Aegir wrote: » do you all have wheels on your houses as well?
Tommy Kelly wrote: » Dubs are West Brits. Similar humour to the English themselves.
Anteayer wrote: » I'd actually say the most boring nights out I've ever had were in Vancouver which I didn't expect. It's a lovely city but just seems to have lots of workaholic health freaks. I was there, again with some Irish, English and French people and when we suggested going out on a midweek night (and this was for a meal and some drinks) there was a look of total disapproval. It seems to be the kind of place you do a 10k run and go to bed by 9pm.
Anteayer wrote: » It's horses for courses though and cultures vary. For all the positives about Irish culture and craic and friendliness and it is mostly very genuine, I've heard a few people (particularly from the continent but also even Irish people who've moved city) say that they've found it can sometimes be skin deep. I've certainly noticed that in Cork City. You could be on a night out and having great banter and craic with some group of people and you meet them in a different context and they just blank you. What I've heard from French people in particular is they find that people are all enthusiasm and craic in a bar and then if you try to actually make friends that they're cold as ice and very cliquey, again that could be a Cork thing I don't know. I certainly noticed it in university with some people who'd have their clique from school / home place. France is tough to make that initial connection but people are very open to inviting people home for dinner and that kind of thing in a way that's less common here. I know part of that is we tend to use the pub as our living room, but it's not always interpreted the way we think it is - i.e. not inviting people around for dinner after you've known them for weeks can look very cold to a culture where that's normal. It can be hard to have a true perspective on a culture when you're embedded in it.
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » Down home in the countryside, people would quite literally go out of their way to help you, and think nothing of it. My neighbour once footed all our turf for absolutely no reason except to be nice.
completedit wrote: » This is our worst national trait. We can be very very stand offish and reserved in the cold light of day. Like no link between seeing a person on a night out and then just randomly.
completedit wrote: » Anyone see that interview with Donnacha O'Callaghan. He says they're polite and nice but "no craic". Is this an example of Ireland exceptionalism? I wouldn't call what English do when they go to football tournaments "having the craic" but it's not like they're all stuffy posh types. Of course, when he means having the craic he might mean something else. I do actually think it's a uniquely Irish thing. It's not like other countries aren't fun(Spanish I'd say are more extroverted and outgoing than Irish) but the craic is different. It's actually innocent enough messing combined with a self-awareness. There's gob****es who think they're great craic when really they're just ***** but I do think we have a unique sense of humour and happy go lucky attitude. Again, it's not like all Irish people are funny but it's like we have a national light hearted mentality. What do you think?
ILoveYourVibes wrote: » No they are not. That is because you are FROM there. They don't do that for everyone. Dubliners are nice to people they know too ..anyone can do that! Country people are nice to the people they know well in their area. It isn't that they are nicer people.
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » I'm not so sure. Have you ever hitch hiked in rural Ireland? You won't be waiting for long. There isn't a culture here where helping a stranger is seen as an ordeal. I love Dublin for different reasons, it's my home for now, and as nice as my neighbours are, there's a very strained formality. I once got locked out my apartment, so I buzzed the neighbours to buzz me in. The next day, the woman's partner knocked on the door saying that was grand as a once off but please not to make a habit of it. I was stumped.
completedit wrote: » To know what the craic is, just look at what it isn't. Take your typical Midwestern American and there you have the antithesis of the craic and or banter
Electric Sheep wrote: » Most Irish people are not as much craic as they think they are. Try listening to them sober.
cgcsb wrote: » They go to weddings and go home at 9 o'clock in silence.
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » Well, not that we should be turning on one another when there are innocent Brits to attack, but it's Dubliners I've always had a problem with. They're like Londoners without the sexy accent and sexy salaries. A highly rude, very unhelpful class of people. Down home in the countryside, people would quite literally go out of their way to help you, and think nothing of it. My neighbour once footed all our turf for absolutely no reason except to be nice. Our neighbours are like family - they come into our yard and take our things without asking, and we do the same. You'd be considered an eccentric to ever complain to them with any seriousness. I often find that Dubliners have taken from the British (whose jurisdiction was of course only really focused in The Pale) an excessive formality and a most British orderliness. They may not be as bad as the tedious British Middle classes, but there is an inflexibility there, a coldness, that doesn't tend to be found in rural Ireland. It isn't just an urban thing either. Galwegians are lovely too, as are many people from Limerick and Cork. Although the less said about Belfast, the better.
Mad_maxx wrote: » Americans are extremely dull in my experience
cgcsb wrote: » My experience of the garden variety midlands culchies is a fear and loathing of outsiders coupled with resentment and gossip.
Mad_maxx wrote: » Even though it has a lot of scum, Limerick people are very warm, unpretentious and friendly, Galway city is the smuggest place in Ireland outside D4 and D6, Galway County is incredibly clannish, Galway isn't friendly overall, mayo is a very friendly place.
partyguinness wrote: » You are far braver than me to even go there in the first place. The midlands is somewhere to pinch your nose travelling between Cork and Dublin...:pac::pac:
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » To an extent. By all means we'll share our farm machinery with you and mow your lawn but it doesn't mean we like you, and we all have a long list of sworn enemies. I have one neighbour who would sooner run you over as look at you, I don't mean to say this is a utopia. But people generally get along and will go out of their way to help you, and feed you, and speak to you -- even if you don't want their help, food, or conversation. We are also ferociously nosey.
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