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03/02/2010, 3:47 PM
smellyfeet

When in a pub or getting on a bus or any sort of situation really, We ask " is there anyone sitting there" when its obviuos that the chair/seat/stool or whatever has noone on it. I love it when someone asks me cos i just laugh at them. Wha Wha
03/02/2010, 3:53 PM
strangeirish

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Originally Posted by smellyfeet

When in a pub or getting on a bus or any sort of situation really, We ask " is there anyone sitting there" when its obviuos that the chair/seat/stool or whatever has noone on it. I love it when someone asks me cos i just laugh at them. Wha Wha

Just tell them there was a statue there, but it moved!
03/02/2010, 4:45 PM
smellyfeet

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Originally Posted by strangeirish

Just tell them there was a statue there, but it moved!

Next time i'm up in Knock i'll try it;)
03/02/2010, 5:19 PM
OwlsFan

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Originally Posted by Acornvilla

everyone in longford says ''(watch your)house'' aswell

A lot of burglaries there?
03/02/2010, 8:30 PM
irishultra

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Originally Posted by strangeirish

Cogging homework and mitching school.

u goin on da hop!!! is that an english thing that is used here or uniquely irish?
03/02/2010, 8:35 PM
irishultra

Oh a unique Irish thing is definetly the belief that 'everyone loves ireland' like as if people the world over wake up every morning and are like oh we love that small 'neutral' country in the north atlantic.
03/02/2010, 8:53 PM
peadar1987

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Originally Posted by irishultra

Oh a unique Irish thing is definetly the belief that 'everyone loves ireland' like as if people the world over wake up every morning and are like oh we love that small 'neutral' country in the north atlantic.

It's not true. When you're getting on with people in the UK, it's grand, but if you ever have the slightest falling out with them, especially if they're English, they will instantly start laying into your Irishness. Makes my blood boil so it does!
04/02/2010, 8:14 AM
smellyfeet

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Originally Posted by peadar1987

It's not true. When you're getting on with people in the UK, it's grand, but if you ever have the slightest falling out with them, especially if they're English, they will instantly start laying into your Irishness. Makes my blood boil so it does!

Uniquely Irish, go on Peadar ya good thing.
10/02/2010, 1:13 PM
paul_oshea

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Originally Posted by stann

Jo Maxi is a funny one, that is uniquely Irish I'd say, but for a different reason than you might think.
It began as Joe Baxi, originally English slang for a taxi (probably after the boxer Joe Baksi), and that got a new lease of life and became Jo Maxi over here because of the kids programme of the same name in the late 80s / early 90s.

Absoloutely not unique, they say that over here as well.

In ireland the dubs thought they would be inventive when they were just copying english cockney rhyming slang.

Theres another couple of stupid ones the dubs use too that i just cant remember at the moment.
10/02/2010, 2:51 PM
smellyfeet

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Absoloutely not unique, they say that over here as well.

In ireland the dubs thought they would be inventive when they were just copying english cockney rhyming slang.

Theres another couple of stupid ones the dubs use too that i just cant remember at the moment.

I just got off the dog and bone to the trouble and strife.
10/02/2010, 6:54 PM
paul_oshea

ya except they dont say the whole line for example:

in dublin they say tin of fruit, in london they say whistle.....

Ive got my tin of fruit, ive got my whistle....
He's a bubble....etc etc
use yer loaf....
10/02/2010, 7:23 PM
stann

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Absoloutely not unique,

:D Oh my :D

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

they say that over here as well.
In ireland the dubs thought they would be inventive when they were just copying english cockney rhyming slang.
Theres another couple of stupid ones the dubs use too that i just cant remember at the moment.

Joe Baxi was the cockney rhyming slang, that's also used elsewhere in the UK up to recent times. For one example, it's used often in Irving Welsh's novels. Interesting to hear it's mutated into Jo Maxi over there since though, wonder if it's just normal evolution of these things, a mistake that spread, or maybe by contact with Irish people. One for Susie Dent I think. :)
10/02/2010, 8:54 PM
SkStu

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Originally Posted by stann

:D Oh my :D

Joe Baxi was the cockney rhyming slang, that's also used elsewhere in the UK up to recent times. For one example, it's used often in Irving Welsh's novels. Interesting to hear it's mutated into Jo Maxi over there since though, wonder if it's just normal evolution of these things, a mistake that spread, or maybe by contact with Irish people. One for Susie Dent I think. :)

there was an irish TV show for teens back in the day called Jo Maxi (on network 2).

I just presumed it was a mutation based on that show to make it our own...
10/02/2010, 11:29 PM
stann

Ehhh, previous page Stu! :D

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Originally Posted by stann

Jo Maxi is a funny one...
It began as Joe Baxi, originally English slang for a taxi (probably after the boxer Joe Baksi), and that got a new lease of life and became Jo Maxi over here because of the kids programme of the same name in the late 80s / early 90s.

Another one that just struck me, in parts of the country anyway, saying be instead of by?
10/02/2010, 11:43 PM
SkStu

ooops... totally picked your post up wrong!!
11/02/2010, 5:31 AM
Pauro 76

How's your mot? Or how's your ball of snot?
11/02/2010, 12:16 PM
stann

That's surely one Pauro, not heard that anywhere outside of Dublin (for real I mean, as opposed to someone doing it in a comedy accent). Any other areas use it?
We've a very similar one down here, but it's lack (and occasionally bag of slack).

Am hearing a few odd Wexfordisms lately, and one in particular I never heard before now is term, meaning a great craic, we had some term last night. They all say it down there! :D
11/02/2010, 1:54 PM
Pauro 76

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Originally Posted by stann

That's surely one Pauro, not heard that anywhere outside of Dublin (for real I mean, as opposed to someone doing it in a comedy accent). Any other areas use it?
We've a very similar one down here, but it's lack (and occasionally bag of slack).

Am hearing a few odd Wexfordisms lately, and one in particular I never heard before now is term, meaning a great craic, we had some term last night. They all say it down there! :D

I've only ever heard that one in Dublin, 'the mot'.... 'how's your slice' is another one...
12/02/2010, 11:04 AM
smellyfeet

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Originally Posted by stann

Ehhh, previous page Stu! :D

Another one that just struck me, in parts of the country anyway, saying be instead of by?

Also, say me instead of my, A reall Dublin one, I will in me bleedin hole, Wah.
13/02/2010, 1:38 PM
Acornvilla

burning head shops

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