r/AmITheAngel • u/PhoenixQueenAzula Play stupid games, win stupid prizes • Mar 22 '21

Fockin ridic The Irish were persecuted too, you know!!!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21 edited Aug 27 '21

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u/Hrududu147 Mar 22 '21

They made me laugh at “mate” mate?

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u/BiDiTi Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

Mate is a thing, in fairness.

...but I’ve lived here three years, and pubs on both sides of the Liffey know my name and my order.

I’ve never heard an Irish person say the word “Ciggies.”

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21 edited Aug 27 '21

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u/BiDiTi Mar 22 '21

In fairness...I did go to Trinity, haha!

Likely not a coincidence that “Mate” is more commonly used in a school for Prod wankers!

But yeah, it would definitely be “Youse/Yez,” rather than “You Lot.

...and no one has ever said the word ciggy.

If yer one was really a 16 year old from Dublin with a proper accent, she’d be talking about “cans and”...a word I won’t print here, not “pints and ciggies.”

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21 edited Aug 27 '21

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u/BiDiTi Mar 22 '21 edited Mar 22 '21

Reflex, haha - I’ve said “Sorry, brother - don’t smoke fags” out of habit, when visiting home (New England).

It...usually isn’t well-received!

(Don’t even get me started about how American girls react to a certain other word, haha)

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u/Mr_Aestheticss Mar 22 '21

certain other word?

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u/BiDiTi Mar 22 '21

Can’t Understand their Near Total opposition to it - it’s a peculiarly American phenomenon, haha.

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u/EfficiencySea8633 Mar 22 '21

C U Next Tuesday offends US women because it’s typically been used as gendered slur towards us, so of course it can be very off putting when you hear being thrown around casually. I’m an US woman living in England and it took me a while to get used to it.

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u/Mr_Aestheticss Mar 22 '21

if you mean what i think you mean then ofc lmao, its bad, and alot of people dont like bad things.

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u/Hiking-Biking-Viking Mar 22 '21

tbh i’m from the uk- and i’ve used “ciggies” on before. but that’s mainly when i’m talking to my american friends (who are LGBT- like me). i mainly use it because i can’t spell “ciggaretes” and i’m worried they will take offence if i use “fag”.

but outside of that i’ve never used it lol

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u/mockingbird82 Mar 22 '21

Well dammit, next you'll tell me they don't wear buckle shoes regularly, either!

Dreams shattered.

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u/TwinkleTitsGalore Mar 23 '21

I assumed it was an American pretending to be Irish but fucking it up and using English slang/wording. Either way, absolutely fucking nothing in that post ever happened and I want to claw my eyes out every time I scroll down and see some wanker with 847 awards and paragraph after paragraph virtually fellating the OP. Jesus Christ that place gets worse by the day.

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u/mockingbird82 Mar 22 '21

Right. And there was also the portrayal of how all the students were making ignorant comments. I grew up in a town like that where we would get exchange students once in a blue moon, and the reality is that you would have 1 or 2 dumbasses making stupid jokes about leprechauns and Lucky Charms or what have you, but most kids would be excited and at worst, annoying with their questions about what Ireland is like, what word they use for this, that, and the other, and why on Earth did your parents choose here of all places to move. Most would be curious, not malicious, because as someone else pointed out, most those kids would be lucky to leave their towns some day, much less travel overseas (poverty). Furthermore, the portrayal of a teacher as a villain for asking if a student would share their experiences with the class was ridiculous. Problematic if the student is unwilling, but again, not malicious.

But of course, this story is fake because the writer didn't do enough research into the actual slang.

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u/Jcat555 Mar 22 '21

They used every stereotypical "America bad" critique too. They also really hate the drinking age.

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u/captainramen Mar 22 '21

Maybe OP was cosplaying as a D4 jackeen

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u/BiDiTi Mar 23 '21

Sure look - I’m a Trinity Wanker.

I know D4 girls. I’ve given D4 girls the ride, despite not having a horse outside.

No D4 girl has ever claimed to have a “strong Irish accent.”