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Candy, elevator, windshield, hood, cookies, cell phone, movie theatre!

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  • #32
    animaal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭animaal


    The only acceptable uses of the word "candy" in this country should be:

    -A manufacturer of overpriced fridges
    -A dead actor
    -A candy cane (unless "sugar shillelagh" might be the local term?)


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Elevator's not so bad. It has it's ups and downs.


  • #34
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Id like to stick a pin in this and spit ball it out in the PM.


  • #35
    NintendoGirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭NintendoGirl


    Movie...its film! (pronounced fillum!)

    Sneakers...its runners.

    Kids...nope, children!

    Truck...Lorry!


  • #36
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,426 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Elevator's not so bad. It has it's ups and downs.
    Wolf Hanssen wrote: »
    Id like to stick a pin in this and spit ball it out in the PM.

    OMG you two are, like, the WORST!

    :mad:


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  • #37
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    NintendoGirl wrote: »

    Kids...nope, children!
    Childer


  • #38
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    LordSutch wrote: »
    X Y Zee . . . :confused:

    Its Zed for goodness sake, not bloody Zee!
    I work for one of those dreaded multinationals and when we were getting training in the computer system SAP, our instructor (an Englishman based in America) would pronounce transactions like ZMAP as Zee-map. My manager was, predictably, brainwashed into using this pronunciation but I reckoned it should be a Zed-map, and have trained other people this too, and it's sticking. :D

    On Stargate Atlantis, when the characters were referring to a piece of alien technology called a Zero Point Module, they abbreviated it. Most referred to it as a Zee-Pee-Em but the Canadians always seemed to use Zed-Pee-Em. :D




    It's the little things...


  • #39
    herbieflowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Take out

    Douche

    Awesome


  • #40
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Alaskimo-cake wrote: »
    Sidewalk, mom, butt, and my absolute least favourite... Poop. YOU WERE BORN AND RAISED IN ROSCOMMON FFS, IT'S POO!

    Poop.


  • #41
    Paramite Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    Is cellphone actually catching on? Please tell me it's not. And surely Cinema is easier to say than Movie Theatre.
    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Asked my daughter to get her shoes out of the wardrobe. She said "don't you mean the closet?"

    Oh Christ...


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  • #42
    justchecked
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 367 ✭✭justchecked


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Too many Americanisms creeping in for my liking . . . . . .

    What say you?

    I say its American now.

    Speak American.


  • #43
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    FallSilently wrote: »
    It's not quite the same! "Sweets" doesn't include crisps and Mars Bars would be borderline.

    So...you're saying crisps fall under the remit of 'candy'? I don't think so.


  • #44
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    junior asked me to pull into the "gas station" a while back , I blame youtube

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #45
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    "Mom". Fcuk off. Now.

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



  • #46
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Truck has practically replaced lorry at this stage.


  • #47
    rolliepoley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭rolliepoley


    Paramite Pie wrote: »
    And surely Cinema is easier to say than Movie Theatre.

    The Flicks is much better.

    :)


  • #48
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    silverharp wrote: »
    junior asked me to pull into the "gas station" a while back , I blame youtube
    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Asked my daughter to get her shoes out of the wardrobe. She said "don't you mean the closet?"

    Did you immediately disown your offspring or did you explain and give them a chance to save themselves?


    (Or maybe it's all because of dodgy parenting...) ;)


  • #49
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,130 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    I find American tourists to be annoying there amazed by everything


  • #50
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    So...you're saying crisps fall under the remit of 'candy'? I don't think so.

    Em, potato chips!

    Now, who's for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?


  • #51
    Nevaeh Sticky Testosterone
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Nevaeh Sticky Testosterone


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    On Stargate Atlantis, when the characters were referring to a piece of alien technology called a Zero Point Module, they abbreviated it. Most referred to it as a Zee-Pee-Em but the Canadians always seemed to use Zed-Pee-Em. :D




    It's the little things...

    I remember that!!


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  • #52
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    I find American tourists to be annoying there amazed by everything

    Certainly the few I sprang in front of and exposed myself to seemed somewhat taken aback.


  • #53
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    I find American tourists to be annoying there amazed by everything

    Annoying where, amazed by everything?


  • #54
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Did you immediately disown your offspring or did you explain and give them a chance to save themselves?


    (Or maybe it's all because of dodgy parenting...) ;)

    i took the p1ss out of him for about a minute , he was in the back so I couldnt hit him :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #55
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Candy, elevator, windshield, hood, cookies, cell phone, movie theatre!

    Thread title reads like a marathon sex session, so I quickly clicked only to be very disappointed.:(


  • #56
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    When I hear Irish people using sh1te Americanisms like "mom" and "trash",I just want to kick them up the fanny.


  • #57
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Has to be said I've always been fond of the Americanism "clusterfuck" and somewhat disappointed that "motherfucker" doesn't work in the irish accent.


  • #58
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    NintendoGirl wrote: »
    Movie...its film! (pronounced fillum!)
    Seems about right.
    Sneakers...its runners.
    Nah they're called tackies kid.
    Kids...nope, children!
    Sprogs.
    Truck...Lorry!
    Right again.
    Wibbs wrote: »
    "Mom". Fcuk off. Now.
    Jesus Wibbs that's no way to talk to her.


  • #59
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    People who use Americanisms are first in my long list of hated put on accents right in front of put on skanger accent when you are actually from Ballinteer or Donnybrook.


  • #60
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    I was on a course with this lad that was a budding rapper. He rapped in his American accent in the class as we waited for the instructors and it was all, "motherfukker, motherfukking..." He was such an irritating twat. What part of the US was he from?

    Tallaght!


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  • #61
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    I was reading a novel one time that was written in the 1920s, by an American. All was well until the very manly hero admired his appearance in the mirror, "standing there in his knickers and suspenders."


    :D








    (Knickerbocker trousers and braces)


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