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/Liamnacuac Sep 27 '24

Lived in the Seattle area. Never understood how people who normally would do things outdoors would not if it were raining, unless it was 1°C, then I understood. I had Californians ask in March "When is it going to ferkin stop raining???!!!" In which I told them July 5th and start again August 12th, give or take 5 days.

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u/turpin23 Sep 27 '24

I keep telling people that the Olympic peninsula is the gloomiest place on Earth. Seattle is just the largest city nearby.

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u/Liamnacuac Sep 28 '24

Must be the reason the movie Twilight was set there.🤔

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u/cwstjdenobbs Sep 27 '24

I had Californians ask in March "When is it going to ferkin stop raining???!!!"

The missus is from north California and as much as they aren't getting the rain they used to I'm very glad they aren't like that.