I’ll take “€100 for things that never happened” Jim
Wtf even is a Catholic accent in the context of dublin?
Still have to give him props for the description of the guy on the door. 💀
Too drunk to enter
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‘Oh no! They saw the ghost!’
Trinity runs to charge people for ghost tours
Can smell the mass aff ye
If this is in the North it’s entirely possible.
I have a noticeably culchie accent. Around 3 years ago on two separate visits to Belfast involving pub crawls I was continually asked where I lived and why I was in some pub or another, what I was doing here, etc. While sitting on a low bar stool had a man come and grab my arm and shoulder from the side and hold me in my place until I answered their questions. I was asked in some pubs, my friend from Manchester was asked in others, a pattern emerged. I think they were checking we weren’t there to start trouble, but profiling is very much still alive there.
While I was waiting for the aircoach back home on the 2nd trip an older man informed me that he was out an about that evening “hating taighs”.
Probably a Liveline caller
Why would you queue 30 minutes for Long Hall? It’s a good pub, but there’s many hundreds of pubs in 30 minutes walking distance of there
I bet that’s some kind of in joke, or an American (or other national) making fun of what he thinks Ireland is, and getting Ireland and Northern Ireland mixed up.
Staff there are cunts though tbf in my experience or are at least were when I was last in. One buck behind the bar thought he was Johnny big bollox.
Sick burn of the sickly man-child though
The guy must need a dialect coach!
That was actually the Ghost of Doormen Past
Nice way of saying.. Fuck off I don’t like the look of you.
That didn’t happen so hard it unhappened things that did happen.
I know Ireland’s hospitality scene and people are a bit different, but for context, very few businesses care about TripAdvisor anymore. Like if you’re a serious operator, you couldn’t care less. Google reviews are where the real power is. I operate businesses and two of them have TripAdvisor’s, not set-up or handled by us – which in itself, is weird – but not one of my bosses has ever mentioned, “well done on (or) we need to talk about those TripAdvisor reviews”, but if someone drops a bad review on Google, you’ll hear about it.
Not to mention, TripAdvisor’s users always seem to be generally clueless. Like their walking into an Italian restaurant and wondering why they don’t do ramen so they feel like that’s a reason to moan to see if the business will reach out and offer a complimentary meal for them to take it down. That’s another way how Google trumps TripAdvisor as with Google if you want you can appeal a review and state why it’s not factual and in some instances they will remove it. Happened to one of my bars because they said that the beer we “poured from the tap” was “gone off”, which by the way, nobody will ever notice, most bars/pubs in Dublin and particularly rural Ireland has served expired beer, it’s not gone off it’s just past its expiry date, but nevertheless I messaged Google and pointed out that we don’t sell beer on tap, only in a can and we don’t serve pints, we serve them in 400ml glasses. The review was gone the next day.
TL;DR TripAdvisor is shite, any sensibly ran hospitality business could care less about it anymore as it has little pros, Google reviews are where it’s at, if you’re going to make up stories at least post them there.
I read it as is joke. It’s famous for being one of the oldest pubs so I took it he was implying it was the ghost of a Victorian child who disliked Catholics given the pub dates to the Victorian era..child labour, Catholic emancipation
They were so drunk they don’t even remember which side of the border they were.
I wasn’t let in to a pub once because of my catholic accent (and also because my jumper was covered in vomit and my nose was pumping blood, but mainly for the catholic accent, hai)
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I’ll take “€100 for things that never happened” Jim
Wtf even is a Catholic accent in the context of dublin?
Still have to give him props for the description of the guy on the door. 💀
Too drunk to enter
[deleted]
‘Oh no! They saw the ghost!’
Trinity runs to charge people for ghost tours
Can smell the mass aff ye
If this is in the North it’s entirely possible.
I have a noticeably culchie accent. Around 3 years ago on two separate visits to Belfast involving pub crawls I was continually asked where I lived and why I was in some pub or another, what I was doing here, etc. While sitting on a low bar stool had a man come and grab my arm and shoulder from the side and hold me in my place until I answered their questions. I was asked in some pubs, my friend from Manchester was asked in others, a pattern emerged. I think they were checking we weren’t there to start trouble, but profiling is very much still alive there.
While I was waiting for the aircoach back home on the 2nd trip an older man informed me that he was out an about that evening “hating taighs”.
Probably a Liveline caller
Why would you queue 30 minutes for Long Hall? It’s a good pub, but there’s many hundreds of pubs in 30 minutes walking distance of there
I bet that’s some kind of in joke, or an American (or other national) making fun of what he thinks Ireland is, and getting Ireland and Northern Ireland mixed up.
Staff there are cunts though tbf in my experience or are at least were when I was last in. One buck behind the bar thought he was Johnny big bollox.
Sick burn of the sickly man-child though
The guy must need a dialect coach!
That was actually the Ghost of Doormen Past
Nice way of saying.. Fuck off I don’t like the look of you.
That didn’t happen so hard it unhappened things that did happen.
What is “Catholic accent” even supposed to mean?
On today’s “It happened just in your mind” show.
Considering [this country is 78.3% Catholic according to the last census](https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp8iter/p8iter/p8rrc/), they would really be cutting out a huge amount of their potential customer base if they stopped all catholics entering their premises.
I want a Catholic accent so bad, little jealous.
Countries haunted by racist ghosts apparently
I know Ireland’s hospitality scene and people are a bit different, but for context, very few businesses care about TripAdvisor anymore. Like if you’re a serious operator, you couldn’t care less. Google reviews are where the real power is. I operate businesses and two of them have TripAdvisor’s, not set-up or handled by us – which in itself, is weird – but not one of my bosses has ever mentioned, “well done on (or) we need to talk about those TripAdvisor reviews”, but if someone drops a bad review on Google, you’ll hear about it.
Not to mention, TripAdvisor’s users always seem to be generally clueless. Like their walking into an Italian restaurant and wondering why they don’t do ramen so they feel like that’s a reason to moan to see if the business will reach out and offer a complimentary meal for them to take it down. That’s another way how Google trumps TripAdvisor as with Google if you want you can appeal a review and state why it’s not factual and in some instances they will remove it. Happened to one of my bars because they said that the beer we “poured from the tap” was “gone off”, which by the way, nobody will ever notice, most bars/pubs in Dublin and particularly rural Ireland has served expired beer, it’s not gone off it’s just past its expiry date, but nevertheless I messaged Google and pointed out that we don’t sell beer on tap, only in a can and we don’t serve pints, we serve them in 400ml glasses. The review was gone the next day.
TL;DR TripAdvisor is shite, any sensibly ran hospitality business could care less about it anymore as it has little pros, Google reviews are where it’s at, if you’re going to make up stories at least post them there.
I read it as is joke. It’s famous for being one of the oldest pubs so I took it he was implying it was the ghost of a Victorian child who disliked Catholics given the pub dates to the Victorian era..child labour, Catholic emancipation
They were so drunk they don’t even remember which side of the border they were.
I wasn’t let in to a pub once because of my catholic accent (and also because my jumper was covered in vomit and my nose was pumping blood, but mainly for the catholic accent, hai)
Must have thought those beads were for the rosary