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Things about Ireland that

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  • #62
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    We're allowed complain about the politicians and the state of the country's finances, etc


    But by god, if you do, we'll turn on you:D


  • #63
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Like every country we have our fair share of scumbags but in Ireland we dont hide them away.


  • #64
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Stay within the walls of the Pale, the countryside is run by tribal clans and bandits. Actually on second thought that applies to the country as a whole.


  • #65
    AskMyChocolate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


    mrs crilly wrote: »
    So true!!

    And 20 mins is really 45 mins.

    And never refuse a cup of tea, it will upset the person offering it :D
    MyKeyG wrote: »
    But I have this rare medical condition. If I drink tea there's a good chance I'll die!

    Small price to pay for not upsetting someone in all fairness!

    Remember you're in Ireland now.


  • #66
    Davidson2k9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Davidson2k9


    We're not ginger leprechauns/farmers/pikeys who eat potatoes or live in caravans. And we dont say "top of the morning to ya". Well thats what alot of Brits think, dunno what yee think in america.


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  • #67
    St.Spodo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭St.Spodo


    Don't be startled if someone proposes going out for ''a bit of craic''. It's not gonna be drugs; well, it might be, but probably not crack.


  • #68
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Jocks here in Ireland are our boxers etc ,not like in the US where your Jocks are athletes.


  • #69
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    If you offer to give someone vehicular transportation, that's called a 'giving them a lift'. The word 'ride' has a slightly different meaning over here.


  • #70
    jenndudess79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭jenndudess79


    If you decide to take public transport, DONT stand and read the timetable.

    Its just a cruel way of distracting you while your bus driver drives by you laughing and waving at you.
    The timetable's are not real. Your bus will never be on time.

    Just bring a packed lunch and hope for the best.


  • #71
    O1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭O1


    scorpioishere wrote: »
    * Some of the irish are smelly
    * Irish streets are full of piss and **** over the week end


    No it's not.
    There are places out there where the streets genuinely are full of human **** and piss.
    Ireland is a stunningly clean and fresh place to walk around by comparison, even on the weekend.


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  • #72
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    If you refuse a plate of bhutter & shpuds you will be considered a qware type.


  • #73
    thebigbiffo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    Do expect to meet someone young fella in a pub practically crying while singing the fields of athenry (Irish national anthem to me and you) before moving along to a rousing version of the wild rover.


  • #74
    Chevolution
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭Chevolution


    MyKeyG wrote: »
    But I have this rare medical condition. If I drink tea there's a good chance I'll die!

    And if you dont drink the tea there is a greater chance that you'll die!! Your choice.


  • #75
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Don't trust the road signs, they're bloody awful.


  • #76
    brambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭brambo


    We often use the cost of a pint for comparison purposes:

    "How much is it?"
    "Sure it's only a fiver - the price of a pint."


  • #77
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    If you offer to give someone vehicular transportation, that's called a 'giving them a lift'. The word 'ride' has a slightly different meaning over here.

    Fanny has a different meaning too :D


  • #78
    crfcaio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭crfcaio


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Funglegunk wrote: »
    If you offer to give someone vehicular transportation, that's called a 'giving them a lift'. The word 'ride' has a slightly different meaning over here.

    Fanny has a different meaning too :D

    Is it used in the same way we use pussy?


  • #79
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    The guy with the beer has right of way.


  • #80
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    crfcaio wrote: »
    Is it used in the same way we use pussy?

    It is indeed, but you can use that here too. Mind you an older person will think you are referring to a cat.
    Remember when the committments came out and people in other countries were given a refernce/phrase book at the cinema? You should try to obtain one of these, there are just so many opportunities to make a social faux pas and offend our innate sensitivity:D


  • #81
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Don't trust the road signs, they're bloody awful.

    Especially do not trust the road signs in rural Ireland, as it's nearly guaranteed that a local teenager has put them facing the opposite way to the way they should be! For example: If you reach a junction in rural Ireland and the sign points left, saying 'Ballygobackwards 5km', then turn right. If it say's turn right, turn left........

    If your great, great, great grandaddy's cousin's dog was Irish - Don't tell us, we don't fucking care (unless your loaded, then we'll pretend to be your long lost relative:P)

    Leprechaun's do not exist.

    Neither does Roscommon.


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  • #82
    Babybuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    Irish people don't depend on clocks and have a relatively poor concept of time. They can calculate aproximations of time given the amount of light in the sky and critical periods during the day are denoted by corresponding meals ie: dinner time is usually somewhere between 1 and 2pm and tea time is sometime after the angelus*. Expect them to be late for most things.



    *6pmish.


  • #83
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Just don't ever think of imitating an Irish accent.

    There's no such thing.

    Every county, city, town and village has its own distinct accent.

    You try taking one of those accents off (especially while telling us the great Irish Joke you heard on the plane over) and you will instantly lose all bonus points, novelty yankee value (its allright for us to do it) and shagging rights you earned to get here.

    Honest. Its our sensitive nature see. :o


  • #84
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    All crisps are Taytos and that's the way it will remain

    No they're not! I call them crisps even if they are Tayto. :confused:


  • #85
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    If someone approaches you and says "can you spare a fag?" he's looking for a cigarette.

    The word 'couple' usually means more than two.

    If you're a man don't talk about your 'fanny'. It doesn't mean backside here.

    The short version of Patrick is Paddy, it's not Patty.


  • #86
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Also there's no such thing as going for 'a' pint.Its either no alcohol at all 'cause your on antibiotics or a minimum of five pints leading up to a three night bender.

    In fact I think its illegal to have just a pint.


  • #87
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    There is an unfortunate race of people from ireland called the culchies, these are people who exist outside Dublin, they are Ireland Aboriginals they still mainly exist off the land. The civilisation process is touching them as more Dubs move into their hinterland, their language and customs are a bit strange, so just laugh at them and encourage their modernisation by saying "less of that country and bog thinking you are almost part of Dublin now".

    We have a great game of GAA football, Dublin are known through Ireland as the Brazil of that game.


  • #88
    Bluesteel7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭Bluesteel7


    44leto wrote: »
    There is an unfortunate race of people from ireland called the culchies, these are people who exist outside Dublin, they are Ireland Aboriginals they still mainly exist off the land. The civilisation process is touching them as more Dubs move into their hinterland, their language and customs are a bit strange, so just laugh at them and encourage their modernisation by saying "less of that country and bog thinking you are almost part of Dublin now".
    QUOTE]


    As a Dub that has moved to the culchie- land I would advise not to speak to them at all. Their ways are strange and you could easily turn into one.


  • #89
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Gallstones? Liver trouble? Bad lungs? Blood issues? Broken bones?
    Are you staying in hospital with an issue?

    Well Diet 7up is the greatest cure known to man

    Go visit a hospital and you'll see it everywhere


  • #90
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    When in Dublin, if you see a man rummaging in his pockets he's having a ****.


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  • #91
    fuerte1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 692 ✭✭✭fuerte1976


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Don't trust the road signs, they're bloody awful.

    Too true, see here :D:D

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056595845

    :p:p


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