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Working with Boggers

Mr Whom

Like many people working in "The Big Schmoke" I find that my company has employed a relatively high proportion of boggers. These wonderful innocent creatures with their odd country ways often carrying a hurley or sod of turf in their weekend bag. I find a calmness about then and am happy they are among us. Do you have any interesting tales of their "ways"?

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Dr Crayfish

lawred2 wrote: »

Most jackeens wouldn't know a school from a prison

Do you actually say that word Jackeen in the country? What does it even mean?

tomwaterford

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

Do you actually say that word Jackeen in the country? What does it even mean?

Small jack.....ín pronounced een is irish for small

Clearly referring to small toilets in Dublin???

Though I taught it was great craic when I went to FAS there tbh

Dr Crayfish

tomwaterford wrote: »

Small jack.....ín pronounced een is irish for small

Clearly referring to small toilets in Dublin???

Though I taught it was great craic when I went to FAS there tbh

But who is Jack?

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc6Ea2wn27c

retalivity

Mouseslayer17 wrote: »

Nothing worse than a D4 culchie

half the people i work with cant understand my thick donegal accent unless i speak slowly, so its not that. I work in D4, live in D8, shop in aldi, and have no interest in rugby. Im bringing it down from the inside!

BunkMoreland

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

But who is Jack?

Union jack. All dubs have one stored away in the hot press.

pedigree 6

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

But who is Jack?

Wikipedia says it comes from the union Jack.
Jackeen is a pejorative term coined by the rest of Ireland to describe the Dubliners (inside the pale) as the most loyal to the crown.

Dr Crayfish

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Wikipedia says it comes from the union Jack.
Jackeen is a pejorative term coined by the rest of Ireland to describe the Dubliners (inside the pale) as the most loyal to the crown.

ha, makes sense, bit of an Anglophile myself.

Duckworth_Luas

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

But who is Jack?

Before being called Anto or Deco the Jackeen bastards were almost uniformly called Jack. This was due to the Dublin infatuation with the Union Jack.

For real Irish people the suffix "een" means something smaller than normal, such as a Jackeen's hands, its brain, its inability to do simple mathematics or its inability to not sh1t themselves in public (they do this because of their heroin addictions).

Mr Whom

I was kinda hoping for amusing life affirming bigger tales.

:-/

Noveight

What have you learned form these boggers, op? Have they recanted tales of their childhood settlements in the hills and lowlands beyond the M50?

Dr Crayfish

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Before being called Anto or Deco the Jackeen bastards were almost uniformly called Jack. This was due to the Dublin infatuation with the Union Jack.

For real Irish people the suffix "een" means something smaller than normal, such as a Jackeen's hands, its brain, its inability to do simple mathematics or its inability to not sh1t themselves in public (they do this because of their heroin addictions).

Please tell me you don't have to live amongst these animals? I guess in the past we may have had more in common with our more sophisticated British neighbours rather than the barefoot potato eaters outside of Dublin and that's why we had kept union jack flags etc, if what you're saying is true.

pilly

Mr Whom wrote:

I was kinda hoping for amusing life affirming bigger tales.

Me too! It went downhill very fast!

joebloggs32

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

But who is Jack?

When the king of England visited dublin all the dubs came out waving their union jacks, hence Jackeens

Dr Crayfish

joebloggs32 wrote: »

When the king of England visited dublin all the dubs came out waving their union jacks, hence Jackeens

Oh how nice of them to give him a good welcome. I did the same when Queen Elizabeth visited more recently

mansize

retalivity wrote: »

I'm a bogger, and work for a large financial institution in D4. Im surrounded by boggers, my whole team are culchies like myself, its great!

Im guessing they couldn't find any qualified jackeens to fill the roles...or boggers are just better.

Dubs would spend its all on heroween or Aslan tickets

infogiver

The Backwards Man wrote: »

A neighbour of mine, who lived on a cliff edge, had to get the landlady of the digs in Coventry he was staying in to throw a bucket of water at his bedroom window every night so he could get to sleep.

True story.

I've just wet myself laughing at this (literally) thanks a lot

sjb25

c_meth wrote: »

A bogger in my office (Canary Wharf in early 2000's) told a tale of how furious he was that someone else in his locality, back home, bid on a house he was bidding on. He was outraged at their actions; his was the first bid so no one else should have bid. He must have thought he was Bull McCabe...

Was it this guy

infogiver

25 years ago I was the first bogger to enter a work environment which had been exclusively jackeen for about 100 years
Not joking you there was a family of 5 sisters from Fatima Mansions (fantastic girls all of them) who'd never been in such close proximity to a bogger for 8 hours at a stretch before
I've a terrible flat country accent and for the first 6 months every time I spoke the whole place would turn around and gape
Loved them all stayed for 10 years happy memories

Dr Crayfish

sjb25 wrote: »

Was it this guy

Isn't it funny how he was one of the few actors in the film who was Scottish, and then he portrays an Irish man?

pablo128

There are 3 questions I ask to identify a bogger.
Q1. Could you drive a mechanically propelled vehicle before the age of 10?

Q2. Do you live within 5km of a handball alley?

Q3. Do you know what a hoggett is?

If you can answer 'yes' to all 3, congratulations. You are a 100% bogger.

Duckworth_Luas

mansize wrote: »

Dubs would spend its all on heroween or Aslan tickets

It's amazing how much Jackeens love Aslan. Any time some gaunt, uneducated, junkie scumbag approached me on the street in Dublin, with the obvious intent to rob me, all I had to do was say, "How can I protect you in this .....".

Next thing they'd start doing all sorts of weird hand movements, singing "crazzzzz-eeeeeee wor'rl'ddddd, its oil roight-e-oight".

This would attract the attention of all the nearby homeless, which would attract the attention of Glen Hansard, which would attract the attention of Bono. Then they'd all start arguing about how much better than U2 the band Aslan were.

This was the obvious time to exit before they started the whole Jackeen heroin thing.

alb

c_meth wrote: »

A bogger in my office (Canary Wharf in early 2000's) told a tale of how furious he was that someone else in his locality, back home, bid on a house he was bidding on. He was outraged at their actions; his was the first bid so no one else should have bid. He must have thought he was Bull McCabe...

Taking business personally isn't anything bogger-specific, more a general Irish thing.

Noveight

pablo128 wrote: »

Q1. Could you drive a mechanically propelled vehicle before the age of 10?
Q2. Do you live within 5km of a handball alley?
Q3. Do you know what a hoggett is?
If you can answer 'yes' to all 3, congratulations. You are a 100% bogger.

1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Yes.

2/3 = 66.6% bogger?

longshanks

pablo128 wrote: »

There are 3 questions I ask to identify a bogger.
Q1. Could you drive a mechanically propelled vehicle before the age of 10?

Q2. Do you live within 5km of a handball alley?

Q3. Do you know what a hoggett is?

If you can answer 'yes' to all 3, congratulations. You are a 100% bogger.

No
Yes
Yes

pablo128

Noveight wrote: »

1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Yes.

2/3 = 66.6% bogger?

Nope. You are a heroin addict.:pac:

Vita nova

Mr Whom wrote: »

I was kinda hoping for amusing life affirming bigger tales.

:-/

TBH if you refer to people as boggers, rednecks, culchies, muck-savages, bumpkins, hicks or similar terms in the thread title then don't be surprised if the thread goes downhill pretty quickly

Mr Whom

Vita nova wrote: »

TBH if you refer to people as boggers, rednecks, culchies, muck-savages, bumpkins, hicks or similar terms in the thread title then don't be surprised if the thread goes downhill pretty quickly

Most boggers have no problem being called boggers. It's a term of endearment

ToddyDoody

Mr Whom wrote: »

Like many people working in "The Big Schmoke" I find that my company has employed a relatively high proportion of boggers. These wonderful innocent creatures with their odd country ways often carrying a hurley or sod of turf in their weekend bag. I find a calmness about then and am happy they are among us. Do you have any interesting tales of their "ways"?

I work in an office of Dubs.

Tallaght Dubs.

I often feel they'd prefer a Dub instead of me.

Senna

This thread is kind of like two junkies arguing over who is the "better" junkie.