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Common misconceptions in Ireland

  • 10-12-2013 9:34pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭


    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 :confused:
    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,562 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    That Canadia isn't a US state anymore


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Common misconceptions in Ireland




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








    Bye


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


    realies wrote: »

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

    Pikeys, dole, government and 3 fiddy.

    Now the thread is complete.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭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 :confused:
    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Winter is December, January February.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭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. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    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'!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    The fighting Irish.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭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 :confused:
    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    kneemos wrote: »
    We're actually Brits as in officially part of the British Isles.


    British & Irish Isles ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    An Coilean wrote: »
    British & Irish Isles ;)

    British Isles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭An Coilean


    British Isles.


    British & Irish Isles! :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,562 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,524 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    1)

    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!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭SimonLynch


    Crikey


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭pl4ichjgy17zwd


    The Gaelic Calender might be of some interest here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    SimonLynch wrote: »
    Crikey

    See.Brits.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    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 ;)
    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,562 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,154 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    I'm not your buddy guy!

    I'm not your guy, friend!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat



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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 768 ✭✭✭PinkLemonade


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭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.


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