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What do you think about Carrolls shops?

  • 04-03-2013 12:25am
    #1
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭


    Hello there,

    I am French and lived in Ireland and visited it for 6 months last year. It was fantastic :D Before leaving I bought some gifts at Carrolls shops. Like in any other gifts shops in the world, it was full of clichés. Like in Paris, you can buy many Eiffel tower items, stuff about cheese and Garlic. I just hate Garlic.

    In Carrolls shops, Leprechauns items (drinking beers and saying rude things) are numerous! They seem to be one of the most popular stuff.

    I am just wondering, what do Irish people think about Carrolls shop and about leprechauns items? Do you go there times to times?

    Thanks for sharing :)


Comments

  • #2
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?


  • #3
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Their lasagne is doing well since so many of the other brands have been pulled off the shelves.


    See, I can do current issues too.


  • #4
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I'm an actual Leprechaun.

    I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

    Shure it doesn't get much better than this.


  • #5
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    I'm an actual Leprechaun.

    I'm a 6 ft 2 inch spud loving Irishman.

    Shure it doesn't get much better than this.

    But do you say rude things?


  • #6
    3rdDegree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭3rdDegree


    I've only ever gone there when entertaining foreign guests - usually American family or friends. Once I brought a small group who were visiting from India. They loved it. Apart from that, I would have no reason to visit such an establishment.


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  • #7
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    I thought Carroll's shops only sold their own cigarette's.


  • #8
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Any true Irish person has leprechaun items adorning every room in their house.
    Carrolls is the IKEA for Irish people


  • #9
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,462 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Carrolls shops are full of tacky crap and as such they are only located in the tourist areas. Ive been in one in Dublin once and once was enough.


  • #10
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    they are a painful reminder from our history


  • #11
    judgefudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭judgefudge


    Standard tacky tourist shop. I'd imagine few Irish people actually go in there.


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  • #12
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    Chucken wrote: »
    Ive never been in a Carrolls shop. Are they a Dublin thing?

    Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.


  • #13
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    tacky and cheap


  • #14
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    crockholm wrote: »
    they are a painful reminder from our history

    Are Leprechauns part of History ?


  • #15
    jaffacakesyum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Are Leprechauns part of History ?

    Yes the English killed them all. That's the main reason there has been strife between us and the Brits all these years :D


  • #16
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Yes there are located in Dublin (maybe 11 shops) and other bigs cities. I saw one in Galway.


    Ahh right. You see in our part of the country we grow our own leprechauns*so really have no need for shops that sell them :)

    *Secretly of course


  • #17
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Are Leprechauns part of History ?
    yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive


  • #18
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I can't see why anyone would get too bothered by them. They have shops that sell biscuit tins with the queen on them in London. (although I've met natives there that buy the fcuking things)


  • #19
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Are Leprechauns part of History ?

    They were. Until the English came...


  • #20
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    They were. Until the English came...

    What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...


  • #21
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    DanaScully wrote: »
    What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

    thats dubarry's you're thinking of.


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  • #22
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,500 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    crockholm wrote: »
    yes, how dare you question their contribution to society,our president has leprechaun blood in him, be more sensitive

    Why the short temper?


  • #23
    Afro Patsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4 ✭Afro Patsy


    Don't like Carroll's. Benson and Hedges FTW.


  • #24
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    DanaScully wrote: »
    What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

    :mad: Excuse me?


  • #25
    Cereal Number
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 329 ✭✭Cereal Number


    Funny how they are irish shops, yet are full of Chinese scrap.......


  • #26
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

    OMG, you can't just say that!


  • #27
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    Chucken wrote: »
    :mad: Excuse me?

    lol ... So Leprechauns = Irish = tiny men who hide gold ?


  • #28
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?


  • #29
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    This is our President:

    http://static.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25334482.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/higgins

    This is our Presidents victory poster:

    http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/userpix/2_michael_d_higgins_election_posters_president_of_ireland_1.jpg

    No leprechauns? huh! :mad:


  • #30
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    crockholm wrote: »
    I believe one of your own had a bit of leprechaun in him, nicky sarkozy, i think his name was?

    I don't see ...


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  • #31
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    Chucken wrote: »
    This is our President:

    http://static.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25334482.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/higgins

    This is our Presidents victory poster:

    http://www.sceala.com/phpBB2/userpix/2_michael_d_higgins_election_posters_president_of_ireland_1.jpg

    No leprechauns? huh! :mad:

    But where is the gold?


  • #32
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Archaeologists often get tourists walking onto sites, they shouldn't be there in the first place. There are people all over the world who have returned home having been witness to archaeologists excavating a genuine Neolithic Lepreesheean settlement.


  • #33
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    I thought that being our friends and neighbours that you would have learned some bit of Irish history,you know all this EU bollix.

    Leprechauns existed,they just died out,there are half bloods, that we mentioned above.
    First it was the english,they developed a taste for them.Long before you had fish n chips, you had chaun n chips.FACT.
    The last leprechaun king died in mortal combat with another king of sorts called Big Joe Joyce in the battle of Mullingar.


  • #34
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    DanaScully wrote: »
    But where is the gold?


    Well you see we also have *pixies. Now, we affectionatly call them names like *Seanie *Bertie * Cowen etc or *"developers"...you know?

    They had the gold but they wanted to give it to the *Germans.

    We dont like *pixies :mad:





    *you may change the word pixie to suit your mood.


  • #35
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    DanaScully wrote: »
    Hello there,

    I am French and lived in Ireland and visited it for 6 months last year. It was fantastic :D Before leaving I bought some gifts at Carrolls shops. Like in any other gifts shops in the world, it was full of clichés. Like in Paris, you can buy many Eiffel tower items, stuff about cheese and Garlic. I just hate Garlic.

    In Carrolls shops, Leprechauns items (drinking beers and saying rude things) are numerous! They seem to be one of the most popular stuff.

    I am just wondering, what do Irish people think about Carrolls shop and about leprechauns items? Do you go there times to times?

    Thanks for sharing :)

    'There are certain things one must do. Punching a Frenchman is one of them.'

    Sir Philip Bin, 'Bleak Expectations'.


  • #36
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    I know the manager of the one in Talbot Street and I always get a discount on my pride flags and t-shirts. Also, they sell whiskey-infused chocolate so they can't be THAT bad.


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  • #37
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Cereal Number wrote: »
    Funny how they are irish shops, yet are full of Chinese scrap.......

    That's manafacturing for ya.


  • #38
    Mr_Spaceman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Mr_Spaceman


    In fairness to Carroll's they have an excellent collection of fridge magnets - essential souvenirs.


  • #39
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    Mr_Spaceman wrote: »
    In fairness to Carroll's they have an excellent collection of fridge magnets - essential souvenirs.

    Lol yeah especially the one which is a bottle-opener :D


  • #40
    Steve O
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Steve O


    DanaScully wrote: »
    What is the link between Leprechauns and English ?

    Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies...

    Someone didn't read as a child.


  • #41
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Leprechauns are from folklore/mythology. The first one was the son of an evil spirit and a fairy. They love playing tricks on people. They make shoes and hide their money at the ends of rainbows. If you catch one they can grant you a wish.


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  • #42
    Scruffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Scruffles


    never heard of carolls but its possibly where all the huge pencils am bought from dads visits home,its a tradition where he always gets one whenever he is over,theyre fuking useless without a big sharpner.
    Steve O wrote: »
    Someone didn't read as a child.
    looks like someones not been practicing what they preach, as an adult-
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20


  • #43
    Steve O
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Steve O


    Scruffles wrote: »
    looks like someones not been practicing what they preach, as an adult-
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20

    My post was in reference to this

    "Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies.."

    I was merely saying he mustn't have read The Elves and the Shoemaker as a child.

    Get over yourself, you aren't a mod.


  • #44
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Do they still serve coddle in a Bodhrán?


  • #45
    debabyjesus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭debabyjesus


    Those shops are good craic. I bought my French missus a hat that says 'Is maith liom mo hata'. It wasn't tacky at all, kinda cool actually.


  • #46
    DanaScully
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭DanaScully


    Steve O wrote: »
    My post was in reference to this

    "Leprechauns don't exist and are supposed to be shoemarkers for fairies.."

    I was merely saying he mustn't have read The Elves and the Shoemaker as a child.

    Get over yourself, you aren't a mod.

    The Elves and the Shoemaker? What is this book about?


  • #47
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    McChubbin wrote: »
    I know the manager of the one in Talbot Street and I always get a discount on my pride flags and t-shirts. Also, they sell whiskey-infused chocolate so they can't be THAT bad.

    They sell 'authentic' Irish soil that's made in Poland. It's like a legalised version of selling laptops out of a white van.


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't really know why this in After Hours. Sorry OP, it doesn't belong here.


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