Ever get sick of Irish stereotyping?

irishguitarlad

Ever get sick of it?

ohnonotgmail

Begorrah sure I do.

corner of hells

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Begorrah sure I do.

Is that your shillelagh or is it mine ?

Fighting Tao

No. I try not to let insignificant things affect my mental health.

Osborne

Top o' the Morning to ye all.

Tis surely tiresome.

biko

I'm tired of being called Paddy.





My name is Mick.

TuringBot47

One of the funniest p*ss takes of the Irish I've seen/heard, was Dennis Learys "traditional Irish song". Check out the lyrics of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbeLu_3Wf_k

irishguitarlad

Osborne wrote: »

Top o' the Morning to ye all.

Tis surely tiresome.

The worst is the stereotype that we're all alcoholics, pisses you off when you live in a foreign country.

ILoveYourVibes

no i love it.

Ive decided i don't want to be irish anymore tho...

antodeco

irishguitarlad wrote: »

The worst is the stereotype that we're all alcoholics, pisses you off when you live in a foreign country.

In fairness, the vast majority of Irish people I know these days either feel like they've wasted a weekend of they haven't gotten a hangover or done a few lines of coke. There is a far stronger underlining of a drinking culture in Ireland than is actually believed

completedit

Not really but the worst is when people try to correct your pronunciation. It'll be Tom from England. a lad who literally can't pronounce his r's, and he'll act like pronouncing 'th' like 'd' is the most ridiculous thing ever.

ChikiChiki

irishguitarlad wrote: »

The worst is the stereotype that we're all alcoholics, pisses you off when you live in a foreign country.

And many of us are happy to play up to that stereotype from my travel experience. It casts a shadow over those that do not.

irishguitarlad

antodeco wrote: »

In fairness, the vast majority of Irish people I know these days either feel like they've wasted a weekend of they haven't gotten a hangover or done a few lines of coke. There is a far stronger underlining of a drinking culture in Ireland than is actually believed

Fair enough but to say that we're all alcoholics I feel isn't a fair representation of us. It's like me saying that all Spanish people are bull Killers and are gypsy flamenco dancers.

Chancer3001

Saw a stereotype this morning.

Was so angry i spit my guinness out all over my spuds and battered wife

ohnonotgmail

corner of hells wrote: »

Is that your shillelagh or is it mine ?

'tis mine and i'll take the shirt off the back of any man who says it isn't.

sbsquarepants

Stereotypes generally don't just arise out of nothing, there's usually a grain of truth in them. Obviously they don't apply to everyone - but that's the thing with generalisations, there's always tons of exceptions.


I personally couldn't give a rats arse what Irish stereotypes exists - there are better things to be concerned about. If you want to believe i'm some superstitious, drunken, idiot, you go ahead and believe that. Jokes on you - i'm only 2 of those things;)

antodeco

antodeco wrote: »

In fairness, the vast majority of Irish people I know these days either feel like they've wasted a weekend of they haven't gotten a hangover or done a few lines of coke. There is a far stronger underlining of a drinking culture in Ireland than is actually believed

whisky_galore

irishguitarlad wrote: »

The worst is the stereotype that we're all alcoholics, pisses you off when you live in a foreign country.

Funny that you never saw a US president or Queen Liz/Phil the Greek getting a photo op with French wine or German beer.

Publicans having the ear of government.

Irish pubs our best known export.

A & E until recently flooded with drunken wasters.

Well then...

ILoveYourVibes

completedit wrote: »

Not really but the worst is when people try to correct your pronunciation. It'll be Tom from England. a lad who literally can't pronounce his r's, and he'll act like pronouncing 'th' like 'd' is the most ridiculous thing ever.

What does he think of people who say Fink for think?

jimgoose

completedit wrote: »

Not really but the worst is when people try to correct your pronunciation. It'll be Tom from England. a lad who literally can't pronounce his r's, and he'll act like pronouncing 'th' like 'd' is the most ridiculous thing ever.

Tell him "Eee howay tha day wor lad, ah'm gannin yarrum laahk. Toon!" :pac:

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I'm in New Zealand and it's gas how normal it is for people here (a lot of them are English, granted) to just rhyme off a line of leprechaun accented blarney at you when they hear the Irish accent. It is beyond cringe. All you can do is laugh and fire back a scuttery Eastenders accent (for the English obviously), or ask a Kiwi if he'd like another shrimp on the barbie in your most obnoxious Aussie twang and it tends to shut (or wind) them up fairly quickly.

jimgoose

To address the matter at hand, the day Jeremy Clarkson calls me an unintelligible red-haired potatoist with a semtex fetish will be the day my life is complete.

jimgoose

TuringBot47 wrote: »

One of the funniest p*ss takes of the Irish I've seen/heard, was Dennis Learys "traditional Irish song". Check out the lyrics of it...

"...my father would sometimes swear in Gaelic. It doesn't get more religious than that." -- Denis Leary

ILoveYourVibes

jimgoose wrote: »

"...my father would sometimes swear in Gaelic. It doesn't get more religious than that." -- Denis Leary

Yeah i think we can all agree ..no he didn't denis ..feck is not gaelic ..and erm gaelic is not irish.

Americans always say ....oh my parents spoke irish ...they did in their hole ...2% of the population speaks it ..

Can you remember your parents ever speaking irish? cuz i can't

elefant

irishguitarlad wrote: »

The worst is the stereotype that we're all alcoholics, pisses you off when you live in a foreign country.

And how incredibly direct people will be in sharing their Irish stereotypes with you on first meeting.

They wouldn't consider it acceptable to learn that someone is Indian and ask 'Oh, you must love eating curry?', but it's amazingly common for people to meet an Irish person and follow up with something along the lines of 'Ah, you love drinking so?'.

Feisar

I get "top of the morning to ya" from one lad in the UK when I'm over. It actually took me a while to realize he was taking the piss as I have never heard it said here. Another lad says "ooh potatoes" in a Leprechaun voice. It's only a bit of banter.

irishblessing

biko wrote: »

I'm tired of being called Paddy.





My name is Mick.

I know this is in jest, but we haven't a leg to stand on when most people here refer to American's as Yanks. Yank harks back to colonial times. The US is full of people who are indigenous, or brought there as slaves/african ancestry, and is a big melting pot of many different cultures. It's so stupid, doesn't even apply to modern society yet we carry on using it to refer to people who don't even relate to it. :rolleyes:

7 odd billion ppl on the planet

i think youd want to acquire some perspective about how much time the other 6.995 billion are going to spend in gaining a subtle grasp of the minutiae our own specific culture.

Badly Drunk Boy

completedit wrote: »

Not really but the worst is when people try to correct your pronunciation. It'll be Tom from England. a lad who literally can't pronounce his r's, and he'll act like pronouncing 'th' like 'd' is the most ridiculous thing ever.

And the English usually can't pronounce 'wh' correctly either. 'Whales' is pronounced the same as 'Wales', for example. In certain areas, 'th' is pronounced like 'f', as something already said with the' think/fink' thing.

The one that I'm hearing more and more is their inability to say the word 'sixth'. They say 'sickth' instead.

ILoveYourVibes

There are two types of Irish men

Richard Harris in the Field and Sean Bean in the field. There is said it.

There are two types of women ...Mrs Doyle ..and Brenda Fricker from my left foot!

Feisar

Feisar wrote: »

I get "top of the morning to ya" from one lad in the UK when I'm over. It actually took me a while to realize he was taking the piss as I have never heard it said here. Another lad says "ooh potatoes" in a Leprechaun voice. It's only a bit of banter.

you should sue the bashtards

#Red-faced Potato-Head Paddies Matter

#cultural appropriation OUTRAGE