My children have Dublin accents

[MaLarkinn]

and I fucking hate it!

There, i said it.

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Is it not a thing?my ma put money in a Mass card,I had no idea this was controversial

Mn thread money in Mass cards folk are suggesting £10-20

I think that thread is about the appropriate donation to the priest for saying the Mass.
Subsequently enclosing money before giving the card to the recipient isn't a thing afaik.
Our local parish centre does Mass Cards. The 'suggested donation' is €10, plus €1 for the card.

I really didn’t think it was controversial to give money
In work when someone had a bereavement we did a card with money in,acknowledgment that it’s a difficult time with financial outgoings.

Ah okay, I've never heard of putting money in Mass cards I must say. Maybe it's a regional practice?

I give money to the priest via the parish secretary at the church office, to say Mass and choose a card there.

I never heard of people giving money to the bereaved in a Mass card.
Is it a regional thing ?
Done in certain parts of Ireland ?

Maybe just my ma...

Id no idea you were supposed to put money in a mass card 🤔

I always put the money in a Mass card £10 hand it over to the priest to sign. He gives back the card minus the money.

Any Irish accent is a fine accent (I'm not Irish btw!), and fankly, does it matter? I remember reading a David Hockney interview in which he mentioned a particular student ribbing his Yorkshire accent at the Royal College of Art. He looked at the young man's work and retorted, "If I was drawing like that, I wouldn't be wasting my time worrying about someone's accent!"
Needless to say, the man kept his mouth shut form then on. Seriously though, would you want the friendship or to work for someone who judged you on the way you talk? Change accent to skin colour and see if that gives you another perspective!

Any Irish accent is a fine accent (I'm not Irish btw!), and fankly, does it matter?

I don't think you get it. It matters when you're in the UK and apparently your accent codes for a small but significant minority of British people as 'uneducated, superstitious, probably alcohol-dependent Paddy Thicko', and this minority is more than happy to share this hilarity with you. Not once, but frequently, and the depressing thing is that it was never possible to predict who was going to come out with this stuff, from a random man at a bus shelter in the Midlands to a neighbour at an Oxford High Table.

And no, I (obviously) wasn't looking for the friendship of any of these people, but I was expecting not to be subjected to mockery on the grounds of my nationality, or discriminated against because of it. Why don't you 'change accent to skin colour' and see whether that gives you a greater insight?

@Stonehopper i think it is mostly the lower middle class daily maily reading types who think that. The irony! Upper class people look down on everybody.
I do think you're perceived to be a lower class than the one you were raised in though! You might go to london with you mount anville trinity education and your nicecteeth from 4 years of orthodontics, your fam8ly home in clonskeagh, you get the picture.... and then some knob will ask you if your dad is a builder ha ha ha
But most people arent knobs.

[quote DanceLikeAdamAnt]@Stonehopper i think it is mostly the lower middle class daily maily reading types who think that. The irony! Upper class people look down on everybody.
I do think you're perceived to be a lower class than the one you were raised in though! You might go to london with you mount anville trinity education and your nicecteeth from 4 years of orthodontics, your fam8ly home in clonskeagh, you get the picture.... and then some knob will ask you if your dad is a builder ha ha ha
But most people arent knobs.[/quote]
You're exactly right, @DanceLikeAdamAnt. It was lower-middle-class people -- maybe aged mostly 60 and upwards, always white, and more men than women.

I mean, a small minority of them, obviously. Far worse outside of London, too.

And it's far from Mount Anville and Clonskeagh I was reared, but yes, I did once see a law student I knew with exactly that type of background and wonderful teeth asked if she was 'at secretarial college' in Oxford, rather than the university.

It's pretty close to Mount Anville and Clonskeagh I was reared and so I have that associated accent. But I remember being in a London hairdresser and the stylist saying to me 'I love your accent. You sound just like...oh what's she called.........MRS BROWN!'

Me: Um, thanks.

@HideTanner

@HideTanner ha ha same here. Sometimes given the cold shoulder for being Lucy Westbrit 😩🙈🤔 at home, and then "you talk like ronan keating!" in London 😂

What's the howaya thing?

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It's pretty close to Mount Anville and Clonskeagh I was reared and so I have that associated accent. But I remember being in a London hairdresser and the stylist saying to me 'I love your accent. You sound just like...oh what's she called.........MRS BROWN!'

Me: Um, thanks.

It’s like some Americans thinking that Danny Dyer and Hugh Grant speak identically.

I would watch the hell out of ‘Mrs Brown Goes to Mount Anville’, though.

Ha ha! @morriszap

The howerya accent is one I like. It is very working class Dublin but it is very clear. Everything is pronounced. After 14 years in London, I followed a man half way round a book shop because he was taking a call and I was mesmerised, it was like I was a rat and he was the pied piper! 🤪

He probably would have hated my accent though. Probably would have asked me if I were English or Irish.

Has anybody taken that ny times accent quiz for uk and ireland? It is fascinating. I did it and it came out vaguely east coast of ireland but also, surprisingly, sligo 🤔 area. I was surprised as I have never lived on the wisht.

My friend from Tallaght did the quiz and it practically gave him his house number the area it had placed him in was so precise 😂

I tried to do it but I can't as it appears you have to sign up/ in to the NY Times.
Strangely enough I was able to do the US dialect one easily. No signing in or giving details.
It turns out my dialect is New York, Yonkers and Honolulu !!!

@LadyEloise

I tried to do it but I can't as it appears you have to sign up/ in to the NY Times. Strangely enough I was able to do the US dialect one easily. No signing in or giving details. It turns out my dialect is New York, Yonkers and Honolulu !!!

Please post an audio clip immediately!

Well I think a Dublin accent is just grand, it’s so typically Irish and it’s wonderful. Be proud you Dubliners of your lovely accent. Everyone loves the Irish.

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