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Kermit.de.frog

What are your favorite Irish urban myths?

I'll start.

Asylum seekers get free buggies and leave them at bus stops.

The best ones are those that are obviously untrue yet so many actually believe it:D

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One for the lads.....

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Defiler Of The Coffin

The guy that shifted a fine lookin wan in a nightclub, brought her outside into an alley where she proceded to open her legs and requested him to "lob it into me bass"

ireland.man

What about the one where if you say "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary" into a mirror three times Mary Harney appears and charges the cost of her beauty treatments at a spa in Florida to your debit card.

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Geuze

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What are your favorite Irish urban myths?

I'll start.

Asylum seekers get free buggies and leave them at bus stops.

The best ones are those that are obviously untrue yet so many actually believe it:D

The DSP does give out money for buggies, this is all public knowledge, published in Annual Stats, etc.

It is not a myth, it is true.

Whether the recipients leave them at bus stops, I don't know.

All stats here:

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Annual-SWS-Statistical-Information-Report-2013.aspx

See Section C, the scheme is known as SWA / Exceptional Needs Payments.

Geuze

In 2012, you can read that 867,000 was spent on prams / buggies.

Barely There

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

The guy that shifted a fine lookin wan in a nightclub, brought her outside into an alley where she proceded to open her legs and requested him to "lob it into me bass"

Thought it was more along the lines of 'guy brings the wan home, starts to go down on her, she stops him and says "None of your fancy stuff, just horse it into me"'.

ireland.man

Geuze wrote: »

The DSP does give out money for buggies, this is all public knowledge, published in Annual Stats, etc.

It is not a myth, it is true.

Whether the recipients leave them at bus stops, I don't know.

All stats here:

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Annual-SWS-Statistical-Information-Report-2013.aspx

See Section C, the scheme is known as SWA / Exceptional Needs Payments.

And is the idea that every child in Ireland may potentially be given a pram suffice to say 'asylum seekers get free prams' is therefore not a myth?

FirstinLastout

Barely There wrote: »

Thought it was more along the lines of 'guy brings the wan home, starts to go down on her, she stops him and says "None of your fancy stuff, just horse it into me"'.

Aye, t'was back in my caravan too it was Boss!

eamonnq

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irritablebaz

the welcome to the aids club date. heard that one in 3 different countries so far.

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hairyprincess

retalivity wrote: »

That sh1te about bono and bruce springteen in a restaurant.

What was that?

One eyed Jack

hairyprincess wrote: »

What was that?

The way I heard it was Bono and the Pope, but I think "the Pope" was actually Sinead O Connor on her day off :pac:

retalivity

Google 'Bono bruce Springsteen restaurant' and there's a heap of results

BrokenHero

retalivity wrote: »

That sh1te about bono and bruce springteen in a restaurant.

Some clown even told the fcuker on the Graham Norton show last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkf9n-WQ5Ik

Doom

Travellers are holy God fearing folk...

AndonHandon

Dogs can't look up.

Tordelback

Geuze wrote: »

Whether the recipients leave them at bus stops, I don't know.

You will meet many people (my mother, for one) who know someone who actually saw an Asylum Seeker* not bother wrestling their buggy onto a bus, and when asked about replied that it was easier to pick up another free one at the other end. That's what makes it an urban myth.

The factual provision of essential infant equipment to people who have no other means of acquiring it because they aren't allowed to work or to have access regular social welfare payments is irrelevant: it's the assertion of an obviously untrue, but morally judgemental, observation made by a 'friend of a friend' that qualifies.

*As they have yet to be issued with yellow stars, you'd have to assume the person in question was a black woman, else how would the witness know their legal status?

Galway K9

corner of hells wrote: »

Asylum seekers do get free buggies , however they get free cars too so never need to use busses.

Their entitled to free buggies under supplementary welfare allowance.
I also found out through freedom of info act that they get a sort of transport grant of a substantial sum enough for a car.
Their not here for the weather

lazeedaisy

Ronan keating & Brian Kennedy getting caught in bed together,

ireland.man

Galway K9 wrote: »

Their entitled to free buggies under supplementary welfare allowance.
I also found out through freedom of info act that they get a sort of transport grant of a substantial sum enough for a car.
Their not here for the weather

Can you share that info about people getting money for cars? Otherwise it sounds suspiciously urban myth-ish!

We are all entitled to free buggies under that allowance providing we qualify by being in acute need of the equipment. Singling out one minuscule group of people is absurd, it's like saying 'all red-haired Polish people who have stutters are eligible for free buggies in Ireland'. It's technically true but meaningless.

But what makes this a myth is its essence, that asylum seekers are supposedly given an extraordinary level of comfort and support. When you compare the reality, living in group homes, 19.10 euros a week and a bus ticket, to the claims of being handed cash for cars, free houses, free car, free phones, free holidays, etc, that's the thing we'd call a myth!

Although saying that my friend's cousin's caseworker saw an Asylum Seeker walking his pet crocodile in the Liffey one time.

Galway K9

ireland.man wrote: »

Can you share that info about people getting money for cars? Otherwise it sounds suspiciously urban myth-ish!

We are all entitled to free buggies under that allowance providing we qualify by being in acute need of the equipment. Singling out one minuscule group of people is absurd, it's like saying 'all red-haired Polish people who have stutters are eligible for free buggies in Ireland'. It's technically true but meaningless.

But what makes this a myth is its essence, that asylum seekers are supposedly given an extraordinary level of comfort and support. When you compare the reality, living in group homes, 19.10 euros a week and a bus ticket, to the claims of being handed cash for cars, free houses, free car, free phones, free holidays, etc, that's the thing we'd call a myth!

Although saying that my friend's cousin's caseworker saw an Asylum Seeker walking his pet crocodile in the Liffey one time.

I will try find on.pc tomorrow and share it. It wasn't published I had to write letter stating the freedom of info act.

Also have another interesting one too tomorrow.

DBB

lazeedaisy wrote: »

Ronan keating & Brian Kennedy getting caught in bed together,

Ooh! This one reminds me of another one...
Marc Almond of Soft Cell (an 80s pop band for you kids out there :pac:), had to be rushed to hospital to get his stomach pumped, and it was full of horse semen
:eek::eek::eek:

Irelandcool

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Planemo

DBB wrote: »

Ooh! This one reminds me of another one...
Marc Almond of Soft Cell (an 80s pop band for you kids out there :pac:), had to be rushed to hospital to get his stomach pumped, and it was full of horse semen
:eek::eek::eek:

Anytime I've heard it, it was Rod Stewart. (Also in the same vein - Richard Gere and a gerbil...)

My favourite urban myth: La-a
"The dash don't be silent!"

mikemac1

My friend was on Bus Eireann from Limerick to Galway and they were passing Bunratty.

The Yank in the seat behind thought it was great planning to have the castle so close to the dual carriageway

I've heard that story waaaaaaay too many times

Doom wrote: »

Travellers are holy God fearing folk...

They are, just not the 7th commandment

Vojera

DBB wrote: »

If you swallow chewing gum or bubble gum, your insides will stick together

Don't worry, though, you'll poop it out in seven years :pac:

fleet_admiral

Chewing gum is made from cats guts

Birneybau

BrokenHero wrote: »

Some clown even told the fcuker on the Graham Norton show last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkf9n-WQ5Ik

Saw that, Cnut.