"The Irish prove yet again that parties and chaos..

...go so well together".

According to the continuity announcer on Channel 4 introducing the next episode of Come Dine With Me.

Now, I'm not offended at all, before this descends into one of those typical "shouldn't have offended/shouldn't have taken offence" threads, but was it just a little...stereotyping? I can't say I completely disagree, but not sure a British TV announcer should go there.

Berserker

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...go so well together".

According to the continuity announcer on Channel 4 introducing the next episode of Come Dine With Me.

Now, I'm not offended at all, before this descends into one of those typical "shouldn't have offended/shouldn't have taken offence" threads, but was it just a little...stereotyping? I can't say I completely disagree, but not sure a British TV announcer should go there.

I hope your not watching now, they are singing Molly Malone.

Berserker

Berserker wrote: »

I hope your not watching now, they are singing Molly Malone.

Not sure what you mean, that no one should sing Molly Malone?

The seems to me to be a world of difference between people singing an Irish song and someone else concluding from that that the Irish love drunken chaos. I suspect even sober people sing it, unless everyone at rugby games is drunk.

OptimusTractor

Berserker wrote: »

I hope your not watching now, they are singing Molly Malone.

Could have been Fields of Athenry. The RWC has left me with a seething rage for that song.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I have been called a mick in NYC a few times. Didn't really know what to make of it.

DEFTLEFTHAND

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I have been called a mick in NYC a few times. Didn't really know what to make of it.

I think Mick and Paddy references depend on context. They can be used in a very innocent way, and then a sneering "thick Mick, thick Paddy" way too.

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Now, I'm not offended at all

Okay

Azalea

I certainly don't buy the national putting ourselves down thing some Irish people go on with, but I don't see an issue with this - it's lighthearted, offence isn't intended.

OhDearyMe

As long as there's no mention of "The Luck of the Irish" then I don't sweat it.

nullzero

We have a problem with alcohol but ironically the British have an even bigger problem with alcohol, so they should probably tread carefully with the old "drunken Paddy" stuff. Although a programme that courts middle class home counties types as much as come dine with me will naturally feel a sense of superiority over everyone else in the world anyway.

play it again

play it again wrote: »

Okay

Yep.

Incredible as it may seem to some, one can note something without really being personally offended by it.