''Ireland beutiful but bland''

markopantelic

I was just looking up reviews of Helsinki there and it got quite a bashing, so I decided to check the reviews of Ireland and the general thing said is that its a very nice pretty country but kind of bland.

How can we change this?

TestTransmission

Blame Fianna Fail/The recession

jaffa20

Start by making a thread on AH

af_thefragile

By taking responsibility for the country rather than leaving it for a bunch of looneys to figure it out for us...

Saibh

markopantelic wrote: »

I was just looking up reviews of Helsinki there and it got quite a bashing, so I decided to check the reviews of Ireland and the general thing said is that its a very nice pretty country but kind of bland.

How can we change this?

Blame it on someone else as usual - Helsinki will do for now...

Overflow

I started a thread a while ago kind of on this topic,

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055494685

Basically it was about that there is not much to do in Ireland and that most activities are based around our huge drinking/pub culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Ireland#Pub_culture

I guess somehow we need to take the focus off this and find other activities and aspects of our culture to offer tourists ?? I dunno its a hard one.

markopantelic

af_thefragile wrote: »

By taking responsibility for the country rather than leaving it for a bunch of looneys to figure it out for us...

Eh I'm not sure about that playing a part in Ireland being 'bland', well it sort of is, but changes needed to be made back in the 60's, we're really just catching up. I suppose it depends what you're used to, for example if you're from London/Paris/New York, Ireland(or Dublin) just doesn't offer that same vibrancy, or 'City that never sleeps' way of life.

I'd have great plans but way too outlandish to ever happen. We'd need a bomb to decimate the city before I could even begin to start my proposals.:D

Anyone got any realistic ideas?

Saibh

markopantelic wrote: »

Eh I'm not sure about that playing a part in Ireland being 'bland', well it sort of is, but changes needed to be made back in the 60's, we're really just catching up. I suppose it depends what you're used to, for example if you're from London/Paris/New York, Ireland(or Dublin) just doesn't offer that same vibrancy, or 'City that never sleeps' way of life.

I'd have great plans but way too outlandish to ever happen. We'd need a bomb to decimate the city before I could even begin to start my proposals.:D

Anyone got any realistic ideas?

No, leave this things as they are.... they can't get any worse than they are already!!!

K-9

markopantelic wrote: »

I was just looking up reviews of Helsinki there and it got quite a bashing, so I decided to check the reviews of Ireland and the general thing said is that its a very nice pretty country but kind of bland.

How can we change this?

Link to AH?

CianRyan

Center the next review about me, it would come out much better.

4zn76tysfajdxp

We should bring back sectarian violence. You wouldn't say it was bland then!

chupacabra

I suppose it depends on what one is looking for in a holiday destination. But i wouldnt call ireland bland.

galwayrush

Bland me arse, we got 50 + different types of rain here in the West of Ireland.:P

Nodin

markopantelic wrote: »

I was just looking up reviews of Helsinki there and it got quite a bashing, so I decided to check the reviews of Ireland and the general thing said is that its a very nice pretty country but kind of bland.

How can we change this?

Now the moneys gone, the people might get less 'wankery' again....

magick

no such thing, i think probably they spent too much time in the pub, oh and as for bad weather, only bad clothes, no excuse.

Mr.Lizard

markopantelic wrote: »

I was just looking up reviews of Helsinki there and it got quite a bashing, so I decided to check the reviews of Ireland and the general thing said is that its a very nice pretty country but kind of bland.

How can we change this?

We could get a hacker to break into their site and change "pretty" to "amazing" and "bland" to "magical".

However, I'd imagine the admins would soon change the words back as soon as they notice it?

mike65

Which review site?

af_thefragile

markopantelic wrote: »

Eh I'm not sure about that playing a part in Ireland being 'bland', well it sort of is, but changes needed to be made back in the 60's, we're really just catching up. I suppose it depends what you're used to, for example if you're from London/Paris/New York, Ireland(or Dublin) just doesn't offer that same vibrancy, or 'City that never sleeps' way of life.

I'd have great plans but way too outlandish to ever happen. We'd need a bomb to decimate the city before I could even begin to start my proposals.:D

Anyone got any realistic ideas?

I say you should go ahead with your plans. Be the change you wanna see in the world!!

I say the only thing that can make Ireland more exciting is more innovative local businesses. We need more local business people adding color to this country, atleast to Dublin. We need like decent leisure centers and have other options to go to on a friday night apart from a pub or a club.

This is why i like London. There's always something you can find to do there. All you can think of doing in Dublin is to go to the cinema and then go to a pub or a club and mingle with a bunch of people who're completely hammered.

phasers

Ireland is boring, whenever I see tourists I think how mad they are for coming here

af_thefragile

phasers wrote: »

Ireland is boring, whenever I see tourists I think how mad they are for coming here

They're mostly Americans who have herd of Ireland as the magical land of leprechauns and guinness and they'ld want to check it out so that they can go back to their mates and brag about the time they were in Ireland and stood by the Cliffs of Mohr...

The others probably have nothing better to do.

I'm bad at stereotyping!!

Nodin

markopantelic wrote: »

Anyone got any realistic ideas?

Crotchless leather chaps for some, Burkhas for others.

abouttobebanned

We used to be a country of artists, inovators and imaginations...but through the years we've become moaners and begrudgers.

blinding

abouttobebanned wrote: »

We used to be a country of artists, inovators and imaginations...but through the years we've become moaners and begrudgers.

You could say we have turned moaning and begrudging into an art form.

david

abouttobebanned wrote: »

We used to be a country of artists..

Don't worry there are still loads of people drawing the dole

ejmaztec

mike65 wrote: »

Which review site?

http://www.godhatesireland.com/ :pac:

ccosgrave

IMO, if you're coming to Ireland to be entertained, you're coming here for the wrong reasons. We shouldn't try to cater for the Disneyland/Altan Towers/etc kind of tourist because we'll never be that kind of destination.

Karoma

Cheerleaders. Lots of cheerleaders. It almost works for cricket, so why not Ireland?

af_thefragile

ccosgrave wrote: »

IMO, if you're coming to Ireland to be entertained, you're coming here for the wrong reasons. We shouldn't try to cater for the Disneyland/Altan Towers/etc kind of tourist because we'll never be that kind of destination.

we could try...
who wants to set up with me Ireland's first theme park?...

Poor Uncle Tom

'one mans meat is another mans poison' what's wrong with being bland...?:)

My name is URL

We should rape every 1000th person getting off the planes, that'll liven things up

Mrmoe

Thats Helsinki, Sweden, right?

Saibh

Mrmoe wrote: »

Thats Helsinki, Sweden, right?

Finland

Mrmoe

Saibh wrote: »

Finland

Not too many Die Hard fans around I guess.

Tom65

I went to Helsinki once. It was the most boring place I have ever been, Ireland included.

Fizman

Legalise the possession of firearms.

And hookers. Definately hookers.

Mrmoe

Fizman wrote: »

Legalise the possession of firearms.

And hookers. Definately hookers.

Don't forget the cocaine

Mr.Lizard

Mrmoe wrote: »

Not too many Die Hard fans around I guess.

The irony of it all is that the character in Die Hard was actually referring to "Stockholm Syndrome" and incorrectly called by its common misnomer "Helsinki Syndrome". So the mistake had been made before the dumb Anchor even says "as in Helsinki Sweden" (or maybe that was the whole point?)

Euro_Kraut

Back in the mid 90's Ruairi Quinn promised that Ireland could be 'As rich and as boring as Switzerland'.

Mr.Lizard

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

Back in the mid 90's Ruairi Quinn promised that Ireland could be 'As rich and as boring as Switzerland'.

Well he was half-right.

tedstriker

Tom65 wrote: »

I went to Helsinki once. It was the most boring place I have ever been, Ireland included.

How can a place be boring? Surely it is the person that is boring.

Paddy Samurai

markopantelic wrote: »

I was just looking up reviews of Helsinki there and it got quite a bashing, so I decided to check the reviews of Ireland and the general thing said is that its a very nice pretty country but kind of bland.

How can we change this?

Pole Dancers on the spire?.
Free Guinness,Cider and condoms for all citizens?.
Free Kebabs on Weekend?.
Topless day every Friday?.
Bottomless Day every Saturday?.
Looting ,Rampaging and ravishing night every full moon?.
And surprise tourist massacre day..........eh well thats a surprise.
That should sort out the bland label.

Ziggurat

tedstriker wrote: »

How can a place be boring? Surely it is the person that is boring.

You've obviously never been to Navan.

delllat

Nodin wrote: »

Now the moneys gone, the people might get less 'wankery' again....

dont worry,they wont