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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

So, home for a few days. Have discovered a few things I miss and a few I do NOT miss.

Miss
Pub grub. Walked past a pub serving food, nearly fainted.
Finches Orange. Almost forgot how good it was.
Yore....

Don't Miss
Groups of three teenager girls trying to work out how to buy LUAS tickets from a machine. "Do we want a return or not?" "What button do I press?" "I don't know... There no guys in jackets to help us..." WHY the **** is this still happening?? How do these people survive? Mini rant over.
TV - "Fat girls and feeders" - WTF??? It's gotten worse!
Piers Morgan investigating luxary pads in Dubai. Oh. Dear. God.
Dial-up internet - ah, the joys of visiting your parents...

What about the rest of you?

themadchef

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

So, home for a few days.

Did they discover the body that quickly?




(dont think i will ever forget that thread)

Pen1987

Dutch made, produced and packaged Galtee. Ummm... the taste of Conemara.

Hank Scorpio

the ability to have a **** anywhere in my apartment.

also not having to clean up after myself!

edit: as you mean cultural things, well, mhm, brussel sprouts?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

themadchef wrote: »

Did they discover the body that quickly?




(dont think i will ever forget that thread)

Let's just say it's surprising what you can and cannot take on board a Ryanair plane as hand luggage...

Terry

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Let's just say it's surprising what you can and cannot take on board a Ryanair plan as hand luggage.

Tissues?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

julep wrote: »

Tissues?

Supplied free. And when Ryanair supplies somethign free, you make damn sure you use it...

banshee_bones

Good things about being at home:

Being waited on hand and foot!
three savage feeds a day (not cooked by you!)
Tea..lots of tea!!
Being with your family

Bad stuff
Being with your family! or more so the spanish inquisition about what your doing with your life and the rows that ensue.....

994

Pen1987 wrote: »

Dutch made, produced and packaged Galtee. Ummm... the taste of Conemara.

don't you mean tipperary?

deecom

Hmmmm.......

The things i miss are far outweighed by the things i've gained!

Miss,

A good pint of Guinness
My family

Dont miss the weather, and everything else!!!

gerky

nuxxx wrote: »

the ability to have a **** anywhere in my apartment.

also not having to clean up after myself!

:eek: ehhhh I'm guessing your apartments sticky.

sdanseo

nuxxx wrote: »

the ability to have a **** anywhere in my apartment also not having to clean up after myself!

Quite a disgusting combination imho...:P

Edit: beaten to it by 3 hours. My brain needs sleep, apparently.

Ben_Kav

Miss: The Food, the comforting joy of a non microwaved dish from your one who spat ya out of her

Dont miss: The half an hour mind-numbing interrogation about your actions over the last month remembering this was the reason in the first place it took so long to come back

spinandscribble

miss:
real fish and chips. i'm sick of american crap.
being with my friends and just hanging out.
the walks i used to go on around galway city.
seeing my family.

don't miss:
slow internets.
the constant rain.
the tango twits.
getting my ass molested on nights out.
the fear of bumping into "him".

jester77

Miss
Family
Irish brekkie
Guinness

Don't Miss
The greed & no one having time to just have a chat - altough that looks like it might not be a problem next time
Rain and no summers
Slow Internet
Lack of public transport
Scumbags on corners
Paying silly prices for everything

Silenceisbliss

I'm just about to catch a flight home in a few hours to go go home. I've been living in Germany for the last 8 months. Im finished here now.

I miss:
my family
my dogs
Breakfast roles
a proper bed
the fresh air and the piece of the country side

What I dont miss is:
scumbags
knackers
travelers
chavs
etc.
that no public service like trains or buses work exist.


I'll be in Ireland for a week, and i'm going to think: "damn, I miss germany"
there's so much that i'm leaving behind here. Friends, faces, places. and my girlfriend.

Ireland better cheer me up today.

Sherifu

Miss:
Family/Friends
Irish breakfast (can get a half-assed version of it here)
Guinness (can get it here but it's usually tack)

Don't Miss:
Rain
Recession talk
Paying over the odds for everything

missmatty

Ben_Kav wrote: »

the comforting joy of a non microwaved dish from your one who spat ya out of her

Thanks for my first proper laugh of the day

biko

julep wrote: »

Tissues?

You have tissues man :pac:

Turd Ferguson

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

Ireland better cheer me up today.

I actually lolled at that. Why would this place be cheerfull?


Things I like about going home:

Sky+
Free food
Annoying my little brother



Things I dont like:

Dial-Up internet (i dont even bother with it anymore)
Not having public transport so having to organise lifts everywhere days in advance
My family annoying me in general

cjt156

Silenceisbliss wrote: »

I miss:

Breakfast roles

Which role would you usually play?

oztots

Going back on saturday.

Loooking forward to
-Mammies food, think everyone has this one
-Dogs,
-Friends
-Speaking English at a normal pace

Not so much
-The scumbags
-The useless gards
-Price of anything
-The recession, oh no not the recession.
-Weather

tony 2 tone

oztots wrote: »

Going back on saturday.

Loooking forward to
-Mammies food, think everyone has this one
-Dogs,
-Friends
-Speaking English at a normal pace

Not so much
-The scumbags
-The useless gards
-Price of anything
-The recession, oh no not the recession.
-Weather

There are some dodgy feckers around the Reeperbahn, they not classed as scumbags?

BraziliaNZ

Yeah, German scumbags are wurst

brendansmith

I miss:
my family
my dogs
Breakfast roles
a proper bed
the fresh air and the piece of the country side

What I dont miss is:
scumbags
knackers
travelers
chavs
etc.
that no public service like trains or buses work exist.

S.I.R

erm....


good:

irish ciggerettes ( )

pubs/club/social occasions, irish partys are the best

the coast... even dublins rubbish one.. :rolleyes:

bad:

posers,

scum bags

the french

BraziliaNZ

So "scumbags" seem to be ex-pats main gripe with Ireland. I agree. I'm really not looking forward to going into town and seeing tracksuit clad crew-cut sporting muppets everywhere.

S.I.R

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

So "scumbags" seem to be ex-pats main gripe with Ireland. I agree. I'm really not looking forward to going into town and seeing tracksuit clad crew-cut sporting muppets everywhere.

we're all not like that i swear,


now,

gimme your wallet :rolleyes:

tony 2 tone

Do they not have scumbags in other countries? Or are they not as obvious as our scumbags? :pac:

BraziliaNZ

they do but they don't seem to be as threatening or numerous. Plus the fact that they're supposed to be your fellow Irish citizens makes them worse.

tony 2 tone

Ah the more classy European scum bag! Do they have the strange variant of the native accent though? Cant imagine a high pitched German scum bag

dSTAR

I haven't been in Ireland for quite a while but I do miss ...

A visit to Burdocks after a good night out in Dublin on pints of the black stuff. A good fry up with the works the next morning in some little greasy spoon cafe listening to little ol' dears yabbering away drinking endless cups of tea. A walk around the city or a stroll through St Stephens Green followed by a cup of coffee in Bewleys with the newspaper and friendly chats with random people.

Bumping into friends and acquaintances on Grafton Street or Wicklow Street and being convinced to have 'just the one' in Grogans or The International Bar early in the afternoon. I miss going to a club and listening to my brother rip sh!t up on the decks (probably a bit past that now tho' ). Even the Irish weather appeals to me after the stinking hot weather of the past week. Oh and did I mention Irish chocolate and crisps? Nyom!

BraziliaNZ

dSTAR wrote: »

did I mention Irish chocolate and crisps? Nyom!

I never got people's obsession with this. I think our chocolate is awful, far too sugary. Lindt and the European ones are far superiour, and are available down here too!

As for crisps, well Smith's Cheese & Onion are as good as it gets for me!

I think the chips here in Oz aren't as good as ours as they're usually just standard frozen ones, but the fish is a lot better/cheaper, and they have a better range.

dSTAR

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I never got people's obsession with this. I think our chocolate is awful, far too sugary. Lindt and the European ones are far superiour, and are available down here too!

As for crisps, well Smith's Cheese & Onion are as good as it gets for me!

I think the chips here in Oz aren't as good as ours as they're usually just standard frozen ones, but the fish is a lot better/cheaper, and they have a better range.

I go to a little English Sweet Store on Maling Road in Canterbury on rare occasions to pay exorbitant prices for such delights as Tunnocks Tea Cakes, Yorkie Bars, Walnut Whips (yesss) and old school sweeties from back in the day. I still haven't resolved the crisp situation though.

As for the fish and chips ... I agree with you that the fish is much better here and the chips are terrible in comparison. Did you post in the thread/poll in the Aus/NZ forum sometime ago about fish and chips in Ireland compared to Australia?

jester77

tony 2 tone wrote: »

There are some dodgy feckers around the Reeperbahn, they not classed as scumbags?

Those dodgy feckers are mainly homeless, drunks and teenage runaways. They don't cause trouble (Davidswache is right there, so if they did start some it wouldn't last long), just ask for spare change. And if you stop & talk with them, they are mainly sound. No comparison to the Irish scumbags.