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Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

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    #482
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Who says this happens? I knew both my Granddad's but I've no idea who they voted for and my parents seem to vary election to election. Is it a culchie thing?
    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Am I the only person who doesn't know what an immersion is? It seems most Irish stand ups base their acts on whatever it is.
    Also - the good room? Wtf does that mean? Being from Dublin, maybe these are culchie things or something.
    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Must be a culchie thing because none of my friends or relatives had anything called a good room. God I'm so glad I'm from Dublin.

    Culchie, culchie, culchie... do you ever give it a rest, it's about as funny as a hole in the head.


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    #483
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Some Dublin houses must have immersions. There are companies in Dublin which repair them. If Des Bishop is most Irish stand ups you may have a point.

    http://www.immersion-heater.ie/

    RTE can educate you on the subject of the good room.

    https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/the-good-room-30004826/10771886/

    Must be a culchie thing because none of my friends or relatives had anything called a good room. God I'm so glad I'm from Dublin.
    Being from Dublin you obviously live in a two room Corporation flat with three generations of your family, plus you need the second room to keep the piebald pony.


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    #484
    Fighting Tao
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Being from Dublin you obviously live in a two room Corporation flat with three generations of your family, plus you need the second room to keep the piebald pony.

    The other room is for the giant tv that you need to be in a flat 3 blocks away to watch.


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    #485
    bennyineire
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    People from Dublin slagging hating in "culchies" even though practically everyone from Dublin has a parent for "the country" or at the very least a Granny


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    #486
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    "Hey baby let the free birds fly"

    Must be said in a monotone robotic voice.

    Fck off you tool.


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    #487
    Dr Crayfish
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Being from Dublin you obviously live in a two room Corporation flat with three generations of your family, plus you need the second room to keep the piebald pony.

    You're close, it's a 2 room corpo gaf, but I live on my own.


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    #488
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    You're close, it's a 2 room corpo gaf, but I live on my own.
    How many piebalds do you stable in the second room?


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    #489
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Am I the only person who doesn't know what an immersion is? It seems most Irish stand ups base their acts on whatever it is.
    Also - the good room? Wtf does that mean? Being from Dublin, maybe these are culchie things or something.

    Being from Dublin, you'd get a belt of a tea towel around the back of the legs if you left the immersion on.

    Stick on the immersion and watch the red yoke fly around in the electricity box.

    Everyone was terrified of leaving the immersion on.


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    #490
    conorhal
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    How many piebalds do you stable in the second room?

    None, it's too full of bitterness.


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    #491
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    How many piebalds do you stable in the second room?

    Wtf is a piebald?


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    #492
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Wtf is a piebald?

    First you don't know what the immersion is, then you don't know what a piebald ( we called them pie ball) is, are you sure you're a Dub? :pac::pac:


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    #493
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
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    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    Clapping when the plane lands.

    Funnily enough, a video went viral here recently claiming that only Colombians do this.


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    #494
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Wtf is a piebald?
    This magnificant specimen is a piebald pony. He's yours for €3000.

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0cSdBs8D5dJVnyBvjaZ4rh4FuiJPcj7le3NjH5-_2M-uTU7Wl

    (Sush! He's a Dub, it's money in the bank.)


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    #495
    Fred Swanson
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    #496
    branie2
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    It doesn't really bother my family


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    #497
    Andrewf20
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    Lads abroad hanging irish flags from their balconies. No one cares.


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    #498
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye to end a telephone call

    I don’t think it’s cringeworthy though :)


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    #499
    The J Stands for Jay
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    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye Bye bye bye bye to end a telephone call

    I don’t think it’s cringeworthy though :)

    Yes it is.


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    #500
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Yes it is.

    Why is it? As an Irish person living abroad for many years I revel in the multiple byes when I get the chance


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    #501
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,949 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Lads abroad hanging irish flags from their balconies. No one cares.

    Just letting everyone know where the epicentre of craic is.:rolleyes:


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    #502
    The J Stands for Jay
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    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Why is it? As an Irish person living abroad for many years I revel in the multiple byes when I get the chance

    It's irritating when you encounter someone who's incapable of ending a conversation. All the byes usually come after 5 or 6 ambiguous statements which may have been an attempt to say goodbye with our actually using the words.


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    #503
    S. Goodspeed
    Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭S. Goodspeed


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Lads abroad hanging irish flags from their balconies. No one cares.

    I’d associate this behaviour more with the Brits (although they hang Union Jacks / George’s crosses instead of Irish flags obviously)


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    #504
    Ash.J.Williams
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    looksee wrote: »
    Maybe more putting it under a hedge than throwing it in the ditch, but however, I can vouch that this works. When my son (Catholic-ish) and his fiancee (just about CofI) were getting married someone loaned us a Child of Prague I (lapsed Methodist and now atheist) was entertained by this idea so I put it out.

    They got one lovely sunny August day, with wet and miserable weather before the day, and more rain after it! So evidently you don't need the prayer!
    It was summer


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    #505
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Irish civilians that make a video and then get invited onto the Ellen show


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    #506
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    anewme wrote: »
    First you don't know what the immersion is, then you don't know what a piebald ( we called them pie ball) is, are you sure you're a Dub? :pac::pac:
    Do they expect every flight their on will crash? Otherwise it's pointless clapping when they land safely.


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    #507
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    Must be a culchie thing because none of my friends or relatives had anything called a good room. God I'm so glad I'm from Dublin.
    Fact, all Dubs have bleedin arses, can you explain how your arses bleed so much?


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    #508
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    TBF that's getting rarer here, any farmer than can manage it builds an internal roadway so they don't have cattle on the roads anymore.
    They are called underpasses.


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    #509
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    They are called underpasses.

    Udderpasses, actually.


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    #510
    PLL
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    Sitting the priest at the top table of your wedding / inviting the priest at all unless you're from a small village and you actually know him well.


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    #511
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,351 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    PLL wrote: »
    Sitting the priest at the top table of your wedding / inviting the priest at all unless you're from a small village and you actually know him well.

    That'll die off pretty suddenly in around ten years' time when the only priests still around are from Nigeria or somewhere.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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