the friendly irish

ed6hellsfresh · 28-07-2005 02:04PM #1

damn right, im over here in spain at the moment in a pretty large town near malaga and the people here are painfully unfriendly.
when you walk past they just stare.... so i thought give them the nod...stare harder...say hola... still no response. been here 10 days met only 6 nice locals.
cant wait to get back to ireland where everyone at least acknowledges other peoples greetings

Chalk · 28-07-2005 02:08PM

"howya bud"
"whaddya say?"
"fvck off"
"ill bate ya"

nowehre friendlier than dublin...

joejoem · 28-07-2005 02:11PM

Id agree there, except Canada, in Canada they would dive under your feet if there was a puddle shouting "Dont mind me eh!"

Dinner · 28-07-2005 02:13PM

I went to Austria last year and you couldnt crack a smile or a hello out of a local. I was delighted to get back home.

spahndirge · 28-07-2005 02:18PM

The Irish are friendly?

Baldie · 28-07-2005 02:18PM

Maybe it's true..... Maybe we are the land of a 1000 welcomes.... :eek:

spahndirge · 28-07-2005 02:24PM

Baldie wrote:

Maybe it's true..... Maybe we are the land of a 1000 welcomes.... :eek:

If we are the land of 1000 welcomes, we are also a land of 1000 **** off's

Pighead · 28-07-2005 02:28PM

Jesus Christ,how moany and whiny is this thread,extra whine for ed6hellsfresh please.You're on fcuking holiday and your posting a thread complaining about the locals not throwing a welcoming party for you.I can just imagine your poor long suffering partner now:
NO, it's not time to go home Ed. YOU are not the ONLY one who has to be up early for work tomorrow, and you KNEW we were going to stay out late when you decided to hang out. Get four hours of sleep like the rest of us, or get a ****ing cab, and NO, you can't have any money for the fare! "But I'm SLEEPY!" TAKE A PERMANENT NAP, ****er! Maybe we won't be able to hear the shrill fluctuations of your griping voice through six feet of tightly packed soil. Whining is fcuking annoying as **** when EIGHT YEAR OLDS do it. Why would you think people will put up with it from an adult?
PS Sincere apologies if you actually are an 8 year old,have fun little guy

Lilly81 · 28-07-2005 02:30PM

irish people are friendly in the country. dublin? hell no. you only need to go out of a night to see that. everyone's up their own arse. esp the women.

joejoem · 28-07-2005 02:34PM

Pighead wrote:

Jesus Christ,how moany and whiny is this thread,extra whine for ed6hellsfresh please.You're on fcuking holiday and your posting a thread complaining about the locals not throwing a welcoming party for you.I can just imagine your poor long suffering partner now:
NO, it's not time to go home Ed. YOU are not the ONLY one who has to be up early for work tomorrow, and you KNEW we were going to stay out late when you decided to hang out. Get four hours of sleep like the rest of us, or get a ****ing cab, and NO, you can't have any money for the fare! "But I'm SLEEPY!" TAKE A PERMANENT NAP, ****er! Maybe we won't be able to hear the shrill fluctuations of your griping voice through six feet of tightly packed soil. Whining is fcuking annoying as **** when EIGHT YEAR OLDS do it. Why would you think people will put up with it from an adult?
PS Sincere apologies if you actually are an 8 year old,have fun little guy

hee hee hee

ed6hellsfresh · 28-07-2005 02:38PM

Pighead wrote:

complaining about the locals not throwing a welcoming party for you.

hmmm ell that was nice. hey i never said anythin bout a welcoming party did i, maybe you just dont have the ability to read and retain information. just acknowledgement of greeting for me thanks.
and hey for someone who is complaining about whining you seemed to delve into a large session of it there

Pighead · 28-07-2005 02:48PM

ed6hellsfresh wrote:

hmmm ell that was nice. hey i never said anythin bout a welcoming party did i, maybe you just dont have the ability to read and retain information. just acknowledgement of greeting for me thanks.
and hey for someone who is complaining about whining you seemed to delve into a large session of it there

Ah ed come on that was nothing,a piece of constructive criticism if you like,it doesnt become you acting like one of those meterosexuals that are destroying this beautiful country.Look. We don't care if our shirt is an exact complimentary color for our pants. We can wear a shirt without even knowing or caring what brand name it is or what fabric it's made from. Prada? What's that, a soft drink? When we think of the word "facial," the first image that comes to our minds is a guy blowing his load all over a girl's face, not an afternoon in a spa with classical music playing softly and pore opening fruit extracts on our faces. Why the **** would we pay good money to have some quack rub mango pulp on our skin? That's valuable gambling / electronics purchasing / stripper tipping / traffic cop bribing / pay per view porn watching / automobile accessory buying money. We don't care if our hands are a little dry. Stray eyebrow hair? Who gives a ****? Wax isn't for eyebrows, it's for cars. We aren't girls and we aren't gay. LEARN TO LIKE THIS FACT and STOP WHINING
Anyway back on topic, boo to ignorant people.

roberteboot · 28-07-2005 02:49PM

Lilly81 wrote:

irish people are friendly in the country. dublin? hell no. you only need to go out of a night to see that. everyone's up their own arse. esp the women.

Your probably just in stuck up bars to be honest.I meet plenty of friendly people out and about.I normally find you cant turn around without getting into a conversation with people.And im talking about in town.Not Temple Bar.Obviously.Because nobody should ever go there.Hogans,The Globe,Carnival,Anseo and plenty more bars you cant help but talk to people.

Beruthiel · 28-07-2005 02:56PM

pighead
do you post in the creative writing forum?
if you don't, you should!

shellby · 28-07-2005 03:03PM

Pighead wrote:

Jesus Christ,how moany and whiny is this thread,extra whine for ed6hellsfresh please.You're on fcuking holiday and your posting a thread complaining about the locals not throwing a welcoming party for you.I can just imagine your poor long suffering partner now:
NO, it's not time to go home Ed. YOU are not the ONLY one who has to be up early for work tomorrow, and you KNEW we were going to stay out late when you decided to hang out. Get four hours of sleep like the rest of us, or get a ****ing cab, and NO, you can't have any money for the fare! "But I'm SLEEPY!" TAKE A PERMANENT NAP, ****er! Maybe we won't be able to hear the shrill fluctuations of your griping voice through six feet of tightly packed soil. Whining is fcuking annoying as **** when EIGHT YEAR OLDS do it. Why would you think people will put up with it from an adult?
PS Sincere apologies if you actually are an 8 year old,have fun little guy

and he said irish ppl were friendly
well you proved him wrong

ShreddedHumans · 28-07-2005 03:04PM

Pighead wrote:

Wax isn't for eyebrows, it's for cars.

Never heard a truer statement in all my life.

entropi · 28-07-2005 03:07PM

Baldie wrote:

Maybe it's true..... Maybe we are the land of a 1000 welcomes.... :eek:

I think that would be the land of 100,000 welcomes

anyways, yes i've always found spanish and italians to be rather stand-offish while on holiday.. the friendliest people i've met while abroad was americans and canadians in their respective countries.

Was still happy to get home though, there's nowhere like home.

Baldie · 28-07-2005 03:10PM

Death Sentence wrote:

I think that would be the land of 100,000 welcomes ;)QUOTE]

Ya the other 99,000 are feck off outa my face!

dar83 · 28-07-2005 03:16PM

Death Sentence wrote:

anyways, yes i've always found spanish and italians to be rather stand-offish while on holiday..

Do you know the reason why?

They think we're Brits. Its actually true, most of those countries hate the British holiday makers, if you actually talked to the people and they found out you were Irish I bet they'd actually change their attitude towards you. :rolleyes:

Its a strange world, but I've heard many stories of this being the case, and had a couple of experiences of it myself.

c - 13 · 28-07-2005 03:19PM

dar83 wrote:

Do you know the reason why?

They think we're Brits. Its actually true, most of those countries hate the British holiday makers, if you actually talked to the people and they found out you were Irish I bet they'd actually change their attitude towards you. :rolleyes:

Its a strange world, but I've heard many stories of this being the case, and had a couple of experiences of it myself.

Bang on there man - just back from France myself and the people there are a very cold people in general. Even more so if they think you are english, they all chatted away to me though when they found out I was Irish.

Theremin · 28-07-2005 03:28PM

It's true, but no one Irish would ever explain the distinction if they were up to badness.

Got the head eaten off us by a waiter in Prague. 'I don't know how you do it in the UK, but in Czech, we tip' (it was really expensive and fairly sh*te).

I didn't particularly feel the need to tell him I was Irish.

Which is probably half the reason the Irish have such a good overseas reputation. We do something good, we tell them we're Irish. We do something bad, we let them assume we're British.

eyebrows · 28-07-2005 05:16PM

Pighead wrote:

Ah ed come on that was nothing,a piece of constructive criticism if you like,it doesnt become you acting like one of those meterosexuals that are destroying this beautiful country.Look. We don't care if our shirt is an exact complimentary color for our pants. We can wear a shirt without even knowing or caring what brand name it is or what fabric it's made from. Prada? What's that, a soft drink? When we think of the word "facial," the first image that comes to our minds is a guy blowing his load all over a girl's face, not an afternoon in a spa with classical music playing softly and pore opening fruit extracts on our faces. Why the **** would we pay good money to have some quack rub mango pulp on our skin? That's valuable gambling / electronics purchasing / stripper tipping / traffic cop bribing / pay per view porn watching / automobile accessory buying money. We don't care if our hands are a little dry. Stray eyebrow hair? Who gives a ****? Wax isn't for eyebrows, it's for cars. We aren't girls and we aren't gay. LEARN TO LIKE THIS FACT and STOP WHINING
Anyway back on topic, boo to ignorant people.

yeah. what the fúck would I want wax for

juno75 · 28-07-2005 05:23PM

ROFL Pighead

Selik · 28-07-2005 05:44PM

I was Alicante in Spain last year for a week and I found the locals to be complete titwanks to be quite honest. Some of the unfriendliest people I've ever met and I had to constantly keep an eye on my stuff no matter where I was (all of it got robbed on the first day on the beach anyway so there wasn't much to worry about after that)! :eek:

jetsonx · 28-07-2005 05:55PM

Do you know the reason why?

They think we're Brits. Its actually true, most of those countries hate the British holiday makers, if you actually talked to the people and they found out you were Irish I bet they'd actually change their attitude towards you.

nail on the head. seen it happen so many times before.

KTRIC · 28-07-2005 05:59PM

When I'm in Germany, people either presume that I'm American because I speak English and then when they hear you speaking the then think you are English. They hate both countries over there. And finally when I tell then I'm Irish it's like you are their long lost cousin and you've just come home after 10 years living on the moon.

chillywilly · 28-07-2005 06:08PM

me waits for someone to disagree about the english theory and says its republican bs....

Endurance Man · 28-07-2005 06:47PM

Well i am from south africa and came over here with my parents 2years ago. I finished my last year at school here and found it painful

. The guys my age are just lame. From day 1 they could tell i was ""different"" and wrote me off. I would get the strangest looks.
Then i would go into town, and heaven forbid u arent wearing Nike shoes/pants/jacket/shirt/socks/hat..... list goes on. Why cant they be more open minded, they all look like sheep, wear the exact same things??
I was branded strange and didnt get a word from any1, just very odd looks, and threats as i walked the streets

, not fun.
I made 1 friend in a full year, and he was a nigerian :rolleyes: . Now i wat you would think, oh he must be a complete dick head, but i dont think i am

, had loads of friends back home, i will chat to any1, and am very open minded. Why are these irish guys so rude, and unfriendly

chillywilly · 28-07-2005 07:14PM

well thats sounds real ****ty, all i can say is there a**holes everywhere....im from dublin, and im just after doing my leaving. There were plenty of non nationals in my class: nigerian, russian, korean, somalian and a guy from mauritius. About 95% of the year got on fine and even became very good friends...the other 5% were d*ickheads/shy people. I suppose you get it everywhere but i hope you wont hold your bad experiences against the rest of us!!:)

jetsonx · 28-07-2005 07:22PM

endurance man story is not unique, when in college all of the Erasmus students in the year (without exception) were avoided like they were full card carrying members of the Ebola Victims Association....we're a friendly old bunch....

Cormic · 28-07-2005 07:57PM

I was in Greece a few years ago and when he found out I was Irish said "Engish / Irish same difference" I told him that was like me calling him Turkish. He immediately got me a free round and could not have been nicer everytime I visited.

the friendly irish

Comments