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What are British people better at doing than Irish people?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    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 .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    riclad wrote: »
    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 .

    The Lyrics Board was invented in Ireland. It might have been rubbish, but the format has been exported all over the world.

    Also, Emmerdale was based on The Riordans.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    I don't know about British people but English people are the masters of passive aggressiveness and faux respect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,908 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    British do queuing, arrogance, genocide better.


    Really? When was that..


    1750?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 Fantastisch


    Better at

    Arrogance
    Pathetic yearning for a past that never existed in reality
    Propaganda particularly when it comes to monarchy
    Rewriting history especially anything to do with their army and their so called empire


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 Fantastisch


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    I don't know about British people but English people are the masters of passive aggressiveness and faux respect.

    Lots of this. Good at backslapping and fake laughter too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,707 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Tammy! wrote: »

    Pronouncing the TH sound.

    But not pronouncing the 'WH' sound. Or the letter 'R' (with their non-rhoticism ;) ), but some of them do like to stick in an 'R' sound where there isn't an 'R'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Tammy! wrote: »
    Pronouncing the TH sound.

    I don't fink so.
    Or the letter 'R' (with their non-rhoticism ;) )

    "The Republic of Island"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,951 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I don't fink so.



    "The Republic of Island"

    In fact, they stick an R in at times which is curious, 'I have an idear'.

    Not to mention them discussing 'former world snooker champion Ken Dockerty'


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    In fact, they stick an R in at times which is curious, 'I have an idear'.

    Not to mention them discussing 'former world snooker champion Ken Dockerty'

    That’s because no one’s thought them how to pronounce it I guess.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Pageantry and narcissism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭Sittingpretty


    Queuing, if it hasn't already been mentioned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,951 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Aegir wrote: »
    That’s because no one’s thought them how to pronounce it I guess.

    There is a name Dockerty so they are not pulling it out of thin air but I'd imagine Ken introducing himself or his manager doesn't say Dockerty.

    Even now, after everything that has gone on over the last 3 years, senior UK journalists and media outlets still spell Leo Varadkar's name incorrectly which is bad form at this point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,519 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Milosmith


    Wearing Cor Blimey trousers

    Jellied eel

    pork pies

    Colonialism


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Milosmith


    Pulling a William Churchill

    The guy is a joke


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Growing massive vegetables for the craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Curry Houses.

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Milosmith


    Producing a Margaret Thatcher


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Chasing cheese down a hill for the craic!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    Talking S*it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Milosmith


    mgn wrote: »
    Talking S*it.

    You're generalizing and point scoring


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,580 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Nothing. We're better at everything


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Curry Houses.

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

    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


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Milosmith


    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
    Liar
    Your username caught u out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,475 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    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

    anonymous


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭nkl12xtw5goz70


    Literature (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton)
    Music (Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin)
    Universities (Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, LSE)
    Museums & Galleries (British Museum, V&A, National Gallery, Tate Modern)
    Architecture
    Finance
    Business
    Sport

    ...eh, pretty much everything, really.


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Milosmith


    Literature (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton)
    Music (Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin)
    Universities (Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, LSE)
    Museums & Galleries (British Museum, V&A, National Gallery, Tate Modern)
    Architecture
    Finance
    Business
    Sport

    ...eh, pretty much everything, really.
    Correct


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Describing exactly what road number and junction they used to get somewhere ..m25 to junction 25 then took the m1 to junction 4 etc etc...

    I turned off by Joe Mcs field and went over a bit past the graveyard !


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  • Registered Users Posts: 31 Milosmith


    They once were the masters of the universe


  • Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    Milosmith wrote: »
    Wearing Cor Blimey trousers

    Jellied eel

    pork pies

    Colonialism

    So they're all Cockneys?, even in Sunderland, Leeds, Newcastle, Leicester, York, Manchester, Norwich, Bristol, Stoke, Birmingham, Carlisle, Derby.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    gurning


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    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.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Milosmith 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
    Liar
    Your username caught u out

    Que?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    being friendly & polite

    esp the southern middle-class english, very nice people in my experience


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Osborne


    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

    Nonsense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,558 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    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.

    We Canadians will give the Irish a good run for their money on the passive-aggressive front, especially if Americans are doing the asking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,519 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    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.


    Over here 10 years and I have experienced this a good few times.

    One day you are best friends drinking away in the pub or out socializing and the next day they will walk straight past you as if you do not exist.

    The last time a gang of us were out on a Sunday after a sports event. I dropped a few home as I was driving. Met them at our club the next evening and just blanked...:confused:

    I have had people in my club just walk past me on the street without even an acknowledgement but then 2 days later they are all over you asking for x,y and z and then back to blanking.

    TBH I just accept it happens here.

    One thing about the English is that they are not friendly and would rather pluck out their eyeballs that engage in normal chit chat. They are polite and courteous but not friendly- there is a difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    football


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    They talk a good game but rarely back it up.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Over here 10 years and I have experienced this a good few times.

    One day you are best friends drinking away in the pub or out socializing and the next day they will walk straight past you as if you do not exist.

    The last time a gang of us were out on a Sunday after a sports event. I dropped a few home as I was driving. Met them at our club the next evening and just blanked...:confused:

    I have had people in my club just walk past me on the street without even an acknowledgement but then 2 days later they are all over you asking for x,y and z and then back to blanking.

    TBH I just accept it happens here.

    One thing about the English is that they are not friendly and would rather pluck out their eyeballs that engage in normal chit chat. They are polite and courteous but not friendly- there is a difference.

    It is down to manners really, for a country that prides themselves' on them they actually have none, the irony is side splitting.

    Sorry for your troubles, I will never blank you partyguinness, I am good like that.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    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.

    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭kurtainsider


    Keeping the boxes.

    Ever buy any second hand electronics on ebay from the UK? It'll come with all the original packaging. the box, the instructions, the warranty cards in 20 languages, the CD if there was one (cameras etc.), all the little leads and connectors that nobody ever wanted or used, every little plastic bag and elastic band.

    We Irish tend to treat the packaging like a 3 year old opening a Fisher Price toy on Christmas morning. Extract the item of interest and shred and bin everything else.

    I'm not saying the English approach is better - it's just that they mind the packaging better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭Sittingpretty


    Keeping the boxes.

    Ever buy any second hand electronics on ebay from the UK? It'll come with all the original packaging. the box, the instructions, the warranty cards in 20 languages, the CD if there was one (cameras etc.), all the little leads and connectors that nobody ever wanted or used, every little plastic bag and elastic band.

    We Irish tend to treat the packaging like a 3 year old opening a Fisher Price toy on Christmas morning. Extract the item of interest and shred and bin everything else.

    I'm not saying the English approach is better - it's just that they mind the packaging better.


    Ha ha this reminds me of my mother in law who bought my son one of those little boards that you draw on with magnets. He was very little at the time and she had bought it not actually knowing what it was or how to use it.

    She pulled off the plastic and paper and promptly fvcked both magnets that came with it into the fire, rendering it completely useless :D

    Boy was distraught.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Edgware 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.

    I've tried fish and chips in both Ireland and the UK and I am telling you my preference.

    How exactly am I talking through my hole?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    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.


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