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Why do Irish kids call plasticine "mawla"

  • 24-12-2010 7:25pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭


    Just watching The Top 100 Toys on E4 (repeat?)

    They've just showed plasticine.

    Did you call it mawla (phonetic spelling) in school?? I did.

    Where did that word come from??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    mála is an Irish word afaik


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,400 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    I dunno but did anyone else have a mawla class in their school?

    The one where all the kids who were not all there used to spend all day playing with mawla?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    phasers wrote: »
    mála is an Irish word afaik

    Yeah that's what I thought. And I would have spelled it that way as well.


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


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    I dunno but did anyone else have a mawla class in school?

    The one where all the kids who were not all there used to spend all day playing with mawla?

    i believe you can get a degree in it through some arts route


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Kids call it Mala because their parents told them it's called Mala, it's simple really.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    It's márla.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭sollar


    marla was what i always knew it as.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭chordtype


    mikom wrote: »
    It's márla.

    This


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    D'oh.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Mala because you maul it?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Colmo52


    We called it mala and didn't question why its called mala.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭magicianz




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I'd love some marla now!!

    Apparently you can get a fragrance that smells like it?!?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,679 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    It always turns the same crappy colour :mad:.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Morla.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    pow wow wrote: »
    Morla.


    I used to call it Morla too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    I used to call it Morla too.

    Spooky :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Marla

    Supposed to be a fada in there but I don't know how to type a fada :o


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Marla

    Supposed to be a fada in there but I don't know how to type a fada :o

    it's easy, you just do this á
    try it, all you have to do is this á

    oh, and it's mála, not marla, weirdos


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    ctrl, alt and the letter you want the fáda with.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭MGMTea


    Marla was the single greatest thing on earth while in Junior - Senior infants, Fact.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    MGMTea wrote: »
    Marla was the single greatest thing on earth while in Junior - Senior infants, Fact.

    Nooooooo strawberry milk was..

    OOoh and I liked the making things with Straws..

    Ooh and the pegs thingymabob.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Larianne wrote: »
    Nooooooo strawberry milk was..

    OOoh and I liked the making things with Straws..

    Ooh and the pegs thingymabob.

    and pipe cleaners!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭MGMTea


    Larianne wrote: »
    Nooooooo strawberry milk was..

    OOoh and I liked the making things with Straws..

    Ooh and the pegs thingymabob.

    +1 and Pokemon Cards ! :D I was the king of teh pokemons


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    and pipe cleaners!

    Nah, we didn't have them. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    MGMTea wrote: »
    +1 and Pokemon Cards ! :D I was the king of teh pokemons

    Oh you're a youngling..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭jesmed


    Larianne wrote: »
    ctrl, alt and the letter you want the fáda with.


    Alt Gr key and letter also works....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,721 ✭✭✭flutered


    does it fcukin matter


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Larianne wrote: »
    Nah, we didn't have them. :(

    well I didn't have strawberry milk :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    well I didn't have strawberry milk :(

    :eek:

    You poor thing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    It's mála.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Strawberry milk was the great and the way it came in those little cartoons, happy days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Colmo52


    mtb_kng wrote: »
    It's mála.

    Thats a school bag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill




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


    Colmo52 wrote: »
    Thats a school bag.

    mála scoile ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭alandublin15


    in china we cor it molra


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    We always called it playdough. Never even heard it being called 'mala' until last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    Larianne wrote: »
    Ooh and the pegs thingymabob.

    rocking chairs from the auld wooden pegs.. those were the days .. ish


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,679 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    We always called it playdough. Never even heard it being called 'mala' until last year.

    Playdough was different if I remember correctly. It was softer to mush up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    kowloon wrote: »
    Playdough was different if I remember correctly. It was softer to mush up.

    It has a different smell as well, I used to love sniffing mala.:o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    growler wrote: »
    rocking chairs from the auld wooden pegs.. those were the days .. ish

    Wut? :confused:

    I'm talking about pushing pegs into a board and making a picture out of it.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I called it playdough. Had no idea what everyone was going on about with their mala when I moved over here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Craptacular


    Mála = bag
    Marla = plasticine
    Foclóir = dictionary


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    Larianne wrote: »
    Wut? :confused:

    I'm talking about pushing pegs into a board and making a picture out of it.

    amateur


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Who cares?!?! Mix all colours and it comes out like sheet! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,842 ✭✭✭shinikins


    It was called Mála because that was the brand name of the cheap sh!te the school bought, Plasticine cost more and didn't turn that vile diarrhea colour after 5 minutes!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    phasers wrote: »
    mála is an Irish word afaik

    Mála = bag

    Mawla isn't a word (even phonetically)

    Marla is the Irish word used for modelling clay / plasticine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭bmw535d


    defo marla


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


    Liam Byrne wrote: »

    Marla is the bogger word used for modelling clay / plasticine.

    fyp ;)


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