I feel ......

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Everyone's goin on about the recession and Biffo's bare nekid belly being plastered on public buildings. We won the 6 Nations and Bernard Dunne is still a scumbag. The 'RA have tried to disrupt the peace process and a black president claims to be our descendant...

Regardless of all that bull****, how do you feel to be Irish... right now?

Genghiz Cohen

Fine, you?

easyeason3

Little bit embarrassed by the state of the economy but by Jesus did the Irish rugby team make me feel unbelievable proud.
Tommy Bowe launching into the Black Velvet Band is still making me smile...
Don't have any time for Bernard Dunne whatsoever & sure Biffo in the nip is enough to give anyone the heebie jeebies.

Overall I'm proud of being Irish because even though things are shi!te the majority of people I meet on a day to day basis still have the ability to crack a joke & smile.

And if you don't have a laugh you have nothing!

K4t

I'm not personally ashamed but I'm ashamed to be Irish as a whole. Very ashamed.

Genghiz Cohen

easyeason3 wrote: »

And if you don't have a laugh you have nothing!

Except a frown or completely neutral expression.

Sherifu

You're all cylons.

CHD

Great tbh. Sport is what matters and we is the bestest at that.

Turd Ferguson

I'm drunk so everything is awesome :cool:

easyeason3

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Except a frown or completely neutral expression.

Ah you know what I mean. Smart arse

rather apathetic on the matter

ADTR

I love being Irish!

K4t

CHD wrote: »

Great tbh. Sport is what matters and we is the bestest at that.

on so many levels tbh.

Dartz

I hate myself.

Saibh

Upward Spiral wrote: »

Regardless of all that bull****, how do you feel to be Irish... right now?

No different than how I felt two months ago or last week - Irish

Sir Gallagher

easyeason3 wrote: »

Little bit embarrassed by the state of the economy but by Jesus did the Irish rugby team make me feel unbelievable proud.
Tommy Bowe launching into the Black Velvet Band is still making me smile...
Don't have any time for Bernard Dunne whatsoever & sure Biffo in the nip is enough to give anyone the heebie jeebies.

Overall I'm proud of being Irish because even though things are shi!te the majority of people I meet on a day to day basis still have the ability to crack a joke & smile.

And if you don't have a laugh you have nothing!

Proud of the Rugby but not the boxing? why's that?

jester77

I feel hungry... damn pizza guy should have been here by now!

admiralofthefleet

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

I'm drunk so everything is awesome :cool:

your always drunk, i bet mrs turd didnt know you drank til you went home sober one night

easyeason3

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Proud of the Rugby but not the boxing? why's that?

Well it's not boxing in general. I just can't stand Bernard Dunne, wins or not. He makes my skin crawl the way he loves himself. I actually get embarrassed for him!
Hey maybe he's a nice guy but the public image he portrays makes me want to puke.
He's constantly smirking like he's the best thing to happen Ireland & I don't like like that.
He's like Ronan Keating to the sporting world. Basically a fool.
Again maybe he's ok at the back of it but when I see him on tv I switch off.

Sir Gallagher

Yeah i get your point, my cousin used to go to school with him said he was a sound fella really quiet too supposedly, i guess the cockiness just goes hand in hand with the image of being a boxer these days. It worked for Mike tyson, Ali etc. just looks a bit silly coming from a 9st fella from clondalkin.

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Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Yeah i get your point, my cousin used to go to school with him said he was a sound fella really quiet too supposedly, i guess the cockiness just goes hand in hand with the image of being a boxer these days. It worked for Mike tyson, Ali etc. just looks a bit silly coming from a 9st fella from clondalkin.

Dunno if it goes hand-in-hand. Look at Ricky Hatton, great fighter and a nice guy too. His image is completely different to Dunne's. Far more talented too, tbh

Terry

K4t wrote: »

I'm not personally ashamed but I'm ashamed to be Irish as a whole. Very ashamed.

You'll grow out of thet when you leave school and realise that we have it better than most of the planet.

easyeason3 wrote: »

Ah you know what I mean. Smart arse

Putting a smilie after personal abuse does not make it ok. Please don't do that again.

K4t

Terry wrote: »

You'll grow out of thet when you leave school and realise that we have it better than most of the planet.
.

I know we have it better than most of the planet, Terry. My financial position is quite secure and I have some good friends and a loving family.

However, that does not stop me from feeling ashamed to be Irish. The wrong people are representing this country on a national and international level and it sickens me at times. That's all.

Mr.Lizard

Couldn't care less about being Irish tbh. Never have and probably never will. I'm glad was born here and not in some shíthole in Africa or wherever but that's purely good economic or social fortune on my part. I'd quite happily swap it to be born in Sweden or Finland or Switzerland or any other country that may have it even better than us.

TheZohanS

Terry wrote: »

a smilie after personal abuse does not make it ok.

What if nobody's watching?

javaboy

TheZohan wrote: »

What if nobody's watching?

Well as Mary O'Rourke said, "What goes on in the bathroom is between you and your body."

K4t

javaboy wrote: »

Well as Mary O'Rourke said, "What goes on in the bathroom is between you and your body."

Little minx.

Disease Ridden

What Terry said is correct, we do have it better than most people on the planet.

We get virtually no natural disasters,

weather that isnt that bad and is occasionally very pleasant,

nearly everybody goes to bed without being hungry,

we are liked by pretty much everybody else around the world (for some strange reason!),

we live (or at least we do until the college fees come back!) in a meritocracy wherby anybody can rise to the very top through sheer hard work,

we have access to broadband, television, cinema, radio and lots of other entertainment,

we speak English, the most useful language in the world to be able to speak,

we have a brilliaint, cynical, almost self-depricating sense of humour which, to me anyway, is infinately better than the naive, cringy American sitcom type of humour where everybody is middle class and good looking,


And why we should be proud...
over the last 15 years we have managed to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, as a nation, to change from a country wallowing in economic stagnation to one which could provide for all its citizens and not just to the farmers and the usual crowd of civil servants who got there through nepotism ...this change was achieved by about 2001, before the truely dodgey Celtic Tiger society of property speculation and living decadently came about...so it wasnt all based on dodgey foundations!!:D

Lilyblue

K4t wrote: »

Little minx.

Haha brilliant

Turd Ferguson

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

your always drunk, i bet mrs turd didnt know you drank til you went home sober one night

Mrs Turd? Nah I'm afraid that position is yet to be filled (which can probably explain my cripple alcohol addiction)

admiralofthefleet

javaboy wrote: »

Well as Mary O'Rourke said, "What goes on in the bathroom is between you and your body."

and as nora owen said "what happens between you and the garage door is between you and your garage"

magick

K4t wrote: »

I'm not personally ashamed but I'm ashamed to be Irish as a whole. Very ashamed.

well then leave if you feel that badly about it

longshanks

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

and as nora owen said "what happens between you and the garage door is between you and your garage"

as ralph wiggum said " my cats breath smells like catfood"

Abi

magick wrote: »

well then leave if you feel that badly about it

Because you said so?

Yes the country doesnt have the problems others do, but the fückwits running the country are making a fücking show of us.

BroomBurner

longshanks wrote: »

as ralph wiggum said " my cats breath smells like catfood"

Or as Jack Reacher said "never apologise, never explain"

K4t

magick wrote: »

well then leave if you feel that badly about it

Abigayle wrote: »

Because you said so?

Yes the country doesnt have the problems others do, but the fückwits running the country are making a fücking show of us.

Thank you Abigayle.

magick

Abigayle wrote: »

Because you said so?

Yes the country doesnt have the problems others do, but the fückwits running the country are making a fücking show of us.

yup & why not do something about it, instead of moaning about it.

TheZohanS

magick wrote: »

yup & why not do something about it, instead of moaning about it.

I completely agree with you magick.

All too often we have people who moan and complain that things could better or that they think this or that is an outrage, but do they do anything about it?

No.

They'd rather bitch and moan and take the "poor me" stance.

FruitLover

Upward Spiral wrote: »

how do you feel to be Irish... right now?

It's like being Spanish, but with more depression.

Abi

magick wrote: »

yup & why not do something about it, instead of moaning about it.

Fire it up. Feel free to show me how we dont look like a bunch of dïcks.

The fact that we dont experience earthquakes, frequent tornadoes etc. has fück all to do with the government.

They would if they could, for their own gain. Wänkers.

magick

Abigayle wrote: »

Fire it up. Feel free to show me how we dont look like a bunch of dïcks.

The fact that we dont experience earthquakes, frequent tornadoes etc. has fück all to do with the government.

They would if they could, for their own gain. Wänkers.

poopie mouth!

FlutterinBantam

Or as The Lone Ranger said "fcuk this for a game of cowboys"

K4t

magick wrote: »

yup & why not do something about it, instead of moaning about it.

Thread topic = How do you feel to be Irish?

Abi

magick wrote: »

poopie mouth!

Omfg rly?

My bad. Now hit me with a non-infantile response.

magick

Abigayle wrote: »

Omfg rly?

My bad. Now hit me with a non-infantile response.

says the person who can only use expletives as a response.

magick

K4t wrote: »

Thread topic = How do you feel to be Irish?

grand, im happy with it, you dont seem to be though.

zootroid

Disease Ridden wrote: »

What Terry said is correct, we do have it better than most people on the planet.

We get virtually no natural disasters,

weather that isnt that bad and is occasionally very pleasant,

nearly everybody goes to bed without being hungry,

we are liked by pretty much everybody else around the world (for some strange reason!),
we live (or at least we do until the college fees come back!) in a meritocracy wherby anybody can rise to the very top through sheer hard work,

we have access to broadband, television, cinema, radio and lots of other entertainment,

we speak English, the most useful language in the world to be able to speak,

we have a brilliaint, cynical, almost self-depricating sense of humour which, to me anyway, is infinately better than the naive, cringy American sitcom type of humour where everybody is middle class and good looking,


And why we should be proud...
over the last 15 years we have managed to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, as a nation, to change from a country wallowing in economic stagnation to one which could provide for all its citizens and not just to the farmers and the usual crowd of civil servants who got there through nepotism ...this change was achieved by about 2001, before the truely dodgey Celtic Tiger society of property speculation and living decadently came about...so it wasnt all based on dodgey foundations!!:D

a myth, that only we buy into. I would say that most countries don't really have a clue about us, except that we like a drink

I wouldn't say I'm ashamed to be Irish, but certainly not proud. I don't think its a particularly friendly place, but think its strange that the Irish are more friendly when they go abroad.

Ireland has got so many anti-social problems, even outside the main cities, that I have yet to see elsewhere. Of the major cities I have visited, I have always felt reasonably safe at night. I can't say the same about Dublin given the amount of fights I saw on a saturday night while I was living there.

As for how our TDs behave, vested self interests, and the general rip-off culture that has existed over the last few years, the less said about it the better.

I am proud of the sporting achievements though (for a small country), and contributions to music, arts, literature etc

Abi

magick wrote: »

grand, im happy with it, you dont seem to be though.

So. Tell us. Why are you happy with it?


See. I can do non-expletives. But you still dont have an explained opinion

magick

Abigayle wrote: »

So. Tell us. Why are you happy with it?


See. I can do non-expletives. But you still dont have an explained opinion

why wouldnt i be? we come from a wonderful place (dispite some scumbags and problems) but over all good decent people and wonderful places to visit with a rich history,heritage and culture.

Abi

magick wrote: »

why wouldnt i be? we come from a wonderful place (dispite some scumbags and problems) but over all good decent people and wonderful places to visit with a rich of history,heritage and culture.

In one sense, I agree. We HAD something. It has been diluted somewhat since.

Snowie

I try not to think about it much
Biffos the laughing stock of the world right now over how they handeled the cartoon's....

I was on an english forum and even their takeing the piss out of the useless waste of space....
To be honest its about time things changed in this country not the governent but the hole idiotic pesent atitude you can here from day to day..

The countrys young compared to other's, Yet for some reason we lift are arse's and get brutaly raped bye the governement in soooooooooooo many way's.....
We have a hospital system thats so ****ed up
Then weve got a manger of mac donalds running the country getting upset when some one mocks the thick cvnt and allso waste resources trying to find the artist who did them, that's what the likes of sadam insane would do or the taliban..... Shorely not a former industrilised country such as Ireland never but then again this country banned the life of brian...... because it's a mockerey to relgion's !

cant have that now can we....

here what the country should do for a price shop of all good nation wide of all food's, for instance a 500 mill botel of ribeanna would cost 2.00 euros how much gp are the shops making on that ? 100% maybe 105% ...

then drop the minium wadge ! It needs to be done. Also all polititions should be earning at least 35K a year...

If this was france wed be putting the fat lazy ****s in the guiliteen.
I'm not ashamed to be Irish I ashamed, of our nation atitude towards our countrys government If you dont like something action needs to be shown, not bending over and getting pile drived in thee ass bye a government ....

Terry

K4t wrote: »

I know we have it better than most of the planet, Terry. My financial position is quite secure and I have some good friends and a loving family.

However, that does not stop me from feeling ashamed to be Irish. The wrong people are representing this country on a national and international level and it sickens me at times. That's all.

Silvio Berlusconi, Gordon Brown, George W. Bush.
We're not the only first world country (I miss that term, but for different reasons that you might first think) with jackasses running the place.

Yeah, Bush is gone, but he left a legacy and Obama is just the lesser of two evils.

TheZohan wrote: »

What if nobody's watching?

I'm always watching. You don't want to mess with me.

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Mrs Turd? Nah I'm afraid that position is yet to be filled (which can probably explain my cripple alcohol addiction)

Or the other way around.
/experience.

K4t wrote: »

Thread topic = How do you feel to be Irish?

Forum = AH.

zootroid wrote: »

a myth, that only we buy into. I would say that most countries don't really have a clue about us, except that we like a drink

I wouldn't say I'm ashamed to be Irish, but certainly not proud. I don't think its a particularly friendly place, but think its strange that the Irish are more friendly when they go abroad.

Ireland has got so many anti-social problems, even outside the main cities, that I have yet to see elsewhere. Of the major cities I have visited, I have always felt reasonably safe at night. I can't say the same about Dublin given the amount of fights I saw on a saturday night while I was living there.

As for how our TDs behave, vested self interests, and the general rip-off culture that has existed over the last few years, the less said about it the better.

I am proud of the sporting achievements though (for a small country), and contributions to music, arts, literature etc

Disease Ridden covered the self depricating humour, but failed to cover the over all self deprication.
One of the main problems is that we are afraid to show our happiness for fear of scorn and criticism (yeah, they're relatively similar. Shut up. I'm half shot).
During the boom we went overboard with it and that just served to further enhance the fear of showing that you are successful.
There is a middle ground. One where you can drive a big car and still be modest.
A palce where you can blow your money on a margaritaville and not look down on those who can't afford one or weren't bothered buying one.
We just haven't found it yet.
Stephen the recession might level things out by the time he has gone.

Before anyone freaks out and calls me classist or some such crap, I'm talking about the nation collectively and not one single group of people or one single person.

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

If this was france wed be putting the fat lazy ****s in the guiliteen.
I'm not ashamed to be Irish I ashamed, of our nation atitude towards our countrys government If you dont like something action needs to be shown, not bending over and getting pile drived in thee ass bye a government ....

Dude has a good point here.
Say what you will about the French, but those ****ers know how to protest against their government. The Spanish are the same.
We should look to them for inspiration.

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Or as The Lone Ranger said "fcuk this for a game of cowboys"

Or as I say, STFU and thank your lucky stars that you have it so good, you whiny bunch of self-important bastards.

Am I proud to be Irish? Of course I am and I love my country, despite its flaws.
Where's Cromwell Mugabe when you need him?