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Interesting trait of Irish people

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  • #32
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    nullzero wrote: »
    A very charitable thing to relate to Belgium...

    It's a scientific fact, based on the characteristics of all their famous people combined.

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  • #33
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Tell me how wrote: »
    You just made up a statement, and then called it Bizarre.

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

    Leave him alone he's an artiste.


  • #34
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,469 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


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

    That's not usually the first thing that springs to mind when Belgium is mentioned


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    Our ability to get sun burned.


  • #36
    RandomViewer
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    kowloonkev wrote: »
    I once told an American I don't drink and his response was... "Oh, were you an alcoholic?"

    That's a fairly common question when someone refuses a drink,


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
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    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    That's not usually the first thing that springs to mind when Belgium is mentioned


    Belgium is a bit like Tir na n'og, Longford, Atlantis or the Bermuda Triangle... not sure if it's a real place.


  • #38
    dxhound2005
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    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    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.

    Your points may or may not be valid, others can decide. But by couching them in such extreme terms, you can expect extreme reactions.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Your points may or may not be valid, others can decide. But by couching them in such extreme terms, you can expect extreme reactions.


    Goal achieved then.


  • #40
    whisky_galore
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

    Irish making fun of other countries = havin' de craic.

    Foreigners making fun of Ireland = highly offensive.

    English people making fun of Ireland = Jihad declared.


  • #41
    vriesmays
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    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.
    Most of them were Protestants yet the Irish Catholic majority think they have the exact same traits.


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    Most of them were Protestants yet the Irish Catholic majority think they have the exact same traits.

    I think you're talking about a time when education was elitist.

    If you cannot think of many Irish people of varied backgrounds that have had a global impact in the OPs categories you're highly unlikely to be a candidate yourself.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

    I would say we love it. One of the most self critical nations on Earth. I mean this whole thread is Irish self criticism.


  • #44
    ILoveYourVibes
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    We make good jockeys.

    We have a way with horses.

    Also .....i have a horse outside.

    A part of Irish pride is tied to horses.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

    A part of Irish pride is tied to horses.

    Strange thing about horses in Ireland, it's either the Traveller "class" (settled or not) or upper middle class that generally have a thing for horses... which are you?


  • #46
    boardise
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    We make good jockeys.

    We have a way with horses.

    Also .....i have a horse outside.

    A part of Irish pride is tied to horses.

    Extremely true. Cf documentary film CAPALLOLOGY ( 1968)
    + pound for pound best breeders, trainers and jockeys in the known universe.

    Not forgetting the equine predilections of the significant ethnic minority known currently under the appellation 'Travellers'.


  • #47
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,905 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Strange thing about horses in Ireland, it's either the Traveller "class" (settled or not) or upper middle class that generally have a thing for horses... which are you?

    Or just ordinary people, particularly in rural areas.


  • #48
    peasant
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I would say we love it. One of the most self critical nations on Earth. I mean this whole thread is Irish self criticism.

    Being self-critical or not taking yourself too seriously is just an Irish prevention mechanism not to be criticized or laughed at by others :D


  • #49
    dxhound2005
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    Is owning a horse a trait? What about a bicycle?


  • #50
    ILoveYourVibes
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Is owning a horse a trait? What about a bicycle?
    Sure. But we are not really bike people. that is the dutch.:)


  • #51
    ILoveYourVibes
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    boardise wrote: »
    Extremely true. Cf documentary film CAPALLOLOGY ( 1968)


    I will try and search for this on youtube.


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  • #52
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Strange thing about horses in Ireland, it's either the Traveller "class" (settled or not) or upper middle class that generally have a thing for horses... which are you?
    middle class personally. Not sure why that would interest you though?:confused:

    But no its actually across the board.


    Irish people are horse people. The amount of breeders yards ...all equine sports.

    We dominate british racing. And we are a tiny country. its unreal.

    Its even bigger rurally.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    middle class personally. Not sure why that would interest you though?:confused:
    .

    Surely upper middle. I am firmly middle class and from a working class background and I know nobody who owns a horse, or has risen one. I know people who have ridden camels though. That was me, on a trip to Arabia. Wouldn't recommend. Horrible animals.

    If you mean interest in the horses as in popping down to the bookies, then there is that.


  • #54
    Mad_maxx
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    almost saying exactly the opposite of what we mean when talking to people

    a nation of straight talking -" tell it like it is " merchants , we aint


  • #55
    ILoveYourVibes
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Surely upper middle. .


    ugh ...i hate to say it ..but you are prob right.

    I suck ! I hate myself!
    I am firmly middle class and from a working class background and I know nobody who owns a horse, or has risen one.

    I do ..but horses are their business.

    :)

    If you mean interest in the horses as in popping down to the bookies, then there is that


    Good luck next flutter. And you have one up on me ..i have never ridden a camel.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    ugh ...i hate to say it ..but you are prob right.

    I suck ! I hate myself!

    We all have some privilege, dont hate yourself!

    Good luck next flutter. And you have one up on me ..i have never ridden a camel.

    Well not me but I have friends, cousins and others who bet on the horses. Mugs game.

    I stick to the lottery :-p


  • #57
    MouldyApple
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    Two faced.
    I've noticed in my line of work, all about people to their face but would report them within minutes or cut the arse off them when they left.


  • #58
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    MouldyApple wrote: »
    Two faced.
    I've noticed in my line of work, all about people to their face but would report them within minutes or cut the arse off them when they left.
    Yeah. I just to tend to avoid people i don't like. Its not being super rude but not disingenuous.


  • #59
    brummytom
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    Eating dinner really late... do you just eat Gaviscon for pudding?


  • #60
    Purple Mountain
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    brummytom wrote: »
    Eating dinner really late... do you just eat Gaviscon for pudding?

    Eh, we wat dinner at 1PM?
    Spuds, bacon and cabbage.

    To thine own self be true



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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    miss.paula wrote: »
    Unlike most of the western world , we do not suffer from white guilt.
    We where **** upon by imperialism, and dont feel we have to atone for the white devils past transgressions, it make for a surprise when POC play the race card and paddy tells them to **** off.
    The well know trait of the Irish hot temper and willingness to throw down will take the wind out of the sails of the POC who would normally take umbrage at being one upped in the victim stakes.


    You couldn't be more wrong. We were knee deep in imperialism. An approx 1/3 of the British army at one stage was made up of Irish. We were as much a part of imperialism as the average Yorkshire, Cardiff or Glasgow lad.


    History can be quite uncomfortable at times. Not least for black people where people of their own race were often the ones selling them to the white people.


    Lots of Irish people decried the Easter rising. Lots of Nationalist tradition people in NI are happy with the status quo.



    Its not as black or white as you think.


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