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Scumwaffle t1_j8ppbrv wrote

First thing he said...

Whale oil beef hooked

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Z8S9 OP t1_j8q1r66 wrote

I just spent a full three minutes trying to say that fast without it sounding like I’m cursing

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JaxckLl t1_j8ry47b wrote

Without? Have you met the Irish?

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tobmom t1_j8qfvow wrote

I cannot stop laughing. Like my side hurts and I’m crying. I don’t know why this is funny. But I’m dying. This poor man.

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cramduck t1_j8qmquq wrote

If you're going to go out, you might as well go out mercilessly screwing with the medical community...

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austinh1999 t1_j8pmzsa wrote

If that’s the case give them a pint of Guinness and put on a Liverpool game and they’ll be cured.

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-scawr- t1_j8pralh wrote

They're dead.

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brisavion t1_j8ruqpo wrote

Better than to watch Liverpool play these days

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manifold360 t1_j8ptgje wrote

Is that some Irish phrase that I don’t understand?

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-scawr- t1_j8pvsdp wrote

Nope it's English saying he can't be cured in a joking way because he died already.

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AckbarTrapt t1_j8rrc52 wrote

Lay out a pint of Guinness and run a match to the headstone and you'll be surprised.

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Professor126 t1_j8uoh2j wrote

Surprised as something slowly tips out aaand... It's a potato!

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Brasscogs t1_j8rdptu wrote

I’m confused. Why Liverpool?

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mr_marshian t1_j8rteby wrote

Liverpool has a famously large Irish population, and is one of the most followed foreign teams in Ireland.

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Brasscogs t1_j8rx9pp wrote

You know where else has a large irish population? Dublin. As an Irish person I feel like an Irish place would’ve been more appropriate than an English one lol

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JaxckLl t1_j8ry8sg wrote

Dublin’s not in Premier League no?

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Brasscogs t1_j8s59tr wrote

No it’s not. Not sure why we’re talking about the premier league though. Just thought it was odd that the first thing OP thought about when ireland came up was an English city.

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Bae_the_Elf t1_j8smr8r wrote

>Liverpool has a famously large Irish population, and is one of the most followed foreign teams in Ireland.

How did this not answer your question? It's the most followed Premier League team by Irish people. Seems pretty clear to me.

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Brasscogs t1_j8sor3n wrote

I understand. But it’s just a weird thing to say. Imagine the article was about someone waking up with an American accent and someone said “just give them a bottle of bud light and put on a Brazil game and they’ll be cured”. Just because the US support Brazil the most in the World Cup (when the US aren’t in).

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Bae_the_Elf t1_j8sqedr wrote

I think that the difference is Americans for the most part don't give a shit about Brazil sports and people in Ireland do legitimately like Liverpool due to the large population of Irish people that live there. If there were a ton of Americans in Brazil, I'm sure that Brazilian sports would be more popular in the US.

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Brasscogs t1_j8sropf wrote

Sure it’s not the best example. My point is that most Irish people don’t follow football, so it’s strange to pick that as a cultural reference.

I think I just got a bit tilted because there’s a lot of dumb irish stereotyping in the thread which, as an actual Irish person, gets very tiring.

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Bae_the_Elf t1_j8sufja wrote

OH don't you worry your wee little head, lad. Dontchaknow at the top o' the mornin' there'll be a rainbow with a pot o' gold at the end to lift yer spirits? Anyways BRB going to feed my cat Pangur Ban

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Brasscogs t1_j8suo2s wrote

Real comedy gold right there. Could sell that routine to Dave Chappelle

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Professor126 t1_j8up1yv wrote

I woke up my kids laughing at this. I needed that 😂

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blueish-whale t1_j8puwkd wrote

Also, mentioned he developed paralysis in legs and arms. Rare case indeed.

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Blueshirt38 t1_j8ruk69 wrote

Yeah, he said he was going to change his name to Matt.

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kf1920 t1_j8r2zga wrote

An actual Irish accent or the fake one the Americans think all of Ireland has?

That said, he has Irish ancestry so it's strange how it's happened. Freaky even

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Volomon t1_j8rhpwm wrote

Ah it's kinda normal when you brain gets damaged it will revert to the things that make sense to you and usually that's an earlier language or even one you've been exposed to.

Happens all the time with dementia patients. They'll speak English for 80 years but when they were 5 they might have spoken French. They will latch on to when they were 5 as their brain deteriorates. I assume it's cause these kinds of things occupy less space than the decades of English memories.

Not sure why it happened in this case but it's not unheard of for other ailments.

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Welpmart t1_j8sso4j wrote

An excellent question. Sometimes people get wildly incongruous accents from this and I always wonder. Tbf, it's often easier to perceive differences than produce them yourself, so maybe the cancer unlocked the real thing.

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bodhiseppuku t1_j8qzveb wrote

I'm pretty sure a medical drama, House or ER maybe, had this condition in the show. Brain damage that causes the patient to speak with an accent that they didn't before... And a comical enthusiastic impression of a different accent.

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LilG1984 t1_j8rg7v4 wrote

"Ye feckin eejit!"

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diehardwalnut t1_j8qoexd wrote

dammit he's too far gone, best put him down

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ymmotvomit t1_j8rjpsr wrote

Shoulda tried washing his mouth out with Irish Spring.

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scordev t1_j8qskcw wrote

My least favorite disability

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IPmang t1_j8qzizz wrote

Imagine going to the hospital and coming out alcoholic

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Brasscogs t1_j8rdrwd wrote

Nice stereotype you got there

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IPmang t1_j8s1pa2 wrote

You aren’t even Irish and are offended for them?

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Brasscogs t1_j8s4uxy wrote

I am Irish ya big goomba

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IPmang t1_j8stq7n wrote

If that were true you’d be drunk enough to laugh

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Brasscogs t1_j8su5n8 wrote

That’s some comedy gold right there 😂😂😂. Man’s a real comedian 🤣

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Trips-Over-Tail t1_j8szfzi wrote

Usually in cases like these they don't actually sound authentic to people of the accent.

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ooh_bit_of_bush t1_j8qxh7j wrote

They should have checked him again, to be sure, to be sure.

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Nige-o t1_j8st28s wrote

It's a rare disease, but now that it is being reported in the news I wouldn't be surprised if we all of a sudden start seeing a spike in cases.

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Schiffy94 t1_j8r428v wrote

>The BMJ report says past research has suggested an association between paraneoplastic syndromes and disease progression in prostate cancer, as was the case with this patient.

His cancer turned him Irish. That's some BrandNewSentence material right there.

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chang-e_bunny t1_j8s4zp0 wrote

Cartoons have been doing this for decades! Cartman gets a massive concussions from being thrown off a bull that he thinks he's a Vietnamese prostitute, despite having no frame of reference for knowing what either of those things are.

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ScaredyCatUK t1_j8sdsag wrote

I hope they checked this story 3 times....

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Cylius t1_j8t3h5i wrote

If ya had da chance to change yoor fate, would ya?

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TricksterWolf t1_j8th3e9 wrote

That's probably the least concerning word in the English language that could follow "uncontrollable Irish".

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ThorButtock t1_j8tl1td wrote

Ahh the cancer can eat yer potato

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itssalmon t1_j8txwb3 wrote

A few years ago, I got high AF. I had an Irish accent and I couldn’t lose it. It was funny at first but then as the night went on it became weird. Then I got scared but then I ate pizza and fell asleep and I was fine in the morning. Anyways I’m sure that’s the same.

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peensteen t1_j8u3vdm wrote

Those with the most severe brain tumors end up speaking Geordie.

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Ethelenedreams t1_j8uiyrh wrote

Epigenetic memory triggered by weird proteins or something?

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Professor126 t1_j8upjgv wrote

Doc? That's not an Irish accent... Wdym bro? Look at him: Patient: potatos... Potatos... Potatos... potatos... See, Irish as a Leprechaun

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MrFartyBottom t1_j8vabln wrote

No Irishman will hear an Irish accent, just an American with a speech impediment.

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justhavingfunMT t1_j9dk0i6 wrote

After reading community info I seem to remember a rule that was fairly high on the list. No reposting of the same story. There are several repostings of the same story and I just started cruising through here today. Curiou? Overlooked rules, what other rules might you neglect?

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tacotown123 t1_j8san3q wrote

I always assumed being Irish was a disease ….

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