What we can borrow from other countries

luckylucky

And no I'm not talking loans...

In the comparing Ireland to other countries thread, there was mention of Croatia being into aspects of Irish culture. And someone rightly said that Ireland hasn't really got into other cultures beyond the Anglo-Saxon world. So my question is what kind of things from other non-English speaking countries might be nice/cool/interesting for Ireland to get into?

From my experience in Portugal. I quite like contemporary Portuguese Music. I'm positively ancient for an After-Hoursie but strangely enough for a relative 'auld fellow' I actually like Portuguese Rap, I think the sound of Portuguese really lends itself to rap.

Aidric

Common sense from Germany.

luckylucky

Aidric wrote: »

Common sense from Germany.

Ok.....

Not looking to make this another Irish bashing or Irish defending thread.... just interesting type stuff that would expand Ireland's horizons and maybe would result in benefits like ahem 'common sense'

deco05ie

Italian films and Russian novels.

Robbo

Italian political ethics.

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We could borrow the Lego from Denmark.

KTRIC

We can loan you some nice German beer, only if you promise to give it back after the summer.

luckylucky

Robbo wrote: »

Italian political ethics.

We don't need to borrow any other country's sense of humour anyway

Rippy

Spanish women

luckylucky

Rippy wrote: »

Spanish women

Not bad, but Hungarian women would be better again

ShooterSF

Britains 24 hour licensing?

ScumLord

luckylucky wrote: »

Not bad, but Hungarian women are miles ahead imo

Beggars can't be choosers, we'll take both.

We could borrow any other countries road planing authority.

Thrill

We could take Amsterdams red light district and fill it with Hungarian and Spanish women.

luckylucky

ShooterSF wrote: »

Britains 24 hour licensing?

Jaysus I'd think the last thign Ireland needs is to encourage more drink. How about the Californian health conscious ethic . not going to happen though is it

ScumLord wrote: »

Beggars can't be choosers, we'll take both.

Hehe

ScumLord wrote: »

We could borrow any other countries road planing authority.

Good god yeah.

gurramok

We can borrow Scandanavian culture of responsibilty and not the mé féiin entitlement culture here. But that needs balls by the political class to implement.

luckylucky

Thrill wrote: »

We could take Amsterdams red light district and fill it with Hungarian and Spanish women.

There's talk that Amsterdam might be shutting down the red light so there might be plenty of unemployed 'working women' shortly 'n all. .

gurramok wrote: »

We can borrow Scandanavian culture of responsibilty and not the mé féiin entitlement culture here. But that needs balls by the political class to implement.

Let's keep the bashing element out of the thread plzzzzzzz, we've had enough of all that surely. Let's keep it at least semi-lighthearted.

ShooterSF

luckylucky wrote: »

Jaysus I'd think the last thign Ireland needs is to encourage more drink.

We don't need to encourage it. Just more time to do it We're already motivated

luckylucky

ShooterSF wrote: »

We don't need to encourage it. Just more time to do it We're already motivated

that's the problem. Anyway I better not go there as I'll just be breaking my own no bashing in this thread stance.

Daroxtar

We need to borrow a load of foreigners and then give them back when we're finished.

Dardania

Rippy wrote: »

Spanish women

nah - munter mujers ;-)

live2thewire

we should take some of the german cuisine

Mr.Lizard

Kazakhstan liberal views on incest and of locking-up mongoloid relatives in cages.

wawaweewa.

Capt'n Midnight

Daroxtar wrote: »

We need to borrow a load of foreigners and then give them back when we're finished.

hang on, we still haven't handed back all of the last lot.


We could borrow all of the OAP's from florida. They are non-EU so the HSE would be back in black in no time