Culchies

Pantsless · 14-01-2007 07:14PM #1

Hi

Was just wondering was the term culchie offensive to anyone. Even if its used by a country person addressing themselves. Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

Naked Lepper · 14-01-2007 07:19PM

i just call them boggers mainly

InFront · 14-01-2007 07:22PM

I'm interested in knowing what magazine it was?!

Steyr · 14-01-2007 07:27PM

Backhoe and Shovel weekly..........:p

Rb · 14-01-2007 07:29PM

They can't complain, Dublin says so.

Zonko · 14-01-2007 07:31PM

Culchies normally hate townies just as much, so I don't think so really. Although if you called a culchy so to their face as an insult, I don't think they're be pleased.

plonk · 14-01-2007 07:33PM

The only townies cluchies dont like are the same townies as everyone dislikes----scummers.

InFront · 14-01-2007 07:34PM

Once, at a birthday party in tipperary aged about ten, a big fight broke out between the culchies and the townies. This is no joke. The culchies were the boys from outside the village whose Dads were farmers, and the "townies" were the boys whose parents worked in the nearest towns, Nenagh or Limerick, or perhaps the village.
The culchie/ townie divide is something I will truly never understand. It even exists in the country!

tallaght01 · 14-01-2007 07:38PM

I always find the term culchie confusing when i leave dublin. I mean, to me, basically anyone further out than say leixlip is a culchie. But when I'm down in, say, cork and I call someone a culchie, they sometimes reply in their big bogger accent "no, im not a culchie, im from the town".

Does anyone else agree that they're still culchies??

Smellyirishman · 14-01-2007 07:41PM

tallaght01 wrote:

Does anyone else agree that they're still culchies??

Of course.

connundrum · 14-01-2007 07:43PM

Pantsless wrote:

Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

What does this even mean

If the term 'Culchie' does offend you then you must have very little else to be worried about tbh

InFront · 14-01-2007 07:43PM

It all comes from the inherent belief that someone who lives on a farm in the middle of the beautiful Irish countryside is a lesser person by virtue of that fact. I put it down to either envy or pointless line-drawing between people. Is it just an Irish thing? I've never heard of it anywhere else.

Miguel_Sanchez · 14-01-2007 07:50PM

Pantsless wrote:

Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

I think you'll find it's "I saw this in a magazine" not "I seen this in a magazine".

Damn townies and their bad grammar.

purple'n'gold · 14-01-2007 07:54PM

This is slightly off topic, but I’m sure you will get my drift. This harks back to the days when the Irish were simply landless peasants. Everyone who lives outside a town and owns a couple of acres describes himself as a farmer. In some cases this is ludicrously funny. I remember being at a political meeting some years back and this pathetic individual with 10 children and 20 acres actually put himself on the same par as his “neighbour” who had 10 horses and 200 acres.

InFront · 14-01-2007 07:58PM

I'm not sure I understand why he was a 'pathetic individual'?

SimpleSam06 · 14-01-2007 08:01PM

InFront wrote:

I'm not sure I understand why he was a 'pathetic individual'?

Indeed, it looks like he did quite a bit more riding than the horse farmer...

purple'n'gold · 14-01-2007 08:07PM

SimpleSam06 wrote:

Indeed, it looks like he did quite a bit more riding than the horse farmer...

naw, same amount of riding I would say, except he listened to the parish priest. The guy with the horses (the real farmer) did'nt. Hence, "pathetic individual "

Rb · 14-01-2007 08:08PM

purplengold wrote:

naw, same amount of riding I would say, except he listened to the parish priest. The guy with the horses (the real farmer) did'nt. Hence, "pathetic individual "

What are you on about?

14-01-2007 08:11PM

No point in asking here, us culchies don't have the internet, not that we'd know what to do with it if we did.

Edit: Ger'of my land. Tey tuk ur jawbs!

faceman · 14-01-2007 08:13PM

D wrote:

No point in asking here, us culchies don't have the internet, not that we'd know what to do with it if we did.

Edit: Ger'of my land. Tey tuk ur jawbs!

At least if ye had the internet, ye mite stop robbin our women and jobs!

nesf · 14-01-2007 08:24PM

tallaght01 wrote:

I always find the term culchie confusing when i leave dublin. I mean, to me, basically anyone further out than say leixlip is a culchie. But when I'm down in, say, cork and I call someone a culchie, they sometimes reply in their big bogger accent "no, im not a culchie, im from the town".

Does anyone else agree that they're still culchies??

It's them vs us. A bunch of Cork lads and Dublin lads slag each other over being from Cork or Dublin. Then they are put into seperate rooms and the northsiders and southsiders in the respective rooms start slagging each other. And so on.

Rb · 14-01-2007 08:24PM

faceman wrote:

At least if ye had the internet, ye mite stop robbin our women and jobs!

Culchies?Robbing women?Lol.

walrusgumble · 14-01-2007 08:43PM

doc martins or boots that were in style 5 years ago, rolled up cheque shirts and the obligatory pack of john player blues or major, and rebel songs blaring out of their sh4tty pimped up cars lol.

purple'n'gold · 14-01-2007 08:48PM

walrusgumble wrote:

doc martins or boots that were in style 5 years ago, rolled up cheque shirts and the obligatory pack of john player blues or major, and rebel songs blaring out of their sh4tty pimped up cars lol.

And a love of the “music” and I use the word with extreme caution, of Big Tom and Brendan Shine. Shudder!!!!

FlutterinBantam · 14-01-2007 08:50PM

Pantsless wrote:

Hi

Was just wondering was the term culchie offensive to anyone. Even if its used by a country person addressing themselves. Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

Not half as offensive as bad grammar tbh

FlutterinBantam · 14-01-2007 08:52PM

Sorry Jeff didn't see your post...well said.

biko · 14-01-2007 08:55PM

I only find culchie offensive when said by a jackeen

On the other hand I sometimes refer to rural Galwegians as boggers.

Goodshape · 14-01-2007 08:59PM

walrusgumble wrote:

doc martins or boots that were in style 5 years ago, rolled up cheque shirts and the obligatory pack of john player blues or major, and rebel songs blaring out of their sh4tty pimped up cars lol.

The above is what I'd call a culchie / bogger / redneck.

The Dublin thing of "anyone outside the pale" is just painting with too wide a brush to be honest. You can be from the 'countryside' these days without being a culchie.

walrusgumble · 14-01-2007 09:04PM

big tom... brendan shine ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

i am from the midlands, so may i firstly apologise for the following people who have destroyed your granny's (anyone ever have to go to there grans on a sunday and put up with the following on radio/video, or be bored senseless at a wedding) the list is as follows;

brendan shine - athlone co. roscommon
mike flavin and declan neery - somewhere in lonford like newtownforbes
foster n allen - mount temple, moate, co westmeath
joe "the boy" dolan - mullingar, co westmeath
tr dallas - mount temple, moate, co westmeath
sharon turley, - athlone westmeath
seamus moore - kilitimagh co roscommon
loads more but i dread to even think about them, as it may give them much needed exposure.

so as i say we are sorry. i remember some donegal people use to appologise for danny o'donnell, well fair enough although a big monster but at least that is one person. we have 8. ahhhh

walrusgumble · 14-01-2007 09:08PM

Goodshape wrote:

The above is what I'd call a culchie / bogger / redneck.

The Dublin thing of "anyone outside the pale" is just painting with too wide a brush to be honest. You can be from the 'countryside' these days without being a culchie.

yep that is what a cultie/bogger/redneck is. i am sure they have new fades though, maybe found brycream or shockwaves and up graded from lynx though.

as regard to your second comment, fair enough that is true, but then again is there a good lot from the pale living in the country side now lol. but ye you are right.

Kintarō Hattori · 14-01-2007 09:11PM

I don't find it offensive at all as I'd much rather be a culchie than from Dublin.

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