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Irish expressions you dont hear any more

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  • #32
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I need to get out of the bog, I still hear these expressions....


  • #33
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    He\she's a real go be the wall and tiddle the bricks. A sneaky individual.

    Up to me oxters. One is up to one's armpits in work.

    Lamb of the divine jayzuz. I'm quite perplexed.

    I don't hear "gurrier" so much any more.

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



  • #34
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Jesus, Mary and Joseph

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #35
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Gair owa da gardin - please vacate the premises.

    a fine bour - an attractive young lady


  • #36
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,290 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    "Keep the change."

    "I can't, I have my wine-tasting course this evening."


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  • #37
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No. Let me pay for that!


  • #38
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Shove it up yer b0llix!


  • #39
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    If you were in Biafra you would eat it.


  • #40
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,290 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    "Pop out will ya there now love and get us a Yellow Pack sliced pan from Crazy Prices"


  • #41
    mightdomighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭mightdomighty


    Using the word c**t as an adjective. e.g. that bouncer was c**tish, I just got a filthy of that c**tish old lady


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  • #42
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Yellow pack isn't dead, still used! :)


  • #43
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,290 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Yellow pack isn't dead, still used! :)

    Where would one acquire said Yellow Pack goods?


  • #44
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Nowadays it refers to workers who are undercutting your wages :mad:


  • #45
    Best username ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭Best username ever


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Yellow pack isn't dead, still used! :)

    Do ya remember the yellow pack cans of lager?


  • #46
    TroutMask
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭TroutMask


    Wedge (as in 'Did ya get yer wedge?') Paypacket - cash envelope

    Burst (as in 'I'll bleedin' burst ya?) Cause grievous injury

    Baluba (as in 'Did you see those balubas running around Temple Bar?') Anti-social rowdy type


  • #47
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Kids coming in from training with mucky clothes?
    Husband returning stinking of beer?


    Get up the yard, smell a bengy off ya!


  • #48
    gotthebug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 442 ✭✭gotthebug


    Sure this Celtic tiger is great craic


  • #49
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    i'll puck the face off ya

    how's the car going

    pint of harp

    20 major for butter vouchers

    up the RA


  • #50
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    "yerra, I will a dale"- no I won't
    shift
    slack- mean or miserly
    "im voting fianna fail, sure the other shower would wreck the country if they got in"


  • #51
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Save the green shield stamps


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  • #52
    bgrizzley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭bgrizzley


    "Get your bollocks out of my face"
    "Ride me sideways" was another one


  • #53
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Chin Stroker


    dj jarvis wrote: »

    pint of harp

    Or Bass!


  • #54
    starlings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    arra

    muise

    ah shure you'll have that


  • #55
    ezekel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭ezekel


    "I could'nt give a continental bollix"


  • #56
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    "Getting a feed in the nightclub"

    Gone since the nineties :(


  • #57
    TopOfTheRight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭TopOfTheRight


    Caffling :(


  • #58
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Ask me butchin.
    Or in these more inlightened times (which i agree with), gays men are no longer refered to as Quaerrs, black people are no longer Nig Nogs and travellers are not Tinkers anymore.


  • #59
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Chin Stroker


    ezekel wrote: »
    "I could'nt give a continental bollix"

    :)


  • #60
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Eeny meany miney moe
    Catch a nígger by the toe
    If he squeals let him go
    Eeny meany miney moe


    I was clearly a flamin racist 4 year old :eek:


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  • #61
    Butterfly25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Butterfly25


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Eeny meany miney moe
    Catch a nígger by the toe
    If he squeals let him go
    Eeny meany miney moe


    I was clearly a flamin racist 4 year old :eek:

    Me too!

    I've heard other variations which just sound so wrong...

    Catch a lion by the paw
    &
    Catch a fly by the wing.....WTF!!


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