What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

runawaybishop

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

So what does it mean when someone says ' I wanna give props to my homeboy' etc?

props = proper respect.

rubadub

73Cat wrote: »

I never copped that Sudocrem smells like lavender, until I read the ingredients in a moment of boredom recently.

Sudocrem is also an Irish product

Sudocrem was developed in 1931 by Dublin-based pharmacist Thomas Smith. It was originally called "Smith's Cream" with the name changing to Sudocrem in the 1950s.

I was abroad and asked for it after getting sunburn and had people staring at me blankly. I had thought it was a big worldwide well known thing like vaseline. Sudocrem is a zinc oxide based cream and vaseline is petroleum jelly. Sudocrem has other healing properties that other zinc oxide based creams may not.

bucketybuck wrote: »

Don't forget that how it is spelt matters less than how people hear it said on the TV advertisements. You think people up north are repeatedly hearing it pronounced "Nestlé" on tv and then calling it "nestle" themselves? Nope.

I go by adverts too, so do consider lee-dl as being the correct way to pronounce lidl, not li-dil with li like little.

At one time Nestle was prounced without the accent in adverts
first one is from 1968 & australian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77fwROYHRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJDv6Do124

runawaybishop wrote: »

props = proper respect.

(Aretha) Franklin's lyrics most probably influenced hip-hop's later use of both the word "proper" and "props" in the context of proper respect. She proclaims that she is about to give him all her money, and that all she's asking is for him to give her "her propers", when he gets home.

All I'm askin' (oo)
Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
Hey Baby (just a little bit) when you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)

I'm about to give you all of my money
And all I'm askin' in return, honey
Is to give me my propers
When you get home (just a, just a, just a, just a)
Yeah baby (just a, just a, just a, just a)
When you get home (just a little bit)
Yeah (just a little bit)

Pawwed Rig

White people are always called expats whereas non whites are called immigrants :rolleyes:

Sheep Lover

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

White people are always called expats whereas non whites are called immigrants :rolleyes:

I never heard of a Polish expat?

pajor

Omackeral wrote: »

That the musical act Lipps Inc. (responsible for the amazing song Funkytown) is read aloud as 'Lip Sync'. Never heard it said until yesterday.

Until I saw his name once written on a concert poster I didn't realise that Flo Rida, was a play on Florida.

microsim

That since BOD retired ireland can't score tries.

FunLover18

Pawwed Rig wrote:

White people are always called expats whereas non whites are called immigrants 

Is it not the case where we would only call Irish emigrants expats? As in you're only an expat to your home nation?

mikemac1

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

White people are always called expats whereas non whites are called immigrants :rolleyes:

More to do with job status tbh

Sheep Lover

mikemac1 wrote: »

More to do with job status tbh

So nothing to do with colour of your skin after all?

Thought so.

Pawwed Rig

Sheep Lover wrote: »

So nothing to do with colour of your skin after all?

Thought so.

Keep telling yourselves that :pac:

super_furry

For more than two decades I spelt obvious as odvious.

Sheep Lover

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Keep telling yourselves that :pac:

Ever hear of East European expat? Becuase I haven't.

You should probably think these things over before spilling out silly thoughts on here

XxMCRxBabyxX

An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. The period of expatriation may be long - perhaps an entire working career - but the intention is always to "return home"; an immigrant does not have that intention.

Nothing to do with colour.

Pawwed Rig

On an unrelated subject

People will goto all sorts of lengths to convince themselves racism is not an issue rather than challenge common perceptions.

Conall Cernach

That the stripes on the striped candy in Candy Crush Saga indicate which way they will explode. I'm on level 184 and I've just twigged this.

conorh91

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

On an unrelated subject

People will goto all sorts of lengths to convince themselves racism is not an issue rather than challenge common perceptions.

This is a bit of a tangent, but the Guardian ran an article on it during the week, claiming that expats vs immigrants is a racialist distinction.

In fact it isn't. As others have said, the distinction is subjective. Americans don't call Irish arrivals 'expats', they call them immigrants. We call them expats because they've expatriated themselves from our patria, i.e. our homeland

So you are referred to as an expat by people who share your heritage, not by the natives of your destination.

Sheep Lover

The degree people will go to convince themselves that a social/economic issue is in fact solely due to race.

Probably stems from leading a unhappy and unsatisfying life and wants to blame it on someone else.

rubadub

conorh91 wrote: »

the Guardian ran an article on it during the week, claiming that expats vs immigrants is a racialist distinction.

here is the article.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/13/white-people-expats-immigrants-migration

What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to Wikipedia, “an expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of the person’s upbringing. The word comes from the Latin terms ex (‘out of’) and patria (‘country, fatherland’)”.

Defined that way, you should expect that any person going to work outside of his or her country for a period of time would be an expat, regardless of his skin colour or country. But that is not the case in reality; expat is a term reserved exclusively for western white people going to work abroad.

So they look up wikipedia and missed out the "non caucasian people" listed under "notable expatriates"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriate#Notable_expatriates

kylith

FunLover18 wrote: »

Is it not the case where we would only call Irish emigrants expats? As in you're only an expat to your home nation?

I used to think that only Irish people could be called ex-pats; Pat being a diminuative of 'Paddy' and Paddy being a term for an Irish person. Ex-Pats were therefore ex-Paddies.

Into The Blue

Sheep Lover wrote: »

The degree people will go to convince themselves that a social/economic issue is in fact solely due to race.

Probably stems from leading a unhappy and unsatisfying life and wants to blame it on someone else.

Is this an obvious thing you've just realised?

Sheep Lover

Into The Blue wrote: »

Is this an obvious thing you've just realised?

Would I be posting it here otherwise?

J Mysterio

rubadub wrote: »

here is the article.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/13/white-people-expats-immigrants-migration



So they look up wikipedia and missed out the "non caucasian people" listed under "notable expatriates"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriate#Notable_expatriates

They shouldnt be using Wikipedia as a reference anyway for what is supposed to be a serious newspaper.

Quazzie

Kenmare is in County Kerry.

Ten minutes I would've been confident to bet €100 that Kenmare was in Cork.

fiachr_a

Our media always go on about how kids in Japan are better at maths than Irish kids because their education system is better. I've finally realised that Japanese kids are just better at maths, it's a race thing and nothing to do with their education.

fits

15 months of touch screen usage and I've only just realised that you press and hold the boards.ie category menu at the top to be able to select a forum.

Capt'n Midnight

fiachr_a wrote: »

Our media always go on about how kids in Japan are better at maths than Irish kids because their education system is better. I've finally realised that Japanese kids are just better at maths, it's a race thing and nothing to do with their education.

They are better at arithmetic because they learn how to do sums differently. Instead of times tables they learn how to use an abacus mentally

Flash Anzan,
http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2012/oct/29/mathematics

japanese multiplication is just drawing lines and counting the intersections
http://www.wikihow.com/Multiply-Using-the-Line-Method

Rothko

I just realised that Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books is a play on the word diagonally.

Eeden

Suas11 wrote: »

I just realised that Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books is a play on the word diagonally.

And Knockturn Alley is a play on nocturnally

conorh91

The piece of computer hardware called a mouse is so-called because it physically resembles a mouse.

thelad95

For years, I thought LUAS was an abbreviation for something like DART but it was pointed out to me that it's actually the Irish for speed.