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What are the differences between British/Irish people?

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    #92
    Colinf1212
    Registered Users Posts: 275 ✭✭Colinf1212


    Every time I come on here this board has people talking about Brits on the front page. Some SERIOUS stockholm syndrome down there.

    A major difference (if looking at free staters solely as Irish people) would be the Irish person's desperation for acceptance from the has-been British.


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    #93
    Henry Sidney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭Henry Sidney


    biko wrote: »
    British people say "I shall" and "I shan't", almost unheard of in Ireland.
    Irish people instead say "I will" and "I will in my hole".

    I have never even once heard anyone here say shall or shan't, just will or won't.


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    #94
    Willfarman
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    Laois6556 wrote: »
    Which are you talking about? The attempt to exterminate the Irish or the Irish building British cities?

    Both. Every day is a schoolday. Concentration camps and slave labour I assume?


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    #95
    Laois6556
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Laois6556


    Willfarman wrote: »
    Both. Every day is a schoolday. Concentration camps and slave labour I assume?

    No, it was different times, the most successful attempted extermination was in the middle of the 19th century. While the building work was last century.


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    #96
    Nalz
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    Leinster Rugby fans is the difference


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    #97
    Willfarman
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    Laois6556 wrote: »
    No, it was different times, the most successful attempted extermination was in the middle of the 19th century. While the building work was last century.

    Must of been some awfully old men mixing concrete?


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    #98
    Laois6556
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    Willfarman wrote: »
    Must of been some awfully old men mixing concrete?

    No, mostly young men.


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    #99
    wiseoldelf34
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    English birds are damp yokes.


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    #100
    porsche959
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    Trilla wrote: »
    Leinster Rugby fans is the difference

    Not quite sure what you mean. Leinster rugby fans strike me as the type of Irish rugby fan most akin to the stereotype of the English 'hooray henry' rugby supporter, as found in Bath, Gloucestershire, etc.


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    #101
    wiseoldelf34
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    porsche959 wrote: »
    Not quite sure what you mean. Leinster rugby fans strike me as the type of Irish rugby fan most akin to the stereotype of the English 'hooray henry' rugby supporter, as found in Bath, Gloucestershire, etc.

    the average leinster fan drives top of the range motor and lives in d4.
    is a stuck up toff.
    and got everything handed to them by mammy and daddy


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    #102
    fryup
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    physically

    irish men are short & stocky

    british men or more to the point the english are tall lanky and baldy..very thin on top for some reason ??


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    #103
    gormdubhgorm
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    biko wrote: »
    British people say "I shall" and "I shan't", almost unheard of in Ireland.
    Irish people instead say "I will" and "I will in my hole".

    It has something to do with this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #104
    porsche959
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    wiseoldelf34 wrote: »
    the average leinster fan drives top of the range motor and lives in d4.
    is a stuck up toff.
    and got everything handed to them by mammy and daddy

    Bit of a generalisation to be fair, the two most fanatical Leinster supporters I know are from north Dublin and Wexford.


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    #105
    Putin
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    fryup wrote: »
    physically

    irish men are short & stocky

    british men or more to the point the english are tall lanky and baldy..very thin on top for some reason ??

    I find Irish lads tend to be taller than their English counterparts. But you're right about baldness, it seems to be rampant amongst the English. Broad generalisations, but I'm only going on my own experience.


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    #106
    mojesius
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    Brits get boozed up and banged up abroad more often than Irish.


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    #107
    Fratton Fred
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    wiseoldelf34 wrote: »
    the average leinster fan drives top of the range motor and lives in d4.
    is a stuck up toff.
    and got everything handed to them by mammy and daddy

    That must apply to every Leinster fan, except the ones I know.


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    #108
    Beefy78
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    mojesius wrote: »
    Brits get boozed up and banged up abroad more often than Irish.

    Whilst this is true there are 14 times as many people in Britain than there are in Ireland so the number of dickheads making an idiot of themselves from the UK would be higher than the number of Irish. I'm sure we've all seen pissed up Irish lads not exactly doing themselves justice on holiday as well.

    Not excusing the Brits Abroad stereotype which definitely exists.


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    #109
    wiseoldelf34
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭wiseoldelf34


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    That must apply to every Leinster fan, except the ones I know.

    the ones in your mind don't count


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    #110
    KungPao
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    From watching documentaries such as Coronation St and Eastenders, i have learned that English people like to drink every day in the local, even having stiff drinks at lunch time.
    Also, all social events occur there too, from wedding receptions to dramatic announcements that some poor saps spouse has been in bed with the local Lothario and is pregnant.


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    #111
    kowloon
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    who the fug wrote: »
    Also the only people who yak on about class in the UK don't live here or sell the Socialist Worker

    They are a little bit more class minded, I noticed it but it's no Downton Abbey type situation. Irish society is just that little bit flatter when it comes to hierarchy. I'd say a lot of that comes from our history, and goes much further back than a traditional Irish vs. British attitude would like to frame it.


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    #112
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    kowloon wrote: »
    They are a little bit more class minded, I noticed it but it's no Downton Abbey type situation. Irish society is just that little bit flatter when it comes to hierarchy. I'd say a lot of that comes from our history, and goes much further back than a traditional Irish vs. British attitude would like to frame it.

    Been here a while (London) I have never noticed class as an issue, money / race yes .

    Class is something for lazy mutts to bang on about


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    #113
    --LOS--
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    It's kind of weird when you have to explain to people from the UK what the UK is


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    #114
    porsche959
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    who the fug wrote: »
    Class is something for lazy mutts to bang on about

    Hmmm. Don't think it's as simple as that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_peer


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    #115
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    porsche959 wrote: »
    Hmmm. Don't think it's as simple as that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_peer

    What power do they have? Get real


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    #116
    MRnotlob606
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    British people were all descended from noahs people, Irish people came from the offspring of the animals that were left behind after the flood.


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    #117
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    British people were all descended from noahs people, Irish people came from the offspring of the animals that were left behind after the flood.

    dude get this concept, our whole universe could be a single cell on a hot chick breast


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    #118
    hobochris
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    We make our Tae with Boiling Water + Milk, they make their Tae with Milk + boiling water...




    animals.


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    #119
    devildriver
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    Blue giant wrote: »
    It's actually "I will" and "I will yeah"

    I believe the phrase "I will yeah" is specific to the natives of The People's Republic of Cork which is another nation entirely. :)


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    #120
    Thespoofer
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    Dogs
    Dawgs


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    #121
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    The accents, I can't stand most British accents but I have an intolerance to most accents not similar to my own.

    I found that English and Welsh people seem to get married and start families a lot earlier than Irish people.

    Lock ins don't happen in my experience over there and they don't take kindly to being asked for 'one for the road'. Closing time is closing time.

    Less caring about what your neighbours do in England & Wales too. Sometimes a good thing, sometimes not.

    Very picturesque villages in the English countryside, not as pretty here.

    I also find the class divide to be more defined over there compared to here.

    Only commenting on Wales and England as I've no experience of Scotland.


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