What are British people better at doing than Irish people?

British do queuing, arrogance, genocide better.

partyguinness wrote: »

Really? When was that..

1750?

ElectronVolt wrote: »

To be fair when that was uncovered it's been accepted and is being faced up to, at least by the public. There has been a general acceptance that bad stuff happened and it's something we need to deal with and take on board as part of what went on in this country.

Scandals from the UK with strong parallels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Children - this one doesn't get nearly the level of attention it should, or I think that it would if it had occured in Ireland.

I also think we faced up to the blood services scandals far earlier. That's still very much only emerging in the UK, even though the causes were very much the same - contaminated imported blood products.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_blood_scandal_in_the_United_Kingdom

Ah for good Jaysus, the church scandals and industrial schools abuse had been rattling on since the founding of the state and even before, people pretended it wasn't happening in simpler times, people thought the religious and "their betters" knew best, the mother of all cover-ups. The dogs on the street knew they were bad places to end up in.

Curry Houses.

Every fish and chip shop makes their own chips and batters their fish.

Chasing cheese down a hill for the craic!

riclad wrote: »

Making tv and radio show,s ,when uk comedys are good they are brilliant .The office, fawlty towers , etc
Can you think of one funny rte comedy show ?
batchelor,s walk is the only one i can think of.
Reality tv , many shows are invented in the uk, and then exported all over the world, dancing with the stars ,who wants to be a millionaire .
I think they have dozen,s of small independent production companys ,
so they are constantly trying out new idea,s ,and of course they have excellent drama school,s , so they produce great actors some of whom end up in hollywood movie .

Paths to freedom

Hardy bucks

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[Deleted User] wrote: »

Sorry but nothing beats Dublin Italian chippers.

The chippies in the UK rarely have smoked fish and the chips are too greasy after being taken out of the fryer. I am a bit of a connoisseur of fish and chips and have to say we do it better. I am referring specifically to the Italian Irish chippers

Youre talking through your hole.

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Blanking **** who they are not interested in dealing with. They will just look right through people like they are not even there.

Irish people are too polite and end up being nice to them, wastes an awful lot of time. The Brits don't fúck around like that, they are chunts to you from the get go, just in case you are one as well, a chunt that is.

I remember in London my friend approached a ticket agent looking for cheap theatre tickets. She dealt with him more quickly than I've ever since seen anyone being dealt with before or since.

That's something about the English, they tend to want things done quickly rather than to have a discussion about it.

riclad wrote: »

Making tv and radio show,s ,when uk comedys are good they are brilliant .The office, fawlty towers , etc
Can you think of one funny rte comedy show ?
batchelor,s walk is the only one i can think of.
Reality tv , many shows are invented in the uk, and then exported all over the world, dancing with the stars ,who wants to be a millionaire .
I think they have dozen,s of small independent production companys ,
so they are constantly trying out new idea,s ,and of course they have excellent drama school,s , so they produce great actors some of whom end up in hollywood movie .

For every Fawlty Towers or Blackadder there's dozens and dozens of forgettable middling comedies and downright turkeys churned out over the years. It's scale and the willingness to put money into writing and production rather than the RTE approach, here's 2p, a half sucked sweet and a rubber band...make a funny.

football

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Unless your looking for a drink, I have seen bar staff finish their entire conversation, like bordering on over ten minutes, before a " what are having love" thrown over the counter, fooking slow chunts, they can be clueless you know.

They always put themselves first, it is in their fee fie foe fum.

I have ranted about this years. Bar staff over here are beyond ****. Absolute rubbish.

They are completely incapable of taking more than one order drink at once (at the slowest pace possible) and have no clue who is up next. And like fcuk the customers will have to good manners to point out that you have been waiting before them.

I actually nearly got into a fight one night over this. In fact, I was returning from the Ireland v Argentina game at last rugby WC.

I had left Cardiff and back in the Midlands. While waiting for my bus home I had 40 mins to kill and there was an O'Neills literally by the bus stop. Went it. Being late on a Sunday night, the counter was empty and I was honest to God the only person standing there waiting to be served. Nobody around me. As usual having to wait for the rubbish staff to finish their BS conversation and make eye contact. Waiting waiting and still waiting. Minutes went by.

A few more minutes went by and this other chap walks in and straight to the bar and stood about 4 feet away from me and like me stood there looking at the staff.

You know what happens next....the bitch turns to us and goes straight to the order chap and takes his order. I went mental.

1. She didn't notice me or just ignored me;
2. The other guy didn't check first.

The other guy to be fair was all apologetic once I explained and I was apologizing to him as my anger was with the staff. We actually drank together and bitched about the rubbish staff. But he was Asian and they are friendly. A white English bloke would have nutted me.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

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

He also wanted to build an airport in the middle of the River Thames estuary when London Mayor. Mad fecker.