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Does The Irish Accent Work For Girls As Well As Guys Abroad?

  • 03-09-2013 01:45PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 24


    Girls don't quite understand how difficult it can be for an Irishman abroad. The accent attracts a lot of unwanted attention. Even if you're just there to have a laugh and drink with friends, we can find ourselves gently pushing aside interested women as we desperately try to wade ourselves through the crowd. Sometimes it is genuinely unbearable and we deserve some sympathy for what we have to put up with on a daily basis.

    The constant "hair-flicking" is contagious amongst a group of women. The closed-eye pause, the touching/exposing of the neck. While other men are too busy running the obstacle course with the groups defensive girl in order to gain access to her friends, we don't have to do anything. At all. The accent is enough and women are instantly fascinated. It can be tiresome. Sometimes, we only want directions, or information on what train/bus to take home yet we have to endure this constant barrage of come-on's.

    Do Irish women find that this is also the case abroad? Do you girls have to put up with this unpleasant attention as well?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    In before the Irish women are stuck up and ugly comments. I call shenanigans on that one having lived outside of the country for almost 9 years.




    Not my accent but foreign fellas are usually pleasantly surprised by how much craic we are and our ability to have a laugh 'till it's the last man standing on a night out. That has attracted many a suitor in my day tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Triangla


    It works if they're hot.

    It doesn't if they're not.

    Us men are a consistent bunch!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I've never had anyone come on to me because of my accent, and I've been everywhere man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Having tits works for girls. The accent is irrelevant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    OP, are you just using us to research a badly framed essay question on Irish people and sex?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    American women become all moist and breathless and bate each other stupid in their rush to impale themselves on my Celtic greatness. They hear my East Limerick ("We're from Chounta Limerigg, junowhaddamane!!") brogue and conclude that I must be the skull of Brian Boru when he was a youngfella. Or something. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Brego888


    I've never had anyone come on to me because of my accent, and I've been everywhere man.

    Well the accent is no good if your face looks like it's been hit repeatedly with a shovel


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Begorra, tis the akcent tha gets me all dem damp yokes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    I find that non Irish people can't understand a f*cking word I say :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,336 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Its a great conversation starter tbh... at least 5 or 6 times a night i get "oh your Irish"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    I prefer when people don’t realise that I’m Irish, as that way I generally get to have a normal conversation.

    More often than not when someone realises I’m Irish, they’re delighted to trot out everything they know about Ireland (Guinness, U2, IRA…) and once they’ve reached the end of their knowledge of Ireland the conversation grinds to an embarrassed halt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Its a great conversation starter tbh... at least 5 or 6 times a night i get "oh your Irish"

    "No, I'm just happy to see you!" <badum-tish> ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    If I was an Italian lothario and a girl like Saoirse Ronan came up to me with her accent, I'd absolutely swoon, before serenading her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    I get people telling me to "Talk in Irish" to them. They mean in english but with the accent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    A lot of girls who go abroad are ashamed of their Irish heritage and make sure to practice a good put-on American 'totes amazeballs babez' accent before they set off


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    OK, it's about the "British" accent, but still funny

    http://www.themorningnews.org/article/is-he-cute-or-is-he-british


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    A lot of girls who go abroad are ashamed of their Irish heritage and make sure to practice a good put-on American 'totes amazeballs babez' accent before they set off

    Abroad? They do that in Borrisokane, for furk's sake. Totes awky dat's RIIIIIIIIIGGGGHHHTT!! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Kruse wrote: »
    Do Irish women find that this is also the case abroad? Do you girls have to put up with this unpleasant attention as well?

    Before I moved to Ireland, a girl with an Irish accent would definitely have sounded sexy. Now I am used to hearing Irish people everyday, to the point where I can tell the different accents apart, it makes no difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    OK, it's about the "British" accent, but still funny

    http://www.themorningnews.org/article/is-he-cute-or-is-he-british


    Can I bum a fag? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Leftist


    eh, I think you might be overestimating what lads look for in a woman tbh.

    Oh my stars I met the perfect woman tonight, she had a gorgeous irish accent, reminded me of green fields on a rainy day

    so did you spooge all over her jugs?

    oh dear, no, what do you take me for? a man never kisses on the first date

    riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightio.

    if a foreigner ever tells you he loves your accent, he's either a misty eyed son of an irish immigrant, ie a moron, or he's fixin' to get into your gaa themed knickers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Girls from Derry have beautiful accents


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Leftist wrote: »
    eh, I think you might be overestimating what lads look for in a woman tbh.

    Oh my stars I met the perfect woman tonight, she had a gorgeous irish accent, reminded me of green fields on a rainy day

    so did you spooge all over her jugs?

    oh dear, no, what do you take me for? a man never kisses on the first date

    riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightio.

    if a foreigner ever tells you he loves your accent, he's either a misty eyed son of an irish immigrant, ie a moron, or he's fixin' to get into your gaa themed knickers.


    Who are you talking to? Can't see who you're replying to here. Very strange.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭Leftist


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Girls from Derry have beautiful accents

    nah, the northern accent on a woman, or anyone really is horrific.

    On a woman it sounds like a cat trying to tune a bango.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Leftist wrote: »
    nah, the northern accent on a woman, or anyone really is horrific.

    On a woman it sounds like a cat trying to tune a bango.

    Appalachian Clawhammer or Five-Finger Pluckin'?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    depends what irish accent, do you really think a woman from cavan is going to melt a foreign mans heart with her sound?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    Leftist wrote: »
    nah, the northern accent on a woman, or anyone really is horrific.

    On a woman it sounds like a cat trying to tune a bango.

    what northern accent? north coast, belfast, derry, border region, mid-ulster?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Girls from Derry have beautiful accents
    Have you heard Nadine Coyle speak?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Is the OP one of the guys in that beer ad from some years ago?

    Or the one from Meteor? Eres sin hogar?

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    OP, the problem lies in that you're ridiculously good looking


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭yer man!


    I'm constantly asked to just say things over here in the states, it's getting really annoying. I'm also corrected constantly when I say things in proper English rather than ****ty american. Also it's kinda weird that I've been called english a lot because of my Galway accent.....


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