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...FAHconfessions universalmusic.jpg
 * 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...FAHconfessions shortanswerisye.jpg
 * 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!