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How would you give a foreigner the skinny on Ireland?

  • 30-08-2019 5:22pm
    #1
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭


    Savage Eye does a good job but needs context.

    Ancient history, Christianity and St. Patrick, Vikings, Normans, “more Irish than Irish themselves”, True British conquest, Famine, rebellion, GAA, war of independence, dominance of Catholic Church, emigration, Irish America, agriculture, EEC membership, Commitments, Italia 90, Celtic tiger


Comments

  • #2
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Tribunals, Irish water, Children's hospital, whistle blowers....


  • #3
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    We don't use 'the skinny' when talking is my first point...


  • #4
    Rufeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Rufeo


    If you need anything quick, just get urself a brown envelope and fill it full of money and give it to them.

    *Irish economics


  • #5
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,095 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Rain, rain, relaxed attitude, rain, no dangerous animals, rain, rain, very cynical, rain, friendly bunch, rain, rain, best butter in the world. Rain.


  • #6
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Suss out who everyone is slagging. Nod and laugh, but not any louder than anyone else. Tell them that’s funny but don’t slag them until you trust the group. This could take a few weeks.

    Everything else sorts itself out.


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  • #7
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,842 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    We love a good murder trial and Tayto!


  • #8
    LenWoods
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭LenWoods


    Small towns people similar to the tribes of the Amazon they don't like people moving in from other areas,

    Also is some towns if you are already a local and you set up a shop; then the locals wont use your services atall because they don't want to see you doing well.

    From experience your best to know about the GAA more than Irish history, it really helps to integrate to anywhere outside of Dublin
    And drop in the phrases "Buddy" and "How are you big man"
    As much as possible to be accepted in groups
    Rats & snakes are very common in Ireland but on two legs the nicer they are to you within a short period of knowing you; then the more there likely to shaft ya


  • #9
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    What's a skinny? Some kind of Mickey?

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #10
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I can't give anybody 'the skinny' as I don't know what 'the skinny' is.


  • #11
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,546 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    "Be grand"
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




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  • #12
    GBX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,025 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    What's a skinny? Some kind of Mickey?

    Think it's an STD


  • #13
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,095 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Lennon Skinny Genius wrote: »
    I can't give anybody 'the skinny' as I don't know what 'the skinny' is.

    It’s a bit more than the inside, but less than the straight dope.


  • #14
    NeinNeinNein
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,189 ✭✭✭NeinNeinNein


    There is no such thing as political corruption in this state, it's all in the mind.


  • #15
    misterme123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭misterme123


    completedit wrote: »
    Savage Eye does a good job but needs context.

    Ancient history, Christianity and St. Patrick, Vikings, Normans, “more Irish than Irish themselves”, True British conquest, Famine, rebellion, GAA, war of independence, dominance of Catholic Church, emigration, Irish America, agriculture, EEC membership, Commitments, Italia 90, Celtic tiger


    Is the idea of this to condense the full stupidity of boards into a single thread?


  • #16
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    The food is far far better than the reputation.


  • #17
    puppieperson1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 301 ✭✭puppieperson1


    a Multicultural homosexual hell hole! London with an irish accent!!


  • #18
    Ironicname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭Ironicname


    Dave McSavage is a cun7


  • #19
    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    puppieperson1 wrote: »
    a Multicultural homosexual hell hole! London with an irish accent!!

    And you reminded me, Land o' begrudgery and anger


  • #20
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,303 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    We're all inbred, freckled, cross eyed leprechaun descendants.

    To thine own self be true



  • #21
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,507 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Rampant corruption, either talk to Joe or your local TD and you will jump the Q in whatever you are looking for, meanwhile those in the Q will have to wait while people are bumped up the list.

    If you worked every day from the age you were 18 up to 25 you would be 5 times less likely to have a place you live in on your own than someone who sat on their hole and didn't work for a single day for those 7 years.


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  • #22
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭policarp


    Tell this foreigner to stay off guiness and chips.


  • #23
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    888.jpg
    whiskeyman wrote: »
    We don't use 'the skinny' when talking is my first point...
    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    What's a skinny? Some kind of Mickey?
    Lennon Skinny Genius wrote: »
    I can't give anybody 'the skinny' as I don't know what 'the skinny' is.

    Is reacting with obtuse bewilderment at unfamiliar moderen (sic) phrases (rather than having a bit of curiosity and taking two seconds to Google them) an exclusively Irish thing? Or is that sort of boring, incurious curmudgeonly act just something that happens when you reach a certain age, regardless of where you're from?


  • #24
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭policarp


    Tell this foreigner to stay off Guiness and spuds.Chips I mean.
    And of course the full Irish.


  • #25
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭policarp


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    888.jpg







    Is reacting with obtuse bewilderment at unfamiliar moderen (sic) phrases (rather than having a bit of curiosity and taking two seconds to Google them) an exclusively Irish thing? Or is that sort of boring, incurious curmudgeonly act just something that happens when you reach a certain age, regardless of where you're from?

    WoW!


  • #26
    Always Tired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Always Tired


    Nice place to visit but living here is depressing.


  • #27
    knipex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,018 ✭✭✭knipex


    LenWoods wrote: »
    Small towns people similar to the tribes of the Amazon they don't like people moving in from other areas,

    Also is some towns if you are already a local and you set up a shop; then the locals wont use your services atall because they don't want to see you doing well.

    From experience your best to know about the GAA more than Irish history, it really helps to integrate to anywhere outside of Dublin
    And drop in the phrases "Buddy" and "How are you big man"
    As much as possible to be accepted in groups
    Rats & snakes are very common in Ireland but on two legs the nicer they are to you within a short period of knowing you; then the more there likely to shaft ya

    I have lived or worked in more than one small town but cannot relate to that.

    The only time I ever used "Buddy" was to call a dog I used to own (called Buddy).
    I have never called anyone "big man".
    I don't play GAA, gave up at under 10's, have ZERO interest in any of the GAA games. Same goes for soccer (which causes way more comments), and rugby.
    Met plenty of snakes, they are all over, Cities, towns, and villages in Ireland, England, France, Germany, US, China. All over.

    In my experience people (in general) tend to treat you how you treat them.


  • #28
    knipex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,018 ✭✭✭knipex


    puppieperson1 wrote: »
    a Multicultural homosexual hell hole! London with an irish accent!!

    You need to travel more.. You also need to look at a calendar


  • #29
    lola85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lola85


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Rampant corruption, either talk to Joe or your local TD and you will jump the Q in whatever you are looking for, meanwhile those in the Q will have to wait while people are bumped up the list.

    If you worked every day from the age you were 18 up to 25 you would be 5 times less likely to have a place you live in on your own than someone who sat on their hole and didn't work for a single day for those 7 years.

    Yes.


  • #30
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    its a worse place to live than some countries but better than most.


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  • #31
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    We love a good murder trial and Tayto!
    The Irish love Meanies and Chickatees too...well, the children do anyway...








    (Too soon?)


  • #32
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Jesus culture is mad. Just thinking there, a pack of tayto crisps isn't just a pack of tayto crisps, it's all the associations you have with it framed by years and years of experience. My moth is not from Ireland and I'm trying to give her an idea on the country. It's a hard thing to do. She had no previous idea of Ireland at all.


  • #33
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,147 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    Ireland......could do better


  • #34
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    We don't use 'the skinny' when talking is my first point...

    What the hell is that anyway?


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