Thursday 23 May, 2013
RECENTLY ON REDDIT somebody posed a question to US expats living in Ireland as to what struck them as different when they moved here.
From the way we eat the bit of dinner, to the way we reminisce about Italia ’90, to the way we like to drop the lámh when there’s a few drinks taken… it’s all here.
We can’t believe nobody mentioned the immersion though.
Source: Reddit
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Asked an American work colleague years ago “Would he like to go for a drink?”
He said “No thanks i’m not thirsty”
A guy I know got up to go outside for a cigarette in America and told the Americans he was with that he was away to smoke a fag. They looked terrified!
Don’t get me wrong, I love these articles as much as the next guy, but I wonder how many American’s noticed our strange obsession with reminiscing over the strange/odd quirks we have as a society. Like I said I do really like these articles and am in no way bashing it.
hahaha page 8 is deadly, ‘all body parts are up for grabs’
Irish people don’t like to be touched? A bit of a stretch maybe?
I mean, I don’t like to be molested, but I’m not a nun in an 1870’s cloister who blesses herself at the sight of an uncovered kneecap
Dont agree about Irish people not liking being touched, especially in comparison to Americans who have a large ‘personal zone’ in which one should not normally encroach.
Indeed it’s quite common to see younger Irish men greet each other with hugs and greet ladies with a peck on the cheek. We’re not ready for 2 pecks though.
I’m living in Buenos Aires at the moment. They are mad a for a kiss when they say hello men and women. At least it’s only one though!! Three???
But the problem is when you arrive to/leave a party and there are forty people to kiss hello/goodbye. Sometimes sneaking out is the best option : )
When I first went to the U.S in my early 20′s, I started work in a bar. The first thing I said to the old timers who walked in the door (being the friendly little Irish lass I was) was “Any Craic?”
I was met with nervous stunned silence for about 2 days before the penny dropped that I shouldn’t say that here …
But we use “college” the same way Americans do! What can they find confusing?!
I don’t get the knife/fork thing. I do that all the time. If I’m not using the knife to cut, I use the fork in the right hand to eat. I’ve never noticed Irish people doing that.
I heard the following explanation for the fork thing. Its supposed to date from the pioneer days in America when people were on the trail to the West. Sitting by the campfire with no table meant you held the place in one hand and ate with the fork with the other.
Having relatives in America and having been over there a few times, I’ve heard a few good ones by now- the time my cousin’s then girlfriend told everyone she was ‘dying for a fag’- and you can guess what they thought she meant!), the time my aunt asked Mum to ‘crack the window’ and Mum thought she literally meant break it, and the time one of my cousins, while visiting a school, exclaimed ‘Oh look at all the rubbers!’ (And rubbers don’t mean erasers over there!…)
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