We Irish!

jimaneejeebus

Humor me

Do you think we as a nation tend to revel in Schadenfreude or do we tend to encourage others?
Do you think we are wary of outsiders or do you think we are welcoming?
Would you describe our media as being conservative or liberal?
Do you think we dismiss independent thought too readily or do you think we foster & encourage it?
If you had to choose, how would you best describe our society? Assertive or passive?

Why?


In a pre-emptive strike-and armed with nothing but an inflated sense of self importance, I am going to foolishy try and answer. Feel free to totally rip my balls off. Said emasculation may be funny if nothing else.


1- Do you think we as a nation tend to revel in Schadenfreude or do we tend to encourage others?

Schadenfreude- As a nation we were bullied for 600 years. The victim has now become the perpetrator. We fu*cking hate anyone doing well in anything.


2- Do you think we are wary of outsiders or do you think we are welcoming?

Wary of outsiders-Bit of a historical precedence here of the Vikings, Normans, patriarchy of the church, 600 years of British rule. We don't just distrust foreigners. We distrust people from other parishes.




4-Do you think we dismiss independent thought too readily or do you think we foster & encourage it?

Dismiss Independent thought (as in when David Mc Williams [radical libertarian that he is] was told to go kill himself)

Why? We are coming from a hugely patriarchial society where the priest was always right-even with no evidence-or flying in the face of evidence....our fathers were also always right or they'd bate us....so were our teachers cos they'd bate us AND they were probably also priests.



No time for 3 & 5 .....later maybe.

ballsymchugh

is this one of those self loathing irish hating economic and church bashing threads all in one?

Pdfile

this is AH not a smoke break outside the dail, show us yer tits or gtfo mary harney ffs.

Rothko

Ah jeez, it's almost 2 o'clock in the morning. I can't answer this.

PseudoFamous

No 3 or 5? What sort of a lazy bollocks are you, OP?

Guill

Do your own homework.

charlemont

Good points, I have to agree on all of them.

mikemac1

jimaneejeebus wrote: »

Humor me

No

I will begrudge your post instead :mad:

Son Of A Vidic

Looks like you had a bit too much of the oul skunk, now off to bed with ya.

johnr1

It's 800 years, not 600. Do you write for the Daily Mail?

Fromthetrees

Aint nothing but a mothafuckin' gansta partaY up in this crib right here g dawg, smell my fuckin' finger homie, that's the real deal right there, don't be trippin boi...

finger smells like poo

Sharpshooter

jimaneejeebus wrote: »

Humor me

k..

Mick and Paddy were walking home after a night on the beer when a severed head rolled along the ground.
Mick picked it up to his face and said to Paddy "Jez, that look like Sean" to which Paddy replied "No Sean was taller than that"