Is there an anti-northerner sentiment on boards?

Penfailed

I haven't been here all that long...but I've noticed a lot of comments from people that seem to be anti-NI. Two posters on a thread last night described it as a 'kip' although they didn't back it up with any reasons why they think it is a 'kip'. Others have said that the border should be dug round and let it float away (how this is possible, I don't know). So...do boardies dislike NI (or it's people). If so...why?

sunflower27

Well, I can only speak for myself... but my dearest friend is from NI and is fantastic and Donegal is beautiful.

Penfailed

sunflower27 wrote: »

Donegal is beautiful.

It's not in NI though

prinz

Bloody Nordies.

Canis Lupus

Penfailed wrote: »

I haven't been here all that long...but I've noticed a lot of comments from people that seem to be anti-NI. Two posters on a thread last night described it as a 'kip' although they didn't back it up with any reasons why they think it is a 'kip'. Others have said that the border should be dug round and let it float away (how this is possible, I don't know). So...do boardies dislike NI (or it's people). If so...why?

The accent goes through my head.

Knasher

No its just important to be bitter on AH. It doesn't really matter what you are being bitter against just as long as you are suitably angry.

Logical Fallacy

Penfailed wrote: »

I haven't been here all that long...but I've noticed a lot of comments from people that seem to be anti-NI. Two posters on a thread last night described it as a 'kip' although they didn't back it up with any reasons why they think it is a 'kip'. Others have said that the border should be dug round and let it float away (how this is possible, I don't know). So...do boardies dislike NI (or it's people). If so...why?

Why not ask the people who made the comments what their reasoning is?

If you mean on average, then no, the 3 posts you saw are not representative of the feelings of the vast majority of posters on boards.ie but to be honest, that should be fairly obvious.

Biggins

Penfailed wrote: »

So...do boardies dislike NI (or it's people)?

No. The non-idiots don't.
We might jest but thats ALL.
We'd take the pee out of our own just as quick.

Penfailed wrote: »

why?

Welcome to After Hours.

Penfailed

prinz wrote: »

Bloody Nordies.

See ^^^ this. I've read that comment a few times too. Is it a tongue-in-cheek, in-joke thing...or is that how people feel...and why?!

Logical Fallacy

Penfailed wrote: »

See ^^^ this. I've read that comment a few times too. Is it a tongue-in-cheek, in-joke thing...or is that how people feel...and why?!

I would suggest you familiarise yourself with the fact that you are posting in AH.

Damn noobs.

Penfailed

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Why not ask the people who made the comments what their reasoning is?

I did...the thread was locked before they responded

FlutterinBantam

Penfailed wrote: »

I haven't been here all that long...but I've noticed a lot of comments from people that seem to be anti-NI. Two posters on a thread last night described it as a 'kip' although they didn't back it up with any reasons why they think it is a 'kip'. Others have said that the border should be dug round and let it float away (how this is possible, I don't know). So...do boardies dislike NI (or it's people). If so...why?

Because most of the punters from there seem to be driven bitter munters

who have an accent which would saw wood and an attitude buried in the past.

The punters who post here are usually idealistic neanderthals who are

steeped into rubbish which has existed up there for yonks and who adopt

intransigent 'anti' attitudes that nobody,certainly not this poster, would want

to next or near to.


No thanks buddy.

ejmaztec

Penfailed wrote: »

I haven't been here all that long...but I've noticed a lot of comments from people that seem to be anti-NI. Two posters on a thread last night described it as a 'kip' although they didn't back it up with any reasons why they think it is a 'kip'. Others have said that the border should be dug round and let it float away (how this is possible, I don't know). So...do boardies dislike NI (or it's people). If so...why?

I suppose we'd have to get a big chisel and a sh1tload of polystyrene. We can then add a huge sail.

prinz

Penfailed wrote: »

See ^^^ this. I've read that comment a few times too. Is it a tongue-in-cheek, in-joke thing...or is that how people feel...and why?!

I'd guess 90 odd per cent of interactions I have had with people from Northern Ireland have been decidedly negative.

I have a couple of friends from the North but by and large Northerners I have come across have been loud, obnoxious, scumbags, intent on playing the 'Is it becoz I am (insert various political persuasion here)' victim card and acting like they exist in a world outside of politeness and acceptable behaviour where the normal rules don't apply.

Turtyturd

I didn't read your post OP cos it was too long but I am working on a possible way to dig along the border so NI can be cut off from the rest of the country.

Biggins

Sadly a few idiots that post from the north, do so oft time with an agenda and/or chip on their shoulder.
I read their posts but do not consider them to be automatically representative of the rest of their side of the border.

Subsequently IF (and I can't remember even if I ever have) I have joked about the North, I would do so lightly and in a way that is easy to see that I'm not serious - and would treat my own side of the border with equal jesting/leg pulling.
I suspect the rest of us here possessed with a modicum of a working brain, would do similar.
I would hope so.

karma_

As a nordie myself I'd just like to point out that I hate everyone equally.

Biggins

karma_ wrote: »

As a nordie myself I'd just like to point out that I hate everyone equally.

:pac:

Thats fair! Right on!

Tahuti

In uniting the Dubs and the Culchies, anti-Northern bias is to be welcomed here on AH.

Now, if only the three of us could form an alliance against Cork people...

dolphin city

Penfailed wrote: »

I haven't been here all that long...but I've noticed a lot of comments from people that seem to be anti-NI. Two posters on a thread last night described it as a 'kip' although they didn't back it up with any reasons why they think it is a 'kip'. Others have said that the border should be dug round and let it float away (how this is possible, I don't know). So...do boardies dislike NI (or it's people). If so...why?

the whole reason that the north of Ireland was taken over was because of its beautiful lush lands - and anyone that has ever been up there will vouch for its beauty and stunning scenery.

so those two people have no idea what they are talking about.

OutlawPete

There's anti-nationalist sentiment on Boards for sure, but not an "anti-northerner" one.

Irish people just don't like to hear their own complaining about others (even if it is completely justified).

They associate nationalists and nationalism with being racist/not-very-right-on and so they attack them in an effort to distance themselves from their opinions - with the hope that, in the process they retain their "right-on" status.

Agricola

Can't wait for KeithAFC to show up and throw his unionist branded petrol onto these smouldering embers!

ejmaztec

I don't think that anywhere, north or south, that hasn't been described as a kip at some time or other.:pac:

sollar

Yeah there is one torture of a poster from coleraine that gets involved in every irish/NI/unionist thread on boards. He isn't doing the north any favours imo.

Penfailed

Biggins wrote: »

Welcome to After Hours.

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I would suggest you familiarise yourself with the fact that you are posting in AH.

Ah! OK

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Because most of the punters from there seem to be driven bitter munters

who have an accent which would saw wood and an attitude buried in the past.

The punters who post here are usually idealistic neanderthals who are

steeped into rubbish which has existed up there for yonks and who adopt

intransigent 'anti' attitudes that nobody,certainly not this poster, would want

to next or near to.


No thanks buddy.

Massive generalisation ^^^

Biggins wrote: »

Sadly a few idiots that post from the north, do so oft time with an agenda and/or chip on their shoulder.
I read their posts but do not consider them to be automatically representative of the rest of their side of the border.

I was wondering if this is where it stems from, i.e, idiot posters from NI that get everybody tarred with the same brush. It's refreshing to see that someone else does not automatically see them as being representative.



As for the accent thing...yes, certain areas of NI have accents that grate. I also find the Dublin accent a bit much. Does that automatically mean I dislike Dubliners - certainly not.

deise go deo

Agricola wrote: »

Can't wait for KeithAFC to show up and throw his unionist branded petrol onto these smouldering embers!

We don't need Keith to show up, we know what he will say anyway.


*Clears throat* NO SURRENDER!!!:pac:

Adrian009

deise go deo wrote: »

We don't need Keith to show up, we know what he will say anyway.


*Clears throat* NO SURRENDER!!!:pac:

I always felt sorry for the poor girls of the north who were promised "Not an inch!"

Penfailed

sollar wrote: »

Yeah there is one torture of a poster from coleraine that gets involved in every irish/NI/unionist thread on boards. He isn't doing the north any favours imo.

If it's the same guy I'm thinking off, he's currently on a week long ban. I see where you are coming from with him...but he's only young AFAIK...and probably very naive.

Mr Benevolent

Biggins is getting far too sensible. I move to depose him as the leader of AH.

Pauleta

I dont like anywhere outside of Dublin South East apart from Galway and some parts of the DART belt on the northside. Everywhere else is a kip compared to here

Biggins

Confab wrote: »

Biggins is getting far too sensible. I move to depose him as the leader of AH.

Ya Fenian upstart!
I'll twack ya with me Shillelagh!

ejmaztec

Confab wrote: »

Biggins is getting far too sensible. I move to depose him as the leader of AH.

I think that one of his kids has hacked his Boards account.:pac:

Nodin

ejmaztec wrote: »

I think that one of his kids has hacked his Boards account.:pac:

Doubt it. If they had we'd have seen a thread called "Fathers Shame" and a link to the last 5 obscure fetish sites he'd visited.

Biggins

Nodin wrote: »

Doubt it. If they had we'd have seen a thread called "Fathers Shame" and a link to the last 5 obscure fetish sites he'd visited.

Captain Commie

I have to say as a fellow nordie i have seen my fair share of anti-northerner sentiment across the entire site and quite frankly its getting old.

as for the accent thing, i guess you dont listen to a real dublin accent that much then, possibly the worst assault on my ears

dolphin city

i agree the dublin accent is murder on the ears.

can anyone tell me what AFAIK means - ive seen it on here loads and haven't a clue.

OutlawPete

dolphin city wrote: »

i agree the dublin accent is murder on the ears.

can anyone tell me what AFAIK means - ive seen it on here loads and haven't a clue.

As far as I know, it's an acronym for As Far As I Know

bullpost

AFAIK it means As far as I know!

Damn you beat me to it ^^^^

old hippy

Axis Cometo wrote: »

I have to say as a fellow nordie i have seen my fair share of anti-northerner sentiment across the entire site and quite frankly its getting old.

as for the accent thing, i guess you dont listen to a real dublin accent that much then, possibly the worst assault on my ears

:rolleyes:

Penfailed

Axis Cometo wrote: »

as for the accent thing, i guess you dont listen to a real dublin accent that much then, possibly the worst assault on my ears

dolphin city wrote: »

i agree the dublin accent is murder on the ears.

Yeah, agreed...but it's not really a valid reason to dislike someone.

dolphin city wrote: »

can anyone tell me what AFAIK means - ive seen it on here loads and haven't a clue.

OutlawPete wrote: »

As far as I know, it's an acronym for As Far As I Know

This ^^^

smk89

I think the anti-north view is throughtout Ireland. I once knew a guy and the second he found out where I was from he never talked to me again.

Biggins

smk89 wrote: »

I think the anti-north view is throughtout Ireland. I once knew a guy and the second he found out where I was from he never talked to me again.

Thats shocking. You can talk to me.

Lets start off with you saying your name and bank account number.
Then we can chat about a pyramid scheme I'd like to introduce you to!

OutlawPete

smk89 wrote: »

I think the anti-north view is throughtout Ireland. I once knew a guy and the second he found out where I was from he never talked to me again.

Maybe he just heard some bad stories about someone that was from your town and born around 1989 and thought it was you.

dolphin city

Penfailed wrote: »

Yeah, agreed...but it's not really a valid reason to dislike someone.



oh no, of course not - didn't mean that at all - just their accent is awful but the people are same as you get everywhere else. Good and bad everywhere.


Thanks a lot for explaining that AFAIK - should have figured that out myself - silly me. Thanks tho.

old hippy

We are all northerners

Xivilai

I wouldn't take it too seriously mate. People talk ****e hear all the time. I'm an inbred culchie bogman just because im from Limerick according to many posts i've seen here

K-9

There's an anti everything thing going on in AH, depends on the group of posters.

There's an odd few that probably hate the place, personally I hate the tit for tat cesspit it turned into in the mid to late 80's.

There's a group who hate Republicans.

There's Republicans who hate "West Brits, war veterans and Blueshirts".

And then there is KeithAFC.

Biggins

K-9 wrote: »

...And then there is KeithAFC.

:pac: :pac: :pac:

Very good!

Penfailed

Xivilai wrote: »

I'm an inbred culchie bogman just because im from Limerick according to many posts i've seen here

I didn't know that...I thought it meant you went round stabbing people all the time :insert tongue-in-cheek smilie here:

Biggins

Xivilai wrote: »

I wouldn't take it too seriously mate. People talk ****e hear all the time. I'm an inbred culchie bogman just because im from Limerick according to many posts i've seen here

I was reading your post quite seriously - till I saw ya wos from Limerick...
Go wae ya culchie!

dolphin city

Penfailed wrote: »

I didn't now that...I thought it meant you went round stabbing people all the time :insert tongue-in-cheek smilie here:

well, going by that rule, I must be an hippy alcoholic musician can you guess the County.