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

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    #332
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    Oh also, you'll fill your car with petrol or diesel. Not gas. And its measured in litres, not gallons, so if you think.your getting a bargain, your really not.

    Distance is in metres and kilometres btw, none of your inches feet and miles!

    Hey, at least we're precise!


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    #333
    grindle
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    WickedWest wrote: »
    What's a jacksie?

    Arse.


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    #334
    Patri
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    Don't forget to make it to a Junior C hurling match in the pissing rain, the pinnacle of Irish sport and manliness.


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    #335
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Yes, but there is a lovely interpretive center there, to explain to you what a cliff looks like & how you may not want to fall off the edge of it. Comes in very handy if you aren't too sure of how a cliff & the concept of gravity works!

    Thank the Lord you told me, I would have just walked right off!


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    #336
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    brummytom wrote: »
    In America, plenty of people see the word 'cunt' as an absolutely disgusting word.

    'Howaya, cunt?' is a pretty standard greeting in Ireland, and being called one means they like you (Most of the time...)

    That's my least favorite word.


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    #337
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    ViveLaVie wrote: »
    What would you be studying over here?

    Probably Psychology, but it's still a bit up in the air.


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    #338
    WickedWest
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    grindle wrote: »
    Arse.

    OH!


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    #339
    grindle
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    WickedWest wrote: »
    That's my least favorite word.

    You'll come to love it.
    50% of women still balk at it, but use it if someone's being a total cunnt.


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    #340
    Mint Sauce
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    Bollox = Bad
    The Dogs Bollox = Good.

    Also a reference to the film 'The 51 State'


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    #341
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    WickedWest wrote: »
    OH!

    That's what she said.


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    #342
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    grindle wrote: »
    That's what she said.

    :P


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    #343
    cloud493
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    Chicken rolls from spar in town are delicious, and cheap.


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    #344
    pache
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    Wanna play a game of hide the sausage?


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    #345
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    So I've been watching Father Ted, and I was wondering if "so" can replace "then"?

    Ex. "No, I'm not in the mood (for tea)." - Father Ted
    "Alright so." - Mrs. Doyle

    In the US we would have said "Alright then."


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    #346
    WickedWest
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    pache wrote: »
    Wanna play a game of hide the sausage?

    What's that?


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    #347
    micropig
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    WickedWest wrote: »
    So I've been watching Father Ted, and I was wondering if "so" can replace "then"?

    Ex. "No, I'm not in the mood (for tea)." - Father Ted
    "Alright so." - Mrs. Doyle

    In the US we would have said "Alright then."

    Yes..but in this context it expresses the speakers (Mrs. Doyle) dissatisfaction that he doesn't want more tea


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    #348
    Tzar Chasm
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    Tense wise so makes more sense than then.


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    #349
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    The weather. Learn how to talk weather. A relatively simple language used by local natives.


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    #350
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Chicken rolls from spar in town are delicious, and cheap.

    Air is free, and an efficient means of supplying oxygen to humans .


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    #351
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    WickedWest wrote: »
    pache wrote: »
    Wanna play a game of hide the sausage?

    What's that?

    Its a fun game.

    Get yerself ta wexford and i'll give ya a few lessons


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    #352
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    Tzar Chasm wrote: »
    Its a fun game.

    Get yerself ta wexford and i'll give ya a few lessons

    Hide the sausage? Is that like hide-and-seek or capture the flag?


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    #353
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    Bad news, guys...


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    #354
    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Break it to us slowly...


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    #355
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    WickedWest wrote: »
    Bad news, guys...

    Trip cancelled?


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    #356
    micropig
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    WickedWest wrote: »
    Bad news, guys...

    OMG what's up hon?


    *This feels like facebook:mad:


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    #357
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    WickedWest wrote: »
    Bad news, guys...

    You're pregnant.


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    #358
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    micropig wrote: »
    *This feels like facebook:mad:

    I'd like to feel your facebook. :(


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    #359
    WickedWest
    Registered Users Posts: 119 ✭✭WickedWest


    Or it could be very good news, depending...!


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    #360
    minidazzler
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    WickedWest wrote: »
    That's my least favorite word.

    If you are coming to Cork you'd wanna get used to it. It's just a word after all and over here it's a word that's used a lot by a lot of people.


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    #361
    The Internet Explorer
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    grindle wrote: »
    I'd like to feel your facebook. :(

    --o-o-o-o-


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