West Brits or Boggers: whom do you hate most?

Seanchai · 23-04-2011 11:42AM #1

I've noticed that the people who get most offended by the term "West Brit" being used tend to be the first to call others "boggers". The latter is applied by them to anybody who is into Irish culture and is therefore "backward". Or so their reasoning goes.

Anyway, which of the two do you dislike most?

Dudess · 23-04-2011 11:44AM

I'm just offended by the term "west Brit" because it's a ****ing dumb phrase and people who use it aren't really able to define what they're talking about...

Biggins · 23-04-2011 11:44AM

Third option:
I hate those that like to see a divide as a method to cause friction!

I do NOT hate either!

Links234 · 23-04-2011 11:44AM

I hate people who use the terms "west brit" and "boggers" the most.

phasers · 23-04-2011 11:46AM

Bogger =/= Cultured. It means somebody who lives in the countryside.

Xivilai · 23-04-2011 11:48AM

Lets put this ancient tendency to hate each other to bed people!

I accidentally voted bogger by the way

arybvtcw0eolkf · 23-04-2011 11:49AM

Boggers

Dudess wrote: »

I'm just offended by the term "west Brit" because it's a ****ing dumb phrase and people who use it aren't really able to define what they're talking about...

Bloody West Brit.

Son Of A Vidic · 23-04-2011 11:51AM

Boggers

Christ! another slight variant of a very, very tired subject matter.

Sonnenblumen · 23-04-2011 11:57AM

Who cares about such crap? I hate moronic questions.

My name is URL · 23-04-2011 11:58AM

Boggers

Dudess wrote: »

I'm just offended by the term "west Brit" because it's a ****ing dumb phrase and people who use it aren't really able to define what they're talking about...

Same could be said for 'bogger' tbh. I've seen people use it to refer to anyone who lives outside of the main cities.

Anyway, to me the term 'West Brit' signifies someone who champions British culture and history while making degrading comments about those who choose to cherish their Irish heritage. You see it here quite a bit in all fairness.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 23-04-2011 12:03PM

Boggers

My name is URL wrote: »

Anyway, to me the term 'West Brit' signifies someone who champions British culture and history while making degrading comments about those who choose to cherish their Irish heritage. You see it here quite a bit in all fairness.

+1

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Dudess · 23-04-2011 12:04PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Same could be said for 'bogger' tbh. I've seen people use it to refer to anyone who lives outside of the main cities.

Anyway, to me the term 'West Brit' signifies someone who champions British culture and history while making degrading comments about those who choose to cherish their Irish heritage. You see it here quite a bit in all fairness.

I know there are Irish people on this forum who go on about how backward etc "we" Irish are, and then like to wind people up by going on about how great Thatcher was etc, but then there are others who go on about how great America is, or anywhere... yet there's no equivalent for them. Most of the people who use the term "west Brit" post nothing but idiocy and many of them support the IRA.

stovelid · 23-04-2011 12:06PM

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ejmaztec · 23-04-2011 12:06PM

What about West-Brit Boggers, there must be some of them hiding somewhere?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 23-04-2011 12:07PM

Boggers

Dudess is a West Dub.

Latchy · 23-04-2011 12:08PM

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Christ! another slight variant of a very, very tired subject matter.

They come around in cycles .It used to be people living on the east coast of Dublin were referred to as west Brits because they received and had the cheek to tune into BBC/ITV channels

Yahew · 23-04-2011 12:10PM

Boggers

I have now decided that Plastic Paddies are East-Micks.

brianthebard · 23-04-2011 12:33PM

Boggers

Latchy wrote: »

They come around in cycles .It used to be people living on the east coast of Dublin were referred to as west Brits because they received and had the cheek to tune into BBC/ITV channels

That's not what the term meant.

ejmaztec · 23-04-2011 12:38PM

Latchy wrote: »

They come around on cycles .It used to be people living on the east coast of Dublin were referred to as west Brits because they received and had the cheek to tune into BBC/ITV channels

..and the boggers are on donkeys.:pac:

evercloserunion · 23-04-2011 12:40PM

I don't hate either. OP, do you not have anything better to be doing than assigning labels to people and then getting worked up about it?

Yahew · 23-04-2011 12:43PM

Boggers

brianthebard wrote: »

That's not what the term meant.

+1

The term is used by Joyce in The Dead.

EDIT:
Actually, not exactly.

"Well, I'm ashamed of you," said Miss Ivors frankly. "To say you'd write for a paper like that. I didn't think you were a West Briton."

Yahew · 23-04-2011 12:47PM

Boggers

evercloserunion wrote: »

I don't hate either. OP, do you not have anything better to be doing than assigning labels to people and then getting worked up about it?

I think the OP meant "Which of these terms do you hate the most".

Sunnyisland · 23-04-2011 12:49PM

Boggers

The term originates from 19th century Ireland and has evolved over the years. Nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell used it in the British House of Commons in 1832:

"The people of Ireland are ready to become a portion of the Empire, provided they be made so in reality and not in name alone; they are ready to become a kind of West Briton if made so in benefits and justice; but if not, we are Irishmen again."

Fyp

Chuck Stone · 23-04-2011 12:52PM

Get a life morans.

Dudess · 23-04-2011 12:53PM

evercloserunion wrote: »

I don't hate either. OP, do you not have anything better to be doing than assigning labels to people and then getting worked up about it?

Good point, even if I'll admit the term "west Brit" irks me. I won't go starting a thread on it though.

Latchy · 23-04-2011 12:57PM

brianthebard wrote: »

That's not what the term meant.

I'm not referring to it as a term of phrase used by an Irish Author .It was also used back in the seventies and eighties by people from the sticks in RTE one channel land who didn't like the idea of people living on the east coast of Ireland absorbing British culture , be it newspapers ,magazines,radio tv or any other form besides the standard Irish one .They would have in turn being referred to as Boggers or similar .

looksee · 23-04-2011 12:58PM

My daughter used get called a West Brit when she worked in a very small rural town. She had a neutral accent with a slight touch of Brit (because I have an english accent). There was no justification for the term, she was neither anti-Irish nor pro-British. It was just one of the reasons she was glad to get an opportunity to go to the USA - not a major reason, but constant sniping does eventually get on your nerves.

OP, its a beautiful sunny holiday weekend. I'm only here because I'm eating my lunch, then the garden calls. Have you nothing better to do than think up pathetic, divisive, pointless questions? Get out and enjoy this beautiful country.

sollar · 23-04-2011 12:58PM

Why would you hate either? Give me a decent reason why someone would hate a so called bogger or west brit??

KeithAFC · 23-04-2011 12:59PM

West Brits... they haven't gone away you know.

RichieC · 23-04-2011 12:59PM

Never heard the term westbrit in me life till I started playing regular here... and why would I hate culchies. half my family are culchies.

Yahew · 23-04-2011 12:59PM

Boggers

Latchy wrote: »

I'm not referring to it as a term of phrase used by an Irish Author .It was also used back in the seventies and eighties by people from the sticks in RTE one channel land who didn't like the idea of people living on the east coast of Ireland absorbing British culture , be it newspapers ,magazines,radio tv or any other form besides the standard Irish one .They would have in turn being referred to as Boggers or similar .

West-Brit never meant "People who watched the BBC".

Sh*t all Northern Irish "volunteers" watched the BBC.

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