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Why do Dubs call the guards "police"?

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    #92
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Call them police.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police


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    #93
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Epic Tissue wrote: »
    Being from Dublin, I say cops.
    Um... EAST YANK!!! :mad:


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    #94
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    I call them "The five-oh" or "The pork".

    I was crappy at Irish when I was in school.


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    #95
    Mr. Frost
    Closed Accounts Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Mr. Frost


    jmbkay wrote: »
    Please. This is is not the US of A


    Neither is Canada or Australia or any number of countries. Maybe you should mail them to remind them. :rolleyes:

    The heat!


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    #96
    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    A passer-by witnessed the cold blooded gangland murder:

    "I woz di-aune dere when it happened, roi'? I heard de screamin' n' shoutin', roi', n' called de poliss, roi'?

    Am I goin' to be on the telly, wha'?"


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    #97
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    A passer-by witnessed the cold blooded gangland murder:

    "I woz di-aune dere when it happened, roi'? I heard de screamin' n' shoutin', roi', n' called de poliss, roi'?

    Am I goin' to be on the telly, wha'?"

    Oh and is this character's name wouldnt happen to be Anto or Deco would it? What a dissarmingly original fictional account there. Ireland has just found its answer to Stephen Fry.


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    #98
    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    Oh and is this character's name wouldnt happen to be Anto or Deco would it? What a dissarmingly original fictional account there. Ireland has just found its answer to Stephen Fry.

    Ah, how quaintly sarcastic! Yes, and with such sterling wit from our dear Alan Davis, we move onto the infernal leviathon that is General Ignorance, fingers on the buzzers, please.


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    #99
    JCDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭JCDUB


    Feds.

    That's how we roll in Santry anyways :rolleyes:


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    #100
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    I thought it was just people on boards calling them police.


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    #101
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    [Jackass] wrote: »
    Dublin is part of Britain. The police ensure that the paddy cu*nts don't get into our country....By the way, why do country folk refer to their cousins as "My wife"? :confused:
    Theres a lot more inbreeding goes on in housing estates in Dublin than youd care to realise.


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    #102
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    [Jackass] wrote: »
    Dublin is part of Britain. The police ensure that the paddy cu*nts don't get into our country....By the way, why do country folk refer to their cousins as "My wife"? :confused:
    Shup up.
    darkdubh wrote: »
    Theres a lot more inbreeding goes on in housing estates in Dublin than youd care to realise.

    You too.


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    #103
    freire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 181 ✭✭freire


    ^^ proper order.


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    #104
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 82,167 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    dibble
    rozzers
    cozzers
    filth
    pigs
    bluebottles
    5'o
    feds
    peelers
    Black and Whites
    Worlds Largest Gang
    Wife Beaters
    Officer Friendly
    Long arm of The Law
    Private Dicks
    assholes


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    #105
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    From the inside of a holding cell: "Osser*, giz a light".

    *Officer.


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    #106
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    but it's not "guards" as in security guards... it's "gards" as in gardai...
    creggy wrote: »
    the gards.
    Gordon wrote: »
    At least spell it Gards if you can't type Gardaí - spelling it with a u is a tad hypocritical.


    No such thing as Gards. You can't add an S to pluralise an Irish word. That's what í is for (or aí or anna)

    Singular: Garda (An Garda Siochana)

    Plural: Gardaí

    English: Guards/ Police/ Guardians of the Peace

    Nonsense: Gards


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    #107
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Nonsense: Gards


    http://www.gards.co.uk/ :)

    or

    http://www.gards.org/ :eek:
    or even

    http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4357241025 :rolleyes:

    LOL


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    #108
    freire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 181 ✭✭freire


    Lil Kitten wrote: »
    No such thing as Gards.

    Who are those polite dudes in uniform with the nice attitude you see about the place?


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    #109
    emzolita
    Registered Users Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    robby^5 wrote: »
    pfft I call them the 5-0 homeboy, or the po-lice knowwhaimsayin?

    makes me sick..


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    #110
    dsmythy
    Registered Users Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    emzolita wrote: »
    makes me sick..

    Harsh on the Guards!


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    #111
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Only REAL G's call them Jakes.


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    #112
    ToeRag881
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭ToeRag881


    Word up dun.


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    #113
    Acacia
    Registered Users Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Acacia


    Hagar wrote: »
    Woolybacks are sheep.
    Sometimes country folk are referred to as woolybacks due to neanderthal-like hairy torsos.
    It is also common in the males. :P
    Mr. Frost wrote: »
    ...''comin' straight from da undaground..." :pac:

    Woolybacks= culchies! :pac: Was only joking before anyone gets offended!


    Haha , okay, never heard that phrase before. :pac:


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    #114
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Overheal wrote: »
    dibble
    rozzers
    cozzers
    filth
    pigs
    bluebottles
    5'o
    feds
    peelers
    Black and Whites
    Worlds Largest Gang
    Wife Beaters
    Officer Friendly
    Long arm of The Law
    Private Dicks
    assholes

    Tsk, forgot shades.


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    #115
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    When i was a young chap i used to call the Gardai, "Police Cops".

    For some reason it made sense when said quickly and when you are young.


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    #116
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Hazys wrote: »
    When i was a young chap i used to call the Gardai, "Police Cops".

    "And that's the end of that chapter." ;)


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    #117
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    freire wrote: »
    Who are those polite dudes in uniform with the nice attitude you see about the place?

    Postmen?


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    #118
    ArphaRima
    Registered Users Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭ArphaRima


    The Gardai are a police force. Perfectly legit to call them police.

    For those who love sources and quotes..
    www.dictionary.com
    Police
    any body of people officially maintained or employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc.
    an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.

    www.garda.ie
    An Garda Siochana
    Irelands National Police Service.

    Police.
    Garda Siochana.

    I call them a lot worse.


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    #119
    Dubliner28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭Dubliner28


    I lived in Dublin for 21 years and never heard anyone call them police.


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    #120
    Dustaz
    Registered Users Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    who the hell are all these aliens saying they have never heard anyone called the guards 'the police'?

    They are a police force, ergo its perfectly acceptable to call them the police as well as the guards.

    I hear both all the time. I use both all the time.


    Stop being silly.


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    #121
    Rob_l
    Registered Users Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    Dustaz wrote: »
    who the hell are all these aliens saying they have never heard anyone called the guards 'the police'?

    They are a police force, ergo its perfectly acceptable to call them the police as well as the guards.

    I hear both all the time. I use both all the time.

    Stop being silly.

    Exactamundo maybe if this mysterious bunch of "Dubs" were going round calling the police/garda the army or maybe calling them firemen, then i could understand the problem but they are the national police force therefore they happen to be eh now what word might describe a person or people from a police force hmmmmmmmmm eh maybe the police :confused::confused:


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