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Going into shops wearing Wellingtons

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  • #32
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    California Man wrote: »
    Because it's disgusting. I see your location is Dublin. Did you ever encounter this behaviour in the capital of Ireland?

    Well, never in Dublin but when I'm back home, yes. Nobody seems to care though.


  • #33
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Really must get a decent pair of wellies...


  • #34
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    stupidusername wrote: »
    A real man don't change his wellies for no one

    Except for the mass shoes of a Sundayyyyyyyy mornin


  • #35
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    prinz wrote: »
    Except for the mass shoes of a Sundayyyyyyyy mornin

    of course, after a good spit and polish


  • #36
    California Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭California Man


    Rolli wrote: »
    Well, never in Dublin but when I'm back home, yes. Nobody seems to care though.

    Go raibh maith agat for your answer Rolli. Do your wear a pyjamas in the city?


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  • #37
    Awful_Bliss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Awful_Bliss


    I worked with an Italian bird who wore wellies in the office - this was in Dublin. No one ever asked her why she wore them. Never once stepped into the office with runners or leather shoes. ALWAYS wellies - no matter what the weather was.


  • #38
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    California Man wrote: »
    Go raibh maith agat for your answer Rolli. Do your wear a pyjamas in the city?

    No.


  • #39
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    I remember peole wearing those wellies going to Oxegen one year. :eek:


  • #40
    California Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭California Man


    Awful_Bliss wrote: »
    I worked with an Italian bird who wore wellies in the office - this was in Dublin. No one ever asked her why she wore them. Never once stepped into the office with runners or leather shoes. ALWAYS wellies - no matter what the weather was.

    An Italian bird in an office wearing clean wellingtons boots would be sexy as anything.

    An Irish farmer in a country shop with a smell of cow manure is absolutley not the same thing.


  • #41
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    prinz wrote: »
    I remember peole wearing those wellies going to Oxegen one year. :eek:

    Madness :eek:


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  • #42
    cofy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭cofy


    Don't knock the wellie - even Louis Vuitton has a range
    http://www.shoeperwoman.com/2011/09/louis-vuitton-high-heeled-wellington-boots.html


  • #43
    threestripes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭threestripes


    Sure the wellies covered in dung are still probably cleaner than the youth of Dublin wear, walking around in that filthy place.


  • #44
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Op why do you hold a grudge on the humble wellie?


  • #45
    some random drunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 989 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    California Man wrote: »
    Oh my god. This has to be the most ignorant thing ever.. I can't believe how common it is in this country. Probably not so much in the cities, but it's rife in the countryside. Would you see it anywhere else in the world? :rolleyes:

    Yes I saw it a couple of times on the South Island of New Zealand. Although they often have signs up prohibiting wellies (or gumboots, as they call them) at the entrance to shops and pubs.


  • #46
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    California Man wrote: »
    An Italian bird in an office wearing clean wellingtons boots would be sexy as anything.

    An Irish farmer in a country shop with a smell of cow manure is absolutley not the same thing.

    Country shop? Cows manure? Wellimgton boots? Your not irish anyway. :pac:






    What are you going to call wellies next, puddle busters.


  • #47
    California Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭California Man


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Op why do you hold a grudge on the humble wellie?

    Nothing against the wellington boot. I use them fishing myself..

    It's the fact they have no respect for anyone. Totally oblivious to anything around them.

    Would you walk into someone's home wearing them? A shop is no different. Actually it should be more hygienic if anything.


  • #48
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    California Man wrote: »
    Nothing against the wellington boot. I use them fishing myself..

    It's the fact they have no respect for anyone. Totally oblivious to anything around them.

    Would you walk into someone's home wearing them? A shop is no different. Actually it should be more hygienic if anything.

    Yep. Happens a lot where I'm from.


  • #49
    davetherave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Arrah go way and don't be bothering us.
    Some of us have got turf to cut. Just go home Yank!


  • #50
    fryer99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭fryer99


    You're a welly


  • #51
    Davidson2k9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Davidson2k9


    So you want them to take off their wellies and walk around in their socks that are probably covered in bits of straw?


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  • #52
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    California Man wrote: »
    Nothing against the wellington boot. I use them fishing myself..

    It's the fact they have no respect for anyone. Totally oblivious to anything around them.

    Would you walk into someone's home wearing them? A shop is no different. Actually it should be more hygienic if anything.


    You wear wellies? Well whats the big song and dance about?

    Who have no respect? The wellies?

    I offen did walk into shops, butchers, other peoples homes and wore them to mass once. But you see the irish dont judge you if you walk into a shop ect. with wellies on. We have bigger problems then just giving out about what type of foot wear a farmer is wearing.


  • #53
    California Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭California Man


    The most intriguing thing is that it is an accepted pratice. The dirty Irish?

    Just like the austerity measures are accepted with no protest at all. Couldn't belive the bubble crash story when I heard it.. No courage at all.

    The French people would burn out the politicans. And at least they don't go around wear wellingtons in the countryside, and pyjamas in the cities. A classy nation of people.


  • #54
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    California Man wrote: »
    The most intriguing thing is that it is an accepted pratice. The dirty Irish?

    Just like the austerity measures are accepted with no protest at all. Couldn't belive the bubble crash story when I heard it.. No courage at all.

    The French people would burn out the politicans. And at least they don't go around wear wellingtons in the countryside, and pyjamas in the cities. A classy nation of people.

    Indeed we are. Seriously OP, I think you're the only person who actually gives a shíte about this.


  • #55
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    This is the most asinine complaint I've read on Boards in a while. And that's saying something.


  • #56
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    California Man wrote: »
    The French people would burn out the politicans

    They would surrender to the intercom on the way into the building:pac:


  • #57
    Rolli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Rolli


    California Man wrote: »
    The most intriguing thing is that it is an accepted pratice. The dirty Irish?

    Just like the austerity measures are accepted with no protest at all. Couldn't belive the bubble crash story when I heard it.. No courage at all.

    The French people would burn out the politicans. And at least they don't go around wear wellingtons in the countryside, and pyjamas in the cities. A classy nation of people.

    Can I ask you a question OP? Are you Irish?


  • #58
    California Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭California Man


    Rolli wrote: »
    Can I ask you a question OP? Are you Irish?

    I have 100% Irish blood.


  • #59
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    California Man wrote: »
    The farmers stopping in their tractors for an ice cream cone. Not a bother in the word. Have a five minute chat with the shop assistant too.

    So the farmer doesn't give a shit and the shop assistant doesn't give a shit and yet you reckon the people of Boards will give a shit? Swing and a miss, OP.


  • #60
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,521 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    California Man wrote: »
    I have 100% Irish blood.

    Where were you actually born? :rolleyes:


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  • #61
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    California Man wrote: »
    The most intriguing thing is that it is an accepted pratice. The dirty Irish?

    Just like the austerity measures are accepted with no protest at all. Couldn't belive the bubble crash story when I heard it.. No courage at all.

    The French people would burn out the politicans. And at least they don't go around wear wellingtons in the countryside, and pyjamas in the cities. A classy nation

    . The dirty irish. HA your going to get far in life going around calling irish people dirty just becouse they were wellies. Will ya cop on?

    French people dont wear wellies because their NOT cool.


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