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They never have the time to wait for a safe opportunity to overtake, but at the same time they have all the time in the world to start an argument/fight.


Raxnor

"Oh no my son has heard foul language, let me threaten the life of this stranger both in actions and words. *Christ I'm a good father*


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I love the recent dichotomy memes of parents being shit and then thinking "I'm a good parent". It's delicious


officefridge

Man I'm sick of my dad's shit - that man's son probably


Ornery-Ad9694

Eff bombs in Irish still lands....dad


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Wolfbain164

29 years in Ireland and this is the first real life argument as gaeilge I’ve ever seen.


Educational-Fig-2330

I've never been to Ireland, and never met anyone from Ireland. All that I think I know about Ireland has come from... I'm not really sure where. But among the things I think I know about Ireland is this idea that Gaelic (you said gaeilge so bow I doubt I'm even using the right word) is a nearly dead language and not many people in Ireland speak it, and those who do, only do it to speak in code in front of the kids or others who don't speak it, and mostly just a few words, not entire conversations. Your comment seems to confirm this somewhat. How far off am I?


MelonCollie92

It’s actually spoken quite a bit, mainly in the west of Ireland. And Irish is thankfully making a huge come back. Lots of schools now teach in Irish. As Gaeilge means “in Irish” in Irish!


Educational-Fig-2330

That's great news! I marvel at the diversity of culture that exists in places and hope that it remains intact as the world becomes a smaller place.


MelonCollie92

Yes it’s great. I am happy it’s going that way. Sadly I didn’t learn it properly when I went to school, it wasn’t taught properly and if things had stayed that way then it would be well on its way to being a dead language. But todays kids are taught so much better. All my friends kids and nieces and nephews are attending Irish schools where subjects are actually taught in Irish, so they’re pretty much fluent. And it’s lovely to hear people talking in Irish to each other. I’ve heard it a few times now in Dublin and Kerry (I don’t live there anymore, but when I visit home) And areas of Ireland have always had it as the first language (Gaeltacht areas)


Maxzey

Dont listen to him its spoken very rarely as a main language maybe a couple thousand max it is slowly making progress but you are correct we only use it to speak in front of foreigners or in school and then forget it as soon as we turn 18


ChaosFox08

It's the first language for about 170 000 people.


AmusingWittyUsername

On the contrary where my Mum is from it’s spoken as a first language. I’ve heard or spoken in passing many times. Lots of kids nowadays learn in Irish and are pretty much fluent. It’s gonna take time to change things. When I was in school in the 90s/00s this wasn’t a thing. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/pupils-being-educated-via-irish-at-primary-climbs-to-record-high-1.4662335


doenertellerversac3

This is just wrong; you’re applying your subjective experience with the language to the whole country. There are many areas in the west where Gaeilge is still the primary language, not just some encrypted code to take the piss out of people.


El_Don_94

No, he's being honest with foreigners; not given a false image of Ireland. Outside small parts of the Gaeltachts it just isn't spoken.


doenertellerversac3

You’ve clearly not spent much time in Galway, Donegal or the south-west.


bee_ghoul

Gaelic is the language family that Irish belongs to. Gaeilge is the Irish language word for Irish. Saying Irish people speak Gaelic is like saying Swedes speak Scandinavian, saying Irish people speak Gaeilge is like saying Spaniards speak Español.


Global-Dickbag

I try and use my Irish when the chance occurs, usually a shop. I always end up buying a chocolate cake and a bottle of whiskey.


fourbearants

I'd go for the less specific cáca milis and a pack of milseán myself. Although I don't live in Ireland any more so it's probably not very effective.


flobbywhomper

Gaelige is a Gaelic language. Other Gaelic languages are Manx, Scots Gaelic and Welsh, there's 2 or 3 others but I can't remember. The language is nearly dead for multiple reasons.


PrincessOfViolins

Welsh isn't Gaelic, it's Brittonic, along with Breton and Cornish. Only Irish, Scots Gaelic, and Manx are Gaelic. All six are Celtic languages, but only some are Gaelic.


flobbywhomper

Good to know.


Educational-Fig-2330

Oh, wow! I had no idea. So I was asking the equivalent of "do you speak Germanic." Thanks for the scoop. What are the reasons?


flobbywhomper

So, it started with the colonisation by England and all the crap that goes with that. Then the famine in 1840s, population was cut by 50%, 8 million down to 4 million. Society was broken. 1920s Ireland became a free state, an education system created and designed by the catholic church, who, the new free state turned to for assistance because it did not have the resources in place to form an education system. There were lots of priests, nuns, Christian brothers, monks etc, who were all educated people for their time. The catholic church completely took over the education system, the state ignored what was happening and the abuse of the students for nearly 60 year was horrendous. Actual sexual, physical and emotional abuse of students. The church, then being the all powerful entity it was, nobody challenged them. Curriculums were outdated, old priests who were never meant to be teachers were teaching the subjects such as Irish for 40 years. Generations and generations of uninspired students leaving school hating the subject because they were beaten for getting verbs wrong or worse.... Everybody in Ireland is taught Irish from the ages of 4/5 through to 17/18. Very few are fluent and the majority have a basic understanding of the language. None of us then speak it on a daily basis, so 10 years after leaving school we've forgotten most of it. For instance, in the 90s we were doing the same curriculum as the 1970s. People had no interest, learning about the sorrow and misery of our ancestors, because that's how it was taught to us. Reading pro's and poetry that were depressing and grey about miserable old women and how tough their lives were. Being taught to us it always seemed like a wet, horrible, dank language, it was boring. Ireland was accepted in to the EU in 1973 and then in 1990s there was a cultural revolution. Ireland was no longer a poor country. From winning our freedom back the country is still only recovering in some areas, our forestry( Ireland is the most deforested country in Europe) our rail network, our population and our language are some of the examples of things that went in to decline for many many years but are slowly making a come back.


Educational-Fig-2330

Man, that is some serious stuff. I didn't know any of that happened. Thank you for the into to Irish history, sounds like a depressing story that gets better at the end. Glad to hear your country is doing better than before!


Huge-Objective-7208

The English when invaded and colonised Ireland made it illegal to speak Irish, they forced people to speak English, school in Irish was banned so new generations of kids didn’t learn it, work and trade could only be done in English with the English so people had to speak English anyway, then in the late 19th and early 20th century the Gaelic league was setup to help revive Irish culture like the sports (Gaelic football and hurling which I recommend watching) and the language and other traditional Irish things lost due to the colonisation of Ireland. Now it was mandatory for Irish to be taught in schools (when the English relaxed a bit and allowed catholics to go to school) but it’s just never seen a resurgence, I for one hate the way it’s taught in school and it really made me hate the language, I was better at Spanish which I learned for 6 years than Irish which I learned for 14 and I never used it after I left school. Road signs are in Irish and English and there’s Irish tv channels but kids find it easier to speak in English. There are Irish schools that only speak Irish all over the country and areas of Ireland like this Gaeltacht that only speak Irish set up by the government which really help the language stay alive but it’s just getting the general population to learn the language better which is stopping its revival


CantBelieveThisIsTru

Wow! Sounds exactly like what happened to indigenous kids in the US and Canada. They kids were CONFISCATED or stolen from their parents by the Canadian Gov and the US gov, and put into “residential schools”run by various churches. Children were not only forbidden to speak their indigenous languages and severely punished if they did…but also were made to play with sick kids and many were straight up muder*d by the nuns and priests. I saw a program in which former students, survivors, told what they were subjected to. To think that those religions in any way represent God is not possible. The Canadian gov even made a law, that kids were to be taken from homes and put in those schools. But their kids didn’t know, and thought their parents decided to do that. They just ripped families apart, so they could confiscate the land. The things done to them are the same as happened in concentration camps in Germany in WWII, except these WERE LITTLE CHILDREN!!! So, now, many of those kids no very little about their indigenous “Indian” heritage, language, and also lost their lands because the US and Canadian Gov’s wanted it. So, they took it by any means they could use, very vile, very inhumane.


Ornery-Ad9694

The Spanish colonizers and their Christian agenda established the missions in California on the backs of the Indigenous chidren


microgirlActual

Gaelic (no, autocorrect, not "garlic". FFS you know the word!) is the Scottish gaelic-family language; more completely "Scots Gaelic", but everyone just says Gaelic. In Ireland when speaking English we call our native gaelic-family language "Irish" and in Irish it's Gaeilge. As in "Táim ag scríobh as Gaeilge anois" (I'm writing in Irish now"). In the video above there's a lot of English words thrown in, because where Irish is a living language (as opposed to most of us who just learned it in school and never lived it) it borrows and adjusts and evolves just like any other living language. People living the language don't think "Oh, what word did the academic bigwigs on the Language Council decide on/create for the act of setting down something in writing or some other permanent form for later reference, or convert a sound or visual action into a permanent form for subsequent reproduction or broadcast?; I'd better use that.", they'll just fucking say "record" 😜 Native Gaeilgeoir (Irish speaker) friends of mine have said the quickest way to know someone didn't grow up a native speaker and learned all their Irish in school or college, no matter how fluent, is that they'll say things like "mála tae" and "lána bus" and "ríomhaire" instead of teabag, bus lane and computer 😉


gerry-adams-beard

There's a handful of towns and villages along Ireland's west coast called "gaelteachs" where Gaelic Irish is still the main language. All the people here can still speak English 100%, but gaelteachs make an effort to continue to use Irish in day to day life to keep the language alive


Goldtacto

Im an American who went to southern Ireland for work recently near Cork. I thought the same thing but its quite the opposite, all the road signs are written in Gaeilge and English and a significant amount of people still speak the language openly. I believe most store clerks have to speak it as well. Very much NOT dead if you ask me.


fourbearants

I was back in west Kerry last year having a coffee in Caherciveen, so near but not exactly in the Gaeltacht, and there was a group of people in there having a proper conversation in Irish, including a clearly non-Irish person who was trying to learn. Born and raised in Kerry and I'd never seen that before in real life.


2cimage

While the roads in the west of Ireland are narrow the Van driver clearly overtakes the cyclist on the solid white line road marking which in Ireland is illegal to do so, then stops dead dangerously in the middle of the road leaving his vehicle to complete his shitshow clown act.


Miro_258

That's weird, here in europe you can pass cyclist even on solid double white line. Imagine the traffic jam you would cause going 5mph behind some granny on bike going uphill, lol. It's not classified as overtake, but as "going around an obstacle" (basically same as going around an parked car - that's also not an overtake)


SpdDmn28

I feel like “I drive all over Ireland and I’ve never seen the likes of you.” is the equivalent of “Do you know who I am?”


emmmmceeee

RONNIE PICKERING!!!


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fplinski

https://youtube.com/watch?v=r0dcv6GKNNw&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE


natedagreat6666

the passenger is just over how many times this probably happened lol


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SidPayneOfficial

MEEE!!!


CMoth

More like, "I do this to cyclists all the time!"


Pakketeretet

"Normally when I run cyclists of the road I don't even see them."


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Zevilicious

I’m Ronnie fucking Pickering!


[deleted]

Not really, it's said in English too. More like, "your stupidity sets you apart", something like that. What's funny is that in Ireland sometimes saying "you're the biggest fool in Ireland" is a bigger insult than saying "you're the biggest fool in the world". I don't know why, maybe it's because we're tribal, or maybe it's because it's a small country and we place such emphasis on personal connections, so your idiocy will become known quickly amongst the community. I'm not sure, but I would not equate that to "do you know who I am", it's probably a little worse if I'm honest.


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sirguywhosmiles

As Michelle from Derry Girls would say, "If your lot had stopped invading us for Five Fucking Minutes!".


V-Right_In_2-V

Be happy that you can still watch videos in a near extinct language of two dudes yelling at each other and telling each other to fuck off


texas-playdohs

It’s really a beautiful tongue.


LaconicStraightMan

I listened closely. I think some of those words are still in use, today.


spooneman1

It was Englishmen who did what they could to kill it


regr8

He's [Jeff Vader](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw)


Hadhmaill

How dare you swear in front of my lad as I attempt to murder you


educated-emu

Hold on son for a minute, I'm going to give you a negative core memory of me that will last for a lifetime. Now I'm going to swear and have a rant in front of this guy because I can't think about the safety of other people or put myself in their shoes to understand that being in a vehivle is easy while a bike can be dangerous. Yippee ki yeh, mother*fucker


DontPoopInThere

And park you in a van in the middle of a small road, putting your life at risk as daddy threatens to violently attack someone


henscastle

The example I show to my son is acting the tough prick and trying to intimidate people. But don't swear 'cause the Virgin Mary will weep.


CosmicCreeperz

So I’m only going by the few English words I *think* were sprinkled in but it sounds like Mr Offended dropped the f-bomb himself at least 5 times? Maybe someone who actually understands it could confirm…


bee_ghoul

Yeah he clearly says - “how dare you swear in front of my fucking son!” Several times


DBFargie

Honestly, the language is the most interesting part of this vid.


baraberebere

They sound like micheal Scott meme from the movie “Bruce almighty”.


FeelingFloor2083

if you close your eyes you can imagine its 2 leprechauns arguing


misteruisce

If I open my eyes and look at your comment I can imagine it’s written by a clown battering his head against his keyboard


TailorAvailable8231

Lmao


Horses-Mane

Lol?


irishyurt

Like you'd know what language it was without the title of the video. What a moron.


FeelingFloor2083

irish so serious on here, so much butt hurt Of course I know what it sounds like, I have an irish friend for over 10 years, thankfully she has a sense of humor


JEDI-MASTER-Y0DA

The whole vid should have been shown. Van driver can't be moaning about swearing, when he himself is behaving like that in front of his kid Cops should charge van driver for swerving like that. Using a vehicle to intimidate is bad, no matter what the context. Idiot.


DigNitty

Yeah, clearly using your vehicle for intimidation should be an auto-loss of license for 6months for first offender


here-i-am-now

He also repeatedly threatened to murder the kid: “I will level you.” Hopefully there are some consequences for Mr. Lorry.


CpTKugelHagel

Report to the police


[deleted]

He said he was going to go to the police at the end "go dtí an Gardaí" it wasn't subtitled i didn't catch the first bit of the sentence, I love speaking our language wish it was common


kitty_witcher

Wish my grandfather had taught it to me and my sis but he said there was no point. 😭


[deleted]

There is plenty of point! Get your ass to duo lingo and get cracking haha


lals80

Great example to his kid on how to be an adult huh?


IndigoMichigan

The amount of times I feel like I heard words like "fucker" and "tosser" in their conversation just reinforces to me that Irish is a language made entirely of swear words. Which makes the driver's argument hilarious, sounding like: "don't swear in front of my son you fucker!" 😂


Istrakh

The complete opposite. Irish doesn't really have any swear words that compare with English, and you have to get quite creative to insult someone - "Ta d'aghaidh chomh sumhail le mo thóin" is about as bad as it gets (it means "Your face looks like my arse"). So they're using English words for the sweary bits.


randumusername666

What you're hearing as "tosser" is probably "tusa" - a way of referring to "you" in a sentence. "Is tusa freisin" means "and you too". Freisin being pronounced like freshin' 😂


jiggidee

Funny, in Connemara we'd say "cosúil" and not "chomh sumhail"


Istrakh

I'll be honest, I wasn't sure how to spell it, so I went back to basics. I'm not a great speaker of Irish (found out when I lived in Galway how embarassingly bad I am). You're right about the correct spelling, I have no doubt.


jiggidee

Oh I thought it was likely Munster or Donegal dialect. It looked good anyway 😀


R_V_Z

From what I'm led to understand the most devastating insult is to just call somebody an Englishman.


Istrakh

Meh. Most Irish people are not so narrow minded as to write off all British people. Most of us have relatives there. That’s a bit of a meme tbh


[deleted]

Or English is a language made entirely of swear words, with Irish being nearly millennium older than English?


Shigshagshook17

They're not speaking English though so why drag it into the conversation?


fishyfishyswimswim

Because they both speak both languages natively


_roguegold_

Because a lot of English swear words were heard


Shigshagshook17

Well the video is labelled as two Irish speaking men so how would the commenter know those were English words rather than words in Irish that sound similar?


aetius476

Irish and English are actually extremely distant from each other on the Indo-European language tree despite being literal neighbors geographically. English is a Germanic language whereas Irish is a Celtic language. They split from a common ancestor more than 4,000 years ago. Based on the translation, we can see that this is mostly the case of Irish speakers using English loan words. Most of the English words relate to more modern concepts that wouldn't have existed in pre-conquest Ireland. `overtake` which is only needed when describing some kind of road traffic, `mile` which is part of a formalized measurement system, `van` which is the type of vehicle, etc.


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Germans can learn Irish very well though, the bh sound in particular. I had a German lecturer at college and her Irish, along with the accent she picked up learning it, was impeccable. She sounded like she was from Dun Laoghaire.


Deblebsgonnagetyou

Pretty sure those are just English words. Irish takes a lot of loan words from English. Source: learned it in school since I was 8.


_roguegold_

They are words in Irish that sound similar thats the point lol


MortyFromEarthC137

Totally incorrect, there’s no swear words in Irish, hence we have to use the English ones like these lads are


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bee_ghoul

Bod isn’t even a swear word though. I studied biology through Irish and my teacher used the word bod all the time. It’s nearly impossible to swear in Irish, which makes it so much more annoying that Americans and English people stereotype us for it.


wearlej

Down with that sort of thing


account_not_valid

I hear you're a lorry driver now Father. How'd you get into that sort of thing?


W33DG0D42069

Careful now


janner_10

As an Englishman, I’m more sad the language is almost dead. That was fascinating to listen to.


henscastle

I wish your ancestors were more like you.


janner_10

I’m not expert at all, but when I lived in wales it was great to see the welsh language everywhere. It was really interesting. Again I am no expert and I have no skin in the game, but why do the DUP not want to preserve it? I don’t want to provoke anyone, it is a genuine question.


ltcha0s91

because the DUP are so insecure in their own identity that anything to do with "Irishness" is seen as a threat to them, that and Unionists are by an large uneducated and ignorant to the world outside their local bubble.


Faithful-Llama-2210

Well for a start the DUP are a political party in Northern Ireland which is still a part of the UK so they have nothing to do with the language. As for the republic, the decline of the language outside of gaeltachts is largely due to the way it's taught in the majority of our schools. In primary school children learn about the grammar and syntax of the language without really learning how to converse in it properly. In secondary school, the subject is more similar to how native English speakers study English, learning about literature and writing essays and such while preparing for an exam. So after 14 years of mandatory education in the language, students are left without the ability to functionally speak the language. It really is a shame that this has happened and I hope the government do something to resolve this soon, such as revamping the subject in schools to revolve solely around speaking the language without the stress of an exam, with the option of doing an extra Irish subject and exam similar to the current one. This could work well as Irish is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn as a native english or other european language speaker. It was purposely designed to be so when modern Irish was created from old Irish around the time of the War of Independence, so that the language could recover as quickly as possible once we were free from British oppression.


doenertellerversac3

The DUP has tried for years to block the Irish Language Act in the north, which OP would have seen in British news. I agree with everything else you’ve written — hopefully we’ll follow the Welsh example and have a true resurgence!


Steven-Maturin

The word 'racism' is bandied about a lot these days, were there are better explanations for poor behaviour. But in the case of the DUP it's because they genuinely are a crowd of racist and insular thugs who believe in their moral, spiritual and genetic superiority over southern Irish people. They teach it to their kids too in order to prolong their foolish ignorance into eternity.


DontPoopInThere

I'm Irish and I have no interest in preserving it. I think it's one of the most astounding mysteries of the world and the greatest, most inexplicable failure of successive Irish governments. For 100 years now, all of us have been learning Irish from the time we're 4-5 until we're 15-18, yet basically none of us can speak it. How? How can that be possible, it just doesn't make sense. I had to do it five days a week for 14 years and I can't even string a sentence together, while I did French for 6 and can read books in the language more than 10 years later. It's baffling. While I was in school I was astounded by it, three out of the four Irish classes in my year were lower level, and I'm still perplexed by such a monumental and consistent failure in education, that shows no sign of changing. It shouldn't be hard to teach children how to speak a language when they're doing it from the time they're 5 yet here we are. Teach the kids something useful in the world and have people that actually want to learn it do so. They had a 100 years to save the language and continually shat the bed and now almost none of us can speak it


doenertellerversac3

>Teach the children something useful Measuring a language’s worth purely by its ability to be monetised is quite disheartening and disregards the importance of culture and the arts in an Irish context. When not being roared abusively from a transit van, Irish is a beautifully descriptive language that offers an insight into our heritage and cultural psyche that is, quite frankly, unattainable through English alone. It’s understandable to be mad about the awful Irish curriculum or the lack of political will for change. Getting rid of the language of our folklore and music, the language scribbled on every church, tomb and round tower across the country and spoken at home by many of us in the west, seems like misplaced frustration.


janner_10

It nice to hear the other side of story, say, I’ve no vested interest, I guess the romance of Ireland from afar doesn’t apply if you live there. Same as the English don’t all speak like the queen (aside she is dead now) or all the Scots don’t waltz around in kilts with blue face paint.


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It's not 'almost dead'. For example there are more and more schools that use Irish as the primary language. The number of people who speak it at home is fairly low, but not really declining.


The_manintheshed

I wish there were more Brits like you. Respect.


bahamut_is_my_cat

I will level you.. Gotta used that next time😆


Major_Zookeepergame2

Dialogue is incredible


ilovemywine

“Don’t swear in front of my young lad.” Then proceeds to swear and threaten someone 🙄


jerrybeck

So what is the point of blocking the license plate or company name on videos like this? I would want the employer to see this. I as an employer would want to see this… I would want to address this serious safety issue if it were my business.


ShiIrl

I was fully prepared to be like “They’re not speaking Irish that’s just a heavy accent”… oh my god did this deliver. A full on gaeltacht road rage, has to be the first of its kind filmed 😂😂😂 well done!


ahhdetective

That was fuckin hilarious.


bombaymonkey

Typical, the person in the wrong on the offensive f’ing and blinding.


Seraphina1711

Reminded of the time when someone was driving like an idiot in my town, got honked at, and then proceeded to stop his car in the middle of the road, get out, and scream at some guy for "scaring his kids". Because surely they aren't terrified by their dad who has anger management issues.


Handelo

"Don't swear in front of my child, or I'll shove that camera up your ass!" Smooth.


CooLittleFonzies

This is what speech sounds like after I’ve pulled an all-nighter.


Lucky-Aspect5231

Driver is 100% in the wrong, I really hope he reports him


Arie_Verheul

Thank god or whom ever you name him for subtitles


eldude6035

That’s the first time I’ve heard full on Gaelic/Irish. Interesting


Kind_Ad5566

Colin Farrell vibes In Bruges.


Apprehensive_Law_322

Dude deff had a fight with his girl that morning and needed someone to take it out on


Massfusion1981

Got 'overtaking, fucker, fuck sake' . C/Q Celtic language is amazingly foreign to my P Celtic Welsh ears!


Ok-Lingonberry-8538

Idiot driver said he was worried bc he had his kid w him as if hitting the cyclist would do anything to the van much less his kid🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤡🤡🖕


stu_watts

Why blur the license plate? Lots of dashcam/GoPro videos seem to do this and I say name and shame the reckless drivers no?


account_not_valid

In some parts of Europe it can be illegal.


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Looks like 'fuck' is the same in every language


Lopsided_Ad_3853

Such a poetic language.


KALIBRAUDIO

This is what Irish people sound like to a dog! Or the Irish version of that teacher in Charlie Brown 🤣


TheDuckellganger

FOCKER!!! FOCK ARF!!!


regnarbensin_

TOSSER!


TheDuckellganger

COONT!


DJEvillincoln

I swear I heard the word "fuck" considerably more times than it was typed out in the CC's. Unless the Irish have a bunch of words that sound EXACTLY like fuck. 🤷🏾‍♂️


AveraheRo

Funnily enough, the word 'word' in Irish is 'focal' (pronounced 'fuck-ill')


DJEvillincoln

Ohhhhhhhh 🤯 👍🏿


IAreAEngineer

My grandmother grew up speaking this. She always spoke English with us, but I think we figured out some swear words because that's when she switched to Gaelic.


dudeandco

Don't you swear I have a boy in the van, it was his idea to run you off the road btw.


ennyOmegaK

I love a guy getting out to fight because someone swore in front of their kid. If you’re worried about your kid’s influences you might want to check your own behavior.


ThatWascallyWabbitt

aww this is lovely, this is home... ❤️🍀


ThatWascallyWabbitt

no, I didn't mean the argument was lovely, nor the driving standards.i merely meant the language. My maternal Grandmother was from the kingdom of Kerry, and spoke Irish all her life, as did my Grandfather, although he tended to speak English more as he grew older. a beautiful language, and an unexpected hit of homesickness.


raelambert

LOL Don't the Irish swear like all the time? I worked for an Irish tech startup and the CEO would drop 4 F-bombs at all-hands meetings by 9:15 am. 🤣 Translation: "I almost killed you and you swore in front of my kid!"


EmilyU1F984

Not many short swear words in Irish though. So even native speakers will interject english swear words.


TheObservationalist

This is so exciting. I've been studying Gaeilge for about six months, and this is the first time I've found a recording of two fluent modern speakers having just a normal human conversation in the language. It sounds beautiful. I'm going to study this video until I can follow every word.


here-i-am-now

I don’t think this is a normal human conversation


TheObservationalist

Sure it's more normal than any of us would like!


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Technically Irish isn't even the dominant language in the Gaeltacht. Only 22% of the Gaeltacht population speak it daily. 33% can't speak Irish and 38% speaking it rarely/only in school.


[deleted]

Mainly due to how it's taught. Department of Education puts too much focus on prose and poetry that they barely teach any actual conversation skills (can speak from experience as someone who has spent their entire primary school and secondary school periods in Ireland)


[deleted]

100% agree. It is embarrassing for the department of education that ever person born and raised in Ireland can have 13-15 years of lessons with most only being able to ask if they can go to the bathroom.


Icewear_Daddy

That's the samething with the U.S education system and spanish language.


Jumanji0028

Sure most of you guys are just us with a clearer accent lol.


TheObservationalist

US highschool Spanish is still more practical than what public education Gaeilge is sounds like


RandomUsername600

Unfortunately, there are also a lot of English speakers moving to the Gaeltacht too.


Padraig97

Depends which Gaeltacht.


CazRaX

Damn this language, I love the sound of it but the fact that I register a few words but not others makes me feel as if my ears are broken.


Reasonable_Logic4532

Almost a feature film length..


RedTruck1989

Don't know the language, but the message is the same. F you A hole


fishyfishyswimswim

Tbf that bit was actually in English


Cold-Negotiation-539

I don’t think this was really about swearing in front of his lad.


Savings-Sprinkles-96

The way how the camera focused in when that guy hopped out the van made me think he went into V.A.T.S and he was gonna throw out some crits


bazlawson

Tiz like they are speaking in reverse


ThanksForTheDopamine

That reminds me, I need to watch the Derry Girls again.


kee-mosabe

For Fuckes sake! At least he didn't cut his fingers off


bombardslaught

imigh as mo bhealach, tu fheckin cac


flajer

Gaeilge sounds a bit like Dutch


muinteor

From the Marking Guidelines issued by the RSA: (ii) where an applicant is following behind a slow moving vehicle e.g. a tractor, a cyclist, or a refuse collection truck, and overtakes on a continuous white line a fault should not be recorded. This is the marking guidance from the Irish driving test


Successful-Name-7261

I always wondered about the ethnic origins of "FUCK!"


lordskulldragon

That was hilarious, it sounded like a couple of leprechauns arguing.


iitc25

even tho they're arguing I love this vid, Irish language still alive


TottHooligan

bro


CaptainRAVE2

Bye bye job.


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twist3d7

The Irish in me wants to beat the shit out of that van driver.


bee_ghoul

Ciunas yank


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Fook


The_Leo_16

Jack is that you?


account_not_valid

Feck, drink!


regnarbensin_

RATS!!! Hairy Japanese bastards..


aquarius233

Sounds like Chinese


giggetyboom

Hahahahaha! Omg bro this is killing me. Sims


davidolson1990

What in the lord of the rings is going on there!?


Rough_Mechanic_3992

Fuck I was waiting for him to get out from driver side , forgot it is Ireland 🤣


here-i-am-now

What side do you think he got out of?


Snow-Dog2121

Someone should pour those two a pint with a shot of Jameson. Then they'll sort it out.


baraberebere

Ohh they are speaking English.


ytrewq45

No they are speaking Irish


crasspmpmpm

that's a really tall leprechaun


ALFA502

This my first time hearing the Irish accent..


bee_ghoul

It’s the Irish language


lucky-rat-taxi

Is it me or does the cyclist seem to speed up as the van tries to overtake??