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Taboos in Ireland

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    #62
    Squeeonline
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    Public nudity.

    The idea of going swimming or into a sauna naked is so normal in most countries. Our hangover from catholism being rammed down our throats means that we are generally quite ashamed of our own naked bodies.


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    #63
    Resist ZOG
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    Squeeonline wrote: »
    Public nudity.

    The idea of going swimming or into a sauna naked is so normal in most countries. Our hangover from catholism being rammed down our throats means that we are generally quite ashamed of our own naked bodies.

    No it's not.


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    #64
    mikhail
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    Expressing admiration for any facet of English history or culture, however limited, except their football clubs.


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    #65
    whisky_galore
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    Pension Plans.

    Death.


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    #66
    whisky_galore
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    KungPao wrote: »
    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!

    We weren't alone in that regard.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

    The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner. In 1939, it set off on a voyage in which its captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for over 900 Jewish refugees from Germany. After they were denied entry to Cuba, the United States, and Canada, the refugees were finally accepted in various European countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, and France. Historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them died in death camps during World War II.

    Apart from a hiccup in Limerick in 1904, the Limerick Pogrom (more correctly a boycott) and head cases like Oliver J Flanagan and Charles Bewley, the Irish were tolerant of the Jewish community although indifferent to the Holocaust.


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    #67
    Irish Guitarist
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    Saying Father Ted was a shitty comedy full of shitty catchphrases. People will go on about how your man in The Big Bang Theory says 'bazinga' or how Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances uses the same catchphrases like "the lady of the house speaking" but they think twenty odd minutes of "DRINK FECK ARSE GIRLS", "Will you have a cup of tea? Go on go on go on go on...", and "the money was just resting in my account" is comedy genius.


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    #68
    fatknacker
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    Calling someone with mental health issues a 'cray-cray' while tapping the side of your head. Or whirring your finger around the side of your head.


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    #69
    Zulu
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    Round dodging


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    #70
    flaneur
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    Suggesting that that 70s/80s children TV show, Bosco, was a load of manure.


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    #71
    Whispered
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    Malari wrote: »
    What IS it about? I've never heard anything about that. It must REALLY be taboo. :P

    This is one always observed in our family, carry over from the previous generation. As it was explained to me; money was tight and the dead were buried in their "good clothes". Often a new pair of shoes would be bought for them to be buried in. As the body is laid out on a table, including the shoes, new/unworn shoes on a table signifies death. It's so silly but the panic has been bred into me :D


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    #72
    Squeeonline
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    Resist ZOG wrote: »
    No it's not.

    Germany, most of Scandinavia, Austria...They wouldnt think twice about sunbathing naked or going into the sauna. Just my experience.


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    #73
    RhubarbCrumble
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    Couple of posts here saying 'death'. Have to say Ireland is probably one of the few places where death ISN'T a bit taboo.


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    #74
    Faith+1
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    Chatting up the opposite sex in a non-drinking environment. So much more acceptable in other Countries.


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    #75
    mariaalice
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    These thread always produce posters who are projecting their own issues on the nation usually( but not confined) to sexual repression, either they are genuinely not aware that they are doing it or else its a coping mechanism of some sort.

    Own your repression.


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    #76
    Your Face
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    These thread always produce posters who are projecting their own issues on the nation usually( but not confined) to sexual repression, either they are genuinely not aware that they are doing it or else its a coping mechanism of some sort.

    Own your repression.

    Right back at you


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    #77
    pickarooney
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    Whispered wrote: »
    This is one always observed in our family, carry over from the previous generation. As it was explained to me; money was tight and the dead were buried in their "good clothes". Often a new pair of shoes would be bought for them to be buried in. As the body is laid out on a table, including the shoes, new/unworn shoes on a table signifies death. It's so silly but the panic has been bred into me :D
    Money's so tight you waste it on shoes for someone who'll never walk in them. There's a word for that but it's not 'taboo'!


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    #78
    Whispered
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Money's so tight you waste it on shoes for someone who'll never walk in them. There's a word for that but it's not 'taboo'!

    I wasn't talking about taboos. I was answering a question about where the superstition came from. You'll find that a lot of superstitions are a bit silly really.


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    #79
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Ireland is very weird about this. I find, at least in the rural west where I grew up, taking religion too seriously is viewed negatively but so is being completely irreligious.


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    #80
    scoey
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    (This is just my shot at thinking of an Irish taboo, not which side I agree with..)


    Questioning whether having a child with Down Syndrome is actually a blessing and saying anything against the whole "special" culture that plays up a rosey image and trivialises the reality of taking care of a child/adult with Down Syndrome.

    9 out of 10 cases in the UK where screening detects down syndrome end in abortion.
    In Iceland it's close to 100 percent.


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    #81
    Thespoofer
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    Phone boxes on mountain tops.


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    #82
    RayM
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    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    Saying Father Ted was a shitty comedy full of shitty catchphrases. People will go on about how your man in The Big Bang Theory says 'bazinga' or how Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances uses the same catchphrases like "the lady of the house speaking" but they think twenty odd minutes of "DRINK FECK ARSE GIRLS", "Will you have a cup of tea? Go on go on go on go on...", and "the money was just resting in my account" is comedy genius.

    If you ever say that again...


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    #83
    scoey
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    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    Saying Father Ted was a shitty comedy full of shitty catchphrases. People will go on about how your man in The Big Bang Theory says 'bazinga' or how Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances uses the same catchphrases like "the lady of the house speaking" but they think twenty odd minutes of "DRINK FECK ARSE GIRLS", "Will you have a cup of tea? Go on go on go on go on...", and "the money was just resting in my account" is comedy genius.


    Father Ted was funny despite the catchphrases, not because of them.


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    #84
    HairyCabbage
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    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Ireland is very weird about this. I find, at least in the rural west where I grew up, taking religion too seriously is viewed negatively but so is being completely irreligious.

    I agree, you absolutely can't say that you just don't believe in God at all, people look at you weird and try to persuade you but you also don't want to actively practice religion!


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    #85
    flaneur
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    HairyCabbage wrote: »
    I agree, you absolutely can't say that you just don't believe in God at all, people look at you weird and try to persuade you but you also don't want to actively practice religion!

    It’s the old Irish problem of most of the population being raised by a school system that is largely based on religious “faith formation” (brainwashing) from about age 5. Then you’ve got to couple that with the fact that, despite all the recent social progress and liberalism, it is only a decade and a bit over being Europe’s Bible Belt a a still has attitudes to abortion that are more in line with the US Deep South.


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    #86
    steddyeddy
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    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.

    Well it means things that go against social norms too Murph.


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    #87
    Spider Web
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    Squeeonline wrote: »
    Public nudity.

    The idea of going swimming or into a sauna naked is so normal in most countries. Our hangover from catholism being rammed down our throats means that we are generally quite ashamed of our own naked bodies.
    I dunno. Not really one to buy this Catholic shame thing. It's more just wishing to keep one's nudity private. It's not restricted to Catholic countries at all.


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    #88
    RobbingBandit
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    Liking cats, but sure if you died one of those would eat your face while a dog would guard your corpse. :p

    On the public nudity thing 59% of Irish are ugly buggers and we don't tan well neither.


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    #89
    cbreeze
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    Eating swans


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    #90
    bananabread12
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    Success.

    Can't have ****ing anything in this country.


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    #91
    whisky_galore
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    Eating horsemeat, knowingly.

    Consuming horse meat would solve our loose and straying equines problem straight away.


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