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You know you're an adult in Ireland when

  • 22-08-2017 5:56pm
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    You walk into a post office and know what stamp to ask for.

    You walk into a butchers and know how much and what kind of meat to ask for.

    Your partner moves in with you into your parents home.

    You become afraid of what your neighbours think and dare not speak or the big man in town will say something cross about you.

    You hate snowdays because you haven't bought chains for your tyres in the last ten years.

    You have children and then fail to realise the necessity for saving a little each week for the return to school and instead cry and whinge about having to spend money on copy books.

    You dream of decking...decking which turns into an oil slip on a wet day then slowly rots in your 10x10 concrete yard.

    You're still paying back a loan you took out for a wedding 6 years ago.

    Facebook is your only social outlet


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Been a while since you started a thread alright


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Been a while since you started a thread alright

    Shame. All good things come to an end.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Shame. All good things come to an end.

    Ah, he's been a good boy lately.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭tupenny


    But I'm an adult and relate to none of these?
    Who wants decking or snow chains..

    And I am prepared to buy my kids school books..

    Can i still be Irish please?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    You walk into a post office and know what stamp to ask for. My five year old granddaughter can do this

    You walk into a butchers and know how much and what kind of meat to ask for. My twelve year old grandson can do this

    Your partner moves in with you into your parents home. Fair enough but you're more of an adult if you get your own gaff

    You become afraid of what your neighbours think and dare not speak or the big man in town will say something cross about you. More a sign of not being an adult

    You hate snowdays because you haven't bought chains for your tyres in the last ten years. 95% of the adults in the country have been demoted to non-adult so

    You have children and then fail to realise the necessity for saving a little each week for the return to school and instead cry and whinge about having to spend money on copy books. So no sensible person who plans and budgets for their family is an Adult? Hardly

    You dream of decking...decking which turns into an oil slip on a wet day then slowly rots in your 10x10 concrete yard.Really? Decking is a mark of an adult?

    You're still paying back a loan you took out for a wedding 6 years ago. I despair

    Facebook is your only social outlet Ditto

    I lost the will to live reading those. If those are the marks of an adult in your world I'm glad I don't live there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    When there's a big piece of wood in your shed, and it's sole and only purpose is for stirring paint.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Nika Bolokov


    You walk into a post office and know what stamp to ask for.

    You walk into a butchers and know how much and what kind of meat to ask for.

    Your partner moves in with you into your parents home.

    You become afraid of what your neighbours think and dare not speak or the big man in town will say something cross about you.

    You hate snowdays because you haven't bought chains for your tyres in the last ten years.

    You have children and then fail to realise the necessity for saving a little each week for the return to school and instead cry and whinge about having to spend money on copy books.

    You dream of decking...decking which turns into an oil slip on a wet day then slowly rots in your 10x10 concrete yard.

    You're still paying back a loan you took out for a wedding 6 years ago.

    Facebook is your only social outlet

    Ahhh lovin Dublin


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You walk into a post office and know what stamp to ask for.

    You walk into a butchers and know how much and what kind of meat to ask for.

    Your partner moves in with you into your parents home.

    You become afraid of what your neighbours think and dare not speak or the big man in town will say something cross about you.

    You hate snowdays because you haven't bought chains for your tyres in the last ten years.

    You have children and then fail to realise the necessity for saving a little each week for the return to school and instead cry and whinge about having to spend money on copy books.

    You dream of decking...decking which turns into an oil slip on a wet day then slowly rots in your 10x10 concrete yard.

    You're still paying back a loan you took out for a wedding 6 years ago.

    Facebook is your only social outlet

    Your life sounds miserable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    ... when you don't find spammers & trolls funny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,736 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Well mother tonight, will you look at the state of him. Sure 'tis cruel.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    I can't find my raincoat, had anyone seen it ?

    NBRU have hidden it. Part of a conspiracy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    You realise that the corruption is as staggering as the scenery


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Spider Web


    lol so tru onlee in irland nd nowher else!!!!! xxxx :D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    The attitude "Think of Number 1 above all other things" gaining mass following.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    You get more interested in poltics


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    You start to worry about leaving the immersion on..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    You know you're an adult in Ireland when you know what USC stands for!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Who the fcuk buys snowchains here?


  • Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Hair begins to grow where there was no hair before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    You can stay up late.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,509 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    Candie wrote: »
    Your life sounds miserable.

    no need to be such a *unt. This is meant to be a humerous thread.


    when you take exception to what a stranger says on the internet says, even if its not about you :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Doctor Nick


    Can't say I would relate to anything in OP but anyway-

    You can't walk past an off licence without children asking you to get beer for them which you refuse to do but remember when you used to do that too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Addressing your old teachers by their first names when they insist that you do that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    You start to worry about leaving the immersion on..

    When you have to endure a version of this "joke" repeatedly forever.

    I loathe this "you know you're Irish when" crap. Call me bitter if you like but there is nothing cringier than this shìte.

    And is the OP in the US? That list was a load of bóllocks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    When other people speculate that there might be something ''off'' with you because you're not married and you don't have any kids.


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


    When you find yourself telling the kids to "whissssssht, the news is on!"
    Getting excited over special offers on toilet rolls, calculating how much each roll costs, and checking the weight of two different brands to see which feel more substantial. Actually, maybe that's just me :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    You hate snowdays because you haven't bought chains for your tyres in the last ten years.

    Where in Ireland are you that you need snow tires? A real Irish adult realizes that if too snowey to drive you just stay at home and its a legitimate excuse for missing anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    You can go to the cinema on your own if you want.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    I lost the will to live reading those.

    That can happen at your age, don't worry too much 😋


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Spider Web


    benjamin d wrote: »
    When you have to endure a version of this "joke" repeatedly forever.

    I loathe this "you know you're Irish when" crap. Call me bitter if you like but there is nothing cringier than this shìte.

    And is the OP in the US? That list was a load of bóllocks.
    Ah go easy on Gremlinertia - their post actually IS something that's a very Irish adult worry. :)

    I agree with you otherwise though - those "Only in Ireland lol" things can mostly be found in any country, not just Ireland.

    The items in the opening list are not all specific to Ireland and certainly not all specific to adults, and some of them are just bizarre random digs.

    Lack of perspective and ludicrous blowing out of proportion seem on the rise in Ireland though, e.g.
    You realise that the corruption is as staggering as the scenery


  • Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭CPSW


    Sunshine = Good drying weather


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    branie2 wrote: »
    You can stay up late.

    but you're old so you get tired by 9pm and end up aching for bed before it gets dark...
    73Cat wrote: »
    When you find yourself telling the kids to "whissssssht, the news is on!"
    Getting excited over special offers on toilet rolls, calculating how much each roll costs, and checking the weight of two different brands to see which feel more substantial. Actually, maybe that's just me :)

    Lidl have a price per sheet on their signs. I judge what I buy based on that if in Lidl :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭cazzer22


    You're a professional on a decent salary and still can't afford to live in Dublin. What a joke


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    when ya get the shift on a night out then scare the woman away when you say "I live at home"

    when you'd sooner have some access cash to hand rather than buy your first car and get sick when you realize how much insurance will cost.

    when you realize how much of a peasant you are when people around you have health insurance and I'm still relying on the public system.

    when you flick through the channels and see that Vincent Browne is on, and get excited! (I know he's retired, I'll actually miss the guy on tv, I think he's great)

    When you cook your dinner as close as possible to the time that the news is on so you can sit down and eat and watch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,019 ✭✭✭uch


    You start to worry about leaving the immersion on..

    You worry even more about other people in the house leaving it on

    21/25



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Im pretty sure I left the immersion on today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    You'll give poor Des Bishop a heart attack with the immersion left on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    You become more health-conscious


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    You have abiding fond memories, if you are from Dublin, of shops like Clerys and Boyers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    You worry about your kids if they're out late


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    You see two people chatting in the supermarket with their arms folded "sure that's it now ya. Anyway I better go. So how's your aunty Josie I heard she wasn't well"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    When your out fridge shopping with the girlfirend campareing fridges to one that will best suit us.

    I never thought at 25 I would care that i wont more shelfs over drawers in my new fridge ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,471 ✭✭✭7 Seconds...


    When you start listening to the death notices on your local radio station.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    When you start listening to the death notices on your local radio station.

    I've caught myself reading them in the paper's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭WildWater


    When all the white envelopes that come through the letterbox have your name inside that little transparent window.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,537 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    You know you're an adult in Ireland when ... school is back on 23 August and you don't care!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    cazzer22 wrote: »
    You're a professional on a decent salary and still can't afford to live in Dublin. What a joke

    Professional moaner?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Barry vs. Lyons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    When you see a teenage couple kissing and it gives you the same feeling as when you seen your parents kissing when you were younger, awkward and slightly ill!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Watching the weather channel


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