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Poem by an Irish Expat In Australia

  • 20-11-2014 10:15pm
    #1
    sashafierce
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  • #2
    sashafierce
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  • #3
    TheBeardedLady
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    Melodrama -rama!


    That poem probably had the opposite effect it was supposed to have and just made me laugh. This bit is ridiculous:
    There’s nothing left, there’s nothing there,only drugs and suicide, gloom and despair.


  • #4
    AngeGal
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    Sounds like the author is trying to convince him/herself they don't miss Ireland, common enough among some expats.


  • #5
    El_Duderino 09
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    sashafierce wrote: »
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    Humm. A poet using hyperbole to paint a picture... I wonder if it will catch on?


  • #6
    fedor.2.
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    I'm just back from the pub, it was packed


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  • #7
    TheBeardedLady
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    fedor.2. wrote: »
    I'm just back from the pub, it was packed

    packed with drugs and despair, you mean! Poor Ireland :(


  • #8
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,221 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Poignant, beautiful, heartbreaking..........are just some of the words that I wouldn't use to describe that poem.

    Load of miserable shít.


  • #9
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    I live in Dublin and I don't recognize the place he's talking about. I've spent some time in Oz and i have to say the only thing I didn't like about it were the Irish guys shiíte-talking about home, while doing their best to re-enact the stuff they supposedly hated: especially, lives that revolved around drinking.

    Life at home doesn't have to revolve around drinking, gloom and drugs, unless that's the life you choose to inhabit. The banks took a lot from Paddy, but they didn't take free will.


  • #10
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    "The pubs are empty, the shops are shut,
    People are broke and stuck in a rut."

    Weird. I could have sworn I was out in town with my friends last weekend and had a great night in a series of packed pubs.

    "As the sun burns my skin and the sweat stings my eyes,
    Covered in dust and tormented with flies."

    Is this Australia or Ethiopia he's talking about?


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    sashafierce
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  • #12
    charlietheminxx
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    Ahhhhhh what a load of nonsense. It might have seemed that bleak for a short while during the initial crash but life goes on and Ireland still has some wonderful stuff to offer!


  • #13
    Don Kedick
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    Australia is a hot sh1thole full of nasty, racist people.


  • #14
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Australia is a hot sh1thole full of nasty, racist people.

    It is strongly nationalist, that's for sure.


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    Beaner1
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    super_furry wrote: »
    "The pubs are empty, the shops are shut,
    People are broke and stuck in a rut."

    Weird. I could have sworn I was out in town with my friends last weekend and had a great night in a series of packed pubs.

    "As the sun burns my skin and the sweat stings my eyes,
    Covered in dust and tormented with flies."

    Is this Australia or Ethiopia he's talking about?

    You have no money and live in poor accomodation.


  • #16
    efb
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    super_furry wrote: »
    "The pubs are empty, the shops are shut,
    People are broke and stuck in a rut."

    Weird. I could have sworn I was out in town with my friends last weekend and had a great night in a series of packed pubs.

    "As the sun burns my skin and the sweat stings my eyes,
    Covered in dust and tormented with flies."

    Is this Australia or Ethiopia he's talking about?

    Send for Sir Bob! AUSTRALIA AID!!!


  • #17
    Meangadh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Anyone I know who is out working in Australia doesn't even seem to really be mad about it. I mean it's fine but certainly isn't this amazing place that we should be envious of. Obviously the Irish who are out there on a gap year having the craic going from one PJ O'Brien's to the next or out driving the Great Ocean Road (which isn't even that flippin great) are probably loving it, but most people I know who are actually residing there now would say it's grand but they don't rave about it.

    And I've never heard one of them mention flies. FFS.


  • #18
    EganTheMan
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    You always get this with people who feel they have moved onto bigger and better things . . .

    Mother Ireland is alive and well!


  • #19
    Highflyer13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    Hes right about the politics, corruption and greed. Once all that is dealt with we will be sorted. We are a fantastic country and when we get our affairs in order we will be a great country.


  • #20
    efb
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    Highflyer13 wrote: »
    Hes right about the politics, corruption and greed. Once all that is dealt with we will be sorted. We are a fantastic country and when we get our affairs in order we will be a great country.

    And Australia???


  • #21
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    The execution is more annoying than the sentiment expressed.


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  • #22
    EganTheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭EganTheMan


    And I suppose there are no issues with politics etc. in Ausrtralia . . . Yea right . . . :-)


  • #23
    EganTheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭EganTheMan


    RIP Jill Meagher

    She would have been better off if she never saw that country

    God Rest her soul and my condolenses to her husband and family


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    fedor.2.
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    J. Marston wrote: »
    Poignant, beautiful, heartbreaking..........are just some of the words that I wouldn't use to describe that poem.

    Load of miserable shít.


    I LOL'd


  • #25
    fedor.2.
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    EganTheMan wrote: »
    RIP Jill Meagher

    She would have been better off if she never saw that country

    God Rest her soul and my condolenses to her husband and family


    That should bring the mood down nicely


  • #26
    Highflyer13
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    efb wrote: »
    And Australia???

    I'm not bothered about Australian politics. Its the crap that is going on here that is annoying me. I'm sure similar goes on over there.


  • #27
    Straylight
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    sashafierce wrote: »
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    You see there's your problem right there. If I learned one thing from the Leaving Cert it's that no good comes from reading poetry.


  • #28
    Fr_Dougal
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    sashafierce wrote: »
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    Who honestly gives a fvck about someone moaning as if they left Ireland on a coffin ship to go over to Oz? I know I don't. Idiots.


  • #29
    cloud493
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    Ireland is a lovely country full of lovely people. What a load of ****e.


  • #30
    Wompa1
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    EganTheMan wrote: »
    RIP Jill Meagher

    She would have been better off if she never saw that country

    God Rest her soul and my condolenses to her husband and family

    Indeed and God rest the soul of Manuela Riedo, she would have been off if she never saw Ireland....

    Or more likely never saw that Barry scumbag.....d'ya know!?

    I wasn't too fond of Australia myself, was there for a few weeks for work. Never moved there, never planned to. I met a lot of arseholes but met a few really sound people too.


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  • #31
    Don Kedick
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    The Aussies have a problem with their ancestry aswell. Everytime I asked them what crime their relatives committed to get sent to Oz they started shouting at me. They have problems.


  • #32
    Mongfinder General
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    cloud493 wrote: »
    Ireland is a lovely country full of lovely people. What a load of ****e.

    You don't like it, leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself €15,000. Tonight! In two hours!


  • #33
    bodice ripper
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    Straylight wrote: »
    You see there's your problem right there. If I learned one thing from the Leaving Cert it's that no good comes from reading poetry.

    It lets you know early on that life is about transience and unrequited love...


  • #34
    Wompa1
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    The Aussies have a problem with their ancestry aswell. Everytime I asked them what crime their relatives committed to get sent to Oz they started shouting at me. They have problems.

    You should go to the museum down by the Opera House...it's a bleak, bleak museum. They don't hide their history at all.


  • #35
    cloud493
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    Sure I was referring that comment to the poet, not the sentiment. I love Ireland (Dublin) and I'm a relative foreigner (as foreign as a British person can be considered) :p


  • #36
    Don Kedick
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    Wompa1 wrote: »
    You should go to the museum down by the Opera House...it's a bleak, bleak museum. They don't hide their history at all.

    Does it show all the stuff they did to the Aboriginals?


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  • #37
    humberklog
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    According to the poem they left 8 years ago...in 2006. Not exactly hard times here in that year.

    A whiff of the Frank Mccourt about it...just as crap but thankfully not as long winded.


  • #38
    The Aussie
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Does it show all the stuff they did to the Aboriginals?

    Yeh you Irish, British Whatever... did some nasty things before you handed over a whole big mess...

    LOL...


    Que frothing in 3... 2... 1.


  • #39
    Donkey Oaty
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    Mongfinder General wrote: »
    You don't like it, leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself €15,000. Tonight! In two hours!

    I've got Patel. :mad:


  • #40
    Don Kedick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Don Kedick


    The Aussie wrote: »
    Yeh you Irish, British Whatever... did some nasty things before you handed over a whole big mess...

    LOL...


    Que frothing in 3... 2... 1.

    Are your ancestors convicts then or what's the story?


  • #41
    bodice ripper
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Are your ancestors convicts then or what's the story?

    I'd be certain that all of us have convicts in our ancestry.


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  • #42
    -=al=-
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    I Recently returned from a year in Aus 2 months ago and had a great time there... I didn't so much miss Ireland much at all just friends, friends and familiarity. It was great to see Australia but I could give or take living there... But the weather was pretty nice!

    There is some dark stuff in the Aussie history and I tried to learn as much as I could over there. There is a bit of a strange sexist/racist kind of attitude but in the cities it's generally ok... Lot's of rules and regulations and I find they obey rules quite well over there (in the cities at least) In the more rural places there is some mad people! I saw quite a bit and met some strange folks.

    Some of the stuff in the poem I'd agree with and some might be a bit exaggerated but I have to admit coming home to all this water charge stuff was just ridiculous! For such a small country it's mad to look back at what happened for years with all the political nonsense when you return from living in another country!

    Sure we're one step away from turning into an ISIS situation... :pac:


  • #43
    kingchess
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    Its not even a poem-it does not even rhyme for f....sake.


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    sashafierce
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  • #45
    jimgoose
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    It reads like a load of dross written by a ten-year-old. It's awful, cringeworthy sh1te.


  • #46
    mad muffin
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Ireland is a wet sh1thole full of nasty, racist people.

    ;)


  • #47
    Don Kedick
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    ;)

    We've never attempted to whipe out a whole race of people!


  • #48
    mad muffin
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    We've never attempted to whipe out a whole race of people!

    Pah-lees… :rolleyes:

    You guys are so fücking racist it's unreal. And that's after being treated like the blacks of Europe. Get away with yourself.


  • #49
    elefant
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    It reads like a load of dross written by a ten-year-old. It's awful, cringeworthy sh1te.

    Agreed. Besides the shockingly bad content, it is also written like a poem a child would write in primary school. What word rhymes with 'shut' teacher?

    On par with:
    I don't want to see a ghost
    It's a sight I fear the most
    I'd rather have a piece of toast
    And watch the evening news.


  • #50
    Don Kedick
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    Pah-lees… :rolleyes:

    You guys are so fücking racist it's unreal. And that's after being treated like the blacks of Europe. Get away with yourself.

    Everyone gets treated fairly here, I wouldn't like to be an Asian trying to live in Oz land that's for sure.


  • #51
    DoYouEvenLift
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    Not a bad poem but it paints a picture of Ireland being some post apocalyptic sh!thole


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