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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #1382
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Why is loneer confused with eye and ear?


  • #1383
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Neeson wrote: »
    Why is loneer confused with eye and ear?

    Because our Ma's we're/are common as muck and roll the two words into one when speaking! eye and ear ... eye n ear ... I-on-eer


  • #1384
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Neeson wrote: »
    Why is loneer confused with eye and ear?
    You have it Loneer, it was a capital i, ioneer.

    Sounded like a shortening of Pioneer.

    The Rotunda could be for obese fathers...


  • #1385
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,989 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    rubadub wrote: »
    I used to think this too, my mates mother was always on about it if we were messing "I'm not bring yous to the Ioneer", definitely rolled it all into one.

    It is still a very odd name to have IMO, so was never obvious to me, if it was suggested as a name for a new hospital I would think people would laugh at the suggestion.

    Are there any other hospitals called after what they treat, with no other name tagged on, other than hospital, which I do not even hear tagged onto "the eye & ear".

    -"I got a kick in the groin in soccer, I had to go to the Cock & Balls to get it sorted"
    It's the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital but I guess no one is likely to call it the Royal-anything in Dublin?


  • #1386
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    miamee wrote: »
    It's the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital but I guess no one is likely to call it the Royal-anything in Dublin?

    Or maybe that's just a mouthful which get's shortened for the sake of convenience....:rolleyes:


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  • #1387
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    miamee wrote: »
    It's the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital but I guess no one is likely to call it the Royal-anything in Dublin?

    Except RDS and RCSI;)


  • #1388
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,989 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    I am pie wrote: »
    Or maybe that's just a mouthful which get's shortened for the sake of convenience....:rolleyes:

    Keep your rolley eyes to yourself :P Probably, just suggesting an alternative possibility.


  • #1389
    miamee
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,989 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Except RDS and RCSI;)

    Ah no one calls it the Royal Dublin Society, just RDS. You're right about the Royal College of Surgeons though. Ah well. I had been an outpatient for a while before I realised that I actually said 'eyenear' instead of 'Eye and Ear'.


  • #1390
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    That the reason me ma would not let my sister and me play in the snow wearing gloves was not medical reasons (bad for your circulation she said) but more to do with her not having to stand outside in the cold playing with us for to long.

    Irish mammies are crafty


  • #1391
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Was watching Bugs Bunny recently, I just realised that when he used to see a female and would either have his eyes pop out or his ears stiffen is basically him getting an erection.. never copped that before when I was younger



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  • #1392
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    wprathead wrote: »
    Was watching Bugs Bunny recently, I just realised that when he used to see a female and would either have his eyes pop out or his ears stiffen is basically him getting an erection.. never copped that before when I was younger


    Stop ruining my childhood.


  • #1393
    seosamh1980
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭seosamh1980


    rubadub wrote: »
    I used to think this too, my mates mother was always on about it if we were messing "I'm not bring yous to the Ioneer", definitely rolled it all into one.

    It is still a very odd name to have IMO, so was never obvious to me, if it was suggested as a name for a new hospital I would think people would laugh at the suggestion.

    Are there any other hospitals called after what they treat, with no other name tagged on, other than hospital, which I do not even hear tagged onto "the eye & ear".

    -"I got a kick in the groin in soccer, I had to go to the Cock & Balls to get it sorted"

    I remember passing the Oral & Maxillofacial Unit of Midwestern Regional Hospital, while not a hospital in itself this is the big name on the side of it. It's the same as people saying "I went to A&E", they don't say "I went to Cork Hospital to the A&E Unit", it's just shortened to Eye & Ear. The whole Ioneer thing would never occur to me.


  • #1394
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Neeson wrote: »
    Yeah but not many did make it off the boat. She was the only major character or one that had any good bit of screen time to make it off.

    Therefore all the people she sees standing on the staircase are all people who died. This doesn't mean she was just after dying. What other characters got off the boat that they could have shown? Maybe your man who was a cu.nt. he had a good bit in the film.

    But I assumed they wouldn't show him on the staircase because he was a bastard and Rose didn't like him. She wouldn't want to be thinking about him.

    So maybe she was just dreaming about the nice people and not that fella is was a bad man.

    Kathy Bates wasnt there and she had a big part in the movie, thats enough for me.


  • #1395
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Kathy rebates survived didn't she?

    Did she get on with her at all?


  • #1396
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Neeson wrote: »
    Kathy rebates survived didn't she?

    Did she get on with her at all?

    Yea but she wasnt in the final scene where a young Rose returns to the titanic!!


  • #1397
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    major bill wrote: »
    Yea but she wasnt in the final scene where a young Rose returns to the titanic!!


    Wasn't she her rival in the film though? She thought she was a bitch and didn't want her in her dream. Her dream only had her favourites in it.


  • #1398
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Neeson wrote: »
    Wasn't she her rival in the film though? She thought she was a bitch and didn't want her in her dream. Her dream only had her favourites in it.

    But's theres people from the bottom deck she wouldnt have even known that were in that scene,

    anyway just googled it and apparently cameron left it open for debate as to whether she died or not, was always under the impression she died


  • #1399
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    Well rebates was a big one and there were a lot of people in that scene so maybe she couldn't fit. She might have been stuck down back somewhere.


  • #1400
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    A scarecrow is called a scarecrow, because it scare's crows:o


  • #1401
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,514 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Kellogg's Pop Tarts are a pun on the term "pop art".


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  • #1402
    Feathers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Feathers


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Kellogg's Pop Tarts are a pun on the term "pop art".

    If it is intentional, definitely wouldn't describe it as really obvious.


  • #1403
    Sandypants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭Sandypants


    i'll prob get a telling off for this but i thought poppers where tablets...but its liquid... its called jungle juice!! my friends had a rite aul laugh at me bout it...& im 32!!the shame!!


  • #1404
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    The word "county" is related to Counts/Countesses; i.e. King - Kingdom, Earl - Earldom, Duke - Duchy, Baron - Barony, Count - County. Never linked the two words, though it's obvious when it's spelled out to you (literally :pac:).

    I still have no idea what the difference is between most of the above though :P


  • #1405
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Sandypants wrote: »
    i'll prob get a telling off for this but i thought poppers where tablets...but its liquid... its called jungle juice!! my friends had a rite aul laugh at me bout it...& im 32!!the shame!!
    I always thought it was nitrous oxide, a gas, though it seems you are quite correct. Never seen them though so can't claim it to be obvious.


  • #1406
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Sandypants wrote: »
    i'll prob get a telling off for this but i thought poppers where tablets...but its liquid... its called jungle juice!! my friends had a rite aul laugh at me bout it...& im 32!!the shame!!

    Jungle Juice is probably just a version, like silver bullet, or rush..

    I remember doing poppers years ago, amyl nitrate, or amyl nitrite..

    Stinks of old socks... Heats the head up though.. :pac:


  • #1407
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Allyall wrote: »
    Jungle Juice is probably just a version, like silver bullet, or rush..

    I remember doing poppers years ago, amyl nitrate, or amyl nitrite..

    Stinks of old socks... Heats the head up though.. :pac:

    Good for a bit of a laugh, but a bitch of a headache afterwards.


  • #1408
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    miamee wrote: »
    It's the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital but I guess no one is likely to call it the Royal-anything in Dublin?
    I don't think its any anti-english thing, more that there seems to be only 1 hospital with that name tagged at the end. So maternity hospitals often get the maternity bit dropped if its in their title, as there's more than one around.

    Checking there Holles streets real name is National Maternity Hospital, which is quite vague, even if said in full.

    There are 3 in dublin with royal in the title

    Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street
    The Royal Hospital, Donnybrook
    Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Adelaide Road
    seosamh1980 wrote: »
    I remember passing the Oral & Maxillofacial Unit of Midwestern Regional Hospital, while not a hospital in itself this is the big name on the side of it.
    Yes, big name alright, no way somebody would mistake that for some phonetically similar name they have in their head, like Ioneer. Not that anybody would rattle off that name describing the place casually to kids.

    Ioneer is short and sounds like a plausible name/word, like other names for hospitals colloquial, shortened or not, like the rotunda, the coombe, the mater.
    seosamh1980 wrote: »
    It's the same as people saying "I went to A&E", they don't say "I went to Cork Hospital to the A&E Unit", it's just shortened to Eye & Ear. The whole Ioneer thing would never occur to me.
    But you hear A&E all the time, loads of hospitals have it. And I certainly do hear people say "I went to the A&E in Vincents/the mater etc" or they are asked straight after "which hospital was it?". I have never heard "eye and ear" like this in TV, or people saying "I was in hospital xx in the eye and ear section". On TV I have heard ENT, for ear nose throat


  • #1409
    Dublinpato
    Closed Accounts Posts: 181 ✭✭Dublinpato


    Not too long ago was having a pint with my dad and his friends and the grand prix was on and i turned and said "who the hell can watch the grand prick's all day" well everyone broke down into tears of laughter i was confused untill my dad turned to me and said it's purnounced the grand preeee not the grand prick's.


    note: i got a free pint for making everyone laugh well at least i think thats why, maybe it was because they felt sorry for my stupidity.


  • #1410
    123 LC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭123 LC


    I always thought Club Orange was a worldwide widely dranken drrink like coke.....only to recently realise it's a purely Irish thing like TK


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  • #1411
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    That Bus Áras just means Bus station. I always thought it was a cultural pet-name for the building.


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