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Irish Negativity

  • 29-08-2013 05:58PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    I left Ireland a few months ago, not because of work reasons, but because I wanted to experience life abroad. It hasn't taken me long to realize that it is a great country, but Irish people are so annoyingly negative!

    There are so many threads on Boards that might speak of a positive thing for the country, and it's met with nothing but "The bankers screwed us", "why are they wasting money on that" and so on.

    For example, the Gathering. Trying to improve tourism in Ireland, which of course the yanks and others will lap up, and people are complaining about it being a waste of money despite the fact that it HAS improved tourism a lot.

    Why the hell are we so negative? The banks failed 5 years ago, can we not just shut up about it and move on?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Shut up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 SeamusRamos


    Always look on the bright side of life? Sh1te song.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    So's your face!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 42 Royal.Baby


    You not in the country anymore so you don't have to worry about negativity, yet here you are being negative.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,521 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    I left Ireland a few months ago, not because of work reasons, but because I wanted to experience life abroad. It hasn't taken me long to realize that it is a great country, but Irish people are so annoyingly negative!

    There are so many threads on Boards that might speak of a positive thing for the country, and it's met with nothing but "The bankers screwed us", "why are they wasting money on that" and so on.

    For example, the Gathering. Trying to improve tourism in Ireland, which of course the yanks and others will lap up, and people are complaining about it being a waste of money despite the fact that it HAS improved tourism a lot.

    Why the hell are we so negative? The banks failed 5 years ago, can we not just shut up about it and move on?

    The boards.ie, or any online community, are not representative of a society.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    I am what I am.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    It's because we is Irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,840 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Things started to pick up a few month ago!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Some people enjoy having a whinge and a moan. So says Karl Pilkington. I don't see anything wrong with it either. It's therapeutic isn't it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    I hate this thread!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The best thing about emigrants eulogizing about their escape from the 'begrudgery' (read; anything other than craven forelock tugging to anybody Irish that is remotely successful or famous) of Ireland is that the rest of us no longer have to share the island with the c*nts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    This is a very negative thread you've created OP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,731 ✭✭✭circadian


    I love it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Nemeses wrote: »
    I am what I am.

    Is that all that you are?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    kneemos wrote: »
    Is that all that you are?

    That is all that I know.


  • Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    I left Ireland a few months ago, not because of work reasons, but because I wanted to experience life abroad. It hasn't taken me long to realize that it is a great country, but Irish people are so annoyingly negative!

    There are so many threads on Boards that might speak of a positive thing for the country, and it's met with nothing but "The bankers screwed us", "why are they wasting money on that" and so on.

    For example, the Gathering. Trying to improve tourism in Ireland, which of course the yanks and others will lap up, and people are complaining about it being a waste of money despite the fact that it HAS improved tourism a lot.

    Why the hell are we so negative? The banks failed 5 years ago, can we not just shut up about it and move on?


    So what Cheery arsed part of the world are you in now than, that has no negativity ???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    The OP is an oxymoron, complaining in a negative way about how the Irish are so negative. Thats as typically Irish as you can get.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    We will move on when the ones who destroyed the country are in jail or dead

    that positive enough for you?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 triplejointed


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    For example, the Gathering. Trying to improve tourism in Ireland, which of course the yanks and others will lap up, and people are complaining about it being a waste of money despite the fact that it HAS improved tourism a lot.

    Why the hell are we so negative?
    Because it's a bad copy of Scotland's The Homecoming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Maybe if I was charged I could become ..positive?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,011 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    In fairness, Ireland probably does look better the further away from it you get.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Corvo


    We are all doomed lads. Better to end it all now before the next famine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭Weevil


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    I left Ireland a few months ago, not because of work reasons, but because I wanted to experience life abroad. It hasn't taken me long to realize that it is a great country, but Irish people are so annoyingly negative!

    There are so many threads on Boards that might speak of a positive thing for the country, and it's met with nothing but "The bankers screwed us", "why are they wasting money on that" and so on.

    For example, the Gathering. Trying to improve tourism in Ireland, which of course the yanks and others will lap up, and people are complaining about it being a waste of money despite the fact that it HAS improved tourism a lot.

    Why the hell are we so negative? The banks failed 5 years ago, can we not just shut up about it and move on?
    Irony of ironies. Leave the country for a good time because you can afford to, then complain about the people who can't being unhappy with their lot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,336 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    i left for work but i return every second weekend to see my son. Since ive left i have had people say i "abandoned" my country. I work 12 days out of every 14 with a 8hr journey both ways during my two days off to get home and when i am home i get nothing but negativity from people i used to go to school with etc. TBH i have noticed things picking up in the past few months and i believe banks have begun spending again so i am hopeful enough work ill be generated that i can return home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭yer man!


    Have ya been to the states? all I hear is "blame it on obama!!!" every single day......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    i left for work but i return every second weekend to see my son. Since ive left i have had people say i "abandoned" my country. I work 12 days out of every 14 with a 8hr journey both ways during my two days off to get home and when i am home i get nothing but negativity from people i used to go to school with etc. TBH i have noticed things picking up in the past few months and i believe banks have begun spending again so i am hopeful enough work ill be generated that i can return home.

    You sure you're Irish,surly you've seen jealousy and begrudgery before.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Telling people they should shut-up and 'move on' from their problems (how exactly? how are the multitude of unemployed supposed to 'move on', without enough jobs to employ them?), is basically the "sit down and shut up" attitude, where people are told to just accept the crap they are taking, and told it is inevitable; that is negativity (with a heavy dose of defeatism, along with the "I don't care because I'm doing ok" attitude).

    When people have real problems, and are pissed off about real injustices, complaining about that is not negativity; they're right to be pissed off, and should be complaining about it a lot more frequently/vocally (and can direct that towards positive/constructive political change).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    I've gone travelling man, and my mind has just broadened to the nth degree. So much so, that I now generalise about the whole populace of a country and feel that I have my finger on the pulse of the attitude of the nation through the narrow confines of a fúcking messageboard.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    People do go on about Ireland as if it's akin to Syria though. It doesn't seem to register with them how good they have it.

    Note: I'm not saying Ireland being better than Syria should be enough; I'm saying it's dumb beyond belief to pretend Ireland is a repressed, third-world country.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Polish people are far more negative. Complaining is their national sport.


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