Are most Irish people thick c.unts?

JackieBauer · 20-05-2016 06:36PM #1

Yeah, we have a world class literary history and all that but do you think most of your colleagues at work and friends are simply daft, thick c.unts?

wofias8 · 20-05-2016 06:37PM

if this thread is anything to go by, then yes

oppenheimer1 · 20-05-2016 06:37PM

JackieBauer wrote: »

Yeah, we have a world class literary history and all that but do you think most of your colleagues at work and friends are simply daft, thick c.unts?

It's not an affliction limited to Irish people I'm afraid

JackieBauer · 20-05-2016 06:41PM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

It's not an affliction limited to Irish people I'm afraid

True that, homeboy.

s4uv3 · 20-05-2016 06:42PM

I'm a daft thick cnut.
But I go about my day with a big smile on my face. Life is great.

SCOOP 64 · 20-05-2016 06:43PM

No more then 50% i'd say.

Lyaiera · 20-05-2016 06:43PM

Grand bunch of thick c.unts.

gifted · 20-05-2016 06:43PM

People in glass houses op ....

smash · 20-05-2016 06:45PM

Is this a dole thread?

holy guacamole · 20-05-2016 06:47PM

At a certain point in your life you eventually realise that 95% of the world's population are thick c**ts?

If you never make this discovery then you are one of them.

Lyaiera · 20-05-2016 06:54PM

holy guacamole wrote: »

If you never make this discovery then you are one of them.

If you did make this discovery then you are thick c.unt with notions.

granturismo · 20-05-2016 06:54PM

JackieBauer wrote: »

... do you think most of your colleagues at work and friends are simply daft, thick c.unts?

Live or work on any other country and you'll find the same distribution of morons, selfish p####s and the ordinary decent people you just get along with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErnMC7xokQ8

Olishi4 · 20-05-2016 07:01PM

"People are strange"

smash · 20-05-2016 07:04PM

Olishi4 wrote: »

"People are strange"

When you're a stranger.

Taco Chips · 20-05-2016 07:05PM

You could definitely arrive at that conclusion if you based your impression of Irish people on the standard of comments they leave on Facebook, under news articles etc... I prefer to believe that there's a self selecting bias of the thickest ***** commenting the most frequently. Generally people I speak to in real life have more sense.

There could be a generational thing too, some of the thickest, most ignorant comments with sweeping generalisations and logical jumps are posted frequently by an older demographic. This isn't an absolute obviously, just an observation on pattern.

MilesMorales1 · 20-05-2016 07:06PM

This thread can only go well.

DivingDuck · 20-05-2016 07:07PM

JackieBauer wrote: »

Yeah, we have a world class literary history and all that but do you think most of your colleagues at work and friends are simply daft, thick c.unts?

Jesus. That's an awful thing to say about your friends, surely?

I've met idiots of all nationalities, but I don't think I'd ever describe someone I thought of as a friend in this manner.

WarZ · 20-05-2016 07:09PM

Irish are certainly on the lower end of the intelligence spectrum when compared with the rest of the world. And that's not an opinion it's fact going by the IQ rankings.

I think what Irish lack in traditional IQ they make up for in emotional IQ.

RayM · 20-05-2016 07:10PM

I think the internet has given thick people of all nationalities a platform that you they didn't have before, so your their thickness might be more visible nowadays. Also, it lasts longer. I mean, if you hear someone saying something stupid in a casual conversation, you're less likely to remember it than if it's been haphazardly shat out onto Facebook or Boards.

the evasion_kid · 20-05-2016 07:11PM

They're lacking,i try not to associate with them these days..

aaronjumper · 20-05-2016 07:13PM

I don't understand the question.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 20-05-2016 07:14PM

WarZ wrote: »

Irish are certainly on the lower end of the intelligence spectrum when compared with the rest of the world. And that's not an opinion it's fact going by the IQ rankings.

I think what Irish lack in traditional IQ they make up for in emotional IQ.

Joint 15th on the site I'm looking at. Be grand sure, it'll do. We'll worry about it tomorrow. Meantime, few pints, wahey!

Story Bud? · 20-05-2016 07:16PM

I'm away at the minute, in the Middle East, just had dinner with three Irish lads who are absolutely raking in hundred of thousands of dollars heading up an international IT company.

We might be a bit thick, but we're not stupid

WarZ · 20-05-2016 07:22PM

Kaitlyn Alive Comet wrote: »

Joint 15th on the site I'm looking at. Be grand sure, it'll do. We'll worry about it tomorrow. Meantime, few pints, wahey!

It's not joint 15th though. That implies there's only 15 countries ahead of us when that is simply not true, we are the lowest ranked western developed country

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 20-05-2016 07:29PM

WarZ wrote: »

It's not joint 15th though. That implies there's only 15 countries ahead of us when that is simply not true, we are the lowest ranked western developed country

No it doesn't. It implies that our IQ score is the fifteenth highest along with the other countries in fifteenth place.

In any case, the usefulness of IQ testing is debatable, and up until the seventies we were barely a developed country in many ways. The average score of a group of Irish ten year olds would get now would be far higher than it would have been forty years ago I'd imagine.

I mean, the notion that the people of any given country are inherently more intelligent than those of another country is a bit bonkers.

Seriously, be grand

Diggg · 20-05-2016 07:32PM

Kaitlyn Alive Comet wrote:

Seriously, be grand

Applicable in every situation, nothing truer

Sir Osis of Liver. · 20-05-2016 07:34PM

smash wrote: »

When you're a stranger.

Faces look ugly.

Feets · 20-05-2016 07:37PM

I think the opposite...we seem to have access to a better education system then the UK and the USA. Then there are those that aren't smart but the are smart arses so there is a bit of cop on there too.

WarZ · 20-05-2016 08:00PM

Kaitlyn Alive Comet wrote: »

No it doesn't. It implies that our IQ score is the fifteenth highest along with the other countries in fifteenth place.

In any case, the usefulness of IQ testing is debatable, and up until the seventies we were barely a developed country in many ways. The average score of a group of Irish ten year olds would get now would be far higher than it would have been forty years ago I'd imagine.

I mean, the notion that the people of any given country are inherently more intelligent than those of another country is a bit bonkers.

Seriously, be grand

It's not the 15th highest, you need to take into account the other joint placed countries ahead of us (of which there are many) to get an accurate picture.

We are the lowest ranked in the western world. That is a fact.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 20-05-2016 08:01PM

Feets wrote: »

I think the opposite...we seem to have access to a better education system then the UK and the USA. Then there are those that aren't smart but the are smart arses so there is a bit of cop on there too.

Actually, I think the majority of the people I've met who have been, not stupid exactly, but just spectacularly uninformed or ignorant or anti-intellectual have been English. Could say the same about the most educated, articulate and intellectual people I've met as well though.

Maybe clever English people are cleverer than clever Irish people (though maybe just the accent makes them sound more impressive) but by god a thick English person is something to see.

In my experience you rarely find a well-rounded stupid person anyways, the vast majority of people are quite smart at something. Might be a totally useless something that doesn't transfer to any other area of life though.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 20-05-2016 08:03PM

WarZ wrote: »

It's not the 15th highest, you need to take into account the other joint placed countries ahead of us (of which there are many) to get an accurate picture.

We are the lowest ranked in the western world. That is a fact.

God above, fifteenth highest SCORE. Not fifteenth highest country. Our IQ score shares joint fifteenth place in the world. That and being ranked lowest among developed countries aren't mutually exclusive.

Are most Irish people thick c.unts?

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