r/CasualIreland

What’s something uniquely Irish that people here completely take for granted, but visitors find fascinating?

Could be cultural habits, food, slang, pubs, scenery, weather, humour, small-town life, public transport chaos, random traditions — anything really.

I’ve noticed a lot of visitors seem fascinated by things locals barely even think about anymore, so I’m curious what people here would add to the list.

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u/Similar-Rutabaga5145 — 21 hours ago

Tune Thursday! (cheeky) in honour of our much loved u/JasonHasMyHeart69ed ❤️

Share your music!

What's been on your headphones this week? Wrecking the neighbour's head with something new old or anything inbetween?

I've always been desperate at finding new music, I usually have the same handful of playlists on repeat. Help me and the others like me expand their library and fix our musical mundanity!

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u/AutoModerator — 1 day ago

Lane in stay: markings road down-upside?

Does it drive anyone else bananas that the road markings painted on the roads are upside down in terms of word order? I believe that the theory is that you will read the words individually as you get closer to them, but realistically what happens is that having spent your entire life parsing text as being top-down, you end up doing the same for the road markings and then you have to unjumble them in your brain. What lunatic was responsible for this design decision?

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u/Mhulz — 1 day ago

Such a missed opportunity

was sitting in traffic today driving home from work with my colleague. We were sat in a spot for a few minutes waiting for a railway crossing to open and a woman was sitting in a car a facing the other way a little bit in front of us.

We kept looking at each other “while the other wasn’t looking” and even locked eyes for an extended amount of time no blinking no looking away, little smirk from both of us.

I’ve thought about it a couple times since and I know I’ll never see her again. I should have at least gestured with my hand for her phone number or something , if no, cool no problem, I feel like it would’ve been a yes though and a very funny way to get a number. Such a wasted opportunity for a free shot, fml.

Before anyone starts crying, I know it could be nothing but I wish I would have tried😭

Any chance you read this, woman in the car near the eastlink bridge at like 5:30, sup hahahahhah

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It's the age old question, tacos or gyros? Choose wisely...or choose both, we're not driving!

There's always the s'mores cake for the indecisive!

u/Artlistra — 2 days ago

Paul Simon playing tonight.

Absolutely love Paul Simon and would’ve loved to see him but I just can’t justify those ticket prices. Cheapest I saw at all was €176 when they initially went on sale and the only ones available are over €200. These are for terrible seats mind you. How did he almost sell out the 3 arena with these prices? How are people affording this.

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u/chlque126 — 2 days ago

Is anyone on 48 mobile been to Spain recently and was able to connect to mobile data?

I just came back from Spain for 3 days and my 48 sim was not able to connect at all. My phone kept refreshing sim and was intermittent between recognising the sim and not.

Was my first time outside Ireland to another EU country on 48 mobile and I thought all Irish sim cards are allocated a certain amount of EU data? I had no issue when I was with Three in Germany, Belgium, and France, although I didn't ​go to Spain that time.

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u/sphinxofblackquartzj — 2 days ago
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If we want to release a kind of own movie should we make comics first'

Hey guys , I've made up own superhero kind of story , and thinking by collecting some random people making a movie by animation and try make some money

But should I release first movie or comics, like i wasy thinking reverse psychology of people, first made craze and fanbase by movie, and then make comics .

Need your guys opinions 😅

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u/Marshmallow_030 — 2 days ago

It actually happened! The dad box for the win!

Lads it actually happened! Was sorting through various boxes, tins and jars of the accumulated crud that builds up over years of flat packs, DIY, mounting kits for things you don't need, millions of tiny packets of substandard screws and rawlplugs that wouldn't stand a chance in hell of hanging your TV on the wall but were included with the mount anyway, and came across some extra curtain pole brackets.

Thought ah sure I don't need them I may as well chuck them, sure the curtains are grand! But the dad guilt overcame me and I put them back in the box, potentially for my kids to find when I pass and they are clearing out my shed!

Yet low and behold this morning, open the sitting room curtains and boom! Down comes the curtain rail my kids are so fond of hanging off (the curtains hang down the back of the sofa, they sit on the back of the sofa and hold onto the curtains, it's been a source of grief for a while). So now off to my box of accumulated crap I do go to retrieve said curtain pole brackets and repair my house!

It's a massive dad win! A win for all dads everywhere! So you keep saving that crap! You keep filling that dad drawer then emptying it out into a box, then not dumping that box but finding a corner of the shed for it to stay for a decade or more JUST IN CASE! Cos that CASE has come for me!

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u/Healsnails — 3 days ago

Importing from Japan

Has anyone here ever imported a guitar in from Japan? I’m going to assume there’s an import fee added once it arrives

Does anyone know what the VAT% is for doing so?

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u/Fabulous-Elk-2014 — 2 days ago

Does anyone had long distance relationship with someone from NI or like from NI with someone from ROI? How did it work out?

I’m interested to continue seeing fella who I matched with on Hinge and we went on a date already but the distance is making me wonder. I feel like we really match each other’s energy and we could talk for hours which is both banter and also like get to know each other serious questions. I am invested but idk with the distance if I should invest further

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u/CollagenRager — 3 days ago

Men of Ireland, how do you date?

I know it’s gonna be subjective but how long do you spend time on talking stage, to first date to second date, etc to becoming exclusive? What is the general timeline?

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u/CollagenRager — 3 days ago

What’s the best ways you’ve heard someone bunk into a gig?

Well lads, what’s the best ways you’ve heard someone bunking into music events like croke park 3arena etc ? Have had some cracking stories of lads rocking up with the same coloured wristbands , security hi vis , people squishing through turnstiles and plenty of other cases

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u/Solid_Concept_1447 — 3 days ago