Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

What are some things an American should know about the Irish Culture?

Options
1…78101213…18

Comments

  • Options
    #272
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,027 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    WickedWest wrote: »
    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    Corrected.

    I'm so disappointed in myself :(
    You gave it your best. Luckily, in Ireland the pass mark for exams is 40%, so you're probably ok.


  • Options
    #273
    btard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭btard


    WickedWest wrote: »
    Why? I mean, I give people rides here in Nebraska all the time, but I dont think I'm any more popular for it. :confused:

    You must be doing it wrong. :D


  • Options
    #274
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    WickedWest wrote: »
    Wait just a second... You can't be saying that a wheelbarrow is considered smaller than a shovel!

    Fun fact of the day: Up until about a year ago, I though it was pronounced wheelbarrel :rolleyes:
    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    Debatable. We have some big.shovels...

    Ah sure we know most shovels are smaller than a wheelbarrow, we were going to change it, but we thought it was grand


  • Options
    #275
    Robdude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Robdude


    I've been here for....9 months now. Grew up in the US and had never left prior. The culture here is all but identical to the US. Nobody wants to admit it (Americans or Irish); but it really is.


  • Options
    #276
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,412 ✭✭✭cml387


    Robdude wrote: »
    I've been here for....9 months now. Grew up in the US and had never left prior. The culture here is all but identical to the US. Nobody wants to admit it (Americans or Irish); but it really is.


    That cuts deep.Because it's so true.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #277
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    krudler wrote: »
    slang: "howya boss"= "good day my good sir"

    free time is spent hurling, fighting, drinking, bailing hay, 'atin ham, drinkin' tae and batin' the wife.

    Horses are adept at driving on both sides of the road.

    When making friends:
    do= slag them off and call people gobsh1tes at every turn.
    don't= express feelings, even if your entire family is killed, you're "grand"

    Irish men express attraction by gathing in nightclubs wearing terrible clothes, peering at women in the dark until sufficent alchohol is consumed to talk to a woman in the hopes of buying her a taco chip and mauling the box off her outside Supermacs.

    Classes from bottom to top go= tracksuit wearing, student, public sector worker, private sector worker, D4 homeowner, Fianna Fail former politician, English landlord.

    Tips: cows are benign, majestic beasts.
    cups of tea are to be accepted no matter what the situation.
    as are ham sandwiches.
    Don't go to Mayo.
    If you vomit from drinking, drink more, then you'll be seen as great craic.
    Craic is not the same as American crack, thats different.


    Welcome to Ireland!

    Galway head?


  • Options
    #278
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    btard wrote: »
    You must be doing it wrong. :D

    Don't even try that, I know what a ride means now :P haha.


  • Options
    #279
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    Simple rule

    The closer you are to a Supermacs the further you are from civilisation


  • Options
    #280
    mattjack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    When you first go for a drink in a pub ask for a pint of 'bollix'.We talk a lot of bollix , its also our national drink.


  • Options
    #281
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,412 ✭✭✭cml387


    Tzar Chasm wrote: »
    Simple rule

    The closer you are to a Supermacs the further you are from civilisation


    Supermac=White Castle


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #282
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    whatdoicare wrote: »
    One thing to remember - whatever you've seen in the movies about Ireland - just disregard it.
    Look up "Darby O' Gill and the little people" - it's a true life story and everything about it is factual. Copy everything that Darby says and does and you'll be "Grand" or "A OKAY". :)

    I watched Darby O' Gill, and I don't believe you one bit! But I loved it, especially since Sean Connery was in it ;)


  • Options
    #283
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    We don't have first period in school
    We don't end sentences with periods
    We don't use periods after abbreviations


    We write in copies (pl) a copy (S)


  • Options
    #284
    mattjack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    micropig wrote: »
    We don't have first period in school
    We don't end sentences with periods
    We don't use periods after abbreviations


    We write in copies (pl) a copy (S)

    What the fcuk are you talking about ?


  • Options
    #285
    Meow_Meow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Meow_Meow


    micropig wrote: »
    We don't have first period in school
    Not true!! Some girls are really unlucky
    :(
    Mess of it!


  • Options
    #286
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    mattjack wrote: »
    What the fcuk are you talking about ?

    Periods and their use:confused: Was I not clear?:p


  • Options
    #287
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    mattjack wrote: »
    When you first go for a drink in a pub ask for a pint of 'bollix'.We talk a lot of bollix , its also our national drink.

    What kind of a drink is it? I thought Guinness was considered the national drink, lol...

    Also, I could ask for it, but what would I do with it? I don't drink!


  • Options
    #288
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Buckfast is very popular in parts, great stuff, first 2/3 bottles are awful tack but the taste really improves after that. It's made by monks so it cant be bad :D


  • Options
    #289
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    WickedWest wrote: »
    What kind of a drink is it? I thought Guinness was considered the national drink, lol...

    Also, I could ask for it, but what would I do with it? I don't drink!

    you'll be expected to just swallow it, it's non alcoholic


  • Options
    #290
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,027 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    WickedWest wrote: »
    What kind of a drink is it? I thought Guinness was considered the national drink, lol...

    Also, I could ask for it, but what would I do with it? I don't drink!

    Ah he's only yanking your chain.


  • Options
    #291
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    WickedWest wrote: »
    What kind of a drink is it? I thought Guinness was considered the national drink, lol...

    Also, I could ask for it, but what would I do with it? I don't drink!

    Guinness is mostly drank by men, especially older men. The ladies love Bollix though.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #292
    mickrock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭mickrock


    WickedWest wrote: »
    Haha, I know what a robbery is, I was wondering if crime was pretty bad in Cork (or Ireland as a whole).

    Crime in Cork would be no worse than a place like Compton.


  • Options
    #293
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    mattjack wrote: »
    What the fcuk are you talking about ?

    Looks like we got ourselves a foreigner:D:p


  • Options
    #294
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Also galway is very nice, pretty relaxed, head for a spin out the coast road by connemara and then back in to the quay street for a feed of pints and a nice kebab. hit meself or one of the other galway heads up if ya need a guide.


  • Options
    #295
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Donnielighto wrote: »
    Also galway is very nice, pretty relaxed, head for a spin out the coast road by connemara and then back in to the quay street for a feed of pints and a nice kebab. hit meself or one of the other galway heads up if ya need a guide.
    Classic chat up line


    Stay well clear of Mayo, there's a war going on there over the oil


  • Options
    #296
    mickrock
    Registered Users Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭mickrock


    Agricola wrote: »
    Guinness is mostly drank by men, especially older men. The ladies love Bollix though.

    Bollix is like candy.

    Put them in your mouth and gently suck them.


  • Options
    #297
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    micropig wrote: »
    Classic chat up line


    Stay well clear of Mayo, there's a war going on there over the oil

    Natural gas is not oil.


  • Options
    #298
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    mickrock wrote: »
    Crime in Cork would be no worse than a place like Compton.

    So in other words, Cork is full of gangs and I should steer clear unless I want someone to "bust a cap in my ass"?


  • Options
    #299
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    mickrock wrote: »
    Bollix is like candy.

    Put them in your mouth and gently suck them.

    But I thought it was a drink?


  • Options
    #300
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    micropig wrote: »
    Classic chat up line


    nabbed, seriously though, lovely spot, roisin dubh and the quays (pub, not street) are big draws for americans


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #301
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    WickedWest wrote: »
    So in other words, Cork is full of gangs and I should steer clear unless I want someone to "bust a cap in my ass"?

    watch out for limerick, tallaght and sixmilebridge, horrid places


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement