Why do culchies call all relatives their cousins?

amdublin

When they are actually some distant twice removed cousin of their aunt :rolleyes:

In Dublin the only relative called your cousin is your actual (FIRST) cousin.

Mint Sauce

Do they? First I heard of this.

stupidusername

yaw cause culchies are sooooo unhip loike.

I call all my cousins, cousins. I don't know anybody who refers to them as anything else, regardless of where they're from.

Laura_lolly87

I don't, never heard anybody I know do it either. But you must know all the other culchies that I don't.

Turtyturd

I'm from Dublin and refer to my 2nd cousins as a cousin.

I'd be more interested in why so many of them are called PJ...especially brothers and sisters in the same family...even the pets seem to be called PJ.

AnonoBoy

They don't call their aunts/uncles/grandparents cousins.

A 2nd cousin is still your cousin.

thetonynator

How many ''culchies'' do you actually know OP?

hillbloom

Never heard that. What we consider cousins are first cousins.

galwayrush

Never came across this before OP. Maybe you only know strange people.

Son Of A Vidic

Well OP, I can only attribute such stupidity to the fact that you mustn't get out much.

amdublin

Yeah it's true. Check out next time your in the country in the pub.
"who's your man?"
"that's me cousin"

"Oh right, that's your uncle Micks son is it?"
"eh no"

"mary's son?"
"no"

"that's my dad's uncle Jamies' cousin's son"

"oh "

amdublin

Turtyturd wrote: »

I'm from Dublin and refer to my 2nd cousins as a cousin.

I'd be more interested in why so many of them are called PJ...especially brothers and sisters in the same family...even the pets seem to be called PJ.

And if it's not PJ, it's JP

cocoshovel

Is that a troll attempt?

eh

ilovelamp2000

Cos they think it's okay to shag their cousins?

The Princess Bride

You're waaaaay off the mark OP.

It's cousinds not cousins!

Tzetze

It's 'cousint'
So ihis

Ellis Dee

irish-stew wrote: »

Do they? First I heard of this.

Same here (equally baffled in Laois).

Skid

amdublin wrote: »

When they are actually some distant twice removed cousin of their aunt :rolleyes:

In Dublin the only relative called your cousin is your actual (FIRST) cousin.

Well I can't speak for all of us Culchies, but to me your first and second cousins are your cousins.

The clue is in the word 'cousin'

tonycascarino

amdublin wrote: »

In Dublin the only relative called your cousin is your actual (FIRST) cousin.

Nobody cares what you do in Dublin;)

Luxie

amdublin wrote: »

In Dublin the only relative called your cousin is your actual (FIRST) cousin.

Madly enough I do the same thing. And I'm from West Cork.

pragmatic1

Because we're friendly and consider everyone family.

senordingdong

Why do culchies do anything?

Crazy culchies.

Gee Bag

I admit that I do sometimes tell people that my wife is my cousin......





But thats just to hide the fact that she's really my sister.

keepkeyyellow

amdublin wrote: »

Yeah it's true. Check out next time your in the country in the pub.

Oh right the one pub in the country that all us culchies congregate......are you picking all this up in Coppers like

John Doe1

Op what the hell are you talking about?

Ghost Buster

Why in a country not much bigger than some cities suburbs with a capital city the size of an average UK town does this culchie / skanger crap keep coming up?

McBauer

amdublin wrote: »

Yeah it's true. Check out next time your in the country in the pub.
"who's your man?"
"that's me cousin"

"Oh right, that's your uncle Micks son is it?"
"eh no"

"mary's son?"
"no"

"that's my dad's uncle Jamies' cousin's son"

"oh "

If these are the sort of chats you have when you're in the pub then you must be a real barrel of laughs

Ghost Buster

amdublin wrote: »

Yeah it's true. Check out next time your in the country in the pub.
"who's your man?"
"that's me cousin"

"Oh right, that's your uncle Micks son is it?"
"eh no"

"mary's son?"
"no"

"that's my dad's uncle Jamies' cousin's son"

"oh "

Do you live in a Hollywood Irish Movie version of Ireland?

Really? I find it's posh people who do it, not culchies (maybe posh culchies do it too, who knows).

I know a good few posh people and they call all old, non-immediate relations "aunt"/"uncle", closely aged relations "cousin" and younger ones "niece"/"nephew".

And they pronounce it "neview", rather than "nefew".

Novella

I have never heard of anyone calling someone who is not their cousin, their cousin. Ever.

Hulk Hands

Turtyturd wrote: »

I'm from Dublin and refer to my 2nd cousins as a cousin.

I'd be more interested in why so many of them are called PJ...especially brothers and sisters in the same family...even the pets seem to be called PJ.

Why are half the dubs known as anto or deco? Or tina for women

Turtyturd

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Why are half the dubs known as anto or deco? Or tina for women

To be honest I have never heard of two Decos or Antos in the same immediate family up here.

mongoman

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Why in a country not much bigger than some cities suburbs with a capital city the size of an average UK town does this culchie / skanger crap keep coming up?

That just about sums it up alright.

ZombieBride

Down this way the miscreants call every one "cuz" while trying to bum a smoke.

jimpump

from a fella livin in dublin and used to live in 'the country' for a 8 years, thats the 1st i ever heard of it

and btw its cousinds here in dublin

biko

Why do Jackeens call people they don't know "bud"? Don't they have to be friends first?

ballsacky

From the country and only refer to my cousins as cousins.We country folk are crazy that way!

jimpump

biko wrote: »

Why do Jackeens call people they don't know "bud"? Don't they have to be friends first?

So do heads from galway never refer to 'strangers' as pal,mate,bro,sham,scan etc.???

kippy

amdublin wrote: »

When they are actually some distant twice removed cousin of their aunt :rolleyes:

In Dublin the only relative called your cousin is your actual (FIRST) cousin.

Perhaps it's because us "Culchies" are far more educated than ye "Jackeens"......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
Have a read up there on the use of the word cousin.

Why the fcuk do some posters in this particular forum not have a clue of when and where to use the rolleyes smilie?

I can see why the confused smilie was used, you appear to be very much confused.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I met a culchie once, it was focking Hill-air Finton

amdublin

kippy wrote: »

Perhaps it's because us "Culchies" are far more educated than ye "Jackeens"......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
Have a read up there on the use of the word cousin.

Why the fcuk do some posters in this particular forum not have a clue of when and where to use the rolleyes smilie?

I can see why the confused smilie was used, you appear to be very much confused.

:rolleyes:

holystungun9

I call all my cousins either sweetums or babe. That's just how we get down.

Super-Rush

Why do people troll?

Frowzy

I wouldn't admit to being related to anyone in Dublin either!

Don't take it personally OP....

cournioni

Why do Dubs only have a vocabulary that consists of the following words: "Any spare change please?"

Super-Rush

Right we'll end this before anyone gets hurt.