Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

lawlolawl · 29-10-2016 08:09PM

fryup wrote: »

can't understand that either, why are the irish obsessed with country & western music??

can't think of any other country in europe where it has the same following

We're the most westerly English speaking nation in Europe and we have close cultural ties to the US?

kowtow · 29-10-2016 08:15PM

The constant overuse of the word "avail", presumably in an attempt to demonstrate a wide vocabulary.

You don't "avail" of a complementary breakfast, despite what the radio ad says. You eat it.

Cyril T Squirrel · 29-10-2016 08:23PM

kowtow wrote: »

The constant overuse of the word "avail", presumably in an attempt to demonstrate a wide vocabulary.

You don't "avail" of a complementary breakfast, despite what the radio ad says. You eat it.

Like using 'complementary' [sic] instead of free...

BabyE · 29-10-2016 08:24PM

fryup wrote: »

can't understand that either, why are the irish obsessed with country & western music??

can't think of any other country in europe where it has the same following

Very big among Irish hockey circuit in Austria and germany. American country is simple but it's feel good and suits certain times, Ireland's **** climate doesn't exactly lend itself to the right mood though

byhookorbycrook · 29-10-2016 08:40PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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

The national school system was established in 1830.It was originally supposed to be non-denom, but the various churches eventually took them on well before the foundation of the state.

fryup · 29-10-2016 11:25PM

BabyE wrote: »

Very big among Irish hockey circuit in Austria and germany. American country is simple but it's feel good and suits certain times, Ireland's **** climate doesn't exactly lend itself to the right mood though

wha

Fridge · 29-10-2016 11:41PM

Claiming traditions not exclusive to Ireland as purely Irish.
Only in Ireland :rolleyes:

jackinthemix94 · 29-10-2016 11:46PM

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

The Christmas jumper. Why just why?

So many countries have these?

TheRiverman · 29-10-2016 11:52PM

The Late Late Show:rolleyes:

retalivity · 30-10-2016 12:05AM

The lads lifting elected people on their shoulders at counts while shouting 'YEEEOOOOOOWWWWW'

TheRiverman · 30-10-2016 12:13AM

Does Bloomsday qualify? It is definitely cringeworthy.

Crea · 30-10-2016 12:27AM

Anyone over the age of 12 calling their mother "Mammy".

BabyE · 30-10-2016 12:44AM

fryup wrote: »

wha

I know a few Austrians who tell me

ygolometsipe · 30-10-2016 12:37PM

My dad has no intrest in GAA but when the "match" is on, he transforms into #1 fan telling us to shush when anything remotely significant happens. It's horribly cringy and even worse if you ask him to name a player

So what irish ism's do you find really cringe

ancapailldorcha · 30-10-2016 12:42PM

People blessing themselves when they pass by graveyards.

Harvey Normal · 30-10-2016 12:50PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

What I find cringeworthy is young people with Southern California accents they've picked up from watching too much US TV. Or Irish people like Kevin Myers who has retained a pseudo-aristocratic English accent in an attempt to lend his servile pro-British/Unionist attention-seeker views more 'authority'.

There was an Irish drink-driving awareness advert, a couple of years back, that had a gormless foxy-haired drunk driver being admonished by an English-accented Irish judge (apparently these cultural cringers believe an anglo-aristocratic accent imbues its speaker with authority)

That makes me cringe.

Myers was educated in the UK, nothing fake there. In fact a posh English accent was common in Ireland for generations.

finooola · 30-10-2016 01:48PM

tayto lover wrote: »

It really does happen.
A lad at work told me his father would "turn in his grave" if he didn't vote for Fianna Fail. I have heard loads say similar.

Yeah, it is a real thing. My mother says that Clare is full of "Fine Gael f**kers". Not that I put a great deal of stock in my mam's bitter remarks, but familial political alliances are definitely a thing/a perceived thing.

Fred Swanson · 30-10-2016 02:02PM

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happyday · 30-10-2016 02:29PM

Crea wrote: »

Anyone over the age of 12 calling their mother "Mammy".

Like Podge in Red Rock. Ah that's kinda sweet.

Stasi 2.0 · 30-10-2016 03:39PM

Throwing the Child of Prague in the ditch the evening before a wedding

LordSutch wrote: »

Naver heard of that before, and what does itactually mean?

Never heard of it either but sounds like child abuse and terribly racist and besides what did people do before the days of EU enlargement and the fall of the Iron curtain. I mean there cant have been many suitable children in the country back then ?

Stasi 2.0 · 30-10-2016 03:44PM

Lying on the census (particilarly on the language and religion questions)

Voting in ones parents constituency even though one hasnt lived there for ten years.

Fred Swanson wrote: »

An Irish person falls over in Sydney, RTE must report it as news.

Alternatively RTE reports on some major disaster/mass killing abroad but assures us that "no Irish people are thought to have been involved" as if to say ah sure it doesnt really matter.

conorhal · 30-10-2016 04:03PM

Stasi 2.0 wrote: »

Alternatively RTE reports on some major disaster/mass killing abroad but assures us that "no Irish people are thought to have been involved" as if to say ah sure it doesnt really matter.

Yeah, that's exactly what it says, as opposed to 'we'd like to reassure you that nobody you might know was likely to have been harmed'.

What I'd like to dispense with is the cringy Irish tradition of self flagellation that occurs when anything bad happens to a foreigner here. Any number of Irish women can die due to substandard health care and negligence, but god forbid it happens to an Indian women.
The same when it comes to international criticism, we just cower and feel bad. Well I've no interest in the Saudi UN ambassador lecturing us on human rights or the EU for that matter. I really wish this country had the confidence to tell them to go take a flying leap, we'll be acting for (and interested in) our own interests and people for a change rather then wringing our hands and wondering what the Yanks, Brits, Germans or Saudi's think about us.

Stasi 2.0 · 30-10-2016 04:23PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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

Newsflash: The state was founded in 1922
It is now 2016
That is all !

Capt'n Midnight · 31-10-2016 08:33PM

seamus wrote: »

Even things like the rose of tralee. There's no polish to these things.

It's about time we had a Polish Rose.

BabyE · 31-10-2016 09:38PM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

People blessing themselves when they pass by graveyards.

I don't know, I look it as a good thing in an era where people are so consumed by themselves, an act such as the above shows a sense of awareness all too missing in an increasingly narcissistic world.

Sam Kade · 31-10-2016 09:40PM

The D4 accent, it needs to die a quick death.

RobbingBandit · 31-10-2016 09:45PM

What's wrong with thanking the bus driver when you're getting off the bus?

delaad · 31-10-2016 10:16PM

Candie wrote: »

The 'good' front room - especially odd in tiny houses with limited space to begin with.

Very Nordie thing, the "good" room.

Here's another house one.
Maybe a country thing, but never using the front door to enter your house.

delaad · 31-10-2016 10:50PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Don't we have Joe Duffy for those old weirdos who get off on that sh*t? I wouldn't be tuning in to an entertainment show on a Friday night to see kids with cancer etc.
I suppose that's why I never watch it. On a side note, I passed by Tubridy not too long ago and he has one of the skinniest waists I've ever seen on a man.

That's amazing! Was in Spar in Baggot St one night heading for the till and he walks, lunges, past the front door. I freeze when I cop his profile. its so sharp I'm shocked. He is utterly, remarkably thin.

pgj2015 · 31-10-2016 10:54PM

RTE, showing a brendan grace stand up show filmed in the 90's every bank holiday weekend, such a lack of effort.

Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

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