1. A meal is not a meal without bread.

2. You now say bof instead of meh when you’re unimpressed.

3. You know the chorus of “Voyage Voyage” by Desireless even though you’ve never even heard the song.

4. You get people’s references to Les Inconnus.

5. You can keep a straight face while pronouncing movie titles in English with a thick French accent so that the theatre attendant understands you.

6. You don’t call it Paris; you call it Paname.

7. You can honestly taste the bananas in a glass of Beaujolais.

8. You’ve embraced the Tooth Mouse and have come to accept that it’s not the Easter Bunny that hides chocolates in the garden, but UFO-like flying bells that rain down chocolates when they toll.

9. You find yourself saying bon appétit to strangers picnicking in the park.

10. You are no longer daunted by the thought of giving la bise to every single person at a party, and you’re even prepared to do the rounds at the end of the night… That’s a lot of kisses.

11. You also know which regions require one, two, three, or four kisses per person.

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1. A normal friend will give you sufficient time to recover from illness to go drinking again. An Irish friend will encourage you to drink while on antibiotics because they’ve heard it gets you jarred in half the time!

2. A normal friend will offer a shoulder to cry on when you’re having a personal problem. An Irish friend will question any issue you’ve raised and claim you’ve been watching too many movies where people have things called “feelings.”

3. A normal friend will buy a carton of cigarettes and identify themselves as a smoker. An Irish friend will scrounge cigarettes off strangers on weekends while still demanding they be regarded as a non-smoker on weekdays.

4. A normal friend becomes an atheist and stops attending any religious festivals they may have attended as a believer. An Irish person will stop believing in God, but still attend mass at Christmas and Easter “just in case.”

5. A normal friend will keep in touch no matter what the distance is between you. Irish folks struggle to keep in touch with good mates within walking distance of their own house, relying on Facebook statuses to find out the latest details of your life. A common example would be “Deirdre heard on ‘The Facebook’ that Dermot’s getting married!”

6. A normal friend will offer you endless amounts of food and drink upon entering their home. Asking an Irish friend for a snack is more likely to end up with them calling you lazy and scoff, “Sure, you know where it is, get up yourself and get it.”

7. A normal friend attends all of your GAA games and cheers you on through thick and thin. An Irish friend plays for the rival club and hopes you get knocked out of the championship in the group stages so you have little option but to attend the rest of their matches for the rest of the summer.

8. A normal friend passes on the latest trends in music so you can share the music together. An Irish friend criticizes your taste in music and has no interest in adding to his established playlist of Radiohead and Muse.

9. A normal friend goes by the motto “bros before hoes.” An Irish friend might be kind enough to ask you if they can try for a shift. If they don’t ask, you’ll get the excuse, “Sure, I was locked, I didn’t know any better!”

10. A normal friend will pull you to one side and have a word if they think you’re causing a scene. An Irish friend will allow the scene to go on as long as possible so they have an arsenal of ammo to slag you with for future reference.

11. A normal friend will cease any mischief the second any sort of authoritative figure enters the scene. Your Irish friend will continue with their rambunctious behaviour, but stop just shy of getting in any sort of trouble that might stop them going on a J1 this summer.

12. A normal friend praises your success in life. An Irish friend begrudges any good news that will ever come your way and questions why they haven’t received the same fortune.

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IT’S BEEN 70 YEARS since the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp utilized by the Nazi regime during WWII. To visit this historic site on the ground is sobering; watching this drone footage, produced by BBC News, depicts the compound from an entirely different perspective. This innovative use of drone technology is an example of how we can take travel film to the next level, while creating emotional, thought-provoking footage that helps preserve the world’s history and culture.

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THE STRANGE THING about maps is that much of them are taken up by countries with relatively small populations: Canada and Russia, for example, are huge countries, but their population together makes up less than 3% of the world population as a whole.

Reddit user TeaDranks put together this cartogram of what the world map would look like if we sized the world’s countries in terms of their total population rather than in terms of their total land area.

A map with higher resolution is available here.

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