Urban myths

Kermit.de.frog

What are your favorite Irish urban myths?

I'll start.

Asylum seekers get free buggies and leave them at bus stops.

The best ones are those that are obviously untrue yet so many actually believe it:D

Ghost Buster

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What are your favorite Irish urban myths?

I'll start.

Asylum seekers get free buggies and leave them at bus stops.

The best ones are those that are obviously untrue yet so many actually believe it:D

Not all priests are kiddy fiddlers
Not all politicians are crooked
Gerry Adams was never in The IRA

Laois6556

Gerry Adams was in the IRA.

thelad95

If the wind changes, your face will stay that way.

michael999999

Bertie ahern wasn't a crook!

Mrs Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks once played here, apparently. Years and years ago.

corner of hells

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What are your favorite Irish urban myths?

I'll start.

Asylum seekers get free buggies and leave them at bus stops.

The best ones are those that are obviously untrue yet so many actually believe it:D

Asylum seekers do get free buggies , however they get free cars too so never need to use busses.

DEFTLEFTHAND

That RTE rejected Father Ted. It was actually never offered to them in the first place.

Heard it being debunked on the radio the other day.

GerB40

There's the one about the town councillor who wanted to rejuvenate the town park. When somebody suggested putting gondolas in the pond he replied "that's all well and good but who'll feed em".

I swear every town with a pond claims that yarn. I just hope it actually happened...

Edit: This is where "Don't feed the gondolas" got it's name..

Ghost Buster

GerB40 wrote: »

There's the one about the town councillor who wanted to rejuvenate the town park. When somebody suggested putting gondolas in the pond he replied "that's all well and good but who'll feed em".

I swear every town with a pond claims that yarn. I just hope it actually happened...

But i do know the councillor who, when offered a trial lap top declined as he had enough dogs at home.

Last_Minute

Good things come to those who wait. lol.

DBB

If you swallow chewing gum or bubble gum, your insides will stick together

retalivity

That sh1te about bono and bruce springteen in a restaurant.

coolhull

Enda Kenny is the leader of the country

Mayo Yid

michael999999 wrote: »

Bertie ahern wasn't a crook!

Well when he was minister for finance be didn't have a bank account, and won loads of cash on the horses

Kermit.de.frog

Love/Hate is good.

michael999999

Mayo Yid wrote: »

Well when he was minister for finance be didn't have a bank account, and won loads of cash on the horses

Seriously?

Sure that's one of the most far fetched myths I've ever heard!

Who would believe that?

Fiolina

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Love/Hate is good.

It is

Mayo Yid

michael999999 wrote: »

Seriously?

Sure that's one of the most far fetched myths I've ever heard!

Who would believe that?

It's not a myth, ask Paddy the Plasterer

coolhull

Irish Water- ''We're in this together''

pablo128

The council are giving houses out for free if you're on the dole.


They have to charge us for water. They can't keep giving it to us for free.

razorblunt

The lad who dislocated his hip only for one of his balls to be caught in the socket as it was being put back in place.

One eyed Jack

razorblunt wrote: »

The lad who dislocated his hip only for one of his balls to be caught in the socket as it was being put back in place.

Every time I read that, even though I know it's untrue, I still wince at the thoughts of it

How come nobody's mentioned fairy forts and other such non...

Oh, URBAN legends!

Ghost Buster

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Every time I read that, even though I know it's untrue, I still wince at the thoughts of it

How come nobody's mentioned fairy forts and other such non...

Oh, URBAN legends!

Or the guy who was up a step ladder naked, fell onto the end of a mop handle which was upright in a bucket under the ladder and packed his tackle up his chocolate whizz way:eek:

daviecronin

One for the lads.....

You get a hairy hand if you do you know what

corner of hells

daviecronin wrote: »

One for the lads.....

You get a hairy hand if you do you know what

Wash your hands in Regaine ?

Kermit.de.frog

daviecronin wrote: »

One for the lads.....

You get a hairy hand if you do you know what

Drink Dreamy, sleepy, nighty, snoozy, snooze?

Sir Osis of Liver.

daviecronin wrote: »

One for the lads.....

You get a hairy hand if you do you know what

What?

Use superglue for **** lube.

Sam Kade

E cig scare stories, I only heard one the other day and the person telling me believed it A mans leg was nearly blown off by an e cig in his pocket

Bigcheeze

We all partied.

martyos121

daviecronin wrote: »

One for the lads.....

You get a hairy hand if you do you know what

Punch a hippie?

ireland.man

daviecronin wrote: »

One for the lads.....

You get a hairy hand if you do you know what

I know what what you mean

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2070370/Eating-cake-make-hairy.html

Defiler Of The Coffin

The guy that shifted a fine lookin wan in a nightclub, brought her outside into an alley where she proceded to open her legs and requested him to "lob it into me bass"

ireland.man

What about the one where if you say "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary" into a mirror three times Mary Harney appears and charges the cost of her beauty treatments at a spa in Florida to your debit card.

Kermit.de.frog

The Hell Fire Club.

Geuze

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What are your favorite Irish urban myths?

I'll start.

Asylum seekers get free buggies and leave them at bus stops.

The best ones are those that are obviously untrue yet so many actually believe it:D

The DSP does give out money for buggies, this is all public knowledge, published in Annual Stats, etc.

It is not a myth, it is true.

Whether the recipients leave them at bus stops, I don't know.

All stats here:

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Annual-SWS-Statistical-Information-Report-2013.aspx


See Section C, the scheme is known as SWA / Exceptional Needs Payments.

Geuze

In 2012, you can read that 867,000 was spent on prams / buggies.

Barely There

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

The guy that shifted a fine lookin wan in a nightclub, brought her outside into an alley where she proceded to open her legs and requested him to "lob it into me bass"

Thought it was more along the lines of 'guy brings the wan home, starts to go down on her, she stops him and says "None of your fancy stuff, just horse it into me"'.

ireland.man

Geuze wrote: »

The DSP does give out money for buggies, this is all public knowledge, published in Annual Stats, etc.

It is not a myth, it is true.

Whether the recipients leave them at bus stops, I don't know.

All stats here:

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Annual-SWS-Statistical-Information-Report-2013.aspx


See Section C, the scheme is known as SWA / Exceptional Needs Payments.

And is the idea that every child in Ireland may potentially be given a pram suffice to say 'asylum seekers get free prams' is therefore not a myth?

FirstinLastout

Barely There wrote: »

Thought it was more along the lines of 'guy brings the wan home, starts to go down on her, she stops him and says "None of your fancy stuff, just horse it into me"'.

Aye, t'was back in my caravan too it was Boss!

eamonnq

Neighbour of a celebrity invites celebrity to a party in his house and then receives a bill for an appearance fee.

irritablebaz

the welcome to the aids club date. heard that one in 3 different countries so far.

Fred Swanson

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hairyprincess

retalivity wrote: »

That sh1te about bono and bruce springteen in a restaurant.

What was that?

One eyed Jack

hairyprincess wrote: »

What was that?

The way I heard it was Bono and the Pope, but I think "the Pope" was actually Sinead O Connor on her day off :pac:

retalivity

Google 'Bono bruce Springsteen restaurant' and there's a heap of results

BrokenHero

retalivity wrote: »

That sh1te about bono and bruce springteen in a restaurant.

Some clown even told the fcuker on the Graham Norton show last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkf9n-WQ5Ik

Doom

Travellers are holy God fearing folk...

AndonHandon

Dogs can't look up.

Tordelback

Geuze wrote: »

Whether the recipients leave them at bus stops, I don't know.

You will meet many people (my mother, for one) who know someone who actually saw an Asylum Seeker* not bother wrestling their buggy onto a bus, and when asked about replied that it was easier to pick up another free one at the other end. That's what makes it an urban myth.

The factual provision of essential infant equipment to people who have no other means of acquiring it because they aren't allowed to work or to have access regular social welfare payments is irrelevant: it's the assertion of an obviously untrue, but morally judgemental, observation made by a 'friend of a friend' that qualifies.



*As they have yet to be issued with yellow stars, you'd have to assume the person in question was a black woman, else how would the witness know their legal status?

Galway K9

corner of hells wrote: »

Asylum seekers do get free buggies , however they get free cars too so never need to use busses.

Their entitled to free buggies under supplementary welfare allowance.
I also found out through freedom of info act that they get a sort of transport grant of a substantial sum enough for a car.
Their not here for the weather