Bastards Town

mondeo · 16-04-2011 11:42AM #1

Has anyone ever been to this place in Wexford?

Why is it called bastards town? Are the people there not offended by the name of their town? Does it have a big population?

If I was to go to bastards town tomorrow what would I expect to see there?
A shower of bastards or nice people?

Thanks

orourkeda · 16-04-2011 11:43AM

I thought this was going to be about cork

Sonics2k · 16-04-2011 11:47AM

orourkeda wrote: »

I thought this was going to be about cork

Me too.

lecker Hendl · 16-04-2011 11:50AM

To provide the beginning of the usual debate/mockery, I will say...

I thought this was going to be about Dublin.

Son Of A Vidic · 16-04-2011 12:39PM

mondeo wrote: »

what would I expect to see there?
A shower of bastards or nice people?

How about a shower of nice bastards.

Hookah · 16-04-2011 01:45PM

This place?

RachaelVO · 16-04-2011 02:09PM

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

How about a shower of nice bastards.

Or... the people are a nice shower of bastards!

16-04-2011 02:30PM

lecker Hendl wrote: »

To provide the beginning of the usual debate/mockery, I will say...

I thought this was going to be about Dublin.

It's not?

RichieC · 16-04-2011 02:31PM

maybe they make files there?

mickydoomsux · 16-04-2011 02:52PM

mondeo wrote: »

If I was to go to bastards town tomorrow what would I expect to see there?
A shower of bastards or nice people?

Thanks

I expect you'll see a load of knackers if it's in Wexford.

charlemont · 16-04-2011 02:54PM

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I expect you'll see a load of knackers if it's in Wexford.

+ strawberries..

who what when · 16-04-2011 02:56PM

Its a small townsland which was named after a french person who's second name happened to be bastard and most likely pronounced much differently. This was several hundred years ago so bastard probably wasnt a swear word back then!

Kivaro · 16-04-2011 03:50PM

who what when wrote: »

Its a small townsland which was named after a french person who's second name happened to be bastard and most likely pronounced much differently. This was several hundred years ago so bastard probably wasnt a swear word back then!

He must have been a right prick so ....

mike65 · 16-04-2011 04:03PM

Bastardtown has nothing on Muff or Effin

Hookah · 16-04-2011 04:07PM

mike65 wrote: »

....Effin

Twinned with Termonfeckin.

teddy_303 · 16-04-2011 04:20PM

And BallyCockSuas

vampire of kilmainham · 16-04-2011 04:52PM

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I expect you'll see a load of knackers if it's in Wexford.

ya wont see a load of knackers if your in wexford i have some friends living down there and it's a lovley place i know some of the travelling folk down there too and they are good decent people:p

vampire of kilmainham · 16-04-2011 04:58PM

who what when wrote: »

Its a small townsland which was named after a french person who's second name happened to be bastard and most likely pronounced much differently. This was several hundred years ago so bastard probably wasnt a swear word back then!

bastard is a word used to describe a child born out of wedlock..... and it was allways a swear word tooo people in earlyer centuries swore as much as we do now as well:eek::p

vampire of kilmainham · 16-04-2011 05:05PM

teddy_303 wrote: »

And BallyCockSuas

ballycocksuasuranus

16-04-2011 05:24PM

Ha. There is a font called Bastard.

The Bastard face is an exploration of the blackletter face (the earliest types, similar to those made by Gutenberg, and based upon monastic script) with a simple kit of parts. The face is available in three weights: Spindly Bastard, Fat Bastard, and Even Fatter Bastard.

Pyridine · 16-04-2011 05:44PM

who what when wrote: »

Its a small townsland which was named after a french person who's second name happened to be bastard and most likely pronounced much differently. This was several hundred years ago so bastard probably wasnt a swear word back then!

Wasn't this guy by any chance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAiI9z7X2_c

theboss80 · 16-04-2011 05:54PM

The que on childrens allowance day must be huge

Paracore · 19-04-2011 01:17PM

orourkeda wrote: »

I thought this was going to be about cork

I thought you were going to have a coherent reply for once.

veryangryman · 19-04-2011 02:15PM

Paracore wrote: »

I thought you were going to have a coherent reply for once.

In After Hours? Your mother

thebigbiffo · 19-04-2011 02:23PM

someday i'm going to go to Piltown and have my photo taken at the welcome sign in a happy faced teeshirt, sunglasses and holding lightsticks.

BEASTERLY · 19-04-2011 02:27PM

mondeo wrote: »

Has anyone ever been to this place in Wexford?

Why is it called bastards town? Are the people there not offended by the name of their town? Does it have a big population?

If I was to go to bastards town tomorrow what would I expect to see there?
A shower of bastards or nice people?

Thanks

Both Paradise and Horestown are only a short drive from Bastardstown, maybe the council called them that as a joke!

coddlesangers · 19-04-2011 02:28PM

Wexfords great for place names - very close to bastardstown is horestown, the two surely linked...not that far from foulksmills (pronounced of course, ****smills)...

Aoifey! · 19-04-2011 02:29PM

When I used to play football for Horeswood in Wexford when I was little, all the other teams would call us the whores from the wood

NoDice · 19-04-2011 02:30PM

Brilliant. That's going on my list of places I have to go to and take pictures of me beside the sign..

I still giggle at "Uranus"...

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 19-04-2011 03:16PM

mondeo wrote: »

Has anyone ever been to this place in Wexford?

Yep. Went for the laugh.
There's nothing to see but a few houses and a stony beach. No hilarious sign-posts, no gift-shops selling bastardstown mugs or t-shirts.
You wouldn't even know you where there but for GPS.
They shouldn't have such an entertaining place name if they're not prepared to back it up somehow... bastards.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 19-04-2011 03:31PM

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I expect you'll see a load of knackers if it's in Wexford.

You are QUARE spasticated to go sayins that.

Bastards Town

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