The middle aged Irish woman

prettypole wrote: »

Polish lady like Irish guy they sometimes drink so much but they are very romantic.
My sister and cousins all have Irish boyfriend who treat them very good and be nice to them with flower and surprise.
I think Irish lady who have good Irish man know this.

Sorry Prettypole, Irish guys don't give Irish women flowers and the only surprises they give us are unpleasant ones.

Bord Failte are paying these guys to treat Polish and other foreign women well so Irish guys get a good reputation abroad.

Emme wrote: »

Duggy747 wrote: »

The worst kind of woman is the middle aged, sometimes upper class, female customer who demands satisfaction.

Those of us who've worked in retail have all dealt with their bullshìt before.

Retail???

Yes, retail. It's something that I've observed in my business over many years.

They like to threaten you with "My husband is a barrister/solicitor/accountant and this won't be the last you're hearing of this" any time there is any disagreement.

They were particularly obnoxious in the Celtic Tiger era and though some of them are still around the recession seems to have "softened their cough".

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

Ah you're just bitter misogynist who can't get his hole

Classic.

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Dublin women are the most beautiful, most sexy, intelligent women on the face of the planet. Fact. And it's a fact because I wrote "fact" after it, which means you can't dispute it. Fact.

I'm with Eve on this one, I wouldn't sway my wife for all the fake tits in Colombia (for those who haven't been, there are mucho!) and she's all Dublin.

It's gas how lads think that all Irish women are munters, I can understand the idea that Italians are beautiful, but as for the french and especially the spanish, there are a lot more moonpigs in Paris and Madrid than Penelope Cruz lookalikes

Sappa wrote: »

If you look at take me out Ireland and take me out Uk version,the girls on the Uk one are all stunners,while a few on tge Irish one are decent.

Having sensibly looked at neither version, I can't comment on the veracity of that, but why do you think there would be such a difference, given that culturally and in terms of diet, we're basically the same as the UK?

Emme wrote: »

Sorry Prettypole, Irish guys don't give Irish women flowers and the only surprises they give us are unpleasant ones.

Bord Failte are paying these guys to treat Polish and other foreign women well so Irish guys get a good reputation abroad.

C'mon now that's just not true !

Bitter lads: Stop insinuating that ALL women are like the few you've encountered.

Ladies: Irish guys will gladly give you flowers, you just have to find the right ones is all.

up for anything wrote:

My view is that you must barely be out of nappies to refer to women in their late 30s/early 40s as middle-aged!

Or maybe he can just do maths. Irish life expectancy is 79.5

Ergo a woman who's aged between 35 and 45 is precisely middle aged.

http://www.google.ie/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_dyn_le00_in&idim=country:IRL&dl=en&hl=en&q=irish+life+expectancy

(they don't tend to like it when you tell them that though. They're "young" until 50 these days, *then* "middle aged" until 70 or so when they finally accept they're "getting on a bit". Sure you're not "elderly in this country til you've been retired for at *least* a decade. :rolleyes:

dj jarvis wrote: »

it could be for sure - but dont know if you noticed the name of the thread
its about women - so it going to be said about women

jesus - what is it with Ah ? if someone says something about women sure as **** smells the "but men are as bad/worse/bast2rds " - we know, we know.

it really looks like the irish lady just cant take being talked about without going into meow mode - one thing they just don't do in this country is constructive criticism - mention anything and they go straight for the eyes

truest quote on the subject i actually read on AH , from a female poster was along the line of " with all these lovely long legged eastern Europeans turning the mens heads , Irish women will have to up their game in a big way "

now as i said , if some one wants to start asking the same question as the OP about men and start a thread , great , i can add to the balding , fat , lazy bastard debate , i have have first hand experience

but this one is about the women

But the point is that naming the thread in such a manner is unfair, as it suggests that the complaints about people made in the OP only apply to middle-aged Irish women when they clearly don't.

Imagine if I started a thread entitled "Black scumbags" and in my OP asked why I see evidence of black people acting in a scumbaggish manner.
If people criticised me for only focussing on black scumbags when people of all colours can be scumbags, would you then leap to my defence and say "Hey, the thread's about BLACK scumbags, look at the title! :rolleyes: Scumbags of other colours are irrelevant."

I'd imagine you wouldn't. Anyway, this is a discussion forum where people can challenge other people's ideas, and it's only logical that someone point out that while some women are overweight, there's probably an equal proportion of equally overweight men.
It's relevant.
Just like if someone pointed out that you're making wild generalisations about Irish women not being able to handle criticism.

The King of Moo wrote: »

But the point is that naming the thread in such a manner is unfair, as it suggests that the complaints about people made in the OP only apply to middle-aged Irish women when they clearly don't.

Imagine if I started a thread entitled "Black scumbags" and in my OP asked why I see evidence of black people acting in a scumbaggish manner.
If people criticised me for only focussing on black scumbags when people of all colours can be scumbags, would you then leap to my defence and say "Hey, the thread's about BLACK scumbags, look at the title! :rolleyes: Scumbags of other colours are irrelevant."

I'd imagine you wouldn't. Anyway, this is a discussion forum where people can challenge other people's ideas, and it's only logical that someone point out that while some women are overweight, there's probably an equal proportion of equally overweight men.
It's relevant.
Just like if someone pointed out that you're making wild generalisations about Irish women not being able to handle criticism.

jesus moo who rattled your cage ?????

making the point that we ( as posters , not men ) cant say ANYTHING about the fairer sex with out getting the almost instant " all men are bastards " response

i know we can debate men and women at the same time , im not stupid
it just strikes me that ANY criticism is met with a barrage of near hate against us men folk

i think that might say more about the women than the men in this case

oh and nice one for ignoring the fact that i also pointed out that middle aged men are as prone to the middle age decline and bitterness

context is everything ya know

WindSock wrote: »

Yes yes, that criticism is terribly constructive. Ladies, let's all grow our legs long like the other ones, so we can up our game.

dj jarvis wrote: »

yea yea you can be like that all you want - i was making a point in jest

bravo or should i say meow

So it's alright for you to make a point in jest, but not Windsock? I thought her comment was funny, no bitterness in it at all! It's ironic that you talk about not being able to make comments about women without getting hassled, yet you hassle Windsock for her comment!