"Police" - skanger talk?

Golferx

What is it about the skangers and working class of Ireland that they seem unable to say the word "Gardai", instead referring to our police force as the "Police"?

seamus

Talking in Irish is Gay.

javaboy

I usually say the 5-0 or the fuzz. Am I cool now? Please?

Naos

I'd be surprised if they'd even refer to them as the "Police"...

Note: Speaking about skangers here and not the working class...

Caoimhín

Yep, thats a pet hate of mine.

Creamy Goodness

yeh and curse those people who say mobile to mean a cell phone.

you know there are more than one word for things in this world? :rolleyes: < - thank god i use cloud so i can still see proper rolleyes smiley.

chickenhawk

It's not "gardai" or the "police" it's the 'guards'!

stovelid

Golferx wrote: »

What is it about the skangers and working class of Ireland that they seem unable to say the word "Gardai", instead referring to our police force as the "Police"?

Don't 'working class' people just says 'pigs' instead?

Homer

stovelid wrote: »

Don't 'working class' people just says 'pigs' instead?

Aren't working class people just pigs?

Naos

Not all working class are scum.

seamus

Cremo wrote: »

you know there are more than one word for things in this world?

Except that "Gardai" isn't Irish for "police". And technically (though I don't know the ins and outs of it), the Gardai's charge isn't to "police" people in common sense. They are the "Guardians of the Peace". I'm not sure what the difference is, but it was explained to me before.

So to call them the "police" is just incorrect.

The Real B-man

Golferx wrote: »

What is it about the skangers and working class of Ireland that they seem unable to say the word "Gardai", instead referring to our police force as the "Police"?

It the Guards or Gardai!

Rob_l

Golferx wrote: »

What is it about the skangers and working class of Ireland that they seem unable to say the word "Gardai", instead referring to our police force as the "Police"?

Eh mmmmmm ok but why would there be a problem with calling them what they are?

seamus wrote: »

Talking in Irish is Gay.

+1

Rob_l

What does it say on this link?
http://www.garda.ie/

OP this thread is a fail -1

javaboy

Rob_l wrote: »

What does it say on this link?
http://www.garda.ie/

OP this thread is a fail -1

The picture of Fachtna on that site is >3megs. Fuppin eejits. You can nearly make out the artist's signature on the painting behind him.

vote4pedro

OMFG referring to a police force as "police" instead of a fine, proud Irish name?!!1
It doesn't make a jot of difference ffs, nor does it when the GAA desperately attempt to pretend we're living in some sort of gaelic paradise by using terms like banaisteor (sp) and beginning notices over the PA with "Fogra na Gardaí"...before giving the actual message in heathen Bearla

Rob_l

javaboy wrote: »

The picture of Fachtna on that site is >3megs. Fuppin eejits. You can nearly make out the artist's signature on the painting behind him.

I thought you were joking

but if that flag wasn't there you could make it out

mike65

Police are agents or agencies empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimate use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police departments of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. The word comes via French from the Latin politia (“civil administration”), which itself derives from the Ancient Greek πόλις, for polis ("city").]

Mike.

Rob_l

www.garda.ie wrote:

"An Garda Siochana - Irelands National Police Service"

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biko

Don't visit the guards if you're on dial up.

Fuzzy muff http://www.metacafe.com/watch/52085/ali_g_dangerous_weapons/

Kintarō Hattori

Golferx wrote: »

What is it about the skangers and working class of Ireland that they seem unable to say the word "Gardai", instead referring to our police force as the "Police"?

So as you said they refer to our police force as the police. I'll admit I do refer to them sometimes as the police and other times as the gardai. What the hell does that make me OP and why does this bother you so?

connundrum

Its deh bleedin LAPD. Leggih!

Sherifu

javaboy wrote: »

I usually say the 5-0 or the fuzz. Am I cool now? Please?

Remembers the wire. /sad

RedXIV

tis handy living in a small town, i call local copper "dad"

Radharc na Sleibhte

Sketch, its the po-lice.

Rob_l

The Blue Meanies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_slang_terms_for_police_officers

JimmyCrackCorn!

Fail!

Spud83

Its the Po-Po!!!!

Whoop whoop its the sound of the police.
whoop whoop its the sound of the police.

SV

connundrum wrote: »

Its deh bleedin LAPD. Leggih!

That's what the local IC7's say around here anyway..

Photi

Every Breath You Take by The Gardai doesn't have the same ring to it.

Notorious

"Well, well, well, if it ain't the fuzz".

robinph

Golferx wrote: »

... instead referring to our police force as the "Police"?

Huh, what was your point again!?!

Jesus Wept

Po-lice

Ross_Mahon

The feds, the fuzz, garda

Whenever im playing GTA, i refer to the police as the garda

Rb

Federales.

Stevo11

Rob_l wrote: »

Eh mmmmmm ok but why would there be a problem with calling them what they are?


Quote:
Originally Posted by seamus View Post
Talking in Irish is Gay.

+1

Rob_l
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Very subtle

cowan

javaboy wrote: »

The picture of Fachtna on that site is >3megs. Fuppin eejits. You can nearly make out the artist's signature on the painting behind him.

Signature looks awful like Peter Kay to me tbh

po0k

na Gadaí Sicíní

challengemaster

wait.. you can understand what they're saying now?

Capt'n Midnight

holy fup, haven't they heard of thumbnail !


http://www.garda.ie/images/commissionermurphy.jpg
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Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy

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SEPT 23 1989

what about bluebottles old skool dublin scumbag term for the rozzers

ModeSkeletor

I have even heard Irish people referring to the police here as "The Old Bill" :eek:

ModeSkeletor

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

holy fup, haven't they heard of thumbnail !


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Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy

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I'm nearly tempted to ring up and report the stolen bandwidth

Fach that anyway.

flanum

ive heard travellers referring to them as "the shades" !

incidently, im"working class". i say garda or gardai!

op, are you middle class or upper class?

slipss

Golferx wrote: »

What is it about the skangers and working class of Ireland that they seem unable to say the word "Gardai", instead referring to our police force as the "Police"?

Don't think thats a working class thing at all, "Sketch Garda!" , never heard "Sketch police!" uttered in a working class area in my entire life. I'd say it's far more of a middle class thing personally. But either way whats the problem, why did you say Ireland instead of Eire? Well? Huh? My friend? Yes?



(would it be Eire in that sentence he wrote anyone? Or would it be "in Eirinn" or something because he said "of Ireland"? I'm never sure about that one.)

Catsmokinpot

Police
(n) : an organisation granted authority to enforce the law
(v) : to enforce the law and keep order among (a group); to patrol or clean an area

pigs, cops, gards its all the same

its not just the "commoners" that refer to the gardai in other terms.

Peared

I have never in all my born years heard a skanger say 'police'.

It would sound weird and funny, like if they said 'ghastly' or something.

Davidius

I've never heard anybody refer to them as the Police. Even if they do, that's what they are so there's no problem.

That's not important right now however. What's important is that the word 'bloke' seems to be thrown around an awful lot lately. It's a terrible word and everytime an irish person says it, a good person dies.

A curse word you might say.

Caoimhín

Davidius wrote: »

I've never heard anybody refer to them as the Police. Even if they do, that's what they are so there's no problem.

That's not important right now however. What's important is that the word 'bloke' seems to be thrown around an awful lot lately. It's a terrible word and everytime an irish person says it, a good person dies.

A curse word you might say.

I agree, it is a term which should stay in the English home counties.
I hereby pledge to kill one kitten every time i hear an Irish person using this term.

littlefriend

slipss wrote: »

why did you say Ireland instead of Eire?

I don't really get the problem with saying 'police' but then I tend to call them police.
Is 'Eire' not disrespectful to the state in some way though. I've been told this a few times as usual I can't remember the whole story so I'm not sure why this is the case .

keen

OP get off your high horse and stop being such a snob.