Your top 5 most pissingly-off things about Ireland

Huggles · 02-07-2006 06:38PM

LovelyHurling wrote:

Is that Camilla Queen of the Buses?:D Sometimes outside Connolly too

The very one, he is some fooking tool, seems the buses are all he has as he is on westmoreland street at 7am as well!

Brian Capture · 02-07-2006 06:40PM

Sarsfield wrote:

6. Teenagers/young men who think they're great drivers and then go kill themselvers & others on a Saturday night. (OK, maye that's tragic rather than pissy-offy)

It's better if they just kill themselves.

Would you consider such reckless drivers as losers?

MisterAnarchy · 02-07-2006 06:46PM

1.Why all social life in Ireland revolves around alcohol and we are a nation of overweight drunks.
2.Irish peoples obsession with property.
3.Bad weather.
4.Ignorance and narrow mindedness of Irish people in general
5.Staunch GAA followers,get a life.

Karl Hungus · 02-07-2006 06:51PM

1 - The current climate of self-depreciation surrounding all things Irish. The near self-hate for their nationality displayed by a lot of Irish people these days. C'mon, Ireland's not that bad, it's nothing to be ashamed about. It could be a lot worse. Then again, who am I to talk? I'd probably be the first to bail on the place for greener pastures in Japan. And just watch me rant further about crappy aspects of Ireland:

2 - Rampant Scumbagism. From the buses to cinemas to pubs to shopping centres, you'll find 'em. Young Anto McSkang and his 17 brothers are always up to no good, it seems. Be it ruining a film for everyone, or trying to rob your mobile phone, there's no end of fun for scumbags.

3 - The jobs market. God damn it's become difficult to get a job these days.

4 - Constant waffling about 'The Economy.' Yeah yeah yeah, waffle endlessly about the so-called "Celtic Tiger" but honestly, what's changed in the last decade or two? We've still got the same sub-standard train services, an oft-times absent police force, everything seems to cost ridiculous amounts, the whole housing prices issue, one of the worst health services in europe, and god knows how many more problems I could spend ages mentioning. You can brag about the economy after you've done something worth-while with it!

5 - Drinking culture. I really hate the drinking culture here in Ireland. Everywhere else I've been to in the world, you can go out for the night and stay out untill 5 or 6 in the morning, and the whole atmosphere of a pub or club is less a meat market and a much more relaxed experience. But not in Ireland! No, we've given the public a useless couple of hours of drinking time before they're tossed out onto the streets with no wind-down time at all. No wonder people feel the need to try and get as much drink in them in the shortest space of time, before they're emptied onto the streets all at the same time.

connundrum · 02-07-2006 06:58PM

1. T's & C's apply - fcuk off! If it's an offer then its an offer, I give you money and you give me product/service. End of.

2. ATMs. In a country that is so fcukin flash with the cash, why do we have to wait for 40 minutes + at the only working ATM within a 5 mile radius?! Surely the hundreds of €uros in bank charges that I've paid over the years would have facilitated 1 decent machine in the city centre. Cock!

3. Big business's ripping everyone off - and us accepting it. Vodafone.. 'Oh well we've only made €60billion last year so we can justify charging 10c per fcukin text message'. Its the same for ESB, Gas, Sky, Insurance.. everything.

4. TV licence - fcuk off!

5. Scummers - How has the situation developed where we all now turn a blind eye to everything scumbags do? Smoking on the bus, destroying public property, public drinking.. not only do we turn a blind eye, but we facilitate it by giving the fcukers the dole/ free housing/ a pat on the back.

We're pretty much guilty of everything we complain about. I know that if I and everyone else decided to turn away from Vodafone/Sky/Banks/Insurance then they would have to change their policy and look after the paying customer. Bah :mad:

uncle ernie · 02-07-2006 07:00PM

TheGooner wrote:

that w@nker they put on O'Connell street to organise teh whole thing.

yeah he's always floating around the bus stop outside easons.ALWAYS! pandering to oul wans and tourists like he's the overlord of dublin bus

Terry · 02-07-2006 07:02PM

i just have one.
people who constantly complain about this country. if you don't like it, then do something about it or leave.

Huggles · 02-07-2006 07:07PM

uncle ernie wrote:

yeah he's always floating around the bus stop outside easons.ALWAYS! pandering to oul wans and tourists like he's the overlord of dublin bus

The only man that brings a red mist down over my eyes.

Karl Hungus · 02-07-2006 07:19PM

julep wrote:

i just have one.
people who constantly complain about this country. if you don't like it, then do something about it or leave.

I like you.

Ozzy · 02-07-2006 07:22PM

1) Prices; everything is too expensive, insurance, food, rent, houses, nectarines (6 for 3 euro pffft!), everything... it's all money money money, greed.
2) Stupid scumbags and skangers; Too much anti-social behaviour, people getting hurt and killed etc., there's a real lack of justice and effort to combat these.
3) Education system; not enough emphasis on appreciation of knowledge and actual learning.
4) Government; It's crap really.
5) Weather; Sunny rays > clouds

Oh yeah and the toll bridge, what a crock of ****.

Terry · 02-07-2006 07:29PM

Karl Hungus wrote:

I like you.

there's an election coming up. vote for me and i'll change the way this country is run.

Zhane · 02-07-2006 07:30PM

1. Prices

2. Scumbags...just die!

3. The fact that people hold a grudge against the british even tho those who actually did something to us are dead and buried and probably rotting in hell. Just get over it!

4. A strong Dublin accent. It actually makes me cringe. Spiral on BB is just impossible to watch.

5. Bertie.

Squirrel · 02-07-2006 07:31PM

mysteria wrote:

What's your beef with women, squirrel? Statistics show we have less accidents than men, my daughter 21 yrs old was quoted the same as you. I totally agree with your beef about insurance, my 19 yr old son is a better driver than these grey-haired old guys that won't let you pass and don't use indicators, drive in the middle of the motorway at 25 mph. It's costing me nearly 4 grand a year to insure him on my car. And I drive way faster than him because age brings experience. I really sympathize with you and hear what you're saying, but it's not a gender-problem it's an age problem.

I have no beef with women, I only mentioned 2, one a neighbour of mine who drives to the shops once a week and that's it, so I have more experience than her (she only bought a car about a year ago, I used to walk to the shops for her for about 3 years, she had a licence from before the test, but never bothered driving, she just renewed her licence every 10 years).

And the other with the woman in the Punto happened today by the Yellow House, and since I knew it was a woman there was no point in writing the person in a Punto, it was a woman, it was a distinguishing feature, I would've been just as pissed off if it was a guy.

And LovelyHurling, yes it is.

xzanti · 02-07-2006 07:40PM

Weather
Scumbags/Crime
Cost of Living
Traffic
Burning bins on Grafton Street that nobody seems to notice but me... Every fcuking day

magpie · 02-07-2006 07:42PM

1. High Taxes and no amenities - dirty streets, crappy roads, bad hospitals, terrible public spaces, woeful public transport. Where does the money go?

2. The weak media for failing to hound politicians. Bertie lies on his CV about attending the LSE. He gets found out. Any other civiised country the PM would be forced to resign for lieing about his qualifications. Here, it blows over in a week.

3. The old boys club in Leinster House. They have a little pop at each other in the chamber, then all go for pints together afterwards.

4. Lack of cultural events - arts, music, heritage all underfunded and underserved - and the public puts up with it as most of them are happy with pints and sport on the telly

5. The Lie that is 'The Land of Saints and Scholars' - the vast majority of Irish people are venal, money-grubbing alcoholics who are obsessed with sport - as it gives them an acceptable opportunity to drink 5/6 nights a week.

BlitzKrieg · 02-07-2006 07:48PM

1. The fact that despite how much we litter in Ireland it is never as bad as other cities i have visited such as New York and London.

2. The fact that our government just cant be as corrupt as the Ukranians and Russians.

3.The fact that we have to force ourselves to loose eurovision every year cause it costs too much.

4.The fact that the scummers in Ireland are identical to the scummers in England, and they have more of them.

5. the fact that northen ireland, scotland, wales and england get the same kind of weather as ireland. its not fair.

dermo88 · 02-07-2006 07:51PM

I gave up being pissed off with Ireland, so i upped and left at the first given opportunity. I'm proud to be Irish, but every time I go home, so much reminds me of why I left:

1. Skangers. These exist all over the world. On a global spectrum, South American skangers in Rio De Janeiro carry a gun. Singapore or Kuala Lumpur skangers (known as Ah Beng) are harmless uneducated idiots with bad fashion sense, who listen to rap music, colour their hair, and curse a lot in Cantonese/Hokkien transliterated from American rap, and they sell pirated DVD's, which is fine by me, since it keeps the economy here going. British skangers are chavs and are only slightly up the ladder in nastiness to our own. American Skangers (Trailer trash) carry guns. So our skangers, nasty as they are could be a LOT worse.

2. High Prices, and salaries that do not adequately compensate. Fair enough, I know that, but then I would rather see staff on a minimum wage with some protection than no minimum wage and less protection. Plus the jobs are there. Its not perfect, but its better than what was around pre 1995. The wage/price levels are better than most countries. In the countries that I have been in, people worry about putting food on the table. In Ireland, peole often worry about where the next 20 pints at the weekend will come from, or the cost of the next holiday. It could be a lot worse.

3. Bad planning, not that where I am now (Kuala Lumpur) is anything to write home about, but at least its cheap on what I earn.

4. The weather. My one memory one month before leaving Ireland "D, did you see this advertisement for work at X". It would have been the job of my dreams, but my immediate response "Let me look at the rain and think about it". Mind, I do miss having four seasons, and I do miss those long summer evenings.

5. Parochialism, back stabbing, bitching, and gossip. You can't fart crooked without the neighbours knowing, and from my view, clothes go in closets, and I am not going back.

Civilian_Target · 02-07-2006 07:52PM

1. The way people in Ireland always complain, despite the fact that it one of the most pleasant places in the world to live.

That is all.

Blisterman · 02-07-2006 07:52PM

1.Scumbags
2. ****ty Bus Service
3. High Prices
4. Being forced to learn Irish
5. Bars not being allowed open 24 hours.

Nalz · 02-07-2006 07:56PM

whiskeyman wrote:

Prices
The Government
The weather
Our soccer team
We suck at the Eurovision now

yep, they're mine. apart from the Eurovision one...but dunno what to put instead of it. Our women maybe

(joke)

Nalz · 02-07-2006 07:58PM

ah thought of one to add to the list.

The health situation...

although prob fall under goverment

DublinWriter · 02-07-2006 08:04PM

Civilian_Target wrote:

1. The way people in Ireland always complain, despite the fact that it one of the most pleasant places in the world to live.

That is all.

Rich considering that you live in the United Kingdom...

Now where did I leave my asbestos suit?!?

I'd do my shopping every fornight up in Newry, people here are right to complain about prices here.

The last time I looked, Belfast didn't have an A&E crisis either.

me and the biz · 02-07-2006 08:11PM

1 N4/M50 Traffic
2 The way people in this country need to get silly drunk to consider it a good night/Being proud of getting absolutely ****faced. Also the suspicion and contempt you're met with if you decide not to drink on a given night out is annoying.
3 Racism, general ignorance. Also the "I'm not racist but..." people who pretend not to be racist but are really piss me off.
4 General anti-social behaviour on buses/trains
5 Charity muggers.

Plug · 02-07-2006 08:16PM

1)weather
2)lack of good wemen
3)politions
4)knackers
5)its an island:(

tman · 02-07-2006 08:18PM

Plug wrote:

2)lack of good wemen

i think they prefer the term "little people"
or dwarves... i'm never sure

Dyr · 02-07-2006 08:41PM

1) whiney PC self loathing, motherland hating brats "the GAA whine, whine, too much drinking whine, scangers whine whine". These people will be allowed vote soon. jesus we could wind up with some emo party in government. Though in fairness, they'll all settle down and realise what side the ould bread is buttered just like daddy did, so long as they can read fintan otoole in the toimes to make them feel indignant

2) Their mammy state parents who think they know whats best for the entire country "drinking, whine whine," "smoking whine whine" "dont know whats good for us" "what will the neighbours think". We got rid of the catholic church thanks, we dont need another shower of self rightous tossers dictating how we live our lives. Yis can shove yisser noxious agenda up Marion Finucanes hole.

3) Far too many people around these days, including those job robbing-car crashing-stab happy fordiners. ..anyone not notice we already tried this multiculturalism lark and it's rightly banjaxed the northern end of this wet rock for the last 500 years. Speak english or die to quote a great album. Or at least don't work in a service industry

4) Athletics. Eamonn "mé fein" Coughlan. nuff said. thank god for the hurling

5) Mortgages-financial ad's, money hungry c**ts etc: If you tell me about your bleedin mortgatge again you're not going to live long enough to see it paid off. Actually our new obsession filthy lucre in general. "rabo direct- the straight talking bank who have some sneering, smug w***kstain doing their ads". And no, i dont give a flying *** about excellent yields on property investments in some eastern romanian gulag. Furthermore i've no intention of going to Jurys hotel this saturday to see what the fuss is about, even if there's going to be some washed up rugby player present. It's like Tony O'Reilly and Denis "irish jig hairstyle" O'Brien, impregnated half the women of this country in the 70s and 80s and their bastard progeny have now taken over. madness. Ryanair too, the people's champion me hole "We'll have to charge you extra for travelling with a mustache sir"

hidden bonus track:

6) The health service: proof this country is run (and by run i mean the whole lot of 'em not just the government ) by a gang of carpet baggers whose only aim is the butter the arses of those who got them into power and b****x to the poor fekkers who arent in the club. Mary Harney should be suspended upside down with her head in a galvanised bucket and fed laxatives till she drowns in 12 inches of her own scutter. Then they might realise we're not joking about our health service. Tossers

a rain is coming...

Squirrel · 02-07-2006 09:26PM

Bambi wrote:

4) Athletics. Eamonn "mé fein" Coughlan. nuff said. thank god for the hurling

I have to admit, I'm not exactly Eamo's biggest fan.

happenstance · 02-07-2006 09:33PM

1. Cost of Living
2. Unqualified drivers
3. Racism
4. Martin Cullen
5. The Geek (Martin King?) on TV3 weather

aidan_walsh · 02-07-2006 09:37PM

Dermington wrote:

yeah but its killarney....

That meaning..?

Dyr · 02-07-2006 09:40PM

Squirrel wrote:

I have to admit, I'm not exactly Eamo's biggest fan.

Hang on a minute, You're not old enough to even remember Eamonn unless you covered him in a history class on the worlds greatest dog attacks

Does your mother know that you're a mod? WELL?

This thread has made me angry and stupid, is there some radio show i can ring? :mad:

Your top 5 most pissingly-off things about Ireland

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