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Irish Etiquette

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  • #32
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    When giving you a cup of tea, Irish people will often say 'Now' for no immediately apparent reason.


  • #33
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,291 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Someone who has moved into an area 20 years ago is still a 'blow in'.

    And the people living in the farm up the hill are still referred to as land-grabbers even if the land was grabbed 100 years ago.


  • #34
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    The repetition of the word "bye" up to seven times when exiting a phone conversation is commonplace.


  • #35
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Malari wrote: »
    The repetition of the word "bye" up to seven times when exiting a phone conversation is commonplace.

    And a simple 'well' will suffice for 'hello'.


  • #36
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    Back in the day if your neighbours had no phone and someone called you looking to speak to the neighbours wife it was common to ring the door bell and if the neighbour's wife answered you just asked to speak to her husband, then you told the husband there was someone on the phone looking for his wife.

    Are there still people who do this? maybe not for phonecalls but in other situations?


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  • #37
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    It is considered normal practice in some parts of the country, for women to get up in the mornings and put on pyjamas on rather than take them off.

    Similarly in the same parts of the country, the men normally wear a suit made of nylon, known locally as a "shell suit".


  • #38
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    It is considered normal practice in some parts of the country, for women to get up in the mornings and put on pyjamas on rather than take them off.

    Similarly in the same parts of the country, the men normally wear a suit made of nylon, known locally as a "shell suit".
    In those same parts of the country, when young males meet each other, instead of shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries, they will place their hands down the front of their elasticated nylon trousers and spit on the ground!


  • #39
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    davet82 wrote: »
    Tweeds, wools and subdued colors are recommended.

    :confused:


  • #40
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    When someone invites you "to go for a pint"....always be prepared to have at least six


  • #41
    optimistic_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭optimistic_


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Bargaining is unknown in urban areas.

    No tipping culture.

    The single finger salute while driving (raised index finger off steering wheel) is common down the sticks, even to complete strangers.
    (known as the 'bush salute' down under, and happens in rural Oz)

    That's b***cks. At least in Dublin. Everyone I know tips, and tips generously.


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  • #42
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    stmol32 wrote: »
    "It is considered more proper par for the course for a woman to order a glass of beer or stout rather than a pint. go home and sleep with whomever buys her the most drinks "

    :D


  • #43
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    optimistic_ wrote: »
    That's b***cks. At least in Dublin. Everyone I know tips, and tips generously.
    Depends on what you're buying/doing. Someone serving at a counter rarely gets tipped, it's usually reserved for people who actually wait on you.
    Case in point, if we buy pints from the barman over the bar, we just pay for the pints. If he brings the pints over to us, we usually let him keep the change (if it's a euro or so).

    In other countries, most notably the states, practically everybody in the service industry is trying to shake you down for a few bucks no matter what job they do.


  • #44
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,767 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It's normal for people to be half an hour late.

    Even if you say "meet at 7:30 for 8"


  • #45
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Whenever anyone offers you something you must always out of politeness refuse. If the offer is genuine they will offer again and only then is it polite to accept.

    Too quick. You should refuse at least twice. Anything less is just rude.


  • #46
    christ on a bike!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭christ on a bike!


    You must pull in to the left to let cars moving faster than you pass.
    When this is done and the driver of the overtaking vehice has returned to the left lane it is an absolute must that he gives you two flashes of his hazard lights.
    It is then polite to give him a quick flash of your headlights which says 'not a bother man'


  • #47
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    "I'll stick a cheque in the post today":pac:


  • #48
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    optimistic_ wrote: »
    That's b***cks. At least in Dublin. Everyone I know tips, and tips generously.

    Tipping at persons descretion for non counter services would be a better description

    taxi (maybe) food delivery, waiter/ess, lounge staff

    i cant really think of anybody else to tip, i hear hairdressers get tips?


  • #49
    Pure_Cork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Pure_Cork


    I wish I was back home in Ireland. :)


  • #50
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    You should always spend everything that you make, as fast as you make it.

    You should always buy a bigger property than you can afford.

    You should always make sure that you buy a newer (insert item here) before your neighbors. If you neighbor purchases said item before you, then buy a higher priced model of the item.

    You should always buy into 'if everyone else has one, then I need one too' mentality.

    When all of your money is gone, your credit cards are maxed out and your mortgage is overdue. Make sure that you blame the people who loaned you the money/issued the credit cards to you. Surely they should have known better !!


  • #51
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    You should always spend everything that you make, as fast as you make it.

    You should always buy a bigger property than you can afford.

    You should always make sure that you buy a newer (insert item here) before your neighbors. If you neighbor purchases said item before you, then buy a higher priced model of the item.

    You should always buy into 'if everyone else has one, then I need one too' mentality.

    QUOTE]

    May have been true a few years ago for many.


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  • #52
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    optimistic_ wrote: »
    That's b***cks. At least in Dublin. Everyone I know tips, and tips generously.

    You must be some kind of a returned Yank. Be a good Yank and go home, you won't get my field.


  • #53
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    You must always thank the bus driver as you leave the bus

    You must beeb the car in front of you at the traffic lights the very second the light turns green


  • #54
    Lustrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Lustrum


    It is perfectly acceptable to begin a conversation with the phrase, "Did you hear who died?"


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If someone, especially in Dublin, asks ''Whats the Story?'', do not feel compelled to regale them with fables of any description. A simple 'Whats the story' or 'story' in return will suffice.

    This also applies when someone asks ''How are you?'', often abbreviated to 'howiya?'. Again perfectly acceptable to answer back with a 'howiya' of your own.


  • #56
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    There is protocol about the acceptable balance of drunkenness at Irish weddings, with sobriety and near sobriety being almost as frowned upon as as complete intoxication.

    The only acceptable state at midnight is being 'nicely drunk', except for those who are pregnant or on medication.


  • #57
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I can honestly say that those statements are still accurate around Roscommon. Don't know if speaks well or not for Roscommon......


  • #58
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭Luxie


    pebbles21 wrote: »
    You must always thank the bus driver as you leave the bus

    You must beeb the car in front of you at the traffic lights the very second the light turns green

    You do get funny looks thanking the bus driver when living abroad.


  • #59
    Dockington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭Dockington


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    You should always spend everything that you make, as fast as you make it.

    You should always buy a bigger property than you can afford.

    You should always make sure that you buy a newer (insert item here) before your neighbors. If you neighbor purchases said item before you, then buy a higher priced model of the item.

    You should always buy into 'if everyone else has one, then I need one too' mentality.

    When all of your money is gone, your credit cards are maxed out and your mortgage is overdue. Make sure that you blame the people who loaned you the money/issued the credit cards to you. Surely they should have known better !!

    bla bla bla misery. I'm so great everyone else is a fool bla bla bla


  • #60
    cyrusdvirus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    Dockington wrote: »
    bla bla bla misery. I'm so great everyone else is a fool bla bla bla

    the thread is Irish Etiquette lads... not Irish Begrudgery!! :)


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  • #61
    Sorcha16
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 343 ✭✭Sorcha16


    Automatically ticking 'Catholic' in the census despite not believing in God and only going to mass when you arrive home for Christmas to keep your mother happy


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