Irish Mediocrity

MrAbyss

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

dinjo99

MrAbyss wrote: »

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

Mr Abyss

Junkyard Tom

Ah sure it'll be grand.

Kristopherus

dinjo99 wrote: »

Mr Abyss

OP, how deep is your abyss ?:D

Jimmy Garlic

MrAbyss wrote: »

Galway city

It's a glorified town. Very overrated and full of incredibly smug navel gazers.

Dr. Bre

Ireland’s call

_Brian

“I will yea”

johnnyskeleton

I suppose its better than being an exceptional nation like Syria or Ukraine.

BDI

Best place in the world to live.

Hamsterchops

Santy

Brush Shiels

Shane Macgowan

Da'Commitments

Getting hammered

Sambos in da'press

lawred2

The only thing I can't stand is when our green 'army' go on their zany madcap instagrammed to death travels..

After the euros in France, I'd gladly forego qualification for anything ever again.

Might get my wish if the FAI folds up like it should.

Other than that, which is a very infrequent annoyance, I think this is a pretty great place to live.

MrAbyss

MrAbyss wrote: »

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

The self-loathing of **** on the internet who want to drag everyone else down to their level of being.

In real life we’d just tell them to go **** themselves.

Have a miserable Christmas. It’s what you want and deserve.

Irish ****ing deadliness you mean.

Us > *

_Brian

While we’re not a world leading nation, Ireland is a great place to live, providing you work for what you have.

Great education, great hospital care, crime rates are low, we produce good safe food. Employment rates and wages are good. Free open democracy.

The countryside is beautiful, forestry is at highest levels since it was decimated by the British.

Most people are nice and friendly.

Like I said, not world leading on any of these items but still great.

Anyone who thinks it’s not a great place to live need to visit some of the actual third world nations in Africa or Asia to give themselves a sense of perspective.

We have the best milk and butter in the world.

IAMAMORON

Does anyone know where the Bono bashing thread is ?

BuboBubo

_Brian wrote: »

While we’re not a world leading nation, Ireland is a great place to live, providing you work for what you have.

Great education, great hospital care, crime rates are low, we produce good safe food. Employment rates and wages are good. Free open democracy.

The countryside is beautiful, forestry is at highest levels since it was decimated by the British.

Most people are nice and friendly.

Like I said, not world leading on any of these items but still great.

Anyone who thinks it’s not a great place to live need to visit some of the actual third world nations in Africa or Asia to give themselves a sense of perspective.

Agree.

Our climate is mild too, not prone to dangerously high or low temperatures.

Whilst far from perfect, Ireland is a good place to live, we are very fortunate indeed.

Pinch Flat

Happy Christmas OP, hope you're surrounded by family and friends

lawred2

Who talks about Bosco anyway?

BuboBubo

lawred2 wrote: »

Who talks about Bosco anyway?

Dunno...

Was always more of a Podge and Rodge person myself

Pinch Flat

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Does anyone know where the Bono bashing thread is ?

Just below the dole bashing one, you know they get a double payment at Christmas?

railer201

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Ah sure it'll be grand.

That's the target ok - no pressure - suits fine !

IAMAMORON

Is this thread now officially a mediocre pile of Irish crap also ?

Apologies if that was too crude of an announcement.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

MrAbyss wrote: »

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

Aaah, that is one of the definitions. The ignorance!

WesternZulu

We've the 3rd best quality of living in the world according to the UN recently. We mustn't be too bad in comparison to the basket case that is the US!

And give me gaelic football any day ahead of American football or baseball.

Typical self-loathing from the OP.

Ready4Boarding

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

IAMAMORON

The weather is shight. Does that count?
I suppose what I am asking is, if something is shight.. is it necessarily mediocre also?
Or is the question, is our weather mediocre?
If you had a choice would you rather be mediocre or shight? Albeit, you can't decide what the weather will be, it is out of your control. So you don't really have a choice, do you?

Now that I think about it "Ireland's weather" is a misnomer, does it really belong to Ireland or do we receive it from other parts of the world?

Ready4Boarding

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

Not anglophobia, anglo hating. Which is fine.

Sardonicat

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

How is Miss Use these days? I heard she's regretting dumping that semicolon and taking up with that hyphen.

cgcsb

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic

Backward-looking culture.
.

Curious to know where this comes from? As someone who travels extensively rest assured you're in one of the most forward thinking places on Earth.

AllForIt

Yeah that 'greatest supporters' thing make me cringe. Like your at the top of human hierarchy if you follow a team sport. Sport is only a form of entertainment. And no, it's not something to brag about or be proud of if you 'treat sport like a religion around here'.

And the way some people talk about Ireland's scenery - as if we spent millennia making it ourselves.

cgcsb

I'd say the worst thing about Ireland is the loud mouth moaning misery merchants. But thankfully they're few. Usually they're lads who fancy themselves as towering intellectuals because they read some blog, they live off the dole because they arent willing to lower their sense of self and take instruction from others who know better. And of course they have never been East of Berlin or South of Paris so their scope in which they denigrate their home place is somewhat limited, they also ignore the not-London Regions of the UK when building their comparisons.

Hercule Poirot

MrAbyss wrote: »

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

It's Christmas Eve ya miserable sod - go have a drink or a quick tug or something instead of going on with this sh1te

Signore Fancy Pants

This thread is the epitomy of mediocrity.

Ready4Boarding

Pathetic Anglophobia.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Not anglophobia, anglo hating. Which is fine.

A case in point. What he is oblivious to is that his self-professed hatred is the result of a pathetic prejudice.

cgcsb wrote: »

Curious to know where this comes from? As someone who travels extensively rest assured you're in one of the most forward thinking places on Earth.

You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

cgcsb

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

A case in point. What he is oblivious to is that his self-professed hatred is the result of a pathetic prejudice.



You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

Oh jeeze :rolleyes: get a life

dd973

People who are up-their-own-arses about the fact they were born here and have never lived outside it's shores grind my gears, they talk down to emigrants, returned emigrants or the second generation like they've no knowledge of the place whatsoever and they and themselves alone are it's true sons and proprietors.

I Am The Law

The mediocrity holds back our true potential, IMO, we could be so much more.
Anyway The Snowman is channel 4 now.

retalivity

_Brian wrote: »

While we’re not a world leading nation, Ireland is a great place to live, providing you work for what you have.

Great education, great hospital care, crime rates are low, we produce good safe food. Employment rates and wages are good. Free open democracy.

Errr...what Ireland are you living in?

railer201

Sardonicat wrote: »

How is Miss Use these days? I heard she's regretting dumping that semicolon and taking up with that hyphen.

Yea, Colon is only half the man he used to be.

US2

The best county in the world to be "poor" or "homeless"

DEFTLEFTHAND

We've a tendency to celebrate failure in sporting events.

Always had fierce respect for Roy Keane when he refused to board the open top bus in Dublin after USA 94.


Paddy Barnes the boxer also, his comments about throwing the bronze medal he won at the Beijing Olympics into the Lagan when he got home really reasonated with me. He described it as a losers medal, which it is.


A winner doesn't accept 2nd or 3rd best.

whisky_galore

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Not anglophobia, anglo hating. Which is fine.

Build a bridge and get over it.

Wibbs

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Every man is an amateur historian

Indeed.

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We've a tendency to celebrate failure in sporting events.

Always had fierce respect for Roy Keane when he refused to board the open top bus in Dublin after USA 94.


Paddy Barnes the boxer also, his comments about throwing the bronze medal he won at the Beijing Olympics into the Lagan when he got home really reasonated with me. He described it as a losers medal, which it is.


A winner doesn't accept 2nd or 3rd best.

If they didn’t win, they have no choice but to accept it. They’re not the winner.

AlekSmart

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

Miss who :eek: ?

Surely misuse of a colon,semi or not,should be punishable in law ?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

If they didn’t win, they have no choice but to accept it. They’re not the winner.

They strive to become the winner, they're not content to pick up a loser medal.

They don't sing and dance in the streets celebrating their failure.


I ran Cross country and track for years. I've a heap of bronze and silvers and they mean nothing to me. The only medals I cherish are my Tipperary and Munster schools 1500m gold medals. Big races that I actually won. When I came fourth in the All Ireland schools 1500 final I threw the certificate they gave me in the bin.

Ready4Boarding

Sardonicat wrote: »

How is Miss Use these days? I heard she's regretting dumping that semicolon and taking up with that hyphen.

Nothing wrong with the hyphen. Is my crime, then, a typo?

cgcsb wrote: »

I'd say the worst thing about Ireland is the loud mouth moaning misery merchants. But thankfully they're few. Usually they're lads who fancy themselves as towering intellectuals because they read some blog, they live off the dole because they arent willing to lower their sense of self and take instruction from others who know better. And of course they have never been East of Berlin or South of Paris so their scope in which they denigrate their home place is somewhat limited, they also ignore the not-London Regions of the UK when building their comparisons.

cgcsb wrote: »

Oh jeeze :rolleyes: get a life

I've not come across the exotic creature you describe in such vivid detail. You, however, the epitome of the lowly Paddy who is ever so touchy about any criticism of Ireland, I encounter often.

You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

Wibbs wrote: »

Indeed.

It was a cultural analysis, not historical. How clever I expect you thought you were being.

whisky_galore

whisky_galore wrote: »

Build a bridge and get over it.

Boris is building it.

Father Hernandez

The Hat Man wrote: »

We're a nation that thinks Fr Ted is some kind of cultural masterpiece...fffs 'careful now Fr I hear yer a racist down with this sort iff thing' ffs give a rest

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They strive to become the winner, they're not content to pick up a loser medal.

They don't sing and dance in the streets celebrating their failure.


I ran Cross country and track for years. I've a heap of bronze and silvers and they mean nothing to me. The only medals I cherish are my Tipperary and Munster schools 1500m gold medals. Big races that I actually won. When I came fourth in the All Ireland schools 1500 final I threw the certificate they gave me in the bin.

I’m amused at the notion of silver and bronze medal-winning Olympians being deemed losers.