Your top 5 most pissingly-off things about Ireland

Tellox

Myself;

1; Prices
2; Central Bank
3; Sub-par music festivals
4; Laois
5; Central Bank.

A prize of Wit+4 goes to the first person to post "threads like this".

Huggles

Tellox wrote:

Myself;

1; Prices
2; Central Bank
3; Sub-par music festivals
4; Laois
5; Central Bank.

A prize of Wit+4 goes to the first person to post "threads like this".

1. Prices
2. Amount of Dangerous East Europeans in Dublin
3. Terrible Roads/Drivers
4. AIB
5. Dublin Bus

tman

1. Threads like this
2. Tellox
3. Tellox's family
4. Tellox's dog
5. I supposes everything is fairly pricey...

whiskeyman

Prices
The Government
The weather
Our soccer team
We suck at the Eurovision now

LovelyHurling

1. The lack of planning and forward thinking in almost everything
2. Dublin Bus, and all of the state companies really
3. Power Trippers (everywhere but in Dublin esp.)
4. David McWilliams
5. Cost of living

ThrownAway

Limerick
Unpredictable weather
The fact that Ireland seems to be the only country in Europe bar United Kingdom thst has scum
The horrible barbaric Dublin accent that gives me the creeps
Fat middle-aged men that support the G.A.A. :mad:

Ruu_Old

Mary Harney
Weather
Prices of everything
Scumbags
Ryan Tubridy

ejmaztec

1 Not being able to trust anyone with a pulse.
2 The phrase “Terms and Conditions Apply”
3 Irish Airshows
4 The high cost of leaving the place.
5 The high cost of staying behind.

Dermington

1) stupid poncy footballer haircuts
2) complete lack of tact, open-mindedness, intelligence, general knowledge in the majority of the people in this country.
3) massive patriotic ego even though we are a country of lazy underachieving people
4) the word "munch" being used instead of food
5) stupid people

Brian Capture

1 The soul-destroying and inconsistent weather. Bring jackets / jumpers to work and having to carry them home in the evenings because it's so hot. And when you don't bring anything the temperature drops or it rains.

2. Litter / littering. The lack of pride and respect people have for their areas is shocking. And then when someone tries to challenge these people he gets strips torn off him by people basically condoning the litter lout's behaviour. [See thread posted a few weeks ago]

3. Skangers and people who engage in violent, anti-social behaviour.

4. Cute hoorism. The idea that brown envelopes / bribery / corruption is acceptable. Also the rural attitude to drunk driving.

5. Violent republicanism / intolerance. The mentality of some people that think it's acceptable or cool to have 'OMAGH 98' or 'WARRINGTON 93' put on the back of their Celtic jersies.

jrey1981

Eircom
the Irish winters
crap roads, death-wish drivers
Dirty Berties government
closed shop media

Amazotheamazing

RTE talkshow hosts (all of them).
Sinn Fein
Fianna Fail
Scumbags
People who are afraid of scumbags.

Huggles

Brian Capture wrote:

5. Violent republicanism / intolerance. The mentality of some people that think it's acceptable or cool to have 'OMAGH 98' or 'WARRINGTON 93' put on the back of their Celtic jersies.

jaaaaaaaaysis never seen that before, its sickening.

Brian Capture

TheGooner wrote:

jaaaaaaaaysis never seen that before, its sickening.

Saw one of each in Killarney a few years ago. Locals.

:mad:

Dermington

Brian Capture wrote:

Saw one of each in Killarney a few years ago. Locals.

:mad:

yeah but its killarney....

Huggles

Brian Capture wrote:

Saw one of each in Killarney a few years ago. Locals.

:mad:

That is just unreal!!!!!! Can't believe it. :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad:

PrettyInPunk

1.the **** weather
2.The amount of scumbags/snobbery
3.The thick Dublin accent..so sexy!!
4.Prices
5.The foreigners who think just because they work here its their country,fair enough ive NO probelm with foreigners and many are lovely,but i remember a polish man ringing up a talk show on a debate whether irish should remain compulsary for the leaving saying more people speak polish and that should become a subject,how cheeky.

Brian Capture

TheGooner wrote:

That is just unreal!!!!!! Can't believe it. :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad:

What I find hard to understand is what sort of sports shop would agree to print such a slogan on the back of a jersey?

Unless they got someone to do it for them.

Awful to see. But not surprising given some of the knob-heads supporting Celtic. They're a disgrace to the club.

Huggles

Brian Capture wrote:

What I find hard to understand is what sort of sports shop would agree to print such a slogan on the back of a jersey?

Ha ha was just about to say that!!

Squirrel

Cost of Insurance - I'm a 17 year old male, I work in a car dealer, I probably have more driving experience than some old women who use their car once a week to drive 800 metres to the shops, yet, if I am given a quote on a 1 litre Micra, it's for over €4,000

General prices - Rip off Ireland for a reason

Scum-bags - It's not cool to have shiny plastic earrings, jumpers that weren't cool back in the 80's

Under-age drinking - Q: So, <insert my name here>, are you coming to get locked on Friday night? (actually, that's a translation of the the incoherrent babble from some people in my year in school) A: Piss off!

Driver education? What driver education? - Driving today, this woman in a Punto starts trying to push her way in to a space my car was in, I sound the horn, so instead of noticing the red Micra there, she puts on her indicator and proceeds to try take the side of my car. I blast the horn and she moves back into her lane. How many drivers in Ireland have got lessons? And how many paid any attention?

And I just remembered another huge thing

The ****ing GAA - Derval O'Rourke is World Champion, so, athletics still has SFA money put into it, my coach has spent over €100,000 on athletics and helping athletes in the last 20/30 years. That's just one man, yet the GAA gets Croke Park completely revamped? Nenagh, our only indoor track, is a barn with a track in it, it's a fantastic idea and I thank the people who did it, but it's ridiculous that it's our premier indoor venue

latenia

I have seen on 2 separate occasions around town this dude with a Celtic jersey leading 2 pitbulls who also had their own little 'doggy' Celtic tops. Possibly the scumbaggiest thing I've ever seen.

Brian Capture

latenia wrote:

I have seen on 2 separate occasions around town this dude with a Celtic jersey leading 2 pitbulls who also had their own little 'doggy' Celtic tops. Possibly the scumbaggiest thing I've ever seen.

I've seen that guy a couple of times.
A few months ago I saw the two dogs tied to a lampost outside a pub off Capel St.

It would be hilarious if you could get two Rangers jersies and put them on the dogs while the owner was in the pub.

Imagine his reaction ??:D

Huggles

latenia wrote:

I have seen on 2 separate occasions around town this dude with a Celtic jersey leading 2 pitbulls who also had their own little 'doggy' Celtic tops. Possibly the scumbaggiest thing I've ever seen.

Yeah I see him too! Not necessarily scumbaggy as he is supporting his team, if he has omagh '98 on teh back then SCUMBAG!

They aren't pitbulls, japanese akitas or huskies.

Dermington

latenia wrote:

I have seen on 2 separate occasions around town this dude with a Celtic jersey leading 2 pitbulls who also had their own little 'doggy' Celtic tops. Possibly the scumbaggiest thing I've ever seen.

Go up and tell him what a fairy he is.

Dressing dogs...uber hardness!!!111oneoneone

uncle ernie

1. the 123 bus
2. the price of a pint
3. that Brendan gob****e that always turns up on youre a star, pop idol etc. and calls himself an entertainer...C*NT!!
4. charity muggers
5. bad roads

Brian Capture

uncle ernie wrote:

3. that Brendan gob****e that always turns up on youre a star, pop idol etc. and calls himself an entertainer...C*NT!!
4. charity muggers

Brendan Kilkenny. The annoying thing is that he's not actually from Kilkenny.

Chuggers too. Forgot to mention them. Scum.

LovelyHurling

Squirrel wrote:

Nenagh, our only indoor track, is a barn with a track in it, it's a fantastic idea and I thank the people who did it, but it's ridiculous that it's our premier indoor venue

Are you serious? Nenagh is the only indoor track? Youre right it is literally a shed! Its a wonder the country has any sort of future in athletics at all

mysteria

What's your beef with women, squirrel? Statistics show we have less accidents than men, my daughter 21 yrs old was quoted the same as you. I totally agree with your beef about insurance, my 19 yr old son is a better driver than these grey-haired old guys that won't let you pass and don't use indicators, drive in the middle of the motorway at 25 mph. It's costing me nearly 4 grand a year to insure him on my car. And I drive way faster than him because age brings experience. I really sympathize with you and hear what you're saying, but it's not a gender-problem it's an age problem. So Insurance rates are my number 1 beef.
2. Irish begrudgery and competitiveness.
3. The price of EVERYTHING!!!!
4. The weather.
5. The rip off banks, buiding societies etc.

Huggles

uncle ernie wrote:

1. the 123 bus

Oh such a good one, oooooooh!!! I get that bus twice a day and its like a trip into hell and back grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! They vanish between 5-6 and that w@nker they put on O'Connell street to organise teh whole thing.

LovelyHurling

TheGooner wrote:

and that w@nker they put on O'Connell street to organise teh whole thing.

Is that Camilla Queen of the Buses?:D Sometimes outside Connolly too

Sarsfield

1. Scumbags
2. Piss-poor planning
3. Begrudgers (thankfully they're starting to die out, or at least getting ignored)
4. Celtic jerseys - see point 1.
5. People who complain about everything (in fairness I think Ireland's a pretty good place to live despite it's problems)

6. Teenagers/young men who think they're great drivers and then go kill themselvers & others on a Saturday night. (OK, maye that's tragic rather than pissy-offy)

Huggles

LovelyHurling wrote:

Is that Camilla Queen of the Buses?:D Sometimes outside Connolly too

The very one, he is some fooking tool, seems the buses are all he has as he is on westmoreland street at 7am as well!

Brian Capture

Sarsfield wrote:

6. Teenagers/young men who think they're great drivers and then go kill themselvers & others on a Saturday night. (OK, maye that's tragic rather than pissy-offy)

It's better if they just kill themselves.

Would you consider such reckless drivers as losers?

MisterAnarchy

1.Why all social life in Ireland revolves around alcohol and we are a nation of overweight drunks.
2.Irish peoples obsession with property.
3.Bad weather.
4.Ignorance and narrow mindedness of Irish people in general
5.Staunch GAA followers,get a life.

Karl Hungus

1 - The current climate of self-depreciation surrounding all things Irish. The near self-hate for their nationality displayed by a lot of Irish people these days. C'mon, Ireland's not that bad, it's nothing to be ashamed about. It could be a lot worse. Then again, who am I to talk? I'd probably be the first to bail on the place for greener pastures in Japan. And just watch me rant further about crappy aspects of Ireland:

2 - Rampant Scumbagism. From the buses to cinemas to pubs to shopping centres, you'll find 'em. Young Anto McSkang and his 17 brothers are always up to no good, it seems. Be it ruining a film for everyone, or trying to rob your mobile phone, there's no end of fun for scumbags.

3 - The jobs market. God damn it's become difficult to get a job these days.

4 - Constant waffling about 'The Economy.' Yeah yeah yeah, waffle endlessly about the so-called "Celtic Tiger" but honestly, what's changed in the last decade or two? We've still got the same sub-standard train services, an oft-times absent police force, everything seems to cost ridiculous amounts, the whole housing prices issue, one of the worst health services in europe, and god knows how many more problems I could spend ages mentioning. You can brag about the economy after you've done something worth-while with it!

5 - Drinking culture. I really hate the drinking culture here in Ireland. Everywhere else I've been to in the world, you can go out for the night and stay out untill 5 or 6 in the morning, and the whole atmosphere of a pub or club is less a meat market and a much more relaxed experience. But not in Ireland! No, we've given the public a useless couple of hours of drinking time before they're tossed out onto the streets with no wind-down time at all. No wonder people feel the need to try and get as much drink in them in the shortest space of time, before they're emptied onto the streets all at the same time.

connundrum

1. T's & C's apply - fcuk off! If it's an offer then its an offer, I give you money and you give me product/service. End of.

2. ATMs. In a country that is so fcukin flash with the cash, why do we have to wait for 40 minutes + at the only working ATM within a 5 mile radius?! Surely the hundreds of €uros in bank charges that I've paid over the years would have facilitated 1 decent machine in the city centre. Cock!

3. Big business's ripping everyone off - and us accepting it. Vodafone.. 'Oh well we've only made €60billion last year so we can justify charging 10c per fcukin text message'. Its the same for ESB, Gas, Sky, Insurance.. everything.

4. TV licence - fcuk off!

5. Scummers - How has the situation developed where we all now turn a blind eye to everything scumbags do? Smoking on the bus, destroying public property, public drinking.. not only do we turn a blind eye, but we facilitate it by giving the fcukers the dole/ free housing/ a pat on the back.

We're pretty much guilty of everything we complain about. I know that if I and everyone else decided to turn away from Vodafone/Sky/Banks/Insurance then they would have to change their policy and look after the paying customer. Bah :mad:

uncle ernie

TheGooner wrote:

that w@nker they put on O'Connell street to organise teh whole thing.

yeah he's always floating around the bus stop outside easons.ALWAYS! pandering to oul wans and tourists like he's the overlord of dublin bus

Terry

i just have one.
people who constantly complain about this country. if you don't like it, then do something about it or leave.

Huggles

uncle ernie wrote:

yeah he's always floating around the bus stop outside easons.ALWAYS! pandering to oul wans and tourists like he's the overlord of dublin bus

The only man that brings a red mist down over my eyes.

Karl Hungus

julep wrote:

i just have one.
people who constantly complain about this country. if you don't like it, then do something about it or leave.

I like you.

Ozzy

1) Prices; everything is too expensive, insurance, food, rent, houses, nectarines (6 for 3 euro pffft!), everything... it's all money money money, greed.
2) Stupid scumbags and skangers; Too much anti-social behaviour, people getting hurt and killed etc., there's a real lack of justice and effort to combat these.
3) Education system; not enough emphasis on appreciation of knowledge and actual learning.
4) Government; It's crap really.
5) Weather; Sunny rays > clouds


Oh yeah and the toll bridge, what a crock of ****.

Terry

Karl Hungus wrote:

I like you.

there's an election coming up. vote for me and i'll change the way this country is run.

Zhane

1. Prices

2. Scumbags...just die!

3. The fact that people hold a grudge against the british even tho those who actually did something to us are dead and buried and probably rotting in hell. Just get over it!

4. A strong Dublin accent. It actually makes me cringe. Spiral on BB is just impossible to watch.

5. Bertie.

Squirrel

mysteria wrote:

What's your beef with women, squirrel? Statistics show we have less accidents than men, my daughter 21 yrs old was quoted the same as you. I totally agree with your beef about insurance, my 19 yr old son is a better driver than these grey-haired old guys that won't let you pass and don't use indicators, drive in the middle of the motorway at 25 mph. It's costing me nearly 4 grand a year to insure him on my car. And I drive way faster than him because age brings experience. I really sympathize with you and hear what you're saying, but it's not a gender-problem it's an age problem.

I have no beef with women, I only mentioned 2, one a neighbour of mine who drives to the shops once a week and that's it, so I have more experience than her (she only bought a car about a year ago, I used to walk to the shops for her for about 3 years, she had a licence from before the test, but never bothered driving, she just renewed her licence every 10 years).

And the other with the woman in the Punto happened today by the Yellow House, and since I knew it was a woman there was no point in writing the person in a Punto, it was a woman, it was a distinguishing feature, I would've been just as pissed off if it was a guy.

And LovelyHurling, yes it is.

xzanti

Weather
Scumbags/Crime
Cost of Living
Traffic
Burning bins on Grafton Street that nobody seems to notice but me... Every fcuking day

magpie

1. High Taxes and no amenities - dirty streets, crappy roads, bad hospitals, terrible public spaces, woeful public transport. Where does the money go?

2. The weak media for failing to hound politicians. Bertie lies on his CV about attending the LSE. He gets found out. Any other civiised country the PM would be forced to resign for lieing about his qualifications. Here, it blows over in a week.

3. The old boys club in Leinster House. They have a little pop at each other in the chamber, then all go for pints together afterwards.

4. Lack of cultural events - arts, music, heritage all underfunded and underserved - and the public puts up with it as most of them are happy with pints and sport on the telly

5. The Lie that is 'The Land of Saints and Scholars' - the vast majority of Irish people are venal, money-grubbing alcoholics who are obsessed with sport - as it gives them an acceptable opportunity to drink 5/6 nights a week.

BlitzKrieg

1. The fact that despite how much we litter in Ireland it is never as bad as other cities i have visited such as New York and London.

2. The fact that our government just cant be as corrupt as the Ukranians and Russians.

3.The fact that we have to force ourselves to loose eurovision every year cause it costs too much.

4.The fact that the scummers in Ireland are identical to the scummers in England, and they have more of them.

5. the fact that northen ireland, scotland, wales and england get the same kind of weather as ireland. its not fair.

dermo88

I gave up being pissed off with Ireland, so i upped and left at the first given opportunity. I'm proud to be Irish, but every time I go home, so much reminds me of why I left:

1. Skangers. These exist all over the world. On a global spectrum, South American skangers in Rio De Janeiro carry a gun. Singapore or Kuala Lumpur skangers (known as Ah Beng) are harmless uneducated idiots with bad fashion sense, who listen to rap music, colour their hair, and curse a lot in Cantonese/Hokkien transliterated from American rap, and they sell pirated DVD's, which is fine by me, since it keeps the economy here going. British skangers are chavs and are only slightly up the ladder in nastiness to our own. American Skangers (Trailer trash) carry guns. So our skangers, nasty as they are could be a LOT worse.

2. High Prices, and salaries that do not adequately compensate. Fair enough, I know that, but then I would rather see staff on a minimum wage with some protection than no minimum wage and less protection. Plus the jobs are there. Its not perfect, but its better than what was around pre 1995. The wage/price levels are better than most countries. In the countries that I have been in, people worry about putting food on the table. In Ireland, peole often worry about where the next 20 pints at the weekend will come from, or the cost of the next holiday. It could be a lot worse.

3. Bad planning, not that where I am now (Kuala Lumpur) is anything to write home about, but at least its cheap on what I earn.

4. The weather. My one memory one month before leaving Ireland "D, did you see this advertisement for work at X". It would have been the job of my dreams, but my immediate response "Let me look at the rain and think about it". Mind, I do miss having four seasons, and I do miss those long summer evenings.

5. Parochialism, back stabbing, bitching, and gossip. You can't fart crooked without the neighbours knowing, and from my view, clothes go in closets, and I am not going back.

Civilian_Target

1. The way people in Ireland always complain, despite the fact that it one of the most pleasant places in the world to live.

That is all.

Blisterman

1.Scumbags
2. ****ty Bus Service
3. High Prices
4. Being forced to learn Irish
5. Bars not being allowed open 24 hours.

Nalz

whiskeyman wrote:

Prices
The Government
The weather
Our soccer team
We suck at the Eurovision now

yep, they're mine. apart from the Eurovision one...but dunno what to put instead of it. Our women maybe (joke)