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

Published 17:35 25 Sept 2014 BST

Updated 14:37 12 Nov 2014 GMT

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

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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… For more from Facts. check out their YouTube page here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9grgiwZNUs Via Facts. - YouTube

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