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Do you think your life would've more exciting had you grown up in America?

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  • #32
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    The U.S. is overrated. Anyone who thinks it's a great place is probably watching too much tv. Say America and it conjours up imagines of New York and Hollywood. There's more (or more specifically less) to the place than that. They're also culturally bankrupt as a people and put less value on human life than the developed world does.


  • #33
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Yes!













    QED


  • #34
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


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  • #35
    Jopari87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭Jopari87


    Different but not necessarily more exciting. You could live in the middle of Manhattan and have the most boring life ever.

    And you could live in the middle of nowhere and live a very exciting life (even if that would require a fairly low threshold of excitment).


  • #36
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    I'd probably be in jail.


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  • #37
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    whiteboy wrote: »
    I think you could count on being a different person, you'd still have the same family only your upbringing would've been that little bit different.
    Picture what it would have been like if you were to have grown up in a suburb of Colorado and gone to high school there and played baseball for your school opposed to gaelic etc.
    It's and interesting idea.

    Also there'd be a lot more to see and do, over there they have the rocky mountains and other incredible landmarks.

    If would have been horrible.. the the Rockies wouldn't have done you any favours if you grew up in a ghetto in New York. Baseball is a boring, boring sport. And they're more hung up and socially conservative than we are.

    My idea of hell.

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



  • #38
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I used to think like that when I was a kid. Used to wonder how come I was born in Ireland and not on the A Team.. I mean, America.

    I love being Irish.


  • #39
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Was inter-railing recently and I found Americans to be...not arrogant to the world but very ignorant.They didnt know much about the world outside...and my god I couldnt get on with them...

    Lived in the Bronx for a month as a baby before the boom came...My parents hated it...Complete and utter **** hole it was from how they described it.

    So happy they came back to Ireland where everything worked out :)


  • #40
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I'd be fatter
    I would only be able to speak English and would have my s's and z's backwards
    I wouldn't know how to change gears
    I would have already been shot at least 3 times
    I would be divorced at least twice
    I would speak at volume level 11


  • #41
    careca11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭careca11


    America is ok for going on holidays etc , but to live or grow up ?
    hell no , I'll stick to this crumbling country any day


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  • #42
    southsiderosie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    Oh look, another thread about Americans.

    Sigh.


  • #43
    southsiderosie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    jester77 wrote: »
    I'd be fatter
    I would only be able to speak English and would have my s's and z's backwards
    I wouldn't know how to change gears
    I would have already been shot at least 3 times
    I would be divorced at least twice
    I would speak at volume level 11

    Yes, because the Irish are slim, quiet polyglots who respect the sanctity of marriage.


  • #44
    Needler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Needler


    If I lived in the country and was going hunting and staying in cabins every weekend while during the week I ran a massive farm or worked in some shed designing some new type of experimental combine harvester, chainsaw or similar contraption then yes

    If I was living in the "burbs", drove some GM people carrier with automatic transmission, worked at the "mall", watched 4 hours of TV every evening and obsessed over getting the latest 4 year contract smartphone from AT&T or other consumerist gadget then most certainly not


  • #45
    Siuin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Siuin


    Seloth wrote: »
    Was inter-railing recently and I found Americans to be...not arrogant to the world but very ignorant.They didnt know much about the world outside...and my god I couldnt get on with them...
    So true. I was on a tour and the New Yorker guide approached me afterwards to ask where I was from. When I replied "Ireland" he started speaking to me reeeeeeeally slowly, asking "Were... you... able... to... understand... the... tour... ok??" When I explained to him that yes, I did because English is my first language, he just walked away.


  • #46
    #15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭#15


    southsiderosie wrote: »
    Oh look, another thread about Americans.

    Sigh.

    The Pamela Izevbekhai thread is coming to a close, and the thread about foreign women is a multi-pager by now. AH needs to turn its generalised ire on someone.


  • #47
    Needler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Needler


    #15 wrote: »
    The Pamela Izevbekhai thread is coming to a close.

    Don't count your chickens, who knows they'll reprocess the material contained in the 60 odd pages of that thread and drag it out some more or they'll start to follow Pamela's life where ever she got deported to. Or else another snoregasm of a religious thread will be started to pick up the slack although there's a few of those on the go already


  • #48
    guitarzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭guitarzero


    Good question. America is the full spectrum, absolute poverty to fame and riches, liberal to ultra conservative. I wouldnt mind being fairly well of living on Venice Beach.


  • #49
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Try growing up in Africa, osterich meat biltong and apocalyptic thunderstorms. Mmm. Osterich meat.


  • #50
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Yes, there would have been undercover soldiers patrolling the hallways in highschools and I would have seen first hand an idiot blowing his head off playing russian roulette


  • #51
    Tubsandtiles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Tubsandtiles


    I wouldn't like to have grown up in America just because of the whole gun laws, racism being very high and the whole world having a negative view on the place alot of the time but saying that we have these problems here too :). If all the users on boards went over there on a holiday we would probably be arrested for simple things like singing, having the "craic" walking down the road after a nightout or taking a piss down a laneway after six pints. Things like these = an arrest in America. Running from the "shades" would probably lead to a great laugh over here while in America they would probably shoot at you :)


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  • #52
    southsiderosie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    Tubsandtiles wrote: »
    I wouldn't like to have grown up in America just because of the whole gun laws, racism being very high and the whole world having a negative view on the place alot of the time but saying that we have these problems here too :). If all the users on boards went over there on a holiday we would probably be arrested for simple things like singing, having the "craic" walking down the road after a nightout or taking a piss down a laneway after six pints. Things like these = an arrest in America. Running from the "shades" would probably lead to a great laugh over here while in America they would probably shoot at you :)

    LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

    You've clearly never been to the US if you think that is the case.


  • #53
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    whiteboy wrote: »
    Also there'd be a lot more to see and do, over there they have the rocky mountains and other incredible landmarks.

    We've got the Alps:rolleyes:


  • #54
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Tubsandtiles wrote: »
    If all the users on boards went over there on a holiday we would probably be arrested for simple things like singing

    Well have you heard the Boards.ie choir singing?

    A frightful sound.

    They were arrested in moscow twice i heard.

    :mad:


  • #55
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    Tubsandtiles wrote: »
    I wouldn't like to have grown up in America just because of the whole gun laws, racism being very high and the whole world having a negative view on the place alot of the time but saying that we have these problems here too :). If all the users on boards went over there on a holiday we would probably be arrested for simple things like singing, having the "craic" walking down the road after a nightout or taking a piss down a laneway after six pints. Things like these = an arrest in America. Running from the "shades" would probably lead to a great laugh over here while in America they would probably shoot at you :)

    Pissing down a laneway should be an arrestable offence

    However, their thing about burning the flag whilst a guest of their nation is a bit OTT tho. Fortunately there was no smoke detectors in my apartment so nobody found out.


  • #56
    Tubsandtiles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Tubsandtiles


    southsiderosie wrote: »
    LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

    You've clearly never been to the US if you think that is the case.
    Been to New York in 09 and loved it :D


  • #57
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    man.about.town wrote: »
    its a shame irish people dont visit landmarks and our many points of interest throughout the country, i regularly do and i really appreciate how beautiful and steeped in history ireland is.

    last year, i took three days off and was a tourist for a day in dublin, did as many museums i could, i even did the open top bus and viking splash tour. it was great, since then, ive seen just about everything in dublin, its soo interesting. every dub should do it
    I used to when I lived there, vist places like Newgrange ,Glendelough ,Kilmainham jail and museams and have done the open bus tour several times on trips home to Dublin . I'm familiar with most of the history from grown up and living there but there's always something new to find out about a place ,street , building or person .

    Last time I did the bus tour with 3 other dubs who also live in uk ,we were taking the pee out of each other with the history saying stuff like '' No , it never happened over here ,it happened over there '' or '' No , he never said that , he said this '' , just like only Dublin people can .:D


  • #58
    Apanachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    I had a very exciting life growing up in the sticks in Ireland, I wouldn't want to change a thing about it, don't know if my life would have been even more exciting had I have grown up in America, but I can't imagine it being better (and I definitely would have missed out on the great friends I have in Ireland (for over 21 years)


  • #59
    Tubsandtiles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Tubsandtiles


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    Pissing down a laneway should be an arrestable offence

    However, their thing about burning the flag whilst a guest of their nation is a bit OTT tho. Fortunately there was no smoke detectors in my apartment so nobody found out.
    It definitely should be an arrestable offence :D, just saying what you see most weekends after some one has drink in them :D


  • #60
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    Not really.. I presume I would have ended up in some hick part of the US. Things are similar....

    Similar traits: Ireland USA
    A love of a ball sport: GAA. NFL and bassball.
    Uber religious: Catholic. Evanglical Christians.
    Work: Farm. Ranch.
    Surrounded by car loving neighbours: Boy Racers. Nas Car.
    Love of one's nation: Sinn Fein. The Army.

    Tonnes more...

    etc.. etc... I'd just have a different accent.


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  • #61
    Tubsandtiles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Tubsandtiles


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Well have you heard the Boards.ie choir singing?

    A frightful sound.

    They were arrested in moscow twice i heard.

    :mad:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18sP_ccDw_E
    we were out of tune that day :D


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