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Which Irish city is most like a British city?

  • 27-03-2011 2:21am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭


    We have british multiples in all our cities but which is more like a british city in attitude?

    poll: 187 votes

    Dublin
    0% 0 votes
    Cork
    76% 143 votes
    Limerick
    15% 29 votes
    Galway
    8% 15 votes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    Dublin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Belfast?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭this is arse


    doesn't count, it is a british city


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    all of them judging by soccer shirts and sky subscriptions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    British means smelly so I voted Dublin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    We only really have one proper city and even so, utterly meaningless poll tbh.


    Crap thread. & yes, I could have just ignored it, but I felt like letting you know instead.



    :pac:
    all of them judging by soccer shirts and sky subscriptions.

    So any city with people who wear football shirts and subscribe to rupert murdoch's television channels is British? Wow that's most cities in the developed world.

    My arse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭this is arse


    Sisko wrote: »
    We only really have one proper city and even so, utterly meaningless poll tbh.


    Crap thread. & yes, I could have just ignored it, but I felt like letting you know instead.



    :pac:


    thanks, i feel really enlightened now :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    a british city in attitude?

    What's a British attitude? :confused:



    If you were to ask me which British city is most Irish in attitude I could give you an answer (Liverpool.) But seeing as there's no real British presence here specific to one city it's impossible to say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Ballaghadereen.

    They're all brits there. And the sign for the town is so long that you have to drive around it to get into the town.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    -
    need I say any more:(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Just waiting for the comments about Dublin people and the queen....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Has to be Dublin, sher wasnt it the pale there for a while...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    Always amused when I come cross country folk who think not living in a field means your British.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Panda.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭this is arse


    Sisko wrote: »
    We only really have one proper city and even so, utterly meaningless poll tbh.


    Crap thread. & yes, I could have just ignored it, but I felt like letting you know instead.


    You have no idea how much i appreciate this comment. there are tears running down my face right now, literally. i haven't laughed this much in such a long time. :D a big big thank you tonight!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Clock test.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ElaElaElano


    How can there be a 'British attitude'?

    Mancunians and Liverpudlians would have vastly different views/attitudes to Londoners, who'd have vastly different attitudes to 'middle-Englanders', who'd have vastly different views to.....you get the point.

    If it's some kind of smart aleccy, "which City in Ireland is most subservient to the Queen like all those English people" comment, I think you'd be disappointed to engage in conversation with ordinary English people and find that a pretty fúcking high number of them despise her/monarchism in general and see it as pointless and their wealth and ostentatiousness insulting, in the current climate.

    What it boils down to is that history is fúcking history, and the English people of TODAY are in no way accountable for the actions of their rulers 100 years ago. The same way, the Irish people of TODAY are in no way accountable for the self-professed 'freedom fighters' that sought to kill innocent people in the UK 20, 30, 40 years ago. THE SAME WAY, the German people of TODAY are in no way accountable for what their dictator chose to inflict upon the world 70 odd years ago.

    History has relevance in every society and shouldn't be ignored- but when it acts as a constant reference point for slanging matches between cultures, years and decades and in some cases centuries after the event in question, it's just fúcking stupid. And when you strip it down and the politicising is stripped away, guess what's left in the Irish vs. English charade?

    We're pretty much the same. We've got corrupt politicians and scepticism at the way our economy's being handled, so do they. We've got gangs and an escalation in violence on the streets, so do they. We've got a lot to be proud of and a lot to be ashamed about. So do they.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Dempsey wrote: »
    Has to be Dublin, sher wasnt it the pale there for a while...

    Still is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭this is arse


    How can there be a 'British attitude'?

    Mancunians and Liverpudlians would have vastly different views/attitudes to Londoners, who'd have vastly different attitudes to 'middle-Englanders', who'd have vastly different views to.....you get the point.

    If it's some kind of smart aleccy, "which City in Ireland is most subservient to the Queen like all those English people" comment, I think you'd be disappointed to engage in conversation with ordinary English people and find that a pretty fúcking high number of them despise her/monarchism in general and see it as pointless and their wealth and ostentatiousness insulting, in the current climate.

    What it boils down to is that history is fúcking history, and the English people of TODAY are in way accountable for the actions of their rulers 100 years ago. The same way, the Irish people of TODAY are in no way accountable for the self-professed 'freedom fighters' that sought to kill innocent people in the UK 20, 30, 40 years ago. THE SAME WAY, the German people of TODAY are in no way accountable for what their dictator chose to inflict upon the world 70 odd years ago.

    History has relevance in every society and shouldn't be ignored- but when it acts as a constant reference point for slanging matches between cultures, years and decades and in some cases centuries after the event in question, it's just fúcking stupid. And when you strip it down and the politicising is stripped away, guess what's left in the Irish vs. English charade?

    We're pretty much the same. We've got corrupt politicians and scepticism at the way our economy's being handled, so do they. We've got gangs and an escalation in violence on the streets, so do they. We've got a lot to be proud of and a lot to be ashamed about. So do they.


    this gets better by the minute. now we have some nerd giving us a history lesson at 10 to 4 on a saturday morning. i'm feeling sleepy now. almost time for the leaba


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    this gets better by the minute. now we have some nerd giving us a history lesson at 10 to 4 on a saturday morning. i'm feeling sleepy now. almost time for the leaba

    Time for a Junior Infants lesson. It's sunday morning.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ElaElaElano


    this gets better by the minute. now we have some nerd giving us a history lesson at 10 to 4 on a saturday morning. i'm feeling sleepy now. almost time for the leaba

    Don't ask a question and moan when people give answers. Go asleep if you're sleepy. You'll be sorely missed but we'll soldier (!) on I'm sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Cork.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭this is arse


    Don't ask a question and moan when people give answers. Go asleep if you're sleepy. You'll be sorely missed but we'll soldier (!) on I'm sure.

    tongue in cheek, no offence intended. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭UsernameInUse


    Oh look, it's this thread again. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Leaves bad taste :pac:
    tongue in cheek.......
    Confuscius he say ;)


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Has to be Dublin, loads of West Brit private schools there, supply and demand theory would imply there are lots of British minded knob ends there :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭spider guardian


    Sydney, sure doesn't their flag have a union jack yet still has copious amounts of irish there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 261 ✭✭this is arse


    RoverJames wrote: »
    Has to be Dublin, loads of West Brit private schools there, supply and demand theory would imply there are lots of British minded knob ends there :pac:

    Didn't you know, Dublin is the official knobhead capital of Europe? :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Horse_box


    This is arse is an arse


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    doesn't count, it is a british city

    No it's not.
    Not Geographical, not legally, not ethnically, not in anyway.

    Its a city in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.

    The full name of the United Kingdom makes a clear differentiation between Britian and Northern Ireland.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    and to answer the OP.

    In Eire.

    Dublin.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,278 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    other than some places in the north there is no city/town in the republic like a town/city in the uk.

    the difference between an irish city compared to an english city is huge


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    British means knife crime so I voted Limerick


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    Has to be Dublin, lots of west Brits there. What we need is a Gaelic revolution that sweeps away all this impurity.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    OP has only named 4 out of the 5 cities in Ireland.


    ...But that's ok, Waterford isn't anything like the U.K either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Dublin ****e ... everywhere else good. Same thread gets posted every few days and its boring.

    Dublin envy to be honest, piss off back down the bog.

    God save the King


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    'British in attitude'? Don't be so fucking idiotic. Might as well ask which city is most Norwegian in attitude. OP, you're either a troll or an Irish Sun journalist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭Seanchai


    Seaneh wrote: »
    and to answer the OP.

    In Eire.

    Dublin.

    Ahem! If Belfast is in Ireland, which it obviously is, then equally obviously Beal Feirste is in Eire. Ireland is quite simply the English word for Eire. Only in British media does 26 of the 32 counties constitute "Eire".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Seanchai wrote: »
    Ahem! If Belfast is in Ireland, which it obviously is, then equally obviously Beal Feirste is in Eire. Ireland is quite simply the English word for Eire. Only in British media does 26 of the 32 counties constitute "Eire".

    Why is it only English people who refer to Ireland as 'Eire'? Ok, they named it, but does anyone find it ironic that our country is actually called 'Anger Land'?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭PrincessLola


    Question to the insecure country folk:
    What does 'west-brit' mean?
    Considering Britain is so large and varied culturally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭amiable


    Daegerty wrote: »
    British means knife crime so I voted Limerick
    How original. Yawn
    Think up that all by yourself?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    Question to the insecure country folk:
    What does 'west-brit' mean?
    Considering Britain is so large and varied culturally.

    Insecure country folk? Strange logic, its not the ' country folk ' that get their culture from foreign countrys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Cork has an English market, so Cork.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Seanchai wrote: »
    Ahem! If Belfast is in Ireland, which it obviously is, then equally obviously Beal Feirste is in Eire. Ireland is quite simply the English word for Eire. Only in British media does 26 of the 32 counties constitute "Eire".

    Eire is the legal name for the Irish Republic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    Dublin.....its full of west Brits!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭PrincessLola


    Predator_ wrote: »
    Insecure country folk? Strange logic, its not the ' country folk ' that get their culture from foreign countrys.

    'countries'
    What culture? You are not making any sense, do you realize this?
    If you are going to accuse Dublin of 'getting their culture' from another country then you have to:

    1. specify what culture specifically you are refering to (Britain is large and varied).

    2. Understand that all cultures shift and mix with each other over time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Nevore wrote: »
    Cork has an English market, so Cork.

    If Dublin apparently has lots of West Brits, does that mean that Cork has lots of South Brits?, and by such expert definition applyed by those who like to use the term , shouldn't Dublin be full of East Brits? :pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Eire is the legal name for the Irish Republic.
    Well, one of them. Eire and Ireland are given equal status in the constitution.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    galwayrush wrote: »
    If Dublin apparently has lots of West Brits, does that mean that Cork has lots of South Brits?, and by such expert definition applyed by those who like to use the term , shouldn't Dublin be full of East Brits? :pac::pac:

    Hell No!!! The definition stops at Lucan Junction!


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