Ferg writes:
I’ve been in exile in London for 3 years – and something weird happened Friday two weeks ago apres Brexit. Not a single joke in the office about potatoes.
I paid it no mind. A full week past – nothing. Not even a “to be sure to be sure”.
Anyone else experiencing this most unsettling phenomenon?
Anyone?
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Maybe that terribly unfunny prick on the telly is out of vogue now.
They made the a$$holes you work with redundant?
I’d say there was a lot of shepish people there who no longer felt superior for making such an idiotic decision.
I’ve worked in an office with only people from England before and it was torture. All lager lout spas.
Now that you mention it, you’re right. No “Ahhh Be Gaire” impressions either, probably concerned about the fact they’re going to go back to being zero craic in 2 years when all the interesting people leave.
It’s Ah begorrah.
*kids today*
Ag gaire….
:)
maybe they’re heading over ‘ere to setup another square mile innit
:(
Or another Daily Mail innit ;)
…..an wif plenty of office space sitting dahn their very own Fleet St innit… its perfek…get aan the blower to Rupert pronto!
Maybe the rise of xenophobia in Britain after they voted out of the EU caused them to rethink this behaviour.
You should get a job somewhere else.
I’m in LONDON.
Validate me.
I will not!
Are you an Oyster card?
Oyster Cards, the only good idea Boris had… oh wait, that was Ken.
Boris had the free bikes, sponsored by the Barclay brothers
No, that was Ken too.
He lost the election just before they were rolled out and everyone calls them “Boris Bikes”.
And Boris bungled the funding/sponsorship of them too. And the garden bridge.
What did he actually achieve?!
Boris lived off Ken’s fumes.
Khan will not be able to do the same after Boris.
The London-centric media never picked up Boris over the whole thing. Too happy that he was providing gurning, bumbling copy for them to print.
If your English and white you are 90% likely to have had an Irish grand parent … Innit
You’re colleagues are bottomholes.
Why do you still work there?
I suspect its a change of behavior from people who think they may have to consider a move to Ireland soon enough..
Where are they gonna live though? pooholes with a pew taken from a derelict church used for a couch are not really what execs are into I dont think.
Do ye think, maybe just maybe they may have more serious concerns on their minds.
Or else, they are googling turnip jokes.
…maybe they are feeling bad about making your trips home more expensive…but look on the bright side…as an MEP, Nigel Farrage is paid in Euros …
So he’s just received an approx. 20% raise?
My favorite is when they feel obliged to put on an Irish accent when they speak to you, that never gets old.
Its all about refugees this week, you’ve dropped down the hate list and frankly, not that interesting any more.
Many of the brits have irish ancestry no doubt. You’ll end up marrying one?!! Hope job going well.
Iceland making them a world wide embarrassment maybe.
Yes, because of all the things that have happened in the UK recently, *that’s* the most embarrassing.
Actually… maybe…
Or if they be in financial services, they may very soon be moving, to Ireland.
They be in shock.
Plus the markets be shocking.
So they be stunned and shocked.
Not blaming the Irish.
The company might move here, but they won’t.
They’re all busy applying for citizenship due to their grandparents and worried you’ll black ball them?
They’re still saying it behind your back though, which is worse
After the events of Brexit, in China, there is a new saying
‘Behaving British’
It refers to immediate regret after someone does something
And also on Chinese social networks all netizens say that this generation of British really suck..
Goes to show English language evolves no matter where….
In China there is a new saying….. ‘Behaving British’ which refers to immediate regret after someone does something…
and funnily on Chinese social networks all netizens say that British of this generation really suck…
In China….interesting eh? English language evolves no matter where….
I lived in London for 14 years – I enjoy the odd Guinness, or twenty. However, I quickly identified an incoming “Guinness Conversation” by effusive English types, whilst ordering a drink in a bar. Having established that I was a real-life Irish type, the “I’ve been to Dublin, Guinness is so much better in Dublin, Guinness doesn’t travel well?”. I tended to extricate myself from further historically repetitive conversational activity, by saying, “Do you smell potato fertilizer?” – and then leave. It was,in hindsight a tad cruel, given that it was the 90s, It’s brewed in Park Royal, West London. 3 years in London, well done! ( I don’t mean to sound matronizing)! It’s a merciless city, but you know, it’s also a great city. The absence of potato jokes can also be viewed positively? The English types want to be Irish types post Brexit? Ferg – it’s clear you have friends on BS. Can you imagine what life was like being a penniless, Irish, newcomer to London in the 80s?
Apart from the lapse in potato jokes, is everything else okay?
You should call your mom, more often?
bad at memes?
Think you’re onto something there.
I thought memes/Catherine had changed their name to Mulder. Same stop/start incomprehensible gibberish.
I find Catherine quite lucid. Shayna and Memes are a fantastic brand of madness.
I don’t believe they are the same just like the same beverage.. chin chin
I can assure you, I’m a fantastic brand of madness in my own right. I am independently offering my own opinion, I’m not associated with Memes at all? Also, “Madness” – really?
I meant it as a compliment. Your comments are very entertaining. I like them. Apologies if I offended. I certainly didn’t mean to.
Similar style as Bad but better.
@classter
You know my style, short and sweet with a little alliteration
I write much betterer than what Shayna, does and without random, commas.
I also break my stuff up into paragraphs to make it, easier on the eye.
Catherine is a good friend of mine.
She writes her own comments too.
It’s not cause you are Irish love, nobody likes you.
@some old queen – yes, that may well be the case – however he’s the classic case of some-one who needs support , let down by his traditional resources in London, he has come to this forum of BS to be offerred support. My advice, Ferg – go to your local Irish Centre in London, they’ll direct you to a Priest/ Irish Support Officer who can help you. I’m an Atheist, but, historically RC – If you need direction Fergus, believe me there’s kinda no solution in the New Testament. Just live, as I do – I believe in Karma, Yin and Yang – just be nice to everyone you meet. It may sound a tad wishy washy, however, that’s my code!
Sorry Shayna and Ferg that was just a play on an old bitchy gay joke, nothing meant by it. It’s not homophobia love, nobody likes you etc.
I think perhaps because of all the nasty stuff that has been said in England some people are going in the opposite direction and reflecting on their own attitudes or at least being more careful not to offend, which is a good thing of course.
I worked in Park Royal and never knew there was a brewery in it BTW. It certainly didn’t stink like the one in Dublin.
https://youtu.be/xGa4X4nLovo
Retarded self obsessed paddy o’nanism
At least they were interested in you before
worked there for a year in 2006 and not one Irish slur was made by coworkers
What d’ya expect Joe, working in the Irish embassy.
construction industry actually
Well they wouldn’t dare. You might push them off the scaffolding, accidently like, after your feed of spuds.
I’m a Londoner living in Ireland since I was 18 and I have been called everything under the sun everyday but i know it’s meant in jest and it bothers me not
Let’s move on people ffs
Nicely said, I’m Irish but when I speak in Dublin, I’m regarded as having an English accent, in Belfast, a Dublin accent , in London I’m perceived as being either American or Australian? There are clearly a lot of xenophobic idiots out there.
Not forgetting being mis-identified as Dutch and also Swedish. I’m a blonde 6ft 2ins woman. It’s not easy being tall. Ferg, I think you’ve probably identified that the commenters here are entirely sympathetic to your lapse in potato jokes. I haven’t heard a potato joke in ages, tell me one that offended you – I promise I won’t blush!
I can hear your accent now. Christ it’s unbearable.
Or you’re Mike Yarwood.
Absolutely…. Sure wasn’t it yesterday on Broadsheet some awful person was calling Fallon & Byrne shoppers “West Brits”…. An abominable, bigoted term…..
I don’t get the accent thing? My accent is clearly affected by where I lived, and how I worked over the years.
West Brits? I’d never heard that term until New Year’s Eve in Bun Béag, circa 1990s,.My brother, along with his mates from Jordanstown UUJ were rounded up by the Gardaí because someone in the pub (as gaelige) found the Belfast accents to be disturbing? I have to admit that I’m not a great fan of the Belfast accent, but I wouldn’t go all Donegal on it and call the Guards?
I’m fine with the term West Brits but I’m not sure why Fallon & Byrne shoppers would be West Brits.
Then it is possible that you are a west brit.
The problem with accents is that we all only hear what is different not what is the same. Of course what someone says is way more important than how they say it, but it is human nature to sound people out.
I find some of the east Europeans who have been here a long time to be quite funny myself. Surface level is Irish and then something queer pops out and you mentally go ‘huh’? Likewise if you lived in London for a long time, you will tend to speak what appears here to be ‘posh’.
my own war office (mother in
law) does this really oddball thing….whenever she’s talking to someone from say Spain, Poland etc she’ll go into this weird slow and v.loud mode of speech dropping words like “the” from sentences…gas stuff the bint :)
You have to be pretty backward to think that the London accent is posh.
I live in the UK and get this too!
The majority of that kind of slaging is good natured, you always get the odd donkeyhole no matter where you go, but i digress.
Your friends are probably too busy crapping their pants.
If you feel vindictive, just open xe.com and proclaim in a proud and happy voice “bejaysis lads have ye seen the exchange rate with euro ? Tis shockin so it is” and then cackle loudly like the pirate you are :)
Could be worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTObCKSkaBs
Thanks for that RunDemCrew.
Interesting