ireland

conchubhar1

no just here but in general


whats up with a lot of people being so anti irish (in ****ing ireland in fairness)
this goes for gaa and other cultural aspects


not likin them is one - some seem to go out of there way to abuse and belittle them

biko

Could you elaborate a bit?

bonerjams03

I.... What?

Karl Hungus

Start making more sense please.

BaconZombie

gaa != cultural

4zn76tysfajdxp

What's with all the "Ireland and Irishness" threads? Have people only just realised that they don't live in America or something?

super_furry

Oh yeah, 30 sweaty culchies running around a mucky field and swinging massive sticks at a small ball and each other is Ireland's equivilent to the Louvre.

markesmith

IRcolm wrote: »

I.... What?

I LOL'd at this. Probably first time I LOL'd at something on the Internet. In fact, LOL is a phrase thrown about way too much these days.

OP, I'd say it's just a culture that's funnelling down from the bowels of Anglo-Dublin 4. I mean, we all know they're not really Irish people. Surely that accent isn't Irish?

petes

I'm Irish!!

conchubhar1

ah **** it at this stage

luckily people that post on these boards are not representive of most irish people

Karl Hungus

BOFH_139 wrote: »

gaa != cultural

I think you'll find that sports are cultural, such as bog snorkeling being culturally unique to Wales. :pac:

Mr.Lizard

conchubhar1 wrote: »

ah **** it at this stage

luckily people that post on these boards are not representive of most irish people

^^ yes, lucky!

markopantelic

well religion is a hinderence to ireland and anyone advocating for it to be got rid of out of this country is right, but yeah i don't like constant irish bashing like its the worst place in the world.

DrumSteve

conchubhar1 wrote: »

ah **** it at this stage

luckily people that post on these boards are not representive of most irish people

lol if we were you could be sure this country would be a lot better.

Karl Hungus

conchubhar1 wrote: »

ah **** it at this stage

luckily people that post on these boards are not representive of most irish people

Good! I should damn well hope most Irish people are significantly more coherent in day to day life than you.

General Zod

Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

super_furry

conchubhar1 wrote: »

ah **** it at this stage

luckily people that post on these boards are not representive of most irish people

Actually we are......we're all that's left.

The Ireland you think you know was destroyed in 1986 in the great Sellafield disaster. Ireland, Wales and parts of Scotland were destroyed. You and 148 other Irish people survived the initial blast but your body could no longer continue to live unaided and thus Emperor Thatcher took the decision to create an elaborate Irish computer simulation into which you, and the other 147 survivors were plugged.

A small group of us have realised the truth and broken free from the bonds of this artificial Ireland and are no attempting to set the rest of you free, communicating through this forum in an effort to prepare for the day when the real world will come crashing back into your life. A day when we will take on the Thatcher and............ah **** it, I'm going home.

Cheerio.

Hrududu

WTF is this rant even about?

Is it another of those "If you don't spend all your time speaking Irish, scratching yourself and shoveling down bacon and cabbage with a hurley instead of a fork then you're not really Irish" threads is it?

Aidric

super_furry wrote: »

Oh yeah, 30 sweaty culchies running around a mucky field and swinging massive sticks.

There is already a thread about the christian brothers.

dixiefly

super_furry wrote: »

Oh yeah, 30 sweaty culchies running around a mucky field and swinging massive sticks at a small ball and each other is Ireland's equivilent to the Louvre.

I dont think the OP was saying it was the "Ireland's equivalent to the Louvre"!!

Are you saying that the GAA does not represent Irish culture?

What are you suggesting is Ireland's equivalent to the Louvre?

Just wondering and also have you never sweat playing sports????

RaverRo808

I know what your talking about OP,it seems that when you stand up for your country and your culture your somehow a terrorist or a nerd,like I dont want the Brits occupying my country and Im proud of my language and traditions,whats wrong with that?

magick

i think the OP is responding to ppl saying "im ashmed to be irish" or "this f*cking country im outta here to Aus" etc etc

basically ppl on here morning about their life and venting instead of trying to improve their lives.

Karl Hungus

Hrududu wrote: »

WTF is this rant even about?

Bugger it, who cares what the hell it was even about?

This rant is now about Russell Crowe's singing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzxoITH2Hg

Caoimhín

Dissent is vital in a healthy democracy.

Would you suggest that we should lose our critical faculties and blindly pledge allegiance to the republic then goose step in formation past the watchful eye of the cardinal and Herr Cowan?

Saibh

Irishness - some like to give out about everything and nothing.

Rented Mule

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Good! I should damn well hope most Irish people are significantly more coherent in day to day life than you.

Ahhhhh ......live in hope.......die in despair.

DrumSteve

dixiefly wrote: »

What are you suggesting is Ireland's equivalent to the Louvre?

Does France have the Spire.... I think not!

My name is URL

Because the begrudgery is a little too strong with this one

It's overpowered us, and now we hate ourselves...like the jews

Insect Overlord

I think I speak for everyone when I say:

Conchubhar! back the f*ck away from your keyboard! You're on a one-way ride to FAIL-town today, and soon it will be too late to get off.

phasers

Every nationality sucks

ejmaztec

What have the Irish ever done for us?

DrumSteve

phasers wrote: »

Every nationality sucks

mehicans rule

TheZohanS

I know exactly what a tracker mortgage is...but am a bit baffled by your post OP.

Wagon

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Bugger it, who cares what the hell it was even about?

This rant is now about Russell Crowe's singing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzxoITH2Hg

Yeah there's a lot of fightin round the world!

Jesus he's ****e. How does he get away with it? I knew it was bad news from the start: spinning cross, cheesy music etc...

diverdriver

I kinda of know what the OP is getting at. But in part he confusing legitimate criticism with being anti Irish. How can I be anti Irish. I am Irish going back to Brian Boru and all that.

It's not anti Irish to think that the GAA is a ludicrous and anachronistic organisation. That the so called 'sport' barely resembles the term. That the GAA has ensured that Ireland in sporting terms ranks alongside Albania or somewhere because like a giant sponge it sucks in all good sportmen and women all over Ireland and put out on fields playing daft skillless games which no one else in the world plays. As a result we go to the Olympics and fail miserably.

Now I dislike other sports too but they aren't Irish, so out of the range of discussion.

It's not anti Irish to be annoyed by certain aspect of our 'culture' which we seem to think is all ours. When a little bit of research reveals otherwise.

It's not anti Irish to point out that we are as culpable as Fianna Fail in ruining the country because we good GAA playing people voted them in again and again despite their obvious corruption and incompetance.

I'm a patriot. I want what's best for my country. You have to point out what the worst is for that to happen.

b12mearse

whats wrong with been irish and hating the gaa. I do. I also hate speeking Irish too. But i am proud to be irish, its what makes me irish lol

JC 2K3

diverdriver wrote: »

It's not anti Irish to think that the GAA is a ludicrous and anachronistic organisation. That the so called 'sport' barely resembles the term. That the GAA has ensured that Ireland in sporting terms ranks alongside Albania or somewhere because like a giant sponge it sucks in all good sportmen and women all over Ireland and put out on fields playing daft skillless games which no one else in the world plays. As a result we go to the Olympics and fail miserably.

LMFAO. I love how you slate the GAA and then give the Olympics as an example of a worthwhile sporting event we should be focusing on.

We'd want to be funding our pharmaceutical sector if we wanted to do well there.


Not that I like GAA btw. I don't mind it, but there's been an irrational hatred of it drilled in to me after 6 years in an Irish speaking school which wouldn't let us have a soccer, rugby or any other "English sport" team. I was crap at gah and had no interest in playing it despite being enthusiastic about sports in general.

Ulysses Gaze

It's not anti Irish to think that the GAA is a ludicrous and anachronistic organisation. That the so called 'sport' barely resembles the term. That the GAA has ensured that Ireland in sporting terms ranks alongside Albania or somewhere because like a giant sponge it sucks in all good sportmen and women all over Ireland and put out on fields playing daft skillless games which no one else in the world plays. As a result we go to the Olympics and fail miserably.

In all fairness Hurling takes a huge amount of skill to play. It is quick and very, very enjoyable to watch. I've nothing but admiration for hurlers. Never had the skill or dexterity to play the game myself

As for Gaelic Football I heard a funny description of it once - 30 bodybuilders playing pass-the-parcel in a lunatic asylum. Never been a fan.

Poor Uncle Tom

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I think you'll find that sports are cultural, such as bog snorkeling being culturally unique to Wales. :pac:

Nope, it goes on here too you know.......

http://www.irishbogsnorkelling.com/

994

RaverRo808 wrote: »

I know what your talking about OP,it seems that when you stand up for your country and your culture your somehow a terrorist or a nerd,like I dont want the Brits occupying my country and Im proud of my language and traditions,whats wrong with that?

Using terms like "the Brits" doesn't help. The correct term is "them across the water" or "the Sassenach foe". Also you said you were proud of your language, an bhfuil tú an méid bhródúil aisti í a fhoghlaim?

Overheal

994 wrote: »

an bhfuil tú an méid bhródúil aisti í a fhoghlaim?

K-9

I hate Republicanism and what it has done to this country. I am sometimes despised because of that.

I love GAA, in particular hurling and I get despised for that.

Do I care? No!

In summary, what is Irish?

So, I'm not very Republican but love my GAA? Where do I fit in?

Acacia

Shure, I love a bit of the auld Irish culture with the fiddily diddly diddly dee and top of the mornin' and up ya boyo and all that ...

Super-Rush

I love Fair City.....

Intothesea

an bhfuil tú an méid bhródúil aisti í a fhoghlaim?

(roughly)
Are you so proud of it that you'd learn it?

Kev_ps3

We're exposed to too much foreign culture, messes with the nerds heads:pac:

javaboy

BNP

Oh no wait that was the other thread. What I meant to say was don't turn this thread into a Northern Ireland one.

Sam Vimes

javaboy wrote: »

BNP

Oh no wait that was the other thread. What I meant to say was don't turn this thread into a Northern Ireland one.

Fair enough, post deleted

O'Coonassa

K-9 wrote: »

I hate Republicanism and what it has done to this country.

I love Republicanism, the libertarian philosophy of men like Paine and Franklin. Catholic Irish Nationalists who believe in the anti-democratic use of physical force just aren't Republicans and should never have been allowed to get away with calling themselves by the wrong name for so long. :mad:

raah!

The reason I dislike GAA and other such irish cultural activities, is that I was never part of them. And living out in the country side surrounded by farmers and the like, there was alwas a cock of the eyebrow and the old "but why aren't you playing GAA right now?" , and naturally it goes further than that. So yes, it is the presupposition that to be irish is to play GAA etc. that has developed a dislike of these things for me, as it seems it has too for many other people in the thread.

Tchaikovsky

To be Irish is to be miserable as f*ck all the time