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Interesting trait of Irish people

  • 21-11-2020 2:24am
    #1
    completedit
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    Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.


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  • #2
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    eh?


  • #3
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,888 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Does this mean all Belgians are action movie stars?


  • #4
    nullzero
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    ****


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Does this mean all Belgians are action movie stars?

    A very charitable thing to relate to Belgium...

    Glazers Out!



  • #5
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,151 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Saints and scholars


  • #6
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Step away from the alcohol


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  • #7
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    It's the Irish man/woman's burden when abroad to sound like a Yeats or a Heaney when most of us are anything but.

    .


  • #8
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I know exactly of whom you're talking about.


  • #9
    con747
    Registered Users Posts: 5,720 ✭✭✭con747


    You forgot we are cantankerous bastards.

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



  • #10
    spring lane jack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭spring lane jack


    drunks


  • #11
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Yes, well, I find that the fair solution is to settle for a hybrid trait of inebriate pugilistic bards. Let's face it, even the dainty lasses have to own up to this.


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  • #12
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    completedit wrote: »
    Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

    You just made up a statement, and then called it Bizarre.

    Is the left side of your brain not talking to the right?


  • #13
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    completedit wrote: »
    Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.


    I'm not but part of my DNA isn't Irish. So i put it down to that.

    But i will say this.

    Most irish people in my mind ...are beautiful speakers. And i love to listen to you all. :)

    I wish i had your gift.


  • #14
    Gorteen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    Begrudgery


  • #15
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Gorteen wrote: »
    Begrudgery
    Very true.


  • #16
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    completedit wrote: »
    Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.


    You forgot thieving bastards.


  • #17
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    You forgot thieving bastards.
    Got your wallet!;)


  • #18
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,219 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Immigration


  • #19
    kowloonkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    I once told an American I don't drink and his response was... "Oh, were you an alcoholic?"


  • #20
    kowloonkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    completedit wrote: »
    Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

    I suppose you have to take into account the type of people who were left; who survived the famine; and the English and the poverty. They'd have to be the dreamers.


  • #21
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    kowloonkev wrote: »
    I suppose you have to take into account the type of people who were left; who survived the famine; and the English and the poverty. They'd have to be the dreamers.
    Don't think so. I think the dreamers mostly leave.


    We are tough mother ****ers.


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  • #22
    zanador
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭zanador


    A friend of mine said when he moved here he was never quite sure when confronted with a shouting drunk Irishman if he was going to get punched or making a friend for life and he often didn't know til the last second


  • #23
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    zanador wrote: »
    A friend of mine said when he moved here he was never quite sure when confronted with a shouting drunk Irishman if he was going to get punched or making a friend for life and he often didn't know til the last second
    I don't think i would want someone like that to be a friend for life.:pac:


  • #24
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,708 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Don't post while high OP.


  • #25
    Placebo Effect
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭Placebo Effect


    The Cáca Milis


  • #26
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Placebo Effect wrote: »
    The Cáca Milis
    :confused:


  • #27
    Username here
    Registered Users Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Username here


    Placebo Effect wrote: »
    The Cáca Milis

    Tá scamaill sa spéir.


  • #28
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,441 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Very true.

    True.


  • #29
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Placebo Effect wrote: »
    The Cáca Milis


    i wasted 17 mins of my life and now so must you



    There is always that dude on public transport though.


  • #30
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,518 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

    The tide is turning…



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  • #31
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

    That is correct. This is a site that primarily exists so people can complain and dish out criticism about other people, but when a poster like myself points out extremely valid traits about the Irish then other posters get extremely tetchy and defensive.

    Some examples include:

    - A lot of Irish people have horrific teeth. Things have improved, but you still set a lot of people wandering around with a set of teeth on them that wouldn't look out of place in the movie Deliverance.

    - Overweight men in their 30's and 40's still wearing bootcut jeans and looking like they are looking forward to attending the Witnness Music Festival in the year 2000.

    - That thing where Irish people go abroad and up the levels of Paddywhackery as they somehow believe it impresses the poor misfortunates who end up in their presence. This reaches its zenith when Ireland qualify for a soccer tournament, and will usually involve sunburn, drunkenness, a man in a fountain, and a desperate need to feel they are liked. Cringe inducing.

    - Buying absolutely awful low-end cars on PCP finance.


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