Some French woman has a problem with The Irish

Fratton Fred · 02-11-2009 12:23pm

fryup wrote: »

she is right about one thing, us irish do have an over-inflated notion of our own popularity

"everyone loves the irish" what a load of b@lloxs :rolleyes:

the number of times I have heard "....That's what everyone loves about the Irish, we're not conceited"

Reflector · 02-11-2009 3:57pm

My God,
I feel horrible, it is such a racist article, is she serious. Being called Mr Paddy and then completely insulting an entire race of people whom have many different accents and not just an "oirish" accent.

Maybe she visits Ireland once a year on March 17 and gets the 123 to Temple bar at 23:30 and has a 10 minute stroll before she buses it to the airport.

I love the French, I love the country and the language and the culture but my word this woman by just associating herself with france has unfoortunately tainted the place for me as anytime I think of a french person I'll be reminded of her absolutle hate filled spiteful article

teddy_303 · 02-11-2009 4:01pm

Go braid your arm pit minge, you sweat and garlic reeking hard faced tart!

zuroph · 02-11-2009 4:12pm

:rolleyes:

4zn76tysfajdxp · 02-11-2009 4:18pm

teddy_303 wrote: »

Go braid your arm pit minge, you sweat and garlic reeking hard faced tart!

Banned.

Mal-Adjusted · 02-11-2009 6:21pm

Reflector wrote: »

My God,
I feel horrible, it is such a racist article, is she serious. Being called Mr Paddy and then completely insulting an entire race of people whom have many different accents and not just an "oirish" accent.

Maybe she visits Ireland once a year on March 17 and gets the 123 to Temple bar at 23:30 and has a 10 minute stroll before she buses it to the airport.

I love the French, I love the country and the language and the culture but my word this woman by just associating herself with france has unfoortunately tainted the place for me as anytime I think of a french person I'll be reminded of her absolutle hate filled spiteful article

i agree compleatly, Reflector. well siad
(except for the last bit anyway, no matter what this racist old biddy says, I know(hope:() that she doesn't speak for all of France)

Dudess · 02-11-2009 6:45pm

Reflector wrote: »

My God,
I feel horrible

You don't really... do you?

it is such a racist article, is she serious. Being called Mr Paddy and then completely insulting an entire race of people whom have many different accents and not just an "oirish" accent.

Maybe she visits Ireland once a year on March 17 and gets the 123 to Temple bar at 23:30 and has a 10 minute stroll before she buses it to the airport.

Maybe... so less reason to give a sh1t.

I love the French, I love the country and the language and the culture but my word this woman by just associating herself with france has unfoortunately tainted the place for me as anytime I think of a french person I'll be reminded of her absolutle hate filled spiteful article

http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/11/25/633632290549165732-irony.jpg

ScumLord · 02-11-2009 6:49pm

fryup wrote: »

she is right about one thing, us irish do have an over-inflated notion of our own popularity

"everyone loves the irish" what a load of b@lloxs :rolleyes:

Ok so, maybe not everybody but most, indeed the vast majority I'd say.

Rob_l · 03-11-2009 2:06pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224773/French-lose-accent-love--Irish-lilt-voted-worlds-sexiest.html

French lose the accent of love... as the Irish lilt is voted world's sexiest

Take that original subject of this thread!

Trekker09 · 03-11-2009 3:12pm

Jaysus begorrah I think I need therapy after that. I'll just down a few bottles of porter and go out and burp on some tourists while regailing them with stories of how Bill Cullen bet out the Tans from Mountjoy with his bare hands.

I do agree that some Irish people have an inflated opinion of themselves, indeed there's nothing worse than the Oirish pubs that have mushrooemd over the past while, but by and large, any time I have travelled I have been well received. There are parts of the current Irish culture that I don't like, and the binge drinking is certainly a turn off for a lot of people, but I've witnessed more excessive drinking in other countries.

She just seems to be a person that is using a very wide brush to paint us all with after some bad experiences, but in my experience, is not representative of French people in general.

the_syco · 03-11-2009 5:38pm

let's take the French and the German you hate so much

Actually, that'd be the English we hate so much. Remember the English: the same people every French person that I met in France seems to hate with a passion?

So, to your last comment, that everybody likes you when you are rich, let me tell you something. No matter what, Paddy, and don't forget it, no amount of money will hide the smell of dung which will always stick to your magnificent boots wherever you'll go.

You have to wonder what the husband works as?

A nationality is just an accident of birth, which means that when people say, for example: "I am proud of being Irish", it is an absurdity. We do nothing in order to have a nationality. And to be proud of something, you must achieve something, work at it, like when you succeed at your exams.

But for sure, I am very happy to be French.

Happy to raise the white flag too, no doubt.

As for the accent of my husband, he has a great musical ear, and maybe that is why he has hardly any Irish accent. Lucky me!

With a b|tch like the woman quoted, it's no wonder he changed his accent. Probably nagged to change it.

PS: All the people I know from Italy, France, Poland, etc are French, Italian, Polish. Nobody calls himself/herself European. Nobody.

Actually, only the German and French seem to call themselves European.

=-=

Oh, and if the French hate the Irish so much, why are there so many Irish pubs there?

The great craic: where, when, how, who?

Did I miss anything these last 30-odd years? I never see any craic with the Paddies.

In the pubs. Went to a French pub, and I thought I had walked into a funeral, it was so dead. Went into an Irish pub, and it was crammed full of french people, with a french trad band playing some tune down the back.

Perhaps since she hates us "paddies" so much, they just didn't invite her to the sessions. No-one likes a dour faced woman at a session.

A_SN · 03-11-2009 6:16pm

the_syco wrote: »

Actually, that'd be the English we hate so much. Remember the English: the same people every French person that I met in France seems to hate with a passion?

You have to wonder what the husband works as?

Happy to raise the white flag too, no doubt.

With a b|tch like the woman quoted, it's no wonder he changed his accent. Probably nagged to change it.

Actually, only the German and French seem to call themselves European.

=-=

Oh, and if the French hate the Irish so much, why are there so many Irish pubs there?

In the pubs. Went to a French pub, and I thought I had walked into a funeral, it was so dead. Went into an Irish pub, and it was crammed full of french people, with a french trad band playing some tune down the back.

Perhaps since she hates us "paddies" so much, they just didn't invite her to the sessions. No-one likes a dour faced woman at a session.

It's true that the French and the English have very mixed and ambivalent (and reciprocal) feelings towards each other. Well the same goes with the Germans I guess, except perhaps not as bad.

And yeah, France+Germany = the hard core of the European Union. The damn thing pretty much revolves around us

A_SN · 03-11-2009 6:19pm

Rob_l wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224773/French-lose-accent-love--Irish-lilt-voted-worlds-sexiest.html

And that's why The Daily Mail is a poor excuse for journalism. Who the hell was polled? The English? The British? People of various English speaking countries? They won't even say who ran the poll! If only the English were polled then the true story here is that the French accent was ever really popular with them!

Dr Kamikazi · 03-11-2009 10:16pm

*Barney (drunk): I'm just saying that when we die, there's gonna be a planet for the French, a planet for the Chinese, and we'll all be a lot happier.
Lisa: Mr. Gumble, you're upsetting me.
Barney: No I'm not!

A_SN · 03-11-2009 10:53pm

Dr Kamikazi wrote: »

*Barney (drunk): I'm just saying that when we die, there's gonna be a planet for the French, a planet for the Chinese, and we'll all be a lot happier.
Lisa: Mr. Gumble, you're upsetting me.
Barney: No I'm not!

I hope the drunk purple dinosaur is wrong, I don't want to be confined to the planet of the French

Some French woman has a problem with The Irish

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