Are you good to call things by their new name?

freshpopcorn

I've always said Opal Fruits and not Starbursts, I'd still say Pound Shop.

However I've nearly always said Euro, Debenhams(When it was here).

Stuff like Facebook, Twitter, etc will always be the same to me.

Are you good to call things by their new name?

Please don't derail the thread.

Gregor Samsa

I call things by what they’re called. I’m not sure if that makes me good or not, but it means that other people know what I’m talking about when I say things to them.

mckildare

Jif. Tayto park. Don't see those ever changing in my head

Eir. 3Arena. Might as well keep up with the times or I'll never get credit and a taxi to the point will take forever

ottolwinner

Debenhams in Galway will always be roches stores to me.

im slow to change and sometimes I do it out of nostalgia I think

SEPT 23 1989

It’s called Lansdowne Road

nothing else

igCorcaigh

It's Twitter, not X.

dxhound2005

Jones's Road.

blackbox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549050#Comment_121549050

agreed.

it may have a sponsor, but its location hasnt changed.

Why anyone who isn't being paid by the sponsor calls it by the sponsor's name beats me.

Lewis_Benson

Circle K? Oh you mean Statoil.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058328822/are-you-good-to-call-things-by-their-new-name

I still eat opel fruits and marathons in the point depot and yer man is still puff daddy

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549423#Comment_121549423

I call my local circle k the family name it was called in the 80s

gipi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549423#Comment_121549423

Or Esso.....

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549423#Comment_121549423

You mean BP?!

GAAcailin

I still shop in Quinnsworth

use CIE busses

TinyMuffin

I’m still dealing with avonmore.

dxhound2005

Railway station.

ottolwinner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549454#Comment_121549454

You mean esso

spurious

The Point.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549506#Comment_121549506

Statoil bought BP in 1992 or so, Esso still exists.

Donald Trump

Most people have moved onto calling them "cars", but people in this area still go by "jew flattening machine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLjr3dzOUpQ

GAAcailin

I say film , not movie

my kids use American terms; like frosting instead of icing

ottolwinner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549524#Comment_121549524

Ah yea esso became maxol I think

knucklehead6

I remember when that housing estate was a field. Actually, I’ve decided. That’s not a housing estate, it’s still a field and I’m still going to call it a field and anyone who says they “live there” are actually homeless and don’t have houses at all.

tom1ie

I’m using cablelink to surf the World Wide Web.

z80CPU

gazebo......in reference to a structure built to employ the impoverished natives in the Great Famine. About the most significant phrase that the ring of kerry bus driver used with emphasis on the bus ride.

I was one of the youngest adults on the tour. 2003. I had the audacity to utter the phrase " folly " to the bus driver, and it was as if I swore out loud to him

Still use folly myself.

freshpopcorn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549545#Comment_121549545

We've a housing estate in town and it would be one of the more well to do ones. It would have been built 99/00.

It was the dogtrack and is more commonly known as the dogtrack still.

ottolwinner

I still say the dead house when talking about a funeral home.

Brian CivilEng

I watch The Simpsons on Sky One!

whisky_galore

I'll still call it Twitter, X is a stupid name.

I'll call Turkey by its new name the minute they acknowledge they did a genocide.

I'll never acknowledge "product placement" names, so it'll be Lansdowne Road and the Point all the way.

Collie D

Lansdowne Road or the Aviva are interchangeable for me. Old stadium was a kip so I’ve no particular fondness or romantic memories of it, just a place I go to watch Ireland be shite.

I still go to the Point for gigs though.

o1s1n

'3Olympia' is my most hated one. Not for a ****.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549545#Comment_121549545

But that field has been completely changed, with new buildings on it. With Opal Fruits, Jif and Marathon, it was only a name change. The product was still the same.

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549631#Comment_121549631

Less tasty E numbers in the opal fruits now

looksee

If you ask for directions in Tramore, Co Waterford you will receive instructions that inevitably include the words 'where the post office used to be'. Since the post office had at least 4 locations just during the time I lived there (ok, about 30 years) this can lead to confusion.

One of the main junctions in the town is still called by the name of a building that has had at least 3 other shops in it since, and is now mostly gone.

Otherwise Electric Ireland is still the ESB, Cif is still Jif, I've lost track of what Telecom Eireann is and gas/petrol stations are still garages.

Quazzie

In the rural council estate I grew up in, back in the late 80s it increased from 33 house to 39 houses. Still to this day the last 6 houses are referred to as "the buildings"

Victor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549368#Comment_121549368

Do you mean the City & Suburban Grounds?

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549050#Comment_121549050

Dublin Arena?

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549614#Comment_121549614

6:30 on Sundays.

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549423#Comment_121549423

You mean BP?

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549454#Comment_121549454

Funny one.

I worked in a statoil back in the late 90s - early 2000s.

We had a bit of craic one April 1st.

There was still a load of BP singnage and casings for the pumps left in the yard out the back, we came in early and swapped them all around before the manager arrived in.

Even though the canopy etc had the Statoil logo etc, he still did a double take when he was waking in, laughed and called us a pair of fools, but bought us breakfast for making him laugh.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549495#Comment_121549495

"Train station" sounds like a term a child would use.

Lewis_Benson

I'm going to the shop for milk and bread.

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549740#Comment_121549740

Don't like the B word around here...

corner of hells

It took me awhile to get used to calling Marathon bars , Snickers bars , however I made a decision to start calling Mars bars , Snunderpants bars too .

The Ging and I

H Williams in Killester.

Strumms

businesses that change their name for €€€€€€ and sponsorship … no, I don’t bother, not a conscious thing, just refer to Landsdowne, The Point, The Olympia…. Still refer to ‘X’ as Twitter…..

Photobox

Supervalu is still known as L & N in a lot of places.

Cheddar Bob

It's still TV3 for me.

Which is ironic as I used to mock the oul pair in the 90s for calling Network 2 RTE 2 as it was in their day.

Then it changed back to RTE 2. Now what I'm with isn't it, and I realise this pointless story is very Grampa Simpson- esque.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549448#Comment_121549448

BP Caltex Esso Jet are some of the names stuck in my head as my first ever fascination in life were petrol pumps and stations 🤣 aged 2

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549050#Comment_121549050

Can never understand people's adherence to corporate naming. Namely

1- it's crass commercialising of a usually iconic venue

2- the nameholder will either pull out within a decade or the company will be bought and renamed at some stage. I've always called it the Point and always will- it's already been the 02 and the Three so what's next, the Four?

Seriously, on the stadium one. Do people not cop how ridicilious it is?

Could anybody seriously envisage themselves in the year 2070 with the grandkids "we had been ropey on and off for for 25 years, but we knew we had turned a corner after that home WC qualifier in September 2029 against England, I was right behind the goal in the Burger King WhopperBowl when Evan Ferguson scored that hatrick against the English"

DoozerT6

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121549423#Comment_121549423

I think you mean Jet :)