What's the story with culchies with D4 accents???

spiderbeast · 06-03-2005 08:47PM #1

What's the story with culchies with D4 accents???

It just doesn't seem normal. :cool:

JackKelly · 06-03-2005 08:50PM

good post

Chick · 06-03-2005 09:04PM

Yes, it's called "faking it" :rolleyes:

alleepally · 06-03-2005 09:26PM

Even more to the point... What's the story with D4 accents nevermind who is speaking? THE single most annoying accent in the country with it's Americanisms. Drop all the little "rindabite" Dart riding, 'like' saying, MTV watching, "oh my god" types into a vat of boiling oil and rid this country of this horrible accent once and for all. Give me a culchie accent any day like those Wexford accents on the girls in Jade singing in Your a Star.

Chick · 06-03-2005 09:29PM

Wow... hostile :eek:

alleepally · 06-03-2005 09:32PM

Chick wrote:

Wow... hostile :eek:

Oh yeah, add to that the fact that most of the female variety of the species are blonde bimbos who "like to shop" and probably think that the opening of the Dundrum Shopping Centre is "Is, like, soooo amazing."

po0k · 06-03-2005 09:36PM

And maybe their the daughters of construction works/contractors :)

StupidLikeAFox · 06-03-2005 09:54PM

alleepally wrote:

Oh yeah, add to that the fact that most of the female variety of the species are blonde bimbos who "like to shop" and probably think that the opening of the Dundrum Shopping Centre is "Is, like, soooo amazing."

The real question is, why do you find it so offensive? do you not think its ''cool'' or the in thing, or is it because D4 bashing is the latest trend?

DirtyHarry · 06-03-2005 10:09PM

ColHol wrote:

The real question is, why do you find it so offensive? do you not think its ''cool'' or the in thing, or is it because D4 bashing is the latest trend?

bah D4 bashing is old....its a thing you get used to when your in town everyday and your subjected to it all the time....especially in college.....its just if i complained about knackers and there accents and what they wear...or the growing thread of the "chav" in dublin.....my god dont get me started on the "chav" dubs....geeezzzzz :rolleyes:

alleepally · 06-03-2005 10:24PM

ColHol wrote:

The real question is, why do you find it so offensive? do you not think its ''cool'' or the in thing, or is it because D4 bashing is the latest trend?

Neither of the above, I just can't stand the ubiquity of the accent. Hearing someone from Cork, Galway or wherever speak with an affected accent gets to me especially when the affected accent lacks diction (whether spoken by an actual D4 resident or not). I find it grates on the ear and is harder to understand than some of the fast talking regional accents such as the Kerry accent.

The fact that the "rindabite" set represent a mindset as well as an accent probably doesn't help matters.

jesus_thats_gre · 07-03-2005 03:56AM

D4 ****ing rocks!

simu · 07-03-2005 04:37AM

alleepally wrote:

Neither of the above, I just can't stand the ubiquity of the accent. Hearing someone from Cork, Galway or wherever speak with an affected accent gets to me especially when the affected accent lacks diction (whether spoken by an actual D4 resident or not). I find it grates on the ear and is harder to understand than some of the fast talking regional accents such as the Kerry accent.

The fact that the "rindabite" set represent a mindset as well as an accent probably doesn't help matters.

Unless you know a person's personal history quite well, it's extremely hard to judge whether their accent is an affectation or not. And indeed, I see nothing wrong in a person changing their accent if they so desire.

SirIrish · 07-03-2005 04:45AM

Easiest way to find out if their faking it is to get 'em drunk. 'Tis hard to keep on a fake accent when ur full.

Ajnag · 07-03-2005 06:19AM

Who cares so long as culchie's with d4 accents remain in dublin never to return.

Pity the dub's tho. Maybe the whole chav thing is a repellant of sorts.

[Jackass] · 07-03-2005 06:46AM

Personally, i find the knacker accent on "jung fella's" to be the most annoying/ridiculasly exagerated....but each to their own i suppose....but coincidence that the majority of people find the D4 accent the most irritating, and D4 bashing is a national past-time, while it's also the accent most associated with money? Ironic...only in Ireland.....:rolleyes:

Terry · 07-03-2005 07:50AM

simu wrote:

Unless you know a person's personal history quite well, it's extremely hard to judge whether their accent is an affectation or not. And indeed, I see nothing wrong in a person changing their accent if they so desire.

you're one of them, aren't you!

I find it extremely pretentious when someone from outside of D4 chanes their accent. Why bother? are you ashamed of where you come from? So what if you have a limerick/cork/galway accent. no-one is going to judge you differently.
I think I know the reason behind this phenomanon (or at least one of the reasons). anyone from dublin who has ever travelled anywhere esle in the country and tried to get accomodation will back me up on this one.
A few years back I was working in a small town in cork. we were fitting out a tile shop and the guys who ran the place told us there was a B&B just down the road, in one of the pubs. We went in and were greeted with smiles until we bagan to speak. we were then immediately told that there was no room at the inn (insert jesus joke here). the owner assumed we were from dublin and refused to give a room to 'those dublin ****ers'. I know this because the owners of the shop we were working on told us the next day. none of us are from Dublin, nor have we ever lived in dublin.
point is, maybe these culchies are dublinphobic and think that by adopting a dublin accent they will fit in and not be discovered as the culchies they truly are. perhaps they think that because they hate dubs that all dubs hate culchies and by speaking with dublin marbles in their mouths they will be instantly liked. just a thought.
living in Leixlip has the drawback of having neither a strong dublin or culchie accent. any time we worked in dublin we were pegged as culchies and vice versa. I'm never leaving Leixlip again. the rest of the country is insane.

07-03-2005 10:29AM

Most "D4" people are 2nd or 3rd generation culchies. Their accent just comes from going to local schools.

Kingsize · 07-03-2005 10:53AM

Just a small point ,(Dublin) scumbags have been around for years & generally have followed certain trends , however the only people who are following the "chav" trend are those who have chose to start using that phrase to describe them.
posh kids trying to be hard are the worst,if youre going to have prentensions at least point them in the right direction.

AARRRGH · 07-03-2005 11:08AM

While I agree some people from the D4 areas do talk like tossers, I have spoken like a (mild) D4 person my entire life.

There is nothing wrong with speaking properly.

(Side note: something I've always noticed is that the people who hate the D4 accent the most are people who cannot pronounce words properly - for example, I say computer they say cam-pew-tur. It's an inferiority thing.)

joejoem · 07-03-2005 11:13AM

alleepally wrote:

Even more to the point... What's the story with D4 accents nevermind who is speaking? THE single most annoying accent in the country with it's Americanisms. Drop all the little "rindabite" Dart riding, 'like' saying, MTV watching, "oh my god" types into a vat of boiling oil and rid this country of this horrible accent once and for all. Give me a culchie accent any day like those Wexford accents on the girls in Jade singing in Your a Star.

Go back to the country you inbred retard.

super_furry · 07-03-2005 11:52AM

Seriously, would anyone really care if a controlled nuke was dropped on Blackrock or Donnybrook?

Matthewthebig · 07-03-2005 11:53AM

yes because i live there!

full forward · 07-03-2005 11:57AM

And roish, I was like Oh my God lets go for a point. And she was like lets pork the cor in the cor pork. And I was like Hello? Roish?

pigeonbutler · 07-03-2005 11:58AM

joejoem wrote:

Go back to the country you inbred retard.

What a constructive contribution to make.

Especially when one considers that people from the country are more inclined to move away from where they were brought up and thus meet people outside their small local gene pool, unlike lots of Dublin people who never leave the city unless its to go to Tenerife or Majorca for a week.

Matthewthebig · 07-03-2005 12:02PM

full forward wrote:

And roish, I was like Oh my God lets go for a point. And she was like lets pork the cor in the cor pork. And I was like Hello? Roish?

just because someone is from Blackrock doesn't make them talk like that. I hate people who put on that accent!

joejoem · 07-03-2005 12:07PM

pigeonbutler wrote:

What a constructive contribution to make.

Especially when one considers that people from the country are more inclined to move away from where they were brought up and thus meet people outside their small local gene pool, unlike lots of Dublin people who never leave the city unless its to go to Tenerife or Majorca for a week.

Hmmm......... 1 Million + people live in Dublin, yes you are right the chances of me sleeping with a relative are much higher than someone who spends his randy teenage years in a small village where everyone is related. I mean everytime I go into town and get talking to a girl I have to stop before I do anything and do a backround check.

karlh · 07-03-2005 12:09PM

LOL great thread.

i work on Leeson St., by a window, and have to listen to a whole new generation of these fcukers going in and out of 'The Institush' all day.

they drink Lattés... LATTÉS!! on the way to school...SCHOOL!! in my day I had to suck the urine out of my school uniform for sustinance on the way to a cold, dark classroom!

anyways. it's great to see the country doing well (in ways) but this new class of 'rindabite' plebs (lovely phrase btw) are doing my head in. can't we all just be humble and irish like in the 'ol days and not all behave and sound like Bob Geldof without the charity!?

Keyzer · 07-03-2005 12:21PM

And roish, I was like Oh my God lets go for a point. And she was like lets pork the cor in the cor pork. And I was like Hello? Roish?

Quality...

they drink Lattés... LATTÉS!! on the way to school...SCHOOL!! in my day I had to suck the urine out of my school uniform for sustinance on the way to a cold, dark classroom!

Even more quality...

The "Roish, like I'm going for a pint or Heino in huuuuugans on the Doirt" accent gets on my nerves...
The "Story bud, pinta bleedin bud mate" accent gets on my nerves equally as much as...

But the country lad/girl with a
"Roish, like I'm going for a pint or Heino in huuuuugans in my troctor" accent really gets on my tits....
Why do some, and I emphasize the word some, people from the country do this?

Lafortezza · 07-03-2005 12:21PM

karlhoff wrote:

in my day I had to suck the urine out of my school uniform for sustinance on the way to a cold, dark classroom!

That's nothing, in my day I had to sneak next door in the early hours and squeeze the neighbours dog so it would píss on my uniform, only then would I have sustenance on the way to a cold, dark classroom.

You had it easy!

karlh · 07-03-2005 12:23PM

LOL, Jesus.

super_furry · 07-03-2005 12:25PM

lafortezza wrote:

That's nothing, in my day I had to sneak next door in the early hours and squeeze the neighbours dog so it would píss on my uniform, only then would I have sustenance on the way to a cold, dark classroom.

You had it easy!

A dog? A dog? Proper little Lord Snotty weren't you? We had to dive headlong into ditches in search of rats in the vain hope that we could squeeze a drop or two out of them.

What's the story with culchies with D4 accents???

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