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  • #32
    Reloc8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Reloc8


    Author comes across as a joyless whinger that can't do basic research who hangs around with lying gob****es or alternatively simply makes things up.


  • #33
    nbar12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭nbar12


    she must have been on her period when she wrote this! Outrageous article!


  • #34
    Oarrack Bama
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭Oarrack Bama


    Nasty, vile, vindictive, bigoted article. Given the author's nationality it makes it even less fortunate.


  • #35
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    did she just get dumped by an Irish lover - sounds like it.

    :D

    regarding the "teef" business - she seems to have a problem with Irish teef. Maybe she doesn't know what being happy is - when you are happy you smile, like this :D:D Are german people known for smiling? :o


  • #36
    Stimpyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭Stimpyone


    When did the government tell us to stop diddling our sisters?.


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  • #37
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    did she just get dumped by an Irish lover - sounds like it.

    :D

    regarding the "teef" business - she seems to have a problem with Irish teef. Maybe she doesn't know what being happy is - when you are happy you smile, like this :D:D Are german people known for smiling? :o

    according to her wikipedia entry she worked as a dental technician.
    I am going home the weekend, where i will keep an eye out for the rodent like Galwegians.
    it probably was the cleverest thing to say that we were inbred.


  • #38
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    according to her wikipedia entry she worked as a dental technician.
    I am going home the weekend, where i will keep an eye out for the rodent like Galwegians.
    it probably was the cleverest thing to say that we were inbred.


    really?
    I supposed we should be happy she isn't a ob-gyn.

    she picked her profession - looking at teeth all day. if she's sick of her job, there is no need to insult people over it - maybe her irish lover was the actual dentist, who dumped her and now she's a bitter twisted wreck. :D


  • #39
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Oarrack Bama wrote: »
    Nasty, vile, vindictive, bigoted article. Given the author's nationality it makes it even less fortunate.

    I agree with your summation of the article, but follow the links.
    Die Weltwoche

    It's an article written for a privately owned neo-conservative Swiss magazine. Switzerland being one of the most liberal countries on the planet.

    The owner
    With politically provocative articles they opposed the "left-liberal mainstream journalism"

    The far right in Switzerland consists of a few lone nutters that everybody else finds generally embarrassing and tries to ignore as much as possible.

    I find it uplifting to see Ireland slated by a publication like this, it means we're doing something right.


  • #40
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    I would say the people of Ballygar are gathering the sticks as we speak.

    the article seems more nasty that merely critical.


    this is offensive BS.
    'School mates of my 16 year old son are giggling when they see a black skinned boy in one of their school books. A female student recently called a Polish pupil a “foreigner bastard”. He replied “fat cow”. One of the two was expelled. Guess who?
    I have many friends who attended St Mary's College in Ballygar. According to them many of these guys did far worse things in school than call a girl a "fat cow". I've never heard of anyone being expelled from that school. Indeed the school is known for taking in students expelled from other schools, it needs the numbers to survive. I smell bullsh1t!


  • #41
    Cheshire Cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Cheshire Cat


    That article is not brutally honest, it's brutally stupid! BTW I'm German myself and well aware that Ireland isn't perfect, but neither is Germany and I prefer to live here!


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  • #42
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    I have many friends who attended St Mary's College in Ballygar. According to them many of these guys did far worse things in school than call a girl a "fat cow". I've never heard of anyone being expelled from that school. Indeed the school is known for taking in students expelled from other schools, it needs the numbers to survive. I smell bullsh1t!

    you have to try hard to expelled from any school.


  • #43
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Links234 wrote: »
    says more about the high price of alcohol than how much we drink really

    Averages out to 30 a week so depending where youre drinking can be anywhere from 10 to 5/6 pints but then people go to clubs and end up paying silly money for cocktails/shots etc so can be even less.
    My brain hurts :(


  • #44
    swimming in a sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    i never knew Ireland had such a teeth\narrow jaw problem (i have noticed it in people but i didn't think it was more prominent in Ireland) so it's down to inbreeding, well to be fair it makes since.

    But i would have thought in a time before mass transport links that inbreeding was a problem inherent to all countries and considering ireland was the one of the first to get a rail network we should not be any more inbred than any others.


  • #45
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    swimming in a sea wrote: »
    i never knew Ireland had such a teeth\narrow jaw problem (i have noticed it in people but i didn't think it was more prominent in Ireland) so it's down to inbreeding, well to be fair it makes since.

    Sorry, but WTF?


  • #46
    floggg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,821 ✭✭✭floggg


    I'm pretty sure the government has never told people to get DNA testing before getting married.

    Which leads me to believe she may be playing fast and loose with facts and is perhaps prone to the slightest of exaggerations.

    And it's not like Germany is a model for integration (ask the Turks) or indeed Switzerland (ask the "black sheep").


  • #47
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    I see she had a regular Ireland column for the Tagesspiegel in Berlin, writing from her new home in Ireland. Germans love Ireland so if she was producing such pile no German newspaper would engage her services. maybe she had a bad day?


  • #48
    mike65
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    Terrible thread title! :mad: No wonder I started a new one. :p


  • #49
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Gurgle wrote: »
    I agree with your summation of the article, but follow the links.
    Die Weltwoche

    It's an article written for a privately owned neo-conservative Swiss magazine. Switzerland being one of the most liberal countries on the planet.

    The owner

    The far right in Switzerland consists of a few lone nutters that everybody else finds generally embarrassing and tries to ignore as much as possible.

    I find it uplifting to see Ireland slated by a publication like this, it means we're doing something right.

    that puts a completely different light on things. Hope she does another one next week :D


  • #50
    swimming in a sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    smash wrote: »
    Sorry, but WTF?

    read the article if you want to comment:rolleyes:


  • #51
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    she lives in Ballygar, County Galway. I am sure the natives will be thrilled to find out that she thinks they are animals. she should have published the article in Punch

    What was she expecting from the Ballygar - Glenamaddy - Creggs area? Seriously? Why is she living in those areas? It explains the bitterness of the articles so.

    I hope she stays clear from the Annual Ballygar Carnival.

    That journalists made some far points about the state of the schools and the rip off Ireland culture and the lack of trust we have with each other. But to piss and moan about rain (especially in that region), we can't be blamed for that. As for the denistry, oh lord , she has being clearly scared by the "local talent". The boozing figures, funny, you think for a bunch of Swiss (is she German or Swiss ?) they would not be getting your facts arseways . Music fair point, but the tourists want it so we are only obliging. Bar Meat and Bear, what great cultural aspect do most of the world take from Germany/Switzerland? Yogel?

    When you have a Kraut lecturing another nation, just think Basil Fawlty and the funny walk.

    Oh well, we all know what Oscar Wilde said about publicity


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  • #52
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    walrusgumble wrote: »
    What was she expecting from the Ballygar - Glenamaddy - Creggs area? Seriously? Why is she living in those areas? It explains the bitterness of the articles so.

    I hope she stays clear from the Annual Ballygar Carnival.
    Seriously, WTF is this supposed to mean?


  • #53
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    walrusgumble wrote: »
    What was she expecting from the Ballygar - Glenamaddy - Creggs area? Seriously? Why is she living in those areas? It explains the bitterness of the articles so.

    I hope she stays clear from the Annual Ballygar Carnival.

    That journalists made some far points about the state of the schools and the rip off Ireland culture and the lack of trust we have with each other. But to piss and moan about rain (especially in that region), we can't be blamed for that. As for the denistry, oh lord , she has being clearly scared by the "local talent". The boozing figures, funny, you think for a bunch of Swiss (is she German or Swiss ?) they would not be getting your facts arseways . Music fair point, but the tourists want it so we are only obliging. Bar Meat and Bear, what great cultural aspect do most of the world take from Germany/Switzerland? Yogel?

    When you have a Kraut lecturing another nation, just think Basil Fawlty and the funny walk.

    Oh well, we all know what Oscar Wilde said about publicity

    she grew up in the German countryside and in my experience the countryside is the countryside no matter where you are-it embodies both the negative and the positive. She never felt at home in Germany. there is a type of German who come s to the green isle to find themselves. maybe after a few years she suddenly realised no matter where you live its all very similar.


  • #54
    Oarrack Bama
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭Oarrack Bama


    With the emphasis on the dental well being of the Irish you would think she was a dentist - you would not be far off!


    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antje_Joel

    Prior to her journalism career, she worked as a pediatric nurse, dental assistant, photographic assistant, and architect.

    :D


  • #55
    Sala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    Disgraceful article. I like the way one person who has a dental deformity as a result of incest happens to be " a scientist, he must know". I have never met anyone who has a rodent like jaw due to incest. I'd say he was taking the piss out of her and didn't realise she actually believed him.

    Nor have I ever heard of anyone being advised to get a DNA test done before marriage, to prevent the spread of this alleged dental deformity!

    I appreciate she may be trying to be tongue in cheek - the way she tries to call the Irish racist, while at the same time slating a whole nation based on dubious statistics and sources. You would have to be a fool to write that article in all seriousness and not realise you looked like a racist and a very poor journalist


  • #56
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Seriously, WTF is this supposed to mean?

    Those areas are **** holes. Hardly the type of villages that you want to use to promote Ireland. Knowing the people from those areas (family included), there is an element of truth what she had said. It is no different to what a Dubliner would suggest

    Less of the Text Speak


  • #57
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    Oarrack Bama wrote: »
    With the emphasis on the dental well being of the Irish you would think she was a dentist - you would not be far off!


    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antje_Joel




    :D

    Sounds like she is a jack of all trades and a master of none. She does not sound like he knew what she wanted "Prior to her journalism career, she worked as a pediatric nurse, dental assistant, photographic assistant, and architect."


  • #58
    Rynox45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Rynox45


    I can't believe that firstly, this was allowed to be published and secondly, someone can be such a rude bitch (irony) in a public forum.

    This collection of tripe starts by debunking the stereotypical image of Ireland before systematically rebuilding an image formed by her half arsed and witted observations.
    What's most glaring to me is the willingness with which she's blatantly racist while calling the Irish racist. She's written this article for a foreign publication, like some gobshite slanting his housemates behind their backs, scathing about how bad everything in Ireland is, how stupid we all are, how full of ourselves we are and how our teeth are terrible? And then calls us racist? She literally calls us the result of inbreeding and then heavily implies we're all racists.

    She's clearly got an anti-Irish agenda of some sort and it's hard to know how deeply she harbours it. Reading the end of her article it can easily be read as though she sees the Irish as a blight on the world which must be removed before any progress can be made.

    If this turns out to be some article written as a publicity stunt, it's not going to be one of those 'laugh it off and move on' things, it's going to be (or at least I hope it will be, either way really) a career ending one.


  • #59
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,119 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    i'm assuming the article was tongue in cheek
    I know germans are not renown for their humor- and I have a feeling this is a rather dire attempt at it..

    that or she a rambling b!tch
    Ballygar is meh, not half as bad as she made out or as walrusgrumble is advocating


  • #60
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    swimming in a sea wrote: »
    read the article if you want to comment:rolleyes:

    I don't care about the article, I'm referring to your comment "it's down to inbreeding, well to be fair it makes since." and the fact that you said you've noticed it.


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  • #61
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    walrusgumble wrote: »
    Those areas are **** holes. Hardly the type of villages that you want to use to promote Ireland. Knowing the people from those areas (family included), there is an element of truth what she had said. It is no different to what a Dubliner would suggest

    Less of the Text Speak
    So if your family comes from Ballygar you must have the same "genetic deformities" as the natives? After all, you say there is an element of truth in what she says.

    She is also generalising about the entire country, including Dublin, not a single village in Co Galway.


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