Spanish!

Wibbs · 14-07-2006 05:40PM

Pigman II wrote:

And before anyone points out that they did Irish for 13 years and still don't know a word may I point you to the previous paragraph for the key difference between Spanish and Irish. ie 'a use for it'.

Muahhahahhaahaha:D

Dyr · 14-07-2006 05:53PM

on the bus home going up nassau st today i saw some crazy old homeless guy walk past a small posse of these human locusts, as he passed he did a lovely spinning turn and slapped on of them across the napper...everyone on the bus who saw it creased up laughing

More of this i say! drive these chattering locusts from our thoroughfares and public transport

juanjo · 14-07-2006 05:59PM

Bambi wrote:

More of this i say! drive these chattering locusts from our thoroughfares and public transport

My god, now i feel happy the hunters killed ur mother, bambi...

Dyr · 14-07-2006 06:07PM

and dem hunters sure as f**k werent spanish, those noisey herd-roaming mofos couldnt get within shooting distance of a deaf cow

lets face it they clog busses in group's of six thousand when they should be using private coaches, they block entire streets yet their grasp of the language that they're supposed to be studying apparently doesnt extend to comprehending "excuse me", they are in general a public nuisance.

oh and they were blind gaurdian tshirts ffs! keeell dem!

juanjo · 14-07-2006 06:15PM

Bambi wrote:

and dem hunters sure as f**k werent spanish, those noisey herd-roaming mofos couldnt get within shooting distance of a deaf cow

Ok but still in ur ignorance. Those students could be italian, french or spanish. And for sure the hunters weren't living in ur hood either? skangers from ballymun? Cos those are louder than the flipping second world war!!!

Dyr · 14-07-2006 06:24PM

we're all aware of the quiltwork of nations from which this plague descends, After all, juvenile locusts know no borders. Anyway, its pretty easy to distinguish the different calls of the various sub genus . However the spanish and portugese species sound remarkably alike to an untrained ear.

juanjo · 14-07-2006 06:34PM

Sorry about it. I feel a bit bad of spanish people giving such a bad image at you.

But at least when they are loud and you look at them they don't go:

Wha' the **** ar you lookin' a'? I'll ****in' staab ya ya ****ing mupa!

Brian Capture · 14-07-2006 11:02PM

Elessar wrote:

What's with all the Spanish/Portugese students in the cities here lately?! I've never seen so many. I was in town earlier and I literally couldn't move at several points. I've nothing against them but the sheer volume is incredible.

They all have orange backpacks so I assume they are with a large touring company. Is it some kind of annual adventure for them? Can anyone shed light on this?

Welcome to 1982.

Cardinal · 14-07-2006 11:31PM

What, we can't complain about a bunch of Spanish or Italian teenage students without also complaining about our own or be called racist? There're plenty of topics on these forums complaining about Irish scumbags. But even if there weren't Irish scumbag teenagers are something we are well accustomed to but the foriegn students are something of an oddity and so are bound to raise comment.

It's not that we dislike them because they're Spanish or Italian. We dislike them because of how they act. There's nothing racist about that. I don't think their behaviour is representitive of Italians or Spaniards and wouldn't like anyone to think I was judging these countries by the actions of a few spoilt teenagers on holiday. I know I wouldn't like to be judged by how similar Irish people behave on holiday.

Cardinal · 14-07-2006 11:34PM

Bacchus wrote:

Not in Cork I don't. There is no queueing system down here. It's whoever shouts the loudest gets the taxi. I hate it. Galway was great for that. The taxi ranks had a system where people couldn't skip ahead in the line. The taxi drivers (for the most part) honoured the queue system too by not letting people who had skipped in. Down here though, they couldn't give a flying fcuk about who was queueing.

That sounds pretty bad. People almost always respect the queue for taxis in Limerick too. I always took it for granted.

Tha Gopher · 14-07-2006 11:38PM

adonis wrote:

no but to give out and generally hold prejudice against a bunch of people based on their race could be construed as racism, dontchya think?

Hardly. If most Spanish someone has encountered are loud, in the same way most Irish and Eastern European people I know drink a great deal, or most travellers I have encountered are shifty, or most Chinese Ive met are very hard working, then its not racist, its building an opinion based on life experiences. Everythings racist these days, just the other day I got into a fight with some Nigerians because I was burning a big wooden cross that was left over from a Christmas school play from years back in my back garden. They must have something against air pollution, I dunno.......

Personally my biggest gripe is their cycling abillity. Without making sweeping generlisations people from the meditterranean should not be allowed to own bicycles, I nearly get hit by the speeding madmen twice a day when going to/coming from work. Theyve absoloutely no idea that theres a brake handle on the crossbar, and if one of them does bump me Ill knock them off the fcukin thing.

As said though, the Spanish students have been around since I can remember, though there always seemed to be a far greater number based on the southside than the north. Wouldnt see that many around here, but even back in the 90s my cousins estate in Stillorgan overnight would turn to be 50% Spanish.

How come its purely Spanish though? Why do so few French/German/Italian schoolkids come here to learn English?

And why are quite a few Spanish female 17 year old students cute little yokes (to the extent that I was nearly hit by the Luas whilst being distracted by them) but most of the Spanish I work with in their mid 20s are....well......rough?!!?

And another thing, why do so many birds from the west Europe mainland dress so poorly? And wear crap thick rimmed glasses?

Cardinal · 14-07-2006 11:49PM

In fairness, Irish people aren't so great at cycling either. I see more people cycling on the path than the road nearly and the side of the road they're cycling on often seems to be chosen at random.

Also, the countries on the continent have fashion styles a bit different from here. So you might think they dress badly, but they probably think the same of us. I wouldn't blame them either, there're so many Irish so feckin influenced by american street fashion. The mullets though... I'll never agree with. Anyone else noticed a large amount of mullets among continental europeans?

Dyr · 20-07-2006 09:19AM

the mullets go with the blind guardian t-shirts :mad:

Anyway more news from the front: i was there in easons at the weekend and theres some yellow pack spanish kid wandering around looking nervous, hes obviously been seperated from his herd and is nervous and confused. He taps me on the shoulder and sez "excuse me what time is it?" i would have liked a "please" on the end of that sentence but i meet him halfway and tell him the time, he thanks me and wanders off with a distressed look

this shows these migrant species can interact with the indigenous population once their group size is managed. I suggest the govt assemble a task force of trained herding dogs, (corgis would be a good choice) who will roam our streets and break up the large packs into more manageable numbers. Everyones a winner!

Spanish!

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