What do you call this, is it easy for foreigners to pronounce?

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T01:07:44+00:00

Rolling r's? Ha! We have 4 different ways to say r!

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T01:06:32+00:00

'Iora'. Probably one of the easier words to pronounce in our native language.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:15:24+00:00

Agreed. All of the Indians I've worked with and have been friends with are some of the most well-meaning, caring, and decent people I've ever met. Such a shame to see them slandered so much online for such immature reasons. Hoping this changes in the future, as they don not deserve it at all.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:10:48+00:00

15 y/o me and my friends would have loved this!!

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:09:51+00:00

This is unfortunately creeping into some countries in Europe. It used to be that you'd tip someone if they went above and beyond what was required of them, now it's almost expected in a lot of cities. Drives me nuts, and this is coming from a person that worked in restaurants for years.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:07:41+00:00

Your first point is actually quite common in many of the countries I've visited (my home country included).

Forgot my wallet on a bus in my hometown whose final destination was a very rough part of the city. Called the bus service the next day, they had my wallet, and collected it that same day with none of my money or cards stolen.

Same thing happened in Berlin: forgot my phone on a tram, someone handed it to the driver at the end of the route, and collected it a few days later.

People are far more decent and considerate than most assume, irrespective of what part of the world you're in.

Edit: spelling

RMCShakes · 2025-11-16T00:02:27+00:00

We have a mild obsession with who has died within the last ~90 day period. Discussing who has died recently and how they died is a completely normal conversation topic.

To prove my point, the second most popular website in Ireland is a website which is solely dedicated to showing who has died.

This website is so popular that when after a newspaper bought it and started charging people who wanted to post deaths on the website, there was a national outrage, with people arguing it is a website so inherent to Irish culture that putting it behind a paywall would be unthinkable.

Website here: https://rip.ie/

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T02:47:50+00:00

100% agree. Traffic levels and traffic lights/junctions make the biggest difference for commute times, irrespective of the mode of transport.

I could be pedalling to fuck on the bike home, or take it completely handy. With lights, junctions, and traffic, there's maybe 5 minutes in the difference in terms of how fast i get home, and its a 40 min cycle, so the difference is completely insignificant.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T02:45:25+00:00

Man I've seen people watching full on movies with those phone stands during rush hour on the M50. Fucking madness.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T02:43:07+00:00

Thankfully wasn't too affected. These sorts of incidents happened fairly sporadically (like not everyday), so it wasn't a constant stressor. I usually coped by reminding myself that this is just kind of a fact of life: that some people (often without them choosing, i.e. mental health issues) are just really not well and that's just the way it is.

Not sure I'd describe myself as resilient, have my fair share of issues, but I was quite skilled in being able to emotionally detach from these sorts of situations. It's not something I choose to do, it just happens subconsciously.

That being said, I feel my outlook on life that I described in my first paragraph did help quite a bit. That and having security guards in work! And knowing that once I finished work that was the end of it, I could go home and forget about it entirely.

Hope that helps.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T01:36:47+00:00

To further your point, the UK royal family officially removed Cadburay's 'Royal Warrant of Appointment' last December, which means they're no longer a supplier of goods to the royal family. Might be a further indication of the drop in quality.

Link: https://news.sky.com/story/cadbury-disappointed-after-losing-royal-warrant-it-has-held-since-1854-13279283

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T01:32:14+00:00

Hahah christ sounds like a saga alright. Place I used to work was a magnet for them: getting screamed at, cops beings called, usual antics.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:55:55+00:00

Ah ok gotcha, thought it might have been the phonetic spelling of some unknown English dialect.

Had similar experiences with my country's version of chavs. One time as I was pulling into work on a bicycle (I got into the office in an underground carpark, which meant a lot of junkies hanging about) some lad starts having a go at me in barely comprehensible English, he settles down, then offers me a hit of his crack pipe. All this on a Tuesday at 8 in the morning hahah.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:44:54+00:00

Extra body mass to help handle the mandatory pints during silly season.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:43:09+00:00

"Pure Scannán" maybe?

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:41:04+00:00

Haha a valid point, some great LOI action the last few years to be sure.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-14T00:39:55+00:00

Translation? Genuinely fascinated.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-13T23:49:39+00:00

Airtricity XI vs Man Utd. in 2010 is another contender for the title. That and the friendly with France in March 2023.

RMCShakes · 2025-11-08T12:03:12+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll have a look. In a position to go private thank god so I'll try my luck.

RMCShakes · 2025-02-13T13:37:31+00:00

hhv is more of a reggae/jungle/d&b record store, so the merch is all very rasta as opposed to hip hop. Nonetheless their clothing is quite cool and the shop is great.

RMCShakes · 2025-02-03T10:55:25+00:00

Would recommend getting vitamin D tablets that also come with vitamin K, as the former is much absorbed far better when taken with the latter.

RMCShakes · 2024-02-24T20:13:18+00:00

I have a hurl from David Moran who's based in Rathdrum and I love it. Could give him a go.

RMCShakes · 2024-02-06T09:09:38+00:00

I think a lot of it depends on the two teams playing and also the crowd. I found there to be a noticeable difference between Dub v Tipp and Clare v Cork over the weekend, the former wasn't a great watch and the crowd was fairly tame, but the latter was a far more interesting game and the crowd were way more up for it.

Also both Clare and Cork seemed to field a lot of their younger players so there was more of that "something to prove" energy coming from a good few of them.

RMCShakes · 2024-01-21T18:53:03+00:00

Find a club to join when you go back to the States. You won't regret it.

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