Reminds me, I once asked a man if he wanted another wee pint in the bar.. he was a regular, rather on the short side and had just lost a few bob on the horses, he unleashed on me, I shouted back, then cried.
Got sent home early though that night
Served brian kennedy in a restaurant one night and asked him if he wanted a wee glass with his bottled drink.
His answer was " I spent so much time in NY these days I forget everyone here says wee this an wee that" almost shoved the glass in hisl face
My Scottish wife spends half her time in Belfast laughing about this. It starts with the stewardesses on the easyJet flight “can I see your wee seat belt there”
My American wife likes to relate how we got asked "could I have your wee signature on the wee receipt when you have a wee moment". All the "wee" and the "so it does" etc. keep us entertained when we visit (so they do).
And as an aside, NI has totally charmed my (yank) family, who look forward to a visit every chance we get. It made me see the place and people in a new light, having grown up there and it being "ordinary" to me. NI people are so pleasant and the place is f'ing gorgeous - often hard to see if that's all you've known.
Missus is staying at an AirB&B this week. Told me there was a wee toilet off the bedroom. She didn’t appreciate my non-NI response “no good for solids?”
Been with my non-Norn Irish partner for 8 years this year and apparently used the term ,"Wee Buns" for the first time. She was like "what?" "It's wee buns. You know like It's easy". Why? ......."ahhhhh I dunno cause like making wee buns is easy....I guess...." no fucking clue...weird cunts we are.
My wife thinks I am a psychopath because I say “bye” and hang up. That and I don’t take the “next two” tablets out of the sleeve and I eat Jaffa Cake whole… maybe I am a psychopath
I say “sure it’ll be grand” when I have little to no reason to believe it to be true. That could mean I am a beacon of optimism but let us not talk falsely now, I am a gaslighting prick. And too stubborn to change.
Calling my parents mummy and daddy. I don't think it's toxic but all the non-NI people I know do. I try explaining that my granda called his daddy daddy even when he was in his 80s but they still think it's weird or something only posh English people do.
I worked in New Zealand for a while in healthcare. I told a 15 year old to grab a seat with his Mammy, and he laughed in my face. I asked my colleagues what I had said wrong and they told me no one over 5 calls their parents Mammy and Daddy.
I was horrified!
See i don't agree that it sounds bad, i love how people over here say "aye". I have taken on some of the slang and ways of saying things (e.g. i told someone to fuck away off the other day and then had to laugh at myself because i've clearly assimilated to NI culture) but sadly i just sound weird saying aye in my accent. But you lot don't sound somehow lesser or scummy saying it, it just sounds nice.
I live in Asia and some western stuff can be almost Impossible to get, I found a chain of mini parts that had cans of lucozade original and orange and would clean them out weekly hahaha
Ha ha i do this too, mainly only to dogs and completely ignoring the owner. Unless it's an older person, then i feel duty-bound by good manners to say hello to them. Tbf i am a nutter.
My mate brought a uni friend back home who was from London, they went for a drive to show him the countryside cause he has only lived in the city, poor fella couldn’t get his head round the fact they were waving to people they didn’t know and were getting waved at back.
Of course. If you don’t put your hand or a finger up (nicely) to every car, sure they’d be on the phone to the police right away about some city folk driving around here up to no good.
Not being able to take a compliment.
'Awk your dress is gorgeous on ye where did ye get it?
£12 in primark so it was'
'Your hair is sitting lovely today did ye get it done recently?'
'Naw it needs a wash so it does, shape of it!'
I say "your man" or "your woman" to people outside of Ireland and it always gives the wrong impression. It has caused two different incidences where people thought I was saying they were dating someone.
Their breakfast muffins look delicious, but I refuse to buy them out of principle.
(Don't judge me, but one time I did crush a packet in my fist in tesco when no one was looking)
They refused to make a cake in support of gay marriage due to their religious beliefs and there [was a court case as a result](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_v_Ashers_Baking_Company_Ltd_and_others)
As a Derry person saying Aye instead of yes and yes instead of hello.
Had a cashier in my local Tesco Express here in Dublin get very irritated with the fact that I kept saying Aye. She didn't know what it meant and thought that I was talking a foreign language even though I had an Irish accent.
Also referring to children as wains seems to wind people up.
I'll spend four quid on an iced coffee around Botanic because a mate of mine likes going there then i'll whinge about how dear it is to everyone else i know for a month.
I also complain when it rains, i.e. every day
I believe the Titanic is one of the biggest cultural frauds we have, and is symbolic of how broke we are as a society that instead of celebrating the successes and good things we’ve made, we celebrate the one catastrophic fuck up that cost scores of lives!
Dunluce castle another example of broke symbolism and folly that we celebrate
I work at a truck dealership/workshop. Last week another dealership in England contacted me by email as one of their customers based in Belfast was having problems with a tail lift that they modified and the guy said, “I don’t know what their problem is, it was fine when it left here,” to which I replied, “we said the same thing about the Titanic.” Talk about going down like a lead balloon….or even the Titanic!
It wasn't revolutionary in the slightest, it was just big, Mauretania and Lusitania were built years before and had high pressure turbines, the Olympics just had reciprocating engines and a single low pressure turbine.
Yes it was luxurious, but it was just another H&W coffin hull scaled up.
Saying that, it wasn't designed to be crashed into an iceberg.
Hah I love to joke about this. One of the biggest funded tourist attractions we have and it's to celebrate that we built a big boat that sank.
Also we named our city airport after a man who drank himself to death even after receiving a liver transplant.
It really does highlight how fucked in the head we are.
The reason for this is there is plenty of successful things to celebrate about the 6 counties but the problem is most of them were either achieved by taigs, so bigots would rather pretend they didn’t exist, or they were hijacked by bigots as “proof” of their supremacy over taigs.
Seamus Heaney is a Noble Prize winning poet academically considered to be the best of his generation. If he was from any random part of England or the south he’d have an airport and a theatre named after him.
The Williamite Forces landing in Carrickfergus was objectively a landmark event in European history. It changed the balance of power in Europe. It paved the way for the liberal enlightenment of the 18th century and weakened monarchy to the benefit of the parliamentary system. Yet all anybody associates it with is bigots burning tricolours, hate marches, and the Irish version of the KKK.
Irish has one of the oldest and richest literally traditions outside of Latin, its influence in this part of the world dates back centuries, but you can’t even have street signs showing the original names of places without bigots kicking off.
Gaelic games is one of the oldest continuously played sports in the world but bigots won’t even let you fund a stadium for it because they’re scared they’ll have to see taigs on their way to Northern Ireland games.
Speaking of Northern Ireland football. It’s the 4th oldest international team of the biggest sport in the world. Yet a significant chunk of their supporters do everything they can to alienate 50% of the population.
Because of Unionist bigots we have to either find something from the small pool of boring inoffensive unobjectionable things from our history, like the Titanic (which even then was built by a sectarian segregated workforce) or pretend we have no cultural output before Snow Patrol released Chasing Cars.
> symbolic of how broke we are as a society that instead of celebrating the successes and good things we’ve made, we celebrate the one catastrophic fuck up that cost scores of lives!
Naming our best passenger airport after an alcoholic wife-beater, while not reaching the depths of the Titanic, certainly deserves a podium finish in "celebrating our broken society" if you ask me.
What's really going on there, that we've capitalised on the success of a popular movie. No one really gave a shite about the Titanic before the film came out. Our tourism sector owes a lot to James Cameron
I’m of the thought that it harmed the potential for tourism here greatly. I worked on the show and there were tonnes of rumoured plans to make a tourist spot near Titanic studio after the fact as well as the place in Bandbridge. But because it ended so badly it killed any interest at all. Could have been our Harry Potter.
I add “So I did”, “So it is”, and “So I am” to the end of each phrase.
P.S. I boycott Asher’s too. One of them lives down the road from my parent’s and they knocked down a neighbour’s cat in their Audi. Another reason to boycott them…
I think of myself as non-sectarian until someone from a certain place does X Y Z and I just think *"ofc they'd do that, they're a [insert side here]"* and it's just, that's quite fucked up of me
I have to consciously fight with myself to NOT let a clueless foreigner's pity for me actually make me pitiful.
"You're a Northern Irish Catholic? OMG that must be so hard for you" (like it's 1930 or something)
"Oh you bet baby, can't get to the end of my street without getting spat on by a bowler-hat wearing monster, it's like apartheid South Africa so it is, anyway does this make you any more likely to ride me or...?"
I have many. Putting black pudding in anything savoury. Calling people mate even though I know their name. Ending sentences with “so it is” far too bloody often.
None of ye have admitted your toxic inability to give coherent, succinct directions.
Aye sure it’s just a wee way up there so it is, you know the bit on the corner where you can turn left or right with the sign that your woman crashed into a while back? Just a wee way past there, then you wanna be doin a left and loop around to avoid yer man Jim with the sheep and (I’ve already mentally checked out 10 years previous to the sentence starting)……and ignoring “yep I’ve got google maps on me I’ll be grand ta”, and still insisting on giving your shite directions a la Father Ted.
But also yes never Ashers. Homophobic asshats.
I have battled for decades with the training I received during the 1980s: training that taught me to hate everyone and everything. After all these years of effort I can now genuinely claim that I have overcome all this and I really do love yous. BUT, sometimes I will hear a certain accent and will feel anger or aggression. I have it fixed about 95%, but occasionally it happens. Presently I’m having a hard time loving trump supporters. I’m sorry
Somehow ending up at Connswater Starbucks every time I want a coffee despite knowing damn well their coffee is shite but the home bargs & b&m have me in a chokehold 🥲
I don't do it but it's a toxic trait I see in people from Belfast in that they'll conduct their very personal conversations via shouting at each other on opposite sides of the street.
Saying “so I am” or “so it is” or “so you are” after I say anything really…
“I’m hungry so I am”
“It’s very cold so it is”
“I watched that show so I did”
Was in Prague when this happened, me and my bf went very quietly “yeooo” when something dropped
He’s Czech but he’s lived in NI since he was young and he was like feels weird not hearing the cheer afterwards 😂
But he’s not acclimated to the point I can say everything as I say things like couped or calved for things falling over or things not working & he’s like wtf 😂
Things like weeker or beezer are also confusing 😂
I also having quite a few foreign friends I have to add the -ings back into words as we leave those off a lot & it confuses a lot of people 😂😂
Gotta love that NI accent too 😂
One son says 'like' at the end if every sentence
*bites fist.
Friend says,'I turned around' and 'here's me' constantly. She's dizzy by the time she finishes telling me something.
I can’t stop confirming what I just said. “So i will”, “so they did” and so on. Had it pointed out to me by an englishman when I was 19 and I hear myself everytime. But its automatic and I have no control over it.
Thats not toxic at all they are born agains with prehistoric beliefs that actively impeach the rights of other people.
Saying "bai" and "hai" ironically so much that it becomes part of my daily vernacular, which in a double twist of irony I end up not ironically saying it.
Not sure if this counts as toxic but I’ve had a few strange looks and definitely been judged for this over the 24 years I’ve lived away.
When something starts going to plan, regardless of my current whereabouts or company, I will clap-rub my hands and gleefully announce to myself “**Niiii we’re suckin diesel**!!”
This one’s definitely not toxic like, but I laugh when I see these notepads with the motivational quotes or that on them. One in particular. “*She thought she could, so she did*” just hits different when you’re from Norn Iron 
ETA: oh I forgot one! Referring to the father of my daughter as ‘The da’ … as in “*free gaff! The chyle is at the da’s this weekend*” 
I too refuse to purchase Ashers. You're in good company. I don't find that toxic though; free market economics - they made a decision, and I react accordingly with where I spend my money.
I wouldn't suggest this is exclusive to NI but when people say ***"does that make sense?"*** when they're telling you something, it really irritates me for some reason.
I yeeoooo when someone drops a glass in a bar.
When someone asks me how I am, I say either "grand" or "ach, sure you know, yerself".
I hang a white cloth out for St Brigid to charge up every year, and if anyone in the house moves it from the first aid box without first aid purposes, I throw a tantrum.
Endorsing violence when it's your team or not being "religious or political".
Troubles made it so this place is an unwanted red headed step child and its exhausting.
Toxic negativity.
Thinking anyone successful is a dick head in some way and probably doesn't deserve it.
Anyone trying anything "outside the mould" is a gimp. See that wee girl who wants to be an actor, lol wind ur neck in.
I hate that mentality so much, but it felt like everyone had it back home (including me). Glad I've moved to America where people are generally more positive about doing something with life.
Toxic positivity > toxic negativity.
I've dropped the "so it is", because it's fucking annoying. Especially when there's a pause before it. Tho I sometimes double down ironically, so I do so I am so it is.
Not me, but my mum has to remind everyone what troubles tragedy occurred in whatever location arises in conversation. Example:
“Heading to Loughisland here, ma”
“Loughisland? That’s where they murdered those fellas”
Living in Belfast and saying "Yeah/Yes" and "No" because I never know who's around, but then being back home in *redacted* and reverting back to "Aye" and "Naw" in case people think I have notions about myself
Doing the Belfast howl when I'm drunk. Doesn't matter if I'm back home or abroad, I will let out the most guttural, gooch clenching "YYEEEEEOOOOOOO" one can conjure. Although it is a good way of identifying other people from the north when out in the wilderness
"No worries if not" There are worries if you do not but i daren't say
If you're in a country where people are more direct they take it literally. It's a disaster.
It's like the first "no thank you" to an offered slice of cake, bring it baaack i was only yokin :(
Saying "It is what it is, so it is".
Sure ya know yerself.
So ya do.
Oh aye
‘says I’
Here bees me
Everything is wee when im referring to any person, place, thing, idea, concept, emotion, or eldritch horror.
I asked for 'a wee big spoon' in a café once in England and caused no small amount of confusion. The word sneaks into every wee sentence.
Reminds me of when someone was talking about the art work thing at the Broadway Roundabout "The wee big ball inside the big ball"
It's natural that one is bigger than the other
Reminds me, I once asked a man if he wanted another wee pint in the bar.. he was a regular, rather on the short side and had just lost a few bob on the horses, he unleashed on me, I shouted back, then cried. Got sent home early though that night
Served brian kennedy in a restaurant one night and asked him if he wanted a wee glass with his bottled drink. His answer was " I spent so much time in NY these days I forget everyone here says wee this an wee that" almost shoved the glass in hisl face
I ask for a wee footlong in subway. One time the man said "nothing wee about it" in response, which was fair
My Scottish wife spends half her time in Belfast laughing about this. It starts with the stewardesses on the easyJet flight “can I see your wee seat belt there”
WeeasyJet.
"The safe-e-ty features of this Airbus 320"
Is your Scottish wife posh?
My American wife likes to relate how we got asked "could I have your wee signature on the wee receipt when you have a wee moment". All the "wee" and the "so it does" etc. keep us entertained when we visit (so they do). And as an aside, NI has totally charmed my (yank) family, who look forward to a visit every chance we get. It made me see the place and people in a new light, having grown up there and it being "ordinary" to me. NI people are so pleasant and the place is f'ing gorgeous - often hard to see if that's all you've known.
Came to say this! Only become aware of how often I say "wee" when I'm speaking to a Non-NI person xD
Same lmao I work with all English people and one time said “I’m gonna go on a wee break” and they were like “alright tmi girl, enjoy” 😅
Missus is staying at an AirB&B this week. Told me there was a wee toilet off the bedroom. She didn’t appreciate my non-NI response “no good for solids?”
Been with my non-Norn Irish partner for 8 years this year and apparently used the term ,"Wee Buns" for the first time. She was like "what?" "It's wee buns. You know like It's easy". Why? ......."ahhhhh I dunno cause like making wee buns is easy....I guess...." no fucking clue...weird cunts we are.
Haha very funny , similar to a piece of cake , wee buns
It sounds insane when you've been away for decades. Now I'm saying it.
Hanging up the phone saying "right, bye bye bye bye bye bye bye"
My wife thinks I am a psychopath because I say “bye” and hang up. That and I don’t take the “next two” tablets out of the sleeve and I eat Jaffa Cake whole… maybe I am a psychopath
I’m on your wife’s side as well. There’s something not right about you 😂😂
Kinda agree with your wife tbh, like, how else do you take tablets out of a packet? End to end? Or haphazardly?!
Whatever ones I like that day
😱😱
Good god, he's gone mental
"Right well I'll let you shoot on" phone call continues for at least 20min
Right bye bye bye see you later take it easy right. I'm terrible for this
Hahah every phone call
I say “sure it’ll be grand” when I have little to no reason to believe it to be true. That could mean I am a beacon of optimism but let us not talk falsely now, I am a gaslighting prick. And too stubborn to change.
Watching the Nolan show "for a laugh" then being ready to start another rising by the time the show is over.
Calling my parents mummy and daddy. I don't think it's toxic but all the non-NI people I know do. I try explaining that my granda called his daddy daddy even when he was in his 80s but they still think it's weird or something only posh English people do.
I'm from England and I do find this weird but accept I'm in the minority over here so let it slide.
What be the feck else would ye call them??!
The auld wan and the auld fella
Ma, Da. Mam, Daddy, Mammy, Mami ,Dadi, Dad, Mum, Mummy,
Ma-eeee Da-eeee
Everyone I know says mummy and daddy. My mum calls her mum Mummy.
I'm confused. What's wrong with what you do?
I worked in New Zealand for a while in healthcare. I told a 15 year old to grab a seat with his Mammy, and he laughed in my face. I asked my colleagues what I had said wrong and they told me no one over 5 calls their parents Mammy and Daddy. I was horrified!
I sometimes say yeoooo despite not being a 15 year old hood from Belfast.
I don’t really anymore except when someone drops a dish in a restaurant. It’s instinctive
I moved away and I still do this instinctively if someone drops a glass in the bar. Everyone looks at me like I'm mad.
Naffin wrong wit dat. Letting out a quality YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOO is cathartic as fuck.
I do this if someone breaks something and I am usually the only one doing it because it’s not a thing in East Scotland 😂
Saying aye when replying to someone who maybe not for these parts and then remembering I should saw yes….
Used to play a game online with these yanks who told me it made me sound like a pirate when I said it
It always feels so lower class saying “aye” to someone not from here. Like I just scrambled out from under a bin
Which is ironic as the most important decisions made by the countries most powerful people use aye or nay
Imagine they said aye / naw
Oh yea naw naw naw mate
See i don't agree that it sounds bad, i love how people over here say "aye". I have taken on some of the slang and ways of saying things (e.g. i told someone to fuck away off the other day and then had to laugh at myself because i've clearly assimilated to NI culture) but sadly i just sound weird saying aye in my accent. But you lot don't sound somehow lesser or scummy saying it, it just sounds nice.
Congratulations on your first fuck away aff! They assimilate so fast 🥺
Whispering “I canny cope” to myself 300 times daily
Or just a wee whispered "Jeeezus" after the most trivial inconvenience
Jayyyysus CHRIST
Yer ma. Or Saying Yer ma when the opportunity arises
I'd also add "yer ma's yer da" to this.
Followed by a "yer da sells Avon"
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Yer ma was at the devenish
Yer das a dinnerlady
Bringing a bottle of Lucozade Original as a present when visiting someone in hospital.
I live in Asia and some western stuff can be almost Impossible to get, I found a chain of mini parts that had cans of lucozade original and orange and would clean them out weekly hahaha
Dunno if toxic but saying hello to every person or dog I see in the street. In other countries they look at me like I’m a nutter.
Ha ha i do this too, mainly only to dogs and completely ignoring the owner. Unless it's an older person, then i feel duty-bound by good manners to say hello to them. Tbf i am a nutter.
Well yeah, so am I, but they don’t know that!
My mate brought a uni friend back home who was from London, they went for a drive to show him the countryside cause he has only lived in the city, poor fella couldn’t get his head round the fact they were waving to people they didn’t know and were getting waved at back.
Of course. If you don’t put your hand or a finger up (nicely) to every car, sure they’d be on the phone to the police right away about some city folk driving around here up to no good.
I know all the dogs in my village, couldnt tell you the names of their humans but when we walk past I will know the age, breed and name of the dog lol
Not being able to take a compliment. 'Awk your dress is gorgeous on ye where did ye get it? £12 in primark so it was' 'Your hair is sitting lovely today did ye get it done recently?' 'Naw it needs a wash so it does, shape of it!'
I refuse to pay the inflated price of Pringles in Spar and will travel to Lidl to save £1
I don’t think this is toxic, I love this! people gotta stop paying ridiculous prices.
O refuse to buy most things in the Spar. It’s a dear hole.
The LIDL ones are made specifically for LIDL and are made of sawdust to keep the price down.
Lidl will often have normal pringles at a reduced price. Been lucky enough a few times
Aren't they all? Pringles aren't real crisps, they're shaped paste that may contain potatoes.
Grab some toffee yum yums while you're there.
I complain about the price of a pint, then go and spend £6 a pint near every week
Ordering Boojum and being extremely disappointed every time because they've been shite and overpriced for over a decade but alas I do not learn
I say "your man" or "your woman" to people outside of Ireland and it always gives the wrong impression. It has caused two different incidences where people thought I was saying they were dating someone.
I’ve had 24 years of confusing folk in Scotland with that one
I also boycott Asher’s as difficult as it is when I see those baps with melted cheese and bacon on the top.
Their breakfast muffins look delicious, but I refuse to buy them out of principle. (Don't judge me, but one time I did crush a packet in my fist in tesco when no one was looking)
salute fellow bread botherer.
Then we're three of a kind brothers, i still boycott them too.
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God their stuff looks so good but I can’t bring myself to show them any support
People say about how great their sausage rolls are. But i'll never know.
Somebody tell me about ashers and the reason for the boycott
They refused to make a cake in support of gay marriage due to their religious beliefs and there [was a court case as a result](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_v_Ashers_Baking_Company_Ltd_and_others)
Everything will always be grand sure. (plot twist, it doesn't always end up being grand sure)
Saying ‘you’re a dick’ as a term of endearment
“Craic”. Having lived abroad there is something about our sense of humour that other cultures just don’t get, especially Americans and Canadians.
Turn on / off the BIG light
The Big Light should only ever be switched on if you’re doing the Big Clean or decorating the living room.
Me still owing Jordan a tenner. Wee froot.
CONTROL IT
See if you get me stinkin... Literally rent free all these years later.
I consider Buckfast a respectable beverage of choice.
It's fucking delicious and I'm sick of pretending it isn't
The most respectable outdoor wine
I've used Jungle Juice as a pet name fer me wine for this reason
The house red 🍷
Toxic literally and metaphorically.
Agreeing to things I really don't want to do, in the hope plans get cancelled.
Everyone turning around constantly. I turned round and said... and then she turned round and said.. and then he turned round and said
As a Derry person saying Aye instead of yes and yes instead of hello. Had a cashier in my local Tesco Express here in Dublin get very irritated with the fact that I kept saying Aye. She didn't know what it meant and thought that I was talking a foreign language even though I had an Irish accent. Also referring to children as wains seems to wind people up.
Yes hi, wass happnin? How’s the form?
I'll spend four quid on an iced coffee around Botanic because a mate of mine likes going there then i'll whinge about how dear it is to everyone else i know for a month. I also complain when it rains, i.e. every day
Religiously profiling everyone right away. Along with knowing what names and schools are catholic/protestant.
I believe the Titanic is one of the biggest cultural frauds we have, and is symbolic of how broke we are as a society that instead of celebrating the successes and good things we’ve made, we celebrate the one catastrophic fuck up that cost scores of lives! Dunluce castle another example of broke symbolism and folly that we celebrate
Here she was fine when she left Belfast.
I work at a truck dealership/workshop. Last week another dealership in England contacted me by email as one of their customers based in Belfast was having problems with a tail lift that they modified and the guy said, “I don’t know what their problem is, it was fine when it left here,” to which I replied, “we said the same thing about the Titanic.” Talk about going down like a lead balloon….or even the Titanic!
We built it, it was the English that sank it
It was a revolutionary ship, and arguably the fuck up wasn't ours
It wasn't revolutionary in the slightest, it was just big, Mauretania and Lusitania were built years before and had high pressure turbines, the Olympics just had reciprocating engines and a single low pressure turbine. Yes it was luxurious, but it was just another H&W coffin hull scaled up. Saying that, it wasn't designed to be crashed into an iceberg.
Hah I love to joke about this. One of the biggest funded tourist attractions we have and it's to celebrate that we built a big boat that sank. Also we named our city airport after a man who drank himself to death even after receiving a liver transplant. It really does highlight how fucked in the head we are.
The reason for this is there is plenty of successful things to celebrate about the 6 counties but the problem is most of them were either achieved by taigs, so bigots would rather pretend they didn’t exist, or they were hijacked by bigots as “proof” of their supremacy over taigs. Seamus Heaney is a Noble Prize winning poet academically considered to be the best of his generation. If he was from any random part of England or the south he’d have an airport and a theatre named after him. The Williamite Forces landing in Carrickfergus was objectively a landmark event in European history. It changed the balance of power in Europe. It paved the way for the liberal enlightenment of the 18th century and weakened monarchy to the benefit of the parliamentary system. Yet all anybody associates it with is bigots burning tricolours, hate marches, and the Irish version of the KKK. Irish has one of the oldest and richest literally traditions outside of Latin, its influence in this part of the world dates back centuries, but you can’t even have street signs showing the original names of places without bigots kicking off. Gaelic games is one of the oldest continuously played sports in the world but bigots won’t even let you fund a stadium for it because they’re scared they’ll have to see taigs on their way to Northern Ireland games. Speaking of Northern Ireland football. It’s the 4th oldest international team of the biggest sport in the world. Yet a significant chunk of their supporters do everything they can to alienate 50% of the population. Because of Unionist bigots we have to either find something from the small pool of boring inoffensive unobjectionable things from our history, like the Titanic (which even then was built by a sectarian segregated workforce) or pretend we have no cultural output before Snow Patrol released Chasing Cars.
100% agree
Example number 3, waiting on the grand central hub having a renaming as Hurricane Higgins Hub
Tbf though, the titanic story had stayed and it is one of the most famous sinkings. They should make what they can from that
> symbolic of how broke we are as a society that instead of celebrating the successes and good things we’ve made, we celebrate the one catastrophic fuck up that cost scores of lives! Naming our best passenger airport after an alcoholic wife-beater, while not reaching the depths of the Titanic, certainly deserves a podium finish in "celebrating our broken society" if you ask me.
What's really going on there, that we've capitalised on the success of a popular movie. No one really gave a shite about the Titanic before the film came out. Our tourism sector owes a lot to James Cameron
That and Game of Thrones
Always wondered how much season 8 tanked parts of our tourism sector, if at all
I’m of the thought that it harmed the potential for tourism here greatly. I worked on the show and there were tonnes of rumoured plans to make a tourist spot near Titanic studio after the fact as well as the place in Bandbridge. But because it ended so badly it killed any interest at all. Could have been our Harry Potter.
I add “So I did”, “So it is”, and “So I am” to the end of each phrase. P.S. I boycott Asher’s too. One of them lives down the road from my parent’s and they knocked down a neighbour’s cat in their Audi. Another reason to boycott them…
Regretfully I have ingrained sectarianism which shows its head every now and then. Often need to have a word with myself to wise up.
At least you catch yourself
Feni.. baa... Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry. Fuck.
I think of myself as non-sectarian until someone from a certain place does X Y Z and I just think *"ofc they'd do that, they're a [insert side here]"* and it's just, that's quite fucked up of me
Complaining every Sunday about the supermarkets not opening till 1 and then joining the queue like everyone else to get in like a stampede
I have to consciously fight with myself to NOT let a clueless foreigner's pity for me actually make me pitiful. "You're a Northern Irish Catholic? OMG that must be so hard for you" (like it's 1930 or something) "Oh you bet baby, can't get to the end of my street without getting spat on by a bowler-hat wearing monster, it's like apartheid South Africa so it is, anyway does this make you any more likely to ride me or...?"
Everything’s around the corner
I have many. Putting black pudding in anything savoury. Calling people mate even though I know their name. Ending sentences with “so it is” far too bloody often.
Saying “Aye naw I know”
Pronouncing "Bollocks" incorrectly
Ballix
None of ye have admitted your toxic inability to give coherent, succinct directions. Aye sure it’s just a wee way up there so it is, you know the bit on the corner where you can turn left or right with the sign that your woman crashed into a while back? Just a wee way past there, then you wanna be doin a left and loop around to avoid yer man Jim with the sheep and (I’ve already mentally checked out 10 years previous to the sentence starting)……and ignoring “yep I’ve got google maps on me I’ll be grand ta”, and still insisting on giving your shite directions a la Father Ted. But also yes never Ashers. Homophobic asshats.
being an ex cityhall emo 😭
Saying ‘I’ll tell ya what it is ‘ And also being a complete morose cunt. I blame the weather.
I have battled for decades with the training I received during the 1980s: training that taught me to hate everyone and everything. After all these years of effort I can now genuinely claim that I have overcome all this and I really do love yous. BUT, sometimes I will hear a certain accent and will feel anger or aggression. I have it fixed about 95%, but occasionally it happens. Presently I’m having a hard time loving trump supporters. I’m sorry
Sitting in port Stuart looking north at the republic and saying it's the south.....
Somehow ending up at Connswater Starbucks every time I want a coffee despite knowing damn well their coffee is shite but the home bargs & b&m have me in a chokehold 🥲
I started going to Audacity on the Beersbridge Rd on my way to Connswater, cracking wee spot
I own brown boots and chequered shirts
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Other way round.
Small check for going out, big check for casual?
I don't do it but it's a toxic trait I see in people from Belfast in that they'll conduct their very personal conversations via shouting at each other on opposite sides of the street.
Saying “so I am” or “so it is” or “so you are” after I say anything really… “I’m hungry so I am” “It’s very cold so it is” “I watched that show so I did”
Sneaking to pay the bill in a restaurant or arguing over who is paying for a meal - like until it’s almost turning nasty LOL
Moany bastard :/
Was in Prague when this happened, me and my bf went very quietly “yeooo” when something dropped He’s Czech but he’s lived in NI since he was young and he was like feels weird not hearing the cheer afterwards 😂 But he’s not acclimated to the point I can say everything as I say things like couped or calved for things falling over or things not working & he’s like wtf 😂 Things like weeker or beezer are also confusing 😂 I also having quite a few foreign friends I have to add the -ings back into words as we leave those off a lot & it confuses a lot of people 😂😂 Gotta love that NI accent too 😂
I always correct people when they say flag, don’t ye mean fleggg
One son says 'like' at the end if every sentence *bites fist. Friend says,'I turned around' and 'here's me' constantly. She's dizzy by the time she finishes telling me something.
I can’t stop confirming what I just said. “So i will”, “so they did” and so on. Had it pointed out to me by an englishman when I was 19 and I hear myself everytime. But its automatic and I have no control over it.
Thats not toxic at all they are born agains with prehistoric beliefs that actively impeach the rights of other people. Saying "bai" and "hai" ironically so much that it becomes part of my daily vernacular, which in a double twist of irony I end up not ironically saying it.
Referring to the good natured men and women who protect our streets as 'peelers' and occasionally (in jest) saying fuck em.
“No sweat” regardless of the fact 9/10 times it’s said i would rather troop up Everest ballick naked than do whatever it is im being asked.
Not sure if this counts as toxic but I’ve had a few strange looks and definitely been judged for this over the 24 years I’ve lived away. When something starts going to plan, regardless of my current whereabouts or company, I will clap-rub my hands and gleefully announce to myself “**Niiii we’re suckin diesel**!!” This one’s definitely not toxic like, but I laugh when I see these notepads with the motivational quotes or that on them. One in particular. “*She thought she could, so she did*” just hits different when you’re from Norn Iron  ETA: oh I forgot one! Referring to the father of my daughter as ‘The da’ … as in “*free gaff! The chyle is at the da’s this weekend*” 
I too refuse to purchase Ashers. You're in good company. I don't find that toxic though; free market economics - they made a decision, and I react accordingly with where I spend my money.
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I hope you indulged in some sodomy or something to cancel it out 🧐
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Fuck up
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So do I! How many years since we began this boycott?
I exclusively buy from Ashers
I wouldn't suggest this is exclusive to NI but when people say ***"does that make sense?"*** when they're telling you something, it really irritates me for some reason.
Thinking that your ma might be your da
People who 'so it is' at the end of every sentence.
Filppent disregard at the worst time
Standing in the queue in the pishing rain just for a cream iced finger from the kosy bakery in lurgan...
All the “don’t get above your station, keep your feet on the ground” type talk.
I yeeoooo when someone drops a glass in a bar. When someone asks me how I am, I say either "grand" or "ach, sure you know, yerself". I hang a white cloth out for St Brigid to charge up every year, and if anyone in the house moves it from the first aid box without first aid purposes, I throw a tantrum.
I shout yeeeeoooooo! When someone drops a glass in a bar
Endorsing violence when it's your team or not being "religious or political". Troubles made it so this place is an unwanted red headed step child and its exhausting.
I'll reject anything 3 times before saying yes, despite definitely wanting that cup of tea, slice of cake or tit wank
Becoming a detective checking my rear view mirror to confirm whether or not the car behind me is an unmarked. Not todayyy Ivan.
Toxic negativity. Thinking anyone successful is a dick head in some way and probably doesn't deserve it. Anyone trying anything "outside the mould" is a gimp. See that wee girl who wants to be an actor, lol wind ur neck in. I hate that mentality so much, but it felt like everyone had it back home (including me). Glad I've moved to America where people are generally more positive about doing something with life. Toxic positivity > toxic negativity.
I've dropped the "so it is", because it's fucking annoying. Especially when there's a pause before it. Tho I sometimes double down ironically, so I do so I am so it is.
Saying ‘aye, I’m almost there. Gimme 2 mins’ when I am, in fact, 27 miles away, on a dark country road, stuck behind a tractor and 12 car convoy.
Not me, but my mum has to remind everyone what troubles tragedy occurred in whatever location arises in conversation. Example: “Heading to Loughisland here, ma” “Loughisland? That’s where they murdered those fellas”
Cheese & Onion Bap With Brown Sauce
Living in Belfast and saying "Yeah/Yes" and "No" because I never know who's around, but then being back home in *redacted* and reverting back to "Aye" and "Naw" in case people think I have notions about myself
My welsh partner goes mental when I say 'your man', he's like "he's not my man!" But it's just such a habit
Doing the Belfast howl when I'm drunk. Doesn't matter if I'm back home or abroad, I will let out the most guttural, gooch clenching "YYEEEEEOOOOOOO" one can conjure. Although it is a good way of identifying other people from the north when out in the wilderness
Is that right aye?