Name good things and bad things about Ireland

Sherifu

Good: Smoking Ban, Guinness

Bad: Health System, Public Transport

Overheal

Clearly Im not the only one subject to Mordeth's idiocracy/sarcasm.

Pherekydes

Good: Mayo, Clare, Galway, Kerry, redheads

Bad: Binge drinking culture; the 'blonde' epidemic; disgusting flabby exposed midriffs; the infestation of horse racing, golf and soccer on TV; betting culture.

Brint

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Overheal wrote: »

Thats most of why I dont smoke actually.

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That and the fact that it affects your grammar?

And your ability to use quote tags.

Collie D

Collie D wrote: »

Try to get out of Navan more


All of them? :rolleyes:

This attitude bugs me alright, "aww the Irish wimmin are dogs and the Polish ones are a roide..." I don't get it.

Anyway, on topic... the bad things are plenty in my opinion. Terrible public transport and healthcare, the government's blatant failure at implementing "new" (actually decade old) technologies such as DSL and DVB-T, the fact that many people have to live a huge distance away from Dublin and commute there for work and finally, the stink of corruption from the powers above. There's so many things that could have been done with our new found wealth in the late 90s and a lot of it was blown away. There's many more besides but I won't mention them all, not safe to be posted here. Actually... I think I'd be gone if I didn't have ties here.

On the other hand, the smoking ban has benefitted me immensely.

Xavi6

Yet again Pighead is in top form. Anyway,

Good - The Guinness, proper Carlsberg on tap, the football, pub culture, my mates, sense of humour, sarcasm, gigs, boards.ie and YORE MA.

Bad - Skangers, D4 twats and their 'fashion', the weather, the women (in general), wanker bouncers/publicans, house prices, drink prices, public transport.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

300 an oz is reasonable enough in my eyes, specially for the quality i'm getting. and a tenner a gram for great squidgy afghani is also, imo, reasonable considering most hash starts off around 8 euro in holland iirc.

Fighting Irish

so far the only good answer is guinness

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

that's because you have a drug problem

Nerin

good things- countryside,nature,culture,humour, hot redheaded ladies, hot ladies in general, boards.ie (suck up )

bad things- scuuumbaags, young peoples tribalism, cigarette prices, lack of awesome terrestrial tv channels,
edit(oh,and the fact everyone is somehow connected can sometimes be a pain

Black Swan

Sipping Guinness and relaxing in a comfy pub after a difficult week.*





*The real Guinness, not that stuff produced in the UK or Canada.

Pherekydes

nerin wrote: »

hot redheaded ladies

Good man yerself! I'm guessing that there's lots down Kildare/Carlow way? I know one from down there; see my "shouldn't, but would" entry.

Also good: Kildare, Carlow, Wicklow, redheads (did I mention redheads?)

Also bad: Guinness, the rash of golf courses gobbling up the countryside, dogs sh1ting all over the paths.

Beanmachine

Dublin and Our History thats it really

ImDave

Good: People, The fact that you're never too far from anywhere in Ireland.
Bad: Weather :mad:

Beerlao

EI-DAV wrote: »

Good: People, The fact that you're never too far from anywhere in Ireland.
Bad: Weather :mad:

wow i was just going to say the exact thing, word for word


and whoever said Dublin and Our History is clearly talking out their arse.
Dublin is the least Irish part of the country for god's sake!

Ponster

If anyone is interested, what people think is 'good' about Ireland is far what people miss when they leave the country.

This is a link from the Abroad forum where ex-pats have listed what they miss about Ireland. 90% of the time its food. The other 10% is Guinness


The things you miss most about Ireland

What's better where you are than in Ireland = weather

Collie D

Beerlao wrote: »

and whoever said Dublin and Our History is clearly talking out their arse.
Dublin is the least Irish part of the country for god's sake!

Don't be so ridiculous...what defines Irishness for you? If you're gonna post ****e at least back it up

Jay D

bouncers in town.

a brilliant way to ruin a night of fun with loads of close friends when they ensure, too many of yiz, is grounds for refusal.

F`ucking c`unts!!!!


I love the train service for me though

Pj!

The weather is ʇıɥs, the politicians are spɹɐʇsɐq, most of us are ugly sɹǝʞɔnɟ and there is way too much depression here.

Music is good though, beer culture is good (possibile relation to depression though), it's a good size of a country to live in, most people are friendly, oh and red lemonade.

Beerlao

Collie D wrote: »

Don't be so ridiculous...what defines Irishness for you? If you're gonna post ****e at least back it up

oooooh i've touched a nerve :eek:

historically, dublin is the least irish part of ireland because the Irish used to be kept out of it

but i wasn't stating fact in my original post, i was giving my opinion, which i'm entitled to. if you've got a problem with that i suggest you grow a pair.

JIZZLORD

dlofnep wrote: »

Selective reasoning!

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Don1

It has ferry ports and airports so you can leave! This is good!
Bad, we are no longer a nice nation. Money grabbing, social climbing, mé féiners, who have gotten used to too much money too fast. We have been spoiled by poorly managed overly rapid economic growth and now that it has stalled we're all pretty much fugged. Also, becoming more intolerant, racist, small minded, ignorant and downright nasty. Our society, particularly in larger towns and cities is crumbling. (like any other successful country imo.) We drink too much. We fight too much. We complain without actually doing anything too much. We put up with things waaaay too readily, like: a shoddy government, overpricing on just about everthing, shockingly poor infrastructure (from roads to broadband) blah blah blah.
I quit as I'm getting angry typing.

In short, this place sucks donkies, and I feel sorry for those who shall try in vain to defend it.

zuutroy

Collie D wrote: »

No doubt the usual suspects will be on saying how much better things are in Belgium or wherever

They're wrong. :pac:

Pighead

Don1 wrote: »

It has ferry ports and airports so you can leave! This is good!
Bad, we are no longer a nice nation. Money grabbing, social climbing, mé féiners, who have gotten used to too much money too fast. We have been spoiled by poorly managed overly rapid economic growth and now that it has stalled we're all pretty much fugged. Also, becoming more intolerant, racist, small minded, ignorant and downright nasty. Our society, particularly in larger towns and cities is crumbling. (like any other successful country imo.) We drink too much. We fight too much. We complain without actually doing anything too much. We put up with things waaaay too readily, like: a shoddy government, overpricing on just about everthing, shockingly poor infrastructure (from roads to broadband) blah blah blah.
I quit as I'm getting angry typing.

In short, this place sucks donkies, and I feel sorry for those who shall try in vain to defend it.

Pighead has a feeling somebody has been having a crappy life thus far. There's a lot of bitterness in this one.

Beanmachine

I never said Dublin is the most irish of places your correct in saying it is probably the least irish if anything but its what i like about ireland.

So i'm not really talking out of my arse.

Don1

No, I've had a good life so far. All 25 years of it. Just the better times have been outside of here. My eyes have been opened to the joys of other places.Only country I've been in that was crapper than here is Finland, but I still had a right laugh over there due to the people I was with and the snow. Actually, Finland get's snow, so it's not sooo bad............

buckfast4me

Good things

af_thefragile

Good: Good scenery, green, quiet, peaceful, economic and financialy stable, people are nice.

Bad: Weather, nothing much to do that doesn't involve drinking, too many drunk people on streets at night time, Dublin is crazily expensive to live in for what it offers, women are difficult to approach comparitively, Knackers.

Beerlao

well i will say from my experience:

quality of life in Australia > Ireland > England > France

there's plenty to moan about here, but we have it better than most places

Overheal

Mordeth wrote: »

300 an oz is reasonable enough in my eyes, specially for the quality i'm getting. and a tenner a gram for great squidgy afghani is also, imo, reasonable considering most hash starts off around 8 euro in holland iirc.

ounce iirc is about 70 euro in the states