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Taboos in Ireland

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  • #32
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Proclaiming your not interested in GAA especially when your home county is in the final. I'm from Mayo and in the last few years I've had to pretend I'm really disappointed when we loose.


  • #33
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Smoking in houses that are shared with non-smokers.
    In general, smoking in shared spaces seems to be a lot more frowned upon in Ireland than most countries


  • #34
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Discussion of wealth.

    You should, by rights, pretend to have purchased everything you own in Penney's for €2.


  • #35
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    Saying you drink neither tea nor coffee.


  • #36
    pxdf9i5cmoavkz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭pxdf9i5cmoavkz


    Not littering


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  • #37
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,083 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Not owning a car: some people look at me as if i have two heads when i say that.


  • #38
    HairyCabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭HairyCabbage


    I think that being seen to have emotions or be emotionally affected by events in your life seems taboo in Ireland.


  • #39
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • #40
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #41
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Not owning a car: some people look at me as if i have two heads when i say that.
    Omackeral wrote: »
    Saying you support a football team from this country is certainly taboo. Allow me to demonstrate.

    ''Who do you support?''
    ''Shelbourne.''
    ''No but who do you really support?''

    You have to pretend to be a Manc or a Scouser and call each other the scum and things like that. Basically you're to adopt English football as if it's your own... unless England are playing that is.
    mahamageehad wrote: »
    Saying you drink neither tea nor coffee.
    Vita nova wrote: »
    Smoking in houses that are shared with non-smokers.
    In general, smoking in shared spaces seems to be a lot more frowned upon in Ireland than most countries
    AllForIt wrote: »
    Proclaiming your not interested in GAA especially when your home county is in the final. I'm from Mayo and in the last few years I've had to pretend I'm really disappointed when we loose.
    RayM wrote: »
    Hating the Irish rugby team, and all who sail in it.
    Ludikrus wrote: »
    Hating GAA

    I don't think people understand the word taboo.

    Taboo means something that people don't talk about not peculiarities that people find odd.


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  • #42
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Telling a Barry's tea drinker that you drink Lyons:)


  • #43
    Steve F
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Steve F


    Putting new shoes on the table
    WTF is all that about?


  • #44
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #45
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Steve F wrote: »
    Putting new shoes on the table
    WTF is all that about?

    What IS it about? I've never heard anything about that. It must REALLY be taboo. :P


  • #46
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Saying that Jack Charlton wasted a golden generation of players who could have done a lot more if they didn't just hoof the ball up into the air and keep passing it back to the keeper, and ultimately 88, 90, and 94 were failures.


  • #47
    Resist ZOG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 118 ✭✭Resist ZOG


    Expressing admiration for Israel or Jews in general.

    Criticizing the lgbt movement.


  • #48
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    murpho999 wrote: »
    I don't think people understand the word taboo.

    Taboo means something that people don't talk about not peculiarities that people find odd.

    You have a point but the meaning of taboo is a lot broader than you present:

    Synonyms (http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/taboo)
    Banned, outlawed, prohibited, unthinkable, anathema, disapproved, forbidden, proscribed, reserved, restricted, unmentionable, beyond the pale, frowned on, illegal, off limits, out of bounds, ruled out, unacceptable
    Etymology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo)
    The term "taboo" comes from the Tongan tapu or Fijian tabu ("prohibited", "disallowed", "forbidden"),[3] related among others to the Maori tapu, Hawaiian kapu, Malagasy fady. Its English use dates to 1777 when the British explorer James Cook visited Tonga, and referred to the Tongans' use of the term "taboo" for "any thing is forbidden to be eaten, or made use of".[4] He wrote:

    Not one of them would sit down, or eat a bit of any thing.... On expressing my surprise at this, they were all taboo, as they said; which word has a very comprehensive meaning; but, in general, signifies that a thing is forbidden.[5]


  • #49
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Vita nova wrote: »
    You have a point but the meaning of taboo is a lot broader than you present:

    Yes, so saying you prefer Lyons over Barry's is not taboo.

    Or shoes on the table is superstition not taboo.


  • #50
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Resist ZOG wrote: »
    Expressing admiration for Israel or Jews in general.
    A German (true story) once mentioned to me that Ireland seems a little anti-Jewish as 'we' are staunch supporters of Palestine and didn't give a fook during WW2 about the Jews seeking refuge. Also our president sending his condolences for the passing of Herr Hitler also raises eyebrows!


  • #51
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Yes, so saying you prefer Lyons over Barry's is not taboo.

    Or shoes on the table is superstition not taboo.

    No, but go back and look at all the cases you list (7 in total) in your original post and apply the definition above and you'll see how some of them could certainly be considered taboo in Ireland.


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  • #52
    scopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭scopper


    Not saying thanks for the bus driver ;)


  • #53
    HairyCabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭HairyCabbage


    I think a lot of taboos still exist in Ireland when talking to anyone over the age of about 50!


  • #54
    Mr. teddywinkles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭Mr. teddywinkles


    pone2012 wrote: »
    Totally agree to this... I love reading, hate drinking..did the obligatory bit of drinking from 18/22 but it got old fast... Started reading, training and studying

    I barely see my friends anymore as a side effect...

    I think there's a problem with people been seen drunk in public now as well. Where when I started out drinking back when I was younger it was more acceptable and common place.


  • #55
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    Abortion.
    Contributing the cause of the Troubles to any one else other than IRA.


  • #56
    KaiserLu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭KaiserLu


    Vita nova wrote: »
    Smoking in houses that are shared with non-smokers.
    In general, smoking in shared spaces seems to be a lot more frowned upon in Ireland than most countries

    The oul lung cancer thing and other related illnesses probably to blame for that one.


  • #57
    Fourier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Vita nova wrote: »
    Building roads through or near fairy forts:)
    To me this is the only serious answer that actually fits the OP. It's fairly unique to Ireland (although there are other countries like this)and genuinely taboo for those who follow it. Every other taboo mentioned is just "something 2% of the population might internally frown at you for".


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Resist ZOG wrote: »
    Expressing admiration for Israel or Jews in general.

    Criticizing the lgbt movement.

    Ah sure the Jews are a great bunch of lads altogether.


  • #59
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Speaking ill of the dead.

    Even if the deceased was an insufferable prick/arsehole/bitch.


  • #60
    HairyCabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭HairyCabbage


    Talking about people with disabilities in general


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  • #61
    6541
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭6541


    Asking Gals for Anal....


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