Makeup...Like

Two things today... The first is Makeup. I think the best way to make money in Cork is to sell makeup! It seems the reason the shops don't open up until around 9:30 or 10:00 is that all the girls need to spend hours putting on tonnes of makeup! This morning I was having a coffee waiting for the library to open and a girl wearing more makeup than a Klingon from an episode of Star Trek walked passed! This is actually the norm! I walked passed the Cinema and there was an advance screening of X-Men III and I thought people had dressed up in the outfits and done their makeup like that of the X-Men, but no, they were just walking by on their way to work... Like.

Which takes me to the second bit. The Cork Irish use the word "like" at the end of almost every sentence! Its very confusing because you are expecting something to follow. For example, when you order a coffee you will be asked "Do you want sugar like?" Umm... Like what? The McDonalds (refer the previous post!) advertising campaign at home was "I'm lovin' it" Well, without a word of a lie, in Ireland the posters say "I'm loving it, like" I think it was just that they didn't know how to pronouce a "full stop" so they decided to say "Like" instead! Just for the record, one more advertising campaign is the Murphy's Irish Stout advert, which is "Smooth, Like." Interesting.

One other turn of phrase here which gets used in every second sentence is "Well to be honest, like" which means "I'm about to tell you a fib but you're supposed to let me off the hook".