Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Things Irish people erroneously think are uniquely Irish.

245

Comments

  • #32
    joolsveer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭joolsveer


    Guinness


  • #33
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Driving a car registered in another country on the roads here.

    Ireland is the only place this happens. No where else would tolerate it. Blaming VRT or high road tax is a pathetic excuse for blatant disregard for the law.


  • #34
    finty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭finty


    .....


  • #35
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Cadburys


  • #36
    crusher000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 649 ✭✭✭crusher000


    The Irish Daily Star, The Irish Sun, The Irish Daily Mirror. You get the point.


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    dirtyden wrote: »
    I had to google monoglotism. Does that make me a zeroglot?
    I don't know what 'zeroglot' is. But I believe that using only one word of a language means you are using that language. So, I believe lots and lots of Irish speak lots of languages all the time.
    Maybe something for the list.

    Only experts should perform task.

    Foreign Good, Domestic Bad.

    Build them up to knock them down

    Education system is one of the best in the world.

    Young Country


  • #38
    OurLadyofKnock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 558 ✭✭✭OurLadyofKnock


    Great Little Sporting nation. That one is not even close to being true. All these tiny East European countries which sprang up in the last decade or so have put that Jimmy McGee delusional psychosis to rest.


  • #39
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    LiamMc wrote: »
    The brand Bulmers cider.


    Bulmuers is uniquely Irish.

    The Bulmers brand in the UK is totally different and basically just a UK brewer relaunching a dead range to compete directly with the irish product, even copying the packaging and logo to an insane amount.


  • #40
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Bulmuers is uniquely Irish.

    The Bulmers brand in the UK is totally different and basically just a UK brewer relaunching a dead range to compete directly with the irish product, even copying the packaging and logo to an insane amount.

    Your post is the reason this thread was created. To counter the presumptions.
    Your post just contradicts itself. 'The Bulmers brand is unique, 'cept for the brand in the UK'.

    Bulmers of Plough Lane Hereford, England.
    Incredibly their was a Percy Bulmer who made cider and created a company using his family name.
    When Bulmers (Irl) wanted to sell in the UK market, they righted were required to change the name of their Irish product. They chose their own family name of Magner.

    Bulmers (Hereford) branded bottle (not the same font or logo)
    http://www.bulmers.com/

    National Association of Cider Makers
    http://www.cideruk.com/members_and_links/bulmers/

    When in Hereford (UK) visit Cider Museum in the small town
    http://www.cidermuseum.co.uk/
    Interactive, family-friendly, industrial and process-making. I definitely recommend it.


  • #41
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    dirtyden wrote: »
    The brits do a decent brekkie, and a mean cup of tea. But they cannot beat a proper irish one.

    What, exactly, is the difference? I've always wondered...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Advertisement
  • #42
    Wade in the Sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭Wade in the Sea


    Use of the word "hole"

    E.g.


    Talking thru 'ur
    Shut 'ur hole
    Kick in the hole
    Pain in me hole
    Stick it up 'ur.........


  • #43
    RossyG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭RossyG


    The Irish international soccer team.


  • #44
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    TV3 and 3e


  • #45
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    CJC999 wrote: »
    Driving a car registered in another country on the roads here.

    Ireland is the only place this happens. No where else would tolerate it. Blaming VRT or high road tax is a pathetic excuse for blatant disregard for the law.
    OurLadyofKnock wrote: »
    Great Little Sporting nation. That one is not even close to being true. All these tiny East European countries which sprang up in the last decade or so have put that Jimmy McGee delusional psychosis to rest.

    I think you guys need to read the thread title.


  • #46
    LivelineDipso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LivelineDipso


    The oil and gas off our coasts.


  • #47
    purple'n'gold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 838 ✭✭✭purple'n'gold


    The best football fans in the world.


  • #48
    LivelineDipso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LivelineDipso


    purplengold wrote: »
    The best football fans in the world.

    That's the one. Without a doubt the greatest delusion this island ever produced.

    They are not even into Irish soccer!


  • #49
    ConstantJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭ConstantJoe


    I heard somewhere that the word "craic" isn't actually Irish, it originated in England and was brought over.


  • #50
    Mully_2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭Mully_2011


    purplengold wrote: »
    The best football fans in the world.

    The most deluded fans maybe.


  • #51
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    purplengold wrote: »
    The best football fans in the world.
    LivelineDipso wrote: »
    That's the one. Without a doubt the greatest delusion this island ever produced.

    They are not even into Irish soccer!
    Mully_2011 wrote: »
    The most deluded fans maybe.

    I read purple'n'gold's phrase as 'The best Football fans in the World' is a phrase not unique to Ireland but is used elsewhere to describe other groups of Fans.

    What also isn't different is that Irish Journalists describe a group as such, but the group get the blame.

    What may be unique is one of the reason's presented by Irish Journalists. To prevent Republic of Ireland football fans going down the same road as English club fans and England NT fans in the late 1970's and early 1980's. They would use patronising phrases and attempt to humour the RoI fans by explaining that they were never like their neighbours. The fact these journalists were attempting to embed prejudices within Irish Football fans is lost on the journalists.


  • Advertisement
  • #52
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    ConstantJoe wrote: »
    I heard somewhere that the word "craic" isn't actually Irish, it originated in England and was brought over.

    Yeah, that's true. It was 'crack', which was then borrowed into Irish and the spelling changed to 'craic'. Then, the Irish spelling was borrowed back into Enlgish. So, it's an English-originated word with Irish spelling


  • #53
    guinnessdrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭guinnessdrinker


    The Potato


  • #54
    Halloran springs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Halloran springs


    Driving home after failing your driving test, no we aren't the only country out of roughly 200 countries in the world where you can do this. I actually don't know of a single country in the world who revokes or suspends your license after failing the test.


  • #55
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    boards.ie


  • #56
    dirtyden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    What, exactly, is the difference? I've always wondered...

    Proper pudding and proper sausages.


  • #57
    Matt_Trakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Matt_Trakker


    LiamMc wrote: »
    They would use patronising phrases and attempt to humour the RoI fans by explaining that they were never like their neighbours. The fact these journalists were attempting to embed prejudices within Irish Football fans is lost on the journalists.

    If that meant hooliganism not coming to Ireland then I'm cool with that.


  • #58
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    Round Abouts is another. Heard a few people say they only exist in Ireland.


  • #59
    dirtyden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    Round Abouts is another. Heard a few people say they only exist in Ireland.

    Ireland and the UK. Do you not remember Homer side swipeing the Queen when the simpsons visit London?


  • #60
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,054 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    The gaelic language?


  • Advertisement
  • #61
    Katunga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭Katunga


    rory mcilroy


Advertisement
Advertisement