Irish County Generalisations

cochese

Hi, ye know the way people say that cavan people are tight and dont like to spend money and are the pothole county and that dublin people come down the country and rob cars and put them through supermarket shop windows and rob cigarettes and drive back to dublin and some guy called "jonno" or "anto" sell them just off o connell street on a saturday afternoon, and wicklow people like to do certain things with sheep up in the big hills there not necessarily under the cover of darkness, and that kerry people are a little bit dumb and no one can understand them when they say "hello,i'm the man from the bar" but what are the other counties known for eg sligo, offaly, waterford and others? Now i'm from cavan and living and working in wicklow and i've cousins in dublin city, so i'm not slagging anyone off nnkay???

biko

Sure, you're all cousins over there

RoyalMarine

this is a full stop ---> .

Terry

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

this is a full stop ---> .

He doesn't want to use up too much bandwidth.

Dennis the Stone

Bandwidth to a Cavan person is the width of elastic band or twine that they use to keep up their dirty pants. Them parachute pants tend to fall down

AckwelFoley

If your a dub ur a nacker.

If ur from outside dublin ur a bogger.

Terry

micmclo wrote: »

Roscommon = sheepstealers. I don't know why, it's seems to be a nickname

Tipp people. Never say "hello" or "how are you?". Standard greeting is "well" and they hate every single one of their neighboring counties.
Pffft, laugh at all the Northside/Southside Dublin debates on boards :rolleyes:. Tipperary has more than one county council long before anyone else.
North Tipp and South Tipp are two completly seperate counties for administration purposes!

Cork = ARROGANCE!! Sure just look at the self-important strike going on now.

What are they striking over?
Who is striking?

RoyalMarine

micmclo wrote: »

Roscommon = sheepstealers. I don't know why, it's seems to be a nickname

Tipp people. Never say "hello" or "how are you?". Standard greeting is "well" and they hate every single one of their neighboring counties.
Pffft, laugh at all the Northside/Southside Dublin debates on boards :rolleyes:. Tipperary has more than one county council long before anyone else.
North Tipp and South Tipp are two completly seperate counties!

Cork = ARROGANCE!! Sure just look at the self-important strike going on now.

im from tipp and i dont hate anyone.
except people from cavan.

he used a full stop terry

Pherekydes

Terry wrote: »

What are they striking over?
Who is striking?

Striking over matches.

biko

You know you're from Limerick when...
·You have an uncontrolable urge to steal.
·You constantly deny that Limerick is rough; despite having being stabbed at least 12 times yourself.
·Gardas and prison officers outnumber family members at funerals.
·Bikers back down from your mother in a fight.
·You think Dubliners are 'shandy drinking poofs'.

You know you're from Cork when...
·You constantly refer to Cork as 'the real capital'.
·You think of Murphy's as the sixth food group.
·You disagree; Murphy's is the FIRST food group and call anyone a 'Langer' if they disagree.
·You say the word 'like' at least 700 times a day.
·You're always going on about how much better than Dublin Cork is.
·You don't eat anything cold, uncooked or not resembling meat, bread and potatoes.

You know you're from Dublin when...
·You say 'tawen' when you mean the city centre.
·You can't remember the last time you got up to 30mph in your car in "tawen."
·You think it is perfectly normal to pay over EUR5 for a pint.
·You think anyone not from Dublin is from 'the country'.
·You say the word 'bleedin' at least 700 times a day.
·You laugh at all other Irish accents despite the fact that nobody anywhere on this planet can understand a word you say.
·You have several family members called Christy and Anto.

You know you're from Galway when...
·You say "Howsa' goin" all the time.
·You can't remember a weekend when a friend from Dublin or Cork wasn't sleeping on your couch.
·Your weekly cannabis intake has now exceeded that of the entire island of Jamaica.
·When you say you're from Galway, people immediately say 'great town' and tell you about their wild weekends in Salthill.
·You're always banging on about saving the Irish language but can't actually speak a word of it yourself.
·You think that it's perfectly normal to have 6 buskers, 19 Roma beggars, and an English krusty holding some twine tied to a filthy starving dog telling fortunes - all on the same street.

Pherekydes

Interesting first post by Cochise. One to watch, eh?

cochese

heehe, first bandwith cavan jokes i heard.
i was goin to buy a tipp car, but couldnt decide on the TN and TS plates, so i bought a CN plate. We stick to our own there. It also has a removable front panel on the car stereo, so it's more or less rob proof when i'm parked in tallaght shopping centre.

biko

I was gonna buy a Roscommon car but when I wanted to peel off the duct taped "go faster" stripes the owner said it might ruin the paint job.

Agamemnon

biko wrote: »

You know you're from Limerick when...
·You have an uncontrolable urge to steal.
·You constantly deny that Limerick is rough; despite having being stabbed at least 12 times yourself.
·Gardas and prison officers outnumber family members at funerals.
·Bikers back down from your mother in a fight.
·You think Dubliners are 'shandy drinking poofs'.

You know you're from Cork when...
·You constantly refer to Cork as 'the real capital'.
·You think of Murphy's as the sixth food group.
·You disagree; Murphy's is the FIRST food group and call anyone a 'Langer' if they disagree.
·You say the word 'like' at least 700 times a day.
·You're always going on about how much better than Dublin Cork is.
·You don't eat anything cold, uncooked or not resembling meat, bread and potatoes.

You know you're from Dublin when...
·You say 'tawen' when you mean the city centre.
·You can't remember the last time you got up to 30mph in your car in "tawen."
·You think it is perfectly normal to pay over EUR5 for a pint.
·You think anyone not from Dublin is from 'the country'.
·You say the word 'bleedin' at least 700 times a day.
·You laugh at all other Irish accents despite the fact that nobody anywhere on this planet can understand a word you say.
·You have several family members called Christy and Anto.

You know you're from Galway when...
·You say "Howsa' goin" all the time.
·You can't remember a weekend when a friend from Dublin or Cork wasn't sleeping on your couch.
·Your weekly cannabis intake has now exceeded that of the entire island of Jamaica.
·When you say you're from Galway, people immediately say 'great town' and tell you about their wild weekends in Salthill.
·You're always banging on about saving the Irish language but can't actually speak a word of it yourself.
·You think that it's perfectly normal to have 6 buskers, 19 Roma beggars, and an English krusty holding some twine tied to a filthy starving dog telling fortunes - all on the same street.

LOL, brilliant!

Slidey

You know you are in sligo when you ge greeted by 'well sham?'
You are proud of the fact that the town is steadily catchin up on limerick for violence but overtaken them for tractor theft
Westlife is the most important thing in your lil sisters life
Your first cousin got ya up the duff for 'the craic'

smashey

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

this is a full stop ---> .

This is a capital T.

Dyr

tis easy: there's mucksavages, nordies and jackeens. Dont mind all that county nonesense

Mweelrea

biko wrote: »

Sure, you're all cousins over there

ouch! lol
:D:D

120_Minutes

The OP should be signed up by RTE and given his own comedy series. he's that good....

randylonghorn

cochese wrote: »

Hi, ye know the way people say that cavan people are tight ...

In fairness, I've only ever known one Cavan girl, but she certainly didn't live up to the stereotype ...

120_Minutes

randylonghorn wrote: »

In fairness, I've only ever known one Cavan girl, but she certainly didn't live up to the stereotype ...

you probably didnt get in there before she had her kid then?

cochese

randylonghorn wrote: »

In fairness, I've only ever known one Cavan girl, but she certainly didn't live up to the stereotype ...

hehehe

120_Minutes wrote: »

you probably didnt get in there before she had her kid then?

hehehaha... where's me drum??