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Irish dating culture vs. American??

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  • #62
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    K-9 wrote: »
    These days, the young girls just wear bracelets indicating whether they've knickers on.

    :eek::eek:

    you're not serious, right?


  • #63
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    @Liam Byrne: Your inbox is full dude!


  • #64
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dhayashi wrote: »
    Hahaha is that the only one you can come up with? FFS. =p

    Thought you'd be testing your equality and making up your own......otherwise it's a bit like buying our own Valentines Day gift coz she can't be arsed picking something out!


  • #65
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    Is there a difference between knickers and panties? I thought 'twas the same thing


  • #66
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    I will be using my own, American ones! Just want to see what they will be countered with.


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  • #67
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    stupidusername wrote: »
    :eek::eek:

    you're not serious, right?

    Did you not know? Jaysus, you are out of step with the latest romantic tips.

    I read it in the Indo, must be true.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #68
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dhayashi wrote: »
    @Liam Byrne: Your inbox is full dude!

    Now THAT's a chatup line and a half (or would be if it were from a guy to a girl) :D

    Feckin' infractions......fixed now!


  • #69
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dhayashi wrote: »
    Is there a difference between knickers and panties? I thought 'twas the same thing

    The main "different" one is fanny.....keep that in mind so you don't get too shocked! ;)


  • #70
    beks101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    If you don't already, learn to drink to excess.
    And get used to being insulted relentlessly over your accent and your country. You'll be well in there.


  • #71
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    Hahahaha do you know about Handy Sandie?


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  • #72
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    stupidusername wrote: »
    :eek::eek:

    you're not serious, right?

    Of course not. The easy birds are wearing short enough skirts that you can see for yourself.


  • #73
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    K-9 wrote: »
    Did you not know? Jaysus, you are out of step with the latest romantic tips.

    I read it in the Indo, must be true.

    awh crap. i can't learn any more new stuff though


  • #74
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    Just write to Dear Siobhan! She knows everything.


  • #75
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dhayashi wrote: »
    Just write to Dear Siobhan! She knows everything.

    Who ?


  • #76
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    It's the advice column in the Irish Daily Star.


  • #77
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dhayashi wrote: »
    It's the advice column in the Irish Daily Star.

    Will take your word for it - never touch tabloids!


  • #78
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    ahhhahhahaha. Who tagged this as bloody Americans? Lamesauce.


  • #79
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    In Ireland's social scene the masc. are aggressive, stupid, one dimensional and frustrated. The fem. are unnattractive and insecure, plus eager to shoot down all and sundry in order to grant their flagging egos a boost. It's a hideous little vicious circle made all the worse by over consumption of alcohol and that fact that it takes place in a freezing, wet climate.


    That said, it is still preferable to the cringy, contrived environment of the American "dating scene". Such artifice, subterfuge and evasion hasn't been seen since the siege of Troy, but at least there you could hope for a quick exit by means of decapitation. The formality of dating is just so fuçking annoying in the way only Americans can manage.


  • #80
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,222 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    The main "different" one is fanny.....keep that in mind so you don't get too shocked! ;)

    Does anyone in Ireland actually say fanny though? Ive never heard it apart from the the odd scanger Me fannnnyyyyyyyyyyy.


    As for the ops question Irish dating scene? Go out get pissed get the wear and either wake up beside them or with number in the phone and hope to god you can remember there name or the conversation you had last night so as to not to make an ass of yourself and see were it goes from there.


  • #81
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    American women are much more open to casual sex. Irish women are complicated but intriguing at the same time especially if the girl is good looking. If they're not its just foolish insecurity and the false power they try to wield with it.


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  • #82
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    Hi,

    First of all, I love Bulmers too!

    Secondly, I think a previous poster had it right when she said that people in pubs often kiss first, then exchange phone numbers after! If it's a drunken transaction, it IS a miracle if they remember each other's name and can properly add the contact into their phone.
    That happened to me once and we both high fived each other for being able to drunkenly exchange info. I just thought it was a random thing though, never planned on talking to the person again! They actually offered me a tour of Ireland and we are still friends on Facebook. Not too shabby I guess.
    Always have your dessert first!


  • #83
    Black_Cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Black_Cat


    What a question.

    We're not really unique over here in Ireland OP, we have many ways of starting relationships, we don't all subscribe to a certain method.

    I doubt I would need to be instructed on the ways of meeting a man if I moved to the US, it's sort of common sense isn't it? Go to a bar, join a group, etc. Not really difficult when you think about it regardless of what culture you are in - unless of course you are in a country where you don't speak the language (in the case of Ireland English) and are completely clueless.


  • #84
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    They do, in fact, say fanny in Ireland!

    Proof:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0m7F7YFsgE


  • #85
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,222 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    dhayashi wrote: »
    Hi,

    First of all, I love Bulmers too!

    Secondly, I think a previous poster had it right when she said that people in pubs often kiss first, then exchange phone numbers after! If it's a drunken transaction, it IS a miracle if they remember each other's name and can properly add the contact into their phone.
    That happened to me once and we both high fived each other for being able to drunkenly exchange info. I just thought it was a random thing though, never planned on talking to the person again! They actually offered me a tour of Ireland and we are still friends on Facebook. Not too shabby I guess.
    Always have your dessert first!


    Glad to see you have good taste ;)

    Ah yeh but you see the problem with having the first kiss when your drunk to test the waters to say is that when your drunk are you really good judge? Someone could be an amazing kisser when you locked at 3 in the morning but terrible when your both sober.


    But yeh thats not to bad at all majority of time you wake up with a vague memory but cnt remember the name or have saved there name as something like randomer in the phone to which you have three or four randomers in the phone from different nights so dont know which is which, its happened to me anyway :o.


  • #86
    TiGeR KiNgS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭TiGeR KiNgS


    If a guy asks for your number while drunk it's a schoolboy error.

    How is he going to ask you to spell your name in the morning?



    (If decipher that post I tip my imaginary cap to you)


  • #87
    dhayashi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭dhayashi


    @Tiger Kings:

    You lost me there haha. If he's coherent enough to enter a number correctly, the name shouldn't be a problem!


  • #88
    sandmanporto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭sandmanporto


    dhayashi wrote: »
    Hiya!

    I'm an expatriate living here in Ireland and wondering what the dating culture is, in general. I've heard that it's nearly nonexistent, but I want more opinions! I realize that there isn't one universal rule, but how do fellas most often court a lady here?

    In America, usually it's beginning as friends or being formally asked on dates and later establishing so-called exclusivity.
    I have no interest
    goodbye


  • #89
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    dhayashi wrote: »
    If he's coherent enough to enter a number correctly, the name shouldn't be a problem!

    You're more than just a number! ;)


  • #90
    FunkSoulSista
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭FunkSoulSista


    dhayashi wrote: »
    @FunkSoulSista,

    To be fair I think the latter is an effective trial run! It is awful to chew much fat with someone, exchange numbers and keep in contact and go on a date only to find out that they are a horrible kisser! It's like having your dessert first...kind of.

    I concur!!


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  • #91
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,646 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Usually the dating culture in Ireland is meeting somone in a pub/club/box social (usually very very drunk, and spam them with non-sensical sh!te until they kiss you to shut you up). Repeat until your comfortable enough to talk to them like a real person.

    Simples!


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