Sad day...son laughs at father...

partyguinness · 15-06-2018 12:45pm #1

Moved to England 10 years ago. Wife English and we have 2 year old and 6 year old.

So this morning while filling out the World Cup chart with yesterday's game result:

Son (6): "Are there any games today?"

Me: "Yes there are three games today."

Son: "MOMMY..Daddy said it wrong. He said tree games today and not three."

Just needed to share that.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 15-06-2018 12:47pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Moved to England 10 years ago. Wife English and we have 2 year old and 6 year old.

So this morning while filling out the World Cup chart with yesterday's game result:

Son (6): "Are there any games today?"

Me: "Yes there are three games today."

Son: "MOMMY..Daddy said it wrong. He said tree games today and not three."

Just needed to share that.

Slag him off for calling his mam "Mommy" and call him a yank.

Ipso · 15-06-2018 12:48pm

You also let your nation down.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 15-06-2018 12:48pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Moved to England 10 years ago. Wife English and we have 2 year old and 6 year old.

So this morning while filling out the World Cup chart with yesterday's game result:

Son (6): "Are there any games today?"

Me: "Yes there are three games today."

Son: "MOMMY..Daddy said it wrong. He said tree games today and not three."

Just needed to share that.

An English boss of mine once said I was an articulate man with a pleasant accent but (and I quote) “ what’s with this “tree” instead of three bollocks”.

I blamed imperialism.

Are Am Eye · 15-06-2018 12:49pm

When your son was calling his mommy he capitalised her entire name.
Let his ears ring with your laughter. English bastard.

B0jangles · 15-06-2018 12:49pm

Just tell him that you're gonna get your Da to beat his Da up - problem solved.

Captain Red Beard · 15-06-2018 12:50pm

So you'll be moving back to Ireland?

emo72 · 15-06-2018 12:50pm

I didn't know there was a different way to pronounce tree and three?

Wabbit Ears · 15-06-2018 12:52pm

Daddy should have thought him all the cool stuff from his childhood was like a full Nelson or a figure of four leg lock.

Graces7 · 15-06-2018 12:52pm

reminds me of hearing a reading announced in church... "Tessalonians tree"

Samuel T. Cogley · 15-06-2018 12:54pm

Scare the ****e out of him by telling him you're going to put him in a hot press.

tuisginideach · 15-06-2018 12:55pm

Bilingual child of French mother/Irish father - speaking to French mother: 'that's my mout, not my mouth.'

verycool · 15-06-2018 12:55pm

Nip that sh*t in the bud with a few slaps. Sort him out.

Three should suffice.

Grayson · 15-06-2018 12:56pm

It starts young. I've always found that english people love to mimic us saying three. Never met an american who does that though.

Dakota Dan · 15-06-2018 12:56pm

Looks like daddy had to scrape the arse of the barrel for a tread ðŸ˜€

Grayson · 15-06-2018 12:57pm

verycool wrote: »

Nip that sh*t in the bud with a few slaps. Sort him out.

Three should suffice.

And use a tree for the slaps. just to drive home the irony

kneemos · 15-06-2018 1:00pm

Thurty tree and a turd will blow his mind.

May Contain Small Parts · 15-06-2018 1:01pm

There's a certain irony in English people complaining when others drop the letter H.

arctictree · 15-06-2018 1:02pm

Was in an English supermarket years ago and there were a few of our cultural brethren up to no good. Women behind me in the queue raises her eyes to heaven and complains about those 'bloody irish'.

riffmongous · 15-06-2018 1:02pm

This came out a lot danker than I planned and wanted but well I spent 5 minutes on it so here you go OP

CPTM · 15-06-2018 1:04pm

emo72 wrote: »

I didn't know there was a different way to pronounce tree and three?

Most only use one of the two ways to pronounce 'three'.

Purple Mountain · 15-06-2018 1:04pm

Tell him as a punishment he'll have to have cold baths because you are going to turn off the immersion for a week.

B0jangles · 15-06-2018 1:05pm

Tell him that if you and your wife have another kid, that kid would be your turd.

VinLieger · 15-06-2018 1:05pm

Sit him down to watch highlights of iceland v england from 2016 on repeat

May Contain Small Parts · 15-06-2018 1:07pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Tell him as a punishment he'll have to have cold baths because you are going to turn off the immersion for a week.

Son: What's immerson?
Father: it's that thing we don't have because we have mains gas and a combi-boiler.

lawred2 · 15-06-2018 1:08pm

surely the simplest solution is to just pronounce your words correctly you massive bogger

Eggs For Dinner · 15-06-2018 1:08pm

It's somefink about nuffink OP.

15-06-2018 1:15pm

Will he play for Ingland or Irland? Tomato, tomato, potato, potato, tree, three, so to speek. Go on loivelahn and talk to Joe.

opti76 · 15-06-2018 1:16pm

tell him you've been ****ing his mother for years and she loves it ..

riffmongous · 15-06-2018 1:20pm

partyguinness · 15-06-2018 1:25pm

I always explain it to English people with a story that we struggle with 'th' because in Gaelic there is no 'th' pronunciation and that has carried over to our English. Not sure where I got that from but I'm sticking with it....

I have been known to exaggerate that English is my second language so laughing at my 'th' is like laughing at Asian speaking which is something you would never do so why are you doing it to me? (racist bastard)

It also makes me look clever by dropping in that I speak several languages so laugh at me all you want but remember:

1. I sat my Leaving Cert in Irish (inc French) so I am infinitely more clever than you
2. I'm your boss and your pay review is coming up.

El Tarangu · 15-06-2018 1:26pm

Get your own back by dressing up in a spooooky mask and giving him a bit of a fright

Your Face · 15-06-2018 1:31pm

El Tarangu wrote: »

Get your own back by dressing up in a spooooky mask and giving him a bit of a fright

Oooooo
Scary Irish men

Edgarfrndly · 15-06-2018 1:33pm

Sell him to an adoption agency. Make sure you vet the family who adopts him, and make sure they are right bunch of bastards. He's a wronging and needs to suffer the consequences of his actions. When he's 18, send him a birthday card and write on it "That's what you get for making fun of the way I speak" with a really sarcastic smiley face below it.

A valuable lesson will have been learned, and also you'll have followed the path of Bruce Lee of keeping what is useful and discarding what is useless.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 15-06-2018 1:35pm

A family friend grew up in England, Irish father English mother. Got a fair bit of anti-Irish sentiment at school and stuff. Then one night when he was trying to put his pissed father to bed he told him to "get away from me, you little English cnut".

Funnily enough he never really felt like he belonged to either identity..

partyguinness · 15-06-2018 1:37pm

El Tarangu wrote: »

Get your own back by dressing up in a spooooky mask and giving him a bit of a fright

Where did you get that?

Look it....it was Rag Week 98. It thought it was just a bit of craic with the lads. I was very cold that day and heating gone and went to a local cafe for some grub. Hence we are just waiting to be served. An unfortunate camera angle makes it look a little ominous I accept.

It's been taken out of context.

partyguinness · 15-06-2018 1:48pm

Avi Howling Knickers wrote: »

A family friend grew up in England, Irish father English mother. Got a fair bit of anti-Irish sentiment at school and stuff. Then one night when he was trying to put his pissed father to bed he told him to "get away from me, you little English cnut".

Funnily enough he never really felt like he belonged to either identity..

Shame on the father.

TBF I have not experienced any anti Irish feeling. Son goes to a Catholic school and quite a large number of the kids are from second third generation Irish stock- there is a fair sprinkling of Irish surnames among the teachers. Not a week goes by where I do not get a 'Oh my I]insert family relation[/I was from I]insert random county[/I.'- yeah that's great I am so interested.

It is very diverse where I am and I deal with people from all over the world. Being Irish really is not a big deal. As I am white and speak English I do not stick out- anyway we are no longer the bogey man.

Then again I work in a professional services industry and not a building site so I am not likely to come across the usual Paddy Whackery wise cracks.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 15-06-2018 1:51pm

lawred2 wrote: »

surely the simplest solution is to just pronounce your words correctly you massive bogger

Where in gods name do Dubliners think they pronounce three correctly. Dubliners are by far the worst offenders.

Bertie for instance. Let me say dis about that, turty tree yeers ago when I was a soclist...

jimgoose · 15-06-2018 1:53pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

An English boss of mine once said I was an articulate man with a pleasant accent but (and I quote) “ what’s with this “tree” instead of three bollocks”.

I blamed imperialism.

I call shenanigans. Unless he was a member of the Royal Family, he either said "thray lad" (oop t'Nawth) or "free" (Landan annat innit fackin' caaaahhn!!)

Franz Von Peppercorn · 15-06-2018 1:54pm

jimgoose wrote: »

I call shenanigans. Unless he was a member of the Royal Family, he either said "thray lad" (oop t'Nawth) or "free" (Landan annat innit fackin' caaaahhn!!)

Oxford grad. Was posher than the Queen. (And was actually a queen).

Top bloke.

partyguinness · 15-06-2018 1:54pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Where in gods name do Dubliners think they pronounce three correctly. Dubliners are by far the worst offenders.

Ain't that the truth.

jimgoose · 15-06-2018 1:55pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Oxford grad. Was poster than the Queen. (And was actually a queen).

Top bloke.

He's in the minority. Aside from a handful like him, no-one in England actually pronounces English properly.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 15-06-2018 1:56pm

jimgoose wrote: »

He's in the minority. Aside from a handful like him, no-one in England actually pronounces English properly.

He did say “I was sat” a lot. So I had that.

jimgoose · 15-06-2018 1:57pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

He did say “I was sat” a lot. So I had that.

Ah! Betcha he's originally from Yorkshire. Does he have a cat? Ask him if it's a tom.

B0jangles · 15-06-2018 1:59pm

Many English people can't pronounce 'R' properly, so if they are being dicks about how you pronounce 'Three', just smile and ask them to say "Brexit".

Or "Recession"