Lockdown Fun: How Catholic/Protestant are you quiz.

Bannasidhe

A wee bit of fun based on Derry Girls - how Catholic/Protestant are you based on some culturally appropiate questions.

https://culturelab.makingthefuture.eu/who-are-you?fbclid=IwAR3-k_wDvLwVf-BDykOnRZlTwHTnIklIE2Tk3ek9CFqwtFO4RAQRufIOq9A

Apparently I am 50% Taig and 50% Orange - which explains a lot of things. :P

Added a poll for the sake of scientific research...

smacl

40/60 Catholic/Protestant for me, must be something to do with hating Abba.

donspeekinglesh

65/35 C/P. the 35 is probably because we keep the toaster in the press.

oldrnwisr

55/45 C/P. Probably comes from saying no to most of the questions.:D

Mr. CooL ICE

65/35

Toaster was always in the press growing up. Never knew my parents were protestants.

wench

60/40 C/P That's what not liking RTE or the GAA gets me

Bannasidhe

oldrnwisr wrote: »

55/45 C/P. Probably comes from saying no to most of the questions.:D

You'd have thought mostly saying NO would have earned a higher Orange score.

A2LUE42

wench wrote: »

60/40 C/P That's what not liking RTE or the GAA gets me

I said yes to both of those and ended up with same score. Must be a very high weighting on having the toaster in the press.

Odhinn

I'm 85% fenian catholic, 15% protestant.

Bannasidhe

Odhinn wrote: »

I'm 85% fenian catholic, 15% protestant.

Totes Taig.

:P

mikemac2

90% catholic

Can someone explain the toaster in the press ?

banie01

55% Catholic and 45% Prod....

I blame my wife and that trip to Newcastle I had as a wee cross border peace initiative move!

Bannasidhe

mikemac2 wrote: »

90% catholic

Can someone explain the toaster in the press ?

Top Taig.

I am as puzzled by the toaster in the press as you. Why would anyone do that? Sure a person may as well use the oven grill if they have to faff about getting the toaster out... and the crumbs... in the press...:eek:

endacl

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

65/35 C/P. the 35 is probably because we keep the toaster in the press.

Should be 75/25 because you called it the press.

Hotblack Desiato

Hardly fair that I was made go to Bundoran, confession, a pilgrimage to Knock, and a holy shop in Knock (taking a double hit on that one ) when I was a kid...

Presuming consent is required for it to count (!) I'm still 60C:40P

I'm beginning to think Billy Wright himself wouldn't pass this test

Hotblack Desiato

Wait. Do they mean Newcastle Cinty Dine or Noocasl-pon-Tyne-lad?

I was wondering if Geordieland was secretly some sort of Presbyterian hotspot in the 70s?

Bannasidhe

banie01 wrote: »

55% Catholic and 45% Prod....

I blame my wife and that trip to Newcastle I had as a wee cross border peace initiative move!

My parents sent me to a jolly hockey sticks type school (think an Irish St Trinians and you wouldn't be far wrong) on account of me and the Nuns having a falling out.
Now I garden, have worn a gilet many times, and watch the BBC (4 obvs).
My fecking toaster, however, is on the damn counter between the kettle and the bread bin.

Bannasidhe

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Hardly fair that I was made go to Bundoran, confession, a pilgrimage to Knock, and a holy shop in Knock (taking a double hit on that one ) when I was a kid...

Presuming consent is required for it to count (!) I'm still 60C:40P

I'm beginning to think Billy Wright himself wouldn't pass this test

The person who shared the quiz with me got 70% P/ 30% C - which is good going for an East Belfast raised Prod - mind you, she did move South so....

Sardonicat

70%/30% C/P

s7ryf3925pivug

55% Protestant. Pretty low considering what my family was like a couple of generations ago.

Peregrinus

80% Catholic. I lost marks for the gilets and not watching GAA.

Peregrinus

mikemac2 wrote: »

90% catholic

Can someone explain the toaster in the press ?

Protestants keep the toaster in the press, when not actually using it.

You'd know that, if you'd ever been inside a Protestant's house.

Flickerfusion

My toaster's so fancy you'd struggle to get it into a press, probably explains why I'm an atheist.

Peregrinus

Flickerfusion wrote: »

My toaster's so fancy you'd struggle to get it into a press, probably explains why I'm an atheist.

"Atheist" isn't a category in the quiz. You can use the quiz to explore whether you are a Protestant atheist or a Catholic atheist (it being assumed, obviously, that all atheists are either one or the other).

Bannasidhe

Peregrinus wrote: »

"Atheist" isn't a category in the quiz. You can use the quiz to explore whether you are a Protestant atheist or a Catholic atheist (it being assumed, obviously, that all atheists are either one or the other).

Wasn't everyone in Derry in the 1990s either a Protestant or a Catholic? Even the Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs - never mind the atheists.

I got a 50%/50% score and all my Nordie friends - 'Protestant' and 'Catholic' united to deride me as a "fence sitter".

Peregrinus

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Wasn't everyone in Derry in the 1990s either a Protestant or a Catholic? Even the Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs - never mind the atheists.

What's with this "in the 1990s"?

PS: Jews, Hindus and Sikhs are Protestants. Muslims can be either, but are mostly Catholics. I don't need to explain this, surely?

Bannasidhe

Peregrinus wrote: »

What's with this "in the 1990s"?

PS: Jews, Hindus and Sikhs are Protestants. Muslims can be either, but are mostly Catholics. I don't need to explain this, surely?

The quiz is based on an episode of Derry Girls (set in the 1990s) - in particular this scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0OF-TlyAY

When an attempt was made to be ecumenical.

All the hindus I know are very Catholic... its all the incense and statues.

Peregrinus

Bannasidhe wrote: »

The quiz is based on an episode of Derry Girls (set in the 1990s) . . .

I know that. My point is that not much has changed in this regard.

Bannasidhe wrote: »

All the hindus I know are very Catholic... its all the incense and statues.

These community identifications have little or nothing to do with religious practice (or indeed religious belief). Pertinent questions are - What school did you go to? Where do you live? Who do you socialise with? How do your neighbours identify?

The toaster gag is a gag. But there is an underlying point, which is that social segregation/ghettoisation leads to differences that have nothing to do with either religious practice or religious belief, and yet do serve as useful markers for religious identification. (Like the famous one - how do you pronounce the name of the letter 'h'?)

Bannasidhe

Peregrinus wrote: »

I know that. My point is that not much has changed in this regard.


These community identifications have little or nothing to do with religious practice (or indeed religious belief). Pertinent questions are - What school did you go to? Where do you live? Who do you socialise with? How do your neighbours identify?

The toaster gag is a gag. But there is an underlying point, which is that social segregation/ghettoisation leads to differences that have nothing to do with either religious practice or religious belief, and yet do serve as useful markers for religious identification. (Like the famous one - how do you pronounce the name of the letter 'h'?)

You're killing the fecking joke like. :mad:

:P

80/20 C/P.

I keep me toaster in the press.

wotzgoingon

I don't know how you guys are getting high prod but I'm not surprised with the dribble anti Irish posts people on boards.ie post.

On topic I got 95 percent Catholic.

I don't know where the 5 percent went as I would have preferred 100% and yes I answered all questions truthfully.