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Irish Pubs in OZ - Dodging vomit and flying fists

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  • #2
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Anyone who has travelled around Europe will realise the pure hypocrisy of this. I've been interrailing 3 times and it's very common to see Aussies making absolute fools of themselves, to at least the same degree as many Irish over there.


  • #3
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    There was no violence or drunkenness in Australia before the Irish started going over there a few years ago. Fact


  • #4
    Sunnyisland
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    I blame Ned Kelly...


  • #5
    Duckworth_Luas
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    This journalist is clearly on the way to a much deserved Pulitzer Prize!


  • #6
    COYW
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    The level of idiocy and drunkenness is at Celtic tiger levels over there but to suggest that it is something alien to the Aussies is taking the urine. They can mix it with the best.


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  • #7
    Pj!
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    That's a desperate article.


  • #8
    event
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,422 ✭✭✭✭event


    they dont actually slag irish people though, just irish bars.
    Which lets face it, are usually plastic shíte abroad


  • #9
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    traditional Irish delicacy - the kebab

    What?


  • #10
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    In fairness you can't blame people for being upside down with drink when they get to Oz.


  • #11
    Stinicker
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    Ahhh, the Cock & Bull in Bondi, good memories! :D


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  • #12
    Highflyer13
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    Not the first time Aussies have ran a story like this. Singling out one nationality is uncalled for imo.


  • #13
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Highflyer13 wrote: »


    Not the first time Aussies have ran a story like this. Singling out one nationality is uncalled for imo.

    I think we might be annoying them though as we tend to live there and aren't on holiday.


  • #14
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Highflyer13 wrote: »
    Not the first time Aussies have ran a story like this. Singling out one nationality is uncalled for imo.

    i watched that. the police and the mayor disagree that the pub they're ranting on about is a particular menace. It's really shoddy journalism.


  • #15
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,646 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    What do you all make of this. Stereotyping or has this Aussie got a pint?

    http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-bars/as-two-irish-pubs-close-we-ask-whether-they8217ve-had-their-day/story-fn93ypt9-1226690295223

    Fixed that for you. Can't believe you didn't use that as a pun in a thread about drinking on After Hours. :eek:


  • #16
    Corvo
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    Ship a few more over I say.


  • #17
    circadian
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    This is the country that spawned Rupert Murdoch.
    I would scrutinise any sort of news report from there. I doubt it's a true reflection of the general populace.


  • #18
    Pang
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    He's just looking for a story and a few minutes of fame.

    The worst pub experience I ever had was in an Australian pub in Vienna around Halloween a few years back. I still shiver when I think of it.


  • #19
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    Is it now fashionable for journalists everywhere to write articles in the voice of old, prudish 70's sitcom characters?

    That article was seriously tiring to read, what with all the forced hyperbole. You could imagine that the editor enforced some kind of joke quota on the hapless writers.


  • #20
    Stevie888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭Stevie888


    Highflyer13 wrote: »


    Not the first time Aussies have ran a story like this. Singling out one nationality is uncalled for imo.

    We are by far and away the worst behaved group on the work holiday visa though, some serious head wreckers over there pissing off the locals. Surprised it isn't a lot worse!


  • #21
    Nodin
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    Pang wrote: »
    He's just looking for a story and a few minutes of fame.

    The worst pub experience I ever had was in an Australian pub in Vienna around Halloween a few years back. I still shiver when I think of it.


    ...go on....


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  • #22
    justforlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭justforlaugh


    i bet it mostly English people fighting each other in Irish pubs giving the Irish a bad name


  • #23
    Corvo
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    justforlaugh wrote: »
    i bet it mostly English people fighting each other in Irish pubs giving the Irish a bad name

    Yeah thats it.


    <loses faith in humanity>


  • #24
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    My name is URL wrote: »
    There was no violence or drunkenness in Australia before the Irish started going over there a few years ago. Fact
    This is totally true. Unfortunately, along with the Irish, the british also sent many other nationalities there as well.


  • #25
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    whinging pom...oh, no..wait. Hang on.


  • #26
    Elbaston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Elbaston


    thought it was dogging.
    i am disappoint.


  • #27
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,991 ✭✭✭mikeym


    From looking at the site it also says that Rolf Harris has been arrested for sexual offences.

    He must have been exposing his didgeridoo in public.


  • #28
    Lumbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    mikeym wrote: »
    From looking at the site it also says that Rolf Harris has been arrested for sexual offences.

    He must have been exposing his didgeridoo in public.

    To two little boys.


  • #29
    sadie06
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    People in glass houses.....

    I had the misfortune to end up in The Church (an Aussie haunt) in London one Sunday a few years back. I have never in all my life seen carry on like I did there, and at the Aussie bar we went on to later.

    I can't even describe the unfunniness of the 'fun' being had by hammered Aussie backpackers at 4 O'Clock on a Sunday afternoon. It was mental!


  • #30
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    The Woolshed in Dublin and Cork can be a bit of a disgrace too! Did a few Rugby games in these haunts and they pissed on the street outside in broad daylight!


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  • #31
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    This was the first article linked from your post OP. Some quality journalism all right:

    http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home-garden/dog-eats-paralysed-man8217s-testicle-while-he-sleeps/story-fngwib2y-1226689510173

    As an aside, those two lads photographed don't look to be the .... 'fightiest'!


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