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Things you expect to see in rural Ireland

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  • 18-06-2010 10:53pm
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    mfceiling
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    An oul lad on a bike

    Someone looking into a field

    An old fiesta with the old type reg

    A dog sitting outside a house ready to chase the next car that passes

    A tractor parked outside the local shop/pub

    Someone in a "local" gaa jersey

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    orourkeda
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    a muck snorkling bog savage


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    helimachoptor
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    Petrol pumps at the side of the road


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    [Deleted User]
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    grass down the middle of the road!


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    #5
    alwaysadub
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    Sheep and cows

    A shop/post office that sells everything from food to petrol to work boots


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    KeithM89_old
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    Rain


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    Celly Smunt
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    barren wasteland


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    LFC5Times
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    Someone call "Pa"

    The general rural population wearing clothes that where in fashion in Dublin 10 + years ago.

    Sheep on the road


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    WindSock
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    A big hairy arse.


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    Praetorian Saighdiuir
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    The cast of Deliverance in a Starbucks....


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    thetonynator
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    Judging by the answers here most of ye have never been outside of the pale I'd say. :P


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    MidlandsM
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    Knackers down from Dublin to rob a few places.


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    Celly Smunt
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    MidlandsM wrote: »
    Knackers down from Dublin to rob a few places.
    if there was something to rob :P


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    #14
    Speak Now
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    Someone from the city dumping rubbish over the ditch.


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    #15
    LFC5Times
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    Sh1t "nightclubs" full of everyone in the town

    Incest


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    Dancing at the cross roads.

    Priests chasing 'comely maidens' from said cross roads as they had the look of the divil in their eyes.

    The Bull McCabe.

    A good shellileigh fight


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    thetonynator
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    Jaycee Long Gearshift wrote: »
    Dancing at the cross roads.

    Priests chasing 'comely maidens' from said cross roads as they had the look of the divil in their eyes.

    The Bull McCabe.

    A good shellileigh fight


    About 60 years too late . . .


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    #18
    genericguy
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    people shaking hands with some rapists, and eating bread out of the hands of others.


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    elchupanebrey
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    genericguy wrote: »
    people shaking hands with some rapists, and eating bread out of the hands of others.

    You don't have to be in the country not to have a clue what that means.:eek:


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    ejmaztec
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    A multi-storey car-park, next to an abandoned newly-built 400 room hotel in the middle of a bog.


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    [Deleted User]
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    A multi-storey car-park, next to an abandoned newly-built 400 room hotel in the middle of a bog.

    With an empty shopping centre and a half built housing estate across the road!


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    genericguy
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    elchupanebrey wrote: »
    You don't have to be in the country not to have a clue what that means.:eek:

    hand-shaking explained:
    http://www.irishelection.com/2009/12/sympathies-yet-again/

    Bread-eating explained:
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0530/1224247741242.html


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    mickdw
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    Houses that people in the city could only afford if they won the euromillions jackpot.


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    #24
    Superbus
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    Rural people, doing rural things.


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    #25
    Lando Griffin
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    Tractors and trailors laden with the days work of hay or turf and twenty cars behind it trying to over take, but the ould fellow is to busy teaching his 12 year old how to drive before they just stop in the middle of the road so they can open the gate.


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    [Deleted User]
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    mickdw wrote: »
    Houses that people in the city could only afford if they won the euromillions jackpot.

    But are now dirt cheap as no one wants them.


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    W.Shakes-Beer
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    Shíte loads of Toyota's.

    I was in the back arse of Galway at the start of the week and i went into a spar (there's always one) and seen a man of about 40, wearing clothes the looked like they were woven out of vomit, sitting drinking Guinness from the can at about 12:15pm.


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    tony1kenobi
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    Rural folk.


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    #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Shrubbery!


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    ejmaztec
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    With an empty shopping centre and a half built housing estate across the road!

    They would be five miles away in another bog with no access roads.


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    thetonynator
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    Roadsides lined with Linden Village cans and flagons from when the townie knackers/skangers go for a drive . . .


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