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Are you good to call things by their new name?

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    #92
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,536 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    This bloody thread has put me in a mood for a Marathon 😡😡😄



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    #93
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,222 ✭✭✭emo72


    I remember when "the pipe" was cut off and then you'd only have rte1. Bad aul days they were.



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    #94
    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Had a taxi driver recently who referred to Pearse Station as Westland Row Station (what it had been called prior to 1966).

    When I asked him about it he said he still uses the name that he remembers from his childhood.



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    #95
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,188 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552725#Comment_121552725

    Completely forgot about 5 Star- there was one in Rathmines I know that - where else did they exist do you know?



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    #96
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,470 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    No one can convince me the tv changer should be referred to as the remote control.

    This isn't Star Trek.



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    #97
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552739#Comment_121552739

    Nicest ever. Supposed to be relaunched but seems to be a procession of false dawns.



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    #98
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,867 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121551250#Comment_121551250

    I'd rather retain such names as it annoys the right people. Plus I dislike the idea of erasing our colonial past and pretending it never happened.



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    #99
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,188 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552774#Comment_121552774

    parents used to call Connolly Amiens st - funny though they always said Heuston not Kingsbridge - both of course changed names in 1966



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    #100
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,188 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552739#Comment_121552739

    Two different chocolate titans, each with their own chocolaty goodness 😀

    An article on Two and Two- rumours it was to make a comeback

    https://shanemcdonald.ie/who-remembers-2-2-bars-2009-09/




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    #101
    Viscount Aggro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Viscount Aggro


    On radio stations, the presenters have to use the sponsored name.. bord gais energy theatre, Aviva etc.

    If I was working on radio, I would outright refuse to do this.



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    #102
    Happyhouse22
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    Interesting the Aviva stadium will be called Dublin Arena and not Lansdowne road during Euro 2028.



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    #103
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,064 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553006#Comment_121553006

    If I was working on radio, I would outright refuse to do this.

    And that would be the end of your on air radio career.



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    #104
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,093 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    It's still Bruce Jenner to me god dammit.



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    #105
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    Virgin Media TV sent a great response to Twitter, after the re-brand to X.

    Virgin Media.PNG




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    #106
    looksee
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553118#Comment_121553118

    That's very funny 😁



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    #107
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,521 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553047#Comment_121553047

    Happens in every sport with a major tournament. Etihad will be city of Manchester stadium. Uefa will effectively have complete control over those stadiums for the tournament and they might be sponsored by a different insurance company/airline etc.



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    #108
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,188 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    There was/is an estate in Churchtown/Rathfarnham called Mountain View-it’s a 1960s former council estate - its name changed from Holylands in the early 80s because it was a notorious hotspot for trouble- the usual few bad eggs making misery for the majority good eggs.

    Its mad to see houses there now going for over 400k - I still call it holylands 😀



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    #109
    GAAcailin
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭GAAcailin


    I always say Belfield, my kids give out to me and say it’s UCD; Carysfort is UCD too. Think Belfield is more accurate 😜



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    #110
    Annasopra
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549687#Comment_121549687

    If you look at Bus Eireanns website they name bus stops of shops that closed 10/20 years ago.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #111
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,932 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121551594#Comment_121551594

    Crazy Prices

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #112
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Do people still refer to Lynched rather than Lankum?



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    #113
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    I'm not great for doing that. Venue and sport entity names in particular. Especially when such a thing had a perfectly nice catchy name or at least something that you got used to over the years and next its called after some stupid corporate entity.

    Like whotf called it the Barclay Premiership when it was called that? I bet nobody only the people in the studio who had to do it. Or the DP World Tour. Its the European Tour end of. Twitter will be Twitter.

    Sometimes I do. But there is no pattern to it. If it sounds alright I guess.

    It's called 3Olympia now? Wtaf? Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea to begin with? I mean even from 'their' point of view. Ye lets call an old, cool, established cultural venue after our stupid useless faceless company, people will love it and will love us for it... Really?



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    #114
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,156 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552867#Comment_121552867

    Crumlin Village - it went Five Star - Quinnsworth - SuperValu. Possibly was a Crazy Prices for a short time.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #115
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,156 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552769#Comment_121552769

    Before RTE2 was around, RTE1 was just called RTE 😊

    My grandad still called it Telefis Eireann (early 60s name) even after RTE2 came along

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #116
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,156 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552987#Comment_121552987

    That picture is definitely not a Two and Two bar 🙁 it's feckin' Lindt! 🤮

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #117
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,066 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Tayto Park.

    Langstone Road.

    Point Theatre.


    I'm not good with new names.



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