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what is 'peasant mentality'?

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    #32
    Dan_Solo
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    Akin to the gentry mentality of the average Indo reading golden circle party supporter I'd imagine.


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    #33
    Day Lewin
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    Person incessantly afraid that their mud cabin will be burnt down and their subsistence crop destroyed.

    Eg fearful, deferential and with very narrow horizons owing to poverty.

    #literalanswer

    (I love hashtags)


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    Dan_Solo
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    Oink wrote: »
    So generally, people who have the august demeanour of the animals they are most likely descended from.
    So peasants believe in facts and the rest are creationists? Is that it? :-)


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    #35
    GreeBo
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    I see it as those that live from hand to mouth and dont have aspirations of more.


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    #36
    AdFundum
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    The bread and butter politics that is the entirety of Irish politics - more funding for Opera please!

    Oh, economists - dismally disseminating their dismal science - damn peasants.


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    Molester Stallone II
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Epitome of the peasant mentality right there - someone who wants to be respected for their perceived superiority, but laments the fact that nobody else recognises their apparent genius intellect.

    Who was it that called Paddy Kavanagh bitter?


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    One eyed Jack
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    Molester Stallone II wrote: »
    Who was it that called Paddy Kavanagh bitter?


    Ah that wasn't referring to you Molester, I was only including your post for context. It was luftie's reply I was referring to as the peasant mentality by referring to AH regulars as "holier than thous", while starting threads in AH looking for opinions.

    It's the equivalent of Patrick Kavanagh who was bitter about the fact that he felt his superior intellect was never recognised by his peers.


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    #39
    lufties
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    anncoates wrote: »
    It's often what you call people- that are 'trapped ' in the 'hellhole' of Ireland - that have the temerity to look bored about your 7 hour emigrant tales in the pub over Christmas.

    Jesus that doesn't make any sense


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    lufties
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Ah that wasn't referring to you Molester, I was only including your post for context. It was luftie's reply I was referring to as the peasant mentality by referring to AH regulars as "holier than thous", while starting threads in AH looking for opinions.

    It's the equivalent of Patrick Kavanagh who was bitter about the fact that he felt his superior intellect was never recognised by his peers.


    It was a bloody joke, but there certainly are holier than thous on this that will shout you down for having an opinion different to 'the norm'.


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    looksee
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    lufties wrote: »
    It was a bloody joke, but there certainly are holier than thous on this that will shout you down for having an opinion different to 'the norm'.

    You'll be ok so! :D


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    #42
    Diemos
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    Moffett wrote: »
    Factory floor banter, ' I could never be a manager, I like to go home and switch off....' as if your manager doesn't, only difference is they're on 80k a year! Always the hardest working folk that say it too?
    I think you are misunderstanding their position, they are not saying that they think their managers do not switch off, they are saying that if they were in that position, they could not switch off as the lazy co-workers on the floor would annoy them so much.


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    AndonHandon
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    katemarch wrote: »
    Person incessantly afraid that their mud cabin will be burnt down and their subsistence crop destroyed.

    Eg fearful, deferential and with very narrow horizons owing to poverty.

    #literalanswer

    (I love hashtags)

    Sinn Feiners essentially.


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    #44
    goose2005
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    looksee wrote: »
    I'd say a peasant mentality is not so much someone who is put down as someone who does not want to lift himself up. Its easier to sit in the mud and whinge about the unfairness of life.

    More that it's someone who is slightly above the bottom and hates those at the bottom, because he fears becoming one of them. (Bear in mind that in former times there were lots of people worse off than peasants - landless labourers, vagrants, migrant workers etc.)


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