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Things you hate people saying

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Reached out - fúck off - you asked, get over yourself



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Get Real


    "Only in Ireland"

    People bring horses into pubs in Australia.

    The council uses masking tape to hold a bus stop pole to a tree in Poland.

    They spend multiple millions on Govt contracts in Spain to realise the trains don't fit the tunnels.

    They've a 10 year old boy who smokes in Indonesia.

    Nothing that has ever happened in Ireland has ever been "only in Ireland"

    Humans are humans. Weird, unusual, corrupt, bizarre stuff happens everywhere, every day. A person is intelligent. People collectively are stupid. (Including me!)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭Jump_In_Jack


    people who think they’re being posh pronouncing medicine as med-sin, like dropping the short ‘i’ syllable in the middle is an indication that you are upper class. Like parents gushing about their pride and joy doing med-sin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    ” doubled down on “ . ! . No just say repeated.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    ” beat up on her, him “ ! No beat him or her up. More American bovine excrement.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Vote4Squirrels




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Duke of Schomberg


    "the Traveler community" - aka . . .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,207 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    The two-syllable pronunciation of "medicine" (and "regiment") is very old. Yeah, it's a class marker, but that doesn't mean its an affectation.

    There are lots of other words that look like they should be three syllables but often get a two-syllable pronunciation. (E.g. "interest". And lets not get started on "colonel".) But they don't have the same link to socioeconomic class.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,875 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    US people saying "Let's Gooooo" for absolutely any hype moment. It doesn't matter what the context is, it's the only phrase they have. Please, for the love of god, say something more interesting.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭Jump_In_Jack


    People using "done" for everything in the past; I done it, he done it, what I done was …, etc
    It causes an urge that I have to resist to exclaim "DID!".



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,057 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    This one is sneaking in and it's a good one.

    "if you know, you know" Usually followed by a winking emoji.

    Hints at an inside joke or something that's only understood by a select group. Currently used on social media when posting about someone on their birthday or fathers day (for example) when there's actually nothing good to say about them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭Jump_In_Jack


    I get that it is different in the UK for example, where there are parts of the UK that abbreviate words irregularly and that's fine, it's even endearing sometimes, but in Hiberno English it only exists by affectation, it doesn't exist as a result of any differences in accent as far as I am aware. In general I've only ever heard an Irish person say it when it serves as code language, as you put it very well, a class marker, but in Ireland it would be a very intentional learned thing. Children aren't taught in school to say med-sin, at least that's been my experience.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,808 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    100%



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth 8-bit


    In defending some really nasty individual people saying

    " jimmy has a really tough demanding job at all hours requiring a lot of stamina focus and dedication "



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,651 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I would give it about 10%. It is stuff someone is making up in their head.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Stripeyman


    I hear you loud and clear. I work with somebody who seen and done a lot of things. I bite my tongue a lot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,207 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    No, it's a long-established class marker, both in Ireland and in England. Children pick it up at home; that's largely how class markers work.

    If you haven't noticed it, maybe you just don't mix with the right sort of people 😉! [Peregrinus ducks and runs.]



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭Jump_In_Jack


    Not sure why you say no and then agree with the point I made. I never said it wasn't around a long time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭GAAcailin




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭StreetLight


    Advertisers who use the word 'you' in ridiculous contexts: "Be the best you", or "The best for your you". My eyes just roll.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭Jump_In_Jack


    Yes , like “You do you, and we’ll do the rest.”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    One that annoys me is when people say "Where are you at?" instead of just "Where are you?".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭GAAcailin


    'I am sorry you feel that way' as an attempt at an apology



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,049 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    I always thought med sin was something naughty you did while on holiday in a southern european coastal resort.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    It's your round…

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,207 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    I'ts not an "intentionally learned thing", and people don't only say it because it's a class marker. Some people may adopt it for that reason, but others say it because that's how they've always said it, because that's how their parents said it, because that's how it's said in their family.

    Think about it. It only functions as a class marker because it is, in fact, the standard pronunciation in a certain milieu, handed down from generation to generation in the ordinary way that speech, accent, idiom is. If this wasn't the case, there's be no point in the socially ambitious or insecure consciously adopting it because it wouldn't have any class marker connotations.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭talla10


    I hate any of these social media Americanisms that have crept in now such as

    I was today years old when I found out….

    Ok boomer….

    Referring to yourself as Gen X/Gen Z/ Millennials etc…

    And Bro- Hate fellas calling me or anyone else bro.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    In all in anyways.



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