is this how we are?

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:26am #1

what is it with German and their brutal honesty? Do they not know how to sugarcoat? heard about this on Morning Ireland this morning.

http://rsvpmagazine.ie/rabbit-teeth-german-journo-writes-scathing-article-on-the-irish/

xDramaxQueenx · 30-08-2012 9:27am

Couldn't be bothered to click the link

kfallon · 30-08-2012 9:28am

At least we didn't murder 7 million innocent Jewish people!

Btw Neil Prenderville, is that the guy who joined the mile high club on his own? :pac:

Hande hoche! · 30-08-2012 9:29am

You think the Swiss would be happy hoarding all that Nazi gold and leave us alone.

Links234 · 30-08-2012 9:30am

As the Irish world economist David McWilliams puts it, each of the Pope’s children are spending annually EUR 1,584 on alcohol.

says more about the high price of alcohol than how much we drink really

fishy fishy · 30-08-2012 9:31am

is that you that wrote that, Angela?
who was your friend - Enda?

:D

Tombi! · 30-08-2012 9:32am

One owner of one of these dental deformities once told me that it was the result of incest

That's one line from the article I picked out after picking a bit to read randomly.

Pile of shíte and he can stay in Germany.

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:32am

xDramaxQueenx wrote: »

Couldn't be bothered to click the link

there is a fair bit of reading in it alright.

kfallon · 30-08-2012 9:32am

Giving out about Irish music....didn't Germany give us David Hasselhoff's majestic singing talents and Scooter :rolleyes:

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:33am

kfallon wrote: »

At least we didn't murder 7 million innocent Jewish people!

Btw Neil Prenderville, is that the guy who joined the mile high club on his own? :pac:

is it possible to criticise the Germans without mentioning the ten million Jews they killed?

I have the feeling Antje is not going to be the popular girl In Ireland.

grizzly · 30-08-2012 9:34am

You'd think a German would steer clear of lecturing us on eugenics.

Tombi! · 30-08-2012 9:34am

Fuinseog wrote: »

is it possible to criticise the Germans without mentioning the ten million Jews they killed?

I'll give it a go:
The germans are prícks.

Yeah, think that works. :pac:

Cee-Jay-Cee · 30-08-2012 9:35am

If the author was half as good as he likes to think he is and investigated the price of alcohol here he'd have discovered that we drink less than his nation of sour krauts, we may pay more but that has no bearing on what he's blabbering on about.

At least we didn't start two world wars and slaughter millions of innocent Jews.

Duggy747 · 30-08-2012 9:35am

Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler

Hitler

Links234 · 30-08-2012 9:35am

kfallon wrote: »

Giving out about Irish music....didn't Germany give us David Hasselhoff's majestic singing talents and Scooter :rolleyes:

but they gave us Rammstein, for that they can be forever forgiven for any musical atrocities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLp63WBV-Ic

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:38am

what queer about our music?

"And of course, the queer music. Diddel di diddel di dainden da, diddeldidaindenda – yes, that’s hard on the legs. And if you’re listening long enough, it will also be hard on the brain. Of course, there are completely different sounding Irish singers and bands: Imelda May, Cathy Davey, Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club. But they’re nearly unknown outside of Ireland. Instead there seems to be a global agreement that Irish traditional music is nice. I would bet that the passionate lovers of the ever so monotone fiddly dee music, are not ardent advocates of the Irish folk music’s jigs and reels. They probably find it boring and stuffy. That’s what it is. The Irish however have managed to catapult and establish this Psycho Diddelidi out all over the world."

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:39am

CJC999 wrote: »

If the author was half as good as he likes to think he is and investigated the price of alcohol here he'd have discovered that we drink less than his nation of sour krauts, we may pay more but that has no bearing on what he's blabbering on about.

At least we didn't start two world wars and slaughter millions of innocent Jews.

its a she, not a he.

raymann · 30-08-2012 9:39am

thats the worst of ireland right there and some of what she says is true. that says she can kiss my arse and piss off if she doesnt like it.

seamus · 30-08-2012 9:40am

Tbh, it sounds like a parody piece rather than a real piece. Either that or his research for this article involved finding the dankest, darkest pubs he could and interviewing the smelliest dirtbags in there:

Enrichment through different cultures is Greek to the Irish. Even that doesn’t have to surprise anyone. Ireland is small, with a population of nearly 5m people. Vast parts of the population have a dental deformity. One owner of one of these dental deformities once told me that it was the result of incest. To prove that, he threw back his head, opened his mouth and showed me his rodent like narrow upper jaw. This man was a scientist, he must know. He also said, that young couples have been advised by the government over the last few years to have an DNA test done before marriage, in order to prevent a further spread of this dental deformity.

Passing off anecdotes and lies as a serious article? Yeah, that's some great journalism going on there. Good job Adolf, maybe your next article will be extolling the benefits of genetic cleansing in Ireland, you're halfway there already.

BraziliaNZ · 30-08-2012 9:40am

Sounds like she got dumped by an Irish Lothario. Many Germans live in Ireland and love it there, although they do like to bitch about our unreliable public transport, for which I don't blame them!

Biggins · 30-08-2012 9:41am

Fuinseog wrote: »

what is it with German and their brutal honesty? Do they not know how to sugarcoat? heard about this on Morning Ireland this morning.

http://rsvpmagazine.ie/rabbit-teeth-german-journo-writes-scathing-article-on-the-irish/

Brutal honesty?

Seriously?

We have our faults but that writer is just... well to be brutally honest... a fcuking stupid asshole!

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:41am

raymann wrote: »

thats the worst of ireland right there and some of what she says is true. that says she can kiss my arse and piss off if she doesnt like it.

should she be crucified like the ambassador who said earning 250k in this country was regarded as peanuts and we were obsessed with brand new flashy cars?

kfallon · 30-08-2012 9:41am

Fuinseog wrote: »

is it possible to criticise the Germans without mentioning the ten million Jews they killed?

No! If they want to give it they can expect to take it too (oooo matron!)

Tombi! · 30-08-2012 9:41am

seamus wrote: »

Tbh, it sounds like a parody piece rather than a real piece. Either that or his research for this article involved finding the dankest, darkest pubs he could and interviewing the smelliest dirtbags in there:
Passing off anecdotes and lies as a serious article? Yeah, that's some great journalism going on there. Good job Adolf, maybe your next article will be extolling the benefits of genetic cleansing in Ireland, you're halfway there already.

Hitler wasn't German. :cool:
But it is serious; she's a known jurno.

Duggy747 · 30-08-2012 9:43am

We need to do a Wicker Man job and burn her.

Except, instead of a Wicker Man we'll have a........uh.........Potato Man.

Micheal D. Higgins can be Christopher Lee :pac:

Sykk · 30-08-2012 9:43am

Fuinseog wrote: »

what is it with German and their brutal honesty? Do they not know how to sugarcoat? heard about this on Morning Ireland this morning.

http://rsvpmagazine.ie/rabbit-teeth-german-journo-writes-scathing-article-on-the-irish/

One journalist = the views of over 81 million people.

Why are all Irish alcoholics and why do they all have red hair and eat nothing but breakfast rolls.

See what I did there?

kfallon · 30-08-2012 9:43am

Fuinseog wrote: »

its a she, not a he.

Author is gone from a wankbag to a clitbag!! She was probably on 'Der Blob' :pac:

Biggins wrote: »

Brutal honesty?

Seriously?

We have out faults but that writer is just... well to be brutally honest... a fcuking stupid asshole!

That's it Biggins me ould trout, give it Killareny!

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:45am

she lives in Ballygar, County Galway. I am sure the natives will be thrilled to find out that she thinks they are animals. she should have published the article in Punch

Biggins · 30-08-2012 9:46am

kfallon wrote: »

That's it Biggins me ould trout, give it Killareny!

I have me pitchfork and torches at the ready!

kfallon · 30-08-2012 9:48am

Biggins wrote: »

I have me pitchfork and torches at the ready!

Bring some sandwiches in tin foil and a bottle of TK Red Lemonade....this could last a while!

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 9:48am

Duggy747 wrote: »

We need to do a Wicker Man job and burn her.

Except, instead of a Wicker Man we'll have a........uh.........Potato Man.

Micheal D. Higgins can be Christopher Lee :pac:

I would say the people of Ballygar are gathering the sticks as we speak.

the article seems more nasty that merely critical.

this is offensive BS.
'School mates of my 16 year old son are giggling when they see a black skinned boy in one of their school books. A female student recently called a Polish pupil a “foreigner bastard”. He replied “fat cow”. One of the two was expelled. Guess who? An Irish acquaintance of mine adopted two Russian babies. They are now teenagers with mainly Irish history and pure Irish accents. And yet, since the school mates found out that they are not Irish bred, they made life hell for those “Russian f*ckers” (original “Russenaersche – could also mean “Russian c*nts”). Same for the Irish mother.
If this doesn’t end, in the distant future the Irish will look like rabbits. Never mind. We, the stupid, will find that beautiful as well. Ireland is just beautiful and somehow romantic. Alcoholism, narrow curvy roads, perforated with pot holes, the rain. And the fact that 70% of the adult population has hardly any teeth in their mouth, or that the teeth they do have are narrowly aligned like those of rabbits."

Reloc8 · 30-08-2012 9:59am

Author comes across as a joyless whinger that can't do basic research who hangs around with lying gob****es or alternatively simply makes things up.

nbar12 · 30-08-2012 10:01am

she must have been on her period when she wrote this! Outrageous article!

Oarrack Bama · 30-08-2012 10:01am

Nasty, vile, vindictive, bigoted article. Given the author's nationality it makes it even less fortunate.

fishy fishy · 30-08-2012 10:04am

did she just get dumped by an Irish lover - sounds like it.

regarding the "teef" business - she seems to have a problem with Irish teef. Maybe she doesn't know what being happy is - when you are happy you smile, like this

:D Are german people known for smiling?

Stimpyone · 30-08-2012 10:06am

When did the government tell us to stop diddling our sisters?.

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 10:07am

fishy fishy wrote: »

did she just get dumped by an Irish lover - sounds like it.

regarding the "teef" business - she seems to have a problem with Irish teef. Maybe she doesn't know what being happy is - when you are happy you smile, like this :D Are german people known for smiling?

according to her wikipedia entry she worked as a dental technician.
I am going home the weekend, where i will keep an eye out for the rodent like Galwegians.
it probably was the cleverest thing to say that we were inbred.

fishy fishy · 30-08-2012 10:10am

Fuinseog wrote: »

according to her wikipedia entry she worked as a dental technician.
I am going home the weekend, where i will keep an eye out for the rodent like Galwegians.
it probably was the cleverest thing to say that we were inbred.

really?
I supposed we should be happy she isn't a ob-gyn.

she picked her profession - looking at teeth all day. if she's sick of her job, there is no need to insult people over it - maybe her irish lover was the actual dentist, who dumped her and now she's a bitter twisted wreck.

Gurgle · 30-08-2012 10:11am

Oarrack Bama wrote: »

Nasty, vile, vindictive, bigoted article. Given the author's nationality it makes it even less fortunate.

I agree with your summation of the article, but follow the links.
Die Weltwoche

It's an article written for a privately owned neo-conservative Swiss magazine. Switzerland being one of the most liberal countries on the planet.

The owner

With politically provocative articles they opposed the "left-liberal mainstream journalism"

The far right in Switzerland consists of a few lone nutters that everybody else finds generally embarrassing and tries to ignore as much as possible.

I find it uplifting to see Ireland slated by a publication like this, it means we're doing something right.

Duckworth_Luas · 30-08-2012 10:13am

Fuinseog wrote: »

I would say the people of Ballygar are gathering the sticks as we speak.

the article seems more nasty that merely critical.

this is offensive BS.
'School mates of my 16 year old son are giggling when they see a black skinned boy in one of their school books. A female student recently called a Polish pupil a “foreigner bastard”. He replied “fat cow”. One of the two was expelled. Guess who?

I have many friends who attended St Mary's College in Ballygar. According to them many of these guys did far worse things in school than call a girl a "fat cow". I've never heard of anyone being expelled from that school. Indeed the school is known for taking in students expelled from other schools, it needs the numbers to survive. I smell bullsh1t!

Cheshire Cat · 30-08-2012 10:19am

That article is not brutally honest, it's brutally stupid! BTW I'm German myself and well aware that Ireland isn't perfect, but neither is Germany and I prefer to live here!

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 10:20am

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I have many friends who attended St Mary's College in Ballygar. According to them many of these guys did far worse things in school than call a girl a "fat cow". I've never heard of anyone being expelled from that school. Indeed the school is known for taking in students expelled from other schools, it needs the numbers to survive. I smell bullsh1t!

you have to try hard to expelled from any school.

Professey Chin · 30-08-2012 10:24am

Links234 wrote: »

says more about the high price of alcohol than how much we drink really

Averages out to 30 a week so depending where youre drinking can be anywhere from 10 to 5/6 pints but then people go to clubs and end up paying silly money for cocktails/shots etc so can be even less.
My brain hurts

swimming in a sea · 30-08-2012 10:25am

i never knew Ireland had such a teeth\narrow jaw problem (i have noticed it in people but i didn't think it was more prominent in Ireland) so it's down to inbreeding, well to be fair it makes since.

But i would have thought in a time before mass transport links that inbreeding was a problem inherent to all countries and considering ireland was the one of the first to get a rail network we should not be any more inbred than any others.

smash · 30-08-2012 10:28am

swimming in a sea wrote: »

i never knew Ireland had such a teeth\narrow jaw problem (i have noticed it in people but i didn't think it was more prominent in Ireland) so it's down to inbreeding, well to be fair it makes since.

Sorry, but WTF?

floggg · 30-08-2012 10:31am

I'm pretty sure the government has never told people to get DNA testing before getting married.

Which leads me to believe she may be playing fast and loose with facts and is perhaps prone to the slightest of exaggerations.

And it's not like Germany is a model for integration (ask the Turks) or indeed Switzerland (ask the "black sheep").

Fuinseog · 30-08-2012 10:34am

I see she had a regular Ireland column for the Tagesspiegel in Berlin, writing from her new home in Ireland. Germans love Ireland so if she was producing such pile no German newspaper would engage her services. maybe she had a bad day?

mike65 · 30-08-2012 10:37am

Terrible thread title! :mad: No wonder I started a new one.

fishy fishy · 30-08-2012 10:38am

Gurgle wrote: »

I agree with your summation of the article, but follow the links.
Die Weltwoche

It's an article written for a privately owned neo-conservative Swiss magazine. Switzerland being one of the most liberal countries on the planet.

The owner

The far right in Switzerland consists of a few lone nutters that everybody else finds generally embarrassing and tries to ignore as much as possible.

I find it uplifting to see Ireland slated by a publication like this, it means we're doing something right.

that puts a completely different light on things. Hope she does another one next week

swimming in a sea · 30-08-2012 10:40am

smash wrote: »

Sorry, but WTF?

read the article if you want to comment:rolleyes:

walrusgumble · 30-08-2012 10:50am

Fuinseog wrote: »

she lives in Ballygar, County Galway. I am sure the natives will be thrilled to find out that she thinks they are animals. she should have published the article in Punch

What was she expecting from the Ballygar - Glenamaddy - Creggs area? Seriously? Why is she living in those areas? It explains the bitterness of the articles so.

I hope she stays clear from the Annual Ballygar Carnival.

That journalists made some far points about the state of the schools and the rip off Ireland culture and the lack of trust we have with each other. But to piss and moan about rain (especially in that region), we can't be blamed for that. As for the denistry, oh lord , she has being clearly scared by the "local talent". The boozing figures, funny, you think for a bunch of Swiss (is she German or Swiss ?) they would not be getting your facts arseways . Music fair point, but the tourists want it so we are only obliging. Bar Meat and Bear, what great cultural aspect do most of the world take from Germany/Switzerland? Yogel?

When you have a Kraut lecturing another nation, just think Basil Fawlty and the funny walk.

Oh well, we all know what Oscar Wilde said about publicity

is this how we are?

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