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The middle aged Irish woman

  • 29-04-2012 8:28pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    Now there are plenty of stunning women in their late 30's early 40's who look after themselves in Ireland but a lot seem to let themselves go and eat an awful amount if junk,lack of exercise etc unlike other nations.
    If you compare this to Italian,French,Latino or Asian women who seem to keep their figures in check.
    Is this solely down to culture,diet or climate.
    I'm not having a go here just an observation having spent time in the above countries.
    Any views


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Are you saying my dead ma is fat?


  • Registered Users Posts: 814 ✭✭✭Tesco Massacre


    'Cause foreign women are raised on a healthy diet, good living, red wine and sweaty love-making.

    Irish women are raised on repression, mass and Jaffa cakes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    Sappa wrote: »
    Now there are plenty of stunning women in their late 30's early 40's who look after themselves in Ireland but a lot seem to let themselves go and eat an awful amount if junk,lack of exercise etc unlike other nations.
    If you compare this to Italian,French,Latino or Asian women who seem to keep their figures in check.
    Is this solely down to culture,diet or climate.
    I'm not having a go here just an observation having spent time in the above countries.
    Any views

    i think you are only looking for "normal" people when you are abroad.....and not looking at them when you are at home....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Mr.Biscuits


    IBT: 'Sure Irish men are beautiful I suppose' :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    Without the stats on relative obesity levels in the places you have referenced, I will call bull**** on that statement. Also, Asia? Pretty big place to be comparing to Ireland or suggesting that there is some inherent cultural and dietary mindset spanning a large number of countries.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Sappa wrote: »
    If you compare this to Italian,French,Latino or Asian women who seem to keep their figures in check.
    Lol jk? Latin women are renowned for morphing from stunners into dumpy troll creatures as they hit their middle years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Sure Julie M just lost 34 pounds...:D

    She must have known this thread was coming so she wanted to look good..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,966 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    when your ma sits around the house she sits AROUND the house


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Want to say that to my wife's face pal?....

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Want to say that to my wife's face pal?....

    :D
    Ha I told her last night:)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    There aren't that many obese people: you just notice them more because people of average weight don't stand out.

    There are probably fewer obese people in some other countries as they have healthier diets, but I don't think there's a huge difference.

    I don't know why you're focussing on middle-aged women though: there are plenty of overweight young people, and I'm sure you've seen the odd fat man about.

    Anyway, as long as you're not overweight yourself, I wouldn't give it much thought. Let people be how they want to be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Nah, sure even the stunning eastern european girls morph into shot-putters when they eat a slice of 40th birthday cake. There are an awful lot of verry good looking Irish women in their 40's, every nation has its share of 40+ munters, it's Gods way of making sure poor men in their 40's and 50's can still get laid by somthing. It's also why they invented drink, light switches and imaginations.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Sappa wrote: »
    Now there are plenty of stunning women in their late 30's early 40's who look after themselves in Ireland but a lot seem to let themselves go and eat an awful amount if junk,lack of exercise etc unlike other nations.
    The same could be said of Irish men. Why focus on one sex?

    Pot kettle tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I like the maturer women and always did, I think women in general age better then men. Of course there are exceptions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    ahh the old mile thread :)

    i won't post my texts in here don't worry :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Please post pics of sexy Irish milfs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,112 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    Lol jk? Latin women are renowned for morphing from stunners into dumpy troll creatures as they hit their middle twenties.


    fyp


  • Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭skylight1987


    Its very hard to keep the weight off in middle age. If i so much as skip one day of exercise, and say, had a large dinner i can go up 3 pounds. Its a constant battle. Lucky i am disiplined and in fantastic shape:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Please post pics of sexy Irish milfs

    There you go but I understood your typo.

    http://www.shelflife.ie/img/June%2009/dairy1.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    a lot of Irish women seem to let themselves go and eat an awful amount if junk,lack of exercise etc unlike other nations.
    If you compare this to Italian,French,Latino or Asian women who seem to keep their figures in check.

    Yet Irish women are STILL the most stuck up. It's incredible. Nowhere else on the earth has the Irish phenomenon of stuck-up fatties.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Yet Irish women are STILL the most stuck up. It's incredible. Nowhere else on the earth has the Irish phenomenon of stuck-up fatties.

    Coincidently, Ireland also has an incredibly high proportion of bitter misogynists.

    It seems to anyway...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Sappa wrote: »
    Ha I told her last night:)

    You wouldn't be in a fit enough condition to log onto boards and type today if you'd said that to Mrs. Galwayrush last night!!!!;):D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Yet Irish women are STILL the most stuck up. It's incredible. Nowhere else on the earth has the Irish phenomenon of stuck-up fatties.

    no no no there not your just really **** and have no charisma :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Its very hard to keep the weight off in middle age. If i so much as skip one day of exercise, and say, had a large dinner i can go up 3 pounds. Its a constant battle. Lucky i am disiplined and in fantastic shape:)
    pics or, etc etc. Keep up the battle, I may pass you in the street one day and it would be a shame if you were not looking your best. Also, just think how pleased all the heifers would be if you balooned.:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Hmmm, you appear to be right OP. When I googled "fat Italian,French,Latino or Asian women" I got
    google wrote:
    Your search - fat Italian,French,Latino or Asian women - did not match any documents.

    Suggestions:

    Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    Try different keywords.
    Try more general keywords.
    Try fewer keywords.

    Looks like even rule 34 doesn't apply :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    Irish women and men let themselves go in their 30's and 40's. Woop de do. Big surprise. Somebody phone sky news.


  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Casillas


    ( . Y . )

    Once these are ok....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yet Irish women are STILL the most stuck up. It's incredible. Nowhere else on the earth has the Irish phenomenon of stuck-up fatties.
    Coincidently, Ireland also has an incredibly high proportion of bitter misogynists.

    It seems to anyway...
    To be fair, it's mostly just one guy who keeps re-regging. He's got a point though - how dare women not force themselves to fancy him?! Especially with that winning attitude. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    It seems to happen both sex's to be fair...

    I was at a family event yesterday, and there was only one fella without a beer belly, and two women of normal(healthy weight) size and the rest were overweight at least...

    Our drinking culture in this country is the cause, If you drink 7 pints once a week without any exercise, your in trouble...

    And most people I know will drink more than 7 pints a week and do little to no exercise week to week.

    Also junk food has an effect as well as the Irish Mammy's.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Dudess wrote: »
    To be fair, it's mostly just one guy who keeps re-regging. He's got a point though - how dare women not force themselves to fancy him?! Especially with that winning attitude. :D

    It's not their fault in fairness: they're unwitting victims of a vast Zionist conspiracy to keep them from falling for his charms!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    Snowie wrote: »
    no no no there not your just really **** and have no charisma :pac:

    Then how come when I lived in Germany for 2 years, I was continuously in relationships or having one night stand encounters? Yet whenever I'm here, women think they are too good for me and snub me whenever I've tried to talk to them.

    They seem to think that they excrete golden chocolate bars which smell of perfume.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Then how come when I lived in Germany for 2 years, I was continuously in relationships or having one night stand encounters? Yet whenever I'm here, women think they are too good for me and snub me whenever I've tried to talk to them.

    They seem to think that they excrete golden chocolate bars which smell of perfume.

    Whenever you post here, you come across as very angry and bitter, no offence intended.
    If you also come across like this when you speak to women, I'm not surprised if they're not interested in pursuing the conversation.

    This might not be such a problem in German because from what I know of the language, tone isn't as important as it is in English.

    Also, would you consider yourself charming, personable, funny?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    Then how come when I lived in Germany for 2 years, I was continuously in relationships or having one night stand encounters?

    Lower standards?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Then how come when I lived in Germany for 2 years, I was continuously in relationships or having one night stand encounters? Yet whenever I'm here, women think they are too good for me and snub me whenever I've tried to talk to them.

    They seem to think that they excrete golden chocolate bars which smell of perfume.


    you left your lucky charms behind so head back :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    Whenever you post here, you come across as very angry and bitter, no offence intended.
    If you also come across like this when you speak to women, I'm not surprised if they're not interested in pursuing the conversation.

    This might not be such a problem in German because from what I know of the language, tone isn't as important as it is in English.

    Also, would you consider yourself charming, personable, funny?

    Hang on, I talked to 4 Irish guys in Germany who all agreed with me. None of them have ever been on a date before in their lives and they were all in their early 20s, and all of them talked about how much more genuine, authentic, down-to-earth and easier to meet German women were than Irish women, and that's even if you can only speak basic German and are speaking with them in English. Only a minority of German women speak English, yet at that time when I spoke little German, I was meeting loads of women who I could communicate with in English. How do you explain this?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Hang on, I talked to 4 Irish guys in Germany who all agreed with me. None of them have ever been on a date before in their lives and they were all in their early 20s, and all of them talked about how much more genuine, authentic, down-to-earth and easier to meet German women were than Irish women, and that's even if you can only speak basic German and are speaking with them in English. Only a minority of German women speak English, yet at that time when I spoke little German, I was meeting loads of women who I could communicate with in English. How do you explain this?

    Your accent. Works for almost any Irishman, in a great number of countries around the world.

    Maybe general cultural differences between here and there too, but I wouldn't be an expert.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    Thrill wrote: »
    Lower standards?

    In Germany, I had 4 relationships and slept with a further 6 or 7 women, all of which were in the 6-9 range looks-wise.

    I am around a 7 out of 10 on the looks scale, yet horrible looking overweight 2s think they are too good for me here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    Your accent. Works for almost any Irishman, in a great number of countries around the world.

    I've always found when Irish people say this it's really a reflection of their own narcissism. No one really cares about this little slave of Britain country. I'm Italian originally, but I was raised here, I have a neutral accent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Hang on, I talked to 4 Irish guys in Germany who all agreed with me. None of them have ever been on a date before in their lives and they were all in their early 20s, and all of them talked about how much more genuine, authentic, down-to-earth and easier to meet German women were than Irish women, and that's even if you can only speak basic German and are speaking with them in English. Only a minority of German women speak English, yet at that time when I spoke little German, I was meeting loads of women who I could communicate with in English. How do you explain this?

    Were they working in the Reeperbahn district ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Domo230 wrote: »

    Dunno, asian wimmenz tend to age hard, most asians in their late 40-50s tend to look like leather handbags with eyes :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    I've always found when Irish people say this it's really a reflection of their own narcissism. No one really cares about this little slave of Britain country. I'm Italian originally, but I was raised here, I have a neutral accent.

    Hold on a sec' , I'm just getting a beer and arranging my comfy chair......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Sappa wrote: »
    Now there are plenty of stunning women in their late 30's early 40's who look after themselves in Ireland
    but a lot seem to let themselves go and eat an awful amount if junk,lack of exercise etc unlike other nations.
    If you compare this to Italian,French,Latino or Asian women who seem to keep their figures in check.
    Is this solely down to culture,diet or climate.
    I'm not having a go here just an observation having spent time in the above countries.
    Any views

    Yes I agree with you wholeheartedly!

    ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I've always found when Irish people say this it's really a reflection of their own narcissism. No one really cares about this little slave of Britain country. I'm Italian originally, but I was raised here, I have a neutral accent.

    I've a fairly neutral Galway accent, not very strong, and lived in both America and the U.K for short periods, where my accent was often an ice-breaker when people would tell me how much they loved it (not always in a romantic sense, it was often just friendliness, from both genders).

    If you do consider yourself fairly attractive, then your attitude must be the problem (it may have changed since Germany without you realising due to life events).
    When you talk to women, do you think you come across as friendly, open, relatively confident and interested in talking and listening to them?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Really? Its already time again for the Irish women are all fat and up themselves thread? All foreign women are models as are Irish men?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    mattjack wrote: »
    Were they working in the Reeperbahn district ?

    Ha ha, very funny.

    I've never been that desperate. But I don't blame Irish men who go to Holland or Germany to pay for sex, although they probably do so out of the belief that they have to, when really it's only in Ireland where guys have so much trouble with women, elsewhere relationships and sex come easy, at least in Europe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Ha ha, very funny.

    I've never been that desperate. But I don't blame Irish men who go to Holland or Germany to pay for sex, although they probably do so out of the belief that they have to, when really it's only in Ireland where guys have so much trouble with women, elsewhere relationships and sex come easy, at least in Europe.

    Yes Ireland is the only country where there are sex problems, German men never become sex tourists. All Irish women are the same, all German women are the same. Yawn


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    When you talk to women, do you think you come across as friendly, open, relatively confident and interested in talking and listening to them?

    Yes, of course. But I'm not a professional clown or comedian, which is what Irish women seem to exclusively demand. Irish guys act like clowns because it's what the cows.. I mean Irish women want. I don't want to act like that, nowhere else in the world do you need to. It's just silly. Once my contract runs out in two years I'll return to Germany. I've been taking German night-classes during the week days since the start of this year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 jammy roger


    Yes Ireland is the only country where there are sex problems, German men never become sex tourists. All Irish women are the same, all German women are the same. Yawn

    There are desperate German men too, but not at anywhere near the same percentile as desperate Irish men. In Germany I saw average guys with average girlfriends all the time. Here it's always hot guy with hot girl, hot guy with average girl or hot guy with ugly girl, and only rarely I see an average guy with an average girl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    Then how come when I lived in Germany for 2 years, I was continuously in relationships or having one night stand encounters? Yet whenever I'm here, women think they are too good for me and snub me whenever I've tried to talk to them.

    They seem to think that they excrete golden chocolate bars which smell of perfume.


    Perhaps for women who's first language isn't English, it takes them a bit longer to notice your bullshit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Then how come when I lived in Germany for 2 years, I was continuously in relationships or having one night stand encounters? Yet whenever I'm here, women think they are too good for me and snub me whenever I've tried to talk to them.

    They seem to think that they excrete golden chocolate bars which smell of perfume.
    Yes, of course. But I'm not a professional clown or comedian, which is what Irish women seem to exclusively demand. Irish guys act like clowns because it's what the cows.. I mean Irish women want. I don't want to act like that, nowhere else in the world do you need to. It's just silly. Once my contract runs out in two years I'll return to Germany. I've been taking German night-classes during the week days since the start of this year.

    How did you manage to learn so little German in the two years you spent there ?


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