Examples of bullsh!ttery/gobsh!ttery in Irish life and culture

zetalambda · 15-02-2014 12:54AM #1

That Smithfield square is the largest open air plaza in Europe. I'm calling BS on this one. Certainly doesn't make it into this list: :pac:

http://www.europeish.com/25-amazingly-stunning-european-squares/

The King of Moo · 15-02-2014 01:00AM

No-one in Ireland has ever given anyone 100,000 welcomes.

It'd actually be hard to do it. It's loads.

Cantremember · 15-02-2014 01:10AM

Arthur's Day.

ClovenHoof · 15-02-2014 01:14AM

I support a Football club because they have strong Irish connections.

as long as it is not a football club actually on the island of Ireland.

Tin Foil Hat · 15-02-2014 01:14AM

School uniforms. Bullsh1t!

Duckworth_Luas · 15-02-2014 01:14AM

De Dubz bud .. de Dubz speakz de ... Jacinta ... Jacinta .. He'your JACINTA ... de Dubz speakz de bestest Eng ... JACINTA YA CU*T ..... de bestest English bud! Any spayer change pal?

hjkl · 15-02-2014 01:18AM

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

School uniforms. Bullsh1t!

Actually they make perfect sense. Not everyone can afford to spend into the hundreds on new clothes and the latest trends so that their kids can fit in with their friends.

Tin Foil Hat · 15-02-2014 01:21AM

frimpong wrote: »

Actually they make perfect sense. Not everyone can afford to spend into the hundreds on new clothes and the latest trends so that their kids can fit in with their friends.

Cliché of the Day toilet paper?

delw · 15-02-2014 01:22AM

frimpong wrote: »

Actually they make perfect sense. Not everyone can afford to spend into the hundreds on new clothes and the latest trends so that their kids can fit in with their friends.

But expected to pay alot of money to a shop who have the monopoly on said school uniforms

orangesoda · 15-02-2014 01:24AM

Celtic cross tattoos

uch · 15-02-2014 01:24AM

Guinness over 4.20 a pint,, scullduggery at its best

padd b1975 · 15-02-2014 01:25AM

Eamon Dunphy's articles on 'Official Ireland' are well worth looking up for some classic examples of this topic.

KKkitty · 15-02-2014 01:26AM

Politicians and their wages.

hjkl · 15-02-2014 01:28AM

delw wrote: »

But expected to pay alot of money to a shop who have the monopoly on said school uniforms

The monopoly certain shops have on school uniforms is a different discussion altogether.

At the end of day, it is significantly cheaper for parents to buy one school uniform for their child than to spend hundreds on countless different, expensive outfits.
Having school uniforms also relieves both parents and kids of the stress of deciding what to wear each day and of 'keeping up with the joneses'

paddylonglegs · 15-02-2014 01:29AM

So this is basically just a moan thread? Yawn

xabi · 15-02-2014 01:29AM

Threads like this on boards.

Tin Foil Hat · 15-02-2014 01:31AM

KKkitty wrote: »

Politicians and their wages.

They're actually not that bad anymore (still room for improvement, mind you).
It's the unfireable, nameless, faceless permanent government, with their massive pay and pensions that's the far bigger scandal.

mblay · 15-02-2014 01:33AM

Fcking ****e monuments / ornaments things they put on motorways / bypasses . Saw one of three people dancing on a 40ft stage .cost €80.000, load of ****e

keith16 · 15-02-2014 01:33AM

frimpong wrote: »

Actually they make perfect sense. Not everyone can afford to spend into the hundreds on new clothes and the latest trends so that their kids can fit in with their friends.

So they have to spend hundreds on a little crest instead?

Tin Foil Hat · 15-02-2014 01:35AM

frimpong wrote: »

The monopoly certain shops have on school uniforms is a different discussion altogether.

At the end of day, it is significantly cheaper for parents to buy one school uniform for their child than to spend hundreds on countless different, expensive outfits.
Having school uniforms also relieves both parents and kids of the stress of deciding what to wear each day and of 'keeping up with the joneses'

It a choice to 'keep up with the jonses'. Parents don't have to play than silly game. It's obscene for other parents to argue that I have to dress my kids in an exact way to save them the trouble of parenting theirs.

sabat · 15-02-2014 01:39AM

O'Connell St is the widest street in Europe apparently
The Phoenix Park is the largest park, urban park, urban walled park in the world- yeah just keep making up things for it to be the biggest of and you'll find a true one eventually.
That there's a great (probably the greatest in the world) body of literature in the Irish language. If someone could show me a single work that would rank in the top 20,000 I'll withdraw this.

hjkl · 15-02-2014 01:39AM

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

It a choice to 'keep up with the jonses'. Parents don't have to play than silly game. It's obscene for other parents to argue that I have to dress my kids in an exact way to save them the trouble of parenting theirs.

It's not exactly a great choice when the smallie comes come crying because the other kids are laughing and sniggering at them over their clothes

delw · 15-02-2014 01:42AM

frimpong wrote: »

The monopoly certain shops have on school uniforms is a different discussion altogether.

At the end of day, it is significantly cheaper for parents to buy one school uniform for their child than to spend hundreds on countless different, expensive outfits.
Having school uniforms also relieves both parents and kids of the stress of deciding what to wear each day and of 'keeping up with the joneses'

Sorry but its not really a different discussion,it's part of Irish culture to accept this,maybe parents need to learn to say NO a bit more if they can't afford to spend hundreds to keep up with the "joneses" as you say

biko · 15-02-2014 01:42AM

Looking at the Dail I am reminded of Animal Farm.
A lot of dressed up pigs that haven't a clue but eager to imitate the previous masters.

donegal__road · 15-02-2014 01:45AM

the 'fighting Irish'

Frank Lee Midere · 15-02-2014 01:46AM

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

It a choice to 'keep up with the jonses'. Parents don't have to play than silly game. It's obscene for other parents to argue that I have to dress my kids in an exact way to save them the trouble of parenting theirs.

It's not the other parents. It's the school. And who knows if you would play that game or not. I don't understand people complaining about school uniforms unless they are prepared to pay lots more, not everybody can afford to.

Tin Foil Hat · 15-02-2014 01:49AM

frimpong wrote: »

It's not exactly a great choice when the smallie comes come crying because the other kids are laughing and sniggering at them over their clothes

Funny the way most other countries in the western world manage just fine.
This is a myth peddled by people who have never known anything but school uniform and are arguing for the status quo.

The money saving thing is a myth anyway.
a) Kids need clothes for out of school anyway, and
b) Many schools now have two overpriced uniforms. There's the stiff shirt, tie, pants, shiny leather shoe and woolly jumper to be worn in every weather uniform (Is there a more impractical outfit for a small child?). And there's the school tracksuit. Both crested, of course. There's also the schools that specify the exact shoes (expensive leather boat shoes are popular in a few girls schools), and the schools that specify the crested jacket that is to be worn coming to and from school.

Banjoxed · 15-02-2014 01:54AM

The constant "wooooOOOoo"s on the Late Late. Pure mucksavagery almost as much as a PITA than Tubs patronising the crap out of his guests.

Frank Lee Midere · 15-02-2014 01:54AM

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Funny the way most other countries in the western world manage just fine.
This is a myth peddled by people who have never known anything but school uniform and are arguing for the status quo.

The money saving thing is a myth anyway.
a) Kids need clothes for out of school anyway, and
b) Many schools now have two overpriced uniforms. There's the stiff shirt, tie, pants, shiny leather shoe and woolly jumper to be worn in every weather uniform (Is there a more impractical outfit for a small child?). And there's the school tracksuit. Both crested, of course. There's also the schools that specify the exact shoes (expensive leather boat shoes are popular in a few girls schools), and the schools that specify the crested jacket that is to be worn coming to and from school.

Do they do after school activities in civs? If so why? I see plenty of kids in uniform after school.

Uniforms are progressive, of course a 15 year old girl will be bullied if she wears the same outfit twice in one week, unless it's a uniform. And the poorer she is the more likely it is.

Uniforms are common worldwide.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_uniforms_by_country

Bipolar Joe · 15-02-2014 02:00AM

Children will pick on each other for anything. You're full of shite if you say you wore a uniform to school and nobody got picked on as a result.

Frank Lee Midere · 15-02-2014 02:03AM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Children will pick on each other for anything. You're full of shite if you say you wore a uniform to school and nobody got picked on as a result.

Obviously I would be full of ****e if I had said that. But I didn't. You did.

Examples of bullsh!ttery/gobsh!ttery in Irish life and culture

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