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Why are we so boring, dull and mundanely corporate?

  • 25-09-2017 09:17PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭


    The great south run! An annual 10 mile race in Portsmouth. Note the emphasis on Great. Exciting huh.

    Gee I wonder what the "mad craic" Irish would call a run? Oh... Dublin half marathon....riiiiight

    Wembley stadium...you know because it's in Wembley....pretty simple right?

    Well gee I wonder will the Irish...oh ok Aviva stadium....you know because like insurance and football...the whole connection there Ted.

    Let's make a big ferris wheel and call it the London Eye! Triumphant are we!

    Let's make a big steel spike and call it a spire which is literally what you'd find on a church incase we forget our Catholic ways and God forbid there be any fun. Has anyone ever used this to navigate through the city? No. Or to actually look at when near. No. I believe most people wouldn't notice if it was cut in half. Sure it's a meeting point. Who needs Clearys eh? Too much history and interesting stuff there.

    Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Think ucd and trinity would bother. Actually sure why bother making use of our canals in general. Too much interest right there let's go for a pint.

    Do we have anything interesting going on at all in general? We can't keep relying on a hurling final in september and a horse race in Galway once a year to maintain interest. I'm really bored of the endless fine gael dribble followed by the endless tech dribble. Where's the craic at?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,351 ✭✭✭circadian


    Reads like the mad ramblings of my father in law.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OK..... move along...... just look straight ahead......


    Is he gone yet?????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭A Battered Mars Bar


    circadian wrote: »
    Reads like the mad ramblings of my father in law.

    Luke?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    The criac died with the recession


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    The great south run! An annual 10 mile race in Portsmouth. Note the emphasis on Great. Exciting huh.

    Gee I wonder what the "mad craic" Irish would call a run? Oh... Dublin half marathon....riiiiight

    Wembley stadium...you know because it's in Wembley....pretty simple right?

    Well gee I wonder will the Irish...oh ok Aviva stadium....you know because like insurance and football...the whole connection there Ted.

    Let's make a big ferris wheel and call it the London Eye! Triumphant are we!

    Let's make a big steel spike and call it a spire which is literally what you'd find on a church incase we forget our Catholic ways and God forbid there be any fun. Has anyone ever used this to navigate through the city? No. Or to actually look at when near. No. I believe most people wouldn't notice if it was cut in half. Sure it's a meeting point. Who needs Clearys eh? Too much history and interesting stuff there.

    Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Think ucd and trinity would bother. Actually sure why bother making use of our canals in general. Too much interest right there let's go for a pint.

    Do we have anything interesting going on at all in general? We can't keep relying on a hurling final in september and a horse race in Galway once a year to maintain interest. I'm really bored of the endless fine gael dribble followed by the endless tech dribble. Where's the craic at?

    You seem to depend on external news and events to keep you going. Turning off the news and your phone and chatting to friends would be a better use of your time.

    Secondly, all your ideas seem to idolise the UK. Perhaps learning more about your own country, its cultures and history would be more sensible.

    I stopped listening/reading/watching all sources of news many years ago. One of the best things I've ever done.

    BTW, if you're actually from the UK (which it does sound like), you are going to take a major battering here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭A Battered Mars Bar


    You seem to depend on external news and events to keep you going. Turning off the news and your phone and chatting to friends would be a better use of your time.

    Secondly, all your ideas seem to idolise the UK. Perhaps learning more about your own country, its cultures and history would be more sensible.

    I stopped listening/reading/watching all sources of news many years ago. One of the best things I've ever done.

    BTW, if you're actually from the UK (which it does sound like), you are going to take a major battering here.

    Ow wite ow wite mate. Falmin Nora. gonna get into a right barney here in I.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    People too docile for craic. Tis the fluoride in the water and the chemtrails in the air.

    Dumbed down zombies we is. Causes drain bramage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Ow wite ow wite mate. Falmin Nora. gonna get into a right barney here in I.

    Get outta the tree ya flamin' mongrel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    You have to make your own fun in life. Go and find adventure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Nettle Soup


    Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Think ucd and trinity would bother. Actually sure why bother making use of our canals in general. Too much interest right there let's go for a pint.

    You don't know much about boating or canals.


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    Ow wite ow wite mate. Falmin Nora. gonna get into a right barney here in I.

    Knock 'is block off guvnah. Givim a right set to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1



    Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Think ucd and trinity would bother. Actually sure why bother making use of our canals in general. Too much interest right there let's go for a pint
    This just shows how much rubbish you've spouted. You need to get out more. Have you never heard of the Irish Boat Races, the Colours Race, or the Gannon Cup run on the Liffey between Trinity and UCD since 1947.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    jamesbere wrote: »
    The criac died with the recession

    I miss the recession sessions.....vodka and red bulls for e2.50 :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Why not have a browse of the self help section of your local bookshop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    The limit of your vision is to ape whats happening across the channel? and you accuse everyone else of being dull and boring!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    You think the UK is full of craic because their race has a better name and two groups of posh twats race boats. **** off to the UK then if those things means so much to you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I agree with the general spirit of the original post but the style was Beboesque.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭Press_Start


    easy to compare a lot of the rich hobbies across the Irish Sea when they’re the ones who took the money we might have had for that, and spent it on themselves. We’re lucky to have the vibrant culture we have. There not much in Dublin like there’s not much in London, because they’re both cities.
    Try smaller towns and cities for size and actually look for some independent culture rather than compare what they have to what we don’t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    There is overexposure to foreign things in Ireland to be fair. Is there any other country on the planet where foreign media have such an influence? The BBC shouldn't be available for free in ROI, nor should any other foreign tv stations. It's not easy marketing events in Ireland I'm sure when people are staying in to watch the Boat Race and such things. People should take more of an interest in local events too, although some do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    There is overexposure to foreign things in Ireland to be fair. Is there any other country on the planet where foreign media have such an influence? The BBC shouldn't be available for free in ROI, nor should any other foreign tv stations. It's not easy marketing events in Ireland I'm sure when people are staying in to watch the Boat Race and such things. People should take more of an interest in local events too, although some do.

    *looks at internet-dominating American media*

    ..Yes?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    Samaris wrote: »
    There is overexposure to foreign things in Ireland to be fair. Is there any other country on the planet where foreign media have such an influence? The BBC shouldn't be available for free in ROI, nor should any other foreign tv stations. It's not easy marketing events in Ireland I'm sure when people are staying in to watch the Boat Race and such things. People should take more of an interest in local events too, although some do.

    *looks at internet-dominating American media*

    ..Yes?

    I'm not sure what you mean?

    I think even before the internet the BBC were in many households in Ireland. I think we have been influenced quite a bit by our neighbours and I think it's unusual. We're English speaking, a small country, limited in the media we can produce and have sort of stood by while the likes of Sky News have crept into every home, pub and place of business in the country. Even the newspapers are mostly UK owned and a lot of the content is not Irish, particularly the tabloids.

    I'm not saying it's a bad thing overall, but in terms of the OP's complaint it probably is. Economically it's probably a good thing, as I think we know a lot more about the world than other country's citizens might.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,967 ✭✭✭irelandrover


    There is overexposure to foreign things in Ireland to be fair. Is there any other country on the planet where foreign media have such an influence? The BBC shouldn't be available for free in ROI, nor should any other foreign tv stations. It's not easy marketing events in Ireland I'm sure when people are staying in to watch the Boat Race and such things. People should take more of an interest in local events too, although some do.

    BBC is free to air here in the Netherlands as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭buckwheat


    Where's that old man shouts at cloud pic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    The great south run! An annual 10 mile race in Portsmouth. Note the emphasis on Great. Exciting huh.

    Gee I wonder what the "mad craic" Irish would call a run? Oh... Dublin half marathon....riiiiight

    Wembley stadium...you know because it's in Wembley....pretty simple right?

    Well gee I wonder will the Irish...oh ok Aviva stadium....you know because like insurance and football...the whole connection there Ted.

    Let's make a big ferris wheel and call it the London Eye! Triumphant are we!

    Let's make a big steel spike and call it a spire which is literally what you'd find on a church incase we forget our Catholic ways and God forbid there be any fun. Has anyone ever used this to navigate through the city? No. Or to actually look at when near. No. I believe most people wouldn't notice if it was cut in half. Sure it's a meeting point. Who needs Clearys eh? Too much history and interesting stuff there.

    Oxford and Cambridge boat race. Think ucd and trinity would bother. Actually sure why bother making use of our canals in general. Too much interest right there let's go for a pint.

    Do we have anything interesting going on at all in general? We can't keep relying on a hurling final in september and a horse race in Galway once a year to maintain interest. I'm really bored of the endless fine gael dribble followed by the endless tech dribble. Where's the craic at?

    I challenge you to find anything as dysfunctional in the U.K as the Puck Fair. I went this year and couldn't believe my eyes. Think of the Wicker Man except real life... and with rams! There's alot of craic outside of Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,999 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I never refer to the new names of Lansdowne Road or the Point Depot.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Boring and dull? pffft, I had two types of jam for breakfast this morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,475 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    I generally find that people who complain of there being no craic are the ones who are no craic.
    They need to be entertained and bring nothing to the party but their own lifeless selves.
    It's why Disney's parks have been making a fortune for decades.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Wembley stadium...you know because it's in Wembley....pretty simple right?

    Well gee I wonder will the Irish...oh ok Aviva stadium....you know because like insurance and football...the whole connection there Ted.

    Size wise the Aviva is closer to other English stadiums like the Ethiad or Emirates.

    Wait a minute...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    The Great Dublin Bike Ride was on last Sunday. Is that an appropriately grandiose title for you? I find people like the op are usually the type to sit in the pub all day long and whinge and moan about how there is nothing to do.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    BTW, if you're actually from the UK (which it does sound like), you are going to take a major battering here./QUOTE]

    He's already battered!


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