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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2995 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 12, 2026

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I don't consider myself someone who scares easily. Even horror films I enjoy don't necessarily scare me that much.

Yesterday evening I went to see Obsession in the cinema.

It scared the BEJESUS out of me. As soon as I got out of the cinema, I said to herself "I need a drink".

It took me a few hours before I felt normal again.

If you get a chance to watch it in the cinema, take it. The hype is warranted.

I said to herself "I need a drink".

Hmm.

Hmm?

Just don't get what you mean. Assumed it was a typo where you meant to say 'myself'. Are you referring to your wife?

My fiancée. As I explained below, Irish people often use "himself" or "herself" to refer to their significant other. Occasionally I forget that this is a phrasing peculiar to the Irish.

  • Good: I said to myself, she said to herself

  • Bad: I said to herself, she said to myself

Also, it comes from Irish grammar. There are two sets of personal pronouns, the usual:

Mé - I, me
Tú - you (singular)
Sé (he, him)/Sí (she, her)
Sinn - us
Sibh - you (plural, often represented in Hiberno-English as 'ye')
Siad - them

The emphatic set
Míse - represented in Hiberno-English by "myself"
Tusa - yourself
Eisean (Himself) Íse (herself)
Sinne - ourselves (as in Sinn Féin)
Sibhse - yourselves
Siadsan - themselves

English English will use something similar, as in Desdemona's "Nobody, I myself".

Is it not mise rather than míse?

Correct, I overdid it on the síneadh fada

It was familiar enough usage in the good old USA to be a hit song of 1917, "Says I to myself, says I : a rollicking Irish song", though the sung version here seems to have different lyrics to the sheet music.

This is just how Hiberno-English works, I'm afraid.

I wouldn't say it's common usage in Canada, but you certainly hear it from time to time. A non-USA quirk maybe?

Is it a thing Newfies do? They might as well be Irish.

TIL

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