Isn't Ireland great?

cloud493 · 09-03-2014 03:05PM #1

Seriously. Get past all the stuff people love to whinge about, and I think its an awful fine country here. Or at least, better than where I used to live. There's a competent bus system. Nice chippys. A good train system. 80% (ish) of the people are nice. You all seem to love tea as much as I do. I'm sure theres more things I like Ireland, thats just off the top of my head. Super country right here.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 09-03-2014 03:06PM

*checks calender*

No, not Paddys day yet. Come back next week.

cloud493 · 09-03-2014 03:07PM

I don't enjoy paddys day./

michael999999 · 09-03-2014 03:08PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Seriously. Get past all the stuff people love to whinge about, and I think its an awful fine country here. Or at least, better than where I used to live. There's a competent bus system. Nice chippys. A good train system. 80% (ish) of the people are nice. You all seem to love tea as much as I do. I'm sure theres more things I like Ireland, thats just off the top of my head. Super country right here.

In fairness to the Irish carpenters, they are top notch!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 09-03-2014 03:08PM

it's literally worse than syria

kneemos · 09-03-2014 03:10PM

Obviously not Irish.

cloud493 · 09-03-2014 03:10PM

I'm from Liverpool

SEPT 23 1989 · 09-03-2014 03:10PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I don't enjoy paddys day./

traitor

oldyouth · 09-03-2014 03:13PM

I've been a bit down lately being unemployed for a while. I had completely forgotten the competent bus system that people in Dublin enjoy. Thanks OP, really lifted my spirits.

kneemos · 09-03-2014 03:14PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I'm from Liverpool

Learn to hate yourself and loath others and you'll fit right in.

09-03-2014 03:14PM

People don't know how lucky they are to live In Ireland. It's a national passtime to moan and gripe about the place and the Government. The grass is always greener. But for my money. there's NO place like Ireland.

rainbowtrout · 09-03-2014 03:14PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Seriously. Get past all the stuff people love to whinge about, and I think its an awful fine country here. Or at least, better than where I used to live. There's a competent bus system. Nice chippys. A good train system. 80% (ish) of the people are nice. You all seem to love tea as much as I do. I'm sure theres more things I like Ireland, thats just off the top of my head. Super country right here.

If you are travelling to Dublin or somewhere that's on a line going to Dublin. If you want to travel north-south forget it.

kneemos · 09-03-2014 03:15PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

People don't know how lucky they are to live In Ireland. It's a national passtime to moan and gripe about the place and the Government. The grass is always greener. But for my money. there's NO place like Ireland.

New Zealand?

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 09-03-2014 03:17PM

Lovely country, just the people in it that are the problem. We never stop whingeing about the place, other counties/towns, our own counties or towns (Cork people excluded), the weather or the economy.

We have an awful lot going for us but we spend too much time bitching and moaning.

I see the irony of my bitching, moaning, whingey post btw.

holystungun9 · 09-03-2014 03:17PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Seriously. Get past all the stuff people love to whinge about, and I think its an awful fine country here. Or at least, better than where I used to live. There's a competent bus system. Nice chippys. A good train system. 80% (ish) of the people are nice. You all seem to love tea as much as I do. I'm sure theres more things I like Ireland, thats just off the top of my head. Super country right here.

Plenty of good people on the other side of the border. Don't be mean.

snubbleste · 09-03-2014 03:17PM

Ireland
Ire - transitive verb; intense and usually openly displayed anger
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ire

Ergo the land of intense and usually openly displayed anger :cool:

Peregrine · 09-03-2014 03:17PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Seriously. Get past all the stuff people love to whinge about, and I think its an awful fine country here. Or at least, better than where I used to live. There's a competent bus system. Nice chippys. A good train system. 80% (ish) of the people are nice. You all seem to love tea as much as I do. I'm sure theres more things I like Ireland, thats just off the top of my head. Super country right here.

The bus and train thing has to be a joke and I'm a coffee person so the tea loving is a bit annoying.

But overall, it's a great country

Larianne · 09-03-2014 03:18PM

Nice chippys, LOL.

Ah, when you go away and come back, you do appreciate Ireland.
I think it was sunnier more, we'd complain less.

I Heart Internet · 09-03-2014 03:18PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I don't enjoy paddys day./

I don't enjoy people calling it "paddys day" or similar.

17th March is Saint Patrick's Day or the Feast of Saint Patrick.

Bubbaclaus · 09-03-2014 03:19PM

We have one of the most progressive tax systems in the OECD, meaning Ireland is not a great place to live for rich people but a great place to live for the rest of us.

And yet people still complain about tax on low/middle income earners.

Daveysil15 · 09-03-2014 03:19PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I'm from Liverpool

Feck back to Liverpool ye scou... I mean welcome to Ireland. Will ye have a cup of tay?

cloud493 · 09-03-2014 03:20PM

Dublin Bus is much better than the bus system in the area of Liverpool I lived in. Therefore, better system.

SEPT 23 1989 · 09-03-2014 03:21PM

its chippers around these parts OP

Crann na Beatha · 09-03-2014 03:22PM

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Muise... · 09-03-2014 03:22PM

soft day, thank god.

rainbowtrout · 09-03-2014 03:22PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Dublin Bus is much better than the bus system in the area of Liverpool I lived in. Therefore, better system.

Dublin =/= Ireland

Peregrine · 09-03-2014 03:25PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Dublin Bus is much better than the bus system in the area of Liverpool I lived in. Therefore, better system.

Outside of Dublin, I could probably find you countless adults who have never seen the phenomenon that is public transport.

Still, a beautiful place and yes, the chippers are nice

Daveysil15 · 09-03-2014 03:25PM

There's a great stretch in the evening lads.

zenno · 09-03-2014 03:27PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Seriously. Get past all the stuff people love to whinge about, and I think its an awful fine country here. Or at least, better than where I used to live. There's a competent bus system. Nice chippys. A good train system. 80% (ish) of the people are nice. You all seem to love tea as much as I do. I'm sure theres more things I like Ireland, thats just off the top of my head. Super country right here.

You're on Cloud 9 dude. But it would be nice to be happy in the clouds like you are. The country is dandy, very well governed, and money is falling from the trees from the blowy gale out there. It's bliss.

Muise... · 09-03-2014 03:27PM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

There's a great stretch in the evening lads.

That's the right latitude.

Jawgap · 09-03-2014 03:29PM

Despite being a damp, squalid little island in the eastern Atlantic the country has a lot going for it.

Most of our potential is squandered because of a basic inability to act collectively - this manifests itself in the parochialism of our so called national politics.

People have, in general, no concept of the national or even community interest - they assume what is good for someone else is bad for them, and act / react accordingly.

I think if we could get past ourselves, vote in some (even a few) decent public minded politicians, introduce proper accountability into the state's institutions the place would transform in short order.

But as long as we continue in this myopic, inertia ridden society we'll only ever progress fitfully and in small increments.

In summary, it's an ok country - the annoying thing is it could be absolutely f&^king brilliant if we got our sh1t together.

Isn't Ireland great?

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