Irish People

kegan5

Thought I'd open this up on behalve of Spama or whatever its called? Samba...!

Spama ha ha now thats too much spamming on my behalf.

No seriously (gonna try to NOT spam now!!!)

Do you think Irish people drink too much?

Who gives a flying **** how much the Irish drink at least they can handle their drink without starting a fight with anything and everyone!
I'm comparing with the English now and Samba before u start on about Uk I'm English/Welsh.

kegan5

Just thought i'd add the note in that this is NOT a racist post just..well I dunno I think Samba p****sed me off so.

And now I'm interested in this irish drinking too much stuff

ShayK1

NewZeland (is that how you spell Newzeland?)
are as bad if not worse!
The drink more than the Irish and then get roudy and start fights!
I have witness this my self and others have told me stories and such........ its funny thought how the English (from my experience) seem to go out early and be home around the time we Irish go out!

Redrocket

irish people drink too much?? well whose the bastard that thought up of that one??!? he should be shot!! we dont drink nearly enough!
but seriosly.. i go out firday night and saturday night and get nicely plastered on both nights. thats enough for me... the rest of the week is for whatever-work/college stuff. the irish just have a bad image/reputation for drinking.

Fighting Irish

**** the english scum. this is a racist post

lulu

Have to say the only reason that the english think that the irish can drink to much is that they are to mean to serve you a decent measure!!

Were you ever in a pub and seen the size of the measures that they serve in pubs over there, tiny springs to mind.

lulu

kegan5

Now now fighting irish there's no need for that!
Don't get me started on the whole Irish V english thing...but once I get going I'll talk ****e for hours!!!

Just to be really annoying the good thing bout Uk is the roads, no argument for it there just better. You want a reason? They actually have lights on the roads!!!

But we wont go into that coz this is about Irish people and drinking...

Snowball

Originally posted by kegan5
Who gives a flying **** how much the Irish drink at least they can handle their drink without starting a fight with anything and everyone!
I'm comparing with the English now and Samba before u start on about Uk I'm English/Welsh.

sorry to dissapoint you kegan5 but Irish people cant handdle their drink and they always seem to have to start fights. If any of you drink on a regular basis inside dublin city center you'll know what I mean. Also look at (not sure of the spelling) Eire saquare and so on.

Anyone see the Prime Time special on drinking in Ireland?

Irish people drink way to much. If the kind of thing that does on in dublin on weekends happend in sweeden or some other euopean country there would be publin outrage and worrie on a national scale. What seems to me socialy aceptable in Ireland is no way near acceptable in other countries.

TomTom

Alot of that prime time special was staged. They filmed in tullamore and showed people jumping on cars, i've never seen that happen and i don't think people were going to be keen to do it on camera unless it was staged. Despite the amount we drink we still don't comsume the most amount of alcohol per capita, so if everyone give a bit more effort we can make it.

Snowball

Know a guy in the ambulance service and he said that the prime time (in his opinion) special on drink was pretty acurate. Also from the point of view of someone who has worked as a doorman for the last 6 years (on and off) I think that ut is pretty accurate. I doubt that any of it was staged. They would not get away with that. Maybe colourfull editing maybe but i recon that even that is not true.

Headcase

We don't drink too much, infact we don't have the money to drink enough.

there has been days where i've gone to Scraggs at about 12 in the afternoon and drank for the day and drank myself sober and so go home the way i came, short about 60 - 80 euro of course.

as for the prime time crap. had to of been staged. Tullamore is never like that, and i drink there every weekend, unfortunately!

gogo

The one thing that we do is associate drink with everthing, A wedding, a christening, a death, a graduation.... you name it, we'll drink to it.
I think it's because it's the done thing, it's always been done like that in Ireland. The same as most countries have their own traditions. Unfortunatley ours has to be drinking, but I do think that we drink to much, While I'm fond of it myself, i don't go out and say that i am going to get pissed tonight (Sh!t, i just realised that i do say that).
But does anybody think thats it's weird to go out and want to get sh!t faced, puke, make a show of yourself and not remember a thing the next morning.AND PAY FOT IT. While i do it, it really sounds stupid.

OH well unfortuantley this won't make me stop so who cares....

:rolleyes:

gogo

ShayK1

i actually do the same!
I go out to get LOcked but thankfully i haven't got to the point of puking from drink in a long time!

mada999

were not the biggest drinkers!!

the czech republic are beating us! next are Germany, austria and belgium!! It was in the paper today!

Don1

We'd better try harder then! Come on people our reputation is at stake here!!!:p

TomTom

The jumping on cards stuff had to be stagged, it may happen in some places but not in tullamore. We drink, we enjoy, it's our choice, our life and we should be allowed to live it like we want and no one should be allowed to tell us how. It's just some people that give us a bad reputation. In my opinion our behaviour is brillant with drink in comparison with the english.

kaimera

I think the new tv ads tell it all.

"everybody likes a drink...nobody likes a drunk"

Anybody read the article in todays Indo about sex attack victims not remembering anything becos they were too drunk?

how tis woman who are drinking too much...undiluted spirits and ending up in A&E departments.

As a nation...we DO have a drinking problem...moreso in the younger generation....anybody U-18 should NOT be drinking....stupid a-hols cant HANDLE the drink ffs.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

u-18's seem to manage well enough in europe..

kaimera

we're becoming more Americanised each day tho

ratman

Originally posted by Snowball
Know a guy in the ambulance service and he said that the prime time (in his opinion) special on drink was pretty acurate. Also from the point of view of someone who has worked as a doorman for the last 6 years (on and off) I think that ut is pretty accurate. I doubt that any of it was staged. They would not get away with that. Maybe colourfull editing maybe but i recon that even that is not true.

Youy always seem to know someone, or you allegedly worked at something that proves your point :rolleyes:

and as for the drinking thing everyone has a right to drink and ****ed if i'm going to feel guilty for doing it. If you think we have a drinking problem then you don't drink never force your views on other people

I also trink in tullamore and that prime time sounds like bollox, i didn't see it but people jumping on cars happens everwhere once in a while, i bet everyone can remeber having a fight it's always just blamed on beer

i_am_dogboy

this rat creature seems to be making some sense, could i subscribe to your newsletter?

Pigman II

Originally posted by kegan5
Do you think Irish people drink too much?

Who gives a flying **** how much the Irish drink at least they can handle their drink without starting a fight with anything and everyone!
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Irish people don't drink too much but where they fall down is on binge drinking. Look at any EU alcohol consumption League table and Ireland are rarely front runners.

What gives the Irish their bad image when it comes to drink is that they try to condence an entire weeks drinking into one or two days where as they would be better to maybe have one or two drinks on a daily basis, which is how life is in some other countries.

BTW, you're wrong to say the Irish can handle their drink. I've never been anywhere where drink was taken with such disregard for its consequences or where the 'drinking culture' was so tolerated - especially when its comes to drunkeness in public.

elexes

tom i dono about you but ive seen pleanty of ppl stop cars in the street in athlone/tullamore . ive also seen them run over a few for fun ... ross did that in carlow when i was there .

i was looking at a program a while back and basicly it said that if you were a american indian basicly you were screwed 85% of them were alco's

tho i didnt see the report i dont believe we are as bad as some of the others in europe but 4 r 5 of the others are very bad indeed you also cant judge the entire country from a few of its population ( english included )

Headcase

all this talk of drink is malking me thirsty.
Scraggs anyone?
its great being Irish and a student, cause we can drop what ever we are doing and go to the pub.

God invented alcohol so the Irish wouldn't take over the world!!!

TomTom

The american indians are drunks because when people landed they introduced alcohol to them in a bit to easily remove them from their land. And everybody knows that when you get drunk for your first few times you are liable to do anything because you have absolutly no tolerence to it.

Snowball

Originally posted by ratman
Youy always seem to know someone, or you allegedly worked at something that proves your point :rolleyes:

How old r u? If I remember right I have about 7 years on u. When was the last time u worked a 40 hr week and for how loing did u do it. Up untill college this year I have been working in mostly crap jobs for the last 10 years. Gives me a bit of experiance and more that u anyways. Just because I am in college does not mean that I have just come from school or that I have not done nothing else before college that could be relevante to my life now.
Not saying that I am but... just because u dont like it dose not mean that I am not right

Originally posted by ratman
and as for the drinking thing everyone has a right to drink and ****ed if i'm going to feel guilty for doing it. If you think we have a drinking problem then you don't drink never force your views on other people

I also trink in tullamore and that prime time sounds like bollox, i didn't see it but people jumping on cars happens everwhere once in a while, i bet everyone can remeber having a fight it's always just blamed on beer

If you have not seen the Prime Time program dont comment on it by saying its a load of bollox. It makes u look like a fool. The Prime Time program was well researched and also exprsses a fear of a lot of Irish people that the younger generation (me included) drink to much. I put my hand up in saying that I have added to the problem and that at some time in the future I probably will again but I also do my best to not over do it and when u cant remember the night before, apart from the waste of money, ur body it trying to say something to u. If u get tipsy u have as much fun but also remember what u did.
The problem lies in that people go out and drink silly amounts of drink and then cant control them selves and end up in fights which, for the most part, is realy unnessasery.




And its... "Your idea intregs me, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter"

ratman

Originally posted by Snowball
How old r u? If I remember right I have about 7 years on u. When was the last time u worked a 40 hr week and for how loing did u do it. Up untill college this year I have been working in mostly crap jobs for the last 10 years. Gives me a bit of experiance and more that u anyways. Just because I am in college does not mean that I have just come from school or that I have not done nothing else before college that could be relevante to my life now.
Not saying that I am but... just because u dont like it dose not mean that I am not right

I never even said that you didn't work for the last the years you took me up wrong, but anyway what does the dude in the ambulace have to do with you workiing. You may have for ten years how does that mean you have more experience than me, maybe i haven't worked for more than summer work in a 40hr job but that doesn't say that i haven't taken as much from it as you have.

(2) originally posted by snowball.
If you have not seen the Prime Time program dont comment on it by saying its a load of bollox. It makes u look like a fool.

If you read what I said properly then you would have noticed that I said it sounded like bollox i didn't actually say it was bollox. You should read something properly before you comment on it, it makes u look like a fool

clarabell

if your 7 years older than most of us, how are u part of the younger generation.
every1 likes a drink, some can drink more than others. then theres the people who think they can drink more than others.

personally, i want to hold on to my right to go on a bender whenever i'm pissed off, like yesterday.
spent the day in Scraggs, drinking lots of pints and whiskey chasers. And like an idiot, i missed my exam this morning, which is a final, so i have to come back in the summer and do it.

Not blaming the drink though, it was my own stupidity

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

well at least you recognise that

ShayK1

Originally posted by clarabell
if your 7 years older than most of us, how are u part of the younger generation.

You know i was thinkin the exact same thing but i didn't know how to word it!

Originally posted by clarabell
And like an idiot, i missed my exam this morning, which is a final, so i have to come back in the summer and do it.

That really sucks man! But best of luck in the Summer!

i_am_dogboy

Originally posted by Snowball
And its... "Your idea intregs me, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter"

it's actually "intreagues"

and no it wasn't meant to be a direct quote, i couldn't remember where i got it from

TomTom

Originally posted by Snowball
I put my hand up in saying that I have added to the problem and that at some time in the future I probably will again

If you know you are part of the problem why are you here telling us that irish behaviour is bad. I am not part of the problem. I go out get drunk and go home, I don't start fights or do reckless damage.
If you ask me you are being hypocritical.

ratman

Originally posted by TomTom
If you know you are part of the problem why are you here telling us that irish behaviour is bad. I am not part of the problem. I go out get drunk and go home, I don't start fights or do reckless damage.
If you ask me you are being hypocritical.

I would have to agree

Headcase

i can finally log on as myself. computer kept login me on as ClaraBell

Stephen

Originally posted by i_am_dogboy
it's actually "intreagues"

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=intrigues

I wouldn't go around criticising the spelling of others if I wasn't able to spell the word myself.

TomTom

This might get bitchy

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

/me puts on his modding boots and gets ready to kick some arse

ShayK1

//me pulls up a chair and eagerly watches and waits

Headcase

move over

Snowball

Rat, what I ment was that u were critisizing me for going on about things and I was trying to explain that just because u've not working for that long I have been for years and I have had a few differant jobs.

From you:

or you allegedly worked at something that proves your point

Thats prob the reason it seem like that to u

Originally posted by Stephen
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=intrigues

I wouldn't go around criticising the spelling of others if I wasn't able to spell the word myself.

ouch!

i_am_dogboy

"intregs" is still wrong.....isn't it?

yes stephen proved me wrong im not going to start bitching over that..........you can put the chairs down now

Headcase

such an anti-climax.
i said climax!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

you said anti.

Snowball

i_am_dogboy, I though u knew that I am dyslexic. Am I not allowed to make spelling mistakes????

i_am_dogboy

no i'm dogboy

Snowball

I was talking to u

TomTom

Originally posted by Snowball
i_am_dogboy, I though u knew that I am dyslexic. Am I not allowed to make spelling mistakes????

I'm curious about the fact you say your dyslexic, presuming you are i'm sure you have had the problem explained to you. From reading the majority of your posts I presume you are not a severe dyslexic, maybe a minor. You still can't blame bad spelling on it. Dyslexics mainly swap or mix up letters.

Originally posted by Snowball
And its... "Your idea intregs me, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter"

With the exception of the letter g in that sentence above, you used all the other letters outside the mis spelled word.
Intrigues and intregs are way to different for it to be a letter mix up.

i_am_dogboy

hardy har har

Snowball

Originally posted by TomTom
I'm curious about the fact you say your dyslexic, presuming you are i'm sure you have had the problem explained to you. From reading the majority of your posts I presume you are not a severe dyslexic, maybe a minor. You still can't blame bad spelling on it. Dyslexics mainly swap or mix up letters.

With the exception of the letter g in that sentence above, you used all the other letters outside the mis spelled word.
Intrigues and intregs are way to different for it to be a letter mix up.

I realy hope that ur not trying to imply that I am not dyslexic...
Apart from the fact that I was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 12 I have been diagnosed by the college with "Compinsated Dyslexia" and have the documentation to prove it.

Also most of the time I use a thing called a spell checker. I tend to get my spellings mixed up so over the years I have tought myself how to compinsate and get it right I also tend to know what I get wrong so I know when I look at the spelling to check.
Kind of insulting have to try and prove that I am dyslexic.

And Tom, dont go on about dyslexia like u know the whole story. Dyslexia impares the brain and the way u absorb information and the way you output information. This includes spelling, speaking and listening. You will find that a large portion of servire dylexics (included is me in there [officialy, not self diagnosed]) have a mild stammering problem, they also tend to mix words when talking and place words instead of others, also can be known to say a sentance that makes absolutly no sense and when asked to repete it the dyslexic repetes what they think is the same but actually makes sense to the person listening. There is much more areas in which a dyslexic but I am not a medical doctor. The one's that I have named are the ones that affect me and so r the ones that I remember the best.

Would u like anymore of my medical history tom or can we get back to the issue of Irish people drinking?

TomTom

I never tried to imply that you were not dyslexic, there is just no point in blaming blatent spelling mistakes on it.
My cousing Glenn has severe dyslexia and he is unable to read properly because of it. he has no stammer or anything. I have a mild form, and I was diagnosed with it in college. I don't blame spelling mistakes on it, because the majority of them are simple letter mixups and i correct them by rereading my post.
Now that thats done and dusted with you can return to the argument about drink. Which I think is pointless by the way because it is just people telling other people what they do is wrong. The majority of people on the boards are not the problem.

ShayK1

i am just sitting here waiting for the spelling mistakes to be pointed out!!
i'M NOT DOIN IT! I'm not THAT evil!