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What are British people better at doing than Irish people?

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  • 13-09-2019 9:51pm
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    badabing106
    Registered Users Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭


    British people will happily protest and confront politicians and tell them off. Everywhere Boris goes he gets an ear full. Just wouldn't happen in Ireland, and it certainly wouldn't be reported by Irish media people

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZuQwbLhPnA


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    From my experiences in England people in general are more direct and fortcoming. They speak to you if they've an issue, they don't bitch behind your back and be as sweet as pie to your face like the Irish.


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


    Colonising.


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Savannah Bewildered Crab wrote: »
    Colonising.

    Amazed it took three replies!


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    #5
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Confidence and self esteem.

    Also an unwavering sense of bull****tery and superiority in the workplace. A lot of the time unwarranted aswell.


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    maxwell smart
    Registered Users Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Bombing Civilians? Don't get me wrong some Irish gave it a good go but the Brits really know how to do a good bombing.


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


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Amazed it took three replies!

    Surprised me too.


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    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Making genuinely good television.
    Especially comedies.

    Strange thing is Irish people can do it 'over there' - or working in conjunction with 'over there' but the strictly home grown stuff is usually dire.


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    Mr_Muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    Cooking. Look at all the celebrity chefs they have.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    They speak to you if they've an issue, they don't bitch behind your back and be as sweet as pie to your face like the Irish.

    That was a top-notch post Deft. Really great!


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


    They're better at convincing themselves of their own importance, to the point of arrogance.


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    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Better at being "at it"!

    http://arethebritsatitagain.com/


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    Dymo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭Dymo


    Moaning, they're world champs at that.


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    #14
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,937 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    better at looking after cars.


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    #15
    questionmark?
    Registered Users Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    Best at ducking up EU membership!


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    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Having violence at sporting events.


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    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    Having industrial revolutions.


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    boege
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭boege


    British people will happily protest and confront politicians and tell them off. Everywhere Boris goes he gets an ear full. Just wouldn't happen in Ireland, and it certainly wouldn't be reported by Irish media people

    Seriously, anyone remember water charges.........!


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    Blahfool
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭Blahfool


    Queuing


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    #20
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    I was going to post cricket but sure Ireland beat them at that recently


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    #21
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    'aving it


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    #22
    Tuco88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    Construction and Engineering, we are not in the same league or in the same game in fact.


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    #23
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,407 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Driving.


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    #24
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Nothing really.

    You take 1,000 Irish people and 1,000 british people and I bet you find similar numbers of genius's, dossers, hard workers, comedians, psychopaths, optimists, pessimists, pragmatists etc in each group.

    Now, collectively, their national psyche is both very self-confident and lacking in introspective analysis to assess their true place in the world in a way that is different to Ireland.


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    #25
    lsjmhar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    Understanding how democracy works!


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    #26
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Better at being brash and forward.

    We Irish are far more reserved than they are.


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    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Comedy.

    Even though most of the truly brilliant comedy appears to be as a result of having the genius that is Armando Iannucci involved in it


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    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,894 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    boege wrote: »
    Seriously, anyone remember water charges.........!

    Those were "polite, peaceful" protests!


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    #29
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,894 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    From my experiences in England people in general are more direct and fortcoming. They speak to you if they've an issue, they don't bitch behind your back and be as sweet as pie to your face like the Irish.

    My experience of English people is they are even worse than Irish people when it comes to acting nice to people they don't like.


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    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Racism. I hope no racists are offended by this, but there's something very inauthentic about Irish racists. The Brits (mainly the English) have it nailed though. Proper ugly racism, not the half-arsed pale imitation that you see here.


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,507 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    None of the above applies to Scottish people. They are better at sectarianism.


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