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Feelings on the Irish becoming swiftly disliked?

  • 17-06-2010 06:29PM
    #1
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    OK ill start by saying ive no statistics or specific articles that im talking about here but it seems that even the most half-assed google search with the word Irish in it seems to bring up a raft of pages full of people ranting about how much they hate us or hate being one of us.

    So from purely curiosity i was wondering what the boardsies think about our new image, we used to be poor but rich in spirit and friends now we just seem to be poor in every way.

    Do you care that our national image is apparently going out the window or can haters just get on their bikes?


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  • #2
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    most people on the internet are jealous


  • #3
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Haters be hating.


  • #4
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    perhaps its because irish people abroad think:

    everyone should be intimately aware of our history.

    it's ok to get pissed out of their skulls and start fights in every low budget sunny destination.

    that shouting slowly makes people who don't speak english understand.

    they have a god given right to behave any way they like, yet treat outsiders like shyte at home.


    come to think of it, maybe we just get confused with the english.


  • #5
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    From knowing a lot of foreigners who have visited Ireland, it's a bit unfair, but deserved at the same same time.

    A lot of people see Dublin especially as being extremly overpriced. Just because we had it good, doesn't mean we can rip the tourists off. Same thing said about tour-busses in the west and south.

    Also, badly organised. If you don't rent a car, you're screwed. They did not like getting around.

    On the plus side, still see the Irish as being friendly and relaxed (apart from bar owners and staff) and apparently it's a surprisingly good place for hitchhiking.

    Still very popular with Americans (although a suprisingly high numbe of them know we hear "Oh! I'm one-quarter Galwegian!!" every ten minutes!)

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #6
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Sure even God hates us now.
    http://www.godhatesireland.com/


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  • #7
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    Rylie Melodic Hospital wrote: »
    most people on the internet are jealous

    ah yes, jealous of our weather, our wimmin, our history of licking arse, our unemployment rate, the fact that we'll be paying for everyone else's houses for the next 50 years, our abysmal health service, our draconian laws which infringe on freedom of speech and personal liberty...


  • #8
    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    I couldn't give a fuck what the rest of the world thinks of us tbh.


  • #9
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,762 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    dvpower wrote: »
    Sure even God hates us now.
    http://www.godhatesireland.com/


    Well if thats the case then every other country is fooked too

    EVENFLOW



  • #10
    dr gonzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭dr gonzo


    dvpower wrote: »
    Sure even God hates us now.
    http://www.godhatesireland.com/

    Ah the westboro baptist churchs everybody, its just their thing.

    The only thing i notice about Irish people lately that might be ruining our image is the ridiculous overreaction some people have to foreigners saying they're Irish, whats the harm really?


    ...Unless theyre Israeli commandos with Irish passports but we wont go there.


  • #11
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    Haters be hating.

    Word.


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  • #12
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    I can honestly say that any place I have ever been I have got a very warm welcome once they learn I am Irish. One of the best things about being Irish imho.
    Surely that must be unique to Ireland?


  • #13
    Lukker-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    Sure they have good reason, we're a bunch of pricks. I mean look at our represintive on the global stage, WORST_AMBASSADOR_EVER


  • #14
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    dr gonzo wrote: »
    Ah the westboro baptist churchs everybody, its just their thing.

    I'd start to get very worried if they said that God loved us.


  • #15
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    http://www.ihateireland.com/


  • #16
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Lukker- wrote: »
    Sure they have good reason, we're a bunch of pricks. I mean look at our represintive on the global stage, WORST_AMBASSADOR_EVER

    Micheál Martin?


  • #17
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Maybe its the whole "The Oirish are loved everywhere" thing that makes people say what a bunch of a-holes. Or maybe Irish people are just really gullible


  • #18
    fisgon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭fisgon


    I welcome this, it's a rebalancing. For too long we have had the misty eyed romanticism from Americans, British and Germans especially, as if we were some form of special people, imbued with poetry and spirit. Which is ballacks of course, and we bought in to it too, while the stuff that spawned the Ryan report was going on here we thought we were the greatest people in the world, free of the sin and degradation of the outside world. Now we, and everyone else knows that we are no better than anyone else.

    No worse, mind, but no better either. A dose of realism that should have come 40 years ago.


  • #19
    Rockshamrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Rockshamrover


    are we the only nation that worries about what other people think of us?


  • #20
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Rockshamrover wrote: »
    are we the only nation that worries about what other people think of us?

    nah i'm sure the germans are pretty uptight after that whole jewish thingy


  • #21
    rovert
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    Never noticed this.


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  • #22
    Ickle Magoo
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    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    I can honestly say that any place I have ever been I have got a very warm welcome once they learn I am Irish. One of the best things about being Irish imho.
    Surely that must be unique to Ireland?

    If you mean getting a warm welcome for being Irish being unique to Ireland then yes, obviously - if you mean warm welcomes must be unique to irish people then no, no it's not. Sorry. :)


  • #23
    xoxyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    I'm not surprised.

    We always had our own reputation - saints/scholars/raging alcoholics, but we were respected in that we were thought of as a strong willed people.

    I'm sure lots of people won't agree with me, but since the Celtic Tiger took hold and we got used to having plenty, we turned soft, and now that things have gone sour, we've become a nation of whingers. We go on about how life is shite, but, most of us do little other than whine.

    Once the respect is gone, the things about us that were previously endearing quickly just become flaws.

    Don't get me wrong, I miss the economically good times. And I am in no way condoning those rebellious movements or groups which have cost so many lives. I just think we were very quick to roll over and show our belly when we thought it would get us a new car or second house and we've lost our edge because of it.


  • #24
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    genericguy wrote: »
    ah yes, jealous of our weather, our wimmin, our history of licking arse, our unemployment rate, the fact that we'll be paying for everyone else's houses for the next 50 years, our abysmal health service, our draconian laws which infringe on freedom of speech and personal liberty...

    that shocking and i find it offensive and it is all lies i dont what ireland u live in


  • #25
    myflipflops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    Meh, I love abroad with a wide range of nationalities around here. Most people seem to like the Irish.


  • #26
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    fisgon wrote: »
    I welcome this, it's a rebalancing
    z_topaz wrote: »
    I'm not surprised.

    but...
    dr gonzo wrote: »
    OK ill start by saying ive no statistics or specific articles that im talking about here

    I think it's the new self-hatin' personality of Irish people more than it is outsiders hating us.

    A recent article from Digg - http://digg.com/world_news/Irish_ship_on_Collision_Course_with_Israeli_Navy_Near_Gaza

    Not much to go on, but most of the negative comments about Ireland there are from Irish people. Go fcuk yourselves I say, we're not that bad as a country.. seriously if you hate it that much then go somewhere else and let somebody with a bit of respect for the country take your job and your place in our society


  • #27
    Sanjuro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    dvpower wrote: »
    Sure even God hates us now.
    http://www.godhatesireland.com/
    Since there is no god, I'm not concerned.

    Neither am I concerned what the rest of the world thinks. Once the alien invasion fleet arrives, we'll drop all our hatred of each other (other than the French) and transfer our prejudices onto dem ayldee-uns.


  • #28
    magick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭magick


    Lol you think thats bad try being American


  • #29
    Celly Smunt
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    Shams wrote: »
    Lol you think thats bad try being American

    at least you have an army


  • #30
    yoshytoshy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭yoshytoshy


    Show the haters a map and I bet they don't know where we are.


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  • #31
    D-Generate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    I always find that those who hate Ireland most are the Irish people who have never left the country. Any Irish expats I have met on my travels or are living near me now all had a desire to go home because to be honest Ireland is a pretty great place to live.
    Its good to leave when you are young just to broaden your mind but I can't think of another country that I would rather raise my kids in. I have no doubt that I will come back to Ireland to settle in properly.


    To all those moaners who complain about health service/tax/weather etc, live in another country and see that they have their ills too. I would rather awful weather and a bunch of people with great sense of humour than good weather and not an iota of wit.


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