Miserable Irish among worst in Europe for sour gripes

Paddy Samurai

"The most detailed study to date shows we rank second in Europe for bitching. Only the British moan more."

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/health-fitness/miserable-irish-among-worst-in-europe-for-sour-gripes-1749787.html

The b@stards beat us again,i sick and tired of been beaten by those rotton b@stards next door...moan....moan...bitch...moan...bitch.

Seriously looking a lot of the posts(including my own) on boards i'm surprised we are not number one.The one positive post I started asking about good things about Ireland got about 3 replys,I think most Irish people feel good when giving out or moaning,it makes them feel better.So come on start whinging!,prove the point!.

cherryghost

bah humbug

ejmaztec

Miserable Irish among worst in Europe for sour gripes


Are these what Australians use to make wine?

Schism

You're right too now that I think of it, us Irish do go through an awful lot of bitching in an average week.

Guy 1 : Nice weather we're having, isn't it?
Guy 2 : Yeah it's lovely, if it'll stick, about time we got a bit of sun.
Guy 1 : ah yeah yeah <random ****e / rabble rabble rabble>
and so on....

Buck the trend, be positive!

Mr.Lizard

Mostly ugly people living in a country with bad weather in a freefalling economy. What exactly do you expect?

My name is URL

The study was carried out by a tyre company, makes perfect sense

BraziliaNZ

yeah with the fact that it lashes rain nearly every bloody day is this really a surprise?!?!

SEPT 23 1989

Its what makes us what we are and i hope it never changes,we have produced some of the greatest artists,poets and musicians the world has ever witnessed,
without having a dark and miserable disposition we would be a very bland boring people.

Jet Black

Anyone working in customer service/customer facing role's know that the irish and a bunch of moany cu.nt's.

Fighting Irish

its the banks and governments fault that i have a 400K mortgage, you should be glad you have a job, the teachers are paid way too much

TheZohanS

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

"The most detailed study to date shows we rank second in Europe for bitching. Only the British moan more."

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/health-fitness/miserable-irish-among-worst-in-europe-for-sour-gripes-1749787.html

The b@stards beat us again,i sick and tired of been beaten by those rotton b@stards next door...moan....moan...bitch...moan...bitch.

Seriously looking a lot of the posts(including my own) on boards i'm surprised we are not number one.The one positive post I started asking about good things about Ireland got about 3 replys,I think most Irish people feel good when giving out or moaning,it makes them feel better.So come on start whinging!,prove the point!.

Happy now?

phasers

I like to moan, stop moaning about it

brummytom

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

The b@stards beat us again,i sick and tired of been beaten by those rotton b@stards next door...moan....moan...bitch...moan...bitch.

'Rotton B@stard' at your service, Sir

Why the fcuk are we the most miserable people in Europe?!

****in hell... moan moan moan (etc.)

Everyone in england moans non-stop about everything... but Ireland coming second just gives Irish people more to moan about?! Damn

O'Coonassa

Maybe with many of 'us' being over the water that's what tipped the scales? I demand a recount :pac:

The only other place I can find any mention of this survey is in The Sun. I'd like to see if there's a correlation between sunshine hours and non-whingers.

brummytom

phasers wrote: »

I like to moan, stop moaning about it

Typical man....

Rented Mule

LIFE's a bitch for the Irish -- we just love to moan.

New figures show that we are the "frown princes" of Europe -- only the British give out more about life.

We spend the equivalent of more than a working day -- nine hours and 28 minutes -- every week griping about something.

And women are more likely to moan than men. A majority (59pc) of both sexes agreed on that.

Who would have thought that you would find an article in an Irish newspaper bitching about other people constanly bitching ?

Now that's good journalism.

Aidric

Irish in moaning shocker!

Bottle_of_Smoke

Wouldn't take this too seriously, don't know how they carried out the research but I find a lot of Irish/British complain about things to start conversations. In Germany they just don't start them.

We complain about things for satirical value, when we moan we don't moan as hard as other nations. (heh heh heh)

Rented Mule

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

We complain about things for satirical value, when we moan we don't moan as hard as other nations. (heh heh heh)

Anything worth doing is worth doing right.

mayotom

Notice the Spanish moan the least and they also have the longest life expectancy in the world

so can we deduct from that, "that less moaning leads to a longer life"

I know I would certainly prefer life in Spain, people are so relaxed, they take everything in their stride and don't complain(probably because nobody will listen if they complain)

PogMoThoin

A new poll has found that Irish people spend almost 9.5 hours moaning each week.

The figure adds up to more than 20 days a year.

Bad weather tops the list of daily groans, followed by tiredness, traffic and work.

The poll found that only British people moan more than the Irish.

From Breaking News


FFS, as if things weren't shíte enough, We're now a nation of moaners

Pete P Peterson

Aaaahhh, the ironing is delicious.

4zn76tysfajdxp

"Moaning" is great craic. There's nothing I enjoy more than ignorantly bitching about something completely irrelevant to my life. Similarily, I love "moaning" about people who moan.

Karoma

Old news, Ted.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055574079&highlight=moan

PCPhoto

I can safely say I keep the average up - especially while driving !!! (b1tch, moan, rant....)

its just frustrating when other people are so stupid and insist on making life difficult.

Samba

PogMoThoin wrote: »

From Breaking News


FFS, as if things weren't shíte enough, We're now a nation of moaners

he poll found that only British people moan more than the Irish.

Are they suggesting that Irish people moan more than French people?

I call bull****, if that is the case...the French are the biggest moaners I know.....

(i'm half French...I should know)

Jaysoose

There should be a "poll" done to see how "many times can an irish newspaper make up a Poll to create a headline".

Bet you they asked one person "So Moany O'reilly from North dublin, how many hours a week do you give out about stuff?"

Moany: "ah well bud ya know i give out a fair bit"

Generic Polltaker: "stop the presses"

LAZZZZYYYY JOURNALISM...............@ :pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

With the exception of the weather, all the others are pretty much slef-inflicted.

Anyway, you take Joe Duffy off the air and ban the Sunday World/Star/Hearld and you're down from 9.5 hours to about 20 mins.

dr.bollocko

Merged. FFS dont make me do any more work.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Merged. FFS dont make me do any more work.

Oh, stop whinging, you!