Israel (Away) Sat 26th Mar 05

[Peadar]

Bonk I think you will find that we all have different accents when you meet us depending on what part we are from.


You'd be amazed how many people can't tell the difference.

[donalfitz]

No provlem Saint Tom , im glad I helped.

Now im really ( !!! ) not trying to insult anybody here , but I have to ask this:
Do you have a "heavy" accent , like the same as the english that people from Scotland speak ? ( do know how to spell accent , hope you understand )
Sorry for the rude question, I was just wondering
Our accent is different from Scotland. When i was in collage, It took me two week to understand what donegal people and South Kerry people (opposite ends of the country) are saying. I had one guy from south kerry who spoke with a grunt voice and speak slower(or relaxed) than most and donegal was garble and talk faster :confused: . When I first meet them I though i would have a better chance of understand dog language :eek:. I was unlucky, that i had to share a house with these two lads who were had the extremes of accents from their own counties. It was like learning two new languages in a foreign country. There might as well be indian,russian and german in the household. After the first month i became the translator for them.
We had no problems communicating in the Pub.
But as peader says, sign language work best. It a simple but effective method, especially when your'e at the back of the pub and need a few pints. Just nod at the barstaff for attention, and sign your order. By the time you get to the bar. Order is ready. :D :D

[Green Tribe]

We do more singing than talking, in fact, some people believe they're one and the same thing in Cork. ;)

:D :D how roooo doin?????
ha ha!!!!
the_bonk, don't worry irish people are easier to understand than the scots, u might struggle to understand a few people from Cork or Belfast, but just slap them and tell them to slow down...... :D ;)

[Green Tribe]

the_bonk and eldad , have u any funny chat up lines/essential phrases in your language that would help out the handsome gentlemen that will grace your shorelines within 22 days??? :eek: :D :D

[Eire06]

the_bonk and eldad , have u any funny chat up lines/essential phrases in your language that would help out the handsome gentlemen that will grace your shorelines within 22 days??? :eek: :D :D

Because God knows they need all the help the can get

[Ash]

You'd be amazed how many people can't tell the difference.

Good job I dont have an accent ... just a backwards flag :p

Hope they dont run out of pint glasses/beakers/cups/mugs like poor
old Gabby in Nijmegan :D

[Green Tribe]

Because God knows they need all the help the can get

well now, remember they have been looking after themselves lately ;) ) and making those trips to boots on Leon's and Peadar's advice :rolleyes: i think the world will be amazed at the new sexy irish man :eek: :rolleyes:

[Eire06]

well now, remember they have been looking after themselves lately ;) ) and making those trips to boots on Leon's and Peadar's advice :rolleyes: i think the world will be amazed at the new sexy irish man :eek: :rolleyes:
he he... What the bets they'll still get it wrong

[donalfitz]

he he... What the bets they'll still get it wrong

Us men will ever need to say a word. Our great "ability to sign" has never let us down in the past. :cool:

[Peadar]

What the bets they'll still get it wrong


I'm usually more focused on the football and don't go to away games on the pull but you girls are pushing me real hard to turn on the charm in Tel Aviv.

[Green Tribe]

I'm usually more focused on the football and don't go to away games on the pull but you girls are pushing me real hard to turn on the charm in Tel Aviv.

Ha hah, deadly! :D :D :D turn on the charm, i think the emergency services will only be busy looking after all the girls swooning and fainting ! ;)

[Green Tribe]

The Israelis should 'lock-up their daughters'...... :rolleyes: Have seen the man in action......a smooth-talking divil........albeit in the er,marginally less glamorous setting of The Railway,N4! :eek: ;)

Ha ha! Still waiting on Eldad and the_bonk to provide some israeli chat-up lines-local lingo, just being helpful! :eek: :D

[kobby]

Hello..
Just let you all know that that Mr. Barry from the Irish national t.v spend time here at Israel and there will be a 1/2 hour show on Tel-aviv ready for green invition.
You will be able 2 check the wild night life here at T.A and the places he visted.
I was also interview for 3 difrent papers and at Mo. I will interview to Irish Times.
If you get to see article on T.A plz let me know
Yours
Kobby Barda

[Eldad]

Ha ha! Still waiting on Eldad and the_bonk to provide some israeli chat-up lines-local lingo, just being helpful! :eek: :D

Would you like to learn some hebrew useful slang? I can try to teach it... :)

* If you speak to a man (like friend or someone you try to be a friend of him), say "A'khee" ("kh" is like in the name "Loch"), that means "my brother". Also, you can say "Gever", that means "a man".
* If you speak to a woman (like friend or someone you try to be a friend of him), say "A'khotee", that means "my sister".
* "Sababa" or "Akhla" means great/fantastic, or sometimes ok.
* "Magneev" = great/nice.
* "Jiffa" = garbage.
* "Ben Zona" = Son of a bitch
* "Stom Ta'Pe" = A very rude way to say "be quiet", that means "lock you mouth".
* And the last one is a very big challenge for non-hebrew speakers... "LeKh Kha'Pes mi YeNa'A'Ne'A OtKha", = go and find someone you shake youself... If someone ask you to do something and it isn't sound fair for you... that's the non-polite way you say you don't agree. Don't say that in a taxi or in a market, between friends only.

More Hebrew slangs you can read in:
http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Hebrew.html

If I'll think about more I update you...

[Green Tribe]

cheers eldad, any chat -up lines for Peadar?? :D :D :D he is on the pull now apparently!! hee hee........

[Green Tribe]

that website is deadly, will keep me amused for ages! some of the things on it are sooooooooo funny.......

:D :D
Julie x

Ya khatikhat khara ‡ You piece of sh*t! note Said in anger or when talking about the dumb f*cker whose your boyfriend

T'kharev betak † Drop dead note Yemenite slang. Literally "May your house be destroyed.

:D

[Beavis]

Hello..
Just let you all know that that Mr. Barry from the Irish national t.v spend time here at Israel and there will be a 1/2 hour show on Tel-aviv ready for green invition.

Cool, anyone have any idea when this program will be shown ?

[the_bonk]

3 weeks to go !!!!!!!

[Green Tribe]

3 weeks to go !!!!!!!

yes! deadly! gonna be one big game!! :D :D :D :D

[the_bonk]

yes! deadly! gonna be one big game!! :D :D :D :D

LOL , I saw that your gonna be in Germany . I thought you didn't have money :D

[Green Tribe]

LOL , I saw that your gonna be in Germany . I thought you didn't have money :D

well, the flight to germany cost £ 30, and i am staying with friends for most of the time, so it is going to be really cheap i would imagine the trip to israel would cost at least £500 in all. i still don't have any spending money for germany yet.....oops! have to do something about that, no student loan until april! :eek: :eek: :D

[Green Tribe]

Well Bonk, Eldad what's the craic in Tel-aviv? Is the sun shining brightly? what is the temperature now? Anymore news on the invasion of the green army in the media etc? Just trying to gage the atmosphere :D I will be there in spirit on 26th :D :D :D

[the_bonk]

Well Bonk, Eldad what's the craic in Tel-aviv? Is the sun shining brightly? what is the temperature now? Anymore news on the invasion of the green army in the media etc? Just trying to gage the atmosphere :D I will be there in spirit on 26th :D :D :D

Friday and saturday were hot, but today and the rest of the week shouldn't be as hot as the weekend was . Today 18C in Tel Aviv , I hope and think it will be hotter by the end of the month .
Nope, last days no news about the green army .... when there will be i will update here .
But what they did say a few days that 2,500 Irish people already bought tickets to the match. This makes me happy because were 3 weeks away and im sure that more people will join when the date will be closer.

[Green Tribe]

Friday and saturday were hot, but today and the rest of the week shouldn't be as hot as the weekend was . Today 18C in Tel Aviv , I hope and think it will be hotter by the end of the month .
Nope, last days no news about the green army .... when there will be i will update here .
But what they did say a few days that 2,500 Irish people already bought tickets to the match. This makes me happy because were 3 weeks away and im sure that more people will join when the date will be closer.


Magneev, Akhee!!!! ;) :D :D :D

[the_bonk]

Magneev, Akhee!!!! ;) :D :D :D

LOL :D , nice hebrew !!!!

[Green Tribe]

aye, eldad was doing his coaching earlier in the thread, pity i won't be using it though :mad: any funny lines yourself? :D :D

[the_bonk]

( 500 post , its me :D )

"kos aima sheha" - son of a bitch
If a girl looks good you could say she is : " pzaza"

( Every 2 days or so I will give everyone here useful lines , and extend your vocabulary in Hebrew :D )

[Green Tribe]

( 500 post , its me :D )

"kos aima sheha" - son of a bitch
If a girl looks good you could say she is : " pzaza"

( Every 2 days or so I will give everyone here useful lines , and extend your vocabulary in Hebrew )


eh no, 500th post was me,,,, :rolleyes: :D :D thanks! well i hope nobody will say kos aima sheha to anyone, don't think it will be the best thing to say to someone!! :D

[PaulB]

Apologies, if this has been discussed previously, what are those traveling planning to do regarding currency exchange, can't imagine your average BOI having many sheckles on hand. Are people jusy bringing the yoyos, or did you have to book the shekles with your local Bank..

Cheers
Paul

[Cowboy]

Tickets arrived in post this morning

[the_bonk]

Apologies, if this has been discussed previously, what are those traveling planning to do regarding currency exchange, can't imagine your average BOI having many sheckles on hand. Are people jusy bringing the yoyos, or did you have to book the shekles with your local Bank..

Cheers
Paul

You should change them in Israel IMO !!! You will get more money for your Euro. When you arrive at the Airport there are two "CHANGE" points in the entrance hall that you just can't miss .

[the_bonk]

In Israel's biggest newspaper talked a little about the game.
They said that the tickets to the western stands are running out, and 43,000 fan's are expected to arrive to the match.
The thing that I didn't know until now was that they wrote that 4,600 tickets are saved to the Irish fans!!!! 2,100 in the western stands ( the good ones ) are kept for the offical Irish fan club or something like that and the other 2,500 tickets are in eastern stands for the "regular" fans .
I think that 4,600 tickets for you is to much although I like you people :D :
1. There is no chance you will bring 4,600 fans to Israel , and the tickets could be sold to Israeli's .
2. This is a home game for Israel and we need the home advantage , so this amount is HUGE.
I hope that 3,000 Irish will come , and I don't think that you will bring more .

[jbyrne]

In Israel's biggest newspaper talked a little about the game.
They said that the tickets to the western stands are running out, and 43,000 fan's are expected to arrive to the match.
The thing that I didn't know until now was that they wrote that 4,600 tickets are saved to the Irish fans!!!! 2,100 in the western stands ( the good ones ) are kept for the offical Irish fan club or something like that and the other 2,500 tickets are in eastern stands for the "regular" fans .


i'm surprised at that..... would expect them to want to keep us all in the one part of the stadium

[Eldad]

You should change them in Israel IMO !!! You will get more money for your Euro. When you arrive at the Airport there are two "CHANGE" points in the entrance hall that you just can't miss .

Don't exchange a big money in the airport, rates are very bad there...

The best place to exchange from EURO to NIS is in exchange points, you can find many of them in the tourism area in TA (Hayarkon St').
Don't exchange in banks' branches!

Exchanging from Euro to NIS is possible anywhere.

[Eire06]

1. There is no chance you will bring 4,600 fans to Israel , and the tickets could be sold to Israeli's .
2. This is a home game for Israel and we need the home advantage , so this amount is HUGE.
I hope that 3,000 Irish will come , and I don't think that you will bring more .

You never know over 30,000 turned up in Paris so anything is possible :D

[Green Tribe]

i'm surprised at that..... would expect them to want to keep us all in the one part of the stadium

they know we behave ourselves at football games, unlike some other countries ;) :D :D :D

[OnTheBall75]

Please use this thread to post any useful links, websites that can assist travel, accomodation, tickets etc...
For anybody going to Israel really good link is:
www.inisrael.com
and the best hostel in town you can find in:
www.inisrael.com/hayarkon48 check it out (good prices too)
One street from the beach

[Eldad]

BTW, how many supporters did Ireland bring to the game in Iran?

[Green Tribe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0075

:eek: :D :D :D :D

[Green Tribe]

BTW, how many supporters did Ireland bring to the game in Iran?

about 1000 i think, maybe bit less

[jbyrne]

they know we behave ourselves at football games, unlike some other countries ;) :D :D :D

fair point but i thought fifa had rules about such things? maybe theyre trying to reduce the effect of our support by splitting us up? we were split around the stadium in suwon for the spain game resulting in far less effective support than at the previous wc games in '02

[Green Tribe]

Possibly, but i imagine with 2 for the price of 1 drinkies, there will be lots of singing!!!!!! :cool: :D

[the_bonk]

fair point but i thought fifa had rules about such things? maybe theyre trying to reduce the effect of our support by splitting us up? we were split around the stadium in suwon for the spain game resulting in far less effective support than at the previous wc games in '02

I think you are right. But because this newspaper has a bad reputation I wouldn't put my money on what they say. So only a few days before we could se if it's really like that .
If it is, it wouldn't be SO bad for you because its not far away, and there will be no Israeli's in between ( its hard to explain it cause you didn't see the stadium )

[the_bonk]

Hmmmmmmmm. Irish civil group's call the Irish fans not to come to Israel
The artical is in hebrew (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3055029,00.html)

[Green Tribe]

er....i understood all of that :confused: to hell with what they think, they will change their tune when we win 3-1 ;) :D :D

[GK for the Town]

Hmmmmmmmm. Irish civil group's call the Irish fans not to come to Israel
The artical is in hebrew (http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3055029,00.html)

can you explain a bit of what was said in that article ?

[Saint Tom]

Hi Folks,

I work for Permanent TSB in Rathfarnham, have already got my stock. I can get sheckles for anybody as long as they let me know by tomorrow (tues 8th) at 3pm. email me at thomas.mcgarry@permanenttsb.ie no later than three o clock. about 5.7=€1

If you want to leave it later i will place an order next tuesday, usually arrives on the thursday of same week. No guarantee though with uncommon currencies. I wont charge commission!! all branches can get them just order before tuesday to arrive on that thursday

They come in twenty notes!!! 150 cash notes need a bigger wallet!! How much is twenty... an expensive pint!!

two weeks, three days and counting!

[the_bonk]

can you explain a bit of what was said in that article ?

It just says that the civil group's ask fans not to come to Israel because Israeli-Palestien colnflict .

[Cowboy]

Is it ok to phone you at work?


Hi Folks,

I work for Permanent TSB in Rathfarnham, have already got my stock. I can get sheckles for anybody as long as they let me know by tomorrow (tues 8th) at 3pm. email me at thomas.mcgarry@permanenttsb.ie no later than three o clock. about 5.7=€1

[Green Tribe]

It just says that the civil group's ask fans not to come to Israel because Israeli-Palestien colnflict .

they are gobsh*tes(means people who talk sh*t) they are to be ignored IMO