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Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

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    #632
    dxhound2005
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    #633
    alchemist33
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    Oops69 wrote: »
    Irish people classifying restaurants by portion size e.g “that’s a great restaurant , heaps of food “, Jesus get some class you potato shoveling muck savages .

    Nothing worse than spending loads on a restaurant and still being hungry afterwards. The quality is important but the quantity should be sufficient too.


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    #634
    whisky_galore
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    Oops69 wrote: »
    Irish people classifying restaurants by portion size e.g “that’s a great restaurant , heaps of food “, Jesus get some class you potato shoveling muck savages .

    An artistic, yet microscopic splodge in the middle of the plate is no good either. Too much food wankery these days.


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    chatticusfinch
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    Oops69 wrote: »
    Irish people classifying restaurants by portion size e.g “that’s a great restaurant , heaps of food “, Jesus get some class you potato shoveling muck savages .

    Muck savage is such a dull put down.


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    #636
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #637
    Dank Janniels
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    Not technically an Irish tradition but wtf is with putting food on slates instead of plates?? Mank!!


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    Fred Swanson
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    #639
    foxy farmer
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    An artistic, yet microscopic splodge in the middle of the plate is no good either. Too much food wankery these days.

    As I say, I want to eat it not admire it.


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    Hotblack Desiato
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    LirW wrote: »
    Nah, they all go crazy about Dropkick Murphys.

    You forgot the Kelly Family. It probably took years of effort to forget them, so fair play.

    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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    #641
    Oops69
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    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Aaaaaaaa leeeee lllluuuuuu Tá an puc ar buile:pac:
    x 50 !


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    LirW
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    You forgot the Kelly Family. It probably took years of effort to forget them, so fair play.

    They are still somewhat of a thing in Germany though. Joey Kelly is a C-celebrity there and a few others continue on. I don't understand why they are so crazy about them. Then on the other hand, Schlager is big business over there, something I don't understand either.


    Maybe not so much of a tradition but the written skills of people in Facebook groups like Buy and Sell sites and the like.... That's beyond painful.


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    #643
    Speedwell
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    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Aaaaaaaa leeeee lllluuuuuu Tá an puc ar buile:pac:

    Cringetastic, even to me in my beginner-for-tourists Irish school this summer :D


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    Ipso
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    LirW wrote: »
    Nah, they all go crazy about Dropkick Murphys.
    This is literally all they play in Irish pubs over there.

    "Oh and I love Irish music"
    "like what?"
    " Dropkick Murpheeeeeeys is sooo keeewl"

    You're talking about people who made David Hasselhoff a music star.


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    #645
    CruelCoin
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    Dank Janniels wrote: »
    Not technically an Irish tradition but wtf is with putting food on slates instead of plates?? Mank!!

    Or a burger on a really narrow wooden slab and the chips in a wanky ****ing miniature milk can.
    All it does is make the food awkward to eat.


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    Hotblack Desiato
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    Can we just agree that Germans have sh!t taste in music (apart from Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Einstürzende Neubauten and Rammstein) and move on :)

    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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    #647
    Junkyard Tom
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    Every ****ing RTE TV show wallowing in the misery of some poor unfortunate who has some awful disease, survived some horrible accident, has a severely disabled child, is terminally ill... what the fuck is it with that?


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    #648
    wakka12
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    "Hundreds die in *insert natural/manmade disaster*, no Irish people are believed to be involved."

    Oh that's grand so...

    Every country does that


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    Esel
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    CruelCoin wrote: »
    I have actually never heard this.

    I don't make calls to old people, so maybe that's it.

    Legacy of the days when people without a home phone had to use a phone box. The receiver would state their number as a courtesy, so that if the caller had got a wrong number, they could hang up and dial again without losing their money by pressing Button A to talk (complete the connection).

    Not your ornery onager



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    Hotblack Desiato
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Every ****ing RTE TV show wallowing in the misery of some poor unfortunate who has some awful disease, survived some horrible accident, has a severely disabled child, is terminally ill... what the fuck is it with that?

    Misery porn. Even in the 'classic' 80s Late Late Show days they still had the gimpy kid slot most weeks. I think it was an invitation to pray a novena and offer it up or some shyte like that.

    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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    #651
    Míshásta
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    server down wrote: »
    You certainly find the world a terrifying place. You also seem to cringe at stuff that many cultures do, are confused about accents, and may probably be getting the name of the rooms wrong yourself. And Christ how many rooms do you have?

    Sigh!. Jayney. My post was so over the top, I didn't think anyone would take it seriously. I was just satirising previous posts.

    But if you have to explain a joke, I suppose wasn't really funny in the first place. :(


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    Míshásta
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    LirW wrote: »
    Maybe not so much of a tradition but the written skills of people in Facebook groups like Buy and Sell sites and the like.... That's beyond painful.

    The writing skills of people on internet forums can also cause severe aches.

    Just messing :D


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    whisky_galore
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    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Every ****ing RTE TV show wallowing in the misery of some poor unfortunate who has some awful disease, survived some horrible accident, has a severely disabled child, is terminally ill... what the fuck is it with that?

    Not just RTE, Today FM, Newstalk etc, have a 'Rare Disease of the Week That You've Never Heard Of' slot regularly.

    Detailing how awful it is....what the useless HSE aren't doing to help and crowdfunding to get treatment in a proper hospital abroad is the usual thing.


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    #654
    _Dara_
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    seamus wrote: »
    I think he's referring specifically to "Mammy" and "Daddy" rather than Mam, Mum, Ma, Da, Dad.

    There's something very deferential, very childish about saying "Mammy" when you're 25.

    Speedwell's post made me laugh though. American traditions around names are weird; calling bosses by their surnames, saying "Yes, sir" when talking to more senior colleagues (I've a guy in work does this, he's older than me!), calling your in-laws "Mom" and "Dad"...<shudder>. I call our CEO and founders by their first names, I can't imagine saying, "Hello Mr. <name>" to anyone, except when I'm talking to my kids about their teachers.

    It's funny, I remember growing up that the people on the road who didn't have kids, the ones who were just the quiet neighbours, were Mr/Mrs Somebody. Whereas your mates' parents were called by their first name or their full names. You'd always call them John or John Somebody, not Mr. Somebody.

    I say Mammy and Daddy. And always will. Calling them anything else just isn’t right, it’s like talking about somebody else’s parents. My mother called her mother ‘mammy’ until the day my maternal grandmother died. Nothing wrong with it. It’s not childish. I fail to see how it differs from any other name a person calls their parents. Families differ.


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    #655
    Jerichoholic
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Can we just agree that Germans have sh!t taste in music (apart from Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Einstürzende Neubauten and Rammstein) and move on :)

    Can you honestly say Ireland has better taste?


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    #656
    Panrich
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    Not sure if it’s been mentioned already but

    Olé olé olé olé....

    at every occasion that an Irish team or sometimes just a person takes part in competition


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    Fourier
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    seamus wrote: »
    I think he's referring specifically to "Mammy" and "Daddy" rather than Mam, Mum, Ma, Da, Dad.

    There's something very deferential, very childish about saying "Mammy" when you're 25.
    It's rarer than saying Mam here in my experience, still though diminutive names for parents are used in several other languages, it's not uncommon globally. I think it's just what some people are used to growing up and don't change. I don't think one can perform armchair psychoanalysis on it.


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    _Dara_
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    Panrich wrote: »
    Not sure if it’s been mentioned already but

    Olé olé olé olé....

    at every occasion that an Irish team or sometimes just a person takes part in competition

    Was watching Katie Taylor’s Olympic win on YouTube last night; fuckin’ ‘olé olé olé’ started up as soon as she was declared the winner. :mad:


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    #659
    branie2
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    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Was watching Katie Taylor’s Olympic win on YouTube last night; fuckin’ ‘olé olé olé’ started up as soon as she was declared the winner. :mad:

    It was sung at the Eurovision in Mill Street when we won yet again. It was at the time when Ireland kept winning the contest


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    #660
    fryup
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    cython wrote: »
    Playing the national anthem to mark the end of the night in pubs and clubs. Fcuking embarrassing use of something that's supposed to represent national pride. Thankfully less prevalent around the Dublin area than where I'm from orginally

    does that still go on?

    (we must be the only country that does it)


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    #661
    branie2
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    It shows pride and patriotism for the country


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