I woke up sick AF on a trip to Dublin.
I went on the Guinness factory tour with some friends, I was freezing to death so I bought a coat there.
Caught shit about wearing that coat for the rest of the day.
They had fun with it, I was just happy to be slightly less freezing.
Irish wit is sharp and quick.
My American wife said to a short round woman at a pub, “You’re as cute as a button.”
The woman scoffed, said “I’m a bit big to be a button. A door knob, maybe.”
What a knob!
I was wearing a red and white striped shirt with jeans, and someone leaned out the window of a passing car and yelled “I found him!”
I was wearing shirt like that while walking past this guy freestyling near my apartment. Next verse was about finding Waldo. Dude was pretty good.
I’m from Belfast and this sounds right on the money. If you can’t handle a bit of bantering you won’t have a fun time lol
Had an Irish colleague at a previous job. Asked him how he could possibly be this good at banter and he said everyone does this back home. General high level of banter by default.
Funniest fucking colleague ever.
The Midwest of the US is very much like this too. The West Coast is not.
When I lived in Wisconsin for a year, and wore a red vest to school, I was asked “What’s with the life vest?” and “Where’d you park your DeLorean?”
I heard people in the US north west will give you shit if you wear a coat, though. Y’know, because it’s often cold and wet there and the natives are too cool to protect themselves against it.
They’re wearing a coat of their own making, layers. That’s the grunge look, you just pile on t-shirts and flannel.
Helps with warmth, but those kinds of clothes don’t protect much against rain. And being wet = being cold, even if you wear 5 layers. Plus, it’s just a lot easier to take off a coat once you’re inside than those bajillion layers.
Thermal underwear. The thinness and heat-retaining quality these days is amazing. You can get away with very few layers:
- thermal t-shirt
- t-shirt or shirt (depending on formality needed)
- flannel shirt-jacket or hooded waterproof jacket/coat
And in many cases you can do without layer 2.
You live there long enough and you grow your own coat.
In the Southeast you will banter like this with friends/acquaintances. For strangers you will passive aggressively compliment them. “Wow that sweater has such an interesting design. Where in the world did you find something like that?”
I’m from the Northeast and this shit is a sport. If you don’t play along, you get a double dose.
Eh being from the Midwest but living in the north east, it’s way less common for people to talk to or about strangers loud enough to hear.
It’s a lot more Scandinavian than the Midwest, ironically.
They might live in Boston though.
Boston is like 30% tourists, and 69% college students from out of town. Unless you’re in maybe Dorchester or whatever is left of ungentrified South or East Boston.
Boston area though. I’ve only been a few times but I regularly work with some guys from there. They can TALK. Like endlessly. And they talk shit.
In the same vein: ‘Scotland, not subtly ever’.
Same in Denmark.
If you know someone Danish well (or at all, really) and they never tease you, odds are that they can’t stand you, aren’t comfortable around you, or both 🤷
Holy shit, someone shortened ‘queue’. Now I’m going to blow their minds when I tell them they only need to use one letter.
We will work on words like ‘colour’ next.
Professional worder here. That word is officially spelt “q” and then as many "ue"s as the writer thinks they can get away with. Spanish speakers are very paw abiding and terse and tend to write it que, the English less so and more whimsical and therefore queue. The Irish: queueue, the Welsh: Queueueueueueueueueueueueueue.
Statesians spell it line.
Thanks mordekaiser
In fairness, if queue gives you pause when you write it out, it’s entirely reasonable to be like “There’s already a ue, why would there need to be another ue?”
I honestly prefer the distinction, because whenever I see “que” in the place of “queue” I read it as Spanish, and it also helps distinguish the word from “cue”.
¿Qué?
Ha, totally agree, that’s “kay” phonetically to me, and I never took Spanish and understand and speak only a smattering from having heard enough through jobs.
Or: ”do I need to add another ue? How many was it again?”
It was originally queueueueueue but even the English found that excessive, so they deued it a skosh.
Clr
There is also Cue which might be where they get confused (Edit: Ahh someone has said this sorry)
Ireland sounds like a great time XD
Absolutely worth the trip. Just have to be chill and relax a bit. Everything takes time. The food is good, the drink is good, and they have ancient historical stuff everywhere.
Warning: I was in a hotel in Dublin. I woke early and decided to go find us some local breakfast. I walked out on the steps and paused for a second to decide which way to go. It was cold AF and lightly raining, the sun was peaking out just a bit.
The concierge was outside, and they called out to a Guarda walking by:
Concierge: It’s a beautiful day out Guarda: Ay, you don’t see many of these.
I put it at just barely above miserable. Then it hit me, that’s why they’re famous for drinking. :)
The weather wasn’t always awful, though.
Looks like weather is gonna get shittier too because AMOC is weakening
Yeah, I worry about the whole of northern Europe.
Sheesh, guess I gotta move to Ireland
That would be like bringing coal to Newcastle! We need more whimsy in the US. Obviously!
Guess I gotta kidnap a bunch of Irish people and traffic them to the US, then 🤷
You’d probably have to traffic them alright in because not many would get through immigration with their social media history…
What are you supposed to wear to avoid attention there?
From my experience, anything you wear has the possibility to be mocked so just roll within it. If it’s funny enough buy the instigator a beer.
That’s how I had some good nights in Ireland when I was 21, of what I can recall that is. Its a wee bit hazy for some reason.
Something absolutely outrageous like a pink jacket or a boa, a big flashy hat or pants with the cheeks cutout.
No one will say a thing because all the Irish people will be flopping around on the floor having seizures trying to spit out whatever thing they wanted to say.
I think this is unironically the correct answer. If you are blatantly attention-seeking, it kind of robs the Irish person of their ammo.
Something absolutely outrageous like a pink jacket or a boa, a big flashy hat or pants with the cheeks cutout.
So basically “Only Gay in the Village” Little Britain cosplay with a hat?
Trying to avoid attention will probably only draw attention
Look at this lad here trying to avoid attention!
Fashion: Sometimes it’s in
Sometimes it’s out
A timeless burn.
I’d laugh along with all of them
Notions
Damn those guys have the same first and middle name.
Skalds be ruthless.
