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25th Sep 2014

Video: Watch as tourists woefully attempt to translate common Irish slang

These boyos won’t be getting the shift from the chungwans in Coppers anytime soon if they keep acting the maggot like this...

Oisin Collins

These boyos won’t be getting the shift from the chungwans in Coppers anytime soon if they keep acting the maggot like this…

The good folk from ‘Facts.’ are back once again this week – we previously featured their American Snack Taste Test video – and for their latest clip they wanted to see if a handful of tourists from all around the world could translate some fairly standard Irish slang.

They ask groups of lads from Germany and France, along with two pairs of girls from the US and England, a few slang phrases and words that a lot of us use on a regular basis. “If I had a garden full of mickeys, I wouldn’t let her look over the wall,” is our particular favourite.

Needless to say, the tourists didn’t have a clue with most of them…

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Irish,tourists