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What do you think about Carrolls shops?

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  • #32
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,264 ✭✭✭✭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 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 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 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 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 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 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    Do they still serve coddle in a Bodhrán?


  • #45
    debabyjesus
    Registered Users 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 Posts: 28,392 ✭✭✭✭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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