.

    Irish people should be proud of people that werent born on the island of Ireland that consider themselves Irish or hold their Irish hertitage dear to them.

    Digbeth Abú
    This post sums exactly what it means .


  • #16
    AlmightyDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭AlmightyDublin


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    AlmightyDublin wrote: »
    Bhaile Mhun? ;)

    Bhaile Brum.
    Haha brilliant!


  • #17
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    There are lots of people with English accents living near me. I know the difference from the Irish ones and the English ones


  • #18
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,117 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    woodoo wrote: »
    There are lots of people with English accents living near me. I know the difference from the Irish ones and the English ones

    You could be an interpreter


  • #19
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    woodoo wrote: »
    There are lots of people with English accents living near me. I know the difference from the Irish ones and the English ones
    You don't happen to live near Andy Townsend do you ?


  • #20
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    You could be an interpreter

    I prob should have added that i know them too. :D


  • #21
    texidub
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭texidub


    The ignorance on here is something else.. do ye not know your own history, folks?

    Plastic Paddy is a term used to describe a group of cutting-edge prototype Paddy designs, first developed in UCD in the 1970s.

    The Plastic Paddy Project (which ran from 1972-1977) was initiated to counterbalance the effects of a falling population caused by a weak-legged males and the Irish Mosquito Apocalypse of 1969, which saw the number of fertile men in Ireland fall to 17.

    Having literally run out of spunk (and with 16 of those men emigrating to London to seek relief from the government's forced copulation program) the government started drawing on Ireland's strategic oil reserves in the Liffey Valley to make a new race of plastic men.

    3.4 million Plastic Paddies were fabricated during this period from a selection of three moulds: the Dub, the Culchie, and the Dulchie. These were exported around the world --mostly to the U.S. and U.K. although some are believed to have floated as far as Tibet. Unfortunately, of those that remained in Ireland, few Plastic Paddies survived the heatwave of 1986.

    You should be proud.

    BTW, over the next 10 years, keep an eye out for NanoPaddies, Bio-inspired Paddies and Solar-Powered Paddies.

    I hope this helps.


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  • #22
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I would prefer a meerkat puppet ...simples (gleek) .


  • #23
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Do other countries have a similar phrase?
    A Paper Pole?
    A Sandy Spainard?
    A Flakey Frenchie?


  • #24
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    a non irish person eg 3rd generation immigrant who acts like the bull macabe


  • #25
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    brummytom wrote: »
    Am I a plastic? Actually reading that back it does look like I am

    No, no and no again. You're an Irishman ffs! You come from Irish stock and you have Irish culture pouring out your eyeballs. You're more Irish than most of us born here I'd reckon.

    A plastic paddy for me is a tourist on Paddies day, who has an Irish great, great, great grandfather and thus claims to be Irish.


  • #26
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Brummy will you be supporting Ireland in the 2012 European Football Championships?


  • #27
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    never heard the term before :confused:


  • #28
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    brummytom wrote: »
    For example, I've been called it before.
    Where were you called it?


  • #29
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Kasabian wrote: »
    Brummy will you be supporting Ireland in the 2012 European Football Championships?

    Yep
    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Where were you called it?

    Ah quite a few times - school, work, my more English mates


  • #30
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    brummytom wrote: »
    Ah quite a few times - school, work, my more English mates
    The pay outs awarded in English courts for derogatory terms of abuse are quite handsome these days Brum :pac:


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  • #31
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    brummytom wrote: »
    I'm very interested in Irish history...I've applied to do Irish studies.

    Glad you steered clear of International Conflict studies. :D

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72221774&postcount=92


  • #32
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    never heard the term before :confused:

    Then you must be living in a cave. These threads pop up, about once a month, either here or in the sports forums lol.


  • #33
    DColeman
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭DColeman


    brummytom wrote: »
    Yep

    What happens if Ireland play England?


  • #34
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    DColeman wrote: »
    What happens if Ireland play England?

    ireland loses


  • #35
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    There's a lad I know with an Irish grandad it suits but I prefer supertaig.

    Goes on about British oppression of Ireland as if he was personally affected. To prove how Irish he is he goes on sectarian rants about Protestants despite clearly knowing nothing about the troubles.

    Its like he assumes Irish people will like him more for this. Some Irish Americans can be like this too. Good example here
    Her ancestors also came from Ireland, she tells us enthusiastically. So she's Irish too. And her husband standing beside her, his several times great-grandfather came over after the famine. He's extremely Irish.

    We mention the golf and young McIlroy and say again how proud and impressed we are by his success. And Graeme McDowell, we point out, he too, comes from Northern Ireland ...

    "Ireland," the husband corrects us.

    Whatever. We're not looking for a debate on the occupied six counties. The point is, we explain, that Northern Ireland - or the North if he prefers - has a very small population to have produced two consecutive winners of such a major championship.

    "We don't like them," he suddenly says.

    Um, don't like who?

    "We don't like McIlroy and McDowell. We don't like them because they're Protestants."

    His wife nods in solemn agreement. The other man with them says nothing. But he doesn't look particularly shocked by what's been said.

    Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/lindy-mcdowell/why-did-these-yanks-care-what-religion-rory-is-16014636.html#ixzz1f8kIwjRJ

    Bill O'Reilly is the plastic paddy epitome imo

    this vid shows another cringeworthy individual speaking on behalf of us:rolleyes: 3minutes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeS0MHl5xTM


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