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Habits you learned "foreign" and can see yourself using for the rest of your life.

  • 24-07-2012 11:54PM
    #1
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Was having a nice glass of lemonade and beer tonight otherwise known as a "Clara" here in Spain. I usually drink it when I don't want to get gee-eyed on a work night and make a small can of beer last. I love it...but being Irish, can't believe I'm mixing beer with anything. I used to actively scoff at people putting blackcurrant in their Guinness but now I'm doing something similar! What's happening to me!

    Following on from the load of emigration threads we've had recently, I'd be interested to hear what things people picked up from living or spending time abroad. Keep it light-hearted pleeeease! My other ones are as follows:

    - When I walk into the reception of anywhere, I greet everyone with a "Buenos Dias" as is the done thing here.

    - I always stay on the right hand side of an escalator after living in London and now here. In London it was kind of bet into me after getting shouting at repeatedly for not doing so. I do it out of fear...

    - I send short, to the point emails to bosses with no flowery language.

    - I protest fairly regularly.

    - I think the queuing system we have in Ireland, UK and America is ridiculous.

    - I gesticulate all the time while I'm talking.

    - I can't drink pints anymore :(

    - I'm probably a bit more blunt than I was.

    - I eat my dinner at 10 at night.

    Loads more but that's to get the ball rolling....

    You?


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Comments

  • #2
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Clara is known as a shandy over here, not a foreign phenomenon


  • #3
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    kfallon wrote: »
    Clara is known as a shandy over here, not a foreign phenomenon

    No, but I drink it all the time....that's the point.


  • #4
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    I **** outdoors after a weekend camping in Leitrim.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #5
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Hold doors open for people and get into queues when i see them. It amazes me the amount of people here that ignore queues.

    I was in a bar in Scotland a few years ago and they were queuing to buy drink at the bar. I know thats are rare one but it was funny to see.


  • #6
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    You just wanted to tell us you are in Spain, isnt that right OP?

    I learned the ways of Jiihad!


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  • #7
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I say "No Worries" all the time after being in Australia. I also Shower every single day after spending time in South East Asia, wheras you could often get away without showering every 2nd day depending on the level of exercise before.


  • #8
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Speaking out of experience, it appears that half of the student population of south county Dublin have picked up awful habits from their J1's in California, like the use of the terms "man" "dude" "OMG" ETC. and the propensity to wear nothing but Abercrombie and Fitch.


  • #9
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    No, but I drink it all the time....that's the point.

    Damn foreigners.....turning our women into lightweights :pac:


  • #10
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I've been to Germany, France, England, Spain and Italy.

    Now when I go to other countries I just take people's stuff with a gun because, you know, I'll kill ya like.


  • #11
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I say "No Worries" all the time after being in Australia. I also Shower every single day after spending time in South East Asia, wheras you could often get away without showering every 2nd day depending on the level of exercise before.

    Oh yes that well known culture that is exclusive to Asia of washing yourself every day :p


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  • #12
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    kfallon wrote: »
    Damn foreigners.....turning our women into lightweights :pac:

    Ah but that's the thing! No such thing as a "shandy light-weight" here. Even the men drink it! But you're right, 5 claras and I'm anyone's.... ;)


  • #13
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    Ah but that's the thing! No such thing as a "shandy light-weight" here. Even the men drink it! But you're right, 5 claras and I'm anyone's.... ;)

    Orders a large bottle of both TK Red & White.....


  • #14
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    Eating sushi. Tis mighty stuff

    I'd eat a whole salmon and not bother cooking it as long as i had some soy sauce and a lemon to squeeaze on it


  • #15
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Never mind the beer and lemonade, what about that odd Spanish(in some areas) of coke and red wine. Kalimocho? IIRC. Tastes better than it sounds and I've been a bit hazy of eye on it more than once. :D

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #16
    Diego Maradona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Diego Maradona


    Clara eh? That would explain why Brian Cowen looked drunk the entire time he was Teashock.


  • #17
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Shaking my friends hands when I see them!


  • #18
    grizzly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    - I think the queuing system we have in Ireland, UK and America is ridiculous.

    How do they queue in Spain?


  • #19
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    benwavner wrote: »
    You just wanted to tell us you are in Spain, isnt that right OP?

    I learned the ways of Jiihad!

    Ah if you've seen my posts, I mention it in almost everyone. Plus there's a big location:eespain beside my name. Kind of old news at this stage...:) Sad but true...


  • #20
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    grizzly wrote: »
    How do they queue in Spain?

    They go in, take a number and wait their turn. Sometimes they queue but they're pretty disasterous at it (which is annoying). If you get your number, you can take a seat and wander round...


    Sorry, forgot....they go into a shop and ask, "Who's the last person?". Someone tells them, so everyone knows who's next. Great system.


  • #21
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    Was having a nice glass of lemonade and beer tonight otherwise known as a "Clara" here in Spain. I usually drink it when I don't want to get gee-eyed on a work night and make a small can of beer last. I love it...but being Irish, can't believe I'm mixing beer with anything. I used to actively scoff at people putting blackcurrant in their Guinness but now I'm doing something similar! What's happening to me!

    Following on from the load of emigration threads we've had recently, I'd be interested to hear what things people picked up from living or spending time abroad. Keep it light-hearted pleeeease! My other ones are as follows:

    - When I walk into the reception of anywhere, I greet everyone with a "Buenos Dias" as is the done thing here.

    - I always stay on the right hand side of an escalator after living in London and now here. In London it was kind of bet into me after getting shouting at repeatedly for not doing so. I do it out of fear...

    - I send short, to the point emails to bosses with no flowery language.

    - I protest fairly regularly.

    - I think the queuing system we have in Ireland, UK and America is ridiculous.

    - I gesticulate all the time while I'm talking.

    - I can't drink pints anymore :(

    - I'm probably a bit more blunt than I was.

    - I eat my dinner at 10 at night.

    Loads more but that's to get the ball rolling....

    You?

    Hahaha same here:D no fun bein a sleepy irish person in a city like london, oh the londoners on the tube werent happy with me..


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  • #22
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    grizzly wrote: »
    How do they queue in Spain?



    Very close together with no clothes on and doing a wee dance, like all sexually liberated europeans should


  • #23
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    I was living in Germany for a year, but continue driving on the right when I'm back in Ireland


  • #24
    builttospill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭builttospill


    I can't stop using the three sea shells since I got back from San Angeles.


  • #25
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,610 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I say "No Worries" all the time after being in Australia. I also Shower every single day after spending time in South East Asia, wheras you could often get away without showering every 2nd day depending on the level of exercise before.

    Thanks for that Stin(ic)ker


    ;)


    :D


  • #26
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    dipping crisps in a mixture of reduced cream and onion soup (and calling them chips)


  • #27
    paintitblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭paintitblack


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Never mind the beer and lemonade, what about that odd Spanish(in some areas) of coke and red wine. Kalimocho? IIRC. Tastes better than it sounds and I've been a bit hazy of eye on it more than once. :D
    love that stuff, they put sugar in it too sometimes, tried recreating here but its just not the same!


  • #28
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    kfallon wrote: »
    Oh yes that well known culture that is exclusive to Asia of washing yourself every day :p

    Actually when I was in Thailand and Malaysia I was showering three and four times a day as I was pouring sweat due to the heat and humidity.


  • #29
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    Sorry, forgot....they go into a shop and ask, "Who's the last person?". Someone tells them, so everyone knows who's next. Great system.

    That sounds ridiculous. A queue is a straight line. Everyone is organised and ready to purchase when their turn comes. Bloody anarchy, can't even queue correctly.


  • #30
    yer man!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭yer man!


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Hahaha same here:D no fun bein a sleepy irish person in a city like london, oh the londoners on the tube werent happy with me..
    I always keep to the left, same side as cars on the road........ makes more sense to me.


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  • #31
    Dangerous Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Dangerous Man


    After a few visits to London I definitely do the 'standing to the right' thing on the escalators now. The first time I saw those signs on the underground I thought it was just an example of how uptight the English were (and it probably is, in fairness) but it really does make sense. It drives me nuts when I'm trying to get past people on the escalator and they stand there like pigs.

    As for where I live now, I don't call the toilet the toilet, I call it the washroom. It's just what it's called here. I tip barmen. I eat poutine... yum. Lots of stuff.


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