Things that are the talk of the parish

vbnm

'Did you hear the youngest Murphy boy is gone off to England like his brothers. I don't know what he'd be wanting over there at all at all. Sure with his poor mother down the hospital and all, she has an a n'awful trial with them boys. There's talk of the sister wanting the farum now, but sure Mick is having none of it. Oh they have a terrible time of it, Mr and Mrs Murphy.'

'Era they do.'

Advbrd

vbnm wrote: »

'Did you hear the youngest Murphy boy is gone off to England like his brothers. I don't know what he'd be wanting over there at all at all. Sure with his poor mother down the hospital and all, she has an a n'awful trial with them boys. There's talk of the sister wanting the farum now, but sure Mick is having none of it. Oh they have a terrible time of it, Mr and Mrs Murphy.'

'Era they do.'

What are you smoking?

Ferrari3600

Father O'Brien does a great sermon since he had the stroke.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Yer wan up the road is pregnant again too, cannae keep her legs closed, that one.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

vbnm wrote: »

'Did you hear the youngest Murphy boy is gone off to England like his brothers. I don't know what he'd be wanting over there at all at all. Sure with his poor mother down the hospital and all, she has an a n'awful trial with them boys. There's talk of the sister wanting the farum now, but sure Mick is having none of it. Oh they have a terrible time of it, Mr and Mrs Murphy.'

'Era they do.'

And your point is?

vbnm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Yer wan up the road is pregnant again too, cannae keep her legs closed, that one.

And sure wasn't it only one of them black fellas from the city she was off with. Her poor mother'd be turning in her grave, god rest her.

Dr Crayfish

What is this all about? Some culchie joke I'm not getting?

Fleawuss

It's like I turned the dial on an old wireless and it picked up the 1930's. The talk of the parish now is probably whose next for the hip replacement or the colostomy bag.

Atari Jaguar

vbnm wrote: »

And sure wasn't it only one of them black fellas from the city she was off it. Her poor mother'd be turning in her grave, god rest her.

I dare say he'll pay nary a penny towards her the divil.

Atari Jaguar

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

What is this all about? Some culchie joke I'm not getting?

GO HOME. GO HOME TO BE FCUKED.

tomwaterford

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

What is this all about? Some culchie joke I'm not getting?

If it is.....I'm not either

5rtytry56

Fleawuss wrote: »

It's like I turned the dial on an old wireless and it picked up the 1930's. The talk of the parish now is probably whose next for the hip replacement or the colostomy bag.

A very plausible AH/ Conspiracy theory why RTE closed down RTE 1 AM radio transmitter. The machinery dated from then.

Shenshen

tomwaterford wrote: »

If it is.....I'm not either

Lads, I'm not even from this country and I'm getting it - the old ones love a bit of gossip whenever they're getting together, and the more shocking the better. I would have thought that's the same the world over.

5rtytry56

Otherwise the Stephen's day poo thread in AH.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

What is this all about? Some culchie joke I'm not getting?

Yes, exactly, nobody gossips in the town................ apparently.

sjb25

Heard sharon curley's pregnant

A Spanish sailor I heard

lc180

Everyone is talking about one local family. They all headed off on a fancy trip to France for Xmas but forgot their youngest Kevin in the house. Two out of town scumbags tried to break into the house and but the young fella managed to keep them at bay, mainly by torturing the sh*te outta them.

Ted111

Let's see her get into them jeans now.

Senna

lc180 wrote: »

Everyone is talking about one local family. They all headed off on a fancy trip to France for Xmas but forgot their youngest Kevin in the house. Two out of town scumbags tried to break into the house and but the young fella managed to keep them at bay, mainly by torturing the sh*te outta them.

KEVIN!!

horgan_p

Sally O'Brien, and the way she might look at ya

Miss Demeanour

Years ago the fella next door got this one pregnant. My mother was horrified and came out with this beaut....."Jaysus at his age he should still think it's only for p***ing through!"
He was 18!?

the evasion_kid

Good oul Irish parochialism...

tayto lover

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Yer wan up the road is pregnant again too, cannae keep her legs closed, that one.

Heard that, and she doesn't seem to know who the father is .... but shure if you run through a field of nettles how do you know which one stung you.

infogiver

This always makes me smile
This is how city folk imagine it is down the country
In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

RobertKK

infogiver wrote: »

This always makes me smile
This is how city folk imagine it is down the country
In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

You forgot to mention all the land we own, to go with the above.

SEPT 23 1989

infogiver wrote: »

This always makes me smile
This is how city folk imagine it is down the country
In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

Still simple folk however you dress it up

RobertKK

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Still simple folk however you dress it up

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

eamonnq

infogiver wrote: »

This always makes me smile
This is how city folk imagine it is down the country
In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

2000 sq ft bungalows, and a huge car park out the front for 126 BMWs!!

The flying mouse

There's a guy who works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis...

infogiver

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Still simple folk however you dress it up

Simple like a fox.

dd972

''That bloke/girl who keeps out of the pubs, doesn't gossip and generally minds their own business.''


''How dare they....Who the feck do they think they are?'':mad:

Widdershins

infogiver wrote: »

This always makes me smile
This is how city folk imagine it is down the country
In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

Dormer bungalows are so 2008. It's more like mansions now.

Stealthfins

Widdershins wrote:

Dormer bungalows are so 2008. It's more like mansions now.

And only the light in their fridge...

There's plenty of poor rich people who are up sht creek.
Materialistically they look really dapper,but they're winging it.

I remember being at a wedding in Dromoland castle and got talking to a chap in his late 30's
I said Jack you're doing very well,big car,nice looking finance,posh house in the city,you're business is very successful etc...

His engineer's are earning more than him,his overhead s have him crippled.

He turned around and said he'd much prefer my lifestyle of gardening surfing hill walking and talking ****e on boards.ie , his is boring, soulless and fake.
I said can you not just let it all go and start afresh...No Jack said " I've made my bed now I have to lie in it"

So when you see those people in nice cars, wearing dapper clothes and looking sad and miserable....

Think of Jack

pablo128

infogiver wrote: »

..... looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

Well lah de dah, and us sitting here and only 2 Toyotas, ......

The farm grant has to be spent some way in fairness.

mariaalice

Christmas has made people perculer

The_Valeyard

vbnm wrote: »

'Did you hear the youngest Murphy boy is gone off to England like his brothers. I don't know what he'd be wanting over there at all at all. Sure with his poor mother down the hospital and all, she has an a n'awful trial with them boys. There's talk of the sister wanting the farum now, but sure Mick is having none of it. Oh they have a terrible time of it, Mr and Mrs Murphy.'

'Era they do.'

Dandyeleven???

Titzon Toast

infogiver wrote: »

This always makes me smile
This is how city folk imagine it is down the country
In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

Triggered?

Your Face

"Should we say something about the child abuse going on in the industrial schools?'
'No lets just ignore it and hope it goes away'

infogiver

Your Face wrote: »

"Should we say something about the child abuse going on in the industrial schools?'
'No lets just ignore it and hope it goes away'

Or those unfortunate girls in the convent laundry, or the Ryan children whose father likes a drink, coming to school every day black and blue and half starved or Mrs Ryan who keeps walking into walls and getting a black eye she's so clumsy.....
But say it to whom? That's what I want to know. Who could anyone have reported it too?

myshirt

Sher that fella, don't mind him, he's sweating like a Kerry farmer with a Revenue inspection coming up!

Berserker

infogiver wrote: »

In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

Oh, we know that the country folk are all loaded, with millions of Euro and Punts stuffed under their mattresses, living in a mini-mansion on the family farm in Ballyma-whatever, with an investment property that they rent out to students or young professionals in Dublin and a holiday home in Budapest or Sofia, whilst they claim that they only earn €10K or so per annum. Shame that we all can't work for cash in hand!!

Cee-Jay-Cee

tayto lover wrote: »

Heard that, and she doesn't seem to know who the father is .... but shure if you run through a field of nettles how do you know which one stung you.

Her sister was as bad and look at her now, it's like a home for the bewildered up there with 8 or 9 scabby wains running around with barely a stitch of clothing on them, it's not right, ya know!

Sam Kade

sjb25 wrote: »

Heard sharon curley's pregnant

A Spanish sailor I heard

With a langer like a donkey.

Sam Kade

The flying mouse wrote: »

There's a guy who works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis...

But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you.

pauliebdub

Moany begrudging gossip about one of the neighbours going to Florida for two weeks over Christmas - where did they get the money for that - abandoning their wider family at Christmas.

Gossip about another neighbours middle aged ex wife being seen in a nightclub drinking on her own and wearing a very tarty frock.

Gossip about who came back from England Australia America - he's gone off with a fella! She's dating a black fella!!! and moaning about who never bothered and their poor parents spending Christmas without then.

Glad I no longer live there.

Anesthetize

What's a parish?

Widdershins

Stealthfins wrote: »

And only the light in their fridge...

There's plenty of poor rich people who are up sht creek.
Materialistically they look really dapper,but they're winging it.

I remember being at a wedding in Dromoland castle and got talking to a chap in his late 30's
I said Jack you're doing very well,big car,nice looking finance,posh house in the city,you're business is very successful etc...

His engineer's are earning more than him,his overhead s have him crippled.

He turned around and said he'd much prefer my lifestyle of gardening surfing hill walking and talking ****e on boards.ie , his is boring, soulless and fake.
I said can you not just let it all go and start afresh...No Jack said " I've made my bed now I have to lie in it"

So when you see those people in nice cars, wearing dapper clothes and looking sad and miserable....

Think of Jack

The negative equity and the rest of it hasn't passed me by, I am aware. I wasn't passing judgement on the style or size of house, just pointing out that they tend to be bigger than dormer bungalows now.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Anesthetize wrote: »

What's a parish?

According to the OED

parish


noun

1
(in the Christian Church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor:
[as modifier] ‘a parish church’

1.1British The smallest unit of local government, constituted only in rural areas:
[as modifier] ‘a parish councillor’

1.2US (in Louisiana) a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states.

So take your pick.

infogiver

infogiver wrote: »

This always makes me smile
This is how city folk imagine it is down the country
In actual fact country folk are sitting in 2000 sq ft dormer bungalows with all the latest gadgets looking out the windows at 126 BMWs and if they ever think of city folk, and they don't, they snigger

Ah shure, look at Paddy he's got himself a new Lamborghini.

Annasopra

The flying mouse wrote: »

There's a guy who works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis...

He is

infogiver

The flying mouse wrote: »

There's a guy who works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis...

...just like you swore to me that you'd be true...