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15th Feb 2019

WATCH: RTÉ asked people in the street to describe love, and it is incredible entertainment

Rudi Kinsella

Love RTE

One lad in particular just hadn’t a clue…

If you were put on the spot, how would you describe love? Probably not very well, we’d imagine.

The dictionary describes love as “an intense feeling of deep affection”, or “a great interest and pleasure in something”.

But it’s not as easy to just come up with something like that on the spot, especially with a camera and microphone in your face.

So we have quite a bit of sympathy for the people who were asked for their definition of love while they were walking the streets of Dublin on Valentine’s Day.

We can’t decide who our favourite is, the guy in the pink jumper who just couldn’t come up with anything at all, or the older gentleman who said that love these days is more “sweep to the right or sweep to the left”.

We think he meant swiping…

Have a look here:

When the guy in the pink jumper said he wouldn’t know because he wouldn’t have much experience, we really felt that…

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