Which stereotypes are most true or least true

Pete Tong · 31-12-2017 03:42PM

anewme wrote: »

Remarked to a colleague recently that since I changed car to a small Audi, people go out of their way to be hostile, even though my driving style is the exact same.

I sometimes drive a Micra with the same style and speed as I drive my own, bigger car.
It is insane watching people desperately and often dangerously trying to overtake, just because it's a Micra. Yes, by far the worst are Audi drivers.
After their overtaking I'm then stuck behind them as they drive more slowly that I was originally going.
Never happens in my bigger car.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 31-12-2017 03:42PM

I've found German and Dutch people to be very very funny, contrary to the stereotype. Very direct and a bit superior yeah, but I don't agree with the no sense of humour stereotype.

Ok so I'm basing this off my one Jewish friend, but she stood and argued very passionately for several minutes until the group all agreed to go to the £5 all you can eat Chinese place rather than the £8 one. Also saw her ask someone for the 50c from the night before back another time.

She's better than my Cavan friend though.

fleet_admiral · 31-12-2017 03:45PM

The northside/southside Dublin bull

If you know Dublin and look at a map you'll see there are more working class and rough areas south of the liffey

Avatar MIA · 31-12-2017 04:11PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The northside/southside Dublin bull

If you know Dublin and look at a map you'll see there are more working class and rough areas south of the liffey

I've noticed that too. And some lovely areas in North Dublin. Castleknock comes to mind, and around where Bertie lay his hat.

Schwanz · 31-12-2017 04:23PM

I may as well say it.

Black men are all hung like horses.

Complete BS

Wanderer2010 · 31-12-2017 04:35PM

True- Fat funny people are miserable inside.

False- camp men are automatically gay.

rickis tache · 31-12-2017 04:43PM

bald men are the best lovers.

31-12-2017 04:47PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The northside/southside Dublin bull

If you know Dublin and look at a map you'll see there are more working class and rough areas south of the liffey

Avatar MIA wrote: »

I've noticed that too. And some lovely areas in North Dublin. Castleknock comes to mind, and around where Bertie lay his hat.

A truer divide would be East and West Dublin.

Avatar MIA · 31-12-2017 05:36PM

Schwanz wrote: »

I may as well say it.

Black men are all hung like horses.

Complete BS

Can you elaborate on the scientific investigations you carried out to despunk this?

fleet_admiral · 31-12-2017 05:37PM

Schwanz wrote: »

I may as well say it.

Black men are all hung like horses.

Complete BS

Apt username

RobbingBandit · 31-12-2017 05:48PM

If you sneeze fart and blink at the same time good things will happen

Tzardine · 31-12-2017 05:53PM

Pete Tong wrote: »

I sometimes drive a Micra with the same style and speed as I drive my own, bigger car.
It is insane watching people desperately and often dangerously trying to overtake, just because it's a Micra. Yes, by far the worst are Audi drivers.
After their overtaking I'm then stuck behind them as they drive more slowly that I was originally going.
Never happens in my bigger car.

This x 1000.

I take my wife's car every now and then. It's a Micra. It really is true.

I could be doing 120 in a school zone, in the snow, and somebody will still try overtake me just so they are not behind a Micra..

Odhinn · 31-12-2017 05:53PM

Joe Duffy.

Odhinn · 31-12-2017 05:58PM

Aubriella Alive Wildflower wrote: »

I've found German and Dutch people to be very very funny, contrary to the stereotype. Very direct and a bit superior yeah, but I don't agree with the no sense of humour stereotype.

Ok so I'm basing this off my one Jewish friend, but she stood and argued very passionately for several minutes until the group all agreed to go to the £5 all you can eat Chinese place rather than the £8 one. Also saw her ask someone for the 50c from the night before back another time.

She's better than my Cavan friend though.

Germans - I've found them grand, but when they do something, they're entirely serious about it - they follow the rules, the ethics and so on, and - in my experience - don't take the 'a la carte' approach favoured here.

anewme · 31-12-2017 06:01PM

Tzardine wrote: »

This x 1000.

I take my wife's car every now and then. It's a Micra. It really is true.

I could be doing 120 in a school zone, in the snow, and somebody will still try overtake me just so they are not behind a Micra..

I used to drive a soccer mammy mobile Suv style thing which I swooped for a small Audi.

When I had the suv, people always waved you out coming out of a side road smiling etc etc but since I changed they’d nearly be sitting on the bumper on the car in front rather than let you out. Cut you off, try to race you off at lights etc. The level of hostility is shocking.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 31-12-2017 06:08PM

Roadtoad wrote: »

Red haired girls. Sisters, girlfriends, sports players.... watch them all most carefully.

They were considered bad luck in my locality 100 and more years ago. I've heard stories of farmers herding cattle to market turning back for home if they enountered a red head woman on the road.

Not sure where all this nonsense orginated from. I've always liked redheads.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 31-12-2017 06:09PM

Odhinn wrote: »

Germans - I've found them grand, but when they do something, they're entirely serious about it - they follow the rules, the ethics and so on, and - in my experience - don't take the 'a la carte' approach favoured here.

One of my best friends is German, comes over and stays in rural Clare a few weeks each year and usually brings a friend. Ive had to explain rounds, why people do how they do on roundabouts, bus timetables that are actually works of speculative fiction, why the local sergeant came into a lock in and told us to keep it down because "there's gards around!", why it's pointless and actually rude to show up on time to things, and why under no circumstances can they Germanly draw a comparison between all this and Father Ted :pac:

The Pheasant2 · 31-12-2017 06:19PM

Aubriella Alive Wildflower wrote: »

One of my best friends is German, comes over and stays in rural Clare a few weeks each year and usually brings a friend. Ive had to explain rounds, why people do how they do on roundabouts, bus timetables that are actually works of speculative fiction, why the local sergeant came into a lock in and told us to keep it down because "there's gards around!", why it's pointless and actually rude to show up on time to things, and why under no circumstances can they Germanly draw a comparison between all this and Father Ted :pac:

Rounds are a good one when it comes to Germans - initially found it baffling that you'd buy them a drink and they'd feel under no obligation to buy you one back... I suppose it's just a difference in drinking culture but I prefer our way

5rtytry56 · 31-12-2017 06:41PM

Irish People follow the crowd to be successful - True

Beanntraigheach · 31-12-2017 08:26PM

Constipated people just couldn't give a shït.

- Completely true in my experience.

JupiterKid · 31-12-2017 08:47PM

The thing is that with stereotypes and cliches, they don’t exist for nothing - there’s nearly always a kernel of uncomfortable truth behind them, even if they may be decades out of date, as is the case for Ireland and most other countries.

Drink culture - true, more than ever now.
Friendly - largely true, but a lot of this is a bit superficial, wanting to be seen to please the visitor.
Begrudgery - true.
Religious and pious - not true any more, but the fact that abortion is still illegal here shows there is still some way to go until Ireland can consider itself a fully secular society.
Poor - not true any more (thankfully), but by Northern European standards we are still a pretty unequal society.
Rural - not true, Ireland became more than 50% urban in 1971, but since then we have urbanized relatively slowly, thanks to lax planning laws and the love affair with one-off rural housing. However, in the past 15 years the pace of urbanization, particularly the pull towards Greater Dublin, has been accelerating.
Agricultural - not true any more, but agriculture plays a more important role in Ireland’s economy compared to other European countries.

Schwanz · 31-12-2017 08:48PM

Been to many a UK game and a few pints around some of them & you're called IRA/Nazi

Unreal in 2017

5rtytry56 · 31-12-2017 08:55PM

Many Irish people overuse their hosts' hospitality - true.

JackTaylorFan · 31-12-2017 09:03PM

We like potatoes

mikemac2 · 01-01-2018 09:39AM

Accepting of bad public transport

I explained to a German girl in work where the bus stop she needed was and was asked when will the bus will arrive

My answer of its there whenever it’s there could not be comprehended. Why is it not there at the schuduled time?? For this I have no answer

Don Kiddick · 01-01-2018 09:45AM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

If you sneeze fart and blink at the same time good things will happen

Is shítting your pants considered a good thing nowadays?

Tigger · 01-01-2018 09:55AM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The northside/southside Dublin bull

If you know Dublin and look at a map you'll see there are more working class and rough areas south of the liffey

its north south west and town

Shenshen · 01-01-2018 12:34PM

Billy86 wrote: »

The fact they've a language like Lego doesn't help when it comes to their love of building stuff either.

Heard the following on a podcast when I was 80% asleep so it couldbe off (and I can't remember if it's just specific to the Finnish or not!) but apparently the reason Scandinavians are often seen as so productive is because they don't have a 'will do' future tense, e.g. they don't say "I will go to shopping later" and instead it translates basically to "I am shopping shopping later" - hopefully someone here knows a few words to clear it up!

That's actually the case with colloquial German. There is a future tense in the grammar, but nobody uses it day-to-day. People will use the present tense rather than the future.

the purple tin · 01-01-2018 01:31PM

The myth that the US army and the marines in particular are extremely proficient in unarmed combat. The amount of hand to hand training they receive is almost not worth talking about.

pickarooney · 01-01-2018 02:07PM

Shenshen wrote: »

That's actually the case with colloquial German. There is a future tense in the grammar, but nobody uses it day-to-day. People will use the present tense rather than the future.

It's not like it's unheard of in English to say "I'm going shopping later".

Which stereotypes are most true or least true

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