What are British people better at doing than Irish people?

badabing106 · 13-09-2019 9:51pm #1

British people will happily protest and confront politicians and tell them off. Everywhere Boris goes he gets an ear full. Just wouldn't happen in Ireland, and it certainly wouldn't be reported by Irish media people

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

DEFTLEFTHAND · 13-09-2019 9:58pm

From my experiences in England people in general are more direct and fortcoming. They speak to you if they've an issue, they don't bitch behind your back and be as sweet as pie to your face like the Irish.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-09-2019 9:58pm

Colonising.

Harry Palmr · 13-09-2019 10:02pm

Savannah Bewildered Crab wrote: »

Colonising.

Amazed it took three replies!

ChikiChiki · 13-09-2019 10:03pm

Confidence and self esteem.

Also an unwavering sense of bull****tery and superiority in the workplace. A lot of the time unwarranted aswell.

maxwell smart · 13-09-2019 10:03pm

Bombing Civilians? Don't get me wrong some Irish gave it a good go but the Brits really know how to do a good bombing.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-09-2019 10:04pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Amazed it took three replies!

Surprised me too.

Bannasidhe · 13-09-2019 10:04pm

Making genuinely good television.
Especially comedies.

Strange thing is Irish people can do it 'over there' - or working in conjunction with 'over there' but the strictly home grown stuff is usually dire.

Mr_Muffin · 13-09-2019 10:06pm

Cooking. Look at all the celebrity chefs they have.

13-09-2019 10:06pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

They speak to you if they've an issue, they don't bitch behind your back and be as sweet as pie to your face like the Irish.

That was a top-notch post Deft. Really great!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-09-2019 10:06pm

They're better at convincing themselves of their own importance, to the point of arrogance.

BonnieSituation · 13-09-2019 10:07pm

Better at being "at it"!

http://arethebritsatitagain.com/

Dymo · 13-09-2019 10:07pm

Moaning, they're world champs at that.

pgj2015 · 13-09-2019 10:08pm

better at looking after cars.

questionmark? · 13-09-2019 10:09pm

Best at ducking up EU membership!

BDI · 13-09-2019 10:09pm

Having violence at sporting events.

coolshannagh28 · 13-09-2019 10:10pm

Having industrial revolutions.

boege · 13-09-2019 10:12pm

British people will happily protest and confront politicians and tell them off. Everywhere Boris goes he gets an ear full. Just wouldn't happen in Ireland, and it certainly wouldn't be reported by Irish media people

Seriously, anyone remember water charges.........!

Blahfool · 13-09-2019 10:12pm

Queuing

mikemac2 · 13-09-2019 10:14pm

I was going to post cricket but sure Ireland beat them at that recently

Ipso · 13-09-2019 10:17pm

'aving it

Tuco88 · 13-09-2019 10:18pm

Construction and Engineering, we are not in the same league or in the same game in fact.

Timberrrrrrrr · 13-09-2019 10:18pm

Driving.

Tell me how · 13-09-2019 10:20pm

Nothing really.

You take 1,000 Irish people and 1,000 british people and I bet you find similar numbers of genius's, dossers, hard workers, comedians, psychopaths, optimists, pessimists, pragmatists etc in each group.

Now, collectively, their national psyche is both very self-confident and lacking in introspective analysis to assess their true place in the world in a way that is different to Ireland.

lsjmhar · 13-09-2019 10:20pm

Understanding how democracy works!

BuboBubo · 13-09-2019 10:21pm

Better at being brash and forward.

We Irish are far more reserved than they are.

JohnnyFlash · 13-09-2019 10:21pm

Comedy.

Even though most of the truly brilliant comedy appears to be as a result of having the genius that is Armando Iannucci involved in it

Stark · 13-09-2019 10:24pm

boege wrote: »

Seriously, anyone remember water charges.........!

Those were "polite, peaceful" protests!

Stark · 13-09-2019 10:25pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

From my experiences in England people in general are more direct and fortcoming. They speak to you if they've an issue, they don't bitch behind your back and be as sweet as pie to your face like the Irish.

My experience of English people is they are even worse than Irish people when it comes to acting nice to people they don't like.

Yer Da sells Avon · 13-09-2019 10:26pm

Racism. I hope no racists are offended by this, but there's something very inauthentic about Irish racists. The Brits (mainly the English) have it nailed though. Proper ugly racism, not the half-arsed pale imitation that you see here.

dxhound2005 · 13-09-2019 10:26pm

None of the above applies to Scottish people. They are better at sectarianism.

cj maxx · 13-09-2019 10:28pm

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Making genuinely good television.
Especially comedies.

Strange thing is Irish people can do it 'over there' - or working in conjunction with 'over there' but the strictly home grown stuff is usually dire.

That's because RTE have no money , probably ?

Tell me how · 13-09-2019 10:30pm

boege wrote: »

Seriously, anyone remember water charges.........!

Exactly.

Except then the narrative was 'I wish these a**holes would go and get a job instead of a pointless exercise of protesting'

dxhound2005 · 13-09-2019 10:31pm

cjmc wrote: »

That's because RTE have no money , probably ?

Indeed. The BBC get an annual increase in the licence fee. It has not changed here since 2008.

Yer Da sells Avon · 13-09-2019 10:31pm

cjmc wrote: »

That's because RTE have no money , probably ?

And a pathological fear of comedic talent.

Spanish Eyes · 13-09-2019 10:32pm

They built the Channel Tunnel with France. That would never happen today with Brexit.

What an engineering feat that is now. Fair dues to the Franco/UK alliance back in the old days.

Other than that they are just ordinary like the rest of us I think.

But they might think otherwise. Hubris of course.

dxhound2005 · 13-09-2019 10:34pm

They are better at inventing mad stories about the EU.

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/

tdf7187 · 13-09-2019 10:38pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

From my experiences in England people in general are more direct and fortcoming. They speak to you if they've an issue, they don't bitch behind your back and be as sweet as pie to your face like the Irish.

Tbh, most if not all northern European races are more direct and forthcoming than the Irish. The Danes and Dutch beat even the English at directness and bluntness and would probably consider the English unnecessarily polite at times (like you, I consider this in general to be a good thing and find the Irish to be frequently two-faced as a race, even though I am Irish).

tdf7187 · 13-09-2019 10:40pm

The English are better at following the rules. When they find out the game has been rigged all along, they tend to become angry. In Ireland we think (know?) the game has been rigged all along, so it's more about 'how can I get a cut out of this', 'how can I bend/break the rules without getting caught'. If you doubt what I'm saying here, you obviously never heard of the DIRT controversy or the more recent penalty points kerfuffle.

Harry Palmr · 13-09-2019 10:42pm

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

They built the Channel Tunnel with France. That would never happen today with Brexit.

What an engineering feat that is now. Fair dues to the Franco/UK alliance back in the old days.

Other than that they are just ordinary like the rest of us I think.

But they might think otherwise. Hubris of course.

Borris wants to build a bridge to Ireland from Scotland. Well he says he does, but it may just be his Greenland moment.

Naos · 13-09-2019 10:43pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Comedy.

Even though most of the truly brilliant comedy appears to be as a result of having the genius that is Armando Iannucci involved in it

Ah come on, our Jimmy Carr would take on any of the British comics!

beggars_bush · 13-09-2019 10:46pm

I once met Enda Kenny in Liffey Valley shopping centre when he was Taoiseach and he was out canvassing for a referendum vote.
Told him to his face he was doing a **** job and needed to think about the people going out to work everyday.

13-09-2019 10:55pm

tdf7187 wrote: »

The English are better at following the rules, as long as they're making the rules. When they find out the game has been rigged all along by some group other than themselves, they tend to become angry.

Fyp.

De Bhál · 13-09-2019 10:57pm

Eating pudding

Aongus Von Bismarck · 13-09-2019 10:58pm

They've done a fine job of maintaining the status of their elite universities through a fair blend of public funding and student fees. The quality of graduate emerging from the Russell Group is extremely high.

In Ireland, meanwhile, there's an obsession with funnelling students through degree mills that are funded almost exclusively by the State. People who shouldn't be in university taking rather pointless courses, and emerging with no clear career path as a result. I've no great objection to the State providing a stipend if citizens would like to undertake further education in an area of personal interest to the individual, but it's dreadful policy to think that all degrees are of equal merit, or should be considered equal when it comes to investment.

It's that sort of misguided policy that has Trinity drop down the world university rankings (flawed as they are). Having an elite centre of education in the country should be something to aspire to, not do your best to fatally damage. When I graduated from TCD it was in the top 20 worldwide in the university rankings. I read only this week that it's now struggling to maintain its position in the top 200. This isn't a sustainable way of investing in 3rd level education.

Gregor Samsa · 13-09-2019 11:00pm

No British forum would ever have a thread titled “What are Irish people better at doing than British people?”, so either they’re better at ignoring us than we are them, or they don’t have the inferiority complex we have.

MoashoaM · 13-09-2019 11:01pm

A lot really. But it's not always a positive thing. I like the protected public rights of way in Wales and England. I like the national trust.

Feisar · 13-09-2019 11:04pm

Perfidious Albion

dxhound2005 · 13-09-2019 11:05pm

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

They've done a fine job of maintaining the status of their elite universities through a fair blend of public funding and student fees. The quality of graduate emerging from the Russell Group is extremely high.

In Ireland, meanwhile, there's an obsession with funnelling students through degree mills that are funded almost exclusively by the State. People who shouldn't be in university taking rather pointless courses, and emerging with no clear career path as a result. I've no great objection to the State providing a stipend if citizens would like to undertake further education in an area of personal interest to the individual, but it's dreadful policy to think that all degrees are of equal merit, or should be considered equal when it comes to investment.

It's that sort of misguided policy that has Trinity drop down the world university rankings (flawed as they are). Having an elite centre of education in the country should be something to aspire to, not do your best to fatally damage. When I graduated from TCD it was in the top 20 worldwide in the university rankings. I read only this week that it's now struggling to maintain its position in the top 200. This isn't a sustainable way of investing in 3rd level education.

Why are you using a flawed system to make your argument?

Tell me how · 13-09-2019 11:05pm

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

They've done a fine job of maintaining the status of their elite universities through a fair blend of public funding and student fees. The quality of graduate emerging from the Russell Group is extremely high.

In Ireland, meanwhile, there's an obsession with funnelling students through degree mills that are funded almost exclusively by the State. People who shouldn't be in university taking rather pointless courses, and emerging with no clear career path as a result. I've no great objection to the State providing a stipend if citizens would like to undertake further education in an area of personal interest to the individual, but it's dreadful policy to think that all degrees are of equal merit, or should be considered equal when it comes to investment.

It's that sort of misguided policy that has Trinity drop down the world university rankings (flawed as they are). Having an elite centre of education in the country should be something to aspire to, not do your best to fatally damage. When I graduated from TCD it was in the top 20 worldwide in the university rankings. I read only this week that it's now struggling to maintain its position in the top 200. This isn't a sustainable way of investing in 3rd level education.

Many would argue that the dominance of those from a particular educational path now playing leading roles in national politics in the UK is evident that they are not doing quite so well at producing quality graduates as they would have us believe.

(Not me of course, I'm a highly capable British University graduate

)

K.Flyer · 13-09-2019 11:05pm

Using Escalators.
They understand the concept that some people might be in a hurry when using them, so those not in a hurry stand to the right leaving space for people to pass on the left.

What are British people better at doing than Irish people?

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