Wherever you are in the world, no matter how polite the company, a glass smashing will be met by hollering "Yeeerrrroooooo"
The man, the myth, the legend Conor Burns is your mate
You were on the bus when Carl Frampton's mummy got a round of applause - just for being Carl Frampton's mummy
You think anyone ordering a chip in Manny's along with their main dish is insane
You go "down" town, "up" Cavehill and "over" East or West
Barney Boys were once scary
But not as scary as Little Flower girls
"Will you see my mate" was once the height of courtship.
Civilisation as you know it ends at Bellevue Bridge
Glengormley is the coldest place on earth
Mallusk has its own wind-driven eco system
Devil Worshippers roamed Cavehill. Fact.
You were forced to dance in a circle of people at a wedding
You pushed your mate to dance into a circle of people at a wedding
You MADE the circle of people at a wedding
Dogs in the street were in your gang.
You got lifted over the turnstiles at an Irish League ground as a kid
Or, you bunked in free to an Irish League ground at half-time
You know someone who starts every sentence with "Here" or "Here's me". If you don't know someone, it's you.
You would kill for a hollowed-out Belfast bap stuffed with Tayto cheese'n'onion
Dublin Mick was a personal friend
"Aye yer Ma" trumps all other smackdowns. Other than "So".
Seeing grown women go to the shops in PJs at 4pm no longer shocks you.
You wear PJs to the shops at 4pm
You wonder why shops don't sell a single and a match anymore
As a teen you told your parents you were in your mate's house but were really on a bus to the Arena in Armagh or Coach in Banbridge
Wearing a coat on a night out is stupid
Curry sausage suppers cure hangovers
Halloween is better craic than Christmas
You had an army satchel from Smithfield as a schoolbag
Nothing beat the thrill of being "dinged" on the bus home
May McFetteridge once fixed you da's car
Throwing a stone into the sea is the first thing you do on arriving at a beach. Any beach
You're from North Belfast not Belfast
Sunday is for getting a poke from the ice-cream man. Or a slider
Street Football Rule No4 Para3 Line2: It's hitseez-getseez if you kick the ball goes over a wall
Unless it's someone else's ball, then they have to get it
What's wrong with woodchip wallpaper to back a kid's book?
You've "fond" memories of St Gerard's disco
The old Grove Swimming Pool was class
You were there the day the dolphin display team put on in The Grove!
Spides are diddlers and diddlers are smicks
You know where the Druid's Staircase is
Sun's out? Guns out. Even if it's still a freezing day in April
Your mantra in life is: "Whatever you say, say naffin..."
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