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Differences between Irish and British people

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  • #332
    Banjoxed
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    RoisinDove wrote: »
    I find the British, especially here in the South East, extremely two-faced, even more than the Irish. I'm constantly shocked by how many people will be all 'hiiii darling, how are you?' to someone's face and then b1tch about them the minute they walk away. Makes me wonder what people say about me.

    You must be mixing with some right idiots then. I have a decent and very mixed bunch of friends from different backgrounds in North London and find no difference in friendship and loyalty between them and my friends in Ireland.


  • #333
    whisky_galore
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    Obliq wrote: »
    It's true. Well, in parts of rural Ireland. It's dying out though unfortunately. 20 yrs ago when I moved to this area, everyone saluted you and you found yourself saluting back. Now, there's been a huge increase in EVERYONE having cars since the boom, so it's sort of given up, as you end up saluting a bunch of boy racers and day trippers who don't salute back. Death of a custom :(

    In rural Australia it's known as the 'bush salute', and it's not died out.


  • #334
    Obliq
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    In rural Australia it's known as the 'bush salute', and it's not died out.

    Cars still few and far between out there then!


  • #335
    whisky_galore
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    Obliq wrote: »
    Cars still few and far between out there then!

    Might be the only car they see for a week!


  • #336
    Pumpkinseeds
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    ArtSmart wrote: »
    Huge difference. Practically two different countries.

    I think the divide 'tween rich n poor, and 'tween different class is more pronounced in the South of England (yes, an old story, but seen it recently enough, and it's still very much there - in the South/London area. Quite shocking the wealth disparity.


    But North England, very similar to Irish.

    I'm talking about the similarities between the personalities of Irish and English people not post codes. I think there are comparable social issues in all major Irish cities too. I wonder if we'd have class snobbery here if we'd had postal codes. Well we'll find out once they're introduced I suppose.

    Councils here and in England made terrible decisions to build huge council estates that were a breeding ground for scum and led to everyone from those postcodes being tarred with the same brush. I can remember job application forms being binned, regardless of experience or qualifications, simply because of postcodes.


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  • #337
    pablomakaveli
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    dd972 wrote: »
    Plus the fact that 90% of English people aren't from London and don't have Thames Estuary accents something that's lost on a lot of Irish people who visualise an early 20th Century Tan from Sidcup as the first English accent that comes into their head.

    They're no different when it comes to our accent though. They all seem to think we talk with the same accent as well.


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