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  • 26-08-2019 6:21pm
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    mr_fegelien
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    Are they ruder than Irish and the rest of the world?? I always doubted this stereotype but I can say that they're definitely heard before their seen. Particularly in the summer on the LUAS, Dublin Bus, or even on the street you hear an American before you see them.

    But other than that, going over there last year for 3 months, they seem as polite as us. The only difference is that there country is so large so you get many extremes, extrmely polite people and extremely rude, crazy, ignorant, people. Doesn't mean the extreme outliers are representative of the whole nation.


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    Timberrrrrrrr
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    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    Are they ruder than Irish and the rest of the world?? I always doubted this stereotype but I can say that they're definitely heard before their seen. Particularly in the summer on the LUAS, Dublin Bus, or even on the street you hear an American before you see them.

    But other than that, going over there last year for 3 months, they seem as polite as us. The only difference is that there country is so large so you get many extremes, extrmely polite people and extremely rude, crazy, ignorant, people. Doesn't mean the extreme outliers are representative of the whole nation.

    Same could be said for any country.


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    Ronin247
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    Everyone is ruder than the Irish..... we are simply wonderful.


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    Harry Palmr
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    Americans in a shop

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpYi_sXOYbw


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    Conall Cernach
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    A lot of Americans have that "telling you straight" thing that they've inherited from German and Nordic ancestors. The Irish would usually drop dead rather than complain or risk offence.


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    B.A._Baracus
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    Found Americans to be more false than us.


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    punisher5112
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    If I had a gun...


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    Remind me
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    Hearing before seeing doesn’t make them rude


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    Sardonicat
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    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    A lot of Americans have that "telling you straight" thing that they've inherited from German and Nordic ancestors. The Irish would usually drop dead rather than complain or risk offence.
    My viking genes must be strong!


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    Montage of Feck
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    I'm afraid of americans

    🙈🙉🙊



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    Abel Ruiz
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    If I had a gun...

    I'd shoot a hole into the sun


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    Mad_maxx
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    Americans are annoying, very boring too


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    paddylonglegs
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    Found them incredibly polite to deal with and willing to go out of their way to help with anything.

    Not just for tourists but also for people living there.


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    bnt
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    Given than many American tourists come to Ireland because of their Irish ancestry, it seems a bit churlish to complain about them ..!

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    Panthro
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    You Us Eh? ! You Us Eh? !

    No idea what they're on about.


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    fineso.mom
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    The population of America is about 300 million ....bit silly to say they are rude/annoying/boring whatever.


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    Woke Hogan
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    Americans really are the strangest people I have ever met. Their lust for their military and police force, the fact that they’re all grotesquely overweight and racist, their propensity for oversharing and referring to somewhere by both city and state (“I live in Flint, Michigan” as opposed to just “Flint.”), Fahrenheit. I will never understand Americans.


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    EmmetSpiceland
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    They are awful when you’re “down the country”.

    Rolling out of tour buses in incredibly bright jackets roaring about “how QUIET it is” at some monastic site.

    They aren’t so loud when complaining about the “weak flush” in the tourist centre.

    The tide is turning…



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    kneemos
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    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Americans really are the strangest people I have ever met. Their lust for their military and police force, the fact that they’re all grotesquely overweight and racist, their propensity for oversharing and referring to somewhere by both city and state (“I live in Flint, Michigan” as opposed to just “Flint.”), Fahrenheit. I will never understand Americans.


    It's a big country, everyone might not know where Flint is.
    Also states have towns with the same name, Springfield for example.


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    ceadaoin.
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    Americans are more polite and genuinely friendly than Irish people, in my experience. It might come across as fake at first when you aren't used to it, but in most cases it isn't at all

    But didn't we just have a huge American bashing thread? It it really time for another one already?


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    branie2
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    The Americans I met in New England were very polite


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    odyssey06
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    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    Are they ruder than Irish and the rest of the world?? I always doubted this stereotype but I can say that they're definitely heard before their seen. Particularly in the summer on the LUAS, Dublin Bus, or even on the street you hear an American before you see them.

    Couldn't be any louder than the upstairs of a #15 bus at the height of Spanish student season!

    I think everyone gets louder on tour.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Edgware
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Americans are annoying, very boring too

    And you are a bundle of laughs. Highlight of your year is de carnival down in de pitch


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    Your Face
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    Worked over there for awhile.
    A diverse people.


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    padd b1975
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    They're easier than Australians to listen to.

    I'll give them that.


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    odyssey06
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    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Americans really are the strangest people I have ever met. Their lust for their military and police force, the fact that they’re all grotesquely overweight and racist, their propensity for oversharing and referring to somewhere by both city and state (“I live in Flint, Michigan” as opposed to just “Flint.”), Fahrenheit. I will never understand Americans.

    Hello!

    Barack-Obama-Wave.jpg

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    metaoblivia
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    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    A lot of Americans have that "telling you straight" thing that they've inherited from German and Nordic ancestors. The Irish would usually drop dead rather than complain or risk offence.

    Y'all really would. We currently have two colleagues visiting our American office - a South African man and an Irish woman. The South African keeps calling the Irish woman English, and she's been very politely trying correct him indirectly by saying things like (when asked about Brexit, for example), "Well, from the Irish perspective..." but he keeps doing it.

    I'm:
    1. grateful it isn't one of my fellow Americans
    2. thinking about saying something, but also enjoying the Monday entertainment

    As for Americans - the loudest are just the ones that grab your attention. Some of us - a few of us - are lower key. :pac:


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    MarkR
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    I read of this one Irish lad, who was very rude. Killed a guy. So there you go.


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    Grab All Association
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    Not really. I think we just don’t interpret each other that well. My ex was from Florida/Kansas, she would cry because I’d scream at the sky box for freezing or get angry at stuff that wouldn’t work properly thinking I’d be angry at her.


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    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Hello!

    Barack-Obama-Wave.jpg

    What?


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    mistersifter
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    Any American tourist I've met has generally been very sound. I studied with a couple of Yanks too and they were grand.

    They're probably a bit innocent when it comes to what they expect in Ireland but I don't understand the stick they get. Nor do I get why it annoys people that they call themselves Irish cos of their ancestry. What harm?

    They're here spending their pensions dollars. We should be grateful for that. Leave them at it and be friendly to em.


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