Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

dxhound2005 · 14-12-2017 08:29PM

alchemist33 · 14-12-2017 08:30PM

Oops69 wrote: »

Irish people classifying restaurants by portion size e.g “that’s a great restaurant , heaps of food “, Jesus get some class you potato shoveling muck savages .

Nothing worse than spending loads on a restaurant and still being hungry afterwards. The quality is important but the quantity should be sufficient too.

whisky_galore · 14-12-2017 08:34PM

Oops69 wrote: »

Irish people classifying restaurants by portion size e.g “that’s a great restaurant , heaps of food “, Jesus get some class you potato shoveling muck savages .

An artistic, yet microscopic splodge in the middle of the plate is no good either. Too much food wankery these days.

chatticusfinch · 14-12-2017 08:34PM

Oops69 wrote: »

Irish people classifying restaurants by portion size e.g “that’s a great restaurant , heaps of food “, Jesus get some class you potato shoveling muck savages .

Muck savage is such a dull put down.

OldMrBrennan83 · 14-12-2017 08:35PM

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Dank Janniels · 14-12-2017 09:07PM

Not technically an Irish tradition but wtf is with putting food on slates instead of plates?? Mank!!

Fred Swanson · 14-12-2017 09:09PM

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foxy farmer · 14-12-2017 09:18PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

An artistic, yet microscopic splodge in the middle of the plate is no good either. Too much food wankery these days.

As I say, I want to eat it not admire it.

Hotblack Desiato · 14-12-2017 10:00PM

LirW wrote: »

Nah, they all go crazy about Dropkick Murphys.

You forgot the Kelly Family. It probably took years of effort to forget them, so fair play.

Oops69 · 14-12-2017 10:00PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Aaaaaaaa leeeee lllluuuuuu Tá an puc ar buile:pac:

x 50 !

LirW · 14-12-2017 10:54PM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

You forgot the Kelly Family. It probably took years of effort to forget them, so fair play.

They are still somewhat of a thing in Germany though. Joey Kelly is a C-celebrity there and a few others continue on. I don't understand why they are so crazy about them. Then on the other hand, Schlager is big business over there, something I don't understand either.

Maybe not so much of a tradition but the written skills of people in Facebook groups like Buy and Sell sites and the like.... That's beyond painful.

Speedwell · 14-12-2017 11:25PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Aaaaaaaa leeeee lllluuuuuu Tá an puc ar buile:pac:

Cringetastic, even to me in my beginner-for-tourists Irish school this summer

Ipso · 15-12-2017 12:25AM

LirW wrote: »

Nah, they all go crazy about Dropkick Murphys.
This is literally all they play in Irish pubs over there.

"Oh and I love Irish music"
"like what?"
" Dropkick Murpheeeeeeys is sooo keeewl"

You're talking about people who made David Hasselhoff a music star.

CruelCoin · 15-12-2017 12:35AM

Dank Janniels wrote: »

Not technically an Irish tradition but wtf is with putting food on slates instead of plates?? Mank!!

Or a burger on a really narrow wooden slab and the chips in a wanky ****ing miniature milk can.
All it does is make the food awkward to eat.

Hotblack Desiato · 15-12-2017 01:16AM

Can we just agree that Germans have sh!t taste in music (apart from Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Einstürzende Neubauten and Rammstein) and move on

Junkyard Tom · 15-12-2017 01:28AM

Every ****ing RTE TV show wallowing in the misery of some poor unfortunate who has some awful disease, survived some horrible accident, has a severely disabled child, is terminally ill... what the fuck is it with that?

wakka12 · 15-12-2017 01:29AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

"Hundreds die in *insert natural/manmade disaster*, no Irish people are believed to be involved."

Oh that's grand so...

Every country does that

Esel · 15-12-2017 02:27AM

CruelCoin wrote: »

I have actually never heard this.

I don't make calls to old people, so maybe that's it.

Legacy of the days when people without a home phone had to use a phone box. The receiver would state their number as a courtesy, so that if the caller had got a wrong number, they could hang up and dial again without losing their money by pressing Button A to talk (complete the connection).

Hotblack Desiato · 15-12-2017 02:32AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Every ****ing RTE TV show wallowing in the misery of some poor unfortunate who has some awful disease, survived some horrible accident, has a severely disabled child, is terminally ill... what the fuck is it with that?

Misery porn. Even in the 'classic' 80s Late Late Show days they still had the gimpy kid slot most weeks. I think it was an invitation to pray a novena and offer it up or some shyte like that.

Míshásta · 15-12-2017 01:14PM

server down wrote: »

You certainly find the world a terrifying place. You also seem to cringe at stuff that many cultures do, are confused about accents, and may probably be getting the name of the rooms wrong yourself. And Christ how many rooms do you have?

Sigh!. Jayney. My post was so over the top, I didn't think anyone would take it seriously. I was just satirising previous posts.

But if you have to explain a joke, I suppose wasn't really funny in the first place.

Míshásta · 15-12-2017 01:20PM

LirW wrote: »

Maybe not so much of a tradition but the written skills of people in Facebook groups like Buy and Sell sites and the like.... That's beyond painful.

The writing skills of people on internet forums can also cause severe aches.

Just messing

whisky_galore · 15-12-2017 01:49PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Every ****ing RTE TV show wallowing in the misery of some poor unfortunate who has some awful disease, survived some horrible accident, has a severely disabled child, is terminally ill... what the fuck is it with that?

Not just RTE, Today FM, Newstalk etc, have a 'Rare Disease of the Week That You've Never Heard Of' slot regularly.

Detailing how awful it is....what the useless HSE aren't doing to help and crowdfunding to get treatment in a proper hospital abroad is the usual thing.

_Dara_ · 17-12-2017 01:22AM

seamus wrote: »

I think he's referring specifically to "Mammy" and "Daddy" rather than Mam, Mum, Ma, Da, Dad.

There's something very deferential, very childish about saying "Mammy" when you're 25.

Speedwell's post made me laugh though. American traditions around names are weird; calling bosses by their surnames, saying "Yes, sir" when talking to more senior colleagues (I've a guy in work does this, he's older than me!), calling your in-laws "Mom" and "Dad"...<shudder>. I call our CEO and founders by their first names, I can't imagine saying, "Hello Mr. <name>" to anyone, except when I'm talking to my kids about their teachers.

It's funny, I remember growing up that the people on the road who didn't have kids, the ones who were just the quiet neighbours, were Mr/Mrs Somebody. Whereas your mates' parents were called by their first name or their full names. You'd always call them John or John Somebody, not Mr. Somebody.

I say Mammy and Daddy. And always will. Calling them anything else just isn’t right, it’s like talking about somebody else’s parents. My mother called her mother ‘mammy’ until the day my maternal grandmother died. Nothing wrong with it. It’s not childish. I fail to see how it differs from any other name a person calls their parents. Families differ.

Jerichoholic · 17-12-2017 01:26AM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Can we just agree that Germans have sh!t taste in music (apart from Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Einstürzende Neubauten and Rammstein) and move on

Can you honestly say Ireland has better taste?

Panrich · 17-12-2017 01:31AM

Not sure if it’s been mentioned already but

Olé olé olé olé....

at every occasion that an Irish team or sometimes just a person takes part in competition

Fourier · 17-12-2017 01:35AM

seamus wrote: »

I think he's referring specifically to "Mammy" and "Daddy" rather than Mam, Mum, Ma, Da, Dad.

There's something very deferential, very childish about saying "Mammy" when you're 25.

It's rarer than saying Mam here in my experience, still though diminutive names for parents are used in several other languages, it's not uncommon globally. I think it's just what some people are used to growing up and don't change. I don't think one can perform armchair psychoanalysis on it.

_Dara_ · 17-12-2017 01:42AM

Panrich wrote: »

Not sure if it’s been mentioned already but

Olé olé olé olé....

at every occasion that an Irish team or sometimes just a person takes part in competition

Was watching Katie Taylor’s Olympic win on YouTube last night; fuckin’ ‘olé olé olé’ started up as soon as she was declared the winner. :mad:

branie2 · 17-12-2017 12:45PM

_Dara_ wrote: »

Was watching Katie Taylor’s Olympic win on YouTube last night; fuckin’ ‘olé olé olé’ started up as soon as she was declared the winner. :mad:

It was sung at the Eurovision in Mill Street when we won yet again. It was at the time when Ireland kept winning the contest

fryup · 17-12-2017 01:05PM

cython wrote: »

Playing the national anthem to mark the end of the night in pubs and clubs. Fcuking embarrassing use of something that's supposed to represent national pride. Thankfully less prevalent around the Dublin area than where I'm from orginally

does that still go on?

(we must be the only country that does it)

branie2 · 17-12-2017 01:07PM

It shows pride and patriotism for the country

Cringeworthy irish traditions that won't just die

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