First Dates Ireland *read first post*

leggo

I’m convinced I’m watching a different show sometimes.

The lad shouting around the restaurant calling his date a ‘dirty bitch’, telling her to **** off when she said a polite no and practically licking her face...absolute gent! Just because he happened to lose his leg.

The harmless chap who was probably nervous because he was on a first date on TV, and maybe mirrored his American date without even realising...he’s **** into a plant pot.

Fair play to the lad for admitting he’s got HIV?! Who does that?!! Nothing against him like, he seemed a sound bloke, but it’s a random decision to declare your STDs on a first date, never mind on national television. I don’t judge him for it, it must be a difficult subject to broach, but to celebrate him is a weird judgement when people then go onto slate another guy for being nervous on a televised date (which is the most human reaction of everyone on the show) and also crediting a lad who was a walking red flag just because he had a disability. Baffling...

JP Liz V1

castletownman wrote: »

Robbie is a sound divil

Robbie reminded me of Irish comedian Eric Lalor

Mr Duckling

Mr Duckling wrote: »

It’s is the large armerican girl with the thick bottom.

I thought she was naturally stunning looking.

Mr Duckling

Mr Duckling wrote: »

It’s is the large armerican girl with the thick bottom.

"It's is" and "Armerican"

I guess you type in a rush when you are being a dick.

JP Liz V1

Purple Mountain wrote: »

He was totally disrespectful to his date.
He never met that girl before, I'd hate to imagine how he'd speak to her if she was his girlfriend.
She should have walked out on him when he started with his vile language.

Was he drunk or medicated?

akelly02

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Was he drunk or medicated?

Drunk

Princess Calla

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Was he drunk or medicated?

During the interview when he started doing that weird thing with his tongue I thought it was more than drink in his system.

jos28

I'm enjoying this series, there seems to be more genuine people on. Not so much fake hair/nails/boobs or trout pout lips brigade.
I initially liked Robbie but he became so annoying and vulgar. I suppose he should be given another chance as it was probably a combination of drink and nerves.
The 'American' guy from Kildare really annoyed me. Seriously, his parents should have dragged him away from the telly when he was a young fella. The girl from Georgia was gorgeous, intelligent and funny.
Loved, loved, loved the older couple. It was lovely to watch them and listen to them connect. Smart, intelligent, caring people with stories to tell. Much rather go for a pint with them than any of the trout lips lot.

Purple Mountain

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Was he drunk or medicated?

Why does he have to be either?
Maybe he's just a d*ck?

JP Liz V1

They all seem to be sharing way too much this series early on, lots of medical issues etc.,

Rodin

British version much better

Gods Gift

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

They all seem to be sharing way too much this series early on, lots of medical issues etc.,

Exactly.
I don’t go around tellin strangers about my premature ejaculation.

leggo

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

They all seem to be sharing way too much this series early on, lots of medical issues etc.,

Yes! If someone even mentions their ex on a first date with me, alarm bells start ringing. These will start regaling each other with stories of past heartbreak or unleashing all of their medical history before the main is even served.

PhilOssophy

Purple Mountain wrote: »

He was totally disrespectful to his date.
He never met that girl before, I'd hate to imagine how he'd speak to her if she was his girlfriend.
She should have walked out on him when he started with his vile language.

This! I don't care how drunk he was or nervous, you don't say "While your down there...." and call somebody you've just met a dirty bitch on a first date. To me it sounded like she was only there to look after his needs. He came across as a misogynist in my view.

iamwhoiam

PhilOssophy wrote: »

This! I don't care how drunk he was or nervous, you don't say "While your down there...." and call somebody you've just met a dirty bitch on a first date. To me it sounded like she was only there to look after his needs. He came across as a misogynist in my view.

This , and who takes of their false leg in the middle of a busy restaurant anyway ! There is a time and a place for everything in my opinion

Yeah, Jesus..yer man with(out) the leg was fair bad.. although starting with the whiskey was never going to end well..his date was nice too..
The two gay lads were grand too..

leggo

iamwhoiam wrote: »

This , and who takes of their false leg in the middle of a busy restaurant anyway ! There is a time and a place for everything in my opinion

See I didn’t mind that so much. It’s his first date since he lost it, he wants to own it and be out straight up front, and she did ask. Plus if you’re on a date, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks if you and your date are having fun and not harming anyone else. But the rest is pretty egregious. She actually stopped and asked him to stop cursing at her and he kept going.

It was really good TV though, I have to say. You’re totally on side with him at the start because of the bad stuff he’s been through, they subtly kept in the bit about him saying he needs Dutch courage, then it totally flips on its head. A refreshing ‘just because someone has a legitimate sob story doesn’t mean they’re perfect’ story. She ended up being the one who came away looking great because of how politely she handled it, being respectful while still sticking up for herself. It was a fairly merciless edit on him and, having worked in production, made me wonder if he had got on the wrong side of the programme makers during it. They could’ve easily re-shot the bit where his eyes were rolling out of his head but kept it in.

The American girl is lovely too..

leggo

leggo wrote: »

I’m convinced I’m watching a different show sometimes.

The lad shouting around the restaurant calling his date a ‘dirty bitch’, telling her to **** off when she said a polite no and practically licking her face...absolute gent! Just because he happened to lose his leg.

The harmless chap who was probably nervous because he was on a first date on TV, and maybe mirrored his American date without even realising...he’s **** into a plant pot.

Fair play to the lad for admitting he’s got HIV?! Who does that?!! Nothing against him like, he seemed a sound bloke, but it’s a random decision to declare your STDs on a first date, never mind on national television. I don’t judge him for it, it must be a difficult subject to broach, but to celebrate him is a weird judgement when people then go onto slate another guy for being nervous on a televised date (which is the most human reaction of everyone on the show) and also crediting a lad who was a walking red flag just because he had a disability. Baffling...

To be fair nobody slated the comedian lad. His confession that he manufactured his American accent, was the galling thing of it that's all. The **** into plants was a joke as he's an aspiring comedian with a pretend American accent, living in Ireland! I'd expect that from a confused teenager, not a man whose next milestone is 40 years old! he wasn't mirroring anything out of nerves, it was there from the time he walked in.

iamwhoiam

leggo wrote: »

See I didn’t mind that so much. It’s his first date since he lost it, he wants to own it and be out straight up front, and she did ask. Plus if you’re on a date, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks if you and your date are having fun and not harming anyone else. But the rest is pretty egregious. She actually stopped and asked him to stop cursing at her and he kept going.

It was really good TV though, I have to say. You’re totally on side with him at the start because of the bad stuff he’s been through, they subtly kept in the bit about him saying he needs Dutch courage, then it totally flips on its head. A refreshing ‘just because someone has a legitimate sob story doesn’t mean they’re perfect’ story. She ended up being the one who came away looking great because of how politely she handled it, being respectful while still sticking up for herself. It was a fairly merciless edit on him and, having worked in production, made me wonder if he had got on the wrong side of the programme makers during it. They could’ve easily re-shot the bit where his eyes were rolling out of his head but kept it in.

I just think there is a time and place for taking off your false leg ! Its a public restaurant and I wouldn’t take off my shoes or pop out a false eye !! It was a first date , it seemed unnecessary for me

Mr Duckling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

"It's is" and "Armerican"

I guess you type in a rush when you are being a dick.

English is not my mother language and where i am from heavy buttocksess are an attraction in a girl to correct your attitude to me !!

iamwhoiam

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I just think there is a time and place for taking off your false leg ! Its a public restaurant and I wouldn’t take off my shoes or pop out a false eye !! It was a first date , it seemed unnecessary for me

In fairness, she was probably relieved he wasn't standing on the table swinging it around his head at that stage..

He's probably mortified today..

Tchaikovsky

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Robbie reminded me of Irish comedian Eric Lalor

who is as funny as losing a limb

Daroxtar

I work on a building site with some of the crudest, roughest bastards you'd ever be likely to come across and hear plenty of commentary that would make your skin crawl but I genuinely don't think too many of them would go to a nice restaurant on a blind date and proceed to call their date a dirty bitch, tell her to **** off away from his cake or suggest a blow job in full view and earshot of all the other diners. He may have had a few drinks but he can't use that excuse for being absolutely devoid of any class. I don't think he was a character, I think he was a gob****e

I'd say he had some dose of the fear the morning after.

joeguevara

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

They all seem to be sharing way too much this series early on, lots of medical issues etc.,

During the application process you are asked to say something interesting about yourself, what makes you different. Before the date the producer will request that you bring this up.

I have just watched the episode with the amputee. It started off nice and there was a nice moment with the maitre d when he said his father was born without a hand. But then went downhill. Mateo’s face when he said he wanted a whiskey was priceless. He pleaded with his eyes for him not to.

When his date arrived the first thing he said was ‘did they tell you about me’. Now I’m all for being upfront and not hiding anything etc. But my god find out have a chat first.

I learned nothing about her and everything was about him. She came across really nice and looked stunning. He made an incorrect snap judgment that she would be like bawdy behaviour and react well to lewd banter. He was oblivious to how uncomfortable it made her and even when she asked him to stop cursing he persisted. He said anyone else would have been disgusted with his carry on but because it was her he felt she liked it.

There is nothing wrong with a bit of cheekiness on a date in the right circumstances. But never crudeness. Calling someone a d1rty b1tch at any time is bizarre but on a first date is bordering moronic.

leggo

I don’t think it was even a decision that she’d be into that, I think he just took her politeness and not stopping him as a go-ahead. The way he describes it this seems to be feedback he gets regularly because that’s who he is, but he thought she was grand with it and he’d met his match. But you’d be aiming pretty low to find someone who’d be fine with what she had to put up with in public, she’s gorgeous and has a lot going on, she never would’ve. I’d say he thought she went outside to have a bit of a smooch, she probably went outside just so other people there wouldn’t hear how he was going on.

It’d be an interesting insight for some but the problem is the type of people that carry on this way are unlikely to be introspective enough to learn from it.

Poor_old_gill

Fairly clear Robbie was on the bag- lad was prob a bag of nerves and still suffering PTSD from losing the leg.
Doesn’t excuse his behaviour though and he may need some serious help as it’s a tough road he has been down- but his carry on was poor form.
Thought his date was a bit of a lasher aswell to be fair so he messed that up.

Old man was lovely while the older lady seemed a bit stand offish- happy they got along tho as I cab only imagine life is tough at that age.

The 2 guys seemed like nice lads and both good lookingA glad they got along while one of my main pet hates us Irish people will faux American accents so that has completely clouded my judgement of the other couple.

Your from Kildare, your accent is put on- why are you proceeding with this? Especially when he knew it and tried to pin it as a badge of honour- glad to see the barman giving him odd looks for it

job seeker

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

Your from Kildare, your accent is put on- why are you proceeding with this? Especially when he knew it and tried to pin it as a badge of honour- glad to see the barman giving him odd looks for it

That comedian was odd! . Like why? He wasn’t even funny..

castletownman

Edward has all the personality of Stephen Cluxton