Scumbag accents on the rise

guns4fun

Has anyone noticed the huge increase in that horrible limerick accent??
You know the one i'm talking about mostly spoken by hoody knackers who usually say things like (your'e a handicap,you muppet,mere i wont ya,haboy da kid etc)
It just seems that on every occasion like paddys day,river fest etc this dirty accent is everywhere,even walking through town it's spoken by every second person.
What is the real limerick accent???
I think willie o dea and john gilligan have real limerick accents.
Where did this awful one come from.

your views please....

Chong

guns4fun wrote: »

Has anyone noticed the huge increase in that horrible limerick accent??
You know the one i'm talking about mostly spoken by hoody knackers who usually say things like (your'e a handicap,you muppet,mere i wont ya,haboy da kid etc)
It just seems that on every occasion like paddys day,river fest etc this dirty accent is everywhere,even walking through town it's spoken by every second person.
What is the real limerick accent???
I think willie o dea and john gilligan have real limerick accents.
Where did this awful one come from.

your views please....

Its kids what can you do, I know my bro used to like to talk like that, all his mates did and he wont mind admitting it. He certainly dont talk like anymore nor does he dress like a scumbag anymore.

Alot of kids like to think its cool to talk like that or try and pretend to be a scumbag, drive around any estate in Limerick and you will see/hear em, they are called chavs in UK.

When I was growing up, girls always wanted the scummier lads, I never got that to be honest, suppose they have something about them, bit of rough or something.

daveob007

Its letting us down big time,what must visitors to the city think?
I agree it's all over the place and very annoying.
Not just kids either loads of so called adults also.

Munster_Gal

Maybe they should make elocution lessons compulsory in schools?

jmccoy

Munster_Gal wrote: »

Maybe they should make elocution lessons compulsory in schools?

Or electrocution

Zero-Cool

jmccoy wrote: »

Or electrocution

+1

JerryHandbag

guns4fun wrote: »

Has anyone noticed the huge increase in that horrible limerick accent??
You know the one i'm talking about mostly spoken by hoody knackers who usually say things like (your'e a handicap,you muppet,mere i wont ya,haboy da kid etc)
It just seems that on every occasion like paddys day,river fest etc this dirty accent is everywhere,even walking through town it's spoken by every second person.
What is the real limerick accent???
I think willie o dea and john gilligan have real limerick accents.
Where did this awful one come from.

your views please....

I have my own theory that the sound of these peoples voice is actually the "animal" inside attempting to get out, as if their DNA has been crossed with that of a rat, or better still, a hyena! Hence the high-pitched, nasal, sqealing accent.

Its just a case of a rodent of some sort getting into the DNA back along the line at some stage!

MarkR

Aboy Concy!

krudler

I had this conversation not a week ago with two of our fair citizens

Scumbag #1 (pregnant, possibly 13-15 years old)"Bud givus a fag willyaaaaaaaaaaaaa?"
Me "I dont smoke sorry"
Scumbag #1 "Gway you handicaaaaaaaap"
Scumbag #2 "some puuuure handicaaaap he is Tracy"


sigh...

Iang87

what you on about feen, you dunno what you're saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayin about a Limerick accent, you haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandicap

jmccoy

I was walking though the Peoples Park a couple of weeks ago. I walked past a couple of scummers who were sitting on a bench. One of them shouted after me, "Give iss a fag ill a", I replied and said sorry I don't smoke and I got "Ou'l be smokin when I'm finished with ya" in reply.

Mc Love

Its the worst accent - it really disturbs me how people think that having such an accent is cool or dressing like a skobe is!

Chong

sparkysrovers wrote: »

Its the worst accent - it really disturbs me how people think that having such an accent is cool or dressing like a skobe is!

+1 I dont get it at all, how looking like a scumbag is meant to be cool?

I went in to foot locker this morning , and you literally cant buy any of their clothes cause they are completely geared to these scumbags.

Insect Overlord

Personally, it is my belief that the Rubber Bandits "Car Stereos" sketch had an enormous effect on how young people in this city communicate...

yupyup7up

An File wrote: »

Personally, it is my belief that the Rubber Bandits "Car Stereos" sketch had an enormous effect on how young people in this city communicate...

yep I 100% agree with you. A lot of people use a scobey kind of accent when the are joking around with their friends. I do it, all my friends do if were messin. Rubberbandits use a kind of piss take of a scobe accent that a lot of people put on for the laugh. Also the same with Concy out of the Limerick uncovered videos on youtube.! great stuff!

"Well kid, any aul' jobs dare?"
"haaaaaaaaaandicap! see de can he trun at me, he lucky by he drive awaaayyyy!"

krudler

Chong wrote: »

+1 I dont get it at all, how looking like a scumbag is meant to be cool?

I went in to foot locker this morning , and you literally cant buy any of their clothes cause they are completely geared to these scumbags.

That pisses me right off, you cant buy Adidas tracksuit pants anymore, even if you want them for doing something athletic, purely because they make you look like you should have a can of dutch gold in one hand and a rottweiler on a leash in the other

Once scobes pick up on something,its no longer acceptable for normal people to wear it

daveob007

krudler wrote: »

That pisses me right off, you cant buy Adidas tracksuit pants anymore, even if you want them for doing something athletic, purely because they make you look like you should have a can of dutch gold in one hand and a rottweiler on a leash in the other

Once scobes pick up on something,its no longer acceptable for normal people to wear it

dead right addidas/nike are great sports wear and baseball caps cool also but hijacked by the ill spoken scobes of ireland.
if you walk into any shop wearing any of that stuff the security are all over you,and if you go into a garda station for a form or something non criminal the garda behind the counter thinks you are in to sign as part of your bail conditions.
untill you open your mouth with your normal non scobe accent.

Hawk Wing

krudler wrote: »

That pisses me right off, you cant buy Adidas tracksuit pants anymore, even if you want them for doing something athletic, purely because they make you look like you should have a can of dutch gold in one hand and a rottweiler on a leash in the other

Once scobes pick up on something,its no longer acceptable for normal people to wear it

in fairness, if you are wearing a tracksuit outside of using a gym or exercising, you'd deserve the abuse

Mc Love

Hawk Wing wrote: »

in fairness, if you are wearing a tracksuit outside of using a gym or exercising, you'd deserve the abuse

Go back to the fifties with that style of thought!

Berty

krudler wrote: »

Once scobes pick up on something,its no longer acceptable for normal people to wear it

Ahhh Johhny Brubaker, Burberry, Ben Sherman where will it end?

D-A-V-E

sheesh its only an accent like, im used to it by now, john gilligan etc mentioned in the first post or so is more of a county accent mixed with a city twang..i think there are slight variations in the accent..maybe 3 or 4 versions floating around the city area, each more strong than the other

firenaught

You can't fault the young for doing stupid things, after all how many silly things did you or I do?
However, I do agree that it can be annoying.

concussion

jmccoy wrote: »

I was walking though the Peoples Park a couple of weeks ago. I walked past a couple of scummers who were sitting on a bench. One of them shouted after me, "Give iss a fag ill a", I replied and said sorry I don't smoke and I got "Ou'l be smokin when I'm finished with ya" in reply.

Ha ha, that's quality Was he threatening to ride you without lube or something??

YFlyer

Haven't heard 'Sir, have you got two bob?' in along time.

ninety6days

the accent';s not so bad when it occurs naturally. it's when people put it on TO BE COOL that it's awful

Iang87

ninety6days wrote: »

the accent';s not so bad when it occurs naturally. it's when people put it on TO BE COOL that it's awful

ya a i agree completely people from the island and weston and such is fair enough cos thats just one of those things people get from around there whether they're nice or not just happens to the majority,

but the people who if they passed the treaty stone would get lost speaking with these accents is insane. A lot of them popping up out the Raheen area now actually. Ugh just annoys me its damn near insulting when these people speak like this when its put on

YFlyer

ninety6days wrote: »

the accent';s not so bad when it occurs naturally.

Like Johnny Brown

irishvamp90

Iang87 wrote: »

ya a i agree completely people from the island and weston and such is fair enough cos thats just one of those things people get from around there whether they're nice or not just happens to the majority,

but the people who if they passed the treaty stone would get lost speaking with these accents is insane. A lot of them popping up out the Raheen area now actually. Ugh just annoys me its damn near insulting when these people speak like this when its put on

No people from the island or weston who are normal decent people just have city accents not put on scumbag accents.People here know my feelings on scumbags but i also hate areas being put down

moby2101

Do any of you remember a series of articles a Journo called Declan Lynch wrote about Limerick in the early 90's for the Sunday Indo!???They were fairly scathing, usual Limerick Bashing shi* that we've become accustomed 2! In one piece he likened the Limerick scobe/knacker accent to ".... A terrier excreting razorblades".... Appalling description I know...but pretty much on the money.

StraddleFor6

People can be very quick to judge. Some of the kids I sell drugs to have a really horrible thick limerick accent, but are the nicest lads in the world.

Conclusion: Not all "hoodies" are bad. And tracksuits are really comfortable.

Iang87

irishvamp90 wrote: »

No people from the island or weston who are normal decent people just have city accents not put on scumbag accents.People here know my feelings on scumbags but i also hate areas being put down

i'm not putting those areas down. i lived in weston for 20 years so if i wanted to put it down i'd be within my rights to

ninety6days

Iang87 wrote: »

i'm not putting those areas down. i lived in weston for 20 years so if i wanted to put it down i'd be within my rights to

total sidetrack, but i hate this mentality. "it applies to me so i can insult it but noone else can". kinda like black people dropping the n-bomb, no?

guns4fun

StraddleFor6 wrote: »

People can be very quick to judge. Some of the kids I sell drugs to have a really horrible thick limerick accent, but are the nicest lads in the world.

Conclusion: Not all "hoodies" are bad. And tracksuits are really comfortable.

Selling drugs to kids????? is that right?????

Insect Overlord

guns4fun wrote: »

Selling drugs to kids????? is that right?????

He was, I believe, trying to be funny (in an ironic sense, of course...)

times'a'wastin

Sure scumbags everywhere all talk with these dreadful accents, but i have to say the limerick one is probably the worst.
Sure ive seen 5 year olds going around talking like that! Its horrible

guns4fun

An File wrote: »

He was, I believe, trying to be funny (in an ironic sense, of course...)

i suppose so

guns4fun

timesawastin wrote: »

Sure scumbags everywhere all talk with these dreadful accents, but i have to say the limerick one is probably the worst.
Sure ive seen 5 year olds going around talking like that! Its horrible

Have you ever heard the cork scobe accent,,very like the Limerick one but worse.
Not everyone who speaks like that is a scobe either,maybe its like swine flu anyone can get it.
Its bad alright and bad for limericks image also,if we have trouble understanding it how on earth do tourists or foreign workers cope???

Berty

An accent is only a verbal signature to where you spend most of your time, where you are brought up, etc.

If you spend long enough in Cork, London or Texas you will pick up the slang and some bit of an accent.

County Limerick people sound different to city people and Monaleen people sound different to Moyross people.

You emulate your peers and your family.

Having a pronounced accent does have a detrement to your career prospects which is unfortunate.

pappyodaniel

I found this on an equivalent thread about the nauseating Sligo accent, it's a couple of overheard conversations by Sligo waaas.

Overheard on O'Connell St.

"watch yerself of i'll giv ya a dose a sidekicks to the head" ranks as one of my favourite sligo quotes ...

or watching a guy beat another across the head with a bag of chips and the bag burst and spilled everywhere ... screamed "you know nawthin bout life"!

Another phrase would be - "What colour grapes do ya like? So I'll know which ones to send ya in hospital"


Are there any funny Limerick phrases? I remember the "I'll put your eyeball in a sling" from when I was a kid

( i love that dose of sidekicks one! )

irishvamp90

Iang87 wrote: »

i'm not putting those areas down. i lived in weston for 20 years so if i wanted to put it down i'd be within my rights to

No bother my mam is from weston but was bought it to speak well it helps you to get on in life.I agree there is a thing in limerick that theres a street cred by saying your from a certain area,we got talking to a girl one night she said "shur your from raheen your posh,ud wouldnt know anything about scumbags,im from weston like"....i was like yes im from raheen,being a decent persoon doesnt make you posh or a snob,whats difference does it make that your from Weston??Look up youtube there is all this videos like weston thugs for life,up southill they think their like gangs in LA.What i hate is decent people thinking their down with the scumbags,your either a decent person against them or accept them

Y2J_MUFC

I was on Cruises street last weekend and this gypsey looking woman asked this knacker for money. Not a good idea. In that knacker accent, that seems to be a cross between knacker Dublin and knacker Cork...its strange the way these voice seems break during some words.

"Wud yaz fUk offfFFFFFFFFFFFFffff... I dunt have mONEy for MEselllll"

I was in getting food another day with an Indian guy serving behind the counter, this lad with a knacker accent started making fun of the Indians guys accent. Irony defined.

thomond2006

Nothing has risen at all, kid. lol

Mcjmetroid

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I found this on an equivalent thread about the nauseating Sligo accent, it's a couple of overheard conversations by Sligo waaas.

Overheard on O'Connell St.

"watch yerself of i'll giv ya a dose a sidekicks to the head" ranks as one of my favourite sligo quotes ...

or watching a guy beat another across the head with a bag of chips and the bag burst and spilled everywhere ... screamed "you know nawthin bout life"!

Another phrase would be - "What colour grapes do ya like? So I'll know which ones to send ya in hospital"


Are there any funny Limerick phrases? I remember the "I'll put your eyeball in a sling" from when I was a kid

( i love that dose of sidekicks one! )

Iwish i could say there were but they're as imaginative as they get.

it's always literally.
" do ya have a fag"
and very little else.


by the way why do they even ask this? Is it some "in" joke i;m not aware of or does it actually work for them one in a while?

IRISH DAYWALKER

everyone get a life its the limerick accent get over it!!! at least they dont make up accents like the other half of limerick you know the crowd im talking about the crowd who follow munster and dont know wheather a rugby ball is pumped or stuffed and the people that think they are upper class because they create an irish/american accent and shop in bts..... there all full of sh1t and are the bottom of the barrel they are all false.... dont get me wrong i dont like scumbags but just because they talk with a limerick accent dosent mean its a scumbag accent its still a limerick accent just called a scumbag accent by people who go through there whole life using a fake one because they live in monaleen or that they go to comp.

bullets

Dunno if its just from the Region your from or not,
I've had friends from different areas of Limerick where
you would expect a thick Limerick accent and they speak like
a posh toff!

I Always thought I had a neutral accent, People used to often ask me if I was from cork, I never had a typical thick flat Limerick accent. Until I went to a party in Dublin years back and overheard some girl talk about me and say I had a big thick country accent (was news to me) and also in College years ago I had a chap from skibbereen tell me I sounded like a Knacker. When I hear my voice recorded it sounds horrific! though.

I've buddies from other countries who thought we all
sounded the same until they lived here for a while and
not can take the utter piss out of people from different
areas when joking about.

Wonder how many different accents there are?
You Have a Flat Limerick Accent
Thick Limerick accent
Country Knacker accent
Country Accent
Posh Country Accent
Semi Posh Limerick Accent
Posh toff Limerick Accent
New entry...Polish Limerick accent. (Great fun to listen to)
Dunno if Gammon is still used at all for the more mobile but weird to hear.

I dont like the sound of any of the Limerick accents, or the Dublin ones,
I dont mind the cork and kerry accents (then non-thick ones)
I Like the sound Mayo Region Accent.
Women with a Northern Irish accent I find plesent to listen to
Men with a Northern Irish accent I dont.

~B

pappyodaniel

Mcjmetroid wrote: »

Iwish i could say there were but they're as imaginative as they get.

it's always literally.
" do ya have a fag"
and very little else.


by the way why do they even ask this? Is it some "in" joke i;m not aware of or does it actually work for them one in a while?

Asking for a fag is just looking for an opportunity to slap you with a headbutt while your guard is down.

Melion

I cant stand the posh Castletroy accent, the D4 of Limerick accents.

pappyodaniel

Posh **** watching too much of the O.C and other American ****e. I'm glad there is an economic downturn just to give these spoilt kids a dose of reality, "daddy, like, owed money to the bank, like, so daddy hung himself in the attic! absolute mare like!"

Insect Overlord

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Posh **** watching too much of the O.C and other American ****e. I'm glad there is an economic downturn just to give these spoilt kids a dose of reality, "daddy, like, owed money to the bank, like, so daddy hung himself in the attic! absolute mare like!"

Is that supposed to be funny?!

TestTransmission

Tbh,ye all sound the same to me down here :p

daveob007

IRISH DAYWALKER wrote: »

everyone get a life its the limerick accent get over it!!! at least they dont make up accents like the other half of limerick you know the crowd im talking about the crowd who follow munster and dont know wheather a rugby ball is pumped or stuffed and the people that think they are upper class because they create an irish/american accent and shop in bts..... there all full of sh1t and are the bottom of the barrel they are all false.... dont get me wrong i dont like scumbags but just because they talk with a limerick accent dosent mean its a scumbag accent its still a limerick accent just called a scumbag accent by people who go through there whole life using a fake one because they live in monaleen or that they go to comp.

I think it's a scumbag accent and I don't come from monaleen or castletroy,I hate rugby,I don't ask for a pint of hino,I don't think I'm better than anyone else because of my job etc.
I was always working class and proud of it,worked for everything i own.
,I know so called poshies who are knackers but get away with it because they live in certain areas and don't have that waaa accent.
I hate the put on posh one also used by people who think they are better than you because they have more money,better jobs,live in a certain area,drive a certain car,wear designer clothes etc etc, they are a pain in the hole big time alright,but the knack accent is really annoying.
The put on twang is fairly annoying as well.