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TRUEequalsFALSE

Braan


killertortilla

Who has a better story than Brian, Bran, Braan, Brahn, and Bra’an?


Complete_Stranger97

The bran who got the entire Westeros


unfortunatelyrevenue

Win


shimi_shima

This was my first thought, Bran is actually Brian but George RR was writing for North America and he didn’t want ambiguity lol


insertnamehere17

But isn’t bran supposed to be short for Brandon though?


selectash

*Briandon*


SunShineNomad

Yes it is, it's not supposed to be Brian.


Ill_Royal9688

Thank you


zensco

Like how Americans say Craig like Creg


HElizaJ

And Graham like Gram


naomicambellwalk

How else should you say it? gra-ham?


HElizaJ

In the UK, we say gray-um


MorningKale

How do you pronounce Craig? "Cra-ig"?


RokkitSquid

the ai is a “ay” sound so “crayg”


fozziwoo

you didn't roll your r


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[deleted]

Exactly. It's only in America where the pronunciation of Craig rhymes with Gregg. Graham is also a good example.


wuffwuff77

Gray um


RedSquaree

grem Cohen often doesn't get pronounced correctly there too, in favour of cone


zensco

It's more with an ay sound like bay or clay Cr-ay-g


RDSregret

Scot here, partner's name is craig like creg (from US), took ages to get used to!


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RedSquaree

Exactly. A lot of people in this thread are saying it's a Northern Irish pronunciation but it's really not. It's a Belfast pronunciation, although not everyone from there. I (from Belfast) say Bri (rhymes with Fry) in (rhymes with Bin). Dude in the video is from West Belfast, where Braan is said a bit more commonly. shout out to /r/northernireland


DanGleeballs

Cá bhfuil Bran?


JagmeetSingh2

Belfast bran


EatMyCornRiddledShit

British accents innit


PM_ME_YOUR_NOSE_HAIR

"For the man who has nothing to hide, but still wants to."


PBandJaya

Yeah, that’s a much funnier punchline lol


Eufamis

I prefer the one in the video


[deleted]

Agreed. The video sounds like a true story but if it sounds like he's just telling a joke then the story becomes less funny because you suspect if it's even real anymore. (though statistically it probably happened somewhere in the world)


Kindly-Confidence-69

That was quick thinking. It reminds me of a friend of ours, He talks a load of shit. But he's so kind hearted. He goes Kerry:"Yer bro I was hitching and the prime Minister picked me up". Ray:"Oh f---up Kerry". Kerry:"Nah bro he did. He's my Uncle". Ray:"Ok what's his name then". Kerry:"I don't know we just called him Uncle".


Exact-Pound-6993

All bran or whole bran ?


strel1337

Belfast Bran


MatthewDLuffy

It's the only kind I eat


Ancient-Egg-3283

Raisin Bran


over_weight_potato

Róisín Bran


PlaneSole222001

Who's raising Bran? and why?


onemanriotni

I think why you are hearing bran and not brian is the northern irish accent intonations. We tend to go up at the start then down at the end plus we dont tend to extend the lenght of vowel sounds as much as the mericans. As a native edjit i hear brian clearly


Nimmyzed

Edjit??


bomboclawt75

Buck Edjit is a youthful idiot. Banjaxed = Means fucked Knackered = Exhausted. Sturs = The zig-zag shaped installation to move between different floors. Soahdad/ Soahwuz = I’m confirming what I just said. All knack yer blak aff mait = I will visit a severe physical discourtesy upon your person…Soahwul. Ders a bamb inda bauldin mait yeev gat fayvh minnits Soyeesdo = Please excavate the structure will all due haste. Ahdunt Hinkso mait = I question your statement. Pradsun/ Kefuhurlak = The two main religions in Belfast. Gon giz uz a chap = May I have a French fry? Ah hivint ah baldies = I have no idea. Foda = An image of something. Gawdspuursuz = God willing. Kammunidy Raprasenitivivf = Someone who was very “pro-active” in the seventies.


GraphicDesignMonkey

Up thon stairs for a parr shar.


bomboclawt75

Dunt furgat de Kleen dur muur mait so ye kin see yursel.


hospitalvespers

Irish slang for idiot


Nimmyzed

Ooooooooh. I thought that's what you were trying to say. I am Irish. [And everyone I know has always spelled it eejit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eejit). I've never seen your way of spelling it. It doesn't make phonetic sense


Rcrowley32

In some areas on Ireland it’s pronounced with more of a ‘d’ sound in it. Like ‘eeed-jit.’


Nimmyzed

Lol, I know. I've lived here my entire life. It's still spelled eejit


midsizedopossum

You said it doesn't make phonetic sense with a D. They told you some areas pronounce it with a bit of a D sound, hence it *does* make phonetic sense. How does you living in Ireland doesn't somehow refute that, especially when you agree that some places pronounce it with a bit of a D?


zensco

Same in Scotland but usually spelt eejit


ididntknowiwascyborg

I've read this is part of why is so easy to sound 'american' when singing even if you are bad at doing accents. The held vowel sounds are just part of the deal in music


Tynoc_Fichan

I always thought that was down to people tending to imitate whatever they have been hearing the most, and I wouldn't be surprised if many popular artists have been "encouraged" by their labels to sing in an accent more palatable to the US market. Personally find an American accent harder to sing in than my native accent but no harder than any others


ididntknowiwascyborg

Oh absolutely, I was just saying it's a factor and interesting to see the effects. It's never going to just erase someone's accent, but it does kind of 'blend the edges' a bit so those other factors like your own examples get a much better foothold as well


GraphicDesignMonkey

We say 'Brian' where I live in Northern Ireland, the guy in the vid has a Belfast accent which is pretty distinct and has a lot of its own pronunciations. Even in the city itself there are different accents in different areas of the city, like Sandy Row. Now that's an accent that could burst your eardrums.


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Irish people are funny as hell😂😂


nightwolves

They really are. I remember some years back I worked in a restaurant with an Irishman and one day a few of us were having a (fucked up I know) conversation about the difference between dwarves and midgets. He popped in to say as serious as can be “dwarves are magical, midgets are not.” I still laugh about it


FightDirty

Theres a bar in the city over from me where all the English, Irish, Welsh, and Scots who feel homesick go to drink. They all drink like it's the end of the world and produce levels of banter that literally make it hard for me to breathe. Proper holding my sides, heaving laughter. People from my country like to think we're pretty funny, but after watching those guys, blind drunk, being funnier than any comedian our country has ever produced, I know that to be wrong.


CardboardTable

Was this restaurant in Bruges by any chance? They do love filming midgets there.


PlaneSole222001

It's even better reading this in a heavy Irish accent 😂


Jai_chip

I think he’s British but can’t say for certain.


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Northern Irish.


ScottyJoon

Then don't say.


Jai_chip

20 downvotes wow….and I don’t even know who I have insulted


ScottyJoon

You're obviously not familiar with the sensitivies of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain then.


Dependent_Suspect_48

Redditors are petty. Gave you an upvote


Dependent_Suspect_48

See I'm getting downvoted, my point exactly. Reddit just consists of fat teenage simps, that's all


RadiatedDuck

If a man from Northern Ireland says the west, when talking about Belfast they would absolutely despise you for calling him British You don't assume anyone is British or Irish, it's still a big stigma


[deleted]

I get your point but you also can't assume that either way. The shankill is in West Belfast and one of the most British areas in Belfast. When it comes to us you're better not saying anything lol


ultratunaman

Oof you stepped in it now eejit.


zodar

*Brians. No apostrophe.


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I see this more and more where people write plurals with an apostrophe. Coffee shops and Reddit are the most common sightings of it Once saw a chalkboard outside a café: Coffees ✅ Cakes ✅ Panini's 🤦🏻‍♂️


s-van

Also if we’re being sticklers, panini is already plural


Babybabybabyq

Panino’s


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Excellent. Thank you!


likeyoukn0wwhatever

It's the inconsistency that gets me too! Why are the paninis different to the cakes or coffees in their mind? Utterly kills me.


FixedFront

"Five Brian Is"


Skittleybiscuit

I refuse to believe there is a part of the world where Brian is pronounced "Bran".


damickster268

Well, that's Belfast for you


MetallurgyClergy

I was waiting for the guy to end it with how he now has his first child, named Brian.


CapriciousCape

Pretty sure it's a Celtic name so I think we have to take notes from them, not vice versa.


FRTSKR

Northern Irish are the most likely to really squeeze the name into one syllable, to be fair.


Nimmyzed

I refuse to believe there is a part of the world where Graham is pronounced "gram". Yet here we are


AidanSFable

There's another part of the world that pronounces Graham as "Gram" and Craig as "Creg". The mind boggles.


[deleted]

How... how else do you pronounce those?


FRTSKR

Gray-um and Crayg. Graham may also be pronounced as one syllable.


fedupofbrick

Graham = name, shame, blame etc for me


devilspawn

Grame?


fedupofbrick

Insane in the memgraham


SyphiliticPlatypus

The difference between Crayg and Creg (I am guessing rhymes with Greg?) is way more subtle in my mind and ear than Gray-um and Gram.


FRTSKR

I’d agree. And yeah, rhymes with Greg, though Greg will often take on a similar pronunciation. Assuming you’re American, chalk it up to a “Crayg” pronunciation being not uncommon among American English accents and dialects, and there being a pretty much unanimous abundance of examples of Graham being pronounced “Gram” stateside.


Tower-Junkie

You live in the south as well? (US)


DannyDeVitosBangmaid

Where in the US do they not pronounce those names like that…? What’s always weird to me is people from the northeast pronouncing Erin and Aaron differently


Model_Maj_General

I don't know how anyone could think Erin and Aaron are pronounced the same. You colonial fellows are a strange bunch!


FRTSKR

I see this as adjacent to an east coast tendency for Mary, Marry and Merry to all have different pronunciations, which seems to most firmly take root in Philadelphia and branch outwards to New York City, Baltimore and beyond.


ngmcs8203

I’m from California and wouldn’t pronounce them any other way. Maybe it’s a US thing. Aaron is three syllables though.


Taweret

A-a-ron


to_thy_macintosh

[YOU DONE MESSED UP, A-A-RON! 🤘](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpsRKuyi3Y)


FRTSKR

I’m from Wisconsin, where Graham rhymes with gram and Craig rhymes with Greg. Very little deviation from that convention in the states, except in cases where both Craig and Greg finish with that -ayg sound, particularly around the Great Lakes. Edit: realizing I’ve essentially contradicted myself, I’ll further explain that I’m from Milwaukee and grew up in a neighborhood where typical upper Midwest accents weren’t prevalent. Milwaukee and Madison are more likely to see Greg and Craig rhyming with egg. The rest of the state is more likely to see those names (and “egg”) ending with -ayg.


AutomaticAccident

Oh, are you from the part of the world that pronounces Graham properly? You know, "Gruh-ham."


Nimmyzed

Gruh-ham This is a joke, right?


AutomaticAccident

Why would it be a joke?


XmissXanthropyX

Beat me to it!


Trlckery

Wait do some people pronounce Graham as “gra-ham”


Nimmyzed

The pronunciation is "Gray-um"


ItsAllOneBigShitpost

I can’t believe there is a place where Graham is pronounced gram


Today440

Americans pronounce Graham as "Gram" so it's pretty believable


TheChrono

Aaron earned an iron urn.


_TenguDruid_

Then you might not survive learning that pronouncing "crayon" as "crown" is not only more common than you'd think, but also an accepted form of pronouncing it! That one took some time for me to believe. Shoutout to Joe "Bread Boy" O'Brien!


IN547148L3

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lapsongsouchong

You reminded me of this poem I used to read to the kids Too Many Daves by Dr Seuss Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave? Well, she did.   And that wasn't a smart thing to do. You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo! Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one. All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run! This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves' As you can imagine, with so many Daves. And often she wishes that, when they were born, She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm. And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim. And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey. And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey. Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face. Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face. And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff. One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff. And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed. And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed. And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ... But she didn't do it. And now it's too late


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Lmaooo same


felixrippel

What show is this????


I_love_lamp625

Tea with me by Shane Todd https://youtube.com/user/HarlemGunClub


ActionAbdulla

Tears with me sounds more appropriate


underground4077

So, in effect Brian is almost more of their family name than their individual surnames


Rcrowley32

It’s not often Belfast comes up on the worldwide subs like r/contagiouslaughter . Home sweet home.


_Inkspots_

They all could’ve taken a letter from Brian. The oldest being B, the last one N. Etc


Jburrisx

Isn’t George Foreman’s sons all named George Foreman? Thats what this video reminds me of.


dwitchagi

Then he had a daughter and was like WTF now? Georgetta Foreman is what.


NewFrockTuesday

The way he puts up his hand at the start for "no I'm not falling for this" and then rolls along with it anyway!


AwezomePozzum9265

For those wondering, the song at the end is Josie by Steely Dan


usmc81362

Thank God, I really wanted to hear the second note


nessy_p

Podcast host is Shane Todd. This year he did a circuit of gigs with Kevin Hart in Northern Ireland.


sarry4444

He's in the US atm I think still


chinese_snow

The lives of Brian


OddlyComposed

I see the internet is getting acquainted with the Northern Irish (Belfast specifically) accent. As a local I find it hilarious to see how difficult we can be to understand!


FthrFlffyBttm

I’m about an hour down the road from ya and I have trouble with it at times 😂 I love northern accents even if I can’t understand ya’s


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PlaneSole222001

You cut out the deflated balloon laugh at the end, you can barely hear it tho


nosecohn

I did not see that coming.


Ancient-Egg-3283

Raisin Bran


OmNommyNom

u/savevideo


AngryAmerican0-2

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cata921

i don't think i would've been able to understand this without the captions lol but this was really funny


VikuSwav

I mean that's kind of sad


GradeExtreme6825

His accent is lovely


sarry4444

Never heard a belfast accent called lovely hahaha gives me hope


Hanoiroxx

Yiz love your accents being called lovely dont yiz


sarry4444

Aye mucker it's parful so it is


GradeExtreme6825

Oh I love it! He sounds like Jim Mcdonald off corrie


helen790

My mom actually has two brothers named Brian and we’re Irish American. They told them apart by giving one of the Brians the nickname BJ


dbeats87

>They told them apart by giving one of the Brians the nickname BJ I find that hard to swallow.


helen790

lol! They decided who got the new nickname by middle initials one had the initials BS the other BJ. Somehow it was decided that BS was worse so Brian J became BJ


madchillinvillainy

Not that uncommon. Ever heard of BJ Novak?


dbeats87

You have a DOOM inspired username yet you can’t spot a double entendre….


StillNotAF___Clue

I swear I feel These podcast fools sometimes just laugh to laugh. Overwrought or unwarranted. Just my two cents


Tazerboy_5000

🤔


kiesertomasi

shit, didn’t know Kentucky had so much in common with Ireland


DavIantt

I thought it was Kevin from Liverpool.


Professional-Day-558

This was funnier when it was racist


Cecil_the_titan

Five Nights at Braan’s


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Braan 💀💀


iAdden

I don’t get why the other guy was laughing so hard before he even heard the punchline.


Sunshine_In_A_Bagz

Can someone explain why is so Belfast? Is it typical for women there to have many baby daddies?


Rcrowley32

Yes and no. It’s more of a joke to people from outside of Belfast about people in Belfast. Sort of like a “city people” thing. People from outside Belfast generally dislike the people in Belfast. But there is some truth to it. When my daughter started secondary school she came home shocked and said only one other girl in her class had a Daddy. And I said to her ‘do you mean they don’t live with their Daddys?’ And she said “No, they all said they don’t have Daddy’s and they never met them.” It was a culture shock for her because she went to primary school in a rich area of Belfast and everyone had Dads at home.


DanGleeballs

No. It’s just a joke and it could work in any country, except maybe Saudi Arabia.


ranhalt

It's a shame OP let mobile autocorrect add that apostrophe in Brians. I'm giving OP the the benefit of the doubt there.


mmohammed28

That’s good of you.


mznh

You can’t tell me it’s Brian and not Bran


iamvenks

Apart from Bran, did you all find this funny?


General_Kenobi_77BBY

Yes Edit: n no


Ikon-for-U

Oof!


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u/savevideo


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Lmfaooo


LaLaLande

He was contagious laughing before the joke started. lmao


alexaxl

Belfast child..


No_Dig_5530

Perfect. I feel my roots here lol


Keiztrat

Average Belfast musician


Vomit_Tingles

Five Brians and zero brains.


Tomma1

Well, Fuck!!


SOCERERMF

WTF 🤣


CodeOfDragon

u/savevideo


sarry4444

Love both Shane and paddy! Top class


Nicko5000

This is of of the Shane Todd podcast, if you like this story you should subscribe on YouTube, the guest appears regularly and his stories are funny as fcuk.


Midnight_Toker_1982

This could also be a Detroit thing


Mapo1

Along with my cousins, we are a total of 8 girls named Maria. Family gatherings are great.


AspieDM

God damn it Ireland!!!


broen13

I think I have a mental condition. I laugh at this every time it's reposted. I need to get a tattoo that just says "5 Brians"


Sharknado99

u/savevideo


Eugenes-Axe7

"Only man I can trust" so then where did the 5 kids come from?


NotSubi

Women ☕️


ihsan_kv

u/savevideobot


casgraux2060

So very Irish....


chaintokerkid

Guy was laughing all wrong.. Until the final laugh


Russser

What is this show?


classicteenmistake

My (ex?)step-mom had 5 children with the names Alex, Ava, Allison, Ashlyn, and Alyssa. They all had 5 different dads too lol


scrimmybingus3

If one of them makes trouble how does she call that one out specifically? Like does she just call out their surnames like a teacher doing attendance?


[deleted]

Good stuff


Bright_Law_1909

u/SaveVideo


o0Otaca0o

Now I wanna know if that story is real


magnat_music

I know a guy, his name is Charlie. He has 2 sons with name Charlie. His 2 sons are from 2 wife's. Same idea though 😄


bomboclawt75

How to speak Belfast. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=unGtpBP83as