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Are The Irish Underestimated

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  • #52
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Last week on Twitter, people were going ape at some Yank who is writing a series on Grace O'Malley, just because she didn't want to use the Irish version, Grainne Ni Mhaile, a name that many of us probably haven't even encountered.

    This happened on Twitter you say?

    That's mad! Usually the Twits are so level headed!


  • #53
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    This happened on Twitter you say?

    That's mad! Usually the Twits are so level headed!

    Twitter is a chilling glimpse into the tortured darkness of humanity.


  • #54
    Risingshadoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 82 ✭✭Risingshadoo


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Ok

    pubs are open.............

    but got a lecture home from a Lithuanian bloke, he was so proud of his country , but he had not been there in 8 years.

    With 7 pints in me , he was pushing and pushing me - all about how great ****ing Lithuanian was. I know , I know..............I should not bite.

    I asked him how he had no protective barrier in cab for covid. He said it was because he knows it makes it worse as they are not cleaned.

    I put my mask on - he put his.

    But he annoyed me.

    I built up the pressure and exploded. I told him, we have education, work ethic
    that can not be matched.
    We lack a central /southern European attitude to work
    We get stuck in and get the job done

    But to floor him - and he could not respond - I told him.

    The Irish have creativity - if you have that you can solve anything.

    He actually got a bit annoyed at that.

    ANYWAY - CAN WE POST POSITIVE IRISH STUFF.

    If some foreigner is living here and talking us down, just tell them to fuk off. Too many arrogant foreign bastrds living here. They need to be reminded who is the Master in this country.


  • #55
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,025 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Whatever about “underestimated” we Irish are definitely incredibly sensitive to any forms of criticism.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #56
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    Ok

    pubs are open.............

    but got a lecture home from a Lithuanian bloke, he was so proud of his country , but he had not been there in 8 years.

    With 7 pints in me , he was pushing and pushing me - all about how great ****ing Lithuanian was. I know , I know..............I should not bite.

    I asked him how he had no protective barrier in cab for covid. He said it was because he knows it makes it worse as they are not cleaned.

    I put my mask on - he put his.

    But he annoyed me.

    I built up the pressure and exploded. I told him, we have education, work ethic
    that can not be matched.
    We lack a central /southern European attitude to work
    We get stuck in and get the job done

    But to floor him - and he could not respond - I told him.

    The Irish have creativity - if you have that you can solve anything.

    He actually got a bit annoyed at that.

    ANYWAY - CAN WE POST POSITIVE IRISH STUFF.

    If your irish were a great people, if your from denmark well then there a great people, if your from mali well then malian are a great people, ( notice I our neighbours out). Whatever country you come from is always going to be a great country. The people the scenery, the history etc. Its goverments that force people to emigrate and seek work in other countries. So when you look at other nationalites maybe they're wishing they were back in their own countries instead of having to emigrate far away from their loved ones.

    When we look at the amount of emigration that has effect this country over the years. What amazes me when you see third and fourth generation americans calling ireland there ancestral home, it kinda makes sense wherever you are you native country will always be your home and I'd imagine that goes for all nationalities


  • #57
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,517 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    work ethic
    that can not be matched.
    We lack a central /southern European attitude to work
    We get stuck in and get the job done

    Ha. Clearly never had to wait for an Irish tradesman to show up at all, let alone show up on time.


  • #58
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    I often find we are stereotyped as a dumb nation and many actually play up to that stereotype when in fact the opposite is the case. We are smarter than we give ourselves credit for. Also I think we have great networking skills which when matched with a good brain is very powerful.


  • #59
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    I often find we are stereotyped as a dumb nation and many actually play up to that stereotype when in fact the opposite is the case. We are smarter than we give ourselves credit for. Also I think we have great networking skills which when matched with a good brain is very powerful.

    Being Irish overseas is a great thing in itself, get noticed very easily for both the right and wrong reasons. Keep ones nose clean, and you are golden.


  • #60
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    Can you recall a single factoid about Lithuania that he told you?

    They used to share a country with Poland.

    They were in Ireland's 1998 World Cup qualifying group, finishing 3rd behind us & Romania.


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  • #61
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,700 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    Can you recall a single factoid about Lithuania that he told you?

    The largest nation in Europe at one time.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #62
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    I worked hard and paid my taxes and looked after my country, I fell on hard times lost my job and my country paid me back! Fell on harder times and became ill, my country is looking after my health and not asking for a credit card. Ireland has it's problems but can be bloody good at the basics!


  • #63
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    We have a cracking sense of humour and no post-communism dourness that's prevalent in many other Europeans.

    Were very well liked in East Europe, so naturally after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ireland's popularity sky rocketed. Were very big in Bulgaria & the other garia, Hungaria. I can't think of any one else who's benefited more from the death of communism than Ireland, well except maybe the people who actually lived in a communist country. But then again we had a Celtic Tiger, how many Hungario's can say that?


  • #64
    king_of_mayo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭king_of_mayo


    I think the best thing about the Irish state is the politicial discourse. By that I mean, we had an awful civil war then a few years later the losing side in that gain power. If you were a betting man you'd have a fiver down on stuff to hit the fan. But no, there's a peaceful transfer of power. Not many countries where that can happen.


  • #65
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,517 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    king_of_mayo wrote: »
    I think the best thing about the Irish state is the politicial discourse. By that I mean, we had an awful civil war then a few years later the losing side in that gain power. If you were a betting man you'd have a fiver down on stuff to hit the fan. But no, there's a peaceful transfer of power. Not many countries where that can happen.

    If such restraint was shown a few years earlier, we might not have had a civil war at all.


  • #66
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    Things have gone full circle in this nation it seems... there was a time when we Irish did not have much belief in ourselves, and felt a bit of an inferiority complex.

    Now, many of our people seem to think the sun shines out of our collective posterior!

    At least that's the impression I get from all the finger wagging and preachy BS we get towards the likes of the UK and the US...

    Ireland is a decent enough place, with decent enough people... It would be even nicer, however, if there were less sh!tehawks about, in love with their own self-image! All of this guff of "we're Irish, everyone loves us... sure we're great craic" ... makes me want vomit tbh! :p


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  • #67
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »
    Things have gone full circle in this nation it seems... there was a time when we Irish did not have much belief in ourselves, and felt a bit of an inferiority complex.

    Now, many of our people seem to think the sun shines out of our collective posterior!

    At least that's the impression I get from all the finger wagging and preachy BS we get towards the likes of the UK and the US...

    Ireland is a decent enough place, with decent enough people... It would be even nicer, however, if there were less sh!tehawks about, in love with their own self-image! All of this guff of "we're Irish, everyone loves us... sure we're great craic" ... makes me want vomit tbh! :p



    watch Irish fans sing to a nun on a train in France.:(


  • #68
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd say that the Irish may be underestimated, but rarely by themselves.


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