Are Irish people as thick as American's?

Away With The Fairies

I'm sitting in a cafe and watched a woman trying to pour milk from the jug. It's a jug with a button to press. A good five minutes went by when she went up to the counter to say there was no milk.

There was milk she just couldn't or didn't figure out what the button on the jug was for. I've only ever came across this kind of thickness from Americans.

iamwhoiam

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

I'm sitting in a cafe and watched a woman trying to pour milk from the jug. It's a jug with a button to press. A good five minutes went by when she went up to the counter to say there was no milk.

There was milk she just couldn't or didn't figure out what the button on the jug was for. I've only ever came across this kind of thickness from Americans.

So one woman can’t find a button for whatever reason and you ask about a whole nation ?
By the way she could have sight difficulties or another issue which you wouldn’t be aware of .

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

The typo in the title is tongue-in-cheek, right?

partyguinness

Yes. You saw one woman struggling with a milk jug egro the entire country is thick. You got it in one.

Away with the fairies is about right.

1o059k7ewrqj3n

Imagine being that **** sitting there watching someone and judging them when you could have gone over and said hey I think you're supposed to use it this way?

mikemac2

Using your phone to type to message board strangers when you could have talked to her and helped her in the cafe

Says more about you OP

Car99

Pot kettle black

iamwhoiam

As thicks as American’s what ?

circadian

American's?

Yes.

Away With The Fairies

iamwhoiam wrote: »

So one woman can’t find a button for whatever reason and you ask about a whole nation ?
By the way she could have sight difficulties or another issue which you wouldn’t be aware of .

There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

nthclare

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Imagine being that **** sitting there watching someone and judging them when you could have gone over and said hey I think you're supposed to use it this way?

They're away with the fairies

some of those milk jugs are tricksy

dark crystal

American's.

Huh.

Better Than Christ

If your calling people thick, its always a good idea to check your grammar before posting.

iamwhoiam

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

Sad that you have nothing better to do isn’t it

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s yer own ma & da.

circadian

Better Than Christ wrote: »

If your calling people thick, its always a good idea to check your grammar before posting.

Hah!

circadian

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

What a boring existence.

Away With The Fairies

iamwhoiam wrote: »

As thicks as American’s what ?

Oh the grammar Nazis are out.

nthclare

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

Is your name Cathal by any chance?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Imagine being that **** sitting there watching someone and judging them when you could have gone over and said hey I think you're supposed to use it this way?

Yeah, it just sounds like a brain fart on the part of the woman. I’ve seen the most intelligent people have those.

Away With The Fairies

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Oh the grammar Nazis are out.

You missed a comma.

Was the woman an American? Or an American't?

partyguinness

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Oh the grammar Nazis are out.

Well if you are going to judge the intelligence of other people it's always a good idea to make your point water tight.

Americans thick? Americans lead the world in pretty much every human endeavour.

Grow up.

nthclare

Was it, low fat or what?

Samuel T. Cogley

No just chancers.

I'd hate the OP to observe my regular struggles with the so-called child-proof lid.

spurious

Are they those stupid jugs you have to push a thing over to the side to get milk out of? They are very counter-intuitive. I often wondered what sort of a thick invented them.

Chris_Heilong

Do not judge others lest you be judged OP.

tuxy

I don't believe there is much difference in intelligence in developed countries.
It's easier to find large group of both highly intelligent people or incredibly stupid ones in countries with large populations.
It just depends on what you are actively looking out for.

Collie D

I too have struggled with those things. Rarely have problems with the use of apostrophes though.

Guess it evens itself out.

Electric Nitwit

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Oh the grammar Nazis are out.

:pac:

IAMAMORON

It's Americans' not American's.

Widdershins

Tbh some of the most admirable people Ive met were Americans and I've felt at times theres an anti intellectual undercurrent in Irish society. A fashion for dumbing down.

Pherekydes

I've often had trouble with those jugs.

To be fair, where I grew up the jugs didn't even have lids, never mind buttons.

partyguinness

Intelligent people do stupid things.

I turned up at my son's primary school yesterday evening at 5pm to pick him up from 'Kid's Club' as usual.

Rang the bell and waited patiently only to be reminded by a stranger passing by that it is mid term and the school is shut. My son was at his grandparents. Clean forgot.

partyguinness

IAMAMORON wrote: »

It's Americans' not American's.

Sorry to be a Pedantic Pete but it is 'Americans' in the plural.

It is not a possessive noun.

tintin67

Better Than Christ wrote: »

If your calling people thick, its always a good idea to check your grammar before posting.

Your right.

Church on Tuesday

"You've jumped over the fence baby".

odyssey06

We have seen the enemy and they are us.

And by that I mean the Irish made a big contribution to the American gene pool...

adox

To answer the question, I think it’s half and half.

NSAman

nthclare wrote: »

Was it, low fat or what?

Judging by where I live in the US, low fat doesn't exist for the majority of people. Talk about fatties!!!

jaxxx

The sheer irony of the OP's name

Away With The Fairies

American's was an autocorrect.

I used to work in the hotel industry and the Americans definitely asked the dumbest of questions like how to open their bedroom window. Just thought that a milk jug was fairly simple to operate but clearly it's not.

Esel

Around the waist, no.

Mad_maxx

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

I'm sitting in a cafe and watched a woman trying to pour milk from the jug. It's a jug with a button to press. A good five minutes went by when she went up to the counter to say there was no milk.

There was milk she just couldn't or didn't figure out what the button on the jug was for. I've only ever came across this kind of thickness from Americans.

Some people are slow learners

Granadino

Has boards been taken over by 18 year olds? Seems so.

spurious

Granadino wrote: »

Has boards been taken over by 18 year olds? Seems so.

"I know what you are but what am I?"

School holiday time.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Granadino wrote: »

Has boards been taken over by 18 year olds? Seems so.

A poster with 77 posts over the course of four months has a long way to go before he takes over...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

American's was an autocorrect.

I used to work in the hotel industry and the Americans definitely asked the dumbest of questions like how to open their bedroom window. Just thought that a milk jug was fairly simple to operate but clearly it's not.

I had an issue with this muscle-bound cop where I actually had to SHOW him how to use the three sea-shells. He may have been Italian, though.

chrissb8

nthclare wrote: »

Is your name Cathal by any chance?

Most definitely a Gavin.

jester77

Putting milk into tea is the travesty here