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What exactly is 'the craic'?

  • 27-10-2014 5:13pm
    #1
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭


    Enlighten me.


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  • #2
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    It's about six inches long, and hairy


  • #3
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »
    Enlighten me.

    Nayra bit now. How about yourself?


  • #4
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I don't know but it's mighty...


  • #5
    Gehad_JoyRider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Gehad_JoyRider


    Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »
    Enlighten me.


    generally tight and damp.


  • #6
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    The common misconception that the correct spelling for the term 'The Crack' must be spelled 'Craic' to make it look like an exclusively Irish concept.


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  • #7
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    It's dull people's idea of 'fun'.


  • #8
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    green_screen wrote: »
    It's about six inches long, and hairy

    Only six? Seems hardly worth it.


  • #9
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    You just had to be there.


  • #10
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    moose tickling


  • #11
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It can't be explained, it has to be experienced.


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  • #12
    DiegoCosta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 35 ✭DiegoCosta


    It's a term of British origin which denotes fun and conviviality.


  • #13
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    It is like he who must not be named, we are forbidden from defining "the craic", it just is.


  • #14
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Lapin wrote: »
    The common misconception that the correct spelling for the term 'The Crack' must be spelled 'Craic' to make it look like an exclusively Irish concept.

    Is it not an Irish word? I always spelled it craic.


  • #15
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    If you have to ask what it is, you'll never have it.


  • #16
    mikehunts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭mikehunts


    It's a beaver that likes sausage.


  • #17
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    The craic is 90


  • #18
    DiegoCosta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 35 ✭DiegoCosta


    keith16 wrote: »
    Is it not an Irish word? I always spelled it craic.

    It's a British word. It was originally crack, the Irish adopted the word and translated it to Irish.


  • #19
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    artanevilla wrote: »
    If you have to ask what it is, you'll never have it.

    I'm Canadian. We don't use that phrase in Canada.


  • #20
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    mikehunts wrote: »
    It's a beaver that likes sausage.

    I thought that was a fanny.


  • #21
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    The craic is to be found anywhere outside of Co. Dublin. Its a known fact that Dublin does not like the craic, they've been known to tell thousands of people to fcuk off.


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  • #22
    Laois6556
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Laois6556


    It was the type of thing you know ah ha ha ha it was a bit like oh ha ha ha it was ha ha ha


  • #23
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The term originated in Northern England and Scotland. As for what it is: it's various degrees of gossip, news, entertainment or fun. It's whatever you what it to be.


  • #24
    Last_Minute
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Last_Minute


    Having a good time.


  • #25
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Laois6556 wrote: »
    It was the type of thing you know ah ha ha ha it was a bit like oh ha ha ha it was ha ha ha

    Ha ha ha


  • #26
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Craic has a few meanings depending on the context.

    For Example, What's the craic? = Any news.
    The craic last night was mighty = The fun last night was great.
    What's the craic with your man or What was the craic last night? = What is/was the story/situation.


  • #27
    Nib
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    Lapin wrote: »
    The common misconception that the correct spelling for the term 'The Crack' must be spelled 'Craic' to make it look like an exclusively Irish concept.
    DiegoCosta wrote: »
    It's a British word. It was originally crack, the Irish adopted the word and translated it to Irish.
    Both wrong. 'Craic' is the Irish word for 'fun'.


  • #28
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Frances Embarrassed Staff wrote: »
    The term...... It's whatever you want it to be.

    :mad:

    The insidious toiling of the despicable legions of moral relativists have obviously swayed your opinion.

    The term "Road to Perdition" was coined for such a horrendously cavalier attitude.


  • #29
    Mountainlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    Nib wrote: »
    Both wrong. 'Craic' is the Irish word for 'fun'.

    Is spraoi not the Irish word for fun?


  • #30
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    catallus wrote: »
    :mad:

    The insidious toiling of the despicable legions of moral relativists have obviously swayed your opinion.

    The term "Road to Perdition" was coined for such a horrendously cavalier attitude.

    You what?


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  • #31
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    It was just banter


  • #32
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    It's a state of heightened consciousness collectively enjoyed by fools.

    See also #bantz


  • #33
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    catallus wrote: »
    :mad:

    The insidious toiling of the despicable legions of moral relativists have obviously swayed your opinion.

    The term "Road to Perdition" was coined for such a horrendously cavalier attitude.

    I think he swallowed the dictionary :(
    Frances Embarrassed Staff wrote: »
    You what?


  • #34
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    The craic is 90

    Only in the Isle of Man according to Paddy Reilly,who was apparently Ireland's Ambassador of Craic ....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HislZDHyTIg


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #35
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    I'll tell ya what isn't the craic, Miss Miss Lizzie Jones - having all those Youtube links as your signature. So, I suppose the answer to your question is 'Not having a load of Youtube links as your signature'


  • #36
    Miss Lizzie Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Miss Lizzie Jones


    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    I'll tell ya what isn't the craic, Miss Miss Lizzie Jones - having all those Youtube links as your signature. So, I suppose the answer to your question is 'Not having a load of Youtube links as your signature'

    A soldier was murdered in my country by an Islamic extremist. Those Youtube links are my way of honouring him and his memory. The soldier was a neighbour who lived just a few blocks down the road from me. I grieve for his family and most especially ..his mother and 5 year old son.

    If the mods have a problem with all my Youtube links then I will remove them but until they let me know privately the links stay where they are until I remove them.

    Have a nice day.


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  • #37
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »
    A soldier was murdered in my country by an Islamic extremist. Those Youtube links are my way of honouring him and his memory. The soldier was a neighbour who lived just a few blocks down the road from me. I grieve for his family and most especially ..his mother and 5 year old son.

    If the mods have a problem with all my Youtube links then I will remove them but until they let me know privately the links stay where they are until I remove them.

    Have a nice day.

    Maybe I should have looked first. I feel bad now. Apologies.


  • #38
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »
    Enlighten me.

    That's the craic.....











    said your one with her leg on the mantle!


  • #39
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Irish people can't afford American crack so we just have to drink beer and tell jokes instead. It's just our version of your crack.


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