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Having to get up out of bed for work when the house is feckin' freezing and the bed so warm & snug 

Set the timer to come on before you get up. Not rocket science.

Great show and it's all based on fact. The things those f**kers get up to.

Those feckers in CSI are a force to be reckoned with. No waiting around for lab results for them. Have the killer nailed within the year!

Starts tonight at 9pm on BBC1. Think the last series concluded with Harry being shipped off to Russia.

"Cart" - to move or carry.

[Tyronies - Rookin' means really hungry.]

Ballinderry - Scooting means spitting.

Tyronies - Rookin' means really hungry.

WTF?

Can't say I've ever heard that in my life.

Scundered means two different things. In Belfast it's embarrassed. When I grew up on the ramparts it meant pissed off (eg I'm scundered running up and down those stairs telling them weeins to stop batin thon rat with the gee-tar.)

Another one...

Belfast:
A pockle - a useless **** on the football field.

Tyrone:
A pochal (pawhal) - An awful whinge
                           - A useless fecker who gets in the way

I think it's the same word.

Used in North Antrim too. Generally in the context "he's a pachal of shite".

Just completed watching all 5 series of the show - great stuff!

Did anyone else notice Rawls in the gay bar in series 3 when some people where looking for Omar? I've been waiting to see if this came back on him but was never mentioned or was i seeing things?

Aye I posted something about this a while back as I also thought it was a hook for a later story but it never materialised. Just a wee glimpse into his life. I think at one point in a later series he mentions something about taking it in the ass or something similar.

Paddy, if you are reading this, all criticism should be seen as constructive. We wouldn't want you leaving for Hoganstand!

Gutties -

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gutties

Not a word I hear often now although I would have used it a lot as a young fella.

I know it's not the same but you hardly hear anyone talk about a scallion any more. I asked a wee doll in Sainsbury's if they had any more scallions and all I got was a blank look. "Spring onion" got the desired effect.

The tea is still wet in our house every night. I never heard tarra before til I moved to this neck of the woods.

Does anyone outside West Belfast refer to an ice cream cone as a poke?

Oh so many....where to start even is a problem..

All nordies?

Not at all.....only the annoying ones 

Nordie United supporters then?

'I was expecting it to be a bit more blood-and-thunder than it was but maybe it has moderated its views over the years.'

You obviously didn't read its Letters page, then...

Letters pages are always full of cranks, oddballs and attention seekers in any newspaper.

[- Newton Emerson was once amusing, but his personal crusade to highlight the ineptitude of our Civil Service is wearing very thin.]

The Irish News standards have dropped considerably in recent years, as evidenced by the current lead columnists.

- Jim Gibney's polarised and paranoid views should not be allowed anywhere near a position of influence.
- Newton Emerson was once amusing, but his personal crusade to highlight the ineptitude of our Civil Service is wearing very thin.
- Tom Kelly's column has never risen above the musings of someone with nothing original nor interesting to say.
- Maeve Connolly's style has never advanced beyond placement student. Journalists don't have to be informative, hard-hitting, entertaining or insightful in every article, but after nearly 10 years in the paper, she has yet to display any of these skills.
- And yet each of the aforementioned is a considerable step up on Bimpe "nothing to see here" Fatogan.

One Kevin Myers article is worth a collective two-dozen from the above.


At least their GAA coverage is good.

This is information the public needs reminded of continually so I am glad to see it. Now if only NICS etc. had some shame.

[The womens columns in the IN do my head in - Maeve Connolly and that other doll who has a weekly gaa "babe" in shorts (Marie-Louise McCrory?).]

I actually lifted the Newsletter instead of the Irish News by accident on Saturday. Luckily I noticed before I got to the till!

I've read the NL a good few times in the in-laws house (Farming Life is the bible!) and it isn't actually too bad. I was expecting it to be a bit more blood-and-thunder than it was but maybe it has moderated its views over the years.

The womens columns in the IN do my head in - Maeve Connolly and that other doll who has a weekly gaa "babe" in shorts (Marie-Louise McCrory?).

You are not quite the demographic those columns are aimed at Tony!

Says who?! 

I actually lifted the Newsletter instead of the Irish News by accident on Saturday. Luckily I noticed before I got to the till!

I've read the NL a good few times in the in-laws house (Farming Life is the bible!) and it isn't actually too bad. I was expecting it to be a bit more blood-and-thunder than it was but maybe it has moderated its views over the years.

The womens columns in the IN do my head in - Maeve Connolly and that other doll who has a weekly gaa "babe" in shorts (Marie-Louise McCrory?).

Was actually talking about this to someone today!

I'd say he is a regular €10 a week saver!

Couldn't imagine BOD sitting in a private booth trying to convince some arrogant modern-day SVDP cnut that he will be able to pay back 100 euro a month to go on his hols..

I'm sure we could find a poster connected with that organisation to check the computer system for a B. O'Driscoll