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Things you expect to see in rural Ireland

  • 18-06-2010 9:53pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,884 ✭✭✭✭


    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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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    a muck snorkling bog savage


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,674 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Petrol pumps at the side of the road


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    grass down the middle of the road!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Sheep and cows

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Rain


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    barren wasteland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭LFC5Times


    Someone call "Pa"

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

    Sheep on the road


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    A big hairy arse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    The cast of Deliverance in a Starbucks....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


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


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Knackers down from Dublin to rob a few places.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    Knackers down from Dublin to rob a few places.
    if there was something to rob :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,715 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Someone from the city dumping rubbish over the ditch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭LFC5Times


    Sh1t "nightclubs" full of everyone in the town

    Incest


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    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 . . .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


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


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,572 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    Rural people, doing rural things.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    Rural folk.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Shrubbery!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Hang sandwiches...










    and tae.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    Jealousy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    A brother and sister rolling in the hay.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Roadsigns to Dublin.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Petrol pumps at the side of the road
    Yeah. Because everyone knows that they're more useful next to the railway tracks.:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    WindSock wrote: »
    A brother and sister rolling in the hay.
    you mean this?

    you beat me to it :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    Farms?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Plowman


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    Enda and the lads...

    2029.jpg


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭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!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    :(
    grass down the middle of the road!

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭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:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭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?:confused:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭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* :D
    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.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    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. :confused: :eek: Saw that somewhere in Offaly... :D


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