Lockdown Fun: How Catholic/Protestant are you quiz.

Bannasidhe · 27-05-2020 12:26pm #1

A wee bit of fun based on Derry Girls - how Catholic/Protestant are you based on some culturally appropiate questions.

https://culturelab.makingthefuture.eu/who-are-you?fbclid=IwAR3-k_wDvLwVf-BDykOnRZlTwHTnIklIE2Tk3ek9CFqwtFO4RAQRufIOq9A

Apparently I am 50% Taig and 50% Orange - which explains a lot of things. :P

Added a poll for the sake of scientific research...

smacl · 27-05-2020 12:34pm

40/60 Catholic/Protestant for me, must be something to do with hating Abba.

donspeekinglesh · 27-05-2020 12:56pm

65/35 C/P. the 35 is probably because we keep the toaster in the press.

oldrnwisr · 27-05-2020 1:45pm

55/45 C/P. Probably comes from saying no to most of the questions.:D

Mr. CooL ICE · 27-05-2020 2:10pm

65/35

Toaster was always in the press growing up. Never knew my parents were protestants.

wench · 27-05-2020 2:24pm

60/40 C/P That's what not liking RTE or the GAA gets me

Bannasidhe · 27-05-2020 2:33pm

oldrnwisr wrote: »

55/45 C/P. Probably comes from saying no to most of the questions.:D

You'd have thought mostly saying NO would have earned a higher Orange score.

A2LUE42 · 27-05-2020 2:37pm

wench wrote: »

60/40 C/P That's what not liking RTE or the GAA gets me

I said yes to both of those and ended up with same score. Must be a very high weighting on having the toaster in the press.

Odhinn · 27-05-2020 4:03pm

I'm 85% fenian catholic, 15% protestant.

Bannasidhe · 27-05-2020 4:18pm

Odhinn wrote: »

I'm 85% fenian catholic, 15% protestant.

Totes Taig.

:P

mikemac2 · 27-05-2020 4:23pm

90% catholic

Can someone explain the toaster in the press ?

banie01 · 27-05-2020 4:29pm

55% Catholic and 45% Prod....

I blame my wife and that trip to Newcastle I had as a wee cross border peace initiative move!

Bannasidhe · 27-05-2020 4:30pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

90% catholic

Can someone explain the toaster in the press ?

Top Taig.

I am as puzzled by the toaster in the press as you. Why would anyone do that? Sure a person may as well use the oven grill if they have to faff about getting the toaster out... and the crumbs... in the press...:eek:

endacl · 27-05-2020 4:32pm

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

65/35 C/P. the 35 is probably because we keep the toaster in the press.

Should be 75/25 because you called it the press.

Hotblack Desiato · 27-05-2020 7:51pm

Hardly fair that I was made go to Bundoran, confession, a pilgrimage to Knock, and a holy shop in Knock (taking a double hit on that one

) when I was a kid...

Presuming consent is required for it to count (!) I'm still 60C:40P

I'm beginning to think Billy Wright himself wouldn't pass this test

Hotblack Desiato · 27-05-2020 7:54pm

Wait. Do they mean Newcastle Cinty Dine or Noocasl-pon-Tyne-lad?

I was wondering if Geordieland was secretly some sort of Presbyterian hotspot in the 70s?

Bannasidhe · 27-05-2020 8:02pm

banie01 wrote: »

55% Catholic and 45% Prod....

I blame my wife and that trip to Newcastle I had as a wee cross border peace initiative move!

My parents sent me to a jolly hockey sticks type school (think an Irish St Trinians and you wouldn't be far wrong) on account of me and the Nuns having a falling out.
Now I garden, have worn a gilet many times, and watch the BBC (4 obvs).
My fecking toaster, however, is on the damn counter between the kettle and the bread bin.

Bannasidhe · 27-05-2020 8:05pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Hardly fair that I was made go to Bundoran, confession, a pilgrimage to Knock, and a holy shop in Knock (taking a double hit on that one ) when I was a kid...

Presuming consent is required for it to count (!) I'm still 60C:40P

I'm beginning to think Billy Wright himself wouldn't pass this test

The person who shared the quiz with me got 70% P/ 30% C - which is good going for an East Belfast raised Prod - mind you, she did move South so....

Sardonicat · 27-05-2020 8:11pm

70%/30% C/P

s7ryf3925pivug · 27-05-2020 9:12pm

55% Protestant. Pretty low considering what my family was like a couple of generations ago.

Peregrinus · 28-05-2020 1:48am

80% Catholic. I lost marks for the gilets and not watching GAA.

Peregrinus · 28-05-2020 1:49am

mikemac2 wrote: »

90% catholic

Can someone explain the toaster in the press ?

Protestants keep the toaster in the press, when not actually using it.

You'd know that, if you'd ever been inside a Protestant's house.

Flickerfusion · 28-05-2020 1:54am

My toaster's so fancy you'd struggle to get it into a press, probably explains why I'm an atheist.

Peregrinus · 28-05-2020 1:56am

Flickerfusion wrote: »

My toaster's so fancy you'd struggle to get it into a press, probably explains why I'm an atheist.

"Atheist" isn't a category in the quiz. You can use the quiz to explore whether you are a Protestant atheist or a Catholic atheist (it being assumed, obviously, that all atheists are either one or the other).

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 2:25am

Peregrinus wrote: »

"Atheist" isn't a category in the quiz. You can use the quiz to explore whether you are a Protestant atheist or a Catholic atheist (it being assumed, obviously, that all atheists are either one or the other).

Wasn't everyone in Derry in the 1990s either a Protestant or a Catholic? Even the Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs - never mind the atheists.

I got a 50%/50% score and all my Nordie friends - 'Protestant' and 'Catholic' united to deride me as a "fence sitter".

Peregrinus · 28-05-2020 2:33am

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Wasn't everyone in Derry in the 1990s either a Protestant or a Catholic? Even the Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs - never mind the atheists.

What's with this "in the 1990s"?

PS: Jews, Hindus and Sikhs are Protestants. Muslims can be either, but are mostly Catholics. I don't need to explain this, surely?

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 2:40am

Peregrinus wrote: »

What's with this "in the 1990s"?

PS: Jews, Hindus and Sikhs are Protestants. Muslims can be either, but are mostly Catholics. I don't need to explain this, surely?

The quiz is based on an episode of Derry Girls (set in the 1990s) - in particular this scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0OF-TlyAY

When an attempt was made to be ecumenical.

All the hindus I know are very Catholic... its all the incense and statues.

Peregrinus · 28-05-2020 3:00am

Bannasidhe wrote: »

The quiz is based on an episode of Derry Girls (set in the 1990s) . . .

I know that. My point is that not much has changed in this regard.

Bannasidhe wrote: »

All the hindus I know are very Catholic... its all the incense and statues.

These community identifications have little or nothing to do with religious practice (or indeed religious belief). Pertinent questions are - What school did you go to? Where do you live? Who do you socialise with? How do your neighbours identify?

The toaster gag is a gag. But there is an underlying point, which is that social segregation/ghettoisation leads to differences that have nothing to do with either religious practice or religious belief, and yet do serve as useful markers for religious identification. (Like the famous one - how do you pronounce the name of the letter 'h'?)

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 3:04am

Peregrinus wrote: »

I know that. My point is that not much has changed in this regard.

These community identifications have little or nothing to do with religious practice (or indeed religious belief). Pertinent questions are - What school did you go to? Where do you live? Who do you socialise with? How do your neighbours identify?

The toaster gag is a gag. But there is an underlying point, which is that social segregation/ghettoisation leads to differences that have nothing to do with either religious practice or religious belief, and yet do serve as useful markers for religious identification. (Like the famous one - how do you pronounce the name of the letter 'h'?)

You're killing the fecking joke like. :mad:

:P

28-05-2020 3:34am

80/20 C/P.

I keep me toaster in the press.

wotzgoingon · 28-05-2020 3:38am

I don't know how you guys are getting high prod but I'm not surprised with the dribble anti Irish posts people on boards.ie post.

On topic I got 95 percent Catholic.

I don't know where the 5 percent went as I would have preferred 100% and yes I answered all questions truthfully.

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 3:43am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I don't know how you guys are getting high prod but I'm not surprised with the dribble anti Irish posts people on boards.ie post.

On topic I got 95 percent Catholic.

I don't know where the 5 percent went as I would have preferred 100% and yes I answered all questions truthfully.

A lot of us wear a gilet to watch people we know play hockey, and then we garden while wondering why people keep a toaster in the press.

loobylou · 28-05-2020 8:18am

65/35 C/P and had to ask my wife what a gilet was.

s7ryf3925pivug · 28-05-2020 8:30am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I don't know how you guys are getting high prod but I'm not surprised with the dribble anti Irish posts people on boards.ie post.

On topic I got 95 percent Catholic.

I don't know where the 5 percent went as I would have preferred 100% and yes I answered all questions truthfully.

Not surprising that people like gardening, given their anti-Irish dribbling.

nthclare · 28-05-2020 8:33am

I'm neither, probably a culturist..

Coming from a background of Heathens/Pagans in the arse hole of Kerry on one side and old money Church of Ireland Wexford on the other ye can draw your own conclusions.

Buy I can be seen now and again walking through the Burren in the winter in a Wax Jacket, walking boots etc and can pull off the Anglican look quite easily,then again I can also dress down for a pagan festival or harvest festival...

So I'm hovering in the middle,a bit like my sexuality...a bisexual,flamboyant masculine guy who's man enough to fall in anywhere

s7ryf3925pivug · 28-05-2020 8:46am

nthclare wrote: »

I'm neither, probably a culturist..

Coming from a background of Heathens/Pagans in the arse hole of Kerry on one side and old money Church of Ireland Wexford on the other ye can draw your own conclusions.

Buy I can be seen now and again walking through the Burren in the winter in a Wax Jacket, walking boots etc and can pull off the Anglican look quite easily,then again I can also dress down for a pagan festival or harvest festival...

So I'm hovering in the middle,a bit like my sexuality...a bisexual,flamboyant masculine guy who's man enough to fall in anywhere

What did you get in the quiz though?

sydthebeat · 28-05-2020 8:51am

63/35 C/P

I don't hate ABBA

nthclare · 28-05-2020 8:54am

Rowan Tiny Grater wrote: »

What did you get in the quiz though?

Cath 65 Proddy 35

smacl · 28-05-2020 8:54am

Peregrinus wrote: »

80% Catholic. I lost marks for the gilets and not watching GAA.

I got 60% protestant for the same reasons, answered no to everything else apart from liking gardening. Gilets are also worn cycling.

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 11:15am

smacl wrote: »

I got 60% protestant for the same reasons, answered no to everything else apart from liking gardening. Gilets are also worn cycling.

Methodist so.

mikemac2 · 28-05-2020 11:56am

Peregrinus wrote: »

Protestants keep the toaster in the press, when not actually using it.

You'd know that, if you'd ever been inside a Protestant's house.

But you would get crumbs down the back of your press?? Much easier to clean crumbs off a kitchen worktop

No wonder they are all damned :pac:

smacl · 28-05-2020 11:59am

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Methodist so.

Just as well it didn't ask whether I like cheese and pineapple on a stick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEsFtiruIok

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 12:31pm

Deleted User wrote: »

80/20 C/P.

I keep me toaster in the press.

WHY?????????

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 12:34pm

Rowan Tiny Grater wrote: »

55% Protestant. Pretty low considering what my family was like a couple of generations ago.

Teetering on Taig.

branie2 · 28-05-2020 11:20pm

I'm 90 percent Catholic!

Hotblack Desiato · 28-05-2020 11:25pm

Just missing out there - score 95% and win a free guilt trip.

You're just not catholic enough I'm afraid.

You can feel guilty about that, instead :pac:

Bannasidhe · 28-05-2020 11:26pm

branie2 wrote: »

I'm 90 percent Catholic!

Quick! Reach out to your local hockey club. It's not too late.
And so something with your toaster!

brookers · 28-05-2020 11:35pm

35/65 cp. All spot on, but i dont hate anybody and when friends come to my house, i always put the toaster in the cupboard because i dont want clutter on my counter, my husband thinks it nuts. I bake great cakes, good at flower arranging, was taught all this growing up, love gardening, went to sunday school, wear a sleeveless jacket nearly every day. At the back of it all though I am a product of tone, emmet, fitzgerald and we are no meek people.

Water John · 28-05-2020 11:36pm

Same as the OP, 50:50. Considering one side comes from French Huguenots and the other very Irish, that would be about right.

Spanish Eyes · 28-05-2020 11:37pm

Traybakes are the key lol.

wotzgoingon · 28-05-2020 11:48pm

95% Irish first time took it a second time and changed one answer to that I didn't like gardening and got 100%. Who knew liking gardening made you a prod.

My sent it to my mother to do for the laugh and she got 90% Irish she really likes gardening and was also in Newcastle. so that's where the 10% went.

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