Differences between Irish and British people

Nodin wrote: »

Bollocks, pure and simple.

You think all that was introduced for the natives?

Bolocks indeed, don't ever pose the idea of logic vs emotion and the modern eg of republican v libtard.

Read my original post, they gave more than they took.

RoisinDove wrote: »

Makes me wonder what people say about me.

That you're paranoid maybe.

Different enough that there's a fair amount of racism and hostility towards each other in each of the countries!

RoisinDove wrote: »

I find the British, especially here in the South East, extremely two-faced, even more than the Irish. I'm constantly shocked by how many people will be all 'hiiii darling, how are you?' to someone's face and then b1tch about them the minute they walk away. Makes me wonder what people say about me.

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Bloody bitch who does she think she is :D:D

Karl Stein wrote: »

They might well identify politically with the land mass to the east of Ireland called Britain but that no more makes them British than my fair hair makes me a Viking.

UK nationality law makes them British Citizens. I doubt the laws of Scandinavian countries offer you the same privilege.

What the NI population choose to call themselves, however, varies wildly...

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Hee, my husband is English and at first his family were confused when I said hot press, they thought it was something to do with the iron and shelf was another one they were confused by, they said worktop instead. There's not a lot of difference between the English and Irish, although I did find people in the North of England were a lot more relaxed and down to earth than in Southern England.

Huge difference. Practically two different countries.

I think the divide 'tween rich n poor, and 'tween different class is more pronounced in the South of England (yes, an old story, but seen it recently enough, and it's still very much there - in the South/London area. Quite shocking the wealth disparity.


But North England, very similar to Irish.

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Just back from England after a rather long session (Chelt). Once again I was amazed at how utterly useless their bar staff are. Every place had far more staff working than an average Irish bar yet were suffocatingly slow. I've yet to find an English Barman or woman who deal with more than one order at once. I don't believe there's a huge pay difference between each place either. It's not as if their workforce is particularly lazy in other walks of life

It's been mentioned plenty but the obvious class divides. In Ireland, someone can be either 'filthy rich fkers' or 'knackers'. Everyone inbetween is 'normal class'. Much less the case over there

Yes, agree with both. I assume they've been instructed to serve 'one customer at a time only' on their retail training course. it's hugely frustrating. and it leads to queues. Queues seem to be an accepted part of life there.

In Cornwall/ devon, it's a bit better, ie family owned pubs.

but the pub biz is generally corporate run, and it shows - no heart, no engagement, no connection to the job -naturally as it's generally dreadful pay and conditions for staff.

What shocked me most is the level of terror people have of losing badly paid jobs - the alternative is impoverishment on their social welfare system.

Basically, if you don't have the education or skills, you're a working slave.

To some, that's as it should be. To me, it's very disheartening. A very economically divided people - around London and 60 miles radius of London anyway.