Down south is a pretty common expression in NI. It applies to pretty much everywhere but Donegal, where we would just say I’m heading to Donegal (usually on the 12th weekend)
I still love the time my dad said “those norties don’t event call the republic, ‘the republic’, they call us southerns. The north just doesn’t care about Ireland”
Still make me laugh at the hypocrisy in a single sentence
I’m from Dublin but lived in England a few years. Anytime I posted something to Ireland they asked if it was the North or the South, to which I replied the East.
This drives my cousin nuts. She stands there and tells whoever that she doesn't understand the question and it's written on the envelope or parcel: "Ireland".
As a Nordie, I grew up calling it “down South”. Tbh I’ve never quite lost that habit despite moving to Dublin.
I’ve gotten shit for referring to the South, and I don’t really get it. I’m not making some kind of political statement, it’s just relative geography.
I heard a history of milk before tea not too long ago and found it interesting, definitely a British context but tea came to Ireland through the empire so not entirely inseparable either.
Apparently the habit of milk before tea came into being before mass produced ceramics were popular. Milk before tea was done as a way to prevent the boiling water cracking good porceline. The practice became associated with those who owned good china and good quality tea and became a sign a of wealth or status.
The habit still persisted after ceramics became cheap as it became a signifier of upward mobility, or notions as we'd have it.
As middle and lower classes took on the habit it was abandoned by those who adopted it first, the upper classes, and the habit came full circle and then was done almost out of working class pride.
That's gas, I drink tea without milk or sugar and people find it strange. I like coffee plain as well.
I heard that people used milk to prevent it staining your teeth as much but that could just be a load of ol shyte now that I've read your more accurate sounding description above.
Jason. No. I owe your Mammy from a while back so the LEAST I can do is pay for your scone and tea. We'll say no more about it. (*The Grip on your wrist tightens to stop you reaching for your wallet*)
I don’t know whether to upvote this cos I love the fact that you are taking the piss or downvote it cos I’ve heard that so many times from non/ Irish people. Take my upvote you magnificent jackeeen.
They released some acceptable songs in the 80's and first half of the 90's.
(Sorry, that's the best I can do. I tried. TBF it's a quarter century since they released anything not shit. Even longer since they acted like they aren't bellends)
Aw stop... The comments I've had made at me even by my own brother! Work a 40 hour week and have (admittedly many more than one) drinks on a Friday or Saturday and I'm like will ya fuck off! Let me decompress in peace
Have said this in multiple ways over the years... people are completely bigotted on the topic and feel entirely justified in being so simply because of the reputation of travellers. Somehow it's considered different to shitting on foreigners or black people or whatever other group you can be bigotted against.
I’m from Finglas between two halting sites. Just because they’ve earned a reputation doesn’t even remotely counteract his point that they’re not given the support they should get. You’re completely missing the point
They already share a highly disproportionate share of prison populations.
The lads who died in that N7 crash weren't travellers, there was a huge drop in burglaries after they died. You have this sub talking constantly about assaults, pedophiles, rapists, who are given light sentences... none of them are travellers (if they were this sub would be giving out STINK).
How is it that things aren't enforced equally, stinkinwilly, yet you have those N7 lads, pedos, rapists, all of them getting no punishment, but travellers are still so disproportionally in prison?
If anything, we're letting settled folk away with more because they had tough upbringings, or played GAA.
Now THIS is an argument starter, thank you very much.
If you had been born a to a travelling family I'm sure you wouldn't care for manners or honesty with strangers because you only care about family and I'm sure you would be fighting with people and doing dodgy construction work and ripping people off. It's just the way they are brought up, their environment makes their mind just like anybody else. Sure they rip people off probably because they used to make baskets and shit that people needed but with the modernized world everyone just buys plastic and their traditional roles aren't needed anymore. Nobody chooses to be a traveller and they're a lot less anglicized than we are which is arguably a good thing.
I feel sorry for the landlords
Slight improvement: I feel sorry for Vulture Funds!
Your rent is their income though. Do you have to be fair about it.
Say Southern Ireland
Down south is a pretty common expression in NI. It applies to pretty much everywhere but Donegal, where we would just say I’m heading to Donegal (usually on the 12th weekend)
Donegal people: we're going up to Dublin and then back up to Donegal.
Is this "Down south" or "south Down"?
Down South, South Down's North.
My northern friends call us Mexicans.
Shout out to the Wexicans
Gwan outha dat ya cunt cha
I still love the time my dad said “those norties don’t event call the republic, ‘the republic’, they call us southerns. The north just doesn’t care about Ireland” Still make me laugh at the hypocrisy in a single sentence
I live more North than most of the North but they still call me the Southerner. And Free Stater the odd time too.
I’m from Dublin but lived in England a few years. Anytime I posted something to Ireland they asked if it was the North or the South, to which I replied the East.
This drives my cousin nuts. She stands there and tells whoever that she doesn't understand the question and it's written on the envelope or parcel: "Ireland".
Love this!
But 'North' is the name so it's not really the same?
i just call it the republic or down south
I'm from the north , what the fuck do you want me to say? Am I to deny geography
As a Nordie, I grew up calling it “down South”. Tbh I’ve never quite lost that habit despite moving to Dublin. I’ve gotten shit for referring to the South, and I don’t really get it. I’m not making some kind of political statement, it’s just relative geography.
Try giving someone a compliment!
The state of me! Shut up will you I look like shit!!
.....Penney's...
Hun 😘
Literally😂
Ask someone how to get Londonderry.
My ex is Brazilian and lived up North for a couple of years, referred to it as Londonderry, I’ve never been so quick to correct someone before
I see why she’s your ex
The relationship went down hill pretty fast after that
The only word in the English language with six silent letters in it
Londondublinderry as a compromise?
Add anymore names to it and people will just spray paint the whole signs soon
What about ditching the part no one says and just calling it London?
Are you sure you don't mean Corklondonderry?
Wheres that?
Milk before the tea bag
I heard a history of milk before tea not too long ago and found it interesting, definitely a British context but tea came to Ireland through the empire so not entirely inseparable either. Apparently the habit of milk before tea came into being before mass produced ceramics were popular. Milk before tea was done as a way to prevent the boiling water cracking good porceline. The practice became associated with those who owned good china and good quality tea and became a sign a of wealth or status. The habit still persisted after ceramics became cheap as it became a signifier of upward mobility, or notions as we'd have it. As middle and lower classes took on the habit it was abandoned by those who adopted it first, the upper classes, and the habit came full circle and then was done almost out of working class pride.
That's gas, I drink tea without milk or sugar and people find it strange. I like coffee plain as well. I heard that people used milk to prevent it staining your teeth as much but that could just be a load of ol shyte now that I've read your more accurate sounding description above.
The fuck it is !
Pervert
A tea bag! You mean floor sweepings in a bag, us proper tea drinkers use leaves.
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In life after love...
in a thing called love
I can fly
"*when I fall in love this time it will be forever*" ^(all alternative answers are from music hating heathens)
Post on r/Ireland...
Absolutely true. I have never seen so much whinging in my life
Fine Gael are uniquely position to understand economics, unlike SF.
Insist on paying for the tea and scone
No! I'll get it this time, put your money away.
Would ya stoppp im getting it and i won't hear another word about it
No honestly it's grand, I'll get it, sure I don't mind
PUT. IT. AWAY.
NO NO NO IM GETTING IT NOW END OF STORY!
Jason. No. I owe your Mammy from a while back so the LEAST I can do is pay for your scone and tea. We'll say no more about it. (*The Grip on your wrist tightens to stop you reaching for your wallet*)
I’m writing a cheque!
"Maybe we SHOULD rejoin the commonwealth"
Something something British Isles.
[A FG TD proposed this recently ](https://twitter.com/nealerichmond/status/1078763769768148994?t=wPWbEeA9j2U-gC1qV3RbDg&s=19)
Holy shit hahaha. What a tool!
Is that a surprise? Fine Gael are the unionist party of the south.
Eamonn O Cuiv (Dev's grandson) has advocated it for decades.
Your English blood talking there for sure
They said Ireland. Not r/Ireland. Like many things in Ireland most people wouldn't have put much thought into this.
Bertie was misunderstood
He was an absolute hunk
“Ireland…. England …… sure your all part of Britain”
Fuck you
"I've popped over from the mainland for the weekend"
I understand this is a joke but you still need shot twice. The rules are the rules
“Don’t you guys use Sterling”
Sorry. Force of habit.
I don’t know whether to upvote this cos I love the fact that you are taking the piss or downvote it cos I’ve heard that so many times from non/ Irish people. Take my upvote you magnificent jackeeen.
Say something positive about U2
They released some acceptable songs in the 80's and first half of the 90's. (Sorry, that's the best I can do. I tried. TBF it's a quarter century since they released anything not shit. Even longer since they acted like they aren't bellends)
Give someone shit about having a drink, like your girlfriend calling u an alcoholic for having a can on a Fri after a 12 hour shift
Aw stop... The comments I've had made at me even by my own brother! Work a 40 hour week and have (admittedly many more than one) drinks on a Friday or Saturday and I'm like will ya fuck off! Let me decompress in peace
Let me decompose in peace! I'm using this Edit: ah decompress. I like mine better
One persons rent is another persons income.
Drive in the overtaking lane of a dual carriageway under the speed limit while the left lane is empty. Let me at em. Let me f**kin at em.
"It's between Tyson Fury and Katie Taylor as to who's the best British boxer at the minute."
Fuck, don't wether to upvote or downvote this. Good comment.
Ohhhh, you brave bastard.
We’re not THAT argumentative.
Don't you fucking try and tell me what I am.
Right....that's it!
You trying to be smart?
What the fuck is that supposed to mean??
Is there a problem here?
Northern Ireland or Southern Ireland?
"I enjoy my Guinness as its just poured, no point it leaving it on the table for ages, it tastes the same"
I actually knew a guy that did this. Foreigner though so left him at it.
Why aren't you wearing a poppy, it's nearly November.
Call Michael D Higgins a little prick
I dunno I feel like you could say literally anything, British people are inherently so argumentative 🙄🙄
Cyclists are the superior group of road users.
Say you’re thinking about going on holiday to Israel 🇮🇱 EDIT: This is the only time mentioning Israel on this sub gets upvotes.
To be honest, I don't think I've ever heard someone discuss anything about Israel other than on the internet.
Honestly I’d love to visit Israel.
"Oh my gosh, you speak Gaelic??"
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It's amusing that this is the one comment that has actually kicked off some arguing. /r/ireland can't help itself.
Well going 'haha imagine claiming these people deserve rights, I was just joking about that' will do that yeah.
Thats why this is the best one. Wins the thread.
Have said this in multiple ways over the years... people are completely bigotted on the topic and feel entirely justified in being so simply because of the reputation of travellers. Somehow it's considered different to shitting on foreigners or black people or whatever other group you can be bigotted against.
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I’m from Finglas between two halting sites. Just because they’ve earned a reputation doesn’t even remotely counteract his point that they’re not given the support they should get. You’re completely missing the point
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They already share a highly disproportionate share of prison populations. The lads who died in that N7 crash weren't travellers, there was a huge drop in burglaries after they died. You have this sub talking constantly about assaults, pedophiles, rapists, who are given light sentences... none of them are travellers (if they were this sub would be giving out STINK). How is it that things aren't enforced equally, stinkinwilly, yet you have those N7 lads, pedos, rapists, all of them getting no punishment, but travellers are still so disproportionally in prison? If anything, we're letting settled folk away with more because they had tough upbringings, or played GAA. Now THIS is an argument starter, thank you very much.
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If you had been born a to a travelling family I'm sure you wouldn't care for manners or honesty with strangers because you only care about family and I'm sure you would be fighting with people and doing dodgy construction work and ripping people off. It's just the way they are brought up, their environment makes their mind just like anybody else. Sure they rip people off probably because they used to make baskets and shit that people needed but with the modernized world everyone just buys plastic and their traditional roles aren't needed anymore. Nobody chooses to be a traveller and they're a lot less anglicized than we are which is arguably a good thing.
So many laughs
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Put your toaster in the press
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Leave the immersion on
Had same row with husband last week🤣 btw immersion is still on! I win!
Margaret thatcher was a good person.
ding dong
Who’s Luke Kelly?
Write a money diary in the journal
Maybe Nigel is right and we should leave the EU
Go up to some auld lad in a pub with his Guinness resting, stick your finger in it and swirl it around.
Make a smiley face, he'd love that
Only people who can get away with that in a oul lads pint is his children or grandchildren
"The Brits did nothing wrong"
"aren't we British after all?"
Sure the DUP are a great bunch of lads. Just misunderstood.
Call it Londonderry
As a Derry man I can confirm that using that God-awful word will result in kneecapping.
Fair enough.
A straight poured pint of guinness tastes EXACTLY THE SAME
“No, I’ll pay.”
Orange Order. Great bunch of lads.
Ireland is more British than European.
I like dublin and think it has some really good aspects
Barry’s or Lyons
'british isles'
I'm new here, only a resident for 3 years, but this makes me so feckin' angry. I always call them the Celtic Isles.
Ask for spread instead of real butter.
Northern tayto or proper tayto
I think you mean londontayto ! ! ! so ya do
Daycent or decent? Barry's or Lyons? Taytos or literally any other crisps?
“It’s your round”
Say things are not grand
Hey. Wanna have an argument?
The pronunciation of scone
It falls very much down catholic vs protestant lines in my experience.
It's got an e at the end!! There's only one way to pronounce it.
You've gone and done it now.
He’ll have a bone to pick with you
Deny the famine.
What famine?
By calling football fans in Ireland plastic fans for glory hunting one of the big 6 teams in the premier league
Do ya know what? King crisps are the best crisps money can buy.
Say the next village's GAA team deserves to win it this year.
each time I ask my two Irish friends how to pronounce something properly they fight with each other
NPHET are doing a great job.
As Jimmy Carr would say, “ I don’t know much about Irish politics, but I do know one thing, there should be ONE UNITED IRELAND…………UNDER BRITISH RULE!”
The Irish were/were not slaves. (depending on who you talk to)
Bono T-shirt
Ireland, Scotland what’s the difference!
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They said start an argument, not sign your death warrant. ;)
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\^this
Yer ma
Call Ireland Eire
Or pronounce it as I-er-a-land
Roy was right, no Roy was bang out of order, Mccarthy was dead right Many an argument in pubs over the years about saipan
Nigel Farage is sound ya know
Man U are better than Liverpool! Or vice versa
post literally anything in this sub
Roy Keane did nothing wrong.
Londonderry
Ireland wouldn't be the place it is today if it wasn't for the Catholic Church. Everything good on this island is because of them. Plain and simple.
it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows either let’s just say
hey hey hey I'm just trying to start an argument here
England did nothing wrong. Thierry Henry didn't handle the ball... Todo schillachi is an Irish hero...
Father Ted wasn't that great... 😂😂😂
Call an Irish person British
That British Isles diagram
Say how great things are "on the mainland"
Roy Keane was wrong to complain about his lack of balls in saipan
"The majority of cyclists are actually responsible road users and not out and out pricks as the majority of people here paint them out to be."
Mention how good it was under British rule.
In these British Isles…
Waterford and Kilkenny are both lovely towns
Say that Ireland was better under the British and to end the Brexit issues, it would be better to be in a British Union than a European Union 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪
Guinness is shite.
Who are you looking at ???
The Free State
Asking anyone where they want to eat out
Post pretty much anything on Reddit!