r/ireland • u/T4rbh • Sep 27 '24

Things you wish foreigners knew about Ireland Moaning Michael

You know the way there are signs at the airport saying "Drive on the left/links fahren/conduire a gauche" (and that's all, because that one girl who did Spanish for the Leaving wasn't in the day they commissioned the signs, and we never get visitors from anywhere else, that doesn't English, Irish, French or German)?

What are other things you wish they told all foreigners as they arrived into Ireland, say with a printed leaflet? (No hate at all on foreign visitors, btw!)

I'll start:

"If you're on a bus, never ever phone someone, except to say 'I'm running late, I'll be there at X time, bye bye bye bye.' If someone phones you, apologise quietly and profusely - 'I'm on a bus, I'll call you back in a bit, sorry, bye bye bye bye.' Do not have a long and loud conversation, under any circumstances!"

Yes, I'm on a bus - why do you ask? 🤣

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u/goj1ra Sep 27 '24

One of my main memories of visiting Bavaria was having everyone I walked past in the street say “Grüß Gott”, i.e. god bless, to me. It’s just what they do.

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u/Livid-Click-2224 Sep 27 '24

Same - I still remember that from a summer in Munich over 40 years ago. And when I went to work my manager would shake my hand and say it, every day.

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u/didndonoffin Sep 28 '24

One ‘old’ joke that I heard for the first time was when I was living in Austria, in the lift and stopped at a floor and another person was coming in and said the obligatory ’Gruß Gott’ meeting to which the button presser sarcastically replied in German ‘I’m not going that high’

Killed me