Which stereotypes are most true or least true

badabing106

Audi drivers. This morning I witnessed an audi saloon drive around the roundabout 3 times slowly whilst on the phone , no indicator. He was using the roundabout for his conference call. I was so in shock that it took me a moment to move off, just as I was moving off the vehicle behind starting whaling his horn in an obnoxious manner , I looked in the rear view mirror and it was another flipping Audi! May even have been the same guy. B@stard!

Gwynplaine

Americans are fat, loud, and obnoxious.
French are smelly and think they're great
Germans are very serious, precise, professional, no sense of humour.

JimmyMcGill

Sorry bout dat. My knee was wedged under the steering wheel having phone sex.

The_Valeyard

Jews are good with money

OldMrBrennan83

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AndyBoBandy

People from Cork don’t so much have a chip on their shoulder, but rather a Mt. Everest sized mountain on their shoulder.

Particularly towards folk from ‘The Pale’

True

Jimbob1977

The car that tailgates and tries to drive you off the road will be:

BMW

Audi

Mercedes


The car that will cut in dangerously at the last minute to make its exit will be:

BMW

Audi

Mercedes

Billy86

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Germans are very serious, precise, professional, no sense of humour.

The fact they've a language like Lego doesn't help when it comes to their love of building stuff either.

Heard the following on a podcast when I was 80% asleep so it couldbe off (and I can't remember if it's just specific to the Finnish or not!) but apparently the reason Scandinavians are often seen as so productive is because they don't have a 'will do' future tense, e.g. they don't say "I will go to shopping later" and instead it translates basically to "I am shopping shopping later" - hopefully someone here knows a few words to clear it up!

Avatar MIA

Boardies are as thick as muck - True* :pac:

Or so this thread would suggest. Read the thread title people, and answer. Is the stereotype true or not.

* Angry# Audi driver

#Is there any other kind? :pac:

Roadtoad

Red haired girls. Sisters, girlfriends, sports players.... watch them all most carefully.

Capt'n Midnight

Sony.

Most of the other stereo brands are fake, made in China by the lowest bidder.

RobbingBandit

Sex Panther works every time 60% of the time.

PeterParker957

Roadtoad wrote: »

Red haired girls. Sisters, girlfriends, sports players.... watch them all most carefully.

I'd love to be offended but you're right !!!

Donald Trump

JimmyMcGill wrote: »

Sorry bout dat. My knee was wedged under the steering wheel having phone sex.

You must have a very small willy that it fits into the charger slot...........

Pete Tong

Audis = Wasps of the road

suicide_circus

Women be shoppin

IamtheWalrus

The Irish are insecure - true.

neonsofa

PeterParker957 wrote: »

I'd love to be offended but you're right !!!

I was told by a guy i briefly dated that red haired women are only ever really bad looking or else stunningly good looking, never just average. At the time I was really confused because firstly my hair was not naturally red- clearly an unnatural shade of burgandy- so I don't think that "rule" could even apply to me and secondly I don't consider myself to be all that good looking so I genuinely thought he was insulting me. He was a weird guy but I think he actually was on to something, so maybe you're one of the stunning ones that also needs to be watched :pac:

ChunkyLover54

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Sex Panther works every time 60% of the time.

It's a formidable scent.

Everybody who terrorises the road in their 20-km-per-hour Micra or Yaris is old, female or suffers from their nerves - and very likely to be all three. True.

Anybody who puts a spoiler on his car, or soups up his car engine, or messes with his tyres is making a statement about his shocking lack of culture and education. True.

Atlantic Dawn

Loud ringtone, loud irritating owner.

wetlandsboy

Irish, therefore most likely to drink excessively.

anewme

Remarked to a colleague recently that since I changed car to a small Audi, people go out of their way to be hostile, even though my driving style is the exact same.

Snotty

Bitches be crazy

Tell me how

All teenagers are Kevin from Harry Enfield and chums.

pickarooney

Billy86 wrote: »

The fact they've a language like Lego doesn't help when it comes to their love of building stuff either.

Heard the following on a podcast when I was 80% asleep so it couldbe off (and I can't remember if it's just specific to the Finnish or not!) but apparently the reason Scandinavians are often seen as so productive is because they don't have a 'will do' future tense, e.g. they don't say "I will go to shopping later" and instead it translates basically to "I am shopping shopping later" - hopefully someone here knows a few words to clear it up!

I don't know any Finnish but it's not true of the other Scandinavian languages. Swedish has two future tenses, depending on if you shall do something actively or if that thing will occur come what may.

99nsr125

Irish people are asshöles

JackTaylorFan

Billy86 wrote: »

The fact they've a language like Lego doesn't help when it comes to their love of building stuff either.

Heard the following on a podcast when I was 80% asleep so it couldbe off (and I can't remember if it's just specific to the Finnish or not!) but apparently the reason Scandinavians are often seen as so productive is because they don't have a 'will do' future tense, e.g. they don't say "I will go to shopping later" and instead it translates basically to "I am shopping shopping later" - hopefully someone here knows a few words to clear it up!

Their language has a huge part to play in it alright. Cognitive linguistics is a very interesting field.

And my experience with Germans has been much the same as the stereotype we all hear about.

cantdecide

I've always found Germans to be humble and sweet people.

CalamariFritti

But they know better than everyone else and are not slow letting you know about it either. Knowitalls. But I suppose so is everyone else these days.

donegaLroad

Country and Western fans are red-necks

Pete Tong

anewme wrote: »

Remarked to a colleague recently that since I changed car to a small Audi, people go out of their way to be hostile, even though my driving style is the exact same.

I sometimes drive a Micra with the same style and speed as I drive my own, bigger car.
It is insane watching people desperately and often dangerously trying to overtake, just because it's a Micra. Yes, by far the worst are Audi drivers.
After their overtaking I'm then stuck behind them as they drive more slowly that I was originally going.
Never happens in my bigger car.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

I've found German and Dutch people to be very very funny, contrary to the stereotype. Very direct and a bit superior yeah, but I don't agree with the no sense of humour stereotype.

Ok so I'm basing this off my one Jewish friend, but she stood and argued very passionately for several minutes until the group all agreed to go to the £5 all you can eat Chinese place rather than the £8 one. Also saw her ask someone for the 50c from the night before back another time.

She's better than my Cavan friend though.

fleet_admiral

The northside/southside Dublin bull

If you know Dublin and look at a map you'll see there are more working class and rough areas south of the liffey

Avatar MIA

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The northside/southside Dublin bull

If you know Dublin and look at a map you'll see there are more working class and rough areas south of the liffey

I've noticed that too. And some lovely areas in North Dublin. Castleknock comes to mind, and around where Bertie lay his hat.

Schwanz

I may as well say it.

Black men are all hung like horses.

Complete BS

Wanderer2010

True- Fat funny people are miserable inside.

False- camp men are automatically gay.

rickis tache

bald men are the best lovers.

Omackeral

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The northside/southside Dublin bull

If you know Dublin and look at a map you'll see there are more working class and rough areas south of the liffey

Avatar MIA wrote: »

I've noticed that too. And some lovely areas in North Dublin. Castleknock comes to mind, and around where Bertie lay his hat.

A truer divide would be East and West Dublin.

Avatar MIA

Schwanz wrote: »

I may as well say it.

Black men are all hung like horses.

Complete BS

Can you elaborate on the scientific investigations you carried out to despunk this?

fleet_admiral

Schwanz wrote: »

I may as well say it.

Black men are all hung like horses.

Complete BS

Apt username

RobbingBandit

If you sneeze fart and blink at the same time good things will happen

Tzardine

Pete Tong wrote: »

I sometimes drive a Micra with the same style and speed as I drive my own, bigger car.
It is insane watching people desperately and often dangerously trying to overtake, just because it's a Micra. Yes, by far the worst are Audi drivers.
After their overtaking I'm then stuck behind them as they drive more slowly that I was originally going.
Never happens in my bigger car.

This x 1000.

I take my wife's car every now and then. It's a Micra. It really is true.

I could be doing 120 in a school zone, in the snow, and somebody will still try overtake me just so they are not behind a Micra..

Odhinn

Joe Duffy.

Odhinn

Aubriella Alive Wildflower wrote: »

I've found German and Dutch people to be very very funny, contrary to the stereotype. Very direct and a bit superior yeah, but I don't agree with the no sense of humour stereotype.

Ok so I'm basing this off my one Jewish friend, but she stood and argued very passionately for several minutes until the group all agreed to go to the £5 all you can eat Chinese place rather than the £8 one. Also saw her ask someone for the 50c from the night before back another time.

She's better than my Cavan friend though.

Germans - I've found them grand, but when they do something, they're entirely serious about it - they follow the rules, the ethics and so on, and - in my experience - don't take the 'a la carte' approach favoured here.

anewme

Tzardine wrote: »

This x 1000.

I take my wife's car every now and then. It's a Micra. It really is true.

I could be doing 120 in a school zone, in the snow, and somebody will still try overtake me just so they are not behind a Micra..

I used to drive a soccer mammy mobile Suv style thing which I swooped for a small Audi.

When I had the suv, people always waved you out coming out of a side road smiling etc etc but since I changed they’d nearly be sitting on the bumper on the car in front rather than let you out. Cut you off, try to race you off at lights etc. The level of hostility is shocking.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Roadtoad wrote: »

Red haired girls. Sisters, girlfriends, sports players.... watch them all most carefully.

They were considered bad luck in my locality 100 and more years ago. I've heard stories of farmers herding cattle to market turning back for home if they enountered a red head woman on the road.

Not sure where all this nonsense orginated from. I've always liked redheads.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Odhinn wrote: »

Germans - I've found them grand, but when they do something, they're entirely serious about it - they follow the rules, the ethics and so on, and - in my experience - don't take the 'a la carte' approach favoured here.

One of my best friends is German, comes over and stays in rural Clare a few weeks each year and usually brings a friend. Ive had to explain rounds, why people do how they do on roundabouts, bus timetables that are actually works of speculative fiction, why the local sergeant came into a lock in and told us to keep it down because "there's gards around!", why it's pointless and actually rude to show up on time to things, and why under no circumstances can they Germanly draw a comparison between all this and Father Ted :pac:

The Pheasant2

Aubriella Alive Wildflower wrote: »

One of my best friends is German, comes over and stays in rural Clare a few weeks each year and usually brings a friend. Ive had to explain rounds, why people do how they do on roundabouts, bus timetables that are actually works of speculative fiction, why the local sergeant came into a lock in and told us to keep it down because "there's gards around!", why it's pointless and actually rude to show up on time to things, and why under no circumstances can they Germanly draw a comparison between all this and Father Ted :pac:

Rounds are a good one when it comes to Germans - initially found it baffling that you'd buy them a drink and they'd feel under no obligation to buy you one back... I suppose it's just a difference in drinking culture but I prefer our way

5rtytry56

Irish People follow the crowd to be successful - True

Beanntraigheach

Constipated people just couldn't give a shït.

- Completely true in my experience.