I was talking to mum about shopping on the high street

Rabidlamb

I see nothing wrong in the thread title, spoken like a true Irishman.
Some people however see a red rag & need raise their flaming torches in the name of Padraic Pearse.
Lets have it so, I'm ready for your slings & arrows.

Tombi!

So long as you don't say "mom", I'm happy.

Did Pádraig Pearse prefer out of town retail parks or something?

davet82

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I see nothing wrong in the thread title, spoken like a true Irishman.
Some people however see a red rag & need raise their flaming torches in the name of Padraic Pearse.
Lets have it so, I'm ready for your slings & arrows.

GTFO :mad: *


*IDK why

Jay D

It might tweak it's way into Irish vocabulary. Do you want a Blue Peter Badge for your efforts?

AnonoBoy

Deleted User wrote: »

Did Pádraig Pearse prefer out of town retail parks or something?

Padraic Pearse hated people who talked about mothers. It's a well known fact and was documented in the old Irish rebel song "Shut yer face if you're talking about the Brits or talking about my auld lady"

Agricola

I don't think Ive ever heard anyone Irish say "Mum"
It just has to be "Mam", "Ma" or "the Mammy"

kneemos

What's your mum wearing?

TeddyTedson

As far as I'm concerned people who give a **** about such idle matters have very little to be thinking about....in all in anyways.
Seriously though, who really cares.
Isn't it great we're not all the same, loike. *gets coat*

charlemont

Off off 'av an early bath mate

frozenfrozen

What did she say?

bluecode

That's perfectly alright. There's probably 'High Streets' in nearly every town in Ireland and obviously your Mum is English!:p

asherbassad

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I see nothing wrong in the thread title, spoken like a true Irishman.
Some people however see a red rag & need raise their flaming torches in the name of Padraic Pearse.
Lets have it so, I'm ready for your slings & arrows.

FFS "Mum" (or if you're a total wanker, "Mummy") is an exclusive. It's a fcuking NAME. You can only refer to your damn mother as "Mum" when you are talking to someone who is also one of her fcuking offspring...OR...the guy she married.
I all other situations you have to refer to her as "MY" Mum.

Can you just walk up to a total stranger in the street and say "Excuse me, can you ring mum?"
No you bloody-well can't, you feckin' mama's boy!

1ZRed

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

So long as you don't say "mom", I'm happy.

I routinely say mom. I feel stupid saying mam like I'm more of a culchie than what I already am.

And "mum" is just English talk :pac:

3ndahalfof6

I hope she told you to make sure you had your condoms with you.

kneemos

frozenfrozen wrote: »

What did she say?

Go start a thread in AH about it.

Conall Cernach

Agricola wrote: »

I don't think Ive ever heard anyone Irish say "Mum"
It just has to be "Mam", "Ma" or "the Mammy"

I remember being in stitches when my cousin who spent his early childhood (he was about 9 then) in the Isle of Man asked his mother "Mum, where is my pump bag?" This in front of a kitchen full of cousins and aunts from Lurgan, Co. Armagh. After several minutes of general hilarity his ma had to translate for us "for God's sake someone give him his gutty bag." Bag being pronounced "Bayyyyg" in those parts.

Onthe3rdDay

Deleted User wrote: »

Did Pádraig Pearse prefer out of town retail parks or something?

Is this a reference to his sexual preferences?

Davidius

I always thought 'mum' was more child-talk. Everybody around me referred to their 'mum' when growing up but I rarely hear anybody say it now as an adult.

bluecode

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I remember being in stitches when my cousin who spent his early childhood (he was about 9 then) in the Isle of Man asked his mother "Mum, where is my pump bag?" This in front of a kitchen full of cousins and aunts from Lurgan, Co. Armagh. After several minutes of general hilarity his ma had to translate for us "for God's sake someone give him his gutty bag." Bag being pronounced "Bayyyyg" in those parts.

Now you'll have to go and explain 'gutty'.

Also don't you think it's a wee bit funny for persons of a northern extraction making fun of other people's accents? Would ya catch yerself on?

h2005

You`re having a laugh

Chucken

h2005 wrote: »

You`re having a laugh

No!

e's 'avin a larf

Mint Sauce

Which High Street?

mikemac1

in town

Zebra3

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I was talking to mum about shopping on the high street

Not much shopping on High Street in Dublin.

Hurricane Carter

Using 'highstreet' is retarded. It's akin to saying 'sidewalk' - there's absolutely no reason for it unless you make a conscious decision to start using it.

Chucken

OP? What would you talk to mumsy about if there is no High street?

What if its only main Street?

Chucken

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I remember being in stitches when my cousin who spent his early childhood (he was about 9 then) in the Isle of Man asked his mother "Mum, where is my pump bag?" This in front of a kitchen full of cousins and aunts from Lurgan, Co. Armagh. After several minutes of general hilarity his ma had to translate for us "for God's sake someone give him his gutty bag." Bag being pronounced "Bayyyyg" in those parts.

I dont get it?

Whats a gutty bag? And why would saying pump bag be so funny?

eth0

This shoite is bad news.

Tis "mum" one week and tis "scouse moy moite, con i hauve a point o bih-ah ploise" the next

LordSutch

Agricola wrote: »

I don't think Ive ever heard anyone Irish say "Mum"
It just has to be "Mam", "Ma" or "the Mammy"

Plenty say Mum, but 'Mom' just sounds sooo American!

Kurz

If I heard someone using the phrase in the OP I'd just assume they were a Brit-tv obsessed x-factor zombie and probably wouldn't be too interested in hearing them talk anymore.

vektarman

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I see nothing wrong in the thread title, spoken like a true Irishman.
Some people however see a red rag & need raise their flaming torches in the name of Padraic Pearse.
Lets have it so, I'm ready for your slings & arrows.

Sooo...did they end up in Ann Summers...

summerskin

Wow. A chance for a let's bash Britain thread. Amazing and original.

Chucken

summerskin wrote: »

Wow. A chance for a let's bash Britain thread. Amazing and original.

Ok You start..........GO!

LordSutch

Surprised Seanchai hasn't got stuck in by now :cool:

Conall Cernach

Chucken wrote: »

I dont get it?

Whats a gutty bag? And why would saying pump bag be so funny?

A gutty is a runner or trainer.

It was funny because it was like he was speaking some foreign language to us native savages. He kept going "mum, mum! Wheres my pump bag?" and we were going "Wha?" What's he looking for?" Even some 30 years later it's still funny to look back on. I think that was the first time I had ever heard someone not on TV call their ma mum.

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Rabidlamb wrote: »

Some people however see a red rag & need raise their flaming torches in the name of Padraic Pearse.

The same people would be quick to point out that it's either Patrick Pearse or Pádraig MacPiarais. He did not mix English and Irish it seems.

Davyhal

I have pretty much as much of a culchie backround as you can get (Middle child growing up on a farm in Clare with all brothers... We had the whole Grandparents living next door, cattle, donkeys and hens in at the back of the house etc), and in our house, when small, our parents were Mom and Dad... "Mam" was my Dad's mother, and "Da" was my grandfather... We asked the folks where did we get "Mom" from since all the neighbouring kids used to say "Mam" or "Ma"; apparently my eldest brother used to love watching Dallas as a kid and picked up some Americanisms... To avoid all slagging we got over the issue at school, the parents have been "Mary and Dad" since we were like 9.... So, yeah, there's nothing wrong with saying "Mum" or "Mom" in my opinion...

Honest opinion

No one refers to town/city centre shopping as the high street in Ireland it just not done.

However i have heard the word trash meaning rubbish being used more frequently!

Plazaman

vektarman wrote: »

Sooo...did they end up in Ann Summers...

Not too far off, Pearse was notorious for buying dresses "for his mother". He'd wear them once then return them to the shop for a refund. Thus the phrase "padricked" was brought into use as in "I'm not bleedin wearing tha ha, it looks padricked".

True story, read it in a history book..... somewhere at the back.... in handwriting..... seemed legit.

My name is URL

I don't think I've ever heard an English person use the phrase in conversation either. It's more of a media thing really.

fishy fishy

Deleted User wrote: »

Did Pádraig Pearse prefer out of town retail parks or something?

no, he was more of an online order person.

Mr Benevolent

Deleted User wrote: »

Did Pádraig Pearse prefer out of town retail parks or something?

I think he preferred boutiques, seeing as he was slightly less heterosexual then previously believed.

Merkin

What's this thread about? Seriously? I must be missing something, it's gone flying over my head quicker than Felix Baumgartner.

SiegHeilNosey

Rabidlamb wrote: »

I see nothing wrong in the thread title, spoken like a true Irishman.
Some people however see a red rag & need raise their flaming torches in the name of Padraic Pearse.
Lets have it so, I'm ready for your slings & arrows.

*Patrick Pearse

fishy fishy

My name is URL wrote: »

I don't think I've ever heard an English person use the phrase in conversation either. It's more of a media thing really.

is it like "sicth" instead of "sixth" :rolleyes:

Ellis Dee

They call it the mane street in Portlaoise, and the more ya see of it, the maner it looks.:):)

LordSutch

SiegHeilNosey wrote: »

Patrick Pearse

That's right, the grandfather of famous English footballer Stuart Pearse also known as 'psyco'

http://scottishcomedyfc.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/stuart-pearce.jpg

Topper Harley

asherbassad wrote: »

FFS "Mum" (or if you're a total wanker, "Mummy") is an exclusive. It's a fcuking NAME. You can only refer to your damn mother as "Mum" when you are talking to someone who is also one of her fcuking offspring...OR...the guy she married.
I all other situations you have to refer to her as "MY" Mum.

Can you just walk up to a total stranger in the street and say "Excuse me, can you ring mum?"
No you bloody-well can't, you feckin' mama's boy!

Thank you. I thought that I was the only one who ever noticed this shite.

On a side note, I suggest we all just refer to our mothers as 'Mumsie'.

SiegHeilNosey wrote: »

*Patrick Pearse

Yes, also known as Pádraig Pearse.

summerskin

I find it incredibly strange to hear grown men and women referring to their "mammy" and "daddy".

Wife's cousin, who is close to thirty, was last week telling us how she was going to take Daddy out for a drink while Mammy looked after her son. Sounded fúcking weird, surely only little kids should use mammy/mummy/mommy and daddy????

Lollers

Since i was a kid I've always called my mother, mum. Most of my friends use that word too. Never realised others thought there was anything unusual about it.