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Do people actually use the term "west brit" in real life

  • 03-05-2011 10:49PM
    #1
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭


    I only ever hear the term on boards.ie


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  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Yore ma uses the term West Brit all the time.

    And in Russia, the term West Brit uses you.

    Both cool stories, bro.


  • #3
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I've heard it said, mostly in a joking manner, but a couple of times in seriousness.


  • #4
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    Never heard "west brit" till i joined boards


  • #5
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    I was heading up to Beflast one day, got lost and stopped and asked for directions. I saw a chinese guy, showed him the map and asked if this road went North, he said: 'No, it go west a brit'


    /christ that was a terrible joke...


  • #6
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    Yes and every day random people start ranting to me about how great atheism is and how everyone else is an inferior human being.

    and whenever I ask someone how to solve a problem they tell me to blast it with piss.


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  • #7
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,272 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I think people only use it once in real life.:eek:


  • #8
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    I was heading up to Beflast one day, got lost and stopped and asked for directions. I saw a chinese guy, showed him the map and asked if this road went North, he said: 'No, it go west a brit'


    /christ that was a terrible joke...

    oh dear


  • #9
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    saywhatyousee wrote: »
    Never heard "west brit" till i joined boards

    Same here, but I live a short walk from the capital of West Britain - Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire, as those filthy locals put it), where I spend my days wrapped in a Union Jack, fapping to pictures of the Queen.

    Does any other point on the compass have a 'Brit'? Possibly the south-east Brits of Brittany in France.


  • #10
    chughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Isn't it a term of affection used by Northside Dubliners when describing Southside Dubliners ?


  • #11
    TheBucks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭TheBucks


    I think it's only used to get some people going.


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  • #12
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    landsleaving wrote: »

    Does any other point on the compass have a 'Brit'? Possibly the south-east Brits of Brittany in France.


    There are lots of them in France. During the property boom/tiger they were mad to buy second houses over there or move to brittany

    Ever been on the Eurotunnel? Hardly no French cars on the bloody thing


  • #13
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Downlinz wrote: »
    I only ever hear the term on boards.ie

    In fairness, it's a term normally used on boards.ie by the same people who use the term "boggers"...even though "boggers" originated as a derivate of the term "Bog Trotter" which came to prominence in England back in the day as a derogatory term for all Irish people.

    So the irony generally just leaves me laughing.


  • #14
    MardiB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭MardiB


    My Dad calls me a west brit because I read the Sunday times:rolleyes:


  • #15
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    The real question is, do west brits actully say the nonsense they post in AH in real life? I say not because they would be smashed.


  • #16
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Predator_ wrote: »
    The real question is, do west brits actully say the nonsense they post in AH in real life? I say not because they would be smashed.

    I don't actually fap to the Queen. You caught me, fair play.

    I fap to Helen Mirren playing the Queen.


  • #17
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    In fairness, it's a term normally used on boards.ie by the same people who use the term "boggers"...even though "boggers" originated as a derivate of the term "Bog Trotter" which came to prominence in England back in the day as a derogatory term for all Irish people.

    So the irony generally just leaves me laughing.

    Wouldn't have thought it would be the same type using it, didn't know that's where it came from.

    Heard it a couple of times in real life, sounds just as stupid.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #18
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    landsleaving wrote: »
    I don't actually fap to the Queen. You caught me, fair play.

    I fap to Helen Mirren playing the Queen.

    Are you Irish?


  • #19
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Predator_ wrote: »
    Are you Irish?

    Not in your eyes! :pac:


  • #20
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    landsleaving wrote: »
    Not in your eyes! :pac:

    explain!


  • #21
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Predator_ wrote: »
    The real question is, do west brits actully say the nonsense they post in AH in real life? I say not because they would be smashed.

    You remind me of facekicker, without the humour.


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  • #22
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Predator_ wrote: »
    explain!

    I'm from West Britain :pac:


  • #23
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    landsleaving wrote: »
    I'm from West Britain :pac:

    Fair enough, you fit in well here.


  • #24
    threestripes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭threestripes


    only when referring to those inside the Pale and many Free Staters from Mayo


  • #25
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Predator_ wrote: »
    Fair enough, you fit in well here.

    I should hope so, if I leave the house I risk being smashed, and I have no desire to be a potato.


  • #26
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Predator_ wrote: »
    The real question is, do west brits actully say the nonsense they post in AH in real life? I say not because they would be smashed.

    The real question is, do keyboard warriors actully say the nonsense they post in AH in real life? I say not because they would be smashed.


  • #27
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    I've never heard the term West Brit used by anyone who wasnt cowering behind a keyboard.


  • #28
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    The real question is, do keyboard warriors actully say the nonsense they post in AH in real life? I say not because they would be smashed.

    Smashed by who?


  • #29
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Predator_ wrote: »
    Smashed by who?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gLCj9qXfp4


  • #30
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    landsleaving wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gLCj9qXfp4

    lol


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  • #31
    LondonIrish90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭LondonIrish90


    Predator_ wrote: »
    The real question is, do west brits actully say the nonsense they post in AH in real life? I say not because they would be smashed.

    Actually the real question is, do people like you walk the streets of Ireland looking for a tear up with people who don't conform to your stringent criteria for being a good Irishman?

    I'm willing to bet you wouldn't even give a dirty look if you saw a six foot tall man in the street in shirt with the union flag emblazoned on it in some way, let alone give it all the west-brit traitor verbal abuse.


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