51 thoughts on “Are You From Kerry?”

    1. Boj

      Bogger car = bogger roads
      A bogger car salesman I know finds it easy to sell Dub cars in the bog as mileage is usually much lower due to everything being close to everything up here.

      1. ivan

        yup, the aul fella used to jump thru an inordinate number of hoops to get a Dublin reg on the old Peugeot 305 back in the day…

        Course it was a dead giveaway it was a culchie car; twas a diesel….

        1. Boj

          Ha, I remember the 405 diesel especially being the car of choice for a while.
          Out of curiosity, how do they pronounce “Peugeot” in da cuntry?

          5. ivan

            per Andyourpointiswhatexactly – Pew Joe

            It is funny though – listening to old advertisements and it was pronounced as that here *always* but in the UK it was the Per Joe (with softer j sound)

          7. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

            Well Skoda is Schkoda but you don’t want to sound like a fuppnuts so you go with it, I guess.

          8. Daisy Chainsaw

            It was Hun-day for a while. The same way Nestlé (Ness-lay) was pronounced Nessels back in the 70s and Snickers was pronounced Ma-ra-thon.

  4. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

    My Dad had a car with a KY reg once. Said it meant he could drive like a total bumtwit and get away with it as people expected that kind of codarsery from a Kerryman.

    2. ivan

      Neighbour of ours doubled down on that; drove the DI reg Talbot to Dublin for a few weeks work and affixed L plates to be sure to be sure of courtesy from them rude Jackeens who think they own the roads….

  5. Joe835

    Why do we have a system where the county the car was first registered in has to stay on it forever? It’s so stupid! The government could make a ton of people switching plates to their own county.

    2. Andrew

      Well the government seem to do whatever our ‘motor industry’ asks; in the same way they do for vintners. Changing the reg. plate system was tSIMI’s idea and they changed it again to reflect different half’s of the year.
      I fully expect them to try and scupper the current trend of importing cars from the UK (unless you’re a dealer)

      1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

        Pronounced Lepp, for the uninitiated.
        They had Santy’s Leapland there this year. Hur de hur hur.

          1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

            Does it? Never heard that before. I’m always fascinated by those who claim to come from/are described as being from the Back of Leap. It seems to radiate out around 200 miles from the village.

          2. Otis Blue

            This is a fairly romanticized version

            https://roaringwaterjournal.com/2015/10/25/beyond-leap-beyond-the-law/

            I think the phrase largely referred to the fact that the British redcoats had little or no jurisdiction there in the 18th century.

            Up backa Leap (UBL for short) is a catch all term used to describe some of the non-touristy areas to the North and West of the village. It’s quite resonant, onomatopoeic even. A local place for local people, so to speak.

    2. Your grandfather

      ‘wierd’ or ‘weird’
      – check your spellchecher.

      This is your Weak End.
      Stop.

      These jokes white themselves.
      That’s all I’ll say.

  8. anne

    I noticed a logo on a crane hire van there yesterday..” full satisfaction with our erections”.. no word of a lie.

    1. Boj

      On the lower side of train there is a section called “isolation cock box”…makes me thing of my wife!

    2. Your grandfather

      You were dreaming.

      Seriously.
      – I’m no fan of Freud myself but if he was dishing out biscuits I think they would be called ‘anne’ and sold in individual packs.

      You know what I mean.
      I can be more stupider thhan you.

      I cho-cho-choose not to be.

        1. Boj

          How cruel it is for those suffering with stutters, having to say the word stutter.
          Whoever wrote the dictionary was evil!

    3. Donk

      A young fella in a souped up Mitsubishi colt in front of me recently. The back windscreen of his car was taken up with a huge sticker – the Mitsubishi symbol with MUFFUBUSHI above it

  9. A suburban terror.

    In a properly ‘fair’ jurisdiction any Kerry Car Reg would have a ‘Pint-Reg’, represented in pictures, just after the number bit.
    We have the technology, but no proper commitment…

    It would allow the Garda to figure out how far over the limit you were so he could let you off with it and save a lot of messing like having to write stuff down.

    1. A suburban terror.

      This compliment will be qualified, bitch
      Not tis one…
      Notify m.
      the one about Hillary
      Not by anything, just rhetoric.

      I’m not good at polemic

      Everybody knows there’s a masive explosion coming..
      Everybody fears it and wants it’s to be ‘ah yeah, donald Trump, hah, hah, hah.’ nd dimiss everythig.

      Ivanka knows nothing.
      She’s the one with most influence.

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