Things you expect to see in rural Ireland

jigglywoo

alwaysadub wrote: »

I see just as much dumping in Dublin as i do down the country to be honest.

aw well I'm never in Dublin so I wouldn't know

vampire of kilmainham

Yis should all get out more:D:D:D

sharkbite1983

Some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, the best craic in a lock in with a guitar session till 5 am drinking the creamest pints of Guinness ever. Yum

I'm from Dublin and I hate the kip.

MotteDai

I wont get engaged with this thread from here, iiving in Mayo, what a beautiful place... god bless ireand

Tar.Aldarion

people talking to each other on the road, even when hey don't know each other, crazy I know.
silage waves
one car a day

epgc3fyqirnbsx

The farmers handshake!
We laugh at the boggers here, hard to grasp I know but here are different levels of boggerness. Farmers handshake consists of pressing your hand against the windscreen with all 5 fingers spread eagled and making a stupid face. It's red but feckin hilarious.

That and when you see a mate coming towards you on the road and you lie down on the passanger seat so it looks like there's no one driving the car. We haven't died pulling this stunt yet either...

filthymcnasty

gigantic ostentatious 7 bed houses with 3 acres of land, half a bog and a lake on sale for 80 grand

shops doubling as pubs/hardware/petrol stations/ headshops/ brothels

bonfires along the road after weddings ( well maybe in galway anyway)

an average wedding with 600 people in case someone gets left out

individuals from a certain nomadic community arriving at isolated farms trying to rob the place at the pretence of selling gates

ongoing family feuds about who should have paid for a funeral 90 years ago

lads arguing about the price of sheep dip and potato blight medicine

hairy arses sticking out of ditches!

driving across half the country to buy a digger/ tractor for 50 quid less

sheep hopping over walls at night time and nearly crashing cars

women with ronnie drew style beards

reading the social column of the farmers journal

attending a funeral is a daily event

bating lumps out of lads from the next town over

chippers called super donalds, mac burger, burger max etc

i'm a dub but i luv ye all lads

vampire of kilmainham

Lads collecting their dole in the local post office with horses tied outside:D:D

vampire of kilmainham

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

Lads collecting their dole in the local post office with horses tied outside:D:D

I've seen more horses being ridden on the M50 than where I live, used to have some neighbours who kept jumping over the fence and eating my plants! :mad:

vampire of kilmainham

Young lads about 13 driving tractors down narrow country roads with a head of long hair full of hay smoking a fag:D:D:D

mountainy man

areas of gravel which once were roads !:(

sheep being used as women substitutes !:eek:

people listening to "the deaths" on radio bogtrotter !:D

bad2dabone

Ugly women

Super-Rush

mountainy man wrote: »

areas of gravel which once were roads !:(

sheep being used as women substitutes !:eek:

people listening to "the deaths" on radio bogtrotter !:D

I remember my granny doing this on a daily basis. She used to say she was checking to see if she was dead.

goat2

sheep shearing and dipping
milking cows
spreading muck
cutting silage
thinning mangles, turnips, carrots, and parsnips which city and country folk eat
picking the poppies or praties
pulling turnips
going to the bog to cut turf, well, ( if the greens get their way that will be a thing of the past)
peeing on the ditch
eating bacon sandwiches with a pint of fresh creamy milk ( not pasturised)
feeding the hens, geese, ducks) collecting the eggs
washing the wellies
drawing the turf home from bog with horse or tractor
saving the hay
washing myself in the stream on the farm with a bar of sunlight soap and a scrubbing brush, thats nate

MidlandsM

LFC5Times wrote: »

Sh1t "nightclubs" full of everyone in the town

Incest

indeed, all just trying to model themselves on CopperFaceJacks.:D

owenc

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

Lads collecting their dole in the local post office with horses tied outside:D:D

its not that bloody bad.

owenc

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

people talking to each other on the road, even when hey don't know each other, crazy I know.
silage waves
one car a day

Not true my road has 5000 cars a day as it links limavady and derry wey coleraine.

Donkey Oaty

owenc wrote: »

Not true my road has 5000 cars a day as it links limavady and derry wey coleraine.

Why don't you get yourself down to Limavady this afternoon for the vintage rally instead of wasting your life away on the internet. Fun for all the family!

http://www.limavady.gov.uk/visiting/whats-on/619/

Lone Stone

Incest babies

Celly Smunt

a petrol station that employs the whole town

Duggy747

Jesus, some of you people need to get out of the cities more. I imagine the banjo from Deliverance plays in your head when ye're 1km outside your "cultured areas" :pac:

"To be shure, to be shure!!"

Tar.Aldarion

owenc wrote: »

Not true my road has 5000 cars a day as it links limavady and derry wey coleraine.

pff you city roader! I'm from real rural :pac:

df1985

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

Lads collecting their dole in the local post office with horses tied outside:D:D

clondalkin??

Doyler92

I'd literally expect to see nothing.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

You can expect to see me driving a Massey Fergus and cutting some thistles in about an hours time

Ooo Arr

high horse

mountainy man wrote: »

areas of gravel which once were roads !:(

sheep being used as women substitutes !:eek:

people listening to "the deaths" on radio bogtrotter !:D

Sheep can iron shirts now? Are they any good at making the tae?

Mike 1972

A small village with an inexplicably wide main street........two drivers passing in opposite directions stop for a chat......which combined with the triple-parking either side renders the whole road completely impassable

rednik

The obligatory donkey posing at the side of the road for photos as they do.

Donkey Oaty

rednik wrote: »

The obligatory donkey posing at the side of the road for photos as they do.

Cheese! That'll be a fiver.

Don Keypunch

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