Originally posted by Primate
I worked at a refinery a few years ago. This guy potential investor was in evaluating the process to see if it was feasible for his Companies. The guy was from Ireland and I could not understand a damned thing he said, except the phrase "fuck all" which he used about every 7 or 8 seconds.
He would look at you very seriously and say some shit like:
"blah mah, fuck all, ragggiebow, lick snah, fuck all, ardie poo neexie leek, fuck all"
And they claim he was speaking english.
First time I went to Glasgow, I couldn't undertand a word anyone was saying until I went out for a drink with a few of them. Turns out that when you are pissed out of your mind they make perfect sense, they just spend so much time drunk that it makes sense to talk like that all of the time.
"Aye, ye arenae 'at bad fur an sassenach ye ken, ye can hauld yer bevvy an' everythin".
Becomes:
"I say old man, I had some reservations about Englishmen, you you seem to be ok. You are well able to handle your drink as well, which is always a good thing"
I'm sure if you had downed ten pints of Guinness, that Irish guy would have made perfect sense.