Overheard on the bus (1 Viewer)

[TenRabbits]

As overheard in a supermarket in Perth, Australia (twas a mother callin her two wee girls):

"Craigette.. Rogerina.. get yer arses over here now.."

My mates and I were still laughin at that one in the pub several hours later..

 

[avernus]

me and a friend were walking in town one time and some gypo woman screamed at some bloke - "Fuck off er O'ill trun me knickars at ya"

 

[nuke terrorist]

jesus this site has been busy to day.i read an interview (about a month ago) with an australian bmx rider who was warning athletes not to unintentionally take doping products like he had. he said he was looking forward to spending more time with his little son called BROOKYLN whilst banned. i kid you not.talk about bad drugs...

 

[Theseus Mock]

Are what about those yanks looking for "you-gall" and "tray-lee"?

 

[pete]

Are what about those yanks looking for "you-gall" and "tray-lee"?

or inchickory

 

[spiritualtramp]

I dare anyone slagging yanks off for getting names wrong to try pronouncing some welsh town names (ystrad mynach, llanelli, llangollen etc etc ) properly. you will be de-smugged pretty quickly.

 

[eoinbox]

I dare anyone slagging yanks off for getting names wrong to try pronouncing some welsh town names (ystrad mynach, llanelli, llangollen etc etc ) properly. you will be de-smugged pretty quickly.

yowsa

 

[Space]

llangolen - chlangolin is one for starters

 

[billygannon]

I saw a real life Black on a bus yesterday.

I wasn't on the bus, of course.

 

[Cormcolash]

overheard, ie, shouted at us:
"Your ma was good in bed last night,
...should've seen the blood what came out of her gee!"

Haha, I would have pissed myself laughing if it was shouted at me!

 

[Buzzo]

overheard, ie, shouted at us:
"Your ma was good in bed last night,
...should've seen the blood what came out of her gee!"

We have an English friend who practices his Dublin accent by repeating the phrase 'you shoulda seen the blood what came out of her gee'. No joke. Someone shouted it at friends of ours under the Templeogue Bridge about 15 years ago.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

We have an English friend who practices his Dublin accent by repeating the phrase 'you shoulda seen the blood what came out of her gee'. No joke. Someone shouted it at friends of ours under the Templeogue Bridge about 15 years ago.

ha ha ha ha ha, like, is thias akin to "you should have seen the look on her face"? holy crap, i've never heard that before. it's kinda scary.

 

[rocktopus]

All this talk of Yanks mispronouncing Irish placenames reminds me of an embarrasing incident I had in Philadelphia.

I approached the ticket booth in the subway and asked for a ticket to the city centre.
I was met with puzzled expressions and after repeating my wish to go to the city centre a few times it gradually dawned on the clerk that what I really wanted was a ticket to " senner sidee"!

Boy was my face red!

 

[krystal]

haha

I once asked a canadian guy to get me a glass of water from the bar of the pub we were in and he just couldn't understand what the hell I meant. I kept saying 'water - you know WAT ERRR - from a tap'. Eventually someone said to him 'she means WAADDER' and the lightbulb above his head went on.

 

[Napalm]

llangolen - chlangolin is one for starters

Here's another

Clan el e.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

Humuhumunukunukuapua. this is a real word. it's so queer the way other people are different.

 

[shidheat]

I got asked once in Waterford by an elderly American couple if I knew where the "cwy" (quay) was.

 

[moc]

is this the thread to put up stories of americans and leprachauns and the like?

 

[Napalm]

Re: Overheard or stories of americans and leprachauns

Yea

 

[BC]

I heard that "Y-V-O-N-N-E" story about 3 years ago. I'm sure it happened at some point down the line in reality.

But jaysus, Paris?? Not after that rancid, orange-skinned, dense-eyed tramp: