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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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Scumwaffle t1_j8ppbrv wrote

First thing he said...

Whale oil beef hooked

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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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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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scordev t1_j8qskcw wrote

My least favorite disability

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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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IPmang t1_j8qzizz wrote

Imagine going to the hospital and coming out alcoholic

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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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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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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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Volomon t1_j8rhpwm wrote

Replying to kf1920 (#1,828,379)

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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ymmotvomit t1_j8rjpsr wrote

Shoulda tried washing his mouth out with Irish Spring.

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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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Brasscogs t1_j8s59tr wrote

Replying to JaxckLl (#1,830,669)

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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tacotown123 t1_j8san3q wrote

I always assumed being Irish was a disease ….

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Bae_the_Elf t1_j8smr8r wrote

Replying to Brasscogs (#1,831,223)

>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

Replying to Bae_the_Elf (#1,832,522)

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

Replying to Brasscogs (#1,832,712)

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

Replying to Bae_the_Elf (#1,832,848)

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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Welpmart t1_j8sso4j wrote

Replying to kf1920 (#1,828,379)

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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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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Bae_the_Elf t1_j8sufja wrote

Replying to Brasscogs (#1,832,971)

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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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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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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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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