What the Americans think of Ireland

Dinner · 30-03-2005 11:53PM #1

I cant help detecting some sarcasm in that first Yank's post. Maybe its just me though.

Basq · 30-03-2005 11:53PM

Ha... look where chilipop has wandered off to!

Or could J.Keating be chilipop.....

Gazza22 · 31-03-2005 12:12AM

You ever talk to any Americans on the net? They are a bit mad, they fall over there heels when you say you are from IrrrrrrrrreLand....

They think we are living on this magical little island isolated from the rest of the world, i was even asked once did i ever hear of McDonalds :rolleyes:

Humblebee · 31-03-2005 12:12AM

He was obviously being mostly sarcastic. Everyone knows the last of the mermaids was killed off years ago by over-hunting.

Wertz · 31-03-2005 12:15AM

basquille wrote:

Ha... look where chilipop has wandered off to!

Or could J.Keating be chilipop.....

Tune in next time...

Oh and what is an FAB? Some sort of chip manafacturing machine?

Gazza22 · 31-03-2005 12:20AM

yep...chip FABrication

DublinWriter · 31-03-2005 12:24AM

J.Keating wrote:

they really don't have a clue

I'm old enough to remember when Americans were considered 'rich'.

Here's a good one...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8191.htm

Chad ghostal · 31-03-2005 01:29AM

The link doesnt work. it requires login, perhaps
you could tell us what forum or thread its iN?!?

Chad ghostal · 31-03-2005 01:30AM

Oooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkk..the OP has disintigrated from the thread.....

monkeyfudge · 31-03-2005 01:34AM

Chad ghostal wrote:

Oooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkk..the OP has disintigrated from the thread.....

Yeah. How does he do that? He left me looking like some nipple crazed loon in another thread....

Chad ghostal · 31-03-2005 01:39AM

monkeyfudge wrote:

nipple crazed loon

lol..

i assume he got very banned (as opposed to just banned)..
hes been pulled from the entire board it seems...
which means i cant find out what caused it..

monkeyfudge · 31-03-2005 01:53AM

Chad ghostal wrote:

lol..

i assume he got very banned (as opposed to just banned)..
hes been pulled from the entire board it seems...
which means i cant find out what caused it..

Maybe he traveled back in time and killed his own grandfather and thus completely wiping all trace of himself from history.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we forget.

Sparky · 31-03-2005 04:40AM

I have to laugh when they come over to IrrrreeeeLand and try to rent a car the best some can afford is a micra or 206.
Just wait till they go to the petrol or "Gas" station and find out its $1.32 a litre not $1.32 a gallon.
There even amazed we have Satellite TV and Xbox's also not to mention a flushing toliet.

OY · 31-03-2005 04:50AM

Sparky_S wrote:

not to mention a flushing toliet.

OMG! Are you serious? Where?
Lucky sod!

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 31-03-2005 04:55AM

It really makes you wonder how Ireland is marketed abroad at all at all :rolleyes:
I suppose it's what's worked for us in the past.

Sparky · 31-03-2005 04:57AM

nevernev wrote:

OMG! Are you serious? Where?
Lucky sod!

Yea i got mine installed just 2 days ago, it even re-fills itself

I feel like 1 in a million

Sparky · 31-03-2005 05:01AM

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

It really makes you wonder how Ireland is marketed abroad at all at all :rolleyes:
I suppose it's what's worked for us in the past.

Hey dont you remember we have to market that we still have Leapreachauns hiding in the woods.

(i assume i spelt Leapreachauns wrong, i hope i did'nt make that mistake in the brochure aswell

)

Sparky · 31-03-2005 05:09AM

Was this J.Keating person Banned for posting crap like this

Originally Posted by J.Keating
Hey people here is my brand new alternative to fix it friday on the radio
If anyone has any questions they cant solve
post it here and We will try to answer you
I will then post them in a pdf file every two years,
see my definitive guide to buying laptops in my sig.

Every two years WTF.

MissyKiki · 31-03-2005 06:08AM

gazza22 wrote:

You ever talk to any Americans on the net? They are a bit mad, they fall over there heels when you say you are from IrrrrrrrrreLand....

They think we are living on this magical little island isolated from the rest of the world, i was even asked once did i ever hear of McDonalds :rolleyes:

You have to realize our history lessons start in Ancient Greece, go to Rome, mention some invasion from the north, then America gets discovered. We get very little else except from TV and Movies, which show little cottages, little green men and their gold, and lots of whiskey. (Actually, I like the whiskey part.) Many Americans are ignorant, uncultured swine who can barely speak one language let alone 2. So , do you really have McDonalds? (just kidding)

MissyKiki · 31-03-2005 06:18AM

Sparky_S wrote:

I have to laugh when they come over to IrrrreeeeLand and try to rent a car the best some can afford is a micra or 206.
Just wait till they go to the petrol or "Gas" station and find out its $1.32 a litre not $1.32 a gallon.
There even amazed we have Satellite TV and Xbox's also not to mention a flushing toliet.

Wait....you have XBOX? Really? I don't even have one of those...LOL We can afford computers and we can put a man on the moon, but we can't make people believe it isn't that much different in other places in the world. And I have to say the whole metric conversion screws a lot of Americans up. I guess everyone here think thigs haven't changed over there since Frank McCourt grew up.

ApeXaviour · 31-03-2005 10:31AM

A conversation I had about a year ago:

"Where are you from?"
"Ireland"
"Oh my god! So does that mean you have an accent!!?"
"er.. I suppose"
"I love accents!"
"Do you, I like your accents too"
"Huh?"
"..You also have an accent"
"lol, naw-aw hun, I'm from america!"

This is why I love the american people

They're either really astute and well-informed because they had the impetus to learn about the world by themselves (ie democrats). Or (as more often is the case), they are a complete parody of themselves.. Fukkin hilarious!

Exit · 31-03-2005 11:07AM

ApeXaviour wrote:

"lol, naw-aw hun, I'm from america!"

They actually say 'lol'!? Weirdos.

Megatron · 31-03-2005 11:19AM

Exit wrote:

They actually say 'lol'!? Weirdos.

I know a few sweeds who acutally do say LoL when they find something funneh

Branoic · 31-03-2005 11:22AM

Ha! That's nothing! When I was in the US about 10 years ago I was in a car being driven by a young American woman (about 20ish). We passed a graveyard and I noticed that the vast majority of the head stones were actually laid flat in the ground, as opposed to standing upright, which is the more usual fashion in Ireland. I considered this to be quite odd and so I gave the graveyard more than just a passing glance. The American, noticing my slight interest, explained it all to me.............

"Oh yeah, you see, over here, when people die, we bury them."

ApeXaviour · 31-03-2005 11:25AM

lmao

jesus christ.. I actually don't know whether to laugh or puke

the_syco · 31-03-2005 11:27AM

Branoic wrote:

"Oh yeah, you see, over here, when people die, we bury them."

What a waste!

Braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnsssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!

RobertFoster · 31-03-2005 11:31AM

Megatron wrote:

I know a few sweeds who acutally do say LoL when they find something funneh

I know some Dutch guys who also do the same. There word meaning "laugh" is actually "lol" in Dutch.

Sparky · 31-03-2005 11:32AM

There are just 3 things to sum up americas stupidity

GEORGE W BUSH

StupidLikeAFox · 31-03-2005 11:34AM

You shower of stereotyping little feckers!

Sparky · 31-03-2005 11:35AM

Oh myyyyy Goooddddd. they have the sun over here aswell.

Well TBH im amazed we have the sun here sometimes.:)

radiospan · 31-03-2005 11:36AM

I heard a story about an American exchange student who came over to one of the secondary schools in Cork for transition year, and was asking about the noises that the pedestrian crossing makes:

"What's that noise from the traffic lights?"
"That's so blind people know when the lights have changed."
"Oh, in America, we don't let blind people drive."

What the Americans think of Ireland

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