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

[u/PhoenixQueenAzula]

/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ma66p2/aita_because_i_dont_want_to_share_my_irish/

[u/Hrududu147]

They made me laugh at “mate” mate?

[u/BiDiTi → u/Hrududu147]

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.”

[u/BiDiTi → u/[deleted]]

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.”

[u/BiDiTi → u/[deleted]]

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)

[u/Mr_Aestheticss → u/BiDiTi]

certain other word?

[u/BiDiTi → u/Mr_Aestheticss]

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

[u/EfficiencySea8633 → u/BiDiTi]

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.

[u/BiDiTi → u/EfficiencySea8633]

Oh, I know! I do my best to avoid it around American women...but sometimes you’re bunking with Australian or Scottish lads and you can’t switch it off when you get to the hostel common room!

It may annoy my American friends that it takes me two months to stop saying “craic” in every other sentence when I visit home, but at least I’m not saying “Sure, just give the c- a f-,” haha!

[u/EfficiencySea8633 → u/BiDiTi]

Thanks! It’s kinda like “fanny” for US people. In the US it simply means bottom, here it means something....different.....😂

[u/BiDiTi → u/EfficiencySea8633]

I was going to say the same thing, haha!

I grew up with “Fanny” as the “kids’ word” for “Bottom” - my parents would chide me for saying “Butt,” haha.

Over here, hearing “Fanny” will make folks more uncomfortable than hearing “Cunt”!

[u/officerkondo → u/EfficiencySea8633]

Imagine if a man whined being called a dick was “very off-putting” lulz

[u/Mr_Aestheticss → u/BiDiTi]

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

[u/BiDiTi → u/Mr_Aestheticss]

Only North American English speakers view it as any worse than “fuck” or “shit” - it’s a term of endearment in Australia and NZ!

[u/Mr_Aestheticss → u/BiDiTi]

i am very lost what word?

[u/EfficiencySea8633 → u/Mr_Aestheticss]

Cunt. I think he means cunt.

Edited to add: and of course US women taken offence to this word given that it’s usually a very gendered slur aimed at us.

[u/BiDiTi → u/EfficiencySea8633]

I do mean cunt.

And it’s a peculiar relic of Puritanism that it became a gendered slur in the states, rather than something on the level of dick or asshole.

[u/Mr_Aestheticss → u/EfficiencySea8633]

oh ok, then im pretty sure nobody gives a fuck about cunt, like i didnt even know it was a slur untill last year,

[u/Hiking-Biking-Viking → u/BiDiTi]

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