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What's the Coolest Nationality?

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  • #32
    twinytwo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,612 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    medicman2009 wrote: »
    Style, culture and great food, it's got to be the Italians alright.

    Ever hear of natural born pussies?

    If i wasnt irish id be the scotish..the rest can die in a hole


  • #33
    IrishManSaipan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭IrishManSaipan


    medicman2009 wrote: »
    Style, culture and great food, it's got to be the Italians alright.

    Mad for the ould fascism as well.:pac:


  • #34
    gonnaplayrugby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭gonnaplayrugby


    ah cool country doesnt give a **** what others think...that immediately excludes the irish who are obsessed with the worlds interpration of them. ireland is too conservative and people not stylish enough to be cool


  • #35
    The Pontiac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,415 ✭✭✭The Pontiac


    And the French Canadian. I certainly thought so anyway when I went on holidays to Quebec City and Montreal. Classy people!


  • #36
    Rockee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭Rockee


    Brazillians! Big happy samba dancing feckers with their footballing prowess to boot. :p


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  • #37
    gonnaplayrugby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭gonnaplayrugby


    u should take a little stoll through a favella and see what walking around with a big smiley mug gets ya!!!! shot thats what


  • #38
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Agricola wrote: »
    What's the Coolest Nationality?

    Freisens from Saarland in Germany.


  • #39
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Dudess wrote: »
    The English - because of all the cool stuff to come from there: music, film, TV, fashion, literature, theatre, newspapers, magazines, comedy, to a lesser extent football.

    Oh Jesus. Isn't it just an *amazing* coincidence that all the "cool stuff" in life happens to be in the only language you understand. Amazing. Wow. How on earth do the French, Russians, Italians, Austrians and Germans - among others - manage at all with such a paucity of music, literature, theatre, newspapers and the like.

    Yeah, so there, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Verdi, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Hugo, Chekhov, Camus, Dumas, Von Karajan, Versace, Dolce, Gabbana, Armani, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Sarte, Proust, Ravel, Dante ....


  • #40
    Truley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    I think the Polish are pretty cool! :) Also i've always wanted to meet a real life Jamaican, I wonder if they are anything like the stereotype... probably not.


  • #41
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Black Americans, from 'Da Hood, yo'.:cool:


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  • #42
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Truley wrote: »
    I think the Polish are pretty cool! :) Also i've always wanted to meet a real life Jamaican, I wonder if they are anything like the stereotype... probably not.

    Yeah, they're a lot more stabby and shooty than ya'd think.:(


  • #43
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Italians

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PmuHWPZSkY


  • #44
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    I'm guessing you've never been at a GAA match?

    hehe. Yeah, 'cool' is probably not the word. But GAA matches are definitely one of the very, very best things about Irish culture and society. Great craic, roguery, plámás, abuse, camaraderie and huge characters at every match. It's a great way to spend an evening. Brilliant fun above all else.


  • #45
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Today, and for the past year at least, the Icelandic people - all 300,000 plus of them - are up at the very top of 'cool'.

    We should set up an international solidarity group to support that tiny, tiny country.


  • #46
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Oh Jesus. Isn't it just an *amazing* coincidence that all the "cool stuff" in life happens to be in the only language you understand. Amazing. Wow. How on earth do the French, Russians, Italians, Austrians and Germans - among others - manage at all with such a paucity of music, literature, theatre, newspapers and the like.

    Yeah, so there, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Verdi, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Hugo, Chekhov, Camus, Dumas, Von Karajan, Versace, Dolce, Gabbana, Armani, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Sarte, Proust, Ravel, Dante ....

    Assumption much?

    Coolest Nationality, Jamaican, simply because saying "Beer Can" in a Jamaican accent sounds like "bacon". And my two favourite things are Beer and Bacon.


  • #47
    Eoin_Sheehy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭Eoin_Sheehy


    The Swiss, French (for striking so often and being naturally stylish!) and the Singaporeans (for turning a country from a sh**hole into a world class country in less than 70 years!)


  • #48
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Oh Jesus. Isn't it just an *amazing* coincidence that all the "cool stuff" in life happens to be in the only language you understand. Amazing. Wow. How on earth do the French, Russians, Italians, Austrians and Germans - among others - manage at all with such a paucity of music, literature, theatre, newspapers and the like.

    Yeah, so there, Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Verdi, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, Hugo, Chekhov, Camus, Dumas, Von Karajan, Versace, Dolce, Gabbana, Armani, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Sarte, Proust, Ravel, Dante ....
    I really like the culture to come out of England - I like stuff to come out of other countries too, but the majority of what I'm into comes from England. I can't see where I said or even implied there's a dearth of culture from other countries.
    As for the language thing, do YOU read Tolstoy in Russian? And I didn't know you needed the language of a particular composer to listen to their works...

    But of course the above isn't actually what this is about - it's about your resentment of Britain for historical reasons... so much so that you'll even bring it into a thread which isn't serious and which has nothing to do with history or politics.

    I like a load of stuff to come from England - I just do. The fact it's from England isn't anything to do with it. It doesn't mean I'm cowing to the Brits or that I've an inferiority complex about being Irish or that I'm anti republican or unaware of Ireland's history. Fucking deal with it.

    Christ, if a person said they liked loads of music, film, literature etc to come out of Germany, that would be that. But replace Germany with England, and even though it's the very same thing, it has to be jumped on...

    Such hatred and bitterness - what a miserable way to live...


  • #49
    M5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    gonnaplayrugby wrote: »
    you'd think it be americans but i find them to be very uncool.

    dont be silly!


  • #50
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Dudess wrote: »
    I really like the culture to come out of England - I like stuff to come out of other countries too, but the majority of what I'm into comes from England. I can't see where I said or even implied there's a dearth of culture from other countries.
    As for the language thing, do YOU read Tolstoy in Russian? And I didn't know you needed the language of a particular composer to listen to their works...

    But of course the above isn't actually what this is about - it's about your resentment of Britain for historical reasons... so much so that you'll even bring it into a thread which isn't serious and which has nothing to do with history or politics.

    I like a load of stuff to come from England - I just do. The fact it's from England isn't anything to do with it. It doesn't mean I'm cowing to the Brits or that I've an inferiority complex about being Irish or that I'm anti republican or unaware of Ireland's history. Fucking deal with it.

    Christ, if a person said they liked loads of music, film, literature etc to come out of Germany, that would be that. But replace Germany with England, and even though it's the very same thing, it has to be jumped on...

    Of course you are perfectly entitled to like whatever you want. However, it is more than ironic that for a poster who is always lecturing the rest of us about being narrow-minded that your cultural and intellectual world revolves around a single country, England. The hypocrisy is galling.

    It's a big world out there and it is myopic in the extreme to shut that out and focus on the cultural output of a single country as you've done. To take one example of many, you are clearly not into classical music because if you were your cultural world would out of necessity be a lot larger than England. Open your mind.


  • #51
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Assumption much?

    Coolest Nationality, Jamaican, simply because saying "Beer Can" in a Jamaican accent sounds like "bacon". And my two favourite things are Beer and Bacon.

    Its either Jamaican or German for me....


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  • #52
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Dudess wrote: »
    Such hatred and bitterness - what a miserable way to live...

    I always find that the people who use the word 'hate' with the ease which you do are significantly closer to that emotion.


  • #53
    InKonspikuou2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭InKonspikuou2


    Colombianos. Somos gente chévere.


  • #54
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Well at least when I make such remarks, they're based one hundred per cent on what I read by the poster in question, rather than just being pure speculation - e.g. the above.
    Rebelheart wrote: »
    However, it is more than ironic that for a poster who is always lecturing the rest of us about being narrow-minded that your cultural and intellectual world revolves around a single country, England. The hypocrisy is galling. It's a big world out there and it is myopic in the extreme to shut that out and focus on the cultural output of a single country as you've done. To take one example of many, you are clearly not into classical music because if you were your cultural world would out of necessity be a lot larger than England. Open your mind.
    Clutching at straws tbh. If I said the very same thing about Germany, there wouldn't be a word from you about me liking only stuff to come from Germany. Actually, wait a sec... I didn't even say the only stuff I'm into comes from England, and I said I like stuff to come from other countries, nor did I remotely suggest other countries don't have anything to offer culturally, you're just deciding I did - this thread asked what's the coolest country (in all seriousness, it's not something that can be measured by nationality, but this is only a bit of fun) to which I replied "England" because of all the cool stuff that comes from there, so you've just decided to interpret the thread to suit your own ends.
    Also, this lecturing you speak of by me appealing to people to be more open-minded refers simply to me refusing to be anti British and refusing to wallow in the past. There are a bunch of right Conor Cruise O'Briens on Boards, I'm most definitely not one of them.

    Your objections on this thread boil down to you having a problem with me admiring English culture - simple as.

    As for not knowing about classical music: Cork School of Music, piano, 1986 to 1994.


  • #55
    IrishManSaipan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭IrishManSaipan


    Dudess wrote: »
    ........

    Rebelheart wrote: »
    ......


    Get a room you two. You could cut the sexual tension with a knife.:p


  • #56
    Dubs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Dubs


    Japanese. Why? One word... Ninjas!


  • #57
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    69 wrote: »
    Iceland. They just told the Brits and the Dutch to F-Off. Big Brass Balls.

    Didn't they tell them "We won't pay you the money that we owe you".
    Nothing ballsy about that, welshing cúnts imo.


  • #58
    patneve2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭patneve2


    English culture??
    -S*it food
    -S*it clothes
    -Can I have a battered mars bar please?
    -C'mon lets go to the pub
    -Stupid tv programs
    -Few customs compared to countries such as Italy and France who make an effort to preserve their culture

    Basically the same as Ireland.

    I'm going to Italy.


  • #59
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Didn't they tell them "We're won't pay you the money that we borrowed from you".
    Nothing ballsy about that, welshing cúnts imo.

    And what money did the 300,000 plus people in Iceland borrow from them?

    You mean the Icelandic public will not pay back money which private Icelandic banks received from (risk-taking) British and Dutch depositors? Why should they?

    Not every nation is as docile and submissive as the Irish people on this issue.


  • #60
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    patneve2 wrote: »
    English culture??
    -S*it food
    -S*it clothes
    -Can I have a battered mars bar please?
    -C'mon lets go to the pub
    -Stupid tv programs
    -Few customs compared to countries such as Italy and France who make an effort to preserve their culture

    Basically the same as Ireland.

    I'm going to Italy.
    Any culture can be shit if you only focus on the bad aspects and ignore the good.
    Italian culture? A load of mafioso, catholic kitsch, mahogany-tanned tackiness...


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  • #61
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    And what money did the 300,000 plus people in Iceland borrow from them?

    You mean the Icelandic public will not pay back money which private Icelandic banks received from (risk-taking) British and Dutch depositors? Why should they?

    I understand what you are saying, they should have stated their intention to not pay it from the outset rather than trying to pass it into law and then putting it it to a vote.

    If it's so clear cut that they shouldn't pay it as it isn't their debt - then I fail to see how it is ballsy of them, it's just common sense.
    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Not every nation is as docile and submissive as the Irish people on this issue.

    It's not like the Irish public were given a vote regarding whether Nama or similar schemes should go ahead - so I don't think we can be considered less docile than the Icelandic people based on it.

    They may be an equally docile bunch.


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