FAH Confessions

The original thread with a **call for entries** was started by @Heleendje (on 27 April 2020, during lockdown of course) but FAH confessions also turn(ed) up regularly during the **tweetathons** #FAHwatchparty and #FAHonShuffle! Read our selection of juicy confessions... **and then add your own!**

On this page, the confessions are entered anonymously. If you want to know who wrote them, well, you might get lucky browsing the hashtag **#FAHconfessions** on Twitter!

* I thought "I'm after forgetting me effin' cream" was a common Irish expression which I took to mean " I'm losing my mind". And I've started using it that way
* Craic is so common to me now but it was so jarring whenever I started listening to them. Crack is always a bad or disgusting thing here so to hear it used so much (and to pretty much never mean something disgusting) was, um, strange
* Only after my 3rd or 4th viewing of the first "Disease Convention" sketch did I notice Foil wasn't in it... I blame the incredible wig variety. I mean I didn't mistake the others for Foil or anything, just... with all those different characters I didn't realise there was someone missing!
* This next one is a bit silly (and not unique to Ireland, I don't think) but every time they say jumper, I laugh. I know what they are talking about but it is so weird to hear grown men talking about wearing something that would be for pretty much only for a little girl here (in the US)... On one of the first outros, when they talk about jumpers, I'm like "why are they selling little girl sleeveless dresses/overalls?..... [look at the pictures of their merch] oh." Haha. Literally doing that mental switch every time it's said
* Rewatching some other vids, I came upon another one: I had no idea what J1 was and assumed they were doing a parody of a tv show (J1 being the name of the show or the station it played on)
* I thought dole was the Irish spelling for dull and didn't realize until a recent interview when FAH talked about being on the dole for a while. Quick google search sorted that out for me haha
* Shift = sex? That was my original guess. Irish people, you have so many words for that kind of thing...
* The nickname thing I didn't really get until I heard Hog refer to himself as Flango... I was like, that sketch was real? Haha
* Luas Tannoy: I thought they were making fun of some Irish politician who had made rules about speaking Irish or something (I thought Luas Tannoy was the politician's name)
* I had never heard the phrase "me hole" so when the Irish farmer said it, I thought he was saying his name "Mícheál" Which made sense to me bc I thought he was asserting himself after being called "some pub singer"- reminding Universal Music of his name...
* I rarely rewatch and even skip Millennial's Funeral in playlists because Arms's haircut in it makes me sad...
* I had no idea what a "gaff" was but first heard it said as the phrase "gaff party" so I assumed it was the equivalent to a frat party (basically when a fraternity hosts a party and it's usually insanely crazy and wild)
* Oooh forgot this one - I remember totally bypassing the "Slim Shady-Jim Brady" joke in Songs for the Elderly even though I knew the Eminem song I was just like "ah generic old person name- funny"... it wasn't till I saw it live I made the connection
* My only shameful confession is that I find myself saying "Fair play to ya" a lot more and speaking more and more in FAH quotes and (bad) Irish accents every now and then
* I commented to myself about "the state of my room" and was like, who am I??? (To be clear, I have never used the phrase "state of" ever)
* I thought creche = shop and subsequently thought Chicken Pox's response at the end of the sketch [Disease Convention: Other Diseases are Angry] was sort of strange. I looked up "creche". And now his response is quite funny
* Using subtitles many more times than I would like to admit? I have been translating some of their videos lately and, while translating the last one, I was laughing again (for some things I didn't notice or haven't caught the first time). All I can say is: Clever Clever Lads
* To this day, I don't know really know what they mean when they say "after ----" (like in your original example). Does it mean they did do something? They will do something? I seem to find contradictory examples so haven't been able to figure that one out yet. I guess the main complication for me was the shopping w/ parents video, when Anne says "I'm after spending 135 euro on you Oisín" which I took to mean she was "going after" it, like planning on spending that... a very literal interpretation of what was going on

* Again, thought that short answer thing was a joke...
* I always thought he was saying Rita in an overdramatic way with like a dramatic pause at the start because I didn’t know the name Bride existed til I saw the subtitles on Facebook
* I realised JUST NOW that Arms's character is summarising **Sister Act** in Irish School Admissions, OMG I feel ridiculous #FAHonshuffle
* Confession: I do not like the sketch "Medical Chairs" (SkiddlyWup). parts of it are fun, love the voices, but...just...no for me, sorry. I love the characters, German nurse is so funny... so I'm someone conflicted to why it's not working for me.
* I couldn't finish watching the holiday sketch [Last-Minute Holiday Panic] the first time. Moved on to the next sketch. It was too real, a sketchomentary. Stressed me out remembering past trips. I can't remember when we never had one. This sketch gave me traumatizing flashbacks! #FAHonshuffle
* My itty bitty brain couldn't figure out what Hog the Monk was replying when asked how his day was. I was singing "all up on four" for ages until I saw a thread by my favourite maniacs on Twitter, who were reciting the lines of that sketch for fun... Uneventful.... OF COURSE IT WAS UNEVENTFUL - Sorry Hoggy!