Candie wrote: » Ah that's ok so. It's perfectly fine to be a bit of a sh!t to random strangers on the off chance that they might be a bit of a sh!t to you.
contactbackup wrote: » Do I....funny i am quite the opposite. I raised this issue as returning immigrants will slowly start to return and i was wondering are they prepared for the baggage that comes with their accents here.
contactbackup wrote: » I take it you are trying to be funny. Its not 1976 and I seriously doubt Irish people dig roads much anymore.
Trigger Happy wrote: » No, BBC english.
keeponhurling wrote: » Do English people get a great reception everywhere else they go, what's the benchmark, like?
contactbackup wrote: » *sorry...it was put in the wrong place by mistake This partially about sectarianism but also about general anti British sentiment in Ireland. As a British national of Irish Heritage I encounter casual sectarianism/racism in Ireland fairly often mainly in the form of snide comments, impersonation of my southern English accent or just blatantly being ignored in shops/bars when trying to go about my daily business. With the amount of Irish who again have moved with children to the UK due to the recession and will mostly return with differing accents, I was wondering does the posters here believe it to be an issue here and do they perceive it to be getting better or worse? I must add that I found English people who have regional accents seem to fair slightly better over here..why is that?
aido79 wrote: » Think you might need a spoonful of concrete on your cornflakes..
pablomakaveli wrote: » And i'm telling you what happens to someone whose accent carries baggage in the land those returning immigrants are returning from. I deal with it. It's just banter here and it's the same back in Ireland.
contactbackup wrote: » *sorry...it was put in the wrong place by mistake This partially about sectarianism but also about (.............).why is that?
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » I'm married to an Irish lady, born and raised in the UK. She returned to Ireland with her parents when she was 5 in the '70s, with a discernible english accent. She would not agree with the idea that pushing and shoving in the playground, being kicked and tripped on the way home from school or being refused service in shops she went to buy sweets and being called an english c*** while waiting for her parents to pick her up from school could be called banter. It's casual and socially acceptable still in Ireland and it happened in local schools when returned emigrants, who were friends of mine, enrolled their children in schools. It was prevalent in the '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s and it's still prevalent and it's as wrong to carry it out today as it is to dismiss it as banter.
suicide_circus wrote: » EIGHTHUNDREDYEARSAMIRITE!?
contactbackup wrote: » I have no idea what that means. Cornflakes or cereals not my thing.
contactbackup wrote: » Everything is called banter here. I'm sure the church used that line here too.
aido79 wrote: » Have you ever heard the expression "harden the fcuk up"? I think you are reading too much into this. I meet alot of English people and get on well with them but there is a huge difference between Irish and English mentalities and humour.
Donkey Oaty wrote: » Is your comment about the church "banter" or not? I'm getting confused now.
contactbackup wrote: » She speaks in a 1950's BBC tone....wonderful. I was raised in Surrey and am sick of the references like "oh he wants the cricket on barman" and the comments about me taking a weeks morning for Margret Thatchers funeral. I was working with the RAF many years but information like that I tend to keep very quiet when in social circles.
Help!!!! wrote: » Have you ever heard of banter?
contactbackup wrote: » I am well aware of banter. After living away on bases and previously boarding at school, rugby tours etc.. I am well aware of banter.
contactbackup wrote: » I was raised in Surrey and am sick of the references like "oh he wants the cricket on barman" and the comments about me taking a weeks morning for Margret Thatchers funeral.
Carry wrote: » I don't want to derail your English vs Irish thingy, but ... Have you tried a German accent? Want to know what I've got to hear when spirits are high (and the pints are flowing)? Ms Merkel, it's your round, I've heard (which is a real insult, 'cause I don't like that woman either). No, I said, if I'm Ms Merkel, you pay, that's EU-rule. Message received, hilarity ensues. I pay my rounds, though. Or I asked the unwilling (Irish) bf to help washing the windows, now. You're a right concentration camp warden, he said. Right, I said, no window washing, no potatoes for dinner for the next 800 years. - Well then, he said and chuckled ... Not to mention the "impersonation of my accent" ... What I want to say is not being so delicate about the Irish banter. If you hear something which you assume to be insulting, shoot back but keep it light. You'll get the knack eventually. And work on your sense of humour. If I could do it (being German :P) you should do it no time (being of Irish heritage).
Nodin wrote: » It's a shame you didn't allow for that when making up your flame bait story then. Shoe horning the rugby and boarding school thing in that post is way too obvious as well, btw.
contactbackup wrote: » Really. I can safely say it is presumptions such as that which is half the problem. Ireland and its insecure stereotypes about the game of rugby. Boring, outdated and smacks of chippy-ness.
Nodin wrote: » Again, too obvious.
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