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Things Cat Trialvilly Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP*
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the purple tin wrote: »Don't forget the British are also serial-claimers of any successful Irish people. Samuel L Jackson called them out on it once.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/jason-obrien-british-obsession-claiming-13816449
When you lose they don't want to know you. Andy Murray was British when he was winning, became Scottish again whenever he lost :rolleyes:
I think they do that just to p*ss the Irish off
The last time I looked Scotland was still part of Britain.0 -
He was called 'british tennis player Andy Murray' when winning. ie more english, scottish when he lost ie, nothing to do with us, mate.spookwoman wrote: »I think they do that just to p*ss the Irish off
The last time I looked Scotland was still part of Britain.
When we do it I think it is mostly tongue-in-cheek, a bit of craic.
The English take it much more seriously: not just music: I've seen Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher and U2 described as British bands in magazines etc, but going back hundreds of years, scientists like Boyle were claimed by the English and anything the invented or discovered they would still call it a british discovery today.
Blame it on the Royal Society, they were always in a pissing contest to prove that Britain was the world leader in science and astronomy (it wasn't) that they had to pinch our guys to try to get ahead of France and Germany etc.
I suppose by their logic Boyle was a british citizen at that time of his discoveries, so the discoveries are still British.0 -
Look back at old footage of Gay Byrne he used to do yank accents now and again, so did an aul fella I worked with. With them though it was like a wild west cowboy accent, and they were doing it for a laugh. The young ones today do it non-stop and I don't think they even realise it.American accent has been seeping in here for a good two decades I think. It's rife among the young, especially the ones from more affluent backgrounds.
I find myself removing batteries from any of my kid's toys that have recorded tunes, voices etc because without a doubt they will be some hybrid Chinese/ American accent.
The lowest point was when her keyboard belted out "maybe you, could be-ee a purple monkey in a bubblegum tree-ee" - just don't want her listening to that shíte.
They are reared on nothing but American shows and films tbf. We had a lot more Irish, English and loads of Ozzie shows growing up.
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Awake since 4.30 this morning thanks to the massive session people decided to have in the playground across the road from my. They weren't even teenagers either, two of them stood under my window having a very long and loud conversation and they looked about 25. And there was a constant stream of taxis coming and going so they weren't from the estate and had money to spend on getting home.
What a weird and random thing to do - organise to go on the knack somewhere far enough away to require a taxi.
The cops finally arrived and they all scattered. The Gardai spent about an hour searching in gardens and bushes while a collection of very confused taxis drove around wondering where their fares were...
Dial, you should have done the French thing and chucked a saucepan of water out the window, down over their heads To thine own self be true
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Jenna James wrote: »DOMS
Whats DOMS?!
My TA is that its Saturday and I am thinking about monday at work. I wonder if this could count as overtime...0 -
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Oh it's very clever alright, they are cashing in on people's FOMO and it's a good marketing move. It's just when they say "they are gone they're gone" I hear, "when they're gone you can just get one somewhere else"the purple tin wrote: »Very sly business model they have with their middle aisle stuff. Some new item comes in and it is 'when they are gone they are gone' so people want to buy it quick in the week or whatever.
Of course they usually have the same things on offer at a later date, but who is to say for sure they will!
Also this model means they are never stuck with a load of unwanted stock they can't shift like Argos and the others. 0 -
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PsychoPete wrote: »Tell me more
Women who like to be violent towards others, is about where my knowledge begins and ends. Presumably the men who are into them were belted around the kitchen table with a dish cloth by their mammy, and have some weird Oedipus complex. I'm not sure though!
TA that the passport office still insists on receipt of important documents by snail mail. I actually had to put my own passport into a fúcking postbox to them, to make sure I'm not trafficking my own child.
They've no idea where my passport is now, and the "computer says no" príck that I spoke to basically just said "dunno how long it will take, we've a big massive pile of envelopes still to open". So, anyone could have my passport, and I am also prevented from travelling should an emergency arrive, because the passport office is stuck back in the 1980s. Do they realise that scan copies are accepted for banking, KYC checks etc. Why are they so precious about originals?
TA public sector bureaucracy and incompetence means my baby probably won't get to meet her sick grandmother 0 -
Women who like to be violent towards others, is about where my knowledge begins and ends. Presumably the men who are into them were belted around the kitchen table with a dish cloth by their mammy, and have some weird Oedipus complex. I'm not sure though!
The thing I don't get about that stuff is how stressful does your life have to be for that stuff to give you pleasure0 -
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