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What ever happened to a shift?

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  • #32
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I'm from Dublin and it was 'get off with', then 'meet' and now it's 'score'. Never shift.


  • #33
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    get off on?


  • #34
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Larianne wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin and it was 'get off with', then 'meet' and now it's 'score'. Never shift.

    OMG, now that brings me back!!
    Larianne wrote: »
    LORRAINE??????????? :mad::mad:

    Once was for a birthday party, once was bringing a classmate in coz she'd never been and the other two times were coz it was a Sunday and it was the busiest place to go.

    (I've actually been 5 times but ssssssssssh!)
    hahahahaha ooooops, Larianne :D


  • #35
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Kiera wrote: »
    She's from Dublin ffs. 4 times is too much!

    /unless you're a nurse, Lorraine? :P

    LORRAINE??????????? :mad::mad:

    Once was for a birthday party, once was bringing a classmate in coz she'd never been and the other two times were coz it was a Sunday and it was the busiest place to go.

    (I've actually been 5 times but ssssssssssh!)


  • #36
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    I've heard it called "score with" from aCark girl.


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  • #37
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    get off on?

    Get off with.

    Yeah, Kiera. When I was about 13-14 going to the discos. :)


  • #38
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    'Getting with' was a common one when I was younger.


  • #39
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Kiera wrote: »
    Only country folk called it a shift. Dubs called it a wear/snog/mooch/kiss.

    Never called it any of those except kiss. Who calls it a snog in Dublin?!?!?!? :eek:


  • #40
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Larianne wrote: »
    Never called it any of those except kiss. Who calls it a snog in Dublin?!?!?!? :eek:

    Southsiders :P


  • #41
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Kiera wrote: »
    Southsiders :P

    No we don't :eek:


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  • #42
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    No we don't :eek:

    Arent you a Westie?


  • #43
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Kiera wrote: »
    Only country folk called it a shift. Dubs called it a wear/snog/mooch/kiss.

    +1 for snog.

    ah the days of the slow set :)


  • #44
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    this thread is all so wrong.


  • #45
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Kiera wrote: »
    Arent you a Westie?

    Thats what I thought too. Anything goes out in the wild west.
    OPENROAD wrote: »
    +1 for snog.

    ah the days of the slow set :)

    How old are you? :pac:


  • #46
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    +1 for snog.

    ah the days of the slow set :)

    I was in Wexford last weekend and they had a "slow set". Was sooooooo funny :D


  • #47
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Up here its called a game of 'Tonsil tickling'...


  • #48
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Larianne wrote: »


    How old are you? :pac:

    I was 36 yesterday :)


  • #49
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    I was 36 yesterday :)

    Belated Happy Birthday to you!


  • #50
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Kiera wrote: »
    I was in Wexford last weekend and they had a "slow set". Was sooooooo funny :D

    :D

    They stopped around the mid 90's from what I can remember, clubbing was never the same again imo :(


  • #51
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    That place on Nassau Street still does them if you either want to partake or avoid them.


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  • #52
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    :D

    They stopped around the mid 90's from what I can remember, clubbing was never the same again imo :(

    Get down the sticks, dude. Ya even get a feel of an arse if you're brazen enough.

    /and that was from me :P


  • #53
    OPENROAD
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    Larianne wrote: »
    That place on Nassau Street still does them if you either want to partake or avoid them.

    Is that the place on the corner of that street that leads up to the Dail? Can't remember what it used to be called.


  • #54
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Never used shift. You were meeting someone. Then you'd call it when you were breaking up.


  • #55
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Kiera wrote: »
    Get down the sticks, dude. Ya even get a feel of an arse if you're brazen enough.

    /and that was from me :P

    ha ha : :D sounds good lol


  • #56
    -Trek-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,139 ✭✭✭-Trek-


    where I come from SHIFT is still above the CTRL key


    /its ok I'll get my own coat


  • #57
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Is that the place on the corner of that street that leads up to the Dail? Can't remember what it used to be called.

    Its had a few names. Think its Bojangles now. Oh no, its called Club Nassau now.


  • #58
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    around these parts it was always called "being with someone".ie tap girl on the should "would you be with my friend" never heard someone say shift


  • #59
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    saywhatyousee wrote: »
    around these parts it was always called "being with someone".ie tap girl on the should "would you be with my friend" never heard someone say shift

    OOOh forgot that one too!

    "Will ya be with him/her? Will ya"


  • #60
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Kiera wrote: »
    Get down the sticks, dude. Ya even get a feel of an arse if you're brazen enough.

    /and that was from me :P

    I live in about a rural a place as you can get and I've never seen a slow set. Then again Wexford is an odd place.
    saywhatyousee wrote: »
    around these parts it was always called "being with someone".ie tap girl on the should "would you be with my friend" never heard someone say shift

    Being with someone was another one I used regularly.


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  • #61
    clikityclak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭clikityclak


    saywhatyousee wrote: »
    around these parts it was always called "being with someone".ie tap girl on the should "would you be with my friend" never heard someone say shift


    Ahh so true, the teeage discos after taking 2 sips of vodka and thinking your pissed! 'Shift' is definitely making a revival though, but in a jokey kinda way. It's a great word though ;)


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