Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

Sam Kade · 28-10-2016 03:22PM

looksee wrote: »

Christmas pubs?

Not an Irish tradition, it's more American, plenty gobsh1tes in Ireland trying to imitate American culture over the last few years.

veryangryman · 28-10-2016 03:23PM

endacl wrote: »

So does jazz. There's an improvisory component to each form. As it happens, I'm fond of both.

Do you always get pissed of by things you don't understand?

Yes

Sam Kade · 28-10-2016 03:27PM

looksee wrote: »

I was in the US a couple of weeks ago and travelled on a lot of buses, and not only did many people greet the driver and thank him as they got off, the driver often held long shouted conversations with people sitting on the bus.

If you ask an American for directions and you didn't really get it first time don't ask them again, just move on to the next person

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 28-10-2016 03:41PM

sonny.roofer wrote: »

Coddle

goddy for those who don't what that is a mixture of bread, milk and sugar with hot water mixed through. YUCK

HandsomeDan · 28-10-2016 03:41PM

Church run public schools.

I mean, what the fúck?

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 28-10-2016 03:46PM

HandsomeDan wrote: »

Church run public schools.

I mean, what the fúck?

The Priest calling to the house for his brown envelope and the best cups ans saucers brought out and the tin of usa biscuits left over from xmas. Robbing blastard. I loved those biscuits.

whisky_galore · 28-10-2016 03:59PM

HandsomeDan wrote: »

Church run public schools.

I mean, what the fúck?

Many christian countries have them, uk, Aust., US, Canada..not peculiarly Irish.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-10-2016 04:12PM

HandsomeDan wrote: »

Church run public schools.

I mean, what the fúck?

I presume the newly founded state could not afford to run an independent education system.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-10-2016 04:13PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Many christian countries have them, uk, Aust., US, Canada..not peculiarly Irish.

As an option though. In Ireland nearly every national and secondary school were run by the Church in some capacity.

whisky_galore · 28-10-2016 04:22PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

As an option though. In Ireland nearly every national and secondary school were run by the Church in some capacity.

The RCC were the only show in town once most of the COI people were either run out of it or left of their own accord post '22.

RiderOnTheStorm · 28-10-2016 04:47PM

Or having a mass for everything, even if its not even slightly religious... Like opening a new business, graduating from school / college, or (my fav) launching a new boat..... A Mass every time...

Duddy · 28-10-2016 04:55PM

The Healey-Raes.

iLikeWaffles · 28-10-2016 05:50PM

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

The good biscuits for visitors

The good biscuits from visitors

iLikeWaffles · 28-10-2016 05:54PM

The Christmas jumper. Why just why?

Electric Sheep · 28-10-2016 07:12PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Many christian countries have them, uk, Aust., US, Canada..not peculiarly Irish.

Catholic schools in the US are NOT public schools, they are private schools. I can't speak for Australia and Canada, but I doubt they are public schools there either.

28-10-2016 07:32PM

Giving Belleek china as a gift. The modern stuff is cheap and the expensive stuff isn't vintage. Leave it to the 2nd hand/collectors market.

cactusgal · 28-10-2016 09:25PM

Electric Sheep wrote: »

Catholic schools in the US are NOT public schools, they are private schools. I can't speak for Australia and Canada, but I doubt they are public schools there either.

Yep, any religious school in the USA is most definitely private. It's in the US Constitution that church and state are separate, so all US public schools are strictly secular. (I attended American public schools K-12 and then for university)

Spoopy · 28-10-2016 09:40PM

Posting images of pints/drinks from the airport and Maniac 2000.

Oops69 · 28-10-2016 09:44PM

Lining up at funerals shaking hands with people you have never met in your life and saying "sorry for your troubles "

philstar · 28-10-2016 09:47PM

^^^^^^^^

doesn't that happen in other countries too??

endacl · 28-10-2016 09:48PM

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

The Christmas jumper. Why just why?

Like the Xmas pub, that one's a recent import.

Oops69 · 28-10-2016 09:49PM

That dancing around brushes on the ground You see at some weddings to prove the bride and groom are somehow rooted in a deep culture , no talent to the thing st all and looks crap .

Oops69 · 28-10-2016 09:51PM

Eulogising at funerals to somehow rewrite history and claim the deceased wasn't the bollix most of the funeral goers know he/she was.

endacl · 28-10-2016 09:52PM

Oops69 wrote: »

That dancing around brushes on the ground You see at some weddings to prove the bride and groom are somehow rooted in a deep culture , no talent to the thing st all and looks crap .

A brush dance done properly takes skill. Not really my thing, but I don't knock it. Perhaps it's not 'to prove'. Perhaps it's 'to demonstrate'?

endacl · 28-10-2016 09:53PM

Oops69 wrote: »

Eulogising at funerals to somehow rewrite history and claim the deceased wasn't the bollix most of the funeral goers know he/she was.

That ones not even irish. That's just what people do everywhere. Are you just pulling stuff out of your hole now?

Oops69 · 28-10-2016 09:59PM

endacl wrote: »

That ones not even irish. That's just what people do everywhere. Are you just pulling stuff out of your hole now?

Not really , in most other countries people just don't turn up to bollixes funerals.

endacl · 28-10-2016 10:02PM

Oops69 wrote: »

Not really , in most other countries people just don't turn up to bollixes funerals.

Of course they do. You just don't have a weird chip on your shoulder about those countries.

Community mourning is and always has been a feature of many cultures. Especially ones with an agrarian heritage.

Oops69 · 28-10-2016 11:49PM

endacl wrote: »

Of course they do. You just don't have a weird chip on your shoulder about those countries.

Community mourning is and always has been a feature of many cultures. Especially ones with an agrarian heritage.

all countries have an' agrarian heritage ' whatever that relationship has with mourning , including all european countries , you don't get any of this daftness in most european countries .

Oops69 · 29-10-2016 01:08AM

endacl wrote: »

A brush dance done properly takes skill. Not really my thing, but I don't knock it. Perhaps it's not 'to prove'. Perhaps it's 'to demonstrate'?

you cant be serious , this thread is like being back in 1940,s Ireland , weren't the comely maiden at the crossroads lovely

uch · 29-10-2016 01:37AM

Moany Bastárds, Get them everywhere

Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

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