Irish Mediocrity

cgcsb · 24-12-2019 04:38PM

I'd say the worst thing about Ireland is the loud mouth moaning misery merchants. But thankfully they're few. Usually they're lads who fancy themselves as towering intellectuals because they read some blog, they live off the dole because they arent willing to lower their sense of self and take instruction from others who know better. And of course they have never been East of Berlin or South of Paris so their scope in which they denigrate their home place is somewhat limited, they also ignore the not-London Regions of the UK when building their comparisons.

Hercule Poirot · 24-12-2019 04:40PM

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

It's Christmas Eve ya miserable sod - go have a drink or a quick tug or something instead of going on with this sh1te

Signore Fancy Pants · 24-12-2019 04:41PM

This thread is the epitomy of mediocrity.

Ready4Boarding · 24-12-2019 04:42PM

Pathetic Anglophobia.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Not anglophobia, anglo hating. Which is fine.

A case in point. What he is oblivious to is that his self-professed hatred is the result of a pathetic prejudice.

cgcsb wrote: »

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.

You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

cgcsb · 24-12-2019 04:48PM

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

A case in point. What he is oblivious to is that his self-professed hatred is the result of a pathetic prejudice.

You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

Oh jeeze :rolleyes: get a life

dd973 · 24-12-2019 04:51PM

People who are up-their-own-arses about the fact they were born here and have never lived outside it's shores grind my gears, they talk down to emigrants, returned emigrants or the second generation like they've no knowledge of the place whatsoever and they and themselves alone are it's true sons and proprietors.

I Am The Law · 24-12-2019 04:57PM

The mediocrity holds back our true potential, IMO, we could be so much more.
Anyway The Snowman is channel 4 now.

retalivity · 24-12-2019 05:01PM

_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.

Errr...what Ireland are you living in?

railer201 · 24-12-2019 05:02PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

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

Yea, Colon is only half the man he used to be.

US2 · 24-12-2019 05:08PM

The best county in the world to be "poor" or "homeless"

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-12-2019 05:11PM

We've a tendency to celebrate failure in sporting events.

Always had fierce respect for Roy Keane when he refused to board the open top bus in Dublin after USA 94.

Paddy Barnes the boxer also, his comments about throwing the bronze medal he won at the Beijing Olympics into the Lagan when he got home really reasonated with me. He described it as a losers medal, which it is.

A winner doesn't accept 2nd or 3rd best.

whisky_galore · 24-12-2019 05:13PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Not anglophobia, anglo hating. Which is fine.

Build a bridge and get over it.

Wibbs · 24-12-2019 05:25PM

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Every man is an amateur historian

Indeed.

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 24-12-2019 05:28PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We've a tendency to celebrate failure in sporting events.

Always had fierce respect for Roy Keane when he refused to board the open top bus in Dublin after USA 94.

Paddy Barnes the boxer also, his comments about throwing the bronze medal he won at the Beijing Olympics into the Lagan when he got home really reasonated with me. He described it as a losers medal, which it is.

A winner doesn't accept 2nd or 3rd best.

If they didn’t win, they have no choice but to accept it. They’re not the winner.

AlekSmart · 24-12-2019 05:32PM

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

Pathetic Anglophobia.

Every man is an amateur historian.

Backward-looking culture.

Absence of social etiquette.

Rampant miss-use of the semicolon.

Miss who :eek: ?

Surely misuse of a colon,semi or not,should be punishable in law ?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-12-2019 05:37PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

If they didn’t win, they have no choice but to accept it. They’re not the winner.

They strive to become the winner, they're not content to pick up a loser medal.

They don't sing and dance in the streets celebrating their failure.

I ran Cross country and track for years. I've a heap of bronze and silvers and they mean nothing to me. The only medals I cherish are my Tipperary and Munster schools 1500m gold medals. Big races that I actually won. When I came fourth in the All Ireland schools 1500 final I threw the certificate they gave me in the bin.

Ready4Boarding · 24-12-2019 05:57PM

Sardonicat wrote: »

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

Nothing wrong with the hyphen. Is my crime, then, a typo?

cgcsb wrote: »

I'd say the worst thing about Ireland is the loud mouth moaning misery merchants. But thankfully they're few. Usually they're lads who fancy themselves as towering intellectuals because they read some blog, they live off the dole because they arent willing to lower their sense of self and take instruction from others who know better. And of course they have never been East of Berlin or South of Paris so their scope in which they denigrate their home place is somewhat limited, they also ignore the not-London Regions of the UK when building their comparisons.

cgcsb wrote: »

Oh jeeze :rolleyes: get a life

I've not come across the exotic creature you describe in such vivid detail. You, however, the epitome of the lowly Paddy who is ever so touchy about any criticism of Ireland, I encounter often.

You misunderstand what was being said. Irish culture, since the Gaelic Revival movement, has been engaged in a futile attempt to resurrect a lost culture. Whatever your sense of forward-looking, it certainly doesn't apply to Irish culture.

Wibbs wrote: »

Indeed.

It was a cultural analysis, not historical. How clever I expect you thought you were being.

24-12-2019 05:58PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Build a bridge and get over it.

Boris is building it.

Father Hernandez · 24-12-2019 06:05PM

The Hat Man wrote: »

We're a nation that thinks Fr Ted is some kind of cultural masterpiece...fffs 'careful now Fr I hear yer a racist down with this sort iff thing' ffs give a rest

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 24-12-2019 06:08PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They strive to become the winner, they're not content to pick up a loser medal.

They don't sing and dance in the streets celebrating their failure.

I ran Cross country and track for years. I've a heap of bronze and silvers and they mean nothing to me. The only medals I cherish are my Tipperary and Munster schools 1500m gold medals. Big races that I actually won. When I came fourth in the All Ireland schools 1500 final I threw the certificate they gave me in the bin.

I’m amused at the notion of silver and bronze medal-winning Olympians being deemed losers.

lawred2 · 24-12-2019 07:09PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I’m amused at the notion of silver and bronze medal-winning Olympians being deemed losers.

All because some lad won a cert for a race in Tipp

Bizarre

kowloon · 24-12-2019 07:37PM

_Brian wrote: »

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.

Or plenty of industrialised nations. I'd hate to be stuck in the USA with a serious health condition, for example.

anewme · 24-12-2019 07:50PM

JayZeus wrote: »

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.

Sorry, but this has me in knots laughing.

JayZeus, why dont you tell him just you really think?

Austria! · 24-12-2019 08:41PM

The Hat Man wrote: »

We're a nation that thinks Fr Ted is some kind of cultural masterpiece...fffs 'careful now Fr I hear yer a racist down with this sort iff thing' ffs give a rest

I could have you killed

MrAbyss · 24-12-2019 08:56PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I’m amused at the notion of silver and bronze medal-winning Olympians being deemed losers.

But in a way they are to be honest.

Nika Bolokov · 24-12-2019 09:03PM

Yeah OP I mean if only we were top of a class like America with:

A leader under investigation

Top class evels of income inequality and poverty

No healthcare provision for most of the population

Frequent financially motivated foreign wars that kill millions

An opiod epidemic amongst even the middle class

Mass shootings so frequent they barely get reported

Yeah happy enough to be mediocre.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 24-12-2019 09:29PM

MrAbyss wrote: »

But in a way they are to be honest.

No, they are in the top three in their event in the world. Losers? GTFO.

SharpshooterTom · 24-12-2019 11:07PM

MrAbyss wrote: »

Galway city

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

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

Belfast is Ireland's best city.

_Brian · 25-12-2019 12:04AM

retalivity wrote: »

Errr...what Ireland are you living in?

Both I and my wife have been very sick and extremely well looked after in Irish hospitals.

Maybe you should go to somewhere like the USA, China or Korea and see how their healthcare is in comparison.

In the whole Irish healthcare is good, very good. It is excellent? - no it’s not, but very good.

I clarified my points by saying it’s a good country if your willing to work, we have private healthcare. We choose this over drinking 2-3 nights a week, smoking, Sky subscriptions or regular take away meals. I bring a sandwich and flask for lunch rather than spending out.

Most people in Ireland could afford private healthcare if they prioritised it. Healthcare for an individual in Ireland starts at €480 a year, less than €10 a week, a pack of smokes or two pints.

MadYaker · 25-12-2019 12:31AM

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

Self loathing makes you unattractive. Learn to love yourself, you’ll be much happier. Also Ireland is good, try living in other countries for a few years.

Irish Mediocrity

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