Are you good to call things by their new name?

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549545#Comment_121549545

But that field has been completely changed, with new buildings on it. With Opal Fruits, Jif and Marathon, it was only a name change. The product was still the same.

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549631#Comment_121549631

Less tasty E numbers in the opal fruits now

looksee

If you ask for directions in Tramore, Co Waterford you will receive instructions that inevitably include the words 'where the post office used to be'. Since the post office had at least 4 locations just during the time I lived there (ok, about 30 years) this can lead to confusion.

One of the main junctions in the town is still called by the name of a building that has had at least 3 other shops in it since, and is now mostly gone.

Otherwise Electric Ireland is still the ESB, Cif is still Jif, I've lost track of what Telecom Eireann is and gas/petrol stations are still garages.

Quazzie

In the rural council estate I grew up in, back in the late 80s it increased from 33 house to 39 houses. Still to this day the last 6 houses are referred to as "the buildings"

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549368#Comment_121549368

Do you mean the City & Suburban Grounds?

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549050#Comment_121549050

Dublin Arena?

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549614#Comment_121549614

6:30 on Sundays.

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549423#Comment_121549423

You mean BP?

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549454#Comment_121549454

Funny one.

I worked in a statoil back in the late 90s - early 2000s.

We had a bit of craic one April 1st.

There was still a load of BP singnage and casings for the pumps left in the yard out the back, we came in early and swapped them all around before the manager arrived in.

Even though the canopy etc had the Statoil logo etc, he still did a double take when he was waking in, laughed and called us a pair of fools, but bought us breakfast for making him laugh.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549495#Comment_121549495

"Train station" sounds like a term a child would use.

Lewis_Benson

I'm going to the shop for milk and bread.

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549740#Comment_121549740

Don't like the B word around here...

corner of hells

It took me awhile to get used to calling Marathon bars , Snickers bars , however I made a decision to start calling Mars bars , Snunderpants bars too .

The Ging and I

H Williams in Killester.

Strumms

businesses that change their name for €€€€€€ and sponsorship … no, I don’t bother, not a conscious thing, just refer to Landsdowne, The Point, The Olympia…. Still refer to ‘X’ as Twitter…..

Photobox

Supervalu is still known as L & N in a lot of places.

Cheddar Bob

It's still TV3 for me.

Which is ironic as I used to mock the oul pair in the 90s for calling Network 2 RTE 2 as it was in their day.

Then it changed back to RTE 2. Now what I'm with isn't it, and I realise this pointless story is very Grampa Simpson- esque.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549448#Comment_121549448

BP Caltex Esso Jet are some of the names stuck in my head as my first ever fascination in life were petrol pumps and stations 🤣 aged 2

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549050#Comment_121549050

Can never understand people's adherence to corporate naming. Namely

1- it's crass commercialising of a usually iconic venue

2- the nameholder will either pull out within a decade or the company will be bought and renamed at some stage. I've always called it the Point and always will- it's already been the 02 and the Three so what's next, the Four?

Seriously, on the stadium one. Do people not cop how ridicilious it is?

Could anybody seriously envisage themselves in the year 2070 with the grandkids "we had been ropey on and off for for 25 years, but we knew we had turned a corner after that home WC qualifier in September 2029 against England, I was right behind the goal in the Burger King WhopperBowl when Evan Ferguson scored that hatrick against the English"

DoozerT6

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549423#Comment_121549423

I think you mean Jet :)

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121551097#Comment_121551097

Money.

Lots and lots of money.

Hippodrome Song Owl

It depends. I generally don't consciously refuse to use the new name, but some just don't stick, or sound stupid. I call it Cif, Starburst, Snickers. Lansdowne Road and The Point could go either way, I don't give it much thought and use the old and new names interchangeably, maybe depending who I'm speaking to.

But it will never be X or the "3Olympia" - they're just stupid names - especially given '"to tweet" had entered common usage with no obvious sensible replacement. And has Three actually spent any money on trying to properly and tastefully refurbish the Olympia? Maybe if they make a go of that they might have some right to the name.

And the local hill here will forever be the Jet Hill - it hasn't updated to Statoil or Circle K Hill, and I can't see that ever changing!

whisky_galore

Irish Water.

An attempt to make us forget their shítty origins, the resulting backlash and milking right-on kudos by rebranding to the Irish language version of their name so they'll always be Irish Water.

okay lads we get it statoil used to be BP. The same thing has been repeated enough now I reckon.

But as for the question yes but also no. It’s usually harder to change when it’s a name you’d use quite regularly. I don’t really have the problem with places/things that I didn’t often deal with before.

like Sysco Ireland bought Pallas foods years ago before I ever had much dealings with them so I can easily call them Sysco. My old boss used to call them their old name though as he had many years dealing with them as Pallas.

Similarly I can’t get used to a nearby Daybreak changing recently to a centra. If you ask me to go to centra it would be the last place I’d think of. But if you said daybreak it’s the first!!

ruth...less

What was Prince thinking?

ruth...less

Jif

dxhound2005

Lansdowne Road is an address, named for an English aristrocrat. There is no need to retain that English colonial connection to the street name. And certainly not to any sports stadium. The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) Arena should be changed as well. We didn't waste much time in ditching another English aristo's name (Sackville) for O'Connell in that Dublin street name.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121551250#Comment_121551250

Named for an Irish aristocrat. The 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, the former British Prime Minister, was born in Dublin.

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121551250#Comment_121551250

If they'd consider renaming it for someone who made a lasting contribution to Irish sport, maybe (though given its use for both football and rugby it would be daft for the rugby purists to be going to the Jack Charlton arena)

Until something more creative than an insurance company that before 2040 will either not renew or will be taken over and named something else, I'll pass. Landsdowne it is.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121551313#Comment_121551313

Marquis of Lansdowne Stadium sounds better.