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Are Irish people as thick as American's?

  • 19-02-2020 6:42pm
    #1
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    I'm sitting in a cafe and watched a woman trying to pour milk from the jug. It's a jug with a button to press. A good five minutes went by when she went up to the counter to say there was no milk.

    There was milk she just couldn't or didn't figure out what the button on the jug was for. I've only ever came across this kind of thickness from Americans.


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  • #2
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    I'm sitting in a cafe and watched a woman trying to pour milk from the jug. It's a jug with a button to press. A good five minutes went by when she went up to the counter to say there was no milk.

    There was milk she just couldn't or didn't figure out what the button on the jug was for. I've only ever came across this kind of thickness from Americans.

    So one woman can’t find a button for whatever reason and you ask about a whole nation ?
    By the way she could have sight difficulties or another issue which you wouldn’t be aware of .


  • #3
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    The typo in the title is tongue-in-cheek, right?


  • #4
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Yes. You saw one woman struggling with a milk jug egro the entire country is thick. You got it in one.

    Away with the fairies is about right.


  • #5
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    Imagine being that **** sitting there watching someone and judging them when you could have gone over and said hey I think you're supposed to use it this way?


  • #6
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Using your phone to type to message board strangers when you could have talked to her and helped her in the cafe

    Says more about you OP


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  • #7
    Car99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    Pot kettle black


  • #8
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    As thicks as American’s what ?


  • #9
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭circadian


    American's?

    Yes.


  • #10
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    So one woman can’t find a button for whatever reason and you ask about a whole nation ?
    By the way she could have sight difficulties or another issue which you wouldn’t be aware of .

    There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.


  • #11
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Imagine being that **** sitting there watching someone and judging them when you could have gone over and said hey I think you're supposed to use it this way?

    They're away with the fairies :)


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  • #12
    Benson Thankful Pigeon
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Benson Thankful Pigeon


    some of those milk jugs are tricksy


  • #13
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    American's.

    Huh.


  • #14
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    If your calling people thick, its always a good idea to check your grammar before posting.


  • #15
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

    Sad that you have nothing better to do isn’t it


  • #16
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,631 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

    Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s yer own ma & da.


  • #17
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭circadian


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    If your calling people thick, its always a good idea to check your grammar before posting.

    Hah!


  • #18
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭circadian


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

    What a boring existence.


  • #19
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    As thicks as American’s what ?

    Oh the grammar Nazis are out.


  • #20
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    There was a guy after her who had the same problem. I'm sitting right beside the milk and sugar station. I'm just observing all the people who can't pour milk.

    Is your name Cathal by any chance?


  • #21
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Imagine being that **** sitting there watching someone and judging them when you could have gone over and said hey I think you're supposed to use it this way?

    Yeah, it just sounds like a brain fart on the part of the woman. I’ve seen the most intelligent people have those.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Oh the grammar Nazis are out.

    You missed a comma.

    Was the woman an American? Or an American't?


  • #23
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Oh the grammar Nazis are out.


    Well if you are going to judge the intelligence of other people it's always a good idea to make your point water tight.

    Americans thick? Americans lead the world in pretty much every human endeavour.

    Grow up.


  • #24
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Was it, low fat or what?


  • #25
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    No just chancers.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd hate the OP to observe my regular struggles with the so-called child-proof lid.


  • #27
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Are they those stupid jugs you have to push a thing over to the side to get milk out of? They are very counter-intuitive. I often wondered what sort of a thick invented them.


  • #28
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Do not judge others lest you be judged OP.


  • #29
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    I don't believe there is much difference in intelligence in developed countries.
    It's easier to find large group of both highly intelligent people or incredibly stupid ones in countries with large populations.
    It just depends on what you are actively looking out for.


  • #30
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,400 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    I too have struggled with those things. Rarely have problems with the use of apostrophes though.

    Guess it evens itself out.


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  • #31
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,381 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Oh the grammar Nazis are out.

    tenor.gif

    :pac:


  • #32
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    It's Americans' not American's.


  • #33
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Tbh some of the most admirable people Ive met were Americans and I've felt at times theres an anti intellectual undercurrent in Irish society. A fashion for dumbing down.


  • #34
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I've often had trouble with those jugs.

    To be fair, where I grew up the jugs didn't even have lids, never mind buttons.


  • #35
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Intelligent people do stupid things.

    I turned up at my son's primary school yesterday evening at 5pm to pick him up from 'Kid's Club' as usual.

    Rang the bell and waited patiently only to be reminded by a stranger passing by that it is mid term and the school is shut. My son was at his grandparents. Clean forgot.


  • #36
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    It's Americans' not American's.


    Sorry to be a Pedantic Pete but it is 'Americans' in the plural.

    It is not a possessive noun.


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  • #37
    tintin67
    Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭tintin67


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    If your calling people thick, its always a good idea to check your grammar before posting.

    Your right.


  • #38
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    "You've jumped over the fence baby".


  • #39
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    We have seen the enemy and they are us.

    And by that I mean the Irish made a big contribution to the American gene pool...

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



  • #40
    adox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,018 ✭✭✭✭adox


    To answer the question, I think it’s half and half.


  • #41
    NSAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭NSAman


    nthclare wrote: »
    Was it, low fat or what?

    Judging by where I live in the US, low fat doesn't exist for the majority of people. Talk about fatties!!!


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  • #42
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    The sheer irony of the OP's name :D


  • #43
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    American's was an autocorrect.

    I used to work in the hotel industry and the Americans definitely asked the dumbest of questions like how to open their bedroom window. Just thought that a milk jug was fairly simple to operate but clearly it's not.


  • #44
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,498 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Around the waist, no.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #45
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    I'm sitting in a cafe and watched a woman trying to pour milk from the jug. It's a jug with a button to press. A good five minutes went by when she went up to the counter to say there was no milk.

    There was milk she just couldn't or didn't figure out what the button on the jug was for. I've only ever came across this kind of thickness from Americans.

    Some people are slow learners


  • #46
    Granadino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Granadino


    Has boards been taken over by 18 year olds? Seems so.


  • #47
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Granadino wrote: »
    Has boards been taken over by 18 year olds? Seems so.

    "I know what you are but what am I?"

    School holiday time.


  • #48
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,630 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Granadino wrote: »
    Has boards been taken over by 18 year olds? Seems so.

    A poster with 77 posts over the course of four months has a long way to go before he takes over...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #49
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,630 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    American's was an autocorrect.

    I used to work in the hotel industry and the Americans definitely asked the dumbest of questions like how to open their bedroom window. Just thought that a milk jug was fairly simple to operate but clearly it's not.

    I had an issue with this muscle-bound cop where I actually had to SHOW him how to use the three sea-shells. He may have been Italian, though.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #50
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    nthclare wrote: »
    Is your name Cathal by any chance?

    Most definitely a Gavin.


  • #51
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Putting milk into tea is the travesty here


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