# Stereotypes that you have often found to be true

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 8, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408 "2017-06-08T01:33:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/81 "2017-06-15T22:13:09Z")

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> [@BobBitchin](#):
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> My family is Irish Catholic, centered in Philly…and dad calls what you describe"THE POCKETBOOK CEREMONY" and all the women in the family do it.😃

Interesting, as around here (and elsewhere I would assume) an “Irish exit/Irish goodbye” is when you leave without saying goodbye to anyone.

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**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/82 "2017-06-15T22:54:11Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Interesting, as around here (and elsewhere I would assume) an “Irish exit/Irish goodbye” is when you leave without saying goodbye to anyone.

I’ve heard of Irish twins, I’ve heard of Irish sunglasses, but I’ve never heard about an Irish goodbye.

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**Author:** ![doubleminus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@doubleminus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doubleminus)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/83 "2017-06-15T23:05:18Z")

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Working years ago with a banker from Basle (German speaking part of Switzerland), he said he doesn’t stand Germans since they had no sense of humor :smack:

(In case anyone wonders - it’s hard to find more humorless people than Swiss bankers)

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/84 "2017-06-15T23:14:43Z")

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> [@Lemur866](#):
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> WOMEN! Amirite, men?

Can’t live with 'em, can’t get 'em to beat a hasty goodbye.

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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stereotypes-that-you-have-often-found-to-be-true/788408/85 "2017-06-15T23:50:18Z")

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> [@BobBitchin](#):
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> I’ve heard of Irish twins, I’ve heard of Irish sunglasses, but I’ve never heard about an Irish goodbye.

It may be a Northeastern US regionalism, but I’ve heard of it. It’s an Italian/Jewish stereotype to start saying goodbye 30-60 minutes before you actually leave. Although it’s entirely possible that the “Irish goodbye” developed as a way to avoid the “pocketbook ceremony”

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