Things you expect to see in rural Ireland

mfceiling

An oul lad on a bike

Someone looking into a field

An old fiesta with the old type reg

A dog sitting outside a house ready to chase the next car that passes

A tractor parked outside the local shop/pub

Someone in a "local" gaa jersey

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orourkeda

a muck snorkling bog savage

helimachoptor

Petrol pumps at the side of the road

grass down the middle of the road!

alwaysadub

Sheep and cows

A shop/post office that sells everything from food to petrol to work boots

KeithM89_old

Rain

Celly Smunt

barren wasteland

LFC5Times

Someone call "Pa"

The general rural population wearing clothes that where in fashion in Dublin 10 + years ago.

Sheep on the road

WindSock

A big hairy arse.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

The cast of Deliverance in a Starbucks....

thetonynator

Judging by the answers here most of ye have never been outside of the pale I'd say. :P

MidlandsM

Knackers down from Dublin to rob a few places.

Celly Smunt

MidlandsM wrote: »

Knackers down from Dublin to rob a few places.

if there was something to rob :P

Speak Now

Someone from the city dumping rubbish over the ditch.

LFC5Times

Sh1t "nightclubs" full of everyone in the town

Incest

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Dancing at the cross roads.

Priests chasing 'comely maidens' from said cross roads as they had the look of the divil in their eyes.

The Bull McCabe.

A good shellileigh fight

thetonynator

Jaycee Long Gearshift wrote: »

Dancing at the cross roads.

Priests chasing 'comely maidens' from said cross roads as they had the look of the divil in their eyes.

The Bull McCabe.

A good shellileigh fight

About 60 years too late . . .

genericguy

people shaking hands with some rapists, and eating bread out of the hands of others.

elchupanebrey

genericguy wrote: »

people shaking hands with some rapists, and eating bread out of the hands of others.

You don't have to be in the country not to have a clue what that means.:eek:

ejmaztec

A multi-storey car-park, next to an abandoned newly-built 400 room hotel in the middle of a bog.

ejmaztec

ejmaztec wrote: »

A multi-storey car-park, next to an abandoned newly-built 400 room hotel in the middle of a bog.

With an empty shopping centre and a half built housing estate across the road!

genericguy

elchupanebrey wrote: »

You don't have to be in the country not to have a clue what that means.:eek:

hand-shaking explained:
http://www.irishelection.com/2009/12/sympathies-yet-again/

Bread-eating explained:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0530/1224247741242.html

mickdw

Houses that people in the city could only afford if they won the euromillions jackpot.

Superbus

Rural people, doing rural things.

Lando Griffin

Tractors and trailors laden with the days work of hay or turf and twenty cars behind it trying to over take, but the ould fellow is to busy teaching his 12 year old how to drive before they just stop in the middle of the road so they can open the gate.

mickdw

mickdw wrote: »

Houses that people in the city could only afford if they won the euromillions jackpot.

But are now dirt cheap as no one wants them.

W.Shakes-Beer

Shíte loads of Toyota's.

I was in the back arse of Galway at the start of the week and i went into a spar (there's always one) and seen a man of about 40, wearing clothes the looked like they were woven out of vomit, sitting drinking Guinness from the can at about 12:15pm.

tony1kenobi

Rural folk.

Shrubbery!

ejmaztec

Deleted User wrote: »

With an empty shopping centre and a half built housing estate across the road!

They would be five miles away in another bog with no access roads.

thetonynator

Roadsides lined with Linden Village cans and flagons from when the townie knackers/skangers go for a drive . . .

FearDark

Hang sandwiches...










and tae.

SeamusG97

Dung encrusted Toyota Carinas from the early nineties with a cowboxes at the back.
Elderly gentlemen of dubious personal hygiene who sit in the corner of the pub with the one pint all night.
Young fellas travelling at high speed on large tractors drawing silage.
Baler twine used to tie gates, hold up trousers, keep boot of car closed ...
Wellingtons turned down at the top.
Lots of 4x4s - again with cowboxes.
Mad celebrations after the local GAA team wins with convoys of cars with horns/flags/kids hanging out the windows.

Captain_Generic

Jealousy.

WindSock

A brother and sister rolling in the hay.

Roadsigns to Dublin.

InTheTrees

A bunch of guys with spades standing around looking at a pothole in the road.

El Weirdo

helimachoptor wrote: »

Petrol pumps at the side of the road

Yeah. Because everyone knows that they're more useful next to the railway tracks.:rolleyes:

RolandIRL

WindSock wrote: »

A brother and sister rolling in the hay.

you mean this?

you beat me to it :pac:

jd007

Farms?

peasant

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Plowman

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tommyhaas

Enda and the lads...

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owenc

I should know this as i live there:

Loads of cars - My road is the main road which is in the countryside.
The odd tractor.
A couple of buses, every hour going tay ballycastle, ballymoney etc.
Children playing in the fields.
Cows.
Sheep.
Farmers.
The odd disgusting smell!
A couple of shops- Three on my road- haha!
and thats about all.

steddyeddy

People staring at "outsiders", chat falling on deaf ears cause your not from were there from their imediate area, lads from a small village with a chip on their shoulder you could float a boat in, oh and me heading down to rob things!!

owenc

Deleted User wrote: »

grass down the middle of the road!

god.... its not like that sorry.:(

epgc3fyqirnbsx

steddyeddy wrote: »

People staring at "outsiders", chat falling on deaf ears cause your not from were there from their imediate area, lads from a small village with a chip on their shoulder you could float a boat in, oh and me heading down to rob things!!

I hate using this fella but :rolleyes:

owenc

pmcmahon wrote: »

if there was something to rob :P

A Yea, there is, the houses here in the countryside are far bigger than in the city sorry!! Not to mention thats were all the rich people live too. Sure my house is worth £700,000, and for a house that size in the city it would be about £2 million.

ejmaztec

steddyeddy wrote: »

People staring at "outsiders", chat falling on deaf ears cause your not from were there from their imediate area, lads from a small village with a chip on their shoulder you could float a boat in, oh and me heading down to rob things!!

How does that work, exactly?

Wibbs

FearDark wrote: »

and tae.

Sir, I will have you know, there is nothing wrong with tae. NOTHING!

SeamusG97 wrote: »

Dung encrusted Toyota Carinas from the early nineties with a cowboxes at the back.

Yep loadsa toyotas. For good reason, they last longer than God and are cheaper than Hondas.

Young fellas travelling at high speed on large tractors drawing silage.

Even moreso, young lads driving hi performance jap metal, like scoobies and the like at high speed. Cars that would require a second mortgage in the big shmoke to drive. *jealously shakes fist at culshie petrolheads*

Lots of 4x4s - again with cowboxes.

Granted, but at least the culshie chap or chappess actually has a use for them, unlike their second generation bottle blond descendants in the cities who use them to drive Soooorsha and Fioooooon to school.

Mad celebrations after the local GAA team wins with convoys of cars with horns/flags/kids hanging out the windows.

Yea this tribal thang with the GAAAA. Also found among their Dublin descendants. Was once bringing this woman out for a date and picked her up from her folks house. They engaged me in convo to make sure I wasnt an axe murderer. I have a good line in patter to cover that aspect of me up. Anyhoo, while she had a proto Dort accent, her folks had nice country accents. They inquired was I going to the match. I replied what match? This threw them. They explained it was a GAA match. I replied, naw not my bag. They asked would my folks be watching it. I replied nope. They pressed further so I explained my family were all dubs going way back. Their response was a cold "oh, I see". I left before the accusations of west brit started flying about. I clawed some kudos back when I explained I knew feck all nor cared about soccer either.

Another one I expect to see is married women over 35 who share a hairstyle which seems to mean they chop off the length and leave it as a vague and I do mean vague bob. Usually with some dark red highlights. Dunno why I notice that. That must be my gay gene kicking in. Actually no, more like my bad taste detector gene.

Barna77

Deleted User wrote: »

With an empty shopping centre and a half built housing estate across the road!

Biggest Tesco I've seen so far.

Road signs warning you to drive on the left. :eek: Saw that somewhere in Offaly...