Honestly amazed..

Terry · 18-03-2009 10:03AM

Jumpy wrote: »

I think it was cue and the op edited it after reading the other post.

Yep. She was initially correct.

Rented Mule · 18-03-2009 10:17AM

road_2_damascus wrote: »

Ok, Im not from Dublin, but I knew for years that there is a tunnel going under the Phoenix Park that the Guinness brewery used to use to send kegs up to Castleknock, via mini rail link.. the tunnel still exists... I was listening to Gerry Ryan a few years back, and discovered that he didnt even know that it was there... I have many other examples from living in Dublin over the years

I remember Gerry not realising that there were train tracks along side of Croke Park as well.

Underground tunnels are common in most cities. It is not uncommon for people in this modern day to not be aware of them though as they are not in use.

I grew up next to 'Ford City' in Chicago where airplane engines were produced in WWII. They were then shipped underground to Midway Airport (@1.5 miles) as a safety precaution (don't ask me how German/Japanese bombers were going to get so far inland

There were also coal tunnels under the city centre of Chicago (The Loop) that would bring coal directly to the boilers of the skyskapers of the day. They had been out of use until someone pierced one under the Chicago River causing the 'Great Chicago Flood' in 1992 which nearly took down the entire city centre.

I beleive that a few US cities have 'old' subway lines that have been pretty much forgotten about.

Now, the spire is one thing, but not knowing what the Liffey is in Dublin ?

That's really sad.

Mr.Lizard · 18-03-2009 10:17AM

Captain-America wrote: »

So when she needs a new iron or whatever she goes down to the local Argo?

An if there's no Argo's in the area is that an argonaut?

JerryHandbag · 18-03-2009 11:00AM

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

An if there's no Argo's in the area is that an argonaut?

Take a bow son, take a bow

Donny5 · 18-03-2009 11:01AM

Terry wrote: »

Yep. She was initially correct.

Right, so let's see what we're arguing over here. I don't know what she originally had, but cue is the correct word here. Your own links support this.

stovelid · 18-03-2009 11:05AM

anniehoo wrote: »

Actually burst out laughing as i couldnt believe the ignorance of the girl not knowing if she was correct about the name of the Liffey and naming the Spire the Spiral! What is being taught or learnt for that matter in our schools? Unbelieveable!:rolleyes:

Look on the bright side. You got a lovely, warm moment of superiority for free.

Lobelia Overhill · 18-03-2009 11:20AM

latenia wrote: »

I used to work with a woman who would say "I love Nestlé chocolate" except she pronounced it to rhyme with vessel. How the f can you not have heard the word Nestlé; it used to be sung the Milky Bar ad ffs.

I'm fairly sure that when I was a child the ad said "Nessel's Milky Bar" it's probably on YouTube somewhere.

just sayin' is all...

AnonoBoy · 18-03-2009 11:36AM

Sitting in town yesterday near ChristChurch I was amazed by how many people with thick Dublin accents stopped me to ask me which way was TempleBar.

stovelid · 18-03-2009 11:39AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Sitting in town yesterday near ChristChurch I was amazed by how many people with thick Dublin accents stopped me to ask me which way was TempleBar.

More pertinently, why would Dublin people want to go there?

AnonoBoy · 18-03-2009 11:44AM

stovelid wrote: »

More pertinently, why would Dublin people want to go there?

Touche.

RaverRo808 · 18-03-2009 11:58AM

I often wonder what the La coc sportif wearing big hooped earing proxide blonde,heavily made up girls do be saying these days,maybe they've invented there own language,'Here come erre,will ya stop she said that and I was scarrlet,pure mad it was,the dirtbird,she onwly a wet yoke,oh my god inanyways'

LookingFor · 18-03-2009 12:23PM

This wasn't on a 13 or 13A was it?

I remember that route was inflicted on us poor DCU students.. it was possible to get high from the second smoke on those routes on your way home.

mikemac · 18-03-2009 03:00PM

anniehoo wrote: »

I was on the bus into town today for the oul festivities,

Ah boards.ie, where "town" equals Dublin

You do realise the Liffey flows through other towns?

Berty · 18-03-2009 03:13PM

Why are people amazed that stupid people ride on our public transport systems?

stovelid · 18-03-2009 03:24PM

mikemac wrote: »

Ah boards.ie, where "town" equals Dublin

+1

'Town' shouldn't equal Dublin. It's a city.

Cuddlesworth · 18-03-2009 03:48PM

Berty wrote: »

Why are people amazed that stupid people ride on our public transport systems?

I'm amazed stupid people figured out how public transport works.

anniehoo · 18-03-2009 04:11PM

Rented Mule wrote: »

Could you let us know what bus route this happened on ?

I am dying to know. lol

39 from blanchardstown

mikemac wrote: »

You do realise the Liffey flows through other towns?

Yep i do...and??

Mr. Presentable · 18-03-2009 04:25PM

JerryHandbag wrote: »

My mother thinks Argos is a plural word, in other words Argo's.

You should not cast your stones jerryhandbag. Your mother is less wrong than you - she just misunderstood. You, however, purport to know better. "Argo's" is not the plural form of the word, it is the possessive.

Babooshka · 18-03-2009 04:28PM

I've a good one from a few years back but it wasn't on public transport.

I was in Dunne's on Talbot Street, and put some ginger in the shopping basket along with a few other things.

When I got to the check out the young one looked at it, picked it up and then looked at me as if I had a piece of gick in my basket and it was an accident. "Wat's Dah?" ... "It's ginger" I says. She furiously starts flipping through her little guide book at the side of the cash register. "Wah does dah begin weh?" .. I was so tempted to say "A mammy ginger and a daddy ginger who love each other very much..." Fell out of the shop laughin.

skyhighflyer · 18-03-2009 06:45PM

Jumpy wrote: »

I think it was cue and the op edited it after reading the other post.

Ok.

First of all it was 'queue' - wrong, as I pointed out.

Then it was ninja-edited to say 'cue' - correct

Cue :pac: people berating me for being an idiot as the OP 'used the correct word'

Then edited back to say 'queue' - thanks annihoo

so people would understand what the hell I was talking about in my post.

Now it seems to be edited back to 'cue' which is of course correct.

EDIT: I of course deserve this kind of hassle and misunderstanding for being a pedantic arsehole.

/wanders out of the thread rubbing glasses with cardigan

Mr.Lizard · 18-03-2009 06:50PM

Babooshka wrote: »

When I got to the check out the young one looked at it, picked it up and then looked at me as if I had a piece of gick in my basket and it was an accident. "Wat's Dah?" ... "It's ginger" I says. She furiously starts flipping through her little guide book at the side of the cash register. "Wah does dah begin weh?"

Bad enough to be unable to spell the word, but presumably the word "ginger" was written on the packet which she was now holding?

banshee_bones · 18-03-2009 06:50PM

ronivek wrote: »

I don't think anyone should ever be surprised by what our learned friends who populate the upper back seating areas of buses come out with.

www.overheardindublin.com

anniehoo · 18-03-2009 07:43PM

skyhighflyer wrote: »

Ok.

First of all it was 'queue' - wrong, as I pointed out.

Then it was ninja-edited to say 'cue' - correct

Cue :pac: people berating me for being an idiot as the OP 'used the correct word'

Then edited back to say 'queue' - thanks annihoo so people would understand what the hell I was talking about in my post.

Now it seems to be edited back to 'cue' which is of course correct.

EDIT: I of course deserve this kind of hassle and misunderstanding for being a pedantic arsehole.

/wanders out of the thread rubbing glasses with cardigan

I wish yis would find my story half as interesting as the "cue" or "queue" mini drama unfolding

kraggy · 18-03-2009 07:58PM

Thank **** all the incorrect posts were pointed out and corrected by someone else. I'm really tired now and thought I was going to have to do it all by myself.

And I'd HAVE to do it. I couldn't just leave it.

It's gets REALLY tiring sometimes but it has to be done.

Kenno90 · 18-03-2009 08:05PM

mikemac wrote: »

Ah boards.ie, where "town" equals Dublin

You do realise the Liffey flows through other towns?

yes but Dublin is the only one thats important :pac:

18-03-2009 08:50PM

Berty wrote: »

Why are people amazed that stupid people ride on our public transport systems?

We should be thankful that they don't have their own cars. :eek:

JerryHandbag · 18-03-2009 09:04PM

nipplenuts wrote: »

You should not cast your stones jerryhandbag. Your mother is less wrong than you - she just misunderstood. You, however, purport to know better. "Argo's" is not the plural form of the word, it is the possessive.

There is no comeback from that. I hold me hands up. Well spotted sir.

Mr.Lizard · 18-03-2009 09:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

We should be thankful that they don't have their own cars. :eek:

They'd have no problem getting one tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYFQZFL0yoo

Honestly amazed..

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