Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

jetsonx · 26-11-2020 06:46PM #1

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

Contrary to popular belief, most secret service organisations don't actually want a a James Bond type character working for them. Their smoothness would make them too conspicuous.

Instead they want a normal person as possible who has an easy going dis-arming charm along with high emotional intelligence. The also want people with a calm disposition but a steely determination underneath.

Easy going charm comes naturally to the Irish. Our national temperament is relatively calm and we are emotionally intelligent. Moreover, we don't have the historical baggage of other nations (like those next door, ahem...) And according to international workplace studies, the Irish are a fairly motivated bunch.

So, does this make the Irish perfectly suited to undercover secret service jobs?

Jimmy Bottlehead · 26-11-2020 06:49PM

jetsonx wrote: »

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

Contrary to popular belief, most secret service organisations don't actually want a a James Bond type character working for them. Their smoothness would make them too conspicuous.

Instead they want a normal person as possible who has an easy going dis-arming charm along with high emotional intelligence. The also want people with a calm disposition but a steely determination underneath.

Easy going charm comes naturally to the Irish. Our national temperament is relatively calm and we are emotionally intelligent. Moreover, we don't have the historical baggage of other nations (like those next door, ahem...) And according to international workplace studies, the Irish are a fairly motivated bunch.

So, does this make the Irish perfectly suited to undercover secret service jobs?

"Because that's still how Irish people are seen, as twinkly-eyed f**kers with a pig under their arm, high-stepping it around the world, going 'I'll paint your house now, but watch out, I might steal the ladder later, ohohoho!' Which is only half true."

- Dylan Moran

Church on Tuesday · 26-11-2020 06:56PM

jetsonx wrote: »

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

Contrary to popular belief, most secret service organisations don't actually want a a James Bond type character working for them. Their smoothness would make them too conspicuous.

Instead they want a normal person as possible who has an easy going dis-arming charm along with high emotional intelligence. The also want people with a calm disposition but a steely determination underneath.

Easy going charm comes naturally to the Irish. Our national temperament is relatively calm and we are emotionally intelligent. Moreover, we don't have the historical baggage of other nations (like those next door, ahem...) And according to international workplace studies, the Irish are a fairly motivated bunch.

So, does this make the Irish perfectly suited to undercover secret service jobs?

Pierce Brosnan would beg to differ.

COVID · 26-11-2020 07:37PM

What about our penchant for the porter?

Wibbs · 26-11-2020 07:41PM

We do have the skill of speaking for hours, even days without actually saying anything at all and being friendly at the same time, which could confuse interrogators, so there's that.

drake70 · 26-11-2020 07:54PM

Wibbs wrote: »

We do have the skill of speaking for hours, even days without actually saying anything at all and being friendly at the same time, which could confuse interrogators, so there's that.

Interrogator : "Who do you work for?"

001_3/4 : "God, are ye lads from the social?"

Augme · 26-11-2020 07:56PM

Our pitfall would be our burning desire to be loved by everyone, no matter what. So for that reason I think we would be terrible at it because we would give up all secrets just to be liked by whoever is asking.

26-11-2020 08:03PM

We'd be unreal at intelligence gathering,of even obscure pointless info (ask anyone from a small provincinal town)

But the need to endlessly gossip and share this info would be the undoing of our good work

drake70 · 26-11-2020 08:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

We'd be unreal at intelligence gathering,of even obscure pointless info (ask anyone from a small provincinal town)

But the need to endlessly gossip and share this info would be the undoing of our good work

But there would be so many half-truths, exaggerations and lies mixed in that no discernible information could be gained

Yay, 600th post

Purple Mountain · 26-11-2020 08:08PM

Wibbs wrote: »

We do have the skill of speaking for hours, even days without actually saying anything at all and being friendly at the same time, which could confuse interrogators, so there's that.

They're called cute hoors round these parts...

Captain Havoc · 26-11-2020 08:19PM

We're a nation of gossiping biddies, we'd be terrible at it. Plus our sense of humour would probably get us shot by the villains : "My name is Goldfinger" Seamus O'Bond : "so is mine, well that's your ma calls me" as he proceeds to sniff his fingers.

ablelocks · 26-11-2020 08:19PM

jetsonx wrote: »

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

Contrary to popular belief, most secret service organisations don't actually want a a James Bond type character working for them. Their smoothness would make them too conspicuous.

Instead they want a normal person as possible who has an easy going dis-arming charm along with high emotional intelligence. The also want people with a calm disposition but a steely determination underneath.

Easy going charm comes naturally to the Irish. Our national temperament is relatively calm and we are emotionally intelligent. Moreover, we don't have the historical baggage of other nations (like those next door, ahem...) And according to international workplace studies, the Irish are a fairly motivated bunch.

So, does this make the Irish perfectly suited to undercover secret service jobs?

given our known quality of being able to keep a secret, absolutely....

"now, you didn't hear it from me, but wait till i tell you what Mary said the other night...."

"c'mere till i tell you..."

"you'll never believe what i saw the other day"

Aongus Von Bismarck · 26-11-2020 08:20PM

I don't think so. The alcohol abuse and gossipy nature is one thing, but some of the Irish are so hideous looking if they were offered sex they would reveal every secret they know.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 26-11-2020 08:22PM

Nah, the moment someone mistakes the agent for British, that's it. Cover blown.

We'd make far better baddies.

26-11-2020 08:34PM

jetsonx wrote: »

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

Contrary to popular belief, most secret service organisations don't actually want a a James Bond type character working for them. Their smoothness would make them too conspicuous.

Instead they want a normal person as possible who has an easy going dis-arming charm along with high emotional intelligence. The also want people with a calm disposition but a steely determination underneath.

Easy going charm comes naturally to the Irish. Our national temperament is relatively calm and we are emotionally intelligent. Moreover, we don't have the historical baggage of other nations (like those next door, ahem...) And according to international workplace studies, the Irish are a fairly motivated bunch.

So, does this make the Irish perfectly suited to undercover secret service jobs?

But that's really the personality of every James Bond though.

COVID · 26-11-2020 08:44PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Nah, the moment someone mistakes the agent for British, that's it. Cover blown.

We'd make far better baddies.

We'd be good baddies, that's for sure.

26-11-2020 09:01PM

Arm Paddy Bond and send him out into a world of bars that might not have Guinness, never mind an actual tulip glass?

Yeah, that's gonna end well.

topper75 · 26-11-2020 10:00PM

Quite a few 'James Bond' wanabees were sent here over the centuries. They didn't get to go home.

Sad really. Nobody is willing to tell to this day what became of Robert Nairac for instance.

Yurt2 · 26-11-2020 10:20PM

The CIA heavily recruit from the Mormon community. The reason being, many of them have excellent foreign language skills from their overseas missionary work, are typically teetotal, are utter bores and are very reliable. A world away from the archetype of Jason Bourne or slick James Bond types.

So if you're ever at a diplomatic soirée, and you meet a straight laced Mormon bore with a fuzzy job title in the American Embassy, chances are you've met the resident spook.

Alumni of Brigham Young University (the Mormon flagship university) and Texas A&M (George Bush Sr. Former CIA director had strong links with here, and it has a world class 'hard languages' learning program) are overrepresented in the CIA and other American intelligence agencies.

topper75 · 26-11-2020 10:35PM

Everyone's a hard languages spook until they stand at the barcounter in a Knocknagoshel pub of a Friday night.

Mormon converts to date: Nil.

jetsonx · 26-11-2020 10:38PM

Yurt! wrote: »

The CIA heavily recruit from the Mormon community. The reason being, many of them have excellent foreign language skills from their overseas missionary work, are typically teetotal, are utter bores and are very reliable. A world away from the archetype of Jason Bourne or slick James Bond types.

So if you're ever at a diplomatic soirée, and you meet a straight laced Mormon bore with a fuzzy job title in the American Embassy, chances are you've met the resident spook.

Alumni of Brigham Young University (the Mormon flagship university) and Texas A&M (George Bush Sr. Former CIA director had strong links with here, and it has a world class 'hard languages' learning program) are overrepresented in the CIA and other American intelligence agencies.

Fascinating. I suppose being a preacher/teacher from the Mormon church provides the ultimate cover story as well.

Pasteur. · 26-11-2020 10:39PM

jetsonx wrote: »

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

Contrary to popular belief, most secret service organisations don't actually want a a James Bond type character working for them. Their smoothness would make them too conspicuous.

Instead they want a normal person as possible who has an easy going dis-arming charm along with high emotional intelligence. The also want people with a calm disposition but a steely determination underneath.

Easy going charm comes naturally to the Irish. Our national temperament is relatively calm and we are emotionally intelligent. Moreover, we don't have the historical baggage of other nations (like those next door, ahem...) And according to international workplace studies, the Irish are a fairly motivated bunch.

So, does this make the Irish perfectly suited to undercover secret service jobs?

Yes

Insect Overlord · 26-11-2020 10:41PM

Dheara, muis, sure ya know yourself.

For Forks Sake · 26-11-2020 10:45PM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Dheara, muis, sure ya know yourself.

Yerra, now lookit, shur no-one would suspect these boyos

Yurt2 · 26-11-2020 10:52PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Yerra, now lookit, shur no-one would suspect these boyos

Funnily enough, Michael and Danny Healy Rae's mother apparently worked at worked at the Syrian embassy to the UN in New York and spoke Arabic. I'm not even joking...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/the-woman-behind-the-healy-rae-name-is-laid-to-rest-31572697.html

The conspiracy theory that the Healy Rae dynasty is actually a psy-ops operation designed to undermine the Irish state directed from Langley maybe isn't so ridiculous after all...

trashcan · 26-11-2020 10:59PM

jetsonx wrote: »

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

Contrary to popular belief, most secret service organisations don't actually want a a James Bond type character working for them. Their smoothness would make them too conspicuous.

Instead they want a normal person as possible who has an easy going dis-arming charm along with high emotional intelligence. The also want people with a calm disposition but a steely determination underneath.

Easy going charm comes naturally to the Irish. Our national temperament is relatively calm and we are emotionally intelligent. Moreover, we don't have the historical baggage of other nations (like those next door, ahem...) And according to international workplace studies, the Irish are a fairly motivated bunch.

So, does this make the Irish perfectly suited to undercover secret service jobs?

Yes. That’s why MI5 recruited me.

Doh, just blew my cover. Damn.

26-11-2020 11:20PM

Just employ people from Kerry. They’re as nosey as ****.

jill_valentine · 26-11-2020 11:27PM

Aegir wrote: »

Just employ people from Kerry. They’re as nosey as ****.

UNBELIEVABLY suspicious of outsiders too. A friend of mine worked in Kerry on a contract for about two years, and one of the locals took down the car's reg in his notebook every single time she parked on the road near his house until the very last week she was there.

_Brian · 26-11-2020 11:52PM

Too quick to share a juicy bit of gossip

topper75 · 27-11-2020 12:08AM

jill_valentine wrote: »

UNBELIEVABLY suspicious of outsiders too. A friend of mine worked in Kerry on a contract for about two years, and one of the locals took down the car's reg in his notebook every single time she parked on the road near his house until the very last week she was there.

Hold on - seeing what somebody is writing in their notebook is Jason Bourne level stuff in itself.

plot twist: your 'friend' isn't who they said they were.

Get a set of their prints and come back to us. We need to know who they are really working for.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-11-2020 12:35AM

No one's ever seen an Irish Ninja.

just saying...

Is the Irish personality perfectly suited to secret service roles?

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