fryup wrote: » how about that english chap last year who won compensation from his irish employers due to bullying in the workplace...seemingly his irish co-workers made life a misery for himthings got so bad for him he had to eat his lunch in his car now i know that could happen to an irish person in england, but generally speaking its more likely to happen to an english person over here, the irish can be very clanish and mean-minded when it comes to the english
alexander.t wrote: » According to most Americans the only good thing to ever come out of England was Monty Python. However I do not believe that it has anything to do with how sophisticated the British are.
Stekelly wrote: » Good ole 'mericans , trust them to miss the oppertunity to say "the best thing to come out of England is us".
Lirange wrote: » link
BattyInNZ wrote: » I did 7 years in London and you get to know who's laughing 'with' you and who's laughing 'at' you. The only time I ever had trouble was when I worked for a Jewish company. That was weird. It was a funny sort of oneupmanship from one 'lower on the ladder' type to another - or maybe that was me just being charitable
Dudess wrote: » Irish accents are generally more mockable than English accents.
dlofnep wrote: » Any posh english accent is open for ridicule in my book. I cringe everytime I hear them on the phone.
User Named wrote: » Having lived in England for the past 4 years, I was alway's prone to a paddy's joke, mocking of my voice etc. just typical steriotyping. It made me wonder why is it that the English always take the piss out of the Irish but the Irish never really take the piss out of the English. Maybe the odd scouse accent 'calm down calm' but thats it. Why is this and do you mock the English apart from the usual patriot comments like 'u'll never beat the Irish'....any thoughts?
Dudess wrote: » Waterford
TPD wrote: » Being Irish you notice the Irish jokes coming from English people more than the English jokes coming from Irish. If you were English and came over here, youd notice a lot more English jokes than you would have noticed Irish jokes back in England. I just confused myself.
Dudess wrote: » And finding some Irish accents woeful does not make me ashamed to be Irish or a "west Brit". If I think they sound horrible, then it's merely opinion.
book smarts wrote: » A racist opinion.
dlofnep wrote: » *takes Dudess off christmas list*
dlofnep wrote: » Wait, what accent does Dudess have?
getz wrote: » its all down to the irish comedians who make a big living in the uk by taking the piss out of themselfs by tell irish jokes [thatthey invented not the english] i am sure a english comedian could also make a living in ireland telling british jokes -there was this scotsman who married a native american they called there first son-hawk hi de new
Dudess wrote: » - I said a STRONG Waterford accent. A mild one I quite like.
Dudess wrote: » - I said a STRONG Cork accent. A mild one I have.
Dudess wrote: » Go look up the definition of racist. Disliking the sound of an accent (the same way one might dislike the sound of, say, Westlife) is really not racist. I'm sure there are accents you dislike the sound of - would you agree you're racist towards people with those accents so?
Mr.Lizard wrote: » Probably because on the whole they are a better race of people than us. Two islands, both roughly the same size in the same geographic location. One whose people managed to take over the planet for over a century and remain a major world power to this date, the other achieving nothing of note beyond producing some contributiors to the arts whilst the rest of the population sat around begrudging themselves and everyone else in view whilst getting drunk to self-perpetuate, only stopping occasionally to collectively pat themself on the back whenever 'they' achieved something minor in sport or popular entertainment, purely as a subconcious means to distract themselves from the complete non-effect they have managed to have on world history and social evolution.
Fratton Fred wrote: » true. It appears very few people in Ireland can say the word brit without putting the word "****ing" in front of it. It gets a bit tiresome after a while. The banter is different in England, everyone gets a slagging over accents etc, christ have you ever heard the abuse the welsh get (baaaah). A geordie would get the piss taken in London and a londoner would get abuse in Newcastle. The Irish seem very sensitive to it though and whilst it is perfectly acceptable the criticise England and the English for absolutely everything, it is another example of 800 years of oppression if anyone in England dare criticise Ireland or the Irish. Even simple reporting on the Irish economy is perceived as taking delight in the dumb paddies ****ing up:rolleyes: Anyway, the Cab Innit (That ****ing awful "Mockney" accent really does my head in) story reminded me of this http://cp1302ger.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/super-cake/
Mr.Lizard wrote: » Probably because on the whole they are a better race of people than us. Two islands, both roughly the same size in the same geographic location. One whose people managed to take over the planet for over a century and remain a major world power to this date, the other achieving nothing of note beyond producing some contributiors to the arts whilst the rest of the population sat around begrudging themselves and everyone else in view whilst getting drunk to self-perpetuate, only stopping occasionally to collectively pat themself on the back whenever 'they' achieved something minor in sport or popular entertainment, purely as a subconcious means to distract themselves from the complete non-effect they have managed to have on world history and social evolution. And before any smart alec chips in, yes the former was Great Britain and latter Ireland. Thank you very much
Acacia wrote: » You forgot to mention the crippling Irish self-hatred!;)
