I live in the Republic of Ireland , and a couple of days ago we got issued post codes ...whoo hoo !! I don't know if there are any other Irish lads or lasses on this forum , but they'll understand the excitement caused ;D
It means now that any deliveries coming to my home , they will at last be able to find me and put my address into a sat nav ....wonders will never cease !!
Of course now I have to learn another set of numbers , as if we don't all have soooooo many codes and passwords in our life already , but "meh" whatever , it's worth the hassle :D
ahhh rural ireland!!!
next comes fire, and the wheel :P
Quote from: undercovergeek on July 18, 2015, 04:20:53 PM
ahhh rural ireland!!!
next comes fire, and the wheel :P
;D then of course we'll need a training manual to use the said fire and wheel , and as long as that doesn't come in any kind of technology we should all be good !! O0
How'd they find you before?
Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)
Quote from: Gusington on July 18, 2015, 04:57:34 PM
How'd they find you before?
Our local postman knows us all by name ....which is astounding in this day and age !
But if we have deliveries not sent through an post , which is our governments postal system , then it gets very annoying trying to give directions .....like , I have a cream coloured house ...every house is cream coloured , arghhhh , two miles up the lane ...where's the lane , arghhh . Then I usually say , bloody hell I'll just meet you !!!! Where are YOU :2funny:
Quote from: bob48 on July 18, 2015, 04:57:45 PM
Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)
Cork and Dublin run on electric , being big city folks ....we however run on peat , or whiskey ...or peat flavoured whiskey , whichever happens to be the closest and most flammable !! :crazy2:
Quote from: bob48 on July 18, 2015, 04:57:45 PM
Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)
I thought they just put all the children in hamster-wheels until they were old enough for school
Quote from: Emeraldlis on July 18, 2015, 04:19:14 PM
I live in the Republic of Ireland , and a couple of days ago we got issued post codes ...whoo hoo !! I don't know if there are any other Irish lads or lasses on this forum , but they'll understand the excitement caused ;D
It means now that any deliveries coming to my home , they will at last be able to find me and put my address into a sat nav ....wonders will never cease !!
Of course now I have to learn another set of numbers , as if we don't all have soooooo many codes and passwords in our life already , but "meh" whatever , it's worth the hassle :D
The next thing you know they will be issuing 911 addresses to all of you living out in the country. Then they will be able to pinpoint your location.
But you're lucky to have gotten by with being hidden for so long. The U.S. has had postal (zip) codes for more than 50 years.
Quote from: undercovergeek on July 18, 2015, 04:20:53 PM
ahhh rural ireland!!!
next comes fire, and the wheel :P
Postal codes imply a written language. This is progress! Who's our resident anthropologist? We need a road trip!!!
Quote from: Emeraldlis on July 18, 2015, 05:17:57 PM
Quote from: Gusington on July 18, 2015, 04:57:34 PM
How'd they find you before?
Our local postman knows us all by name ....which is astounding in this day and age !
That's not far from how things were when I was in Japan 20 years ago. Everyone had an address and a postal code, but the addresses were not sequential. Somehow the postal folks figured out that I was the gaijin living in the neighborhood and I never missed a letter.
Quote from: LongBlade on July 18, 2015, 08:09:31 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on July 18, 2015, 04:20:53 PM
ahhh rural ireland!!!
next comes fire, and the wheel :P
Postal codes imply a written language. This is progress! Who's our resident anthropologist? We need a road trip!!!
The codes will be written in Ogham script. Works especially well on square fence posts. ;)
Quote from: LongBlade on July 18, 2015, 08:10:59 PM
Quote from: Emeraldlis on July 18, 2015, 05:17:57 PM
Quote from: Gusington on July 18, 2015, 04:57:34 PM
How'd they find you before?
Our local postman knows us all by name ....which is astounding in this day and age !
That's not far from how things were when I was in Japan 20 years ago. Everyone had an address and a postal code, but the addresses were not sequential. Somehow the postal folks figured out that I was the gaijin living in the neighborhood and I never missed a letter.
Outstanding !! Maybe my postie is secretly Japanese :o
It's funny even if a letter gets to the wrong address , the person will call round and deliver it to me ...I don't know them ....but they sure as hell know me !! Which freaked me out a bit when I first moved here from the UK , my British reserve did not cope well with friendliness on this scale ;D
That's not friendliness - they're just checking out what you have to drink
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 18, 2015, 05:25:28 PM
Quote from: bob48 on July 18, 2015, 04:57:45 PM
Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)
I thought they just put all the children in hamster-wheels until they were old enough for school
Due to inflation hamster wheels got moved to India and China ...now we have a lot of unemployed toddlers AND an energy crisis :P
Quote from: undercovergeek on July 19, 2015, 06:22:26 AM
That's not friendliness - they're just checking out what you have to drink
Hahahaha , Irish nosiness ...oops I mean friendliness of course ;) they'd have to wrestle my booze off me , I won't give it up easily !
Quote from: undercovergeek on July 19, 2015, 06:22:26 AM
That's not friendliness - they're just checking out what you have to drink
Ha!
Hold on...you're English living in the wilds of Eire?
Quote from: Gusington on July 19, 2015, 02:21:15 PM
Hold on...you're English living in the wilds of Eire?
I'm either incredibly brave OR stupid right ? To be honest though I've been here 11years and never had any trouble about me being a Brit :) my other halfs family are Irish so I have an Irish last name , I think that helps ...maybe O:-)
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/donegal-postman-delivers-letter-to-your-man-with-the-glasses-1.2289890
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ROFL.
Actually, I have a pal who is a lecturer at Queens in Balfast.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 20, 2015, 06:26:06 PM
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/donegal-postman-delivers-letter-to-your-man-with-the-glasses-1.2289890
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Omg....LMHO :2funny:
Can't believe you found this story !! Lol , but it's completely true , I've stayed in Donegal on holiday and it's quite possibly the friendliest county in Ireland , and Ireland is friendly !!
And I love that Irish phrase "your man" , it covers a multitude of awkward moments when you don't remember someone's name :D
And we tried to give our postcode today to a company to deliver something to us , and they said ...err, the postcode system isn't even operational yet , knowing Ireland it probably never will be , lol , and they've already messed up postcodes for Galway :uglystupid2: this is not a promising start ;D
Our neighbors across the street moved to Galway right after Christmas. Their photos n FB/Instagram are pretty awesome.
Quote from: Emeraldlis on July 21, 2015, 05:16:59 PM
And I love that Irish phrase "your man" , it covers a multitude of awkward moments when you don't remember someone's name :D
Something makes me think that the Scottish have phrase usage of a similar kind. JD correct me if I'm wrong.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 21, 2015, 05:53:27 PM
Our neighbors across the street moved to Galway right after Christmas. Their photos n FB/Instagram are pretty awesome.
I live not to far from Galway , and I go there quite a bit . If they live anywhere near Connemara then it's breathtaking scenery I bet in there pics :smitten: I'm just interested , what made them move to Ireland ?
I sincerely hope they get there post and it doesn't end up with "your man in Donegal !! "
Staggering - I wouldn't be surprised if the two countries share similar phrases , they are both Gaelic speaking languages , and the scots came from an Irish tribe way back in ancient history . You probably already knew that though O0
Quote from: Emeraldlis on July 22, 2015, 05:37:47 PM:smitten: I'm just interested , what made them move to Ireland ?
Work made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Emeraldlis I have never been to Ireland but I have family from Cork. How far are you from there?
Quote from: Gusington on July 22, 2015, 09:23:41 PM
Emeraldlis I have never been to Ireland but I have family from Cork. How far are you from there?
Cork is two counties away from me , if I had to drive there it would take me about two hours to get to the city centre :)
Have you ever researched where in cork your family are from ? It can get confusing doing Irish family research because there are loads of town lands in each county , and a town land doesn't nessasarily mean there's even a village , it can be just a lot of farming land spread out over acres with farmhouses dotted around . My husbands side of the family come from county Sligo , and it took a lot of patience for me to research his family tree , but I managed to eventually find the house that his relatives lived in . One of the neighbours invited us in , and he turned out to be the godson of one of my husbands great uncles !! It was really fascinating , but I really enjoy genealogy and digging around in the past :smitten:
My aunt and uncle have been over there and met a whole branch of the family that is still there. They are still farmers and have been on the same land for 100s of years. If you ever go to Cork yell out 'hey O'Reilly' and one of the 10000 people who turn to you is bound to be related to my aunt :)
Quote from: Gusington on July 23, 2015, 06:56:22 PMand one of the 10000 people who turn to you is bound to be related to my aunt :)
oh, she was
that kind of aunt, huh? we've all got one in the family somewhere...