Common misconceptions in Ireland

Kev_2012

I've been living in Canada for 6 months now, and I would consider myself to be fair knowledgable, but I've been proven wrong on things by Canadians that for that my whole life I thought I knew!

1 - I thought a nectarine was a small orange like a tangerine or mandarin !
2 - I thought that winter was November, December and January. Apparently it's Dec. 21st to March 19th
3 - I tried to explain that sherbet/sherbert was a powder that that you eat with a lollipop, whereas sherbert is actually a totally different thing altogether!

What things have you always thought that you were later proved wrong on?

who the fug

winter is November, December and January,not out fault rest of the world is wrong

Cookie_Monster

That Canadia isn't a US state anymore

Sunnyisland

Common misconceptions in Ireland




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wazky

realies wrote: »

:P:P that Gerry Adams was in the IRA :P:D:)

Pikeys, dole, government and 3 fiddy.

Now the thread is complete.

Kiwi in IE

who the fug wrote: »

winter is November, December and January,not out fault rest of the world is wrong

ARRGHHH!

Spring: March, April, May
Summer: June, July, August
Autumn: September, October, November
WINTER: December, January, February

http://www.calendar-365.com/seasons.html

kneemos

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

ARRGHHH!

Spring: March, April, May
Summer: June, July, August
Autumn: September, October, November
WINTER: December, January, February

http://www.calendar-365.com/seasons.html

Depends where you live.

Kiwi in IE

kneemos wrote: »

Depends where you live.

It does yes! As in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere! Not as in Ireland or the UK!

PizzamanIRL

Doesn't matter what season it is. Only thing that matters is what month it is.

For the record Winter is Nov - Jan. February is winter? What? No no no.

Tin Foil Hat

kneemos wrote: »

Depends where you live.

If you live in Ireland, and you call February springtime, you're insane. It's a freezing month. And dark. And colourless.
It's winter.

PizzamanIRL

Lets be real here lads. There are only 2 seasons in Ireland. Summer is July (or a few days of it). All the other months are winter.

Sulla Felix

Kev_2012 wrote: »

I've been living in Canada for 6 months now, and I would consider myself to be fair knowledgable, but I've been proven wrong on things by Canadians that for that my whole life I thought I knew!

1 - I thought a nectarine was a small orange like a tangerine or mandarin !
2 - I thought that winter was November, December and January. Apparently it's Dec. 21st to March 19th
3 - I tried to explain that sherbet/sherbert was a powder that that you eat with a lollipop, whereas sherbert is actually a totally different thing altogether!

What things have you always thought that you were later proved wrong on?

1) They're right on that one. A nectarine is like an unfuzzy peach, they come from the same tree. Don't know wtf it is with Irish and this mistake.

2) Agriculturally speaking, Spring starts at varying times, depending on the locale.

3) What we call a sorbet, they call sherbet. Tell them that if they want to talk like Americans that's fine, but really, you thought better of them than that.

keith16

Winter is December, January February.

Christmas is June, July, August, September, October, November and December.

Donkey Oaty

The Met Éireann website says this:

For Climatological purposes, on the basis of air temperature, seasons are regarded as three-month periods as follows: December to February - winter, March to May - spring, June to August- summer and September to November - autumn. This is a common grouping in the meteorological practice of many countries in the middle and northern latitudes.

I have emailed them asking them for similar clarification of the precise definition of nectarines and sherbet.

wretcheddomain

Kev_2012 wrote: »

I've been living in Canada for 6 months now, and I would consider myself to be fair knowledgable, but I've been proven wrong on things by Canadians that for that my whole life I thought I knew!

You're just stupid OP, the rest of us know all these things.

AnonoBoy

My friend John's Ma always said he was a misconception.

Kiwi in IE

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

If you live in Ireland, and you call February springtime, you're insane. It's a freezing month. And dark. And colourless.
It's winter.

And August is NOT autumn. It is warm, the trees are green with leaves intact and there is no hint of the coming winter! It is summer!

My birthday is in August! All my life I have had a winter birthday with miserable, awful weather. Then I move here. I'm delighted, my birthday is now in summer. Only you feckers here, contrary to the rest of the Northern hemisphere, insist on calling August 'autumn'!

Eight Ball

The fighting Irish.

We should be called the moaning, bitching, Joe Duffy ringing, non protesting Irish.

Tin Foil Hat

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

And August is NOT autumn. It is warm, the trees are green with leaves intact and there is no hint of the coming winter! It is summer!

My birthday is in August! All my life I have had a winter birthday with miserable, awful weather. Then I move here. I'm delighted, my birthday is now in summer. Only you feckers here, contrary to the rest of the Northern hemisphere, insist on calling August 'autumn'!

We also print our calendars showing Sunday as the first day of the week. So our weekends go into the start of next week and we take half of our summer holidays in autumn. Kinda funny, in fairness.

Kiwi in IE

If November is the start of winter, when does your summer start? May? May is usually cold, decidedly spring-like and does not resemble summer at all! When is the weather usually more summery? May or August?

kneemos

We're actually Brits as in officially part of the British Isles.

Stainless_Steel

Kev_2012 wrote: »

I've been living in Canada for 6 months now, and I would consider myself to be fair knowledgable, but I've been proven wrong on things by Canadians that for that my whole life I thought I knew!

1 - I thought a nectarine was a small orange like a tangerine or mandarin !
2 - I thought that winter was November, December and January. Apparently it's Dec. 21st to March 19th
3 - I tried to explain that sherbet/sherbert was a powder that that you eat with a lollipop, whereas sherbert is actually a totally different thing altogether!

What things have you always thought that you were later proved wrong on?

You're not a very representative sample for irish intelligence fella.

An Coilean

kneemos wrote: »

We're actually Brits as in officially part of the British Isles.

British & Irish Isles

NuckingFacker

I started wondering a bit once I got to "fair knowledgable" tbh. Then I read what the "misconceptions" were. Then I kinda shook my head. I was expecting somthing better. Nectarins ffs? I was expecting Bilderbergs and French-Quebec women loving anal despite their frosty exteriors.

4zn76tysfajdxp

An Coilean wrote: »

British & Irish Isles

British Isles.

An Coilean

Its a fairly common misconception that the state gave its full support to the Irish language since its foundation.

Kiwi in IE

Now I am over my season rant, Nectarines have nothing to do with citrus and are the nicest fruit on earth! Sherbet is definitely a fizzy powder.

'Cute' does not mean sly, it means adorable.

http://www.google.ie/search?client=safari&hl=en-gb&ei=FJSnUtj8D5CqhQfKtoDQBA&q=cute+definition&oq=cute+de&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.1.0l5.882772.893434.0.895627.35.30.4.3.3.19.622.7248.0j13j9j3j3j1.29.0....0...1c.1.32.mobile-gws-serp..21.14.2615.jgHcz5gTN3Y

Actually interestingly it seems you guys predominantly use the US definition.

An Coilean

Aliza Dazzling Retirement wrote: »

British Isles.

British & Irish Isles! :P

Cookie_Monster

An Coilean wrote: »

British & Irish Isles

nope, the geographical name of the area is the British Isles and they encompass the two sovereign state of Ireland and the UK plus various other small islands.

Quazzie

Winter is November, December and January. The winter solstice, or mid-winter is December 21st.

Tin Foil Hat

Quazzie wrote: »

Winter is November, December and January. The winter solstice, or mid-winter is December 21st.

Seasonal lag, dude. The shortest day if the year is not the middle of winter.

kev1.3s

Sulla Felix wrote: »

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3) What we call a sorbet, they call sherbet. Tell them that if they want to talk like Americans that's fine, but really, you thought better of them than that.

That's class, never really fancied jelly in a sambo myself!!

Tin Foil Hat

An Coilean wrote: »

Its a fairly common misconception that the state gave its full support to the Irish language since its foundation.

It's a fairly common misconception that our native language is Irish. For the vast, vast majority of us it is English.

Kiwi in IE

Quazzie wrote: »

Winter is November, December and January. The winter solstice, or mid-winter is December 21st.

Really? So February, March and April are spring? May is summer? August is autumn?

If November, December and January are winter then mid winter would be the 14th of December not the 21st!

SimonLynch

Crikey

pl4ichjgy17zwd

The Gaelic Calender might be of some interest here.

kneemos

SimonLynch wrote: »

Crikey

See.Brits.

Kev_2012

wretcheddomain wrote: »

You're just stupid OP, the rest of us know all these things.

Never ate a nectarine till I got here, I'm still not convinced by this winter thing and sherbet is commonly misspelled as sherbert

Stainless_Steel wrote: »

You're not a very representative sample for irish intelligence fella.

Yeah you're right, because an IQ of 143 tends to be far higher than average, including your own I'd imagine :rolleyes:
Secondly, I'M NOT YOUR FELLA BUDDAY!

Cookie_Monster

who the fug wrote: »

winter is November, December and January,not out fault rest of the world is wrong

winter is June July and August here, not our fault half the world is wrong.

PS Summer christmas rocks

Kev_2012 wrote: »

I'M NOT YOUR FELLA BUDDAY!

I'm not your buddy guy!

Del2005

A person I work with from outside Ireland argued with his children's teacher that winter stated in December, he still doesn't like that we all agreed it started in November. When in Rome do as the Romans.

I hope that the OP hasn't told them that they are driving on the wrong side of the road.

kneemos

Kev_2012 wrote: »

Never ate a nectarine till I got here, I'm still not convinced by this winter thing and sherbet is commonly misspelled as sherbert



Yeah you're right, because an IQ of 143 tends to be far higher than average, including your own I'd imagine :rolleyes:
Secondly, I'M NOT YOUR FELLA BUDDAY!

With an IQ that high you'd think you could spell buddy.

spank_inferno

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

I'm not your buddy guy!

I'm not your guy, friend!

Kiwi in IE

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

winter is June July and August here, not our fault half the world is wrong.

PS Summer christmas rocks


I'm not your buddy guy!

And if winter is June, July and August there, then it is December, January and February here! Does anyone really, truly think May is summer as opposed to spring?

Tin Foil Hat

Oliver Handsome Zit wrote: »

The Gaelic Calender might be of some interest here.

Yup. It gives the historical reason why we think the seasons start earlier than everyone else, but it doesn't make us right.

Gyalist

Kev_2012 wrote: »

Yeah you're right, because an IQ of 143 tends to be far higher than average, including your own I'd imagine :rolleyes:
Secondly, I'M NOT YOUR FELLA BUDDAY!

Having to state your alleged IQ always means that you've lost the argument.

PinkLemonade

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Yup. It gives the historical reason why we think the seasons start earlier than everyone else, but it doesn't make us right.

It does, they're OUR seasons, there's no reason why we need to copy anyone else. Why would we change?

Kev_2012

kneemos wrote: »

With an IQ that high you'd think you could spell buddy.

Albert Einstein was dyslexic, nothing to do with it. I'm not your buddy guy

Kev_2012

Gyalist wrote: »

Having to state your alleged IQ always means that you've lost the argument.

Ah you have to have a cut off a couple of starbuckers when they start throwing their "superior intelligence".

Del2005 wrote: »

I hope that the OP hasn't told them that they are driving on the wrong side of the road.

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

Tin Foil Hat

PinkLemonade wrote: »

It does, they're OUR seasons, there's no reason why we need to copy anyone else. Why would we change?

Because we've learned a fair bit about science in the hundreds of years since that calendar was conceived and the seasonal definitions in that calendar are senseless.
Seasonal Lag means that mid winter does not fall on the shortest day of the year, but simetime later than that. Mid winter in Ireland is approximately in the middle of January - meaning winter is approximately December, January and February. Approximately (because anyone who thinks the seasons roll in handily on the first day of a month are a little nuts:))
The trees have only just finished shedding, ffs.

Kiwi in IE

PinkLemonade wrote: »

It does, they're OUR seasons, there's no reason why we need to copy anyone else. Why would we change?

Mmmmmmmm so you have different seasons to the UK which is practically swimming distance and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere? How on earth do NI manage to sort out their seasons? Since they are currently part UK is May spring in Derrry and Summer in Donegal?

Karl Stein

Winter is a word used in geographic context. The only thing approaching an objective marker of winter/summer, imo, would be the equinoxes which occur around the 20th March and 22nd September. Now shaddap about it.