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Why do the Irish make such a big deal out of approaching members of the opposite sex?
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Legs.Eleven wrote: »
I've never been there, you see. Specifically mentioned places I've lived and worked in because you get more of an idea how things really work there outside the tourist traps. Two weeks in Marbella or Ibiza doesn't give you the true impression of how the opposite sex interacts in Spain, for example. Bars that tourists tend to go to (city centre bars, for example) are always exceptional to the norm - men and women go there knowing tourists go there to get drunk and have fun but things are very different on a day-to-day basis.
I think that's an important distinction to make too, the difference between living and working in a foreign country, and just actually being there as a tourist.
For instance my wife's experience in Italy would have you believe all Italian men are obsessive àrse pinchers, in Spain they pick your pockets on mobbed trains, and "all" German women have hairy armpits!
Speaking of hairy armpits, I remember being in Greece and it was in a souvenir shop where I spotted an absolutely stunning looking girl, but I was chatting away to her anyway and next thing she lifted her arms to reach up for something on a shelf, and there it was - the full Julia Roberts effect! :eek:
I never thought hairy armpits on a woman could be SO off-putting! :pac:0 -
Table Top Joe wrote: »They do approach men,i get approached myself nowadays far more than I ever did 10 years ago...but nowhere near as often as abroad still and theres still a defensiveness when I approach a woman a lot of the time....actually two of the most recent ones who approached me treated me like I was at a job interview btw,it was all about what I could do for them,what was I in to(to see if it they approved)a lot of "hmmm I don't know",it was incredible,they were both average at best acting like 9/10s...but that's for another thread maybe
Thats a bold statement to make.
To be honest, girls are yuckie anyways, blah :pac:0 -
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Table Top Joe wrote: »They do approach men,i get approached myself nowadays far more than I ever did 10 years ago...but nowhere near as often as abroad still and theres still a defensiveness when I approach a woman a lot of the time....actually two of the most recent ones who approached me treated me like I was at a job interview btw,it was all about what I could do for them,what was I in to(to see if it they approved)a lot of "hmmm I don't know",it was incredible,they were both average at best acting like 9/10s...but that's for another thread maybe
I have zero sympathy for anybody who thinks that women/men's sense of self worth should correspond to an arbitrary rating of attractiveness.0 -
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Weathering wrote: »Irish girls are getting more stuck up by the day. Pulling faces and prancing around with a sense of high importance-you're in a fcking dingy club get over yourself. Any contact and they assume you're trying to pull them on a night out-it gets really annoying when you're just being friendly
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Table Top Joe wrote: »They do approach men,i get approached myself nowadays far more than I ever did 10 years ago...but nowhere near as often as abroad still and theres still a defensiveness when I approach a woman a lot of the time....actually two of the most recent ones who approached me treated me like I was at a job interview btw,it was all about what I could do for them,what was I in to(to see if it they approved)a lot of "hmmm I don't know",it was incredible,they were both average at best acting like 9/10s...but that's for another thread maybe
Yeah see I don't get where you're getting this "defensiveness" vibe from, because in my experience, I've never experienced it. If anyone is being defensive it's yourself that thinks a girl chatting to you and showing an interest in what you do for a living, is an interview.
Even then, you'll judge them as average but going on like they're 9/10s". That right there is what I was referring to earlier when I was saying about you're not interested in the kind of girls that are interested in you.
Why are there 20 or 30 guys standing around eyeballing the girls instead of approaching them? Well, the only explanation I could come up with is that they're waiting around for the girls to approach THEM, and when it doesn't happen, they get bitter and disheartened and start to believe that it's the girls that don't approach them are at fault.
There has been a huge increase in the amount of foreigners in this country in the last ten years, mostly people in their early twenties, and I've worked with many of them, and for all the nonsense talk on Boards about how eastern european women take better care of themselves and are much more pleasant to talk to than Irish women; again - in my experience, I've found this to be a myth, and I still can't figure out why anyone would think it to be the case.
The whole "Irish Catholic girls" nonsense doesn't hold much weight either as the catholic church hasn't been relevant in this country for the last 20 years, whereas in countries like Poland they're very much still a catholic country, and other eastern european countries are orthodox religion, while african immigrants are mostly a mix of catholic, muslim, presbyterian or evangelist.
There's also the influence of culture on the opposite sexes in these countries where women are seen as inferior to men, even in the more affluent cities in these countries. Women here in Ireland don't experience that to the same degree whatsoever that they do in other countries.0 -
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