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Why do so may Irish people begin sentences with ...

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    #32
    archer22
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    I hate it when people say "Listen".....and then Fart!


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    #33
    realdanbreen
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    bobbyss wrote: »
    To be perfectly honest with you it is only now that I know what clickbait means. I did that because I thought that the thread title wouldn't fit in. That's how little I know. I will try and change that if I am able. Apologies for that as it annoys me too!

    'To be perfectly honest with you...'

    Straight away I know that they are going to lie through their teeth.


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    #34
    the beer revolu
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    Actually.....


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    #35
    whisky_galore
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Post colonial distress disorder. They all have low self esteem due to it, so don't have confidence in their own knowledge opinions.

    Love the way 'post-colonialism' is an explanation for everything, as if the British administration packed up 2 or 3 years ago. It's only been almost a century...


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    #36
    The_Conductor
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Love the way 'post-colonialism' is an explanation for everything, as if the British administration packed up 2 or 3 years ago. It's only been almost a century...

    Its more an issue in some other countries- where its trotted out pretty much on a daily basis in the media- such as Australia and New Zealand (not to mention the staggering animosity between the pair- which is a whole other story).


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    #37
    franglan
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    The_Conductor wrote: »
    Its more an issue in some other countries- where its trotted out pretty much on a daily basis in the media- such as Australia and New Zealand (not to mention the staggering animosity between the pair- which is a whole other story).

    I suppose you are both right....


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    #38
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    brianomc wrote: »
    Look....at the end of the day........it is what it is........you know that way

    But having said that, it is what it is, going forward.


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    #39
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users Posts: 5,914 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    IT is very common to hear Australians start a sentence with "look"...I would think it's more commonplace there than here to be honest


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    #40
    Noveight
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    "But in fairness"


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    #41
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Maggie thatcher used both a lot.


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    #42
    coffee_cake
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    Ah sure lookit


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    #43
    buried
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    You hear it on the TV a lot from people doing interviews on the spot on live TV. Mainly GAA sports people as it happens. But they just want to do the actual sport they are involved in and probably don't enjoy or want to do these interviews afterwards. Maybe they feel uncomfortable by being forced to do this sort of braindead media-noise $hite, just to fill a few more minutes until the next ad break. They know they are being put on the spot doing something that isn't their trade or expertise, they are sporting athlete's not media spokespersons. To say 'many Irish people' begin sentences like this is absolute wollix. Nobody I know in real life starts to speak to me in the genuine, natural real world like that. If some RTE lackey walked up to me in the street for a vox pop, I'd also start off my sentence with "Listen" or "Look it" followed by "F**k the F**k off"

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    #44
    Low Tech Shoes
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    Do you hear me looking at you?


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    #45
    _Dara_
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    bobbyss wrote: »
    Tried to change it but on my phone in edit it only let's me change the post not the title. Maybe on a computer it may allow me. Fkcu. I am more annoyed at that than people beginning sentences with Look and Listen.

    Hit 'Go advanced' and you can change the title there, I think, if you're on the legacy site.


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    #46
    Mrs OBumble
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Love the way 'post-colonialism' is an explanation for everything, as if the British administration packed up 2 or 3 years ago. It's only been almost a century...

    Is your sarcasm detector broken?


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    #47
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    Low Tech Shoes wrote: »
    Do you hear me looking at you?

    you'll have to speak up, im wearing a towel


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    #48
    Samaris
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    Had a job once that required taking notes of what people were saying in lectures. I tended to write as they spoke (in case by shortening as I wrote, I missed out on something important or failed to make a connection explicit), pretty automatically and one thing I found when it came to cleaning it up is the amount of well-spoken people who start EVERY DAMN SENTENCE WITH "So," which I've automatically typed and now need to root out and change any grammar that relied on it being there.


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