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What do you hate about Irish people

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    #782
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    I hate generalisations.

    This thread is full of them.


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    #783
    HarrisonLennon
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭HarrisonLennon


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    So you were the lone ranger I saw wreaking havoc outside the Dáil the day after the budget :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    I might have looked alone, but I stood there with 6 others holding placards


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    #784
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Frothy gush that gives off a vibe of ''I'm your best mate ever'' ''I've got your back'' ''I'll look after you'' blah blah

    Snap Judgements without investigation, ''that person over there in a workplace or pub ( who'm you've never had a conversation with ) is a knacker / cnut / queer* delete as appropriate

    Classism - Working Class people who think they're Middle Class looking down their noses at anyone they perceive as Working Class, a little reminder for them, if you're an Architect / Surgeon / Senior Government Official / Solicitor you are Middle Class, if you're a supervisor in an admin office or a call centre you are not.

    ''Travellers,Pikeys,Pavees,Tinkers.....yadda yadda yadda.''.....ZZZZZZZZZZ They're 1% of the populace, why spend 80% of your time going on about them?


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    #785
    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    dd972 wrote: »
    Frothy gush that gives off a vibe of ''I'm your best mate ever'' ''I've got your back'' ''I'll look after you'' blah blah

    Snap Judgements without investigation, ''that person over there in a workplace or pub ( who'm you've never had a conversation with ) is a knacker / cnut / queer* delete as appropriate

    Classism - Working Class people who think they're Middle Class looking down their noses at anyone they perceive as Working Class, a little reminder for them, if you're an Architect / Surgeon / Senior Government Official / Solicitor you are Middle Class, if you're a supervisor in an admin office or a call centre you are not.

    ''Travellers,Pikeys,Pavees,Tinkers.....yadda yadda yadda.''.....ZZZZZZZZZZ They're 1% of the populace, why spend 80% of your time going on about them?


    This,so bloody true :mad:


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    #786
    sethasaurus
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭sethasaurus


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    You're not Irish. Three sounds very nancy boyish :rolleyes: The reason we don't pronounce th's is because English is not our native language "a hAon, a Dó, a Trí" If you want to bash a nationality for how they pronounce their words why not have a go at the English with their native language a lot of them say fink instead of think.

    So wtf is "heighth"? Sorry folks, but it isn't actually a word. By the way, it has the 'th' sound, so when you say you can't pronounce 'th', you're just telling more BS.

    If you're going to take English as your first language, you should really learn how to speak it.

    None of you has a frickin clue how to read a clock, apparently.

    Please, realise you're not amazing, with 'the craic'. You don't all have to try and be friggin comedians or be self-deprecating.
    Grow a spine and get respect for being you, not some clown figure.

    So many Irish turn into bull****ting, stupid, lazy, repressed, spineless, boring, people because they're too scared to discover and be the people that they can be.

    Learn to recognise and speak the truth. Realise that when you say 'spoof', the word you should be using is 'lie'.

    Take responsibility for your actions.
    Have respect for others (e.g. don't drop your litter in the street, piss in alleyways or get in someone's face when they refuse to let you engage them).

    Celebrate your differences, rather than coercing your friends/family/peers into such ugly conformity.

    Stop sweeping things under the mat and complaining for a million years. Pull finger and actually attend to the problems in your life.

    Get some hobbies that don't involve 'going down the pub for a pint'.

    Grow the hell up and get over the schoolyard insults and gossipy, small-town mentality.

    Celebrate your achievers, instead of trying to cut them down.

    Forget about celebrity. You can't all be celebrities, and guess what? You're not celebrities.

    Don't rest on your laurels and go on about your amazing artists and musicians. Joyce died 70 years ago (for example).

    DO SOMETHING that doesn't just involve personal gratification.

    If you do a favor, don't expect something back. Favors with strings have another name - trades.

    Mind your own frickin business.

    Stop blocking the footpath when you're having a good old chitchat in the street. Other people need to get by.

    When you're going, just say goodbye and GO!

    Grow the hell up.

    Listen more, and quit it with the damn jibber-jabber. Start using your brains more and your mouths less.

    STFU.


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    #787
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    sethasaurus wrote: »

    So wtf is "heighth"? Sorry folks, but it isn't actually a word. By the way, it has the 'th' sound, so when you say you can't pronounce 'th', you're just telling more BS.

    If you're going to take English as your first language, you should really learn how to speak it.

    None of you has a frickin clue how to read a clock, apparently.

    Please, realise you're not amazing, with 'the craic'. You don't all have to try and be friggin comedians or be self-deprecating.
    Grow a spine and get respect for being you, not some clown figure.

    So many Irish turn into bull****ting, stupid, lazy, repressed, spineless, boring, people because they're too scared to discover and be the people that they can be.

    Learn to recognise and speak the truth. Realise that when you say 'spoof', the word you should be using is 'lie'.

    Take responsibility for your actions.
    Have respect for others (e.g. don't drop your litter in the street, piss in alleyways or get in someone's face when they refuse to let you engage them).

    Celebrate your differences, rather than coercing your friends/family/peers into such ugly conformity.

    Stop sweeping things under the mat and complaining for a million years. Pull finger and actually attend to the problems in your life.

    Get some hobbies that don't involve 'going down the pub for a pint'.

    Grow the hell up and get over the schoolyard insults and gossipy, small-town mentality.

    Celebrate your achievers, instead of trying to cut them down.

    Forget about celebrity. You can't all be celebrities, and guess what? You're not celebrities.

    Don't rest on your laurels and go on about your amazing artists and musicians. Joyce died 70 years ago (for example).

    DO SOMETHING that doesn't just involve personal gratification.

    If you do a favor, don't expect something back. Favors with strings have another name - trades.

    Mind your own frickin business.

    Stop blocking the footpath when you're having a good old chitchat in the street. Other people need to get by.

    When you're going, just say goodbye and GO!

    Grow the hell up.

    Listen more, and quit it with the damn jibber-jabber. Start using your brains more and your mouths less.

    STFU.

    Jeez. You are one angry man.

    If you are living in Ireland you should leave or this incessant anger will consume.


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    #788
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    sethasaurus wrote: »
    So wtf is "heighth"? Sorry folks, but it isn't actually a word. By the way, it has the 'th' sound, so when you say you can't pronounce 'th', you're just telling more BS.

    If you're going to take English as your first language, you should really learn how to speak it.

    None of you has a frickin clue how to read a clock, apparently.

    Please, realise you're not amazing, with 'the craic'. You don't all have to try and be friggin comedians or be self-deprecating.
    Grow a spine and get respect for being you, not some clown figure.

    So many Irish turn into bull****ting, stupid, lazy, repressed, spineless, boring, people because they're too scared to discover and be the people that they can be.

    Learn to recognise and speak the truth. Realise that when you say 'spoof', the word you should be using is 'lie'.

    Take responsibility for your actions.
    Have respect for others (e.g. don't drop your litter in the street, piss in alleyways or get in someone's face when they refuse to let you engage them).

    Celebrate your differences, rather than coercing your friends/family/peers into such ugly conformity.

    Stop sweeping things under the mat and complaining for a million years. Pull finger and actually attend to the problems in your life.

    Get some hobbies that don't involve 'going down the pub for a pint'.

    Grow the hell up and get over the schoolyard insults and gossipy, small-town mentality.

    Celebrate your achievers, instead of trying to cut them down.

    Forget about celebrity. You can't all be celebrities, and guess what? You're not celebrities.

    Don't rest on your laurels and go on about your amazing artists and musicians. Joyce died 70 years ago (for example).

    DO SOMETHING that doesn't just involve personal gratification.

    If you do a favor, don't expect something back. Favors with strings have another name - trades.

    Mind your own frickin business.

    Stop blocking the footpath when you're having a good old chitchat in the street. Other people need to get by.

    When you're going, just say goodbye and GO!

    Grow the hell up.

    Listen more, and quit it with the damn jibber-jabber. Start using your brains more and your mouths less.

    STFU.

    Get the **** out of Ireland so.


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    #789
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    sethasaurus wrote: »
    So wtf is "heighth"? Sorry folks, but it isn't actually a word. By the way, it has the 'th' sound, so when you say you can't pronounce 'th', you're just telling more BS.

    If you're going to take English as your first language, you should really learn how to speak it.

    None of you has a frickin clue how to read a clock, apparently.

    Please, realise you're not amazing, with 'the craic'. You don't all have to try and be friggin comedians or be self-deprecating.
    Grow a spine and get respect for being you, not some clown figure.

    So many Irish turn into bull****ting, stupid, lazy, repressed, spineless, boring, people because they're too scared to discover and be the people that they can be.

    Learn to recognise and speak the truth. Realise that when you say 'spoof', the word you should be using is 'lie'.

    Take responsibility for your actions.
    Have respect for others (e.g. don't drop your litter in the street, piss in alleyways or get in someone's face when they refuse to let you engage them).

    Celebrate your differences, rather than coercing your friends/family/peers into such ugly conformity.

    Stop sweeping things under the mat and complaining for a million years. Pull finger and actually attend to the problems in your life.

    Get some hobbies that don't involve 'going down the pub for a pint'.

    Grow the hell up and get over the schoolyard insults and gossipy, small-town mentality.

    Celebrate your achievers, instead of trying to cut them down.

    Forget about celebrity. You can't all be celebrities, and guess what? You're not celebrities.

    Don't rest on your laurels and go on about your amazing artists and musicians. Joyce died 70 years ago (for example).

    DO SOMETHING that doesn't just involve personal gratification.

    If you do a favor, don't expect something back. Favors with strings have another name - trades.

    Mind your own frickin business.

    Stop blocking the footpath when you're having a good old chitchat in the street. Other people need to get by.

    When you're going, just say goodbye and GO!

    Grow the hell up.

    Listen more, and quit it with the damn jibber-jabber. Start using your brains more and your mouths less.

    STFU.

    Aren't you the life and soul of the party?


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    #790
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,465 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    What about Philip Eddy.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #791
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    The reason we don't pronounce th's is because English is not our native language

    It might not be your native language, but it is for the vast majority of us.
    As for not being able to pronounce them: heighth, thongue, wroughth-iron, I was thought in school (shudder), etc. We can pronounce them just fine.


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    #792
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    Festy wrote: »
    This,so bloody true :mad:

    No it isn't.

    The poster is simply throwing out banal and non-specific examples of supposed Irish traits. Hell, he could be talking about Manchester for all I know.


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    #793
    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Sethasaurus - where are you from???

    Btw "frickin'" - :rolleyes:


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    #794
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    bluewolf wrote: »

    It might not be your native language, but it is for the vast majority of us.
    As for not being able to pronounce them: heighth, thongue, wroughth-iron, I was thought in school, etc. We can pronounce them just fine.

    As a matter of interest, do you think you pronounce your th's?


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    #795
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    sethasaurus wrote: »

    If you're going to take English as your first language, you should really learn how to speak it.

    You're not Irish, especially when you come out with a historically ignorant line like that.
    Maybe you should have listened when the Irish were "gabbing" on.
    kfallon wrote: »
    Sethasaurus - where are you from???

    Btw "frickin'" -

    My guess............ Canadian.

    No offence to Canadians.


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    #796
    carlmango11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭carlmango11


    dd972 wrote: »
    Classism - Working Class people who think they're Middle Class looking down their noses at anyone they perceive as Working Class, a little reminder for them, if you're an Architect / Surgeon / Senior Government Official / Solicitor you are Middle Class, if you're a supervisor in an admin office or a call centre you are not.

    Personally I'd disagree. I think middle class is anyone with a comfortable income, maybe a degree and a decent job. Someone who isn't living from paycheck to paycheck.


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    #797
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Duggys Housemate wrote: »
    As a matter of interest, do you think you pronounce your th's?

    When I'm being lazy, no, I don't :D
    But I do most of the time, and can, which is the point.


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    #798
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    bluewolf wrote: »
    It might not be your native language, but it is for the vast majority of us.
    As for not being able to pronounce them: heighth, thongue, wroughth-iron, I was thought in school (shudder), etc. We can pronounce them just fine.


    Thoungue?


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    #799
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    carlmango11 wrote: »

    Personally I'd disagree. I think middle class is anyone with a comfortable income, maybe a degree and a decent job. Someone who isn't living from paycheck to paycheck.

    I could write a blog about the different definitions of middle class. But too long, and off topic, to post.


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    #800
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    english is our language

    you can tell because we're all speaking english here now

    i'd bet good money that I don't have that most of you couldn't even hold the most basic of conversations in your supposed "native" language.


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    #801
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    sethasaurus wrote: »
    A long, boring and contradictory rant.

    I'm sorry to say it, but in all honesty it seems like you're the one with the problem.


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    #802
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    bluewolf wrote: »

    When I'm being lazy, no, I don't :D
    But I do most of the time, and can, which is the point.

    Hmm, outside of the northern accent - I hear it very little. But I'll take your word. :-)


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    #803
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Not sure if this has been mentioned yet-but the stigma attached to mental health (or problems with it) in Ireland makes my heart sad.

    It's already incredibly difficult to come to terms with being unwell, but the whispers and lack of understanding makes it damn near unbearable.


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    #804
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    english is our language

    you can tell because we're all speaking english here now

    i'd bet good money that I don't have that most of you couldn't even hold the most basic of conversations in your supposed "native" language.

    Fluent, thank you very much. :cool:


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    #805
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    english is our language

    you can tell because we're all speaking english here now

    i'd bet good money that I don't have that most of you couldn't even hold the most basic of conversations in your supposed "native" language.

    You are missing the point about how the dropping if the th, most noticeable in three ( from trí ) came from. Aren't you. Yes. You are.


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    #806
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    sethasaurus wrote: »


    Celebrate your achievers, instead of trying to cut them down.


    Don't rest on your laurels and go on about your amazing artists and musicians. Joyce died 70 years ago.

    STFU.

    Right so we should celebrate our achievers but yet not go on about them.

    Good advice for yourself there at the end.


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    #807
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    english is our language

    you can tell because we're all speaking english here now

    i'd bet good money that I don't have that most of you couldn't even hold the most basic of conversations in your supposed "native" language.

    Yes, Anglicisation saw to that.

    That doesn't necessarily render it irrelevant as a valued piece of our historical heritage.


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    #808
    circular motion
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭circular motion


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    Not sure if this has been mentioned yet-but the stigma attached to mental health (or problems with it) in Ireland makes my heart sad.

    It's already incredibly difficult to come to terms with being unwell, but the whispers and lack of understanding makes it damn near unbearable.

    that's cos nations having mental health issues en mass is a very new phenomenon. It just takes time for people to get used to


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    #809
    carlmango11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭carlmango11


    sethasaurus wrote: »
    If you're going to take English as your first language, you should really learn how to speak it.

    Languages are very very rarely the same from region to region. Ever hear of accents or dialects? Language is something so intrinsically human that it evolves quickly from place to place.
    sethasaurus wrote: »
    Get some hobbies that don't involve 'going down the pub for a pint'.

    Agreed. The only hobbies a lot of people have here are football, GAA etc. I think our school system is to blame for this. Very little choice when it comes to extra-curricular activities.


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    #810
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    mikom wrote: »
    You're not Irish, especially when you come out with a historically ignorant line like that.
    Maybe you should have listened when the Irish were "gabbing" on.



    My guess............ Canadian.

    No offence to Canadians.

    No. Canadians are nice people.


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    #811
    sethasaurus
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭sethasaurus


    Methememb wrote: »
    Get the **** out of Ireland so.

    Sadly, that is a typical response when you criticise people here.

    The topic is 'What do you hate about Irish people'. Perhaps I should have posted in one titled 'Criticism of the Irish'.
    I'm not a hater - more like a fish out of water. It is kind of a mad country..


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