'Only in Ireland'

Shakespeare's Sister · 14-09-2014 02:53PM

professore wrote: »

In cork they run at the first sign of snow too - everyone goes home!

Kids play outside, people go sleighing and stuff.

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 02:54PM

Old men ****ting in drains outside pubs

gugleguy · 14-09-2014 02:54PM

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

People start skulling their drinks when the fire alarm goes off in the pub.

I also skull my beer and gulp my wine and bolt my food - well I ped for it didn't i
When
An unannounced post funeral/stag/hen crowd alight on a pub - there are no reserved signs on the tables - happens a lot in Dublin.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 14-09-2014 02:55PM

Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

The houses near Croke Park are 10km away from it? :eek:
The definition of 10 kilometres must have changed overnight, I'd better get briefed on this change.

Yeah the the chairman of the residents group was living in Castleknock, 10km away from Croke park. Talking about how much the concerts affected him!

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 02:56PM

Fella vomiting blood-splattered Guinness while the whole pub applauses

La_Gordy · 14-09-2014 02:56PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Old men ****ting in drains outside pubs

Where is this standard in Ireland?!

Shakespeare's Sister · 14-09-2014 02:56PM

Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »

Yeah the the chairman of the residents group was living in Castleknock, 10km away from Croke park. Talking about how much the concerts affected him!

It was only him complaining and not various others who live in close proximity to it? Come on now.

SpaceTime · 14-09-2014 02:57PM

Not many other countries that has topped and ranks very highly in the human development index that spend so much time self-flagellating online.

Get out from behind your keyboard and do something to change the stuff that annoys you about the country or at the very least quiz your elected representatives about why they're not doing something about it and make your vote contingent on their actions.

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 02:57PM

La_Gordy wrote: »

Where is this standard in Ireland?!

Seen it dozens of times down in Tipperary

diograis · 14-09-2014 02:58PM

SpaceTime wrote: »

Not many other countries that has topped and ranks very highly in the human development index that spend so much time self-flagellating online.

Get out from behind your keyboard and do something to change the stuff that annoys you about the country or at the very least quiz your elected representatives about why they're not doing something about it and make your vote contingent on their actions.

moaning's a national past time, cheer up

Iranoutofideas · 14-09-2014 02:58PM

Sulky races on motorways. Going in the wrong direction. And the person in charge of the Sulky is a kid.

And yet it continues across the country because 'it's their tradition boss'

Bolloxology

SpaceTime · 14-09-2014 02:58PM

diograis wrote: »

moaning's a national past time, cheer up

I know.

Sure we have a public service broadcaster with the national whine line for moaning on on a daily basis.

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 03:02PM

The whole pub applauding when an underage child passes out from alcohol abuse and farts in its sleep

Skylinehead · 14-09-2014 03:03PM

Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

It was only him complaining and not various others who live in close proximity to it? Come on now.

I'd look at their username before thinking you could have a reasonable argument on this subject :pac:

Duff · 14-09-2014 03:04PM

The "Ah, it'll be grand" mentality and tractors on the motorway.

Teyla Emmagan · 14-09-2014 03:05PM

The 'stop/go' system. TELL ME this doesn't happen anywhere else. Because to me this seems so Irish (i.e. cheap, and a bit ****e and involving more manual intervention and man power then necessary).

"There has been an accident on the R23 outside of Sallins. A stop/go system is in place".

i.e. there is a lad standing in the middle of the road twirling a sign around. In what other country would that be called 'a system'?

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 03:07PM

Grown men challenging each other to 'big bum' contests in the street and the local magistrate agrees to judge. Seen it with me own eyes

wazky · 14-09-2014 03:10PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Grown men challenging each other to 'big bum' contests in the street and the local magistrate agrees to judge. Seen it with me own eyes

Ok hombre, settle down now and go for a nap, the adrenaline of starting a thread must be gone to your head.

SpaceTime · 14-09-2014 03:12PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Grown men challenging each other to 'big bum' contests in the street and the local magistrate agrees to judge. Seen it with me own eyes

Emm.. We don't have such a thing as "local magistrates".

Mint Aero · 14-09-2014 03:14PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Where politicians can do as they please and the citizens do nothing. This is especially unique to Ireland. I don't even...

STFU & GTFO :pac:

AlanS181824 · 14-09-2014 03:15PM

Ah shur jaysus I haven't a clue!

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 03:20PM

SpaceTime wrote: »

Emm.. We don't have such a thing as "local magistrates".

Generic term for a lawman. You take yourself up to ballinamore and then try looking me in the "eye" and saying this doesn't happen, guys.

14-09-2014 03:27PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

The whole pub applauding when an underage child passes out from alcohol abuse and farts in its sleep

Old men s*itting in drains outside pubs

Fella vomiting blood-splattered Guinness while the whole pub applauses

I have to ask.... what type of pubs are you going to?

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 03:28PM

Omackeral wrote: »

I have to ask.... what type of pubs are you going to?

The classy ones, obv

Karl Stein · 14-09-2014 03:35PM

Where sufferers of post-colonial Stockholm Syndrome can make good careers in journalism out of talking up Britain's presiding over a halving of the Irish Population through starvation and emigration.

Only in Ireland.

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 03:37PM

Karl Stein wrote: »

Where sufferers of post-colonial Stockholm Syndrome can make good careers in journalism out of talking up Britain's presiding over a halving of the Irish Population through starvation and emigration.

Only in Ireland.

Amen to that, but there are pee-robably Indian equivalents

everdead.ie · 14-09-2014 03:46PM

Omackeral wrote: »

You can be staunchly anti-English while wearing a Man United/Liverpool/Chelsea/Arsenal jersey and nobody will bat an eyelid.

You can be staunchly anti British but quiet like the English, Northerners, Scots and Welsh.

myshirt · 14-09-2014 03:50PM

Omackeral wrote: »

You can be staunchly anti-English while wearing a Man United/Liverpool/Chelsea/Arsenal jersey and nobody will bat an eyelid.

Come on man.. the connections between Ireland and Liverpool are far reaching; as recent as the famine.

During the famine lest we forget, Irish bought tickets to the states, via Liverpool, only to discover when they got to Liverpool they had been f#cked over, and were stuck in Liverpool, destitute and broke. No phone call home in those days.

So today, the links remain strong, the blood of the Irish permeates Liverpool. Liverpool people are some of the toughest and genuine salt of the earth people you'll meet. I think you can be fully anti tyranny, monarchism and whatever the hell it is to be 'Anti English' and still wear the jersey proud.

Miss Lizzie Jones · 14-09-2014 03:51PM

cruais wrote: »

The country shutting down when a single snow flake falls on the m50 and the runway of dublin airport

I bet the Canadians living in Ireland get a kick out of that.

KingOfFairview · 14-09-2014 03:52PM

Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »

I bet the Canadians living in Ireland get a kick out of that.

Laughing their asses off at us, more like

'Only in Ireland'

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