When did Ireland get so pretentious?

Have I stumbled across the Irish version of Its A Wonderful Life?

Millicently wrote: »

In Ireland's favour, most of the wildlife here doesn't want to kill you. I can sit on a toilet without a spider or snake sneaking up the loo and trying to bite me in the ass. I don't need to worry that a huge snake is hiding somewhere in the house and if I want to dispose of a spider I can just cover it with a glass and a bit of paper and safely pop it out in the garden without it trying to kill me and lay it's eggs in me. There won't be a crocodile in the garden either.:D

FFS all of Australia is not something out of Steve Irwins Australia Zoo. :rolleyes:

PS
do you know what kills most people in Australia every year ?
It is actually other people and not any or all animals.

Also why did you leave out the sharks, blue ringed octopus, box jellyfish, camels, red kangaroos as they also kill people?


If you want to see how pretentious some of the Irish have gotten just take a wander into any of the threads on Farming protests, discussion on rural housing, immigration, etc.

Just because some of the plebes have grown up to get well paid jobs with likes of Dell, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Pfizer, Google, PWC, etc they actually think we now own something and it is time to look down their noses at what they deem the ignorant culchies and all that goes with them.

mandrake04 wrote: »

Yep you see the viral videos and pics hit the news... that's because it news... its not an everyday occurrence.

You usually find this rubbish in Daily Mail FFS

I never lived in Australia. I went there for work for just over 3 weeks. I have Australian cousins so met up with them in Sydney. One day my cousin came to pick me up outside my hotel. He rolled up in a car that looked like it was from the 80's and gestured me to come in. I walk up and there's a massive spider crushed in the door. I signalled to him to roll down the window and tell him. He handed me his flip flop (he was driving in flip flops!) and told me to swipe it away.

Off we went. He asked it it was brown or red. I forget what it was but he said, yeah those are the venomous ones and you get use to it. He lived pretty far out from the city centre but it was still fairly built up. Other than that, the only wildlife I saw was just outside of Cairns.

I encountered a lot more dangerous wildlife living in the US but even so, you go so long without seeing them you get complacent and forget they are even there. We're fairly lucky in Ireland!

Wompa1 wrote: »

I never lived in Australia. I went there for work for just over 3 weeks. I have Australian cousins so met up with them in Sydney. One day my cousin came to pick me up outside my hotel. He rolled up in a car that looked like it was from the 80's and gestured me to come in. I walk up and there's a massive spider crushed in the door. I signalled to him to roll down the window and tell him. He handed me his flip flop (he was driving in flip flops!) and told me to swipe it away.

Off we went. He asked it it was brown or red. I forget what it was but he said, yeah those are the venomous ones and you get use to it. He lived pretty far out from the city centre but it was still fairly built up. Other than that, the only wildlife I saw was just outside of Cairns.

I encountered a lot more dangerous wildlife living in the US but even so, you go so long without seeing them you get complacent and forget they are even there. We're fairly lucky in Ireland!

I live in NW suburbs but it’s close to bushland and a creek, I never have anything in the house not even ants which were a problem in my previous house. I do have large trees in my garden that act as a roost for fruit bats that look like a fox with wings make a racket when they fly into trampoline net..had one poor bastard end up in the pool. It not what people make it out to be.

As for flip-flops we call thongs ..,I prefer driving barefoot.

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Haven't the Chinese bought half of Australia. Better start learning mandrin, I'd say the place will be a Chinese colony before long.

Sure they are ones with all the brains and money, the Chinese are one of largest migrant groups granted permanent residency over the last 10 years....during the recession poor old paddy coming with an empty head and empty pockets whinging because he had to do an English test to get a couple more points and kept failing it.

It's bad out there alright. I met a girl that I know for donkeys years there awhile ago. Fcuk me but her accent has changed and notions have grown. From nowhere either, she was dragged up as bad as I was.
Now I also don't like the crowd that come back from Australia saying how great it is over there and pretending to care about the environment. Sure they were all burning their rubbish out the back before they left the same as the rest of us.

met with friends that I have not seen in nearly 20 years. we have all remained the same people we were when we MUCH younger, same personalities and had a massive laugh.

It was interesting to note that some of these friends have been MAJORLY successful in life and yet have remained the same people without pretence.

We didn’t discuss work as we all “kinda” know what each other does. Yet not wanting to sound like braggers took the P*ss out of each other as we used to do when we were living together in school.

Pretence is not something that friends need to do. Some of us could have bragged about the millions they have made and continue to make, but friendship doesn’t allow that to happen, gentle ribbing of each other about where we all started, old mannerisms and past indiscretions meant no one was free from the group slagging.

When you know people who are secure in their lives, pretence is not needed.

Braelynn Wrong Iron wrote: »

People don't change, they may try and pretend they do but fundamentally they stay the same. Sounds like you're one of those people who has tried to posh themselves up in recent years but deep down you know you're the same person. Let me guess, your new gf didn't like your mates so you came up with an excuse to justify why you picked her over them?

You mean my ex? she got on with them famously. If she didn't or tried to prevent me seeing friends, she'd be out the door. Quick.

I'm one of "those people" who strives to improve himself daily or at least tries to, that's kinda the whole point of growing up and old and indeed life itself. Granted it's not easy or indeed fair by times but that's life.

Nobody like someone who sits around complaining feeling sorry for themselves.

And as for people who never change, that's their problem. If you encountered dickheads in a past life then they are just dickheads by nature and not really worth a second thought.

Braelynn Wrong Iron wrote: »

You can learn new things and have new experiences that would alter your perception of things but your early childhood, adolescence and by the the time you are an adult in your twenties your personality or character will be determined for the remainder of your life.

So stop with the nonsense, this is the exactly the type of pretension I’m taking about.

Meh whatever, lads like you never change.