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Why do so many Irish people wear GAA jerseys in Australia?

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  • #32
    aDeener
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    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Same reason American college students wear T shirts and hoodies with the college name, even when on holidays.

    Sense of belonging, shows where you're from

    Not saying it's right or wrong, the Irish may wear GAA jersey but other nationalities have similar

    how could it be deemed 'wrong' ffs :rolleyes:

    would this clown of an op be saying the same about spanish people here wearing real or barca jerseys? doubt it!


  • #33
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    Id much rather see irish people going around wearing their county Jersey's than going around wearing united and liverpool jersey's... feckin muppets :rolleyes:


  • #34
    aDeener
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I think people have a problem with the type of person who goes abroad and only hangs around with Irish people and only drinks in Irish bars. It's like the people who go to Spain and pack a suitcase full of Pot Noodles and sausages because they "don't eat that foreign muck".

    It's not about forgetting their own culture, it's about almost isolating yourself from any chance of even slightly embracing a new culture.


    pretty pathetic fcuking problem to have when it has absolutely nothing to do with them


  • #35
    Mr Benevolent
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    It's to ensure maximum embarrassment for any civilized Irish person in proximity with them. Fortunately I lived in Brisbane - very few jersey'd Irish people stay there, thank the gods.
    aDeener wrote: »
    pretty pathetic fcuking problem to have when it has absolutely nothing to do with them

    Eh? Irish people who stay with other Irish people all the time in Australia are pathetic, that's the point.


  • #36
    aDeener
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    Confab wrote: »
    It's to ensure maximum embarrassment for any civilized Irish person in proximity with them. Fortunately I lived in Brisbane - very few jersey'd Irish people stay there, thank the gods.



    Eh? Irish people who stay with other Irish people all the time in Australia are pathetic, that's the point.

    eh? what the hell is it to do with you who they hang around with? and what the hell does it matter what they wear?


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  • #37
    AnonoBoy
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    aDeener wrote: »
    pretty pathetic fcuking problem to have when it has absolutely nothing to do with them
    aDeener wrote: »
    eh? what the hell is it to do with you who they hang around with? and what the hell does it matter what they wear?

    What is it to you that it's something to him? ;)


  • #38
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    Confab wrote: »
    It's to ensure maximum embarrassment for any civilized Irish person in proximity with them. Fortunately I lived in Brisbane - very few jersey'd Irish people stay there, thank the gods.



    Eh? Irish people who stay with other Irish people all the time in Australia are pathetic, that's the point.

    jesus chist... how superior are you for fcuk sake for not wearing a feckin tshirt from your home country. Your a real cool cat. I will make sure to avoid travelling to Australia to avoid you and the rest of the fashion police, get over urself.

    People can do what ever the hell they want. wearing a feckin jersey is embarrassing? :rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #39
    AnonoBoy
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    It's not the wearing of the jerseys really though, is it? There's loads of people who wear them and it's grand.

    It's the behaviour of some people who wear them all the time that gets to people. The embarrassing, "Wahey lads, let's have beers for breakfast every day, piss in the street and puke in the back of a taxi!" type of behaviour. And these are the people who don't give a sh*t where they are be it Australia or any other place - they just want to get wrecked all the time with the lads from home.

    It's like hoodies. I wear hoodies a lot but I don't get tarred with the same brush as "hoodies" because I'm not acting like a juvenile deliquent.


  • #40
    stoneill
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/africa_enl_1218698138/img/1.jpg


  • #41
    comeraghs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭comeraghs


    How is it more embarrasing than spending a hundred euro for a shirt in Harvey Nichols to show that you are posh?

    do you have the same problem with people wearing Leinster or Munster shirts or is it just an anti-GAA thing?

    it´s not an Irish thing, plenty of people in Spain, The US, Germany wear their sports jerseys to express their pride in where they are from!

    & as others said it´s far better than some lad from Tullamore etc walking around with some soulless British football club/company shirt on.


    WEAR YOUR COLOURS & WEAR THEM PROUD


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  • #42
    stovelid
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    Calm down ladies. It's just a shirt.

    If a post, however, could have a big ginger anvil head with freckles, it would be the post before this.


  • #43
    FreudianSlippers
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    Why do so many Irish people go to Australia? IMO it's not a nice place!


  • #44
    Xavi6
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    OisinT wrote: »
    Why do so many Irish people go to Australia? IMO it's not a nice place!

    English speaking, easy to get a visa, similar drinking culture, sporting nation, great weather, hot women...it's not hard to see why to be fair.

    When you say 'it's not a nice place' did you travel the whole thing, because it is bigger than Europe ;)


  • #45
    Pisco Sour
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    OisinT wrote: »
    Why do so many Irish people go to Australia? IMO it's not a nice place!

    Did you travel through the Outback, the Great Ocean Road, the West Coast of Oz?


  • #46
    comeraghs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭comeraghs


    ginger! I demand you withdra that remark!


  • #47
    skipz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭skipz


    Being a Irish backpacker in Australia seems to be a way of letting the other people know what a group of pissed plonkers we can be.

    Wearing GAA jerseys in groups....Turning Hi-ace vans into look-a-like Garda vans(wtf!)....not wearing sunscreen on snow white skin....Getting sh1t faced at all hours....the list goes on.

    When the eastern europeans came to Ireland with there groups of dodgy bmw's and tee-shirts tucked into their jeans drinking at the wheel, most irish frowned at this.

    Same difference, different country.


  • #48
    stovelid
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    Some of the people that wear sports shirts on holiday are jerks; some are not. I would tend to go by the person's bahaviour rather than make a snap judgement based on their clothing although it's tempting and we're priobably all guilty of it.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    "Wahey lads, let's have beers for breakfast every day, piss in the street and puke in the back of a taxi!" type of behaviour. And these are the people who don't give a sh*t where they are be it Australia or any other place - they just want to get wrecked all the time with the lads from home.

    Isn't this the reason people to to Australia, have the craic and drink more less everyday for a year.


  • #50
    FreudianSlippers
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    04072511 wrote: »
    Did you travel through the Outback, the Great Ocean Road, the West Coast of Oz?
    No, but that sounds like my idea of hell.


  • #51
    ro_chez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭ro_chez


    Because their inbred toothless simpletons who grew up on the farm with sheep and pigs?


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  • #52
    Pisco Sour
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    OisinT wrote: »
    No, but that sounds like my idea of hell.

    Well if spectacular scenery is your idea of hell then I can understand why you think Australia isnt a nice place as the country is full of it :rolleyes:


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    comeraghs wrote: »
    do you have the same problem with people wearing Leinster or Munster shirts or is it just an anti-GAA thing?

    Don't start on about the knobs in rugby jerseys, they're at least as bad as the muck savages wearing the GAA shtuff :pac:


  • #54
    Jagera
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    I was one of those people once. When I first left Oz I went to the aussie bars in London wearing my Aussie jersey (only for watching matches I will add).

    <internet psychology>it's a comfort factor for someone who's been thrown into a totally different culture, and instead of immediately embracing the new culture, they stick closer to their own. People eventually grow out of it. Some take longer than others.</internet psychology>

    I watched a documentary once. Nothing to do with this though.


  • #55
    DB10
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    ro_chez wrote: »
    Because their inbred toothless simpletons who grew up on the farm with sheep and pigs?

    There's Dublin jerseys too you know, and the IQ of the dubs is hardly through the roof is it.


    This thread is pathetic, why do people care sooo much about what others wear? Like the carry on of teenage girls.

    The boards.ie west brit mantra is again in full swing.


  • #56
    Rawhead
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    I can't really comment on the Australia aspect of the Irish trying to identify each other (never felt the need to visit a large prison that was left to breed and grow unchecked)


    I did live in New York in the 90's and we had a far more subtle way of identifying fellow Paddy's.

    Tight Wrangler Jeans, good as a masons handshake they were. You could pick out a fellow Pat in Times Square on new years eve from 100yrds.


  • #57
    ro_chez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭ro_chez


    DB10 wrote: »
    There's Dublin jerseys too you know, and the IQ of the dubs is hardly through the roof is it.


    This thread is pathetic, why do people care sooo much about what others wear? Like the carry on of teenage girls.

    The boards.ie west brit mantra is again in full swing.

    And their proud to be inbred toothless simpletons who grew up on the farm with sheep and pigs!


  • #58
    biko
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    Not as stupid as dads making their kids wear Man U/other club tops.
    "Yeah, I'm 2 and a solid Man U fan"


  • #59
    Seanchai
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    ro_chez wrote: »
    Because their inbred toothless simpletons who grew up on the farm with sheep and pigs?
    ro_chez wrote: »
    And their proud to be inbred toothless simpletons who grew up on the farm with sheep and pigs!

    most of whom will undoubtedly know the difference between 'their' and 'they're'. Duh. :rolleyes:


  • #60
    aDeener
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    DB10 wrote: »
    There's Dublin jerseys too you know, and the IQ of the dubs is hardly through the roof is it.


    This thread is pathetic, why do people care sooo much about what others wear? Like the carry on of teenage girls.

    The boards.ie west brit mantra is again in full swing.

    they don't really, you would find that if this thread was about men wearing womens clothes or something like that, the same people giving out would be all for it.

    it's a GAA thing. there is a sad group of people on here that for one reason or another hate everything and anything to do with the GAA, probably because they were left out when they were younger when everyone else was playing it and still hold the grudge


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  • #61
    JerryHandbag
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    Rawhead wrote: »
    Tight Wrangler Jeans, good as a masons handshake they were. You could pick out a fellow Pat in Times Square on new years eve from 100yrds.

    White socks & sandals is another way of spotting the Irish tourist. :D


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