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I grew up in Glasgow so understand a bit & a lot of the dark humour transfers well - we're generally quite self-deprecating & foul mouthed, some people find it shocking hearing folk greeting their best friends with a torrent of vile abuse but by the age of 6 you get used to it.
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mcJ78
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Reminds me of
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I remember sitting in a lay-by in Glencoe waiting for the weather to clear for a walk up the valley. A van pulled in next to us and a lad no more than 12 got out the passenger seat wearing full regalia and holding bagpipes. It’s pissing down with only our two vehicles present and him the only one outside. Five minutes pass and he starts to warm up the pipes, two minutes later, soaked to the skin he’s playing fluently and a coach load of tourists turn up for the full Highland experience.
Either that coach was five minutes late or his boss (dad?) is a total shite. -
If people in Belfast don't take the piss out of you, they don't like you usually, unless they are posh types.
We get flegs you get... junkies? (sadly that's gotten really bad in Belfast lately... many homeless drug addicts)
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Italian colleague: Wow NI is so pretty (after I show him Cavehill) it is like Narnia
Me: Shows him article about Tiger's Bay (2 miles down the hill, flegs, sectarian mad murals mixed with murals of people that god love them try to keep the place right)
Colleague: Oh, ok...
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JWestland
Some stuff may be totally lost on you, some is quite universal.
Ulster Fry is another local one.
Mental indeed, kneecapping and bombing jokes! Inbetween stuck in traffic and politics and bins jokes.