Irish australian-going sheeple.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx · 12-07-2010 11:24PM #1

Now I might be completely off the mark here but over the last while I've noticed a trend. I don't mean to be not very politically correct but I think that your average Irishman or girl who decides to go to Australia or god forbid "Oz" seems to be a bit of a SEE YOU N T. I don't understand why these people go to Australia. I've never been there. Nor do I want to go there. But I just don't understand for the life of me why Irish people want to go there.

For starters. Every Australian I've ever met anywhere in the world couldn't wait to get out of the place?

The place is full of Irish people. It's like Ireland with hot weather and the country itself wants to kill you.

I have a theory that Irish people are in fact just brain dead and cannot think for themselves. Everyone goes to Australia because apparently it's great "craic" and that's where all their mates go. Is it just me or are the Irish a very non independent race unwilling to do anything alone or that their friends would not approve of. People don't think for themselves here and tend to just do the done thing. I know some people who wouldn't go for a pint on their own. In most of europe this is perfectly acceptable. It's the same with the cinema. I get called a loner just because if I want to see a film badly and nobody else does I'll go myself. A bit of a freak I am.

This brings me to my last point. Maybe Irish people just go to Australia, Britain and USA etc because they speak the language. Now am I wrong in thinking that this a completely Irish thing. I mean other people have no problem learning a language. Why do we?

And I'm not even going to mention people who think they are culturally enlightened because they've "done Oz".

the keen edge · 12-07-2010 11:32PM

Totally agree with you.

South America, India or even continental Europe would be much more interesting places to spend a year IMO.

Pherekydes · 12-07-2010 11:33PM

Iris Vast Whirlpool wrote: »

Now I might be completely off the mark here...

Well done, you got exactly one thing right.

TheZohanS · 12-07-2010 11:35PM

Iris Vast Whirlpool wrote: »

I'm 21. I've been to a nightclub about 5-6 times in my life. I think they are ****e.

Sums it up really.

Ericka89 · 12-07-2010 11:37PM

Yeah, Australia does try to kill you. It's evil, a week there to see my cousin and realised he's bat-sh!t crazy for moving there :rolleyes:. But, he does have a great job. So maybe for the opportunities also?

AckwelFoley · 12-07-2010 11:38PM

Would like to go, but only if i can get a day return ticket

Agricola · 12-07-2010 11:42PM

OP, i hear ya, up to a point. Your main problem is that this forum is choc full of these so called "See You N Ts" - So you'll get very little sympathy here!

the_monkey · 12-07-2010 11:42PM

Not going to Australia for a year is one of my great regrets, true maybe South America , Africa , Asia are more interesting but Australia is a fantastic place, you can get great work experience + language is english.

To say only idiots go there is a bit much frankly, you get idiots going everywhere - easy to avoid and make it your own unique trip.

I did the J1 twice (USA) (and 1 illegal

) and each time I stayed away from the large Irish crowds and had a great time.

jam_mac_jam · 12-07-2010 11:45PM

What I find funny is people calling it "travelling". ah ha ha. Like you are brave getting a ****e job halfway round the world and it will change your life. Not making judgements on people who do it, do what you want if it makes you happy, I just dont know why no body goes any where else. You could sit on your arse for six months in south east Asia for the money you will need to get there. Just dont get it.

Lu Tze · 12-07-2010 11:46PM

Dublin forum

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Australia and New Zealand Forum

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orourkeda · 12-07-2010 11:51PM

The key is keeping away from Irish people.

It doesnt matter where you go, you wont enjoy it if it feels like home.

jam_mac_jam · 12-07-2010 11:52PM

the_monkey wrote: »

Not going to Australia for a year is one of my great regrets, true maybe South America , Africa , Asia are more interesting but Australia is a fantastic place, you can get great work experience + language is english.

To say only idiots go there is a bit much frankly, you get idiots going everywhere - easy to avoid and make it your own unique trip.

I did the J1 twice (USA) (and 1 illegal ) and each time I stayed away from the large Irish crowds and had a great time.

Why dont you go then?

AckwelFoley · 12-07-2010 11:56PM

Whats see you N T?

sponsoredwalk · 13-07-2010 12:03AM

Iris Vast Whirlpool wrote: »

I have a theory that Irish people are in fact just brain dead and cannot think for themselves. Everyone goes to Australia because apparently it's great "craic" and that's where all their mates go. Is it just me or are the Irish a very non independent race unwilling to do anything alone or that their friends would not approve of. People don't think for themselves here and tend to just do the done thing.

Got to love elitist loners who, in their loneliness, build up a fantasy about the others & their habits.

My advice to you is, instead of secretly judging them, talking to people who go to Oz & finding out why they are going.

Tarring a whole race with one brush is so foolish that any genuine question in your post has been rendered obsolete
and could easily be shown to be wrong with a few personal stories but, for the future, it might help to quit judging others
with that internal monologue of elitism that many people unfortunately
choose to express themselves through.

Life isn't all about divisions and hate

ElaElaElano · 13-07-2010 12:03AM

snyper wrote: »

Whats see you N T?

It's a term used for you.

Australia wouldn't be for me at all. Don't like hot weather and I find if I get stuck watching Home and Away that I have an urge to reach for the kitchen knife.

So mix that fúcking accent with a few of ours, and it sounds a little bit like hell. Or prison. Which is what it is anyway

I'm moving to Canada or maybe Seattle in a few months, cold weather ftw.

strobe · 13-07-2010 12:09AM

I'm with you OP, why anyone would want to go to Australia is beyond me. From what I can see all the country has to offer is great weather, stunning beaches, unique and diverse wildlife, breath taking natural scenery that varies from red stone deserts to lush tropical rainforests, loads of jobs that pay well, nice beer, beautiful women with cracking beach bodies left right and fukking centre, and one of most widely envied and copied tourist infrastructures in the entire world..........it's a total mystery alright....

Cullen82 · 13-07-2010 12:15AM

Agricola wrote: »

OP, i hear ya, up to a point. Your main problem is that this forum is choc full of these so called "See You N Ts" - So you'll get very little sympathy here!

This!! Haha I'm surprised you have'nt been completely lashed out of it for your thread OP although you do have some valid points in there.

Hope this is'nt off topic but what makes me cringe everytime is when I hear someone I know talking about how they've "travelled" knowing they've just gone on the piss for 6 months somewhere swarmed with tourists and actually seen or experienced f%^k all.

In saying that I'd normally like to keep that opinion to myself as I find with traveller/backpackers there's too much snobbery competition attached to who's gone where and who's done what!

Terry · 13-07-2010 12:22AM

snyper wrote: »

Whats see you N T?

Cúnt.
Personal abuse abounds.

KungPao · 13-07-2010 12:30AM

I don't mind people who just go to Australia and do their thing, but when they go on and on and on about it, like it's some kind of wonderous place, and if you haven't been there, then you haven't lived....it's really irritating.

But perhaps most irritating is..... "Oz".

It's AUSTRALIA!

And please stop with this J1 business too.

Dr.Sanchez · 13-07-2010 12:40AM

I spent a year in Australia, any Irish people I've met there were in the Cities. They claim their traveling but don't budge from the place they got off the plane.

Now if you ask me, I think theres no difference between Sydney and Dublin besides the weather, all cities are pretty much the same to me.

I got a job on the Great Barrier Reef and spent the best part of the year living on an island out there. Then spent the remaining few months traveling through the outback, trying to avoid cities as much as I could.

Oh and by the way, theres actually more Germans than Irish out there at the moment!

JONJO THE MISER · 13-07-2010 12:42AM

Australia is a dump, spent a few months there could not wait to get out, there far more arrogant than ignorant than any American, racist and cant even speak proper english everything is slang.

Terry · 13-07-2010 12:47AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Australia is a dump, spent a few months there could not wait to get out, there far more arrogant than ignorant than any American, racist and cant even speak proper english everything is slang.

Awesome.

Dr.Sanchez · 13-07-2010 12:51AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Australia is a dump, spent a few months there could not wait to get out, there far more arrogant than ignorant than any American, racist and cant even speak proper english everything is slang.

Well in all fairness...

Every country has arrogant and ignorant people!
Every country has people who are racist!
Every country speaks in their own slang!

And judging from your post, you come across as two out of three of these points!

CiaranC · 13-07-2010 12:51AM

I dont know which I hate more, sad tossers whove never been anywhere except tenerife for two weeks slagging people who go off for a year to check some place out, or Australians.

Dr.Sanchez · 13-07-2010 12:59AM

orourkeda wrote: »

The key is keeping away from Irish people.

It doesnt matter where you go, you wont enjoy it if it feels like home.

Yeah, couldn't agree with you more!

4zn76tysfajdxp · 13-07-2010 01:03AM

I bet dr.bollocko is pissed off he's missing out on this thread.

K-9 · 13-07-2010 01:17AM

Dylan did it much better:

TheZohanS · 13-07-2010 01:20AM

Kali Wooden Beanbag wrote: »

I bet dr.bollocko is pissed off he's missing out on this thread.

Yeah, think it's his favourite destination of all time...a "Fairytale" country I believe he called it.

D-Generate · 13-07-2010 01:43AM

I am a big fan of this exodus of Irish people going to Australia simply because it was all the tossers from secondary school/university who hadn't an ounce or worth ethic and were messers/knobs. Good riddance to those! Irelands brain-drain seems to be more Canada/UK in my opinion.

Australia seems to be the mecca for bellends of the world. The Australian girls that I have met have invariably been sound out but the guys have been generally pig-ignorant and racist and/or homophobic. And thats my opinion on the guys who should be somewhat enlightened having traipsed around youth hostels all over the world, god knows what some of the others are like.

StupidLikeAFox · 13-07-2010 01:51AM

Never appealed to me tbh. A lot of people come back saying they spent the time drinking away with people they knew from home, that they prob wouldnt talk to at home. It doesnt make sense it mocks sense!

ElaElaElano · 13-07-2010 02:01AM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Australia is a dump, spent a few months there could not wait to get out, there far more arrogant than ignorant than any American, racist and cant even speak proper English everything is slang.

Hmm.

Irish australian-going sheeple.

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