Address us by our proper title yis little bollix’s.
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I’m from Malin, would love to see what a pallet sent up here would say 😤
Waterford is in the south part of the country but shouldn’t be necessary since they already put IE on there
Waterford has seceded and declared a new republic of “Southern Ireland”
Saying “Republic of Ireland” would be admitting that we gained independence from them. Can’t be having that.
Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland and soon, coming to you:
Eastern Ireland, Western Ireland, Central Ireland, Islands Ireland, American Ireland, Water Ireland and other flavours!
Someone didnt have their morning Earl Grey
My own experience of people who use the term “Southern Ireland” only do so out of a misunderstanding than intent to offend.
They predominantly deal with Northern Ireland. And when dealing with the Republic, they said Southern purely on the basis that it’s the opposite to Northern. But it’s usually people who do so not understanding the naming conventions.
“Let’s make them speak our language so we can mildly insult them with it forever lol.” – Real quote from some 1800s cabinet meeting (probably).
Send it back and tell them the address is wrong.
The Republic of Ireland is more northern than Northern Ireland if you look on a map. It’s a conspiracy folks
Never underestimate people’s ignorance
People in the UK often do this in order to differentiate from Northern Ireland. It’s not meant as an insult or a small dig, it’s just that southern is opposite to northern. I wouldn’t read anything into it.
I usually ignore it and even use ROI at times myself even though it’s a successful attempt (thus far) by Brits to rename the country. I’d even accept that after the end of the territorial claim in 1998 with GFA it’s probably something to consider. But one company annoyed me so much with ROI on everything that I replied using as their address “Unwritten Constitutional Monarchy of the UK”. For the clowns using “Éire” you just use Google Translate and put it in Irish.
And your regular reminder that we refer to these islands in the archipelago as the Irish and British Isles.
They don’t like it up em
The yanks get some slating but the Brits are fucking pish at geography
Scowls in Derry
Oh no!
Anyway..
I hate when this happens, because in the general sense Waterford is in the southern part of Ireland…..
I’m from the South East so generally when people ask if I’m from “Southern Ireland”, I generally reluctantly but truthfully answer yes.
I’m in the UK and used to work with a woman who insisted on calling it either this or Éire, which seemed a weird combination.
She did not appreciate when I asked why she didn’t refer to Germany as Deutschland.
Sometimes ~ ~ You Gotta Pick a, Pallet / Palette, or Two ! !
Why does it annoy you? It’s not incorrect. Just not accurate. There’s a North and there for there’s a South. We also have a West and East.
They must be made to see the Éire of their ways…
(***PLEASE*** don’t roast me/ban me if that joke doesn’t work. In my defence, I’m British (is that a defence…? Born in the South North of England (Sheffield) raised in the SE (Buckinghamshire). Now in the SW (Bristol))
To me, you’re just Ireland, and I call the North ‘Ulster’ if I want to piss off a member of the OO/DUP (***ZERO*** time, nor tolerance, for either). If I write/say ‘Ireland’ it’s the RoI to which I refer. What that says about me politically, I’ve no idea – I’m an ardent Europhile and believe that Brexit was the biggest mistake in the however many millennia this collection of countries has been in existence. Not saying the EU is perfect, not by a long chalk, but being in it was ***INFINITELY*** better than being outside of it. I’m ***DEEPLY*** ashamed and embarrassed about this government. Brexit should have been political suicide for the Tories, what a deep shame that’s not proven to be the case…
I wish that Major hadn’t caved and we’d entered the EERM, because taking the € would have made Brexit nigh on impossible.
Anyways, that’s my 2c. Love ya, ya craicheads! 😜
Are they coming from Southern London by any chance? What about Northern Manchester?
There was a Southern Ireland, on paper, for about a fortnight after the Ireland Act 1920 and before the Dáil Elections. Trinity elected some candidates to it’s Senate but no other constituencies did.
I’ve encountered the term previously on the island of Britain, from people born too recently to remember that but I don’t know why they cling to the terminology. Probably like insisting Zambia is Northern Rhodesia or Somalia is British Somaliland.
Yeah, there are people living in the North of Ireland which isn’t Northern Ireland and is sometimes known as Southern Ireland
Well, Waterford IS in the actual South of the country.
IE is also the internationally recognised ISO-3166 two-letter code abbreviation for Ireland I suppose. So it’s like “Waterford, Southern Ireland, Ireland” – which is technically true.
Yes, that’s an overly charitable interpretation, we all know what happened here. Anyway.
This boils my piss a bit and admittedly I over react a little. I’ve been in the UK for nearly 10 years and people constantly ask if I’m from Southern or Northern Ireland.
I just say I’m from the Republic of Ireland.
When they become a bit defensive I ask them if they are from South Scotland or East Wales.
Learn your history and your geography!!! Rant over
People say it to me sometimes in Italy aswell I think because they’re uneducated (like fr their education system is worthless) so they remember something from school and parrot it or guess.czeckoslovakia is another one that will get you a slap xD
Almost every time I see that the Brits are at it again, it’s really that the Irish are at it again moaning over something trivial that absolutely no one cares about
I refuse to use the term Great when referencing Britain, for this very reason. It may be inaccurate, I don’t care. There’s nothing _great_ about dem eejits..
I confess I like the shinners understated use of “the South of Ireland” and “the North of Ireland”.
Never fails to raise a grin, and that’s saying something for the psychotic idiot cult.
“Incorrect address, please return to Derrylondon.”
The English simply can’t help themselves. They must constantly find “subtle” ways to denigrate Irish sovereignty. Their empire reached its zenith in 1920. Two years later, the mere Irish tore out a big chunk of it in their own backyard. That began the collapse. They’ll never forget. We shouldn’t either.
That looks like it was sent via “the pallet network”. They have a lot of different depots around the country that are all technically separate business, so theres a good chance that that “southern Ireland” part is as much for them to know which depot is the delivery depot as it is anything else.
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Address us by our proper title yis little bollix’s.
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I’m from Malin, would love to see what a pallet sent up here would say 😤
Waterford is in the south part of the country but shouldn’t be necessary since they already put IE on there
Waterford has seceded and declared a new republic of “Southern Ireland”
Saying “Republic of Ireland” would be admitting that we gained independence from them. Can’t be having that.
Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland and soon, coming to you:
Eastern Ireland, Western Ireland, Central Ireland, Islands Ireland, American Ireland, Water Ireland and other flavours!
Someone didnt have their morning Earl Grey
My own experience of people who use the term “Southern Ireland” only do so out of a misunderstanding than intent to offend.
They predominantly deal with Northern Ireland. And when dealing with the Republic, they said Southern purely on the basis that it’s the opposite to Northern. But it’s usually people who do so not understanding the naming conventions.
“Let’s make them speak our language so we can mildly insult them with it forever lol.” – Real quote from some 1800s cabinet meeting (probably).
Send it back and tell them the address is wrong.
The Republic of Ireland is more northern than Northern Ireland if you look on a map. It’s a conspiracy folks
Never underestimate people’s ignorance
People in the UK often do this in order to differentiate from Northern Ireland. It’s not meant as an insult or a small dig, it’s just that southern is opposite to northern. I wouldn’t read anything into it.
I usually ignore it and even use ROI at times myself even though it’s a successful attempt (thus far) by Brits to rename the country. I’d even accept that after the end of the territorial claim in 1998 with GFA it’s probably something to consider. But one company annoyed me so much with ROI on everything that I replied using as their address “Unwritten Constitutional Monarchy of the UK”. For the clowns using “Éire” you just use Google Translate and put it in Irish.
And your regular reminder that we refer to these islands in the archipelago as the Irish and British Isles.
They don’t like it up em
The yanks get some slating but the Brits are fucking pish at geography
Scowls in Derry
Oh no!
Anyway..
I hate when this happens, because in the general sense Waterford is in the southern part of Ireland…..
I’m from the South East so generally when people ask if I’m from “Southern Ireland”, I generally reluctantly but truthfully answer yes.
I’m in the UK and used to work with a woman who insisted on calling it either this or Éire, which seemed a weird combination.
She did not appreciate when I asked why she didn’t refer to Germany as Deutschland.
Sometimes ~ ~ You Gotta Pick a, Pallet / Palette, or Two ! !
Why does it annoy you? It’s not incorrect. Just not accurate. There’s a North and there for there’s a South. We also have a West and East.
They must be made to see the Éire of their ways…
(***PLEASE*** don’t roast me/ban me if that joke doesn’t work. In my defence, I’m British (is that a defence…? Born in the South North of England (Sheffield) raised in the SE (Buckinghamshire). Now in the SW (Bristol))
To me, you’re just Ireland, and I call the North ‘Ulster’ if I want to piss off a member of the OO/DUP (***ZERO*** time, nor tolerance, for either). If I write/say ‘Ireland’ it’s the RoI to which I refer. What that says about me politically, I’ve no idea – I’m an ardent Europhile and believe that Brexit was the biggest mistake in the however many millennia this collection of countries has been in existence. Not saying the EU is perfect, not by a long chalk, but being in it was ***INFINITELY*** better than being outside of it. I’m ***DEEPLY*** ashamed and embarrassed about this government. Brexit should have been political suicide for the Tories, what a deep shame that’s not proven to be the case…
I wish that Major hadn’t caved and we’d entered the EERM, because taking the € would have made Brexit nigh on impossible.
Anyways, that’s my 2c. Love ya, ya craicheads! 😜
Are they coming from Southern London by any chance? What about Northern Manchester?
Hopefully not Eastern Birmingham.
Get them back with a shipping label as Gaeilge when shipping to the North now that it’s an official language. A bit of a legal middle finger, [though they don’t seem to be properly equipped to handle it.](https://highlandradio.com/2024/03/15/conradh-na-gaeilge-hit-out-as-post-office-refuses-to-send-parcel-to-letterkenny/)
There was a Southern Ireland, on paper, for about a fortnight after the Ireland Act 1920 and before the Dáil Elections. Trinity elected some candidates to it’s Senate but no other constituencies did.
I’ve encountered the term previously on the island of Britain, from people born too recently to remember that but I don’t know why they cling to the terminology. Probably like insisting Zambia is Northern Rhodesia or Somalia is British Somaliland.
Yeah, there are people living in the North of Ireland which isn’t Northern Ireland and is sometimes known as Southern Ireland
Well, Waterford IS in the actual South of the country.
IE is also the internationally recognised ISO-3166 two-letter code abbreviation for Ireland I suppose. So it’s like “Waterford, Southern Ireland, Ireland” – which is technically true.
Yes, that’s an overly charitable interpretation, we all know what happened here. Anyway.
This boils my piss a bit and admittedly I over react a little. I’ve been in the UK for nearly 10 years and people constantly ask if I’m from Southern or Northern Ireland.
I just say I’m from the Republic of Ireland.
When they become a bit defensive I ask them if they are from South Scotland or East Wales.
Learn your history and your geography!!! Rant over
People say it to me sometimes in Italy aswell I think because they’re uneducated (like fr their education system is worthless) so they remember something from school and parrot it or guess.czeckoslovakia is another one that will get you a slap xD
Almost every time I see that the Brits are at it again, it’s really that the Irish are at it again moaning over something trivial that absolutely no one cares about
I refuse to use the term Great when referencing Britain, for this very reason. It may be inaccurate, I don’t care. There’s nothing _great_ about dem eejits..
I confess I like the shinners understated use of “the South of Ireland” and “the North of Ireland”.
Never fails to raise a grin, and that’s saying something for the psychotic idiot cult.
“Incorrect address, please return to Derrylondon.”
The English simply can’t help themselves. They must constantly find “subtle” ways to denigrate Irish sovereignty. Their empire reached its zenith in 1920. Two years later, the mere Irish tore out a big chunk of it in their own backyard. That began the collapse. They’ll never forget. We shouldn’t either.
That looks like it was sent via “the pallet network”. They have a lot of different depots around the country that are all technically separate business, so theres a good chance that that “southern Ireland” part is as much for them to know which depot is the delivery depot as it is anything else.