Why is everyone indifferent to Galway?

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That's what I hate about parody threads, the joke's all in the title.

Anyway, I was assisting my beloved mudder there in looking for the remote* when I referred to where I found it as below the "couch." Now, back in my day, I used to refer to it as a "sofa" but cannot remember when this changed for me. How strange. Do you think that synonyms follow trends? Is it "in" to call them couches or can you still call them sofas without being considered anachronistic? Do you call it a couch or a sofa or both? Discuss.



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Riamfada

Isnt this a classic americanism? They call them sofas while everyone else calls them couches. Perhaps you have been watching less american sofa related tv?

TheZohanS

Boone Nice Penknife wrote: »

Do you think that synonyms follow trends?

I think the Jewish people have as much right to follow trends as non-Jewish people.



Mazel tov.

mikemac

We call the remote control a zapper

And it's a couch OP, you are the one taking on American phrases, not your mother.

It realy shows what you are watching on TV

Kiera

We've always called it a couch. Only posh people call it a sofa.

alwaysadub

It's a couch!

And i'm not indifferent to Galway,i love the place.

I know you didn't ask,but there ya go.

Superbus

It's the comfy sittin' yoke ffs.

Noreen1

Kiera wrote: »

We've always called it a couch. Only posh people call it a sofa.

I used to call it a couch. I've no idea when I started calling it a sofa. I'm not "posh". (I hope!)
I can't stand people who think they're posh!

Noreen

Giselle

If common people call it a couch and posh people call it a sofa, who calls it a settee?

losthorizon

I recently read Stephen Frys Book where he travelled through America. At the end of the book he had a quiz of American english. Most of the words I didn't know. But, I thought it interesting, that here in Ireland in our everyday speech we use some american english that they dont use in england (pavement, jackhammer).

Kiera

Giselle wrote: »

If common people call it a couch and posh people call it a sofa, who calls it a settee?

Weirdos

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feelingstressed wrote: »

It realy shows what you are watching on TV

TV programmes?

alwaysadub

Giselle wrote: »

If common people call it a couch and posh people call it a sofa, who calls it a settee?

I think they call it a settee in England don't they.

Never thought bout how complicated this all was :pac:

losthorizon

Kiera wrote: »

Weirdos

Oh god:(

cson

Lavatory.

Sinfonia

Americans don't say couch??

I've heard 'couch potato' and 'on the couch' (referring to a psychiatrist's couch) on American TV tons of times.

longshanks

i call it a couch.

but where do people stand on the word vase?

as in vaze, vaws or vahs.....

Kiera

losthorizon wrote: »

Oh god:(

Its ok, at least you're not a sheep!

Mrmoe

Giselle wrote: »

If common people call it a couch and posh people call it a sofa, who calls it a settee?

A settee isn't the same as a couch or sofa, most can not be folded down to make a bed a settee can:cool:

epgc3fyqirnbsx

In mayo we call it the wide chair

alwaysadub

Mrmoe wrote: »

A settee isn't the same as a couch or sofa, most can not be folded down to make a bed a settee can:cool:

That's a sofa bed is it not?

Sugar Free

I've always called it a couch.

Also call the remote the "switcher".

WindSock

I call it the cooch.

OutlawPete

'Sofa Potatoe' doesn't have the same ring to it.

I grew up calling it the 'settee' though.

Cheers Kiera, insult my family why don't cha.

Kiera

OutlawPete wrote: »

'Sofa Potatoe' doesn't have the same ring to it.

I grew up calling it the 'settee' though.

Cheers Kiera, insult my family why don't cha.

Ok. Who would you like me to start with?

OutlawPete

Kiera wrote: »

Ok. Who would you like me to start with?

My cousin.

What I like to do, he doesn't.

alwaysadub

OutlawPete wrote: »

My cousin.

What I like to do, he doesn't.

So he doesn't spend all day on x hamster and isn't into pregnant women?

Shocking!

Kiera

OutlawPete wrote: »

My cousin.

What I like to do, he doesn't.

How am i meant to slag a man that doesnt take it up the shítter?

OutlawPete

One thing I have noticed is that people who call their front room the 'sitting room', tend to call it 'settee'.

If they call it the 'lounge' it will be 'couch' and if they just call it the 'front room', then sofa.

Kiera

OutlawPete wrote: »

One thing I have noticed is that people who call their front room the 'sitting room', tend to call it 'settee'.

If they call it the 'lounge' it will be 'couch' and if they just call it the 'front room', then sofa.

Wrong Peetree. Its my sitting room and my couch. It was the front room and couch when i was living at home. Still is actually but thats because we have a back room.

aine-maire

It's the couch.
Bet you call the garage the garawhjj as well. :mad:

OutlawPete

Kiera wrote: »

Still is actually but thats because we have a back room.

Don't you call the 'the den' out in the land with no Lidl.

alwaysadub

OutlawPete wrote: »

One thing I have noticed is that people who call their front room the 'sitting room', tend to call it 'settee'.

If they call it the 'lounge' it will be 'couch' and if they just call it the 'front room', then sofa.

It's never been anything but a sitting room in my family, and we call it a couch, but maybe the odd time a sofa to be fair...

Kiera

OutlawPete wrote: »

Don't you call the 'the den' out in the land with no Lidl.

No, its the back room. Or "Kiera's room" cause that's where we all hung out as kids when it was raining

OutlawPete

What I really hated when growing up was when you went round to a mate's gaff and their sofa had those damn white pattern arm protectors that would fall off if you so much as looked at them.

Have also heard of the odd house that had plastic covering on the whole damn sofa, wtf is that all about.

Kiera

OutlawPete wrote: »

What I really hated when growing up was when you went round to a mate's gaff and their sofa had those damn white pattern arm protectors that would fall off if you so much as looked at them.

Have also heard of the odd house that had plastic covering on the whole damn sofa, wtf is that all about.

Are you sure you didnt grow up in America?

TheZohanS

OutlawPete wrote: »

'Sofa Potatoe' doesn't have the same ring to it.

I grew up calling it the 'settee' though.

Cheers Kiera, insult my family why don't cha.

Kiera wrote: »

Ok. Who would you like me to start with?

OutlawPete wrote: »

My cousin.

What I like to do, he doesn't.

Kiera wrote: »

How am i meant to slag a man that doesnt take it up the shítter?

OutlawPete wrote: »

One thing I have noticed is that people who call their front room the 'sitting room', tend to call it 'settee'.

If they call it the 'lounge' it will be 'couch' and if they just call it the 'front room', then sofa.

Kiera wrote: »

Wrong Peetree. Its my sitting room and my couch. It was the front room and couch when i was living at home. Still is actually but thats because we have a back room.

OutlawPete wrote: »

Don't you call the 'the den' out in the land with no Lidl.

Kiera wrote: »

No, its the back room. Or "Kiera's room" cause that's where we all hung out as kids when it was raining

OutlawPete wrote: »

What I really hated when growing up was when you went round to a mate's gaff and their sofa had those damn white pattern arm protectors that would fall off if you so much as looked at them.

Have also heard of the odd house that had plastic covering on the whole damn sofa, wtf is that all about.

Kiera wrote: »

Are you sure you didnt grow up in America?

You know what sofas/settees/couches etc are good for?

Love makin'!

Get yourselves a Barry White CD and lets see what happens.

Giselle

OutlawPete wrote: »

One thing I have noticed is that people who call their front room the 'sitting room', tend to call it 'settee'.

If they call it the 'lounge' it will be 'couch' and if they just call it the 'front room', then sofa.

What do you sit on if you call it the living room?

OutlawPete

Giselle wrote: »

What do you sit on if you call it the living room?

Chaise lounge.

alwaysadub

OutlawPete wrote: »

Chaise lounge.

But we've a chaise lounge in our sitting room...

Diabhal Beag

Galway is great (parody of people who don't read the thread)

OutlawPete

alwaysadub wrote: »

But we've a chaise lounge in our sitting room...

I was joking, okay.

Could ever stop with this now.

It's not an exact science.

My PM box is full of complaints, the press are at the door.

I'm sorry I said it now.

Giselle

OutlawPete wrote: »

Chaise lounge.

Surely that is a chaise for the lounge, and not a chaise for the living room?
I don't think you're the expert I thought you were.:(

alwaysadub

OutlawPete wrote: »

I was joking, okay.

Could ever stop with this now.

It's not an exact science.

My PM box is full of complaints, the press are at the door.

I'm sorry I said it now.

You folded like a cheap suit.

I'm dismayed to say the least.

Super-Rush

Whats a Galway?

alwaysadub

super-rush wrote: »

Whats a Galway?

It's like a Carlow,but much more superior

Jesus Juice

I call mine the rats nest cause we got ours out of a skip:(

El Weirdo

Kiera wrote: »

Weirdos

Ahem.

I call it a couch actually.

friendface

If it's leather, I call it a couch but I think I would call anything made of soft material a sofa.

Couch

Sofa

Cian92

It's a sofa in the Drawing Room and in our sitting room it is a couch.

Dravokivich

Boone Nice Penknife wrote: »

Now, back in my day, I used to refer to it as a "sofa" but cannot remember when this changed for me. How strange. Do you think that synonyms follow trends?

I still refer to presses as cofras...