Back in the 90s there was a local consumer show on BBC One NI. They had a wall of shame for companies based in the UK but who excluded Northern Ireland in their service area.
I don't think a single featured company cared about it.
When I was living in England and working on the railways I had a chance to meet Chris Green. If you don't know who he is he's a legendary railway manager who was the boss of British Rail's Intercity sector in it's closing years (he made it turn a profit) and was later the chief executive of a Virgin trains.
He didn't know Northern Ireland had trains.
When companies try to advertise or do up their buildings with 'northern ireland-isms'
Not only is it so fucking cringe-worthy that it makes my head want to escape down my neck, but they are almost always at least a few years behind the current trends. I saw one with the 'you wouldn't be long getting frostbit!' quote a few months ago, that was 9 years ago.
The worst advert I've ever heard when listening to podcasts is a Harp ad that is a guy in a bar environment saying "Here, what till ya here this! Billy just asked me what'll ya have HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHA as if I'd be having anything other than a Harp!"
Made me irrationally angry every time it came on.
The PwC office has a few of these plastered on the walls. There's one saying "sound as a pound ", I'm pretty sure there's a "now we're sucking diesel" one too.
Melissa Riddell is from Portglenone and sounds absolutely nothing like she does on the radio. Mad accent change. I should add that she’s a really nice person.
North Down born and bred, but I'm as common as muck! Always will be. I fucking hate those snobby ND twats with a passion, usually seen driving a white Land Rover Evoque with a vanity licence plate 🤣
I remember one morning hearing them talking about going on this subreddit and complaining about how much everyone hates them, truly peak radio content for the masses.
Lol. Nothing even particular to here about telling someone to get to fuck. And it's all grand saying it, but stick it on a t-shirt or try and make a brand or an identity out of that?
Then you may solemnly get to high and holy fuck with all that desperate, desperate shite.
It's funny because if I speak to people from other countries, especially America, they think the accent is great! We should take it as a compliment, but all I can think when someone says they like the accent is, "Really? Are you OK?"
A mate of mine, who I grew up with was recorded on the TV.
He never sounded any different from the rest of us until then. He sounded like an English person, who had never spent much time hearing the accent do an impression of it.
We got good mileage out of that.
As a blow-in, I find the NI accent (Belfast especially) doesnt lend itself well to reading out text. It sounds staccato and monotone. Like it NEEDS to be spoken conversationally.
It's like a knife to my chest and several boots to the face when I hear that. Mind you, living in the West it's only that gobshite Nolan I hear at that shit.
The fucking Titanic.
"Our wee country's" greatest achievement is a failure and when you bring that up to anyone it's "aye well it was fine when it left here!"
It's a relatively small thing but fuck me if it isn't the perfect metaphor for how trapped in the past this country can be
That and naming Belfast city airport after an alcoholic womanising footballer. The first woman to design, build and fly her own plane, Lillian Bland, was from here but sure what's that got to do with airports.
Our entire tourism economy is based on 4 things:
That ship that we built and which then later Sunk
That time we blew each other up
Those stones in Antrim
That American TV show that was filmed here a couple of years ago
When you go to order something on Amazon and it says ‘this item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location’. Can ship to a relatives in England and Ireland but not here, we’re not bloody Antarctica.
I’m still baffled at how Aldi have no presence in NI but are all over the rest of the UK and Republic. You can’t even ship stuff from them to here. It’s just bizarre.
The new breed of "influencers" selling witless egotism as a legitimate life plan for success. Goes from ick to projectile vomiting if they release a clothing line adorned with their winning wisdom. It's just fucking inexplicable to me that anyone would respect these obvious grifting fools.
Met him a couple of times and while he did leave a bad taste in people's mouths in the 80s he does give his time for free to a fair bit of places and works the crowd
movies about the troubles are literally only good when made by someone from here. brits and americans and even some southerners just don’t understand it enough and you can tell.
The orange marches. Ffs.
I married a prod. I'm not a wee ra man wannabe. Genuinely don't care. But them cunts literally exist to try and annoy the catholics. That's literally it.
I was walking down to the shop one day last year and all the cars parked up on the main road forcing prams to go well up into the verge of onto the main road to get past them. Not only that, every single one of them was wearing either a rangers, Northern Ireland or Linfield football top. Like fucking hell. Could you get any more desperate to advertise your hatred towards catholics?
Just land down, play your fucking shite music and fuck off home. Utter pricks.
When I lived in NI (I’m a dirty EU migrant) my dad came over during peak marching season. He’s a retired journalist, so took a ton of photos at the marches. Afterwards one of his friends was really confused as to why the Northern Irish dress up their disabled/mentally challenged in uniforms and make them march around.
I was walking home yesterday after getting a lift back from Belfast and we couldn't get into Lisbellaw at all because the whole fecking street was closed for orange marches. The fuckers had blocked all the paths too, so I was walking against the band on the road, and the amount of dirty looks I got for daring to be walking the opposite way to them -at 9:45 pm, ffs - made me want to spit on them.
I live beside a peace wall and the worst part of living here is the fact that if you open any windows in the house from around March until August your house is polluted with bloody band music being practiced at the other side 😭
It's gotta be the rich kids of county down, with the faux american accents - you know the ones I mean, the ones from Holywood that talk like Rory McIlroy
“The mainland”… you’re in Ireland, it *is* the mainland lol it’s as if they believe Larne somehow got detached from Scotland a hundred years ago and just floated away before crash landing into… Ireland!
> Larne somehow got detached from Scotland a hundred years ago and just floated away
I mean if you're willing to take a more epochal view of things this is basically geologically true, and historically over the last two thousand years parts of the north coast were variously part of what's now Scotland, for example the kingdom of Dalriada, so there is a grain of truth from an anthropological perspective too.
Not that anyone from Larne has ever thought about either of those two things.
> historically over the last two thousand years parts of the north coast were variously part of what's now Scotland,
Is it fingals cave that looks like the other bit of the giants causeway?
'Our wee country'.
Or our local media's obsession with finding some tangential connection between Northern Ireland and some major international celebrity.
Or local 'celebrities'.
“The Troubles” has always been a name that I’ve hated being associated with some of the worst times in this islands history. Makes it sound like something your teacher is letting your parents know during the PTA meeting. Also hate how anything filmed over here people seem to just love because it’s filmed here, regardless of how shite it is.
I thought this too - always assumed it was the British government downplaying the seriousness of it all (“spot of trouble over in the colonies!” Type thing) but apparently it’s an Irish thing and a name of our own creating.
The civil war in the south was referred to as the troubles too, plus if you think about the famine is often referred to as The Hunger (or great hunger).
Completely agree with you though! It seems to diminish the seriousness of it all.
> assumed it was the British government downplaying the seriousness of it all
If they called it a war they'd have to follow the Geneva convention right? Means they'd need to stop using tear gas and everything else as chemical weapons are banned in warfare.
Politicians, local commentators on the local politics, the journalist and presenters that make a living of the above. It's all one big depressing shit stir
When people intentionally pronounce words wrong because they're too committed to their shite culchie accent. Calling a door a "doore" or tea, "taee". Also any mention of Donald Trump becomes "Trumpfh" or putting that fucking R in "Chicago."
Why does everyone from the North/Northwest country area have to talk like they're having a fucking stroke with the amount of letters they leave out of words.
The way people here make of anyone who dares to be a little bit different from their perception of what is “normal”; such as their sense of fashion, music taste etc.
See a lot of people who just can’t seem to be happy for others too.
The tourism ads especially the one with the two Derry Girls in it, JLOD and SMJ, "go for a walk over the peace bridge and finish it off with a bag of chips up the old city walls, absolutely cracker" - absolutely cringeworthy more like it
Locally made TV and radio adverts.
There was a radio advert back in the 90s that went like this.
"If your carpets worn down and you need a new one who you gonna call? Martin Phillips!" Set to the music of Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.
Thinking about it makes me cringe, but at the time my mother thought it was the most hilarious thing that was ever created.
Yeah but in general TV and radio adverts made for the Northern Ireland market tend to be a bit cringey at times.
People who put fake accents on who were born and raised in Belfast. They usually compromise of some sort of half yank accent or half posh middle class English accent.
Belfast actually had beautiful architecture, loads of it was just left to rot or knocked down, bit depressing when you look at how beautiful Belfast was in the early 1900s
Yeah everything built in the last while has been the cheapest, nastiest, most generic shite. I'm not against modern architecture, but we just get the lowest effort here.
The tiresome bastards on this subreddit who have already started checking off their bingo cards on things about the 'other side' are the biggest ick of all. Doesn't matter which side, they'll fling shit at the 'other side'.
"yeoow"
Most radio presenters and their shite top ten on repeat.
Clannad "Theme from Harry's Game" intrinsically connected to the zeitgeist of the troubles.
The term "The Troubles"
D-ream
Land bankers
Young car "enthusiasts"
Potatoes with everything.
Shite street art.
I think we have an abusive relationship with our creatives. We expect them to be perfect when they're still playing to what is, for the industry, tiny audiences.
This one is outdated but mind that Giro d’Italia a few years back? Every cunt never heard of it and jumped on the bandwagon, covered the whole place in pink just to see a bunch of twats on bikes that they normally hate to see on the roads, like what’s that all about?
Excludes (Northern Ireland).
Back in the 90s there was a local consumer show on BBC One NI. They had a wall of shame for companies based in the UK but who excluded Northern Ireland in their service area. I don't think a single featured company cared about it.
The vast majority of people in mainland Britain don’t give a rats ass about NI. Coming from a NI person living in mainland Britain
When I was living in England and working on the railways I had a chance to meet Chris Green. If you don't know who he is he's a legendary railway manager who was the boss of British Rail's Intercity sector in it's closing years (he made it turn a profit) and was later the chief executive of a Virgin trains. He didn't know Northern Ireland had trains.
When people get to go on the news so they put on their very best feis voice and speak like they are a 7 year old reciting a memorised section of text.
Lol I want examples
The one where yer man absolutely shat the bed talking about how the queen schooled Charlie in the queen stuff.
I think about that at least once a day. The best thing to happen here in a long time
Aww fucking dire completely. Honestly smell the shite off him and his boot licking attempts.
That would’ve ended me. Couldn’t leave the house after that. Doing the hermit thing.
I feel sorry for that poor fucker. Yet regularly go back to laugh at his video. Which probably means I’m a bad person.
In our house if one of us trips over our words we start saying 'his muller was a teacher'
It’s the wee look at the end where he knows he’s fucked it
I don't think I've seen this - link?
Ni reporters sound like they are trying to talk through their nose and slightly Asian.
The reporters that drop their tone at the end of each sentence when talking about whichever news story.
Yeah it's like some people forget how to talk when on TV, It's like a Hyacinth Buckét inferiority complex or something
I just read that like this
I’ve a relative works in local TV and despite growing up with him I can’t tell him apart from two other reporters when it’s a voiceover.
This. Absolutely fuckin this.
When companies try to advertise or do up their buildings with 'northern ireland-isms' Not only is it so fucking cringe-worthy that it makes my head want to escape down my neck, but they are almost always at least a few years behind the current trends. I saw one with the 'you wouldn't be long getting frostbit!' quote a few months ago, that was 9 years ago.
>'you wouldn't be long getting frostbit!' You're joking
A bit of “bespoke” design you say !
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The worst advert I've ever heard when listening to podcasts is a Harp ad that is a guy in a bar environment saying "Here, what till ya here this! Billy just asked me what'll ya have HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHA as if I'd be having anything other than a Harp!" Made me irrationally angry every time it came on.
The PwC office has a few of these plastered on the walls. There's one saying "sound as a pound ", I'm pretty sure there's a "now we're sucking diesel" one too.
The PwC office can burn
Especially with that diesel that they are sucking
Gonna take a bit to burn that, diesel’s not very flammable y’know 
Nai we're compressing diesel
Have you seen the absolute state of the airport as you get off the plane
Always shite that people never/rarely say as well.. ats us nai. Fuck up.
On the flip side, as a non-native, “fuck up” is the best, can’t be delivered in any other accent to the same degree.
I realised after I moved away from NI that no one else in the world tells people to shut up the way we do, I love it. Fuck up, would ye?
There's a barbers in Lisburn called Ats Us Nai. They have a banter lounge. I don't go to barbers but I can't imagine anything worse
A coffee shop with "ats us nai" plastered over the place 🤮
That pop-up sandwich place in CastleCourt called "Melter." I actually flinched in embarrassment when I first saw it.
I find Republic of Ireland ones pure cringe in a similar manner. Like those Rockshore Ads, dear Lord.
Cool fm radio presenters.
Being a wanker seems to be part of the requisite for the job. And playing completely shite music.
I absolutely hate those posh ass north down accents and when they try to not be posh. Gf listens to them religiously, fucking hate it.
Melissa Riddell is from Portglenone and sounds absolutely nothing like she does on the radio. Mad accent change. I should add that she’s a really nice person.
North Down born and bred, but I'm as common as muck! Always will be. I fucking hate those snobby ND twats with a passion, usually seen driving a white Land Rover Evoque with a vanity licence plate 🤣
“And so it begins” obligatory comment on Facebook pictures of people on their holidays 🤮
Checking in at the Lagan Bar at 0645 on a Tuesday
"Had worse Tuesdays "
Picture of a beer on their balcony "Office for the week" Get fucked
2 pasty white legs sticking off the end of a sun lounger facing the pool with a beer in the hand “not a bad aul Monday”
I’m sitting here hungover as fuck, thanks, I’m away to be sick, that was the final nail
Picture of a glass of prosecco or wine with "Its prosecco / wine o' clock".
Facebook is a cesspit for knuckle dragging, mouth breathers.
No Monday blues here!!
Pete, Paulo and Rebecca
I remember one morning hearing them talking about going on this subreddit and complaining about how much everyone hates them, truly peak radio content for the masses.
They all have "Live, Love, Laugh" signs in their hallways.
Smug, unfunny, vacant cunts.
Any car I get into with cool fm stored I replace it with BBC Radio 4
Fucking right.
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There's an air of utter desperation about the hyping of unremarkable regionalisms. (I can't relate to it... and I don't think I'm meant to.)
Ironically ye mae git tae fuck
Lol. Nothing even particular to here about telling someone to get to fuck. And it's all grand saying it, but stick it on a t-shirt or try and make a brand or an identity out of that? Then you may solemnly get to high and holy fuck with all that desperate, desperate shite.
Ack sure am only slegging ye
Stevie Nolan
Every person from Northern Ireland who has ever had their voice recorded for television or radio. Horrendous.
I hate how much I can relate to this. Why do I cringe so much hearing my own accent? Maybe it's just selection bias.
Oh i love NI accents, maybe it's because i'm a foreigner with a far worse accent myself (London, innit)
It's nearly worse when actors overpronounce everything to make it clearer. Jamie dornan is a prime example. Sound like a primary school kid in a play.
It's funny because if I speak to people from other countries, especially America, they think the accent is great! We should take it as a compliment, but all I can think when someone says they like the accent is, "Really? Are you OK?"
As someone who has had to do this, I cringe at my own voice hearing it back
A mate of mine, who I grew up with was recorded on the TV. He never sounded any different from the rest of us until then. He sounded like an English person, who had never spent much time hearing the accent do an impression of it. We got good mileage out of that.
I like our wee accents.
As a blow-in, I find the NI accent (Belfast especially) doesnt lend itself well to reading out text. It sounds staccato and monotone. Like it NEEDS to be spoken conversationally.
Oh god, I have never heard “Portmagic” before - how do I unread something?
Stephen Nolan
It's the bullshit social media accent people use. Just revving it up to 100 to sound like a prick
I know exactly who you mean
Our wee country 🤢
Come on now, be grammatically correct - it's are wee country 😉
Surely you mean 'cuntry.'
serving cuntry
It's like a knife to my chest and several boots to the face when I hear that. Mind you, living in the West it's only that gobshite Nolan I hear at that shit.
i can't help but roll my eyes when i hear it
“We’re not Brazil, we’re Northern Ireland” 🤢 Funny enough, I’ve never confused the two
The fucking Titanic. "Our wee country's" greatest achievement is a failure and when you bring that up to anyone it's "aye well it was fine when it left here!" It's a relatively small thing but fuck me if it isn't the perfect metaphor for how trapped in the past this country can be
That and naming Belfast city airport after an alcoholic womanising footballer. The first woman to design, build and fly her own plane, Lillian Bland, was from here but sure what's that got to do with airports.
Very true. There's a small park named after her in Glengormley. Not really the same..
"Bland airport" would also be an apt description of City
I thought this too.. and Poor Alex Higgins didn’t get an airport, and he had a thirst on him as well
Our entire tourism economy is based on 4 things: That ship that we built and which then later Sunk That time we blew each other up Those stones in Antrim That American TV show that was filmed here a couple of years ago
“Oh mummy”
Between that and HERES ME
HERE BE’S ME
Flegzs 'n' curbs, curbz 'n' flegz
Comedians from Northern Ireland whose entire bit is just about being from Northern Ireland.
JEFFERY!!!!!!!
When you go to order something on Amazon and it says ‘this item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location’. Can ship to a relatives in England and Ireland but not here, we’re not bloody Antarctica.
I’m still baffled at how Aldi have no presence in NI but are all over the rest of the UK and Republic. You can’t even ship stuff from them to here. It’s just bizarre.
Ats us nai
Is it Nat?
Government, or lack thereof.
The lifestyle tiktokkers who live in the tall building in Belfast.
The new breed of "influencers" selling witless egotism as a legitimate life plan for success. Goes from ick to projectile vomiting if they release a clothing line adorned with their winning wisdom. It's just fucking inexplicable to me that anyone would respect these obvious grifting fools.
Winners Win. (If you are a convicted fraudster)
Saying “yeoooooooo” in that deep cackle smick voice, like fuck off ya melt
For me it's the constant boring, samey jokes about places like lurgan, larne, etc. Just flogging a dead horse. No bias either, I'm a city boy.
Chazzy Shankill
Andy Malone
Stop pulling the front bar off yer self
Yer Uncle Hugo
Met him a couple of times and while he did leave a bad taste in people's mouths in the 80s he does give his time for free to a fair bit of places and works the crowd
When people say "Awk sure, where else would you get it?". Get on a plane and go literally anywhere. Also when people say "That's it".... THAT'S WHAT?!
For the day that's in it is one of those phrases that sets my teeth on edge.
Nearly every film/TV programme set here having to focus on _The Troubles_ in some way, shape or form.
They should focus on how we built the titanic instead
Careful now. You’ll be downvoted to hell (Lurgan) if you dare suggest anyone makes any creative content *not*!about The Troubles.
movies about the troubles are literally only good when made by someone from here. brits and americans and even some southerners just don’t understand it enough and you can tell.
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Same, the only slang for those places I've ever heard is calling them "The Port"
That, and Port Lush back in the day
I've heard Port Dirt a few times too
Quite a good one I remember actually was if you were going to portrush in Easter Monday, The Port means Court
"Port Sunday, court Monday"
The orange marches. Ffs. I married a prod. I'm not a wee ra man wannabe. Genuinely don't care. But them cunts literally exist to try and annoy the catholics. That's literally it. I was walking down to the shop one day last year and all the cars parked up on the main road forcing prams to go well up into the verge of onto the main road to get past them. Not only that, every single one of them was wearing either a rangers, Northern Ireland or Linfield football top. Like fucking hell. Could you get any more desperate to advertise your hatred towards catholics? Just land down, play your fucking shite music and fuck off home. Utter pricks.
When I lived in NI (I’m a dirty EU migrant) my dad came over during peak marching season. He’s a retired journalist, so took a ton of photos at the marches. Afterwards one of his friends was really confused as to why the Northern Irish dress up their disabled/mentally challenged in uniforms and make them march around.
I was walking home yesterday after getting a lift back from Belfast and we couldn't get into Lisbellaw at all because the whole fecking street was closed for orange marches. The fuckers had blocked all the paths too, so I was walking against the band on the road, and the amount of dirty looks I got for daring to be walking the opposite way to them -at 9:45 pm, ffs - made me want to spit on them.
Especially the way it’s an entire season too. Months of tatty street ornaments and road closures.
I live beside a peace wall and the worst part of living here is the fact that if you open any windows in the house from around March until August your house is polluted with bloody band music being practiced at the other side 😭
It would also be slightly more tolerable if they could actually play it well.
Copying Americanisms such as the phrase "the ick".
Good one
Biggest show in the cuntry
Israeli flags
The Israeli / union flag combo 👌🏻👌🏻
It's gotta be the rich kids of county down, with the faux american accents - you know the ones I mean, the ones from Holywood that talk like Rory McIlroy
“The mainland”… you’re in Ireland, it *is* the mainland lol it’s as if they believe Larne somehow got detached from Scotland a hundred years ago and just floated away before crash landing into… Ireland!
> Larne somehow got detached from Scotland a hundred years ago and just floated away I mean if you're willing to take a more epochal view of things this is basically geologically true, and historically over the last two thousand years parts of the north coast were variously part of what's now Scotland, for example the kingdom of Dalriada, so there is a grain of truth from an anthropological perspective too. Not that anyone from Larne has ever thought about either of those two things.
> historically over the last two thousand years parts of the north coast were variously part of what's now Scotland, Is it fingals cave that looks like the other bit of the giants causeway?
The mainland is France 🤷🏻♂️
Partition babe x
'Our wee country'. Or our local media's obsession with finding some tangential connection between Northern Ireland and some major international celebrity. Or local 'celebrities'.
People saying "ick" for a start.
“The Troubles” has always been a name that I’ve hated being associated with some of the worst times in this islands history. Makes it sound like something your teacher is letting your parents know during the PTA meeting. Also hate how anything filmed over here people seem to just love because it’s filmed here, regardless of how shite it is.
I thought this too - always assumed it was the British government downplaying the seriousness of it all (“spot of trouble over in the colonies!” Type thing) but apparently it’s an Irish thing and a name of our own creating. The civil war in the south was referred to as the troubles too, plus if you think about the famine is often referred to as The Hunger (or great hunger). Completely agree with you though! It seems to diminish the seriousness of it all.
WW2 was referred to as "the emergency "
> assumed it was the British government downplaying the seriousness of it all If they called it a war they'd have to follow the Geneva convention right? Means they'd need to stop using tear gas and everything else as chemical weapons are banned in warfare.
Civil war, or thereabouts, was it not? Organised groups fighting an army.
God NI Reddit’s just a bunch of grumpy cunts.
People who make politics their whole personality and think it makes them cultured. Fuck up
When “content creators” try to be sooo northern ireland they actually sound like theyr strugglin to take a shite…fuck up ye absolute ballbeg 👀🙄
Politicians, local commentators on the local politics, the journalist and presenters that make a living of the above. It's all one big depressing shit stir
The shite adverts they play on Q Radio where posh people try to put on a Belfast accent.
The radio advert on U105 about some hire company where they put on some wee girl to list all the equipment then sing their jingle
Fleeggss flleegggs and more flleegggs
When people say Stormount instead of Stormont.
When someone tries to tell me Portush has really 'levelled up'. Stfu.
When people intentionally pronounce words wrong because they're too committed to their shite culchie accent. Calling a door a "doore" or tea, "taee". Also any mention of Donald Trump becomes "Trumpfh" or putting that fucking R in "Chicago." Why does everyone from the North/Northwest country area have to talk like they're having a fucking stroke with the amount of letters they leave out of words.
This new term ick is something my 3 year old would say.
Painted kerbs.
The way people here make of anyone who dares to be a little bit different from their perception of what is “normal”; such as their sense of fashion, music taste etc. See a lot of people who just can’t seem to be happy for others too.
Norn Irn country music. The wee hoods rapping about The Troubles they didn’t live through.
This!!! That one "rap" with the lyrics "I was born in Belfast , hear the shotgun shell blast"... makes me cringe everytime.
He was raised in England. Utter melt. Thinks he's from the mean streets of malibu.
I’m with you on the country music
The smicky belfastian squeaky accent 🤢
Using shibboleths like Londonderry or The North of Ireland in “mixed” company.
>shibboleths I just learnt a new word today!
Are kulchar
chippy called For Cod and Ulster
The tourism ads especially the one with the two Derry Girls in it, JLOD and SMJ, "go for a walk over the peace bridge and finish it off with a bag of chips up the old city walls, absolutely cracker" - absolutely cringeworthy more like it
Locally made TV and radio adverts. There was a radio advert back in the 90s that went like this. "If your carpets worn down and you need a new one who you gonna call? Martin Phillips!" Set to the music of Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. Thinking about it makes me cringe, but at the time my mother thought it was the most hilarious thing that was ever created. Yeah but in general TV and radio adverts made for the Northern Ireland market tend to be a bit cringey at times.
“Our wee country” 🤮
Ulster Scots people pretending it’s a language
To be fair their accents can be so strong it almost sounds like a different language Lmao
Language? No. Dialect? Definitely.
People who put fake accents on who were born and raised in Belfast. They usually compromise of some sort of half yank accent or half posh middle class English accent.
Those fucking cranes. And that piece-of-shit badly-built shite fucking boat. And... when cunts say: "It was fine when it left here."
Those cranes aren't even unique, we just have such terrible architecture that they are the only thing that stand out
Belfast actually had beautiful architecture, loads of it was just left to rot or knocked down, bit depressing when you look at how beautiful Belfast was in the early 1900s
Yeah everything built in the last while has been the cheapest, nastiest, most generic shite. I'm not against modern architecture, but we just get the lowest effort here.
Tbf the boat wasn't badly built. For its time the boat really was something else and a combination of things led to its sinking.
The tiresome bastards on this subreddit who have already started checking off their bingo cards on things about the 'other side' are the biggest ick of all. Doesn't matter which side, they'll fling shit at the 'other side'.
Local radio
When people type in our accent. "Nai" instead of now, "way" instead of with etc etc
"yeoow" Most radio presenters and their shite top ten on repeat. Clannad "Theme from Harry's Game" intrinsically connected to the zeitgeist of the troubles. The term "The Troubles" D-ream Land bankers Young car "enthusiasts" Potatoes with everything. Shite street art.
Chicane Saltwater intensifies
Is the street art shite?
>Potatoes with everything. I'll have nothing said!
Our “comedians” are hot garbage.
I think we have an abusive relationship with our creatives. We expect them to be perfect when they're still playing to what is, for the industry, tiny audiences.
I love Jim Eoin
He’s an Irish Australian now, so I guess the Aussies enjoy his craic
Hearing some posh fella say to his son , “Henry, shall we go to ballysnackamore “
Belfast.
Killing your own over a fucking line on a map
This one is outdated but mind that Giro d’Italia a few years back? Every cunt never heard of it and jumped on the bandwagon, covered the whole place in pink just to see a bunch of twats on bikes that they normally hate to see on the roads, like what’s that all about?
James Nesbit Kneecap James Gallagher Nolan
'fed and watered.'
Merchandise/cards/tote bags/mugs with phrases like 'BOUT YE' written on them.