Hi all,
I am new here. Just to say hello. My name is Pat and I'm a phone-a-holic! I got the bug and find it hard to let go of it. I look forward to hearing from you all in the future. Happy St Patricks Day too!
Sláinte mhaithe,
Pat
Welcome to the group!
What a coincidence! An Irishman named Pat joins this spunky little group on the night before St. Patrick's Day!! ;)
Welcome! What sort of phones do you collect? American? European? Must be pretty expensive getting our American phones across the pond!
Welcome to CRPF, what part of Ireland are you in?
Cheers
Doug / Autonut
@WEBellSystemChristian - Hi, I have been sourcing telephones locally in Ireland as much as possible, but they are getting hard to come by now at a decent price. Car boot sales are the best option, but getting parts for them is like trying to find hens teeth! I have looked in to getting some from the USA as I would like to get a few 2500's, but they cannot be got here in Ireland.
@Autonut - I am in Kilkenny (Southeast)
Quote from: patcorr on March 16, 2015, 09:11:56 PM@Autonut - I am in Kilkenny (Southeast)
Ah, like the beer! I have in-laws in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland.
Welcome to our little asylum! The first step is admitting the disease. Phoneitis is progressive and incuragle!
Happy St, Paddys Day!
Welcome! Please post some photos of your phones.
Yes exactly where the beer comes from. Alas the brewery closed last year and it is now brewed elsewhere :(
My collection has gotten a lot smaller, but I have some interesting pieces. I will post a few pictures later
Welcome!
and Happy St Patricks Day :)
dsk
Welcome, patcorr!
Dia dhuit! Conas ata tu?
Foighne agus fáilte romhat...
I hope I did okay, I can only speak a wee bit of Irish Gaelic, and reading/writing is much harder! :o
I am very glad you're here, and look forward to seeing your collection. (We wants pictures!) ;)
Best regards!
Hi Mr. Bones!
100%, couldn't have put it better myself :)
I have pictures of my collection up since earlier today, but that will be all different by tomorrow! I sold two today and collecting another 2 over the next couple of days :)
I will keep ye all posted
Regards,
Pat
Quote from: patcorr on March 16, 2015, 09:11:56 PM
Car boot sales are the best option...
Car boots? Is the rain in Ireland so bad the cars wear boots?
ha ha, it's the Irish and English equivalent of the Jumble sale or flea market
A car boot is what we call a trunk. Therefore a boot sale is a fleamarket or outdoor market people setting up tables and selling out of their car trunks or trucks.
The term "Boot" came from ye olde days when horses pulled carriages about, and the driver would have a set of boots to wear for muddy conditions, and he would keep them in the back in what they called a "boot locker", and when the automocar came along the term carried over to the rear stowage (and yes, they used wood & leather trunks as the storage for most of the cars that didn't actually have a rear compartment, but they were removable trunks usually), so the back of a car (or front if you had a Skoda Estelle or VW Beetle) was forever to be called the Boot, at least here in blighty... :)
Quote from: twocvbloke on March 20, 2015, 07:18:43 PM
The term "Boot" came from ye olde days when horses pulled carriages about, and the driver would have a set of boots to wear for muddy conditions, and he would keep them in the back in what they called a "boot locker", and when the automocar came along the term carried over to the rear stowage (and yes, they used wood & leather trunks as the storage for most of the cars that didn't actually have a rear compartment, but they were removable trunks usually), so the back of a car (or front if you had a Skoda Estelle or VW Beetle) was forever to be called the Boot, at least here in blighty... :)
I often wondered about that twocvbloke, makes a lot of sense. I guess we forget that people have different names for things outside Ireland and Blighty :)
Yep, my friend over in Texas and I are often making jokes about the differences between our two "english" languages, be it the differences in using entirely different words like Faucet versus Tap, or Trunk versus Boot, or the little differences like carburettor versus carburetor & aluminium versus aluminum, we both speak english, but they're entirely different languages... ;D
Here is the reason we in the US refer to the rear storage as a trunk. That for a while was what it was... http://aries-restoration.com/images/1930%20Lincoln/rear_trunk.jpg I think I have a pretty good working knowledge of English english, thanks to the adroit tutelage of the performers in 55 years worth of British and Irish television programming presented here in the states. :)
I watch Youtube videos by a guy who lives in Ireland, and I'm starting to catch myself using Irish and general European terms, or pronouncing things the European way. At first I wondered why I was, then I did the math. I listen to and watch an Irishman for 10-15 minutes per video, two videos a day, every day for the past year or so. ;D
Quote from: WEBellSystemChristian on March 25, 2015, 03:22:06 PM
I watch Youtube videos by a guy who lives in Ireland, and I'm starting to catch myself using Irish and general European terms, or pronouncing things the European way. At first I wondered why I was, then I did the math. I listen to and watch an Irishman for 10-15 minutes per video, two videos a day, every day for the past year or so. ;D
It can be quite contagious, depending of course what accent you listen to. IN Ireland the Dublin or Cork accent can be strong, while where I am in Kilkenny would be classed as flat. We find it hard to understand other Irish people too! and the same goes for Britain with the Liverpool, Newcastle and London accents being at completely different ends of the spectrum!
I know a young child of about 4 years of age that speaks with an American accent because they spend so much time in front of the television!!!!!
I've been watching canadians on Youtube for a few years now, and I've been catching myself talking like a canadian eh, though I've yet to find a hortons for some coffee and timbits after a visit to Canadian Tire... ;D
I was reading a few articles recently online about the American English and British English/Received Pronunciation, it is becoming so assimilated now that we tend to mix and match. Microsoft Word etc has been partially to blame for this I think as it defaults to American English.
Quote from: twocvbloke on March 26, 2015, 12:15:29 PM
...though I've yet to find a hortons for some coffee and timbits after a visit to Canadian Tire... ;D
You didn't miss much.
Canadian Tire used to be a great place that I would make a weekly pilgrimage to. It was a manly store. Now it's half full of 'housewares', cleaning products, small appliances, and other stuff designed to compete with the big box stores and attract shoppers of both genders. They even have shopping carts now. Now I only go there when I absolutely need something that they might have, although that often means ordering it in and coming back if it's automotive parts. They still have Canadian Tire money, but they are trying to switch everyone into signing up for a 'points card' so they can do away with it and save all of your purchase history in a database.
Tim Horton's used to be a great place. Now the doughnuts come in frozen on a truck instead of being made at the store fresh daily. Not quite the same. And they serve other food now, which slows things down tremendously. You can expect a lengthy wait at most locations. McDonalds has better coffee these days. I would never go there anymore if it weren't for receiving the occasional Tim card as a gift, and even then I only go to a couple of locations that don't seem to be as busy as most.
How aboot that , eh.
;D
I've heard about the issues with the Hortons having long queues due to people ordering food and the staff not exactly able to cope with such a task, and the coffee recipe changing and apparently Mcdullards have got what used to be the Hortons' coffee recipe, but personally I dislike mcdullards since my last visit to one in 2011, vile offerings which I would rather let other people have!!! :o
The CT money is a funny one, it looks like Monopoly money to me from what I've seen on various vlogs, all brightly coloured and "fake looking", but it's an actual thing which seems quite fun... ;D
Quote from: NorthernElectric on March 27, 2015, 07:40:47 PMHow aboot that , eh.
;D
I know, eh? ;D
I don't mind an occasional visit to Tim's, usually with my wife for a quick lunch or dinner quite often while on the road. I do almost always find myself trying to solve the slow moving line problem for them while waiting though!
Ever since McD's changed to a place your order and pay then someone else will put your order together while you stand to the side and wait for it....I find the front area frequently can be chaos not knowing which is a line to order and which is people milling about waiting for food. I bet it works better in UK (if they use this system) where people know how to "que up" but in North America we prefer to stand all over the place causing nothing but confusion.
Terry
We're gradually getting the "Order & pay here, wait for your order over there" thing too, KFC does it, not sure of McD's cos I've not been to one recently, but, yeah, we're good at being orderly with queueing, it's almost a national sport it's so popular to be orderly in a queue... ;D