My friend just called me a traitor

donfers

coz due to a slip of the tongue I said "Boxing day" instead of St Stephens day when referring to the football fixtures

jesus, is it that bad? I am constantly being picked up on this by the pedants and sham nationalists out there...I wouldn't mind but I'd say there's not a holy joe among them

surely we have better things to whine about at xmas time, like the weather or the crappy presents we get or even the xmas day movies

but surely saying "boxing day" is not a treasonous offense and I should not have my Irishness called into question just for being an absent-minded gombeen, indeed is it not my absent-minded gombeenness that makes me Irish? chew on that ye pedant patriots!

Wompa1

donfers wrote: »

coz due to a slip of the tongue I said "Boxing day" instead of St Stephens day when referring to the football fixtures

jesus, is it that bad? I am constantly being picked up on this by the pedants and sham nationalists out there...I wouldn't mind but I'd say there's not a holy joe among them

surely we have better things to whine about at xmas time, like the weather or the crappy presents we get or even the xmas day movies

but surely saying "boxing day" is not a treasonous offense and I should not have my Irishness called into question just for being an absent-minded gombeen, indeed is it not my absent-minded gombeenness that makes me Irish? chew on that ye pedant patriots!

Traitor!

KeithM89_old

Just call it 'Christmas, day 2' and everyones happy...

Royale with Cheese

I'm not a massive nationalist or anti Brit in any way, but I'd prefer if people didn't call it boxing day. Mainly because it's an absolutely shíte name for a day.

themacdaddy

Bet you were one of the Black and Tans

bonerjams03

Coz? Xmas?

Do you ever stop?!

donfers

donfers wrote: »

coz due to a slip of the tongue I said "Boxing day" instead of St Stephens day when referring to the football fixtures

he needs to get a life

TheZohanS

Are you sure he didn't make a slip of the tongue and mean to call you a tractor?


By the way, I'd find it very hard to accept that "Boxing Day" is a slip of the tongue...Freudian slip perhaps...but not slip of the tongue.

cson

You should be burned at the stake Prod.

Yawns

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

I'm not a massive nationalist or anti Brit in any way, but I'd prefer if people didn't call it boxing day. Mainly because it's an absolutely shíte name for a day.

But stephen's day is better?

**** STEPHEN!

dlofnep

People who call it boxing day are consciously trying to be different. This is Ireland.

Wertz

I call it boxing day to annoy these types.
Funnily enough they always know who's playing in the premiership on boxi...sorry, St Stephen's day.

I don't think St. Stephen was even Irish, just call it Sunday.

Donkey Oaty

donfers wrote: »

coz due to a slip of the tongue I said "Boxing day" instead of St Stephens day when referring to the football fixtures

I didn't know there was any GAA on St Stephen's Day.

Are you perhaps a foreign-game-loving traitor?

Aldebaran

Such a stupid thing to get annoyed about. Call it whatever the fcuk you want.

biko

donfers wrote: »

coz due to a slip of the tongue I said "Boxing day" instead of St Stephens day when referring to the football fixtures

It's soccer you traitor*

*if you mean the Brit game

mikemac

To make up for this OP you and your friend need to head out to your neighbors to sign a song

"The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,
St. Stephen's Day was caught in the furze,"
And so on

People still do this though not so much anymore

kowloon

I could look it up, but I'm sure lots of you know the answer to this: Why do they call it boxing day anyway?

aujopimur

By the way it's Christmas not xmas.

donfers

TheZohan wrote: »

Are you sure he didn't make a slip of the tongue and mean to call you a tractor?


By the way, I'd find it very hard to accept that "Boxing Day" is a slip of the tongue...Freudian slip perhaps...but not slip of the tongue.

context is key, we irish love our English football and in almost every media, be it radio, tv or newspaper they are referred to as the "boxing day fixtures" so I just blurted that out without giving it a second thought, surely not a beheading offense....anyway as they refer to something taking place in England then I think it's fair game to use the term they use rather than imposing ours on them....If I called David Cameron the prime minister instead of the taoiseach of UK you wouldn't be getting on my back would youz?

incidentally I don't like when BBC and other british media call Cowen the Prime Minister, but I tend to forgive as I suspect it's more down to the fact they can't pronounce the word rather than them trying to impose some kind of post-colonial linguistic hegemony upon us poor celtic souls

super_furry

Why DO Irish people get so pissy about someone saying Boxing Day?

mikemac

kowloon wrote: »

I could look it up, but I'm sure lots of you know the answer to this: Why do they call it boxing day anyway?

Generous people would give presents and food to the local priest/vicar,etc or committee and they'd be given out the poor in the area in boxes.

Bit like the Lyons clubs these days

Boxing day

Dionysus

kowloon wrote: »

I could look it up, but I'm sure lots of you know the answer to this: Why do they call it boxing day anyway?

To be different to those dastardly Europeans? Is there any other country in Europe which does not call the day following Christmas Day the vernacular equivalent of 'St Stephen's Day'?

Dionysus

donfers wrote: »

we irish love our English football

Well, that's just excluded the vast majority of Irish people from your definition of 'Irish'.

dlofnep

super_furry wrote: »

Why DO Irish people get so pissy about someone saying Boxing Day?

Why would an Irish person refer to it as Boxing Day when for their entire life, it has always been referred to as Stephen's Day. It makes no sense. People who call it Boxing day, who have not lived in Britain are consciously trying to stand out like a sore thumb.

That's about the extent of it.

Odysseus

No offense meant to you mate, but your sounds like a knob. I worked in the UK when I was younger for 6 years and picked up certain words or sayings. If people try put me up on it I sort it out very quickly especially if that was said to me.

arybvtcw0eolkf

dlofnep wrote: »

People who call it boxing day are consciously trying to be different. This is Ireland.

I prefer to call it 'Judo Day'... But thats just me

dlofnep

Asher Quaint Mesquite wrote: »

I prefer to call it 'Judo Day'... But thats just me

Me too, but let's keep that our little secret

HavingCrack

Filthy foreign bastard , playing them foreign games and talking about Boxing day, its far from the GAA that you were raised now boy.

Winty

cson wrote: »

You should be burned at the stake Prod.

Was Sean O'Casey a Prod? easy tiger some of us are Protestant and Irish

**Timbuk2**

It will always be St. Stephenses Day to me!

Yawns

In all honesty It's lie on day while the kids play with their pressies before you get dragged out of bed to visit every1 that you don't like! :P

Larianne

dlofnep wrote: »

Why would an Irish person refer to it as Boxing Day when for their entire life, it has always been referred to as Stephen's Day. It makes no sense. People who call it Boxing day, who have not lived in Britain are consciously trying to stand out like a sore thumb.

That's about the extent of it.

But if someone watches Sky Sports and the like and that's what constantly being said, well then they will pick it up.

Same as how youngsters are now saying 'Mom' and 'awwwesome' due to American TV shows.

Super-Rush

I prefer to call it the 26th or the day after christmas.

dabestman1

its st.stephens day and it has always been. West brits use boxing day

Super-Rush

Larianne wrote: »

But if someone watches Sky Sports and the like and that's what constantly being said, well then they will pick it up.

Same as how youngsters are now saying 'Mom' and 'awwwesome' due to American TV shows.

Its mammy

Madam

To me it's 'Hangover day', but as I live in the UK it's Boxing day and if I'm home(along with the accent coming on once I reach the border)it's St. Stephens day!

Traitor.

Sunnyisland

For me its st stephens day, always was always will be.

Sofiztikated

dabestman1 wrote: »

its st.stephens day and it has always been. West brits use boxing day

I'm originally from Monaghan, currently residing in Cavan, and I use Boxing Day/St Stephens Day interchangably.

Am I a west Brit?

Honestly, if one of my friends pulled me on it, I'd tell them to phuck right off. I've lived in the Republic all my life, I went to school in the north, I have northern friends, I have friends from the Republic, we're constantly bombarded with English media (who call it Boxing Day. A lot.)

How many people call Halloween its proper term? All Hallows Eve. What about the 1st November? All Saints Day.

If that's what gets their knickers all tied up, then let them at it. I've more to be worried about.

Edit: I can see this turning into another slanging match, with MUSSOLINI and dlofnep involved.

baalthor

Every person that I've met from the Catholic/Nationalist community in the North has called it Boxing Day.

scientific1982

baalthor wrote: »

Every person that I've met from the Catholic/Nationalist community in the North has called it Boxing Day.

We call it boxing day in Donegal too.

dabestman1

Sofiztikated wrote: »

I'm originally from Monaghan, currently residing in Cavan, and I use Boxing Day/St Stephens Day interchangably.

Am I a west Brit?

Honestly, if one of my friends pulled me on it, I'd tell them to phuck right off. I've lived in the Republic all my life, I went to school in the north, I have northern friends, I have friends from the Republic, we're constantly bombarded with English media (who call it Boxing Day. A lot.)

How many people call Halloween its proper term? All Hallows Eve. What about the 1st November? All Saints Day.

If that's what gets their knickers all tied up, then let them at it. I've more to be worried about.

All i am saying is that if you look at any irish calendar, u will see it called st stephens day. By the way u've answered the question.

arybvtcw0eolkf

baalthor wrote: »

Every person that I've met from the Catholic/Nationalist community in the North has called it Boxing Day.

scientific1982 wrote: »

We call it boxing day in Donegal too.

Ulster says NO to Stephens Day.

Winty

People in the Bogside call it Boxing Day, go to the Bogside Inn and call somebody a traitor and see why they call it Boxing Day

Donkey Oaty

It might be a good idea to use "Boxing Day" when talking to Muslims, Jews, etc.

I'm sure they must be offended by the use of "St Stephen's Day" as it celebrates blasphemy.

evercloserunion

I call it that day you all go down to the pub and get sloshed because you couldn't on Christmas.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

The Ops friend isn't one of these guys who runs around calling people he disagrees with "blueshirts" by any chance?

Madam

My dad(a prod)called it St Stephens day, he was a mummer so I'm wondering why this day was chosen for 'mumming', or is that just particular to Ulster(Republic part and Six counties)?

Btw is the term 'west brit' just peculiar(don't go there folks) to Dubs?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Wrenboys Day anyone?

Madam

evercloserunion wrote: »

I call it that day you all go down to the pub and get sloshed because you couldn't on Christmas.

Hey a person after my own heart:)