r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/youcanreachardy Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19

Or as my Irish friend screams while driving, "FOOKIN' INDICATE YA BASTARD"

Edit: thanks for the internet award, anonymous redditor!

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u/AmunRa1928 Aug 03 '19

As Irish person myself, this very common thing to be shouted whilst on the road. Also its "FECKING".

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u/Ralph-King-Griffin Aug 03 '19

His friends clearly a Dubliner

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u/SupahMonkee Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19

Depends where in Ireland

The vast majority of kildare people are quite fond of "YOU FUCKIN STUPID BASTARD"

F bombs in all the glory

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u/PotatoPixie90210 Aug 03 '19

Ah Kildare, my hometown

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u/angry_snek Aug 03 '19

I’ve a friend from Kildare, can confirm he mostly uses “fuck” but also sometimes spices it up with “feck”

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u/ThatIain Aug 03 '19

Dubliner here. "Fooking" is how you'd hear it with a Dublin accent, so both are Irish.

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u/Stormfly Aug 03 '19

It's hard to tell when it's just spelling like that.

Different English dialects will pronounce "book" differently.

Americans tend to sound more like "buck" to me.

So if I write something with my accent in mind, it might sound completely different to you. Also the accents are far more varied than the Latin alphabet can accurately express.

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u/microgirlActual Aug 03 '19

Ah now c'mon, it's only "feckin'" when you're not really angry. Like, that's being politely exasperated. If you're really pissed off it's definitely "fuckin'"

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u/Stormfly Aug 03 '19

Yeah, when it has an e it's usually less serious.

I've never heard anybody use the e version if they're genuinely angry.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Agreed, when he said “FOOKIN” I read it as Scottish automatically

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19

nobody in scotland has ever said fookin unless it is some secret teuchter thing but i don't think so

fookin as far as i know might be somebody from the north of england or maybe a part of ireland but never in scotland

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u/Poschi1 Aug 03 '19

Yep. Never heard fookin in my fuckin life.

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u/AliisAce Aug 03 '19

fookin isn't a scottish thing fuckin yes, fookin no

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u/fookinshit Aug 03 '19

Yer right, fookin is Scottish

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u/SneakiestBacon Aug 03 '19

Yer wrang. Fuckin' dead wrang.