Irish Mediocrity

MrAbyss · 24-12-2019 01:41PM #1

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

dinjo99 · 24-12-2019 01:44PM

MrAbyss wrote: »

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

Mr Abyss

Junkyard Tom · 24-12-2019 01:44PM

Ah sure it'll be grand.

Kristopherus · 24-12-2019 01:45PM

dinjo99 wrote: »

Mr Abyss

OP, how deep is your abyss ?:D

Jimmy Garlic · 24-12-2019 01:52PM

MrAbyss wrote: »

Galway city

It's a glorified town. Very overrated and full of incredibly smug navel gazers.

Dr. Bre · 24-12-2019 02:25PM

Ireland’s call

_Brian · 24-12-2019 02:30PM

“I will yea”

johnnyskeleton · 24-12-2019 02:33PM

I suppose its better than being an exceptional nation like Syria or Ukraine.

BDI · 24-12-2019 02:36PM

Best place in the world to live.

Hamsterchops · 24-12-2019 02:36PM

Santy

Brush Shiels

Shane Macgowan

Da'Commitments

Getting hammered

Sambos in da'press

lawred2 · 24-12-2019 02:40PM

The only thing I can't stand is when our green 'army' go on their zany madcap instagrammed to death travels..

After the euros in France, I'd gladly forego qualification for anything ever again.

Might get my wish if the FAI folds up like it should.

Other than that, which is a very infrequent annoyance, I think this is a pretty great place to live.

24-12-2019 02:41PM

MrAbyss wrote: »

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

The self-loathing of **** on the internet who want to drag everyone else down to their level of being.

In real life we’d just tell them to go **** themselves.

Have a miserable Christmas. It’s what you want and deserve.

24-12-2019 02:44PM

Irish ****ing deadliness you mean.

Us > *

_Brian · 24-12-2019 02:48PM

While we’re not a world leading nation, Ireland is a great place to live, providing you work for what you have.

Great education, great hospital care, crime rates are low, we produce good safe food. Employment rates and wages are good. Free open democracy.

The countryside is beautiful, forestry is at highest levels since it was decimated by the British.

Most people are nice and friendly.

Like I said, not world leading on any of these items but still great.

Anyone who thinks it’s not a great place to live need to visit some of the actual third world nations in Africa or Asia to give themselves a sense of perspective.

24-12-2019 02:52PM

We have the best milk and butter in the world.

IAMAMORON · 24-12-2019 02:54PM

Does anyone know where the Bono bashing thread is ?

BuboBubo · 24-12-2019 03:00PM

_Brian wrote: »

While we’re not a world leading nation, Ireland is a great place to live, providing you work for what you have.

Great education, great hospital care, crime rates are low, we produce good safe food. Employment rates and wages are good. Free open democracy.

The countryside is beautiful, forestry is at highest levels since it was decimated by the British.

Most people are nice and friendly.

Like I said, not world leading on any of these items but still great.

Anyone who thinks it’s not a great place to live need to visit some of the actual third world nations in Africa or Asia to give themselves a sense of perspective.

Agree.

Our climate is mild too, not prone to dangerously high or low temperatures.

Whilst far from perfect, Ireland is a good place to live, we are very fortunate indeed.

Pinch Flat · 24-12-2019 03:02PM

Happy Christmas OP, hope you're surrounded by family and friends

lawred2 · 24-12-2019 03:05PM

Who talks about Bosco anyway?

BuboBubo · 24-12-2019 03:07PM

lawred2 wrote: »

Who talks about Bosco anyway?

Dunno...

Was always more of a Podge and Rodge person myself

Pinch Flat · 24-12-2019 03:09PM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Does anyone know where the Bono bashing thread is ?

Just below the dole bashing one, you know they get a double payment at Christmas?

railer201 · 24-12-2019 03:38PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Ah sure it'll be grand.

That's the target ok - no pressure - suits fine !

IAMAMORON · 24-12-2019 04:03PM

Is this thread now officially a mediocre pile of Irish crap also ?

Apologies if that was too crude of an announcement.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 24-12-2019 04:08PM

MrAbyss wrote: »

As being Irish is essentially about being mundane and average while thinking 'everyone loves the Irish' because a 'comic' in the USA patronized us with unfunny videos about GAA and Hurling, I am in the mood for celebrating all things that make we Irish the most mediocre nationality on the planet but think we are 'great craic'.

Late Late Toy Show

Gaelic Football

12 Pubs of Christmas

Talking about Bosco

Thinking 'ignorant' means a rude individual

'Greatest supporters in the World'

Galway city

Aaah, that is one of the definitions. The ignorance!

WesternZulu · 24-12-2019 04:15PM

We've the 3rd best quality of living in the world according to the UN recently. We mustn't be too bad in comparison to the basket case that is the US!

And give me gaelic football any day ahead of American football or baseball.

Typical self-loathing from the OP.

Ready4Boarding · 24-12-2019 04:21PM

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

IAMAMORON · 24-12-2019 04:24PM

The weather is shight. Does that count?
I suppose what I am asking is, if something is shight.. is it necessarily mediocre also?
Or is the question, is our weather mediocre?
If you had a choice would you rather be mediocre or shight? Albeit, you can't decide what the weather will be, it is out of your control. So you don't really have a choice, do you?

Now that I think about it "Ireland's weather" is a misnomer, does it really belong to Ireland or do we receive it from other parts of the world?

24-12-2019 04:29PM

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

Not anglophobia, anglo hating. Which is fine.

Sardonicat · 24-12-2019 04:30PM

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

How is Miss Use these days? I heard she's regretting dumping that semicolon and taking up with that hyphen.

cgcsb · 24-12-2019 04:31PM

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic

Backward-looking culture.
.

Curious to know where this comes from? As someone who travels extensively rest assured you're in one of the most forward thinking places on Earth.

AllForIt · 24-12-2019 04:36PM

Yeah that 'greatest supporters' thing make me cringe. Like your at the top of human hierarchy if you follow a team sport. Sport is only a form of entertainment. And no, it's not something to brag about or be proud of if you 'treat sport like a religion around here'.

And the way some people talk about Ireland's scenery - as if we spent millennia making it ourselves.

Irish Mediocrity

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