Things you expect to see in rural Ireland

jibblybitsy

jibblybitsy wrote: »

Ahghasgragh

Twinned with Elphin.

dezzyd

Lets get back to the op's thread and have something worthwhile/funny/interesting here...........
what ye think

SeaFields

Burning heaps of tyres littering the road after the local team wins "d'county"

dezzyd

SeaFields wrote: »

Burning heaps of tyres littering the road after the local team wins "d'county"

:):)

FarmerGreen

Silence
Space
Darkness

Creeps out the townies.

Panthro

because of the lovely weather today, tractors n trailers full to the ballz with turf/hay/silage/etc.

alwaysadub

FarmerGreen wrote: »

Silence
Space
Darkness

Creeps out the townies.

You can't see any of them though.Technically. :pac:

FarmerGreen

Its how you feel.

starbelgrade

papagormo wrote: »

because of the lovely weather today, tractors n trailers full to the ballz with turf/hay/silage/etc.

A couple of hot days & a dry wind - perfect for hay making.

At least I heard so on Newstalk from the editor of Farmers Journal!

Panthro

starbelgrade wrote: »

A couple of hot days & a dry wind - perfect for hay making.

At least I heard so on Newstalk from the editor of Farmers Journal!

all im saying is..driving from galway county to dundalk on a nice summers day, very hungover..and big aul tractors n trailers and then smaller tractors with the wife driving it..made for one hell of a long journey!

SeaFields

papagormo wrote: »

all im saying is..driving from galway county to dundalk on a nice summers day, very hungover..and big aul tractors n trailers and then smaller tractors with the wife driving it..made for one hell of a long journey!

era you shudda just stayed in galway

Panthro

SeaFields wrote: »

era you shudda just stayed in galway

ohh believe! ringing the boss and making up some BS story was sooo close to being done! (needed the oul work though)

mayfire

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7890/36752402228061172539491.jpg

Ruu_Old

Telecom Eireann phone box.

SeaFields

Ruu wrote: »

Telecom Eireann phone box.

Now thats a good one!

yuloni

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starbelgrade

Bags of compost for sale outside the village shop.

Cars parked outside the shop with the keys in them & the engine still running.

Pints for less than €4.

The postman not only never delivers to the wrong address, but also knows your name. *

Cars parked outside the pub until 3am.

Lock-ins.

The back door almost always unlocked.

People who don't know each other saying "hello" in the village.



* = I usually forget to lock my car outside the house & on more than one occasion, the postman, instead of leaving a note to say that I've to collect a parcel, has left the parcels sitting on the front passenger seat.

lalee17

Sheep
People with a bare grasp of English
Silage
People going to Mass

Hyperbullet

A more recent addition would be gaping holes in the sides of banks where the atm used to be and a burnt out jcb in close proximity.

starbelgrade

starbelgrade wrote: »

The postman not only never delivers to the wrong address, but also knows your name. *


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and correctly delivering to the right house when half a dozen separate houses were built by sons of the same family and none of the houses have names or numbers (those that he can't work out, get delivered to the fathers house).

bronte

People waving at you whilst driving past you on the road...even though they have no idea who the fook you are.

oppenheimer1

A housing estate in the middle of nowhere.

Seloth

Heh A friend from the town by me always love to point out two of the facts above.

1.How everyone waves to you as you drive past.I think we all just do it incase you know who it is :pac:

2.How when ever he drives out he always ends up leaving the keys in the car,yet he wouldnt think about leaving them in the car for two seconds in town heh.


Two things I have to add though,

Boy races and rubbish from the town ..Honestly once someone dumped a car at the ebach by mine,tunred ove ran all hah.

starbelgrade

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

A housing estate in the middle of nowhere.

Like Lucan or Tallaght?

CoDy1

Sunday Game viewers.

Watchin the 'chimpship'.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

The simple pleasure of walking to get your post (if you have a long driveway) and seeing a fox, a hare, and a pheasant. None fighting unfortunately

Hearing the Banshee! This happened me one night, frightned the bejaysis out of me. Have a half mile driveway going into the house, (proper sticks style) and I was walking over to my mate house and heard the banshee and nearly died. Met an aul man neighbour walking to the pub, which was a couple of miles away which is another rural thing to see, and he explained that it was a vixen screaming for want of a ride from a male fox. His words.

Goats. You can see goats. They culled a lot of them with foot and mouth but you still see the odd one who's made his way onto your area and gives yout the look as if to say "I survived the foot and mouth scare of 2001 and I can look you in the eyes because I know, I know, that I can survive just about anything"
So you see this goat staring at you, you stare back, give him a little nod the is the embodiment of admiration and understanding, but he needs not nod you back... Just gives you a knowing world weary stare, has a little **** and gets back to his grazing happy and safe in the knowledge that you have no intention or inclination to moving him onto foreign pastures.

Elenxor

Dublin delivery vans with drivers wearing Man United Jerseys

Caoimhín

Jaysus, the parochialism and ignorance in this thread is astonishing.

Caoimhín

Jaycee Long Gearshift wrote: »

Hearing the Banshee! This happened me one night, frightned the bejaysis out of me. Have a half mile driveway going into the house, (proper sticks style) and I was walking over to my mate house and heard the banshee and nearly died. .

Are you sure it wasnt a fox?

mfceiling

Caoimhín wrote: »

Jaysus, the parochialism and ignorance in this thread is astonishing.

Great isn't it...........