Differences between Irish and British people

orangesoda

They do sell club orange soda in britain in some corner shops and discount stores as well as ulster tayto, trust me, i know my sodas

Sir Arthur Daley

orangesoda wrote: »

They do sell club orange soda in britain in some cornet shops and discount stores as well as ulster tayto, trust me, i know my sodas

You sure do, i wont Tango with you on that one.

billie holiday

dd972 wrote: »

In Belfast it takes the form of a great big feck off wall topped with wire mesh :pac:

One of my all time favourite posts lad

orangesoda

WikiHow wrote: »

You sure do, i wont Tango with you on that one.

I was drinking Tango today, a new flavour, intense citrus, a mix of orange, lemon and lime. I wasn't impressed with it

stefan idiot jones

In Britain a turd is not a fraction.

In Britain a tree is not a number.

In Britain they do not follow Irish football teams.

In Britain, Ireland is known only for Guinness, Roy Keane and balaclavas and petrol bombs.





However, they too think that Bono is a great lad.

Oranage2

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

In Britain a turd is not a fraction.

In Britain a tree is not a number.

In Britain they do not follow Irish football teams.

In Britain, Ireland is known only for Guinness, Roy Keane and balaclavas and petrol bombs.





However, they too think that Bono is a great lad.

Also the letter H is pronounced aych in England

MadsL

and R is intoned with a pirate twang

pragmatic1

The British are a little bit more guarded in their interactions with one another than us. Probably due to their large population and more overbearing class system. Like others on this thread I find the Northern English fairly similar to Irish people.

pragmatic1

WikiHow wrote: »

The British have better tea, Tetleys tea unbeatable.

Weak piss. FOH.

daveyboynire

MadsL wrote: »

and R is intoned with a pirate twang

In Ireland its a device for rowing a boat with

Also the letter H is pronounced aych in England

Not just England, in Northern Ireland protestants pronounce it like that

T runner

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I find British people extremely self-deprecating.
Irish people are good at taking the piss out of ourselves too but there are a lot of Irish people who take offence at the tiniest slight in relation to Ireland.

More so in England. Some of them dont have any issues calling Irish people Paddies. Try calling one a Pommie and you will see offence. I've no problem with them being offended or being offended and calling it, that's right...... but giving offence at the same time.........

They are still in thrall to a monarch which is weird. It means that they are still enthralled with the British empire thing, which is weird and not good. This means that they are still getting involved in wars.....half a million civilians dead in Iraq alone which is not good. These are obviously major differences between Ireland and England, Irish people and English people.

That said there was a large protest against the Iraq war which shows that there are different types of English people.

shaneon77

We are forced to learn about their history, they have no fukking idea of anyone elses. We are better educated and less of the opinion that our country is the epicentre of the earth.
When i lived there a taxi driver asked me about my hometown, i described it as a nice country place with no highrise buildings. He said "yea mate, if they built highrise buildings, the IRA would only blow them up innit"
They still do not trust the Irish accent there either, that's why the ladies love it there, the sense of veiled threat.

Also, the sky news top story and tabloid headlines are the main sources of conversation among the working and lower class, this current affair ignorance is abhorred by the upper classes and used as a reason to ignore them. They ignore them due to ignorance!!
These are very broad observations but just what i found in my time living there.
I actually like them a lot.

T runner

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

In Britain a turd is not a fraction.

In Britain a tree is not a number.

In Britain they do not follow Irish football teams.

In Britain, Ireland is known only for Guinness, Roy Keane and balaclavas and petrol bombs.





However, they too think that Bono is a great lad.

Europe views a certain type of English as arrogant, condescending twats. Any idea where this impression may have come from?

T runner

daveyboynire wrote: »

In Ireland its a device for rowing a boat with

Its actually pronounced "or" in Ireland by the vast majority of people.

Pinch Flat

Oranage2 wrote: »

Also the letter H is pronounced aych in England

And 'free' is not a number, certainly in London anyway.

Paddy Cow

Layinghen wrote: »

Irish have a 'hot press'

British have an 'airing cupboard'

And of course have no idea what a hot press is.......

Or what a "press" is in general. Ask an English person to put the bread in the press and they'll look at you like you have ten heads :pac:

Irish people do not have pantries.

The class system is far more entrenched in British people.

Paddy Cow

MadsL wrote: »

and R is intoned with a pirate twang

T runner wrote: »

Its actually pronounced "or" in Ireland by the vast majority of people.

LOL This reminds me of my first ever office job. I was working in reservations in a hotel in London. All our confirmation codes started with R and had 6 numbers. The amount of times I would be saying R for Robert.... and people would have no idea what I was saying. Even repeating it didn't help. My manager was in stitches listening to me on the phone one day. She was Irish herself and said she had the same problem when she first started working there. Apparently I was saying "or" when I should have been saying "arrrre". I couldn't wrap my head around it until I started saying it like a pirate and then people understood me!

Paddy Cow

British people don't know what a pass machine is. On my way to work one day, I took money out of the pass machine and as work was only around the corner, I still had the money in my hand when I went in. One of the chefs was there when I got to work and asked where I got the money. The conversation went something like this-

Me:oh, I've just been to the pass machine.
Chef: the pasta machine gave you money?
Me: what? not the pasta machine, the PASS machine
Chef: what's a pass machine?
Me: it's where you get money from, you know, like the hole in the wall
Chef:
Me: the atm
Chef: oh right, but why would you call it a pass machine?
Me: (having never really thought about it before) well I suppose it's because in Ireland the Bank of Ireland give you a card with "pass" written on it *shows him my old bank card with pass on it*
Chef: that still makes no sense. It's like me calling the credit card machine the "visa machine".
Me: I've never really thought of it that way before LOL



Another time I came into work and the chef asked me how I was.

Me: Grand now
Chef: why, what was wrong with you earlier?
Me: nothing, why would you ask?
Chef: well you said you are grand now, so what was wrong with you earlier?
Me: nothing, now is just something I say
Chef: why
Me: I have no idea!

The first time I was flying home it was with Air Lingus and as I was getting off the plane the air hostess was saying to each passenger "Bye now" and I thought how good it was to be home where people understood me

It's not until you go away that you notice your little "Irishisms" that make total sense in Ireland but can cause some confusion when abroad.

Fratton Fred

Asking directions in the south of England-
"could you tell me the way to x"
"sure, down to the crossroads, turn left, second right and it's on your left"
"thanks"

Asking directions in the south of Ireland-
" could you tell me the way to x"
"Aah, now what brings you to Kerry"
I've got a meeting in x"
Do you know Deirdre's son Tony?"
"no"
"have you been to Kerry before"
" have you been in Ireland long?"
" This is a nice car, is it yours?"
"Did you get it in Ireland?"
" What would you call that colour?"

"sorry, but I'm running late"
.
"Turn left at the crossroads, past the spar, Jackie owns that, she makes a lovely breakfast roll, say hi to her, then take the second right after the bridge, but if you get to Davey's pub you've gone too far, but you could pop in there, they have a band playing tonight. When you turn right, you need to go past Niamh's hair salon, she does my hair, then just after Dermot and Angela's house, you'll see it on your left, just before the Protestant church"

"thanks"

" When you get there, Joyce on reception, she's a lovely girl, married a foreign guy, she'll look after you"

" Thank you, who should I say gave me directions?"

"ooh, you're a nosey one aren't you".

Legs.Eleven

Obvious standout differences I noticed in my 3 years there were:

More formality in the work environment. Not as relaxed with management as it often is in Ireland.



Class divides and pride in being working-class. Class is mentioned a lot over there whereas I've never really sat down and considered what class I am or even care. The divides between classes seem less permeable than Ireland.


The Southern middle/upper middle classes are more reserved than us. I seemed to do an awful lot of exchanging pleasantries with people over there and it took a while to get beyond that.

Although most people I met seemed to hate England and complain about it all the time, they seemed more confident overall and gave less of a shite about being liked. Found more, "Take me or leave me" kinds of people. More individualism. I met some very intimidatingly confident people over there and in Ireland less so.


They liked to get pissed quicker than we do.


I had very positive experiences in England when I was there. They really treated me very well, even in London. I think we tend to get along very well overall and have a very similar sense of humour; I met some very funny fcukers over there.

Santa Cruz

In Ireland it's commonly called a Table Quiz. In the UK its a Pub Quiz

Santa Cruz

WikiHow wrote: »

That is one word i hate :mad:

Especially when "cheers" is before it

TheJackAttack

Most English people do not get our sense of humour. Or understand/claim to understand what we are saying. Always having to repeat myself !! grr

COYW

The law or the attitude to it is different with British people. It very black and white over there. You break the law you get done. Here, there is a certain measure of wiggle room and you can get off with a warning.

beer enigma

We use a 'hot press' to put creases in our trousers.....when I first moved over and was told there was a hot press in the apartment I spent weeks looking for it

Fratton Fred

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

More formality in the work environment. Not as relaxed with management as it often is in Ireland.

It's funny, in an Irish company, you're much more likely to go out drinking with your boss, but your boss is much more likely to be sat in an office with the door closed, but micro manage everything you do, British companies tend to follow the US style open plan/let people do their jobs philosophy.

whisky_galore

WikiHow wrote: »

That is one word i hate :mad:

Don't go to Australia then, mate. They use it all the time.

whisky_galore

British people don't do 2-3 day funerals, esp. large ones with the funeral home and the shaky hands and the removal to the church and burial the next day bit.

They just pop you into the box and off to the bonfire with you.

mfergus

I know an English lad and I absolutely hate him.
Every time I see him the conversation is like:
"I bought a Honda accord last week"
"You should have bought one in England, they are better"
"The weather is great today"
"You should see it in England"...etc

I also met a lad a few years back and got on great with him but it turned out he was Irish and had moved to England...

TheJackAttack

TheJackAttack wrote: »

Most English people do not get our sense of humour. Or understand/claim to understand what we are saying. Always having to repeat myself !! grr

Yeah the sense of humour one is the biggest one for me. I have a very dry sense of humour make a lot of facetious comments, which seems to be quite normal in Ireland, but over here they take me seriously. Also Irish negativity/pessimism/self-deprecation is something the English just don't get at all. I make a comment like 'sure it'll probably rain the minute we step outside' or 'ah I've two left feet but sure I'll give the salsa dancing a go' and get told 'oh my God, you're always so negative/such a moaner' I don't think anyone ever called me negative the entire time I lived in Ireland but here I get it every day. People don't seem to get that I'm not really being serious.