What socially unacceptable things are you OK with?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '15

We call this the ol "Irish Goodbye"

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u/OKHnyc Jul 13 '15

Coming here to say exactly this. Walk out the door backwards so everyone thinks you're just showing up.

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u/SnatchAddict Jul 14 '15

My friends hate when I do this. I do it because I hate being hassled. If they were just like, thanks for coming out, see ya! I'd be ok.

But it's, don't go, stay for another. Don't be a pussy. Etc.

No. I'm done. I'm tired. I know my limit. I want to see my wife etc.

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u/rough_bread Jul 14 '15

Hearing for once that you want to see the wife instead of get away warmed my heart a little

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u/Yeti_Poet Jul 14 '15

Well, the man is addicted to snatch.

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u/mandalf12 Jul 14 '15

That is a good film.

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u/AdviceWithSalt Jul 14 '15

I use my SO as my excuse to leave any social situation. It's like 50/50 if she's even home, she's just the perfect excuse.

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u/SnatchAddict Jul 14 '15

My wife is 22 weeks pregnant so I've got that going for me

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

Dude that's like 2 years

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u/SnatchAddict Jul 14 '15

Do you even math?

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

Yes

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u/goldrushing Jul 14 '15

I've always known (and practiced) this move as the 'Irish Exit'. I understood it came from whenever it was the Irishman's turn to buy a round of drinks, he'd mysteriously disappeared.. But yeah, fuck the party goodbye. A friend of mine refers to it as 'doing a batman'.

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u/Koonga Jul 14 '15

We call it French Exit where i'm from, but I do like The Batman. I want to make that a thing.

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u/inexcess Jul 14 '15

Around my area we use the word "bounce" to refer to someone leaving. If they leave without telling anybody, we refer to it as a "shady bounce".

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

In Portland I've heard this called the "sketch bail"

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u/luzertomorrow Jul 14 '15

In D.C., "sketch ball" has an entirely different meaning.

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u/Redditarama Jul 14 '15

Ahh, in France we call it the English exit.

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u/tragamin Jul 14 '15

irish exit yeah but the real reason is most irish people are awkward and dont want to make a big scene when theyre leaving as if theyre famous or something

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

I've also heard that it comes from the Irish slipping out the side door of the church after Mass to avoid long chats after the service.

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u/Sciddaw Jul 14 '15

I'd heard it as someone who wanders off while drunk and doesn't return to the party

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u/JorgeKloony Jul 14 '15

An old friend calls it the "Cherokee Fadeaway"

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

I knew I'd find this term in the reply chain. Thank you

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u/feowns Jul 14 '15

Oh my god because Irish people drag out goodbyes forever. I swear I hate dding for my parents because we don't actually leave until at least 30 minutes after the goodbyes start

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

Sounds a lot like the Minnesotan goodbye. Always start saying your goodbyes at least 40 minutes before you actually intend to leave.

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u/TVhero Jul 14 '15

30 minutes? Your lucky, I'm usually there another hour at least

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u/slapandtickleme Jul 13 '15

"French exit" over here.

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u/waldgnome Jul 13 '15

"English goodbye" or rather "Englischer Abgang" in German. At least in my region.

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u/READMYSHIT Jul 13 '15

Brits. Stealing our stuff again.

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u/antarctic_chimpanzee Jul 14 '15

I take it you hear about the McGregor thing then

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u/GaryMutherFuckinOak Jul 14 '15

"Polnischer Abgang" in Munich

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u/Jon_Cake Jul 14 '15

My friend taught me this term! He tried to leave a party once by quietly telling a few people he was heading out, saying he was "doing the Irish exit." So naturally, one of the first people he came up to yelled out, "HEY EVERYONE! ALAN IS LEAVING!"

Of course, this led to everyone making a huge deal out of it and he was stuck with the awful drawn-out goodbye for the next 10 minutes or so before he could finally get out.

The best part came about 45 minutes later when he had to come back and go through the departure rigmarole again because he had forgotten his backpack...

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u/hawtsaus Jul 13 '15

"Smokebombing"

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u/chrishopkins Jul 14 '15

Can confirm.

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u/-blacktaxi- Jul 14 '15

Many of my friends and I call it "pulling the party parachute".

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u/vaitor Jul 14 '15

In Germany we know it as the ol "Polish Exit"

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u/daybowbowchica Jul 14 '15

I call it the "Houdini"

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u/DrunkenGolfer Jul 14 '15

We call it "smokebombing".

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u/oncestrong13 Jul 14 '15

The old "Just going out for smokes" routine

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u/ettenyl29 Jul 14 '15

I've heard it as the Irish Ghost...I do it.

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u/BigWil Jul 14 '15

Aka the black father

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

I also have heard it called "the Gypsy Fade" which I totally love for whatever reason.

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u/Juffin Jul 13 '15

This is English Goodbye.

Irish Goodbye is to pass out drunk without saying a word to anyone

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u/Dassery0 Jul 14 '15

And be inexplicably gone before morning

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '15

The only proper way to exit. Not a sound.

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u/turnpikenorth Jul 14 '15

"Irish Exit" here

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u/itzerokewl Jul 14 '15

My brother-in-law has dubbed this the "Ninja Vanish" act.

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u/RolandTheGunner Jul 14 '15

Interesting, in Spanish we call this the French goodbye, "despedirse a la francesa".

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u/basadvo Jul 14 '15

I thought the "Irish goodbye" was getting drunk and wandering off?

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u/Koonga Jul 14 '15

It's known in my parts as The French Exit.

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u/dbagthrowaway Jul 14 '15

I believe it's also called "taking Dutch leave."

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u/HeWentToJared91 Jul 14 '15

You mean "Drunkenly beat the shit out of someone and leave"?

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u/461weavile Jul 14 '15

My cousins called it the "shady bounce"

I'm not as cool as them

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u/zangkor Jul 14 '15

Houdini-ing

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

Interesting, where I'm from it's called a French goodbye

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u/Artemissister Jul 15 '15

HAH! I was told it's called "The French Goodbye!"

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

No, that's when you don't bring potatoes to a party.