Anyone find the continentals strange?

completedit · 28-03-2019 11:10am #1

Living away surrounded by foreigners, just find their ways so odd. I was sitting around a dinner table and they were having a really earnest conversation about yield curves. I'm probably just an idiot but just find their ways so odd. No wonder Irish people move to other English speaking countries and even then we stick together. Anyone think Irish people in general are just more jovial and better craic than foreigners or is it just what we are used to? Nothing like living away to make you appreciate home ðŸ˜€

*Don't want to come across as bad, just my own experiences living away. You'll never beat the Irish.

Deebles McBeebles · 28-03-2019 11:20am

They terk er jerbs!!!

coffee_cake · 28-03-2019 11:22am

Yield curves are interesting

28-03-2019 11:24am

I stopped drinking with a few lads because they were all about the craic. Absolutely nothing of value was being said.

Give me yield curves.

jimgoose · 28-03-2019 11:26am

Knew a Fodden lassie once. I yielded to her curves. In general Fodden folk don't always wash behind their ears properly and tend to keep kitchen appliances in cupboards, like filthy durty Protestants. In furtherance, their property laws are weird. Aside from that much, they're alright.

Slasher · 28-03-2019 11:26am

Irish people are too much into the craic. If we took life a bit more seriously, we would be better off.

The Satanist · 28-03-2019 11:27am

Foreigners are awful altogether, they should be forced fed drink until they're having the craic.

completedit · 28-03-2019 11:28am

bluewolf wrote: »

Yield curves are interesting

I think you can have an interesting and a fun chat about economics politics but nothing worse when you're at a table and these topics come up and you'd swear it was the meeting at the federal reserve. Bit of humour never went amiss. Maybe it's because, despite them having excellent English, it is very academic so comes across really formal.

Anteayer · 28-03-2019 11:31am

"the continentals" are over half a billion people from umpteen different cultures and some of them would consider Irish "craic" pretty tame.

This thread sounds like one of those discussions you'd have at a table full of Bexiteers all of whom moved to Spain in 1989 and are still discussing "the locals".

Did you think for a moment that maybe you were just at a table full of particularly boring people who liked to discuss economics, rather than being on the continent somehow causes this?

I've been at Irish weddings getting my ear worn off by someone talking about engineering or accounting standards or worst of all GAA scores telling me about every bloody match score involving Kerry in the 1970s.

sbsquarepants · 28-03-2019 11:36am

Probably going to sound a bit racist - but the more time I spend around our European brethren, the more I realise we are not at all like them!

But it's all good, variety is the spice of life and all that.

Ush1 · 28-03-2019 11:38am

They weren't foreign, you were next to Aongus VB.

jimgoose · 28-03-2019 11:41am

Anteayer wrote: »

"the continentals" are over half a billion people from umpteen different culture...

Exactly. Imagine - hundreds of millions of the fuckers, all eating their young, hiding the toaster in the press and transacting private property in a fashion that is relatively abstruse to an individual from a Common Law jurisdiction. :eek:

branie2 · 28-03-2019 11:42am

no, apart from the extremists

pleas advice · 28-03-2019 11:44am

Ush1 wrote: »

They weren't foreign, you were.

...

Anteayer · 28-03-2019 11:51am

Some English speaking countries feel a lot more foreign to me. I know the US call lull you into a false sense of security. You think you understand the culture then you're suddenly up against something like accidentally mentioning that you aren't all that into God and are an atheist while you're a bit drunk at dinner and the whole room goes silent. (Happened to me a few years ago)

Or you overhear : he's had two glasses of wine! The Irish are all like that. Gimme a night out with a bunch of Germans or dinner in France any day.

Even the annoying tip chasing waiters and the in your face customer service that makes you feel like they think you're shop lifting gets weird. Not to mention fake smiles and how may I help you type attitudes.

Then the fact they openly discuss salaries and seem to take no time off ever.

completedit · 28-03-2019 11:55am

Anteayer wrote: »

Some English speaking countries feel a lot more foreign to me. I know the US call lull you into a false sense of security. You think you understand the culture then you're suddenly up against something like accidentally mentioning that you aren't all that into God and are an atheist while you're a bit drunk at dinner and the whole room goes silent. (Happened to me a few years ago)

Or you overhear : he's had two glasses of wine! The Irish are all like that. Gimme a night out with a bunch of Germans or dinner in France any day.

Even the annoying tip chasing waiters and the in your face customer service that makes you feel like they think you're shop lifting gets weird. Not to mention fake smiles and how may I help you type attitudes.

Americans are so strange and foreign to me unless they are from California or Deep South or something. I just like the Californians I’ve met mindset. People from the Midwest are the worst, zero divilment, zero charm.

Elemonator · 28-03-2019 11:56am

It's literally only the Irish who believe "you'll never beat the Irish".

lainey_d_123 · 28-03-2019 11:56am

completedit wrote: »

Living away surrounded by foreigners, just find their ways so odd. I was sitting around a dinner table and they were having a really earnest conversation about yield curves. I'm probably just an idiot but just find their ways so odd. No wonder Irish people move to other English speaking countries and even then we stick together. Anyone think Irish people in general are just more jovial and better craic than foreigners or is it just what we are used to? Nothing like living away to make you appreciate home &#55357;&#56832;

*Don't want to come across as bad, just my own experiences living away. You'll never beat the Irish.

Didn't have to read any further to know what kind of person you are.

YOU are the foreigner, btw.

completedit · 28-03-2019 11:57am

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

Didn't have to read any further to know what kind of person you are.

YOU are the foreigner, btw.

We’re all foreigners actually. We are foreigners in the country that we are living in. I’m talking them on an Irish message board. They’re foreigners to us. Don’t get me wrong nice people just bland

I never thought I’d be someone who feels an affinity to British when away but have to say, when you hear the accent and you haven’t heard an Irish one in a while, feel good, got talking to a cool guy from London, proper Afro Caribbean Londoner, man was an absolute gent, had such a good fun chat with him, made me realize how much closer we are to Brits than other Europeans

lainey_d_123 · 28-03-2019 12:04pm

completedit wrote: »

We’re all foreigners actually. We are foreigners in the country that we are living in. I’m talking them on an Irish message board. They’re foreigners to us. Don’t get me wrong nice people just bland

Maybe they think you're bland. Most of my friends in Dublin are foreigners. Got sick of my Irish friends' idea of socialising being getting blind drunk and talking sh1te. Normal conversation topics were 1) b1tching about other people (the women) 2) GAA/rugby/football (the men) 3) just drunken nonsense.

juanjo · 28-03-2019 12:23pm

Spaniard here. Yielding curves is one of our go-to subjects in big gatherings, can confirm.

completedit · 28-03-2019 12:25pm

juanjo wrote: »

Spaniard here. Yielding curves is one of our go-to subjects in big gatherings, can confirm.[/QUnOTE]

Ah Spanish don’t count, youz have your own ways but clear you’re up for the craic. On Erasmus, Spanish were the ones who were always getting on it. I’ll never forget the time an Andalusian lad 4am in the morning gave me coinage to make my way to Malaga airport. Hero

mikemac2 · 28-03-2019 12:27pm

The continentals I’ve house shared with must have free oil/gas and electricity where they come from

Heating and immersion on full blast hours each day :eek:

Anteayer · 28-03-2019 12:27pm

I think you'll find there are boring people everywhere see: Derry Girls Uncle Colm or that priest on Fr Ted who corners people to discuss gas boilers.

lainey_d_123 · 28-03-2019 12:52pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

The continentals I’ve house shared with must have free oil/gas and electricity where they come from

Heating and immersion on full blast hours each day :eek:

No, just properly insulated homes. It's not normal to be uncomfortably cold in your home.

coffee_cake · 28-03-2019 2:11pm

Anteayer wrote: »

Some English speaking countries feel a lot more foreign to me. I know the US call lull you into a false sense of security. You think you understand the culture then you're suddenly up against something like accidentally mentioning that you aren't all that into God and are an atheist while you're a bit drunk at dinner and the whole room goes silent. (Happened to me a few years ago)

Or you overhear : he's had two glasses of wine! The Irish are all like that. Gimme a night out with a bunch of Germans or dinner in France any day.

Even the annoying tip chasing waiters and the in your face customer service that makes you feel like they think you're shop lifting gets weird. Not to mention fake smiles and how may I help you type attitudes.

Then the fact they openly discuss salaries and seem to take no time off ever.

you see some of them boasting on reddit sometimes about how they haven't had a day off in years and the place would fall apart without them if they were gone. like no offence but i'm pretty sure if you won the lotto or got hit by a bus tomorrow, the place wouldn't go under. management's bad management of resourcing is not something for you to boast about

Anteayer · 28-03-2019 2:18pm

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

No, just properly insulated homes. It's not normal to be uncomfortably cold in your home.

It's actually true though the coldest and dampest places I've ever lived have been in Ireland and the UK. The quality of many houses and residental apartments is very low - some of the very recent build has caught up but you've a lot of houses here where the temperature plummets within 10 mins or turning off the heating and things like on demand hot water and central heating were considered ridiculous luxuries by a lot of those from a couple of generations ago while they've been standard in many parts of the continent for probably 100 years.

I think part of it is while Ireland and British weather can be miserable it's not generally cold enough to cause hypothermia so we never bothered with proper insulation.

lbc2019 · 28-03-2019 2:21pm

See that ludicrous display last night?

ToddyDoody · 28-03-2019 2:22pm

Supposedly the Finish will sit silently, and perfectly motionless, at a house party.

Anteayer · 28-03-2019 2:24pm

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Supposedly the Finish will sit silently, and perfectly motionless, at a house party.

Supposedly according to someone who's never visited Finland I would suspect.

Feisar · 28-03-2019 2:33pm

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Supposedly the Finish will sit silently, and perfectly motionless, at a house party.

Nah, met a Finnish girl on a night out on Dublin. Said she was an ex cop. Also said she was lesbian. She was definitely bi-sexual by the end of the night. I'd describe her as wild. Only Finnish person I've met so i can't really judge them overall.

Anyone find the continentals strange?

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