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    #392
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    NADA wrote: »
    To be fair. Pants is the accepted word for trousers all over Britain, America and Ireland with the exception of Dublin.

    Its the acceptable word for trousers used by culchies who still eat bread with sugar you mean.


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    #393
    Mark200
    Registered Users Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    couldn't be bothered reading through 27 pages to see if this has already been said, but I now find myself saying "movie" instead of film more and more


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    #394
    Pub07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Pub07


    I hate when people on this board use the term 'douche bag'....this phrase has never been used in Ireland and now there are a few retards trying to bring it in. Leave it to the Yanks please you idiots.


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    #395
    Fanny Cradock
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    I've heard the term 'thru' used a number of times. "Monday thru Friday"


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    #396
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Overheal wrote: »
    BurgerKingFailSign_02.jpg

    That is one of the saddest displays of illiteracy I have seen in quite a while

    No, the fact that Burger King is out of 'meet' is the saddest thing ever! :(


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    #397
    WooPeeA
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    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    I've heard the term 'thru' used a number of times. "Monday thru Friday"
    I'm not much bothered thru this thing.. :p


    However Monday thru Friday sounds a little weird.


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    #398
    MelanieD
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    Every time my sister in laws calls my daughter 'Sweetie' I cringe:eek:

    It's all thanks to Friends.


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    #399
    IvaBigWun
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    MelanieD wrote: »
    Every time my sister in laws calls my daughter 'Sweetie' I cringe:eek:

    It's all thanks to Friends.

    No, a Friends like scenario would be them constantly "on a break" and your sister would have to be ridiculously hot and your brother's head would have to resemble The Fonz on a bad day.

    Tbh.


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    Alicat
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    MelanieD wrote: »
    Every time my sister in laws calls my daughter 'Sweedie' I cringe:eek:

    It's all thanks to Friends.

    FYP


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    #401
    IvaBigWun
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    Alicat wrote: »
    FYP

    Sweet Jebus would you ever do some work. Fecking over-paid Chemists.

    :)


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    thermo66
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    The 'mom' business is a bit irritating especially when its drawn out in an american twang. Its very prevalent in Cork especially among the college girls. Not so noticeable where i'm from as you'd be made a holy show of if you started to say it. Anyway my mother is a mammy not a mom!!! :P


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    BraziliaNZ
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    thermo66 wrote: »
    The 'mom' business is a bit irritating especially when its drawn out in an american twang. Its very prevalent in Cork especially among the college girls. Not so noticeable where i'm from as you'd be made a holy show of if you started to say it. Anyway my mother is a mammy not a mom!!! :P

    I met a girl from Cork on holiday back in July or so, and holy-sh*t she sounded like Paris Hilton or something. Every sentence ending in a question? I knew that craic went on in Dublin but didn't realise it had spread to the nouveau-riche of Cork too.


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    #404
    thermo66
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I met a girl from Cork on holiday back in July or so, and holy-sh*t she sounded like Paris Hilton or something. Every sentence ending in a question? I knew that craic went on in Dublin but didn't realise it had spread to the nouveau-riche of Cork too.
    Oh yeah its a bit sickening really. Was sitting in a lecture before it started last week and the conversation behind us was straight out of 90210. My friend and I just looked at each other and laughed.


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    #405
    Toto Wolfcastle
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    thermo66 wrote: »
    The 'mom' business is a bit irritating especially when its drawn out in an american twang. Its very prevalent in Cork especially among the college girls. Not so noticeable where i'm from as you'd be made a holy show of if you started to say it. Anyway my mother is a mammy not a mom!!! :P

    Meh the 'mom' thing is very much an Irish thing, as mentioned earlier in this thread.

    I know people from all over Ireland who use it.


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    #406
    thermo66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭thermo66


    janeybabe wrote: »
    Meh the 'mom' thing is very much an Irish thing, as mentioned earlier in this thread.

    I know people from all over Ireland who use it.
    Haven't read all the posts. It definitely isn't a traditional irish phrase. I'm presuming your quite young? You think it is because its entered into the present irish conversation. I'm sure its used all over Ireland. Americanisms aren't relegated to one area unfortunately.


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