Interesting trait of Irish people

completedit · 21-11-2020 2:24am #1

Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

begbysback · 21-11-2020 2:25am

eh?

Gregor Samsa · 21-11-2020 2:39am

Does this mean all Belgians are action movie stars?

nullzero · 21-11-2020 3:08am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Does this mean all Belgians are action movie stars?

A very charitable thing to relate to Belgium...

Quantum Erasure · 21-11-2020 3:26am

Saints and scholars

Kermit.de.frog · 21-11-2020 3:29am

Step away from the alcohol

Vita nova · 21-11-2020 3:44am

It's the Irish man/woman's burden when abroad to sound like a Yeats or a Heaney when most of us are anything but.

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Your Face · 21-11-2020 3:47am

I know exactly of whom you're talking about.

con747 · 21-11-2020 4:11am

You forgot we are cantankerous bastards.

spring lane jack · 21-11-2020 4:23am

drunks

Kaybaykwah · 21-11-2020 4:30am

Yes, well, I find that the fair solution is to settle for a hybrid trait of inebriate pugilistic bards. Let's face it, even the dainty lasses have to own up to this.

Tell me how · 21-11-2020 5:02am

completedit wrote: »

Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

You just made up a statement, and then called it Bizarre.

Is the left side of your brain not talking to the right?

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 6:39am

completedit wrote: »

Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

I'm not but part of my DNA isn't Irish. So i put it down to that.

But i will say this.

Most irish people in my mind ...are beautiful speakers. And i love to listen to you all.

I wish i had your gift.

Gorteen · 21-11-2020 6:58am

Begrudgery

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 6:59am

Gorteen wrote: »

Begrudgery

Very true.

Pkiernan · 21-11-2020 7:20am

completedit wrote: »

Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

You forgot thieving bastards.

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 7:23am

Pkiernan wrote: »

You forgot thieving bastards.

Got your wallet!;)

Black Swan · 21-11-2020 8:02am

Immigration

kowloonkev · 21-11-2020 9:10am

I once told an American I don't drink and his response was... "Oh, were you an alcoholic?"

kowloonkev · 21-11-2020 9:14am

completedit wrote: »

Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

I suppose you have to take into account the type of people who were left; who survived the famine; and the English and the poverty. They'd have to be the dreamers.

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 9:25am

kowloonkev wrote: »

I suppose you have to take into account the type of people who were left; who survived the famine; and the English and the poverty. They'd have to be the dreamers.

Don't think so. I think the dreamers mostly leave.

We are tough mother ****ers.

zanador · 21-11-2020 10:10am

A friend of mine said when he moved here he was never quite sure when confronted with a shouting drunk Irishman if he was going to get punched or making a friend for life and he often didn't know til the last second

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 10:15am

zanador wrote: »

A friend of mine said when he moved here he was never quite sure when confronted with a shouting drunk Irishman if he was going to get punched or making a friend for life and he often didn't know til the last second

I don't think i would want someone like that to be a friend for life.:pac:

whisky_galore · 21-11-2020 10:18am

Don't post while high OP.

Placebo Effect · 21-11-2020 10:22am

The Cáca Milis

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 10:30am

Placebo Effect wrote: »

The Cáca Milis

Username here · 21-11-2020 10:36am

Placebo Effect wrote: »

The Cáca Milis

Tá scamaill sa spéir.

dxhound2005 · 21-11-2020 11:42am

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Very true.

True.

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 12:15pm

Placebo Effect wrote: »

The Cáca Milis

i wasted 17 mins of my life and now so must you

There is always that dude on public transport though.

EmmetSpiceland · 21-11-2020 12:20pm

Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 21-11-2020 12:42pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

That is correct. This is a site that primarily exists so people can complain and dish out criticism about other people, but when a poster like myself points out extremely valid traits about the Irish then other posters get extremely tetchy and defensive.

Some examples include:

- A lot of Irish people have horrific teeth. Things have improved, but you still set a lot of people wandering around with a set of teeth on them that wouldn't look out of place in the movie Deliverance.

- Overweight men in their 30's and 40's still wearing bootcut jeans and looking like they are looking forward to attending the Witnness Music Festival in the year 2000.

- That thing where Irish people go abroad and up the levels of Paddywhackery as they somehow believe it impresses the poor misfortunates who end up in their presence. This reaches its zenith when Ireland qualify for a soccer tournament, and will usually involve sunburn, drunkenness, a man in a fountain, and a desperate need to feel they are liked. Cringe inducing.

- Buying absolutely awful low-end cars on PCP finance.

Gregor Samsa · 21-11-2020 1:58pm

nullzero wrote: »

A very charitable thing to relate to Belgium...

It's a scientific fact, based on the characteristics of all their famous people combined.

Church on Tuesday · 21-11-2020 2:07pm

Tell me how wrote: »

You just made up a statement, and then called it Bizarre.

Is the left side of your brain not talking to the right?

Leave him alone he's an artiste.

For Forks Sake · 21-11-2020 2:12pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Does this mean all Belgians are action movie stars?

That's not usually the first thing that springs to mind when Belgium is mentioned

21-11-2020 2:17pm

Our ability to get sun burned.

RandomViewer · 21-11-2020 2:17pm

kowloonkev wrote: »

I once told an American I don't drink and his response was... "Oh, were you an alcoholic?"

That's a fairly common question when someone refuses a drink,

21-11-2020 2:20pm

For Forks Sake wrote: »

That's not usually the first thing that springs to mind when Belgium is mentioned

Belgium is a bit like Tir na n'og, Longford, Atlantis or the Bermuda Triangle... not sure if it's a real place.

dxhound2005 · 21-11-2020 2:21pm

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

That is correct. This is a site that primarily exists so people can complain and dish out criticism about other people, but when a poster like myself points out extremely valid traits about the Irish then other posters get extremely tetchy and defensive.

Your points may or may not be valid, others can decide. But by couching them in such extreme terms, you can expect extreme reactions.

21-11-2020 2:23pm

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Your points may or may not be valid, others can decide. But by couching them in such extreme terms, you can expect extreme reactions.

Goal achieved then.

whisky_galore · 21-11-2020 2:46pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

Irish making fun of other countries = havin' de craic.

Foreigners making fun of Ireland = highly offensive.

English people making fun of Ireland = Jihad declared.

vriesmays · 21-11-2020 3:21pm

completedit wrote: »

Extrapolating talents, skills and feats of famous irish people to the population at large. We are all playwrights, musicians, dramatists, interlocutors, whimsical ntellectuals and poets. Bizarre.

Most of them were Protestants yet the Irish Catholic majority think they have the exact same traits.

21-11-2020 4:21pm

vriesmays wrote: »

Most of them were Protestants yet the Irish Catholic majority think they have the exact same traits.

I think you're talking about a time when education was elitist.

If you cannot think of many Irish people of varied backgrounds that have had a global impact in the OPs categories you're highly unlikely to be a candidate yourself.

21-11-2020 6:41pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Irish people tend to be, highly, “sensitive” to criticism.

I would say we love it. One of the most self critical nations on Earth. I mean this whole thread is Irish self criticism.

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 9:36pm

We make good jockeys.

We have a way with horses.

Also .....i have a horse outside.

A part of Irish pride is tied to horses.

21-11-2020 9:54pm

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

A part of Irish pride is tied to horses.

Strange thing about horses in Ireland, it's either the Traveller "class" (settled or not) or upper middle class that generally have a thing for horses... which are you?

boardise · 21-11-2020 9:56pm

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

We make good jockeys.

We have a way with horses.

Also .....i have a horse outside.

A part of Irish pride is tied to horses.

Extremely true. Cf documentary film CAPALLOLOGY ( 1968)
+ pound for pound best breeders, trainers and jockeys in the known universe.

Not forgetting the equine predilections of the significant ethnic minority known currently under the appellation 'Travellers'.

Gregor Samsa · 21-11-2020 10:07pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Strange thing about horses in Ireland, it's either the Traveller "class" (settled or not) or upper middle class that generally have a thing for horses... which are you?

Or just ordinary people, particularly in rural areas.

peasant · 21-11-2020 10:34pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I would say we love it. One of the most self critical nations on Earth. I mean this whole thread is Irish self criticism.

Being self-critical or not taking yourself too seriously is just an Irish prevention mechanism not to be criticized or laughed at by others

dxhound2005 · 21-11-2020 10:47pm

Is owning a horse a trait? What about a bicycle?

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 11:03pm

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Is owning a horse a trait? What about a bicycle?

Sure. But we are not really bike people. that is the dutch.:)

ILoveYourVibes · 21-11-2020 11:04pm

boardise wrote: »

Extremely true. Cf documentary film CAPALLOLOGY ( 1968)

I will try and search for this on youtube.

Interesting trait of Irish people

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