The Irish

tbf I get that one from plenty of Irish people

I've several times had "So you're from Ulster then", from people from RoI.

A misunderstood county! I think the role of Donegal as a scourge of generations of students in the lower three provinces is probably under discussed, plus ye are pretty remote and the train doesn’t go there.

I think the role of Donegal as a scourge of generations of students in the lower three provinces is probably under discussed

oh no, that's the one thing they do know about it

I mean, that’s more than most people know about my neck of the woods. At least ye have the incomprehensible Gaeilge, Enya, and a coastline.

I used to go to my grans in Kerry every year. Fucking most incredibly beautiful beaches and mountains and my first experiences of pub lock ins till 3am - I still dream about the place.

Did you see Fungi?

Kerry is great but I legit haven’t been in at least 15 years. Went to the races there a few times and obviously out on the ocean.

Did you see Fungi?

usually when we got back home again t' slum in Yorkshire!

I’m just trying to imagine a hybrid of a Healy-Rae style Kerry accent and a strong Yorkshire accent and it is...difficult.

a great uncle of mine was at some distant relative's wedding in donegal, in whatever our ancestral town or village was, i heard this yarn about 2am at a family gathering so it's a little foggy.

he told an overly-long (for the little action in the yarn), whiskey-soaked anecdote about leaving the reception to go trudging around the cemetery in the rain to try and find the graves of ancestors. no Harleys anywhere, until he gets to the last stone ... and it's not Harley either.

"Maybe the family didn't use the name Harley then? Might have been an anglicisation used after they moved to Glasgow." I piped up.

"..."

have been to every country in the isles except Scotland tbh

monster!

i'd like to go back to ireland tbh

xp i know right?

purely thru bad luck, my ex had plenty of Glasgow-based relatives

Shitloads of English people have never been to Scotland or, if they have, it's to Edinburgh.

I liked Glasgow far more than Edinburgh and everyone always looks at me like I’m crazy when I say that.

My dad tells a great story about drinking in some pub in Edinburgh, which turned out to be a Hearts pub, and being forced to sing The Sash before escaping. Feel like you wouldn’t get such niceties in Glasgow.

doing a two-week trip around the Highlands at the end of the month. Can't wait

(I have been to Glasgow and Edinburgh)

tbf if you live in London, Paris is nearer, as is Dublin.

I used to think Ireland was more futurist than England cos they drunk milk from triangular tetra pak cartons in Tralee rather than them old glass bottles that stray dogs piss against on't estate in Deighton. I need to go back there before I die, but only really got relatives in Dublin now. My dad's family remnants won't talk to me cos I snubbed his funeral - but no big loss - they are all complete cunts!

I liked Glasgow far more than Edinburgh and everyone always looks at me like I’m crazy when I say that.

Most people prefer Glasgow ime.

We had glass milk bottles in my part of the country, but my family never got them & I was always jealous af, so! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

xp people who prefer Edinburgh are bloodless Lowland Scots and/or Tories, y/n?

yeah glass bottles is pure posh imo

gbx should visit with jjj imo

I only ever encountered them visiting relatives in the Midlands

xp FAP Irish edition imo

Well, I am from the midlands (which everyone here tells me I mispronounce!) so...

ive been lobbying long for it

i dont get into as many fights irl fyallsi

xp people who prefer Edinburgh are bloodless Lowland Scots and/or Tories, y/n?

Well, Glasgow is in the Lowlands and when I think of the Lowlands I think of Ayrshire, which is more bloodthirsty or blood-soaked than bloodless.

they used to go to "the lake" on sunny days

how I pitied them

never got mistaken for being on the wrong side of the border though I bet...

xp yeah fair enough, just quoting a (self hating) friend of mine from Edinburgh who always complains about being a lowland Scot

edinburgh is for english people, posh students (often english), tourists staying in airbnbs so the rents are horrendous, and the poor scottish people who happen to be from edinburgh.

glasgow is for the world

OTM.

curious about a compare/contrast between Americans, the English, and, say, Germans visiting Ireland.

give ireland back to the irish i always say

Funny you should say that but when I was last in Ireland it was full of Americans, the English, and Germans.

Every in Europe is full of Americans, the English, and Germans though.

English visiting Ireland:

THESE ROTTEN ENGLISH TOURISTS JUST ROARED ABUSE AT US THEN THREW A PIGEON’S HEAD AT US!!! WHAT THE FUCK ! pic.twitter.com/iyEhfLacwB

— d3rb (@bitnch) September 22, 2018

French visiting Ireland: https://youtu.be/Mxl0UmXi8a0

prefer edinburgh but then we holiday v upper middle

Ok the gentleman with the bad trousers and bad attitude make sense but you're going to have to explain every aspect of that butter commercial xp

that was as explicit as sex on irish tv got til oh imma say miley ridin the babysitter in the woolly jumper

The aul one is not his mother but is giving off that kind of energy so I want to say his dead wife’s mother who lives with them? The horse belonged to his dead wife. As deems says, the French woman is in there and the son doesn’t quite get what’s going on.

when she says "you cook like a frenchman" she means he is cooking the horse for dinner, this is my truth tell me yours

There is a lot going on.

A lot of classic Irish adverts have an underlying theme of people either leaving or revisiting an idyllic home life in towns and villages that are too small to keep you - remembering the local pub when you’re on the other side of the world, flying home to family at Christmas, etc. The strong implication here is that yr man is preparing to tell the family they are moving to France with his fancy woman. The kids have already kind of worked it out and mammy / dead wife’s mother, who won’t come out and say anything, is kind of passive-aggressively communicating that she knows something is up and doesn’t like where it is heading. You have that resistance to change and familial division (and foreigners tbh) butting up against its inevitably.

I believe that is a semi obtuse last tango in Paris reference, nobody is eating the horse for fear of the death glare of his mother in law

ty for tansplaining, aul one is not his own mammy cos he calls her Mrs Mack, but in the style of rural farming families she would have lived with the married couple

referencing last tango in paris in a butter advert is next level

with the wife dead a woman has been told off from the village matrons to ensure the men dont starve or fester

shes mainly fucked off because yerman makes his own sauce, and a fancy one at that

look theres a lot going on were not a great ppl for the exposition

Is the point not that your man can fulfil his basic shelter and food needs and French woman can fulfil his other needs

Meanwhile mammy in law doesn’t want to live in France/a home & she saw glenroe with Miley and Fidelma last night so she knows what’s going on

these foreign biddies were always at it. Nothing could sate their lust for our finest butter and menfolk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOLus5AFqTE