Readers Digest

kahlua

According to a poll in the Readers Digest, Irish people are the funniest in europe but we also come last in the sexiest.

subway_ie

Isn't the readers digest some kind of magazine for grannies? I don't think I would want to be considered sexy by their readership...

Exit

Not according to Irving Berlin:

It Takes an Irishman to Make Love

[1st VERSE:]
It takes a German to make Lager Beer
It takes the French to make wine
It takes a pale-faced man from old Japan
To make a nice embroidered fan
It takes a Turk to make the cigarettes
For you American men
It takes a black-eyed Hawaiian lad
To make ukeleles, but then

[REFRAIN:]
It takes an Irishman to make love
It seems to fit them just like a glove

I know you money-makers are here in New York
But all the heart breakers are over in Cork

It is not the things that they do
But how they do them fascinates you

And when it comes to kissing sure they stand alone
For years they've practiced on the blarney stone

And you'll discover that the world's great lover
Came from Ireland

[2nd VERSE:]
You've heard them sing in all their Irish songs
"Ireland fell from the skies"
And I believe it's true, their eyes of blue
Are little bits of Heaven too
Talk of your gentlemen from foreign lands
And the polite things they do
But it's the honey-toned Irish voice
That steals the heart right out of you

munkeehaven

he is obviously some sort of eire-phile...probably found out he has some irish on his mother's cousin's nephew's side or something.sheesh. that poem is a bit cheesy....

For years they've practiced on the blarney stone

what a cliche

It takes an Irishman to make love
It seems to fit them just like a glove

not from my experience **hee hee**

And I believe it's true, their eyes of blue
Are little bits of Heaven too

i thought we all had green eyes and red fiery hair??

But all the heart breakers are over in Cork

i have to admit the guys in cork are some of the best....

jor el

Hmm, caught a bit of Jerry Ryan this morning and they were talking about this (at least I assume it was this survey, I only heard about 5 minutes of it), and it was the Belgians that were least funny in Europe, followed closely by the Swiss who are aparently a humorless bunch of cheese eating bankers.


But what would Reader's Digest know about sexy, all they do is read, and, eh, digest things, yeah.

kahlua

THE Irish are among the funniest and most liked people in Europe, but when it comes to being sexy we rank near the bottom of the list.

A new poll has put Ireland second only to Italy for being liked. Germans were seen as the least likeable people in Europe and ranked the rudest, followed by the French and English who, according to a Dutch respondent, "do not seem to know how to behave on holiday".

"All they (the English) do is drink and yell," she said.

But what the British lack in manners and decorum, they make up for in humour, noted by one respondent for "appearing deadly serious and being hilarious at the same time".

In the Reader's Digest poll which asked 4,000 people to comment on their EU neighbours, the British were overwhelmingly voted to have the best sense of humour, while close to half of British respondents thought the Irish were just as funny, if not funnier.

Ireland took the fifth spot overall in the humour stakes while the staid Swiss were voted the most humourless.

But when it comes to sex appeal, the Irish are hardly in danger of being regarded as too sexy for the EU.

We ranked 15th on the list, followed by Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Switzerland and Belgium which received an astonishing nul points from its EU neighbours for sexual attractiveness.

The Italians were rated the sexiest in Europe. According to a British respondent: "They know they're sexy, which is annoying, but it makes them even more attractive."

Ireland, however, did get one British respondent's vote for the country that has contributed most to the world.

"They gave the world Guinness," he argued.

The poll, to be published in the July issue of the magazine, was conducted in May to coincide with the accession of the ten new EU member states.

Allison Bray

munkeehaven

well really tis true i mean all the people on the continent get all the sun and good food so OBVIOUSLY they are going to be better looking....l. where as we live on an island with ****e weather, rarely exercise and dont have the ''mediteranean diet'' so...and its been proven that hot weather makes you more sexually active......

Evil_Bilbo

the scandanavians get even worse weather than us (though probably less rain) and they are stunning

Perhaps its all the booze that make us all so god damn ugly. Who cares?

grumpytrousers

According to a poll in the Readers Digest, Irish people are the funniest in europe but we also come last in the sexiest.

I thought coming last was a good thing....Sting never shuts the feck up about it

munkeehaven

i dont really care ..was just making an observation.........

Dont be at yourself

Originally posted by grumpytrousers
I thought coming last was a good thing....Sting never shuts the feck up about it

Groan.

grumpytrousers

thankyewverymuch

I'm here all week....

Mac daddy

Originally posted by kahlua
According to a poll in the Readers Digest, Irish people are the funniest in europe but we also come last in the sexiest.

Must ask me gran about this see reads it all the time- he i thaught readers digest was only for people over 50 years old who have nothing better to do

grumpytrousers

Must ask me gran about this see reads it all the time- he i thaught readers digest was only for people over 50 years old who have nothing better to do

A fifty-something pictured recently with nothing better to do

munkeehaven

well.......i think irish men are quite the handsome chappies....but i do have a thing for chinese guys.....its their lovely dark hair.....

pork99

Originally posted by jor el

But what would Reader's Digest know about sexy, all they do is read, and, eh, digest things, yeah.

Do they still have "Humour in Uniform"?, "It Pays to Increase your Word Power"?, "I am John's Left Testicle"?, "Communists Raped My Hamster"?

(An Aunt I used to stay with in school holidays had a big stack of them dating back to the 1950s - maybe this should be in the retro forum)

alleepally

I wonder does this sort of stuff even make the news in the rest of Europe. Is there an overweight, overpayed, super annoying Gerry Ryan equivalent in Moldavialand taking up precious airtime report scuttering on about this old baloney.