I have never been so ashamed to be Irish

Kold

Dudess wrote: »

Yep, and the message I got wasn't "I'm really sorry Dudess, I know you're here three and a half years and you've a lot of posts and you're a moderator and you're well known... but I'm going to have to ban you because you broke a rule", it was "You're banned from After Hours for a week for the following..."

Fuk's sake... will people ever let the mod/well-known member conspiracy sh1t go...?

Spammer.

stovelid

Jumpy wrote: »

SILENCE POPULAR MEMBER.

It's only because I added her as a friend.

dSTAR

This thread has run its course.

Nothing more to see here. Lights out.

mayordenis

oh no the lights went off in a bar, how utterly terrible, I'm just glad you somehow survived.

Tefral

Reading the OP's post remined me of the tommy tiernan sketch on the pub fire alarm

see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTdvJGsZFxM&feature=related

Dudess

mayordenis wrote: »

oh no the lights went off in a bar, how utterly terrible, I'm just glad you somehow survived.

My mate was there too. The air conditioning also went, and the place, which is already like an oven, was supposed to be difficult for even breathing. They pack people in there until you can't move, and going to the bar is something you may as well forget about. A fire - all but those by the door would be seriously fukked.
I've been there once - for a hen night. It was unbearable.

jiltloop

Hazys wrote: »

I have never been ashamed to be irish in my life. I just arrived back for Boston this morning for christmass. I used to laugh at the americans for being so pedantic when it came to service in bars etc My attitude was look at those egijjts, just get over it and have a good time.

But i have never been left feeling so angry after a night out. I went out to Havanna Browns in Cork this evening with my buddies which i havent seen in months. But the lights went out in the club. Half the club was pitch dark. I was sitting there in the dark enjoying my pint talking to my friend with only the light off my phone aluminating the area around us. Lights were out still after an hour but the bar was still serving...what a f*cking joke. Nobody seemed to care that this was seriously dangerous, my buddies were still drinking away having the time of their lives.

After an hour of pitch dark i went up to the bouncer to ask why they hadnt cleared people out of the pitch dark areas because if any1 fell the club would be extremely liable. The bouncer made a joke about how the club was trying to reduce its carbon footprint (Im pretty sure this joke would still be that funny if the place had been Stardust2). I was shocked at his response. The club didnt give a sh1t as long as it was making money and the customers didnt give a sh1t as long we were getting served. Are we that dependent on alcohol that we dont care if our safety is being threaten in the persuit of getting hammered?

I got pissed of and went downstairs to demand a refund, i got my 15 euro back(the most expensive night club in boston is $15). So i went to find a Garda to complain about it. It took me 45 mins to find a Garda on the streets of Cork city on one of the busiest drinking nights of the year. I found two Gardai outside the coal quay on their way to the bridewell station, explained the situation to them, they said they'd get on it right away after they went into the station to fill out some paperwork. W*nkers completely blew me off, didnt give a sh1t. Whats amazing is last year my best friend's brother, a 1st class primary school teacher was jumped from behind on MacCurtain street and beaten within an inch of his life 3 days before christmass. The only thing that saved him was his girlfriend screaming as the scumbag jumped on his head. On MacCurtain street not a garda in sight!!!! The Gardai are dicks.

After the Gardai blew me off I went to Hillbillies to get food. Got my food, crossed the road to eat it in a bus stop. As i was eating, outside hillbillies a fight broke out. What i could see from across the road was a guy's girlfriend trying to stop him from fighting, ending up ur1 getting slapped to the ground by her boyfriend for getting in the way. Eventually friends stopped the fight and ur1 and the boyfriend hopped in to a taxi together! Again not a Garda in sight


Im not trying to come across as holyier than thou, as i like to go on the piss just like every1 else. I normally wouldnt even complain about service in a restaurant or a bar but what i witnessed in Havannas was a disgrace. I was talking about how it was a disgrace to my friends, they were agreeing but really didnt care as long as they had a pint in their hands, just like every1 else in the club. At least i know in Boston this wouldnt happen as their is generally a police pressence in most clubs every odd week and also americans wouldnt stand for it. But are we so reliant on getting hammered that we dont give a sh1t about anything else? Are the same people who complain about getting ripped off in Ireland sitting in a pitch dark night club paying for drinks and admission that are way more expensive than the top notch nightclubs in Boston and other cities?

Maybe the reason why there were no gardai on the streets when that girl was getting slapped by her boyfriend, is because they were in the station writing up a report about an illumination problem in a pub nearby.

20goto10

Sure weren't they only havin' the craic tooraloora loo :rolleyes:. I agree with the OP. This country is a joke. I blame the Brits for stopping the spread of the Nazis. I'd much rather be speaking German and living in an efficient country.

mayordenis

Dudess wrote: »

My mate was there too. The air conditioning also went, and the place, which is already like an oven, was supposed to be difficult for even breathing. They pack people in there until you can't move, and going to the bar is something you may as well forget about. A fire - all but those by the door would be seriously fukked.
I've been there once - for a hen night. It was unbearable.

sounds really bad seriously maybe next time - don't go.

Dudess

I don't. I went once cuz I felt obliged to.

jrodd

Dudess wrote: »

I don't. I went once cuz I felt obliged to.

I thought you were supposed to hate txt spk

shivkk06

i think you would be better off in Boston, and your sense of humour must have stayed there to. as what the bouncer said deserved a smile at least. you sat there for an hour before leaving why??? if you were so disgraced and ashamed of the irish if course something like this would never happen anyhere else in the world would it...or maybe they jusyt wouldnt piss n moan bout it you got your 15 euro back, buy a pair of slippers

jrodd

shivkk06 wrote: »

i think you would be better off in Boston, and your sense of humour must have stayed there to. as what the bouncer said deserved a smile at least. you sat there for an hour before leaving why??? if you were so disgraced and ashamed of the irish if course something like this would never happen anyhere else in the world would it...or maybe they jusyt wouldnt piss n moan bout it you got your 15 euro back, buy a pair of slippers

Yeah OP you talk about your life being in danger because you were in the dark???
In America you can legally own a sawn off shotgun and a silenced automatic machine gun.
I think you were safe enough tbh!

Jumpy

shivkk06 wrote: »

i think you would be better off in Boston,

Yay! *puts another tick on the board*

jrodd

Jumpy wrote: »

Yay! *puts another tick on the board*

+1

Biggins

The fact that the OP decided he was ashamed of his nation over a place that had lights out, being over-charged, thinking little of the cops and Irish people, means that he basically gave away his right to be an Irish person lightly and cheaply indeed.

I would be ashamed to be Irish if we as a nation set about exterminating a whole culture based on religion, belief, place of residence or trait.
I would be ashamed to be Irish if we as a nation if we didn't give to charities the world over to help our fellow humans, animals and environment.
I would be ashamed to be Irish if we as a nation killed, murdered or slaughtered and let our own die of starvation and cholera...

...but to be ashamed of ones nation that is at the end of the day, minor immaterial issues in comparison to the larger more important issues, frankly, if the OP gives away nationality so cheaply and easily for so low a reason, he don't think much of it and I will take his Irish nationality off him gladly.

HE DON'T DESERVE IT! :mad:

As your heading back to Boston OP, please leave your Irish passport at the departure gate.

buynow

FFS there is not much difference between any western countries.

The OP had a ridiculous over reaction to something. And he was comparing a big city to a small one. I'd guess stuff would be similar in smaller US cities or towns.
It started the whole thread off in a spiral. But the reaction to it by trying put Ireland on a pedestal is equally ridiculous.

I live in the US and is the same as Ireland, service in general is the same, I have had good and bad here. Same **** in the shops, same brands, same TV, same movies, cars work roughly the same, go to work everyday, go home watch the simpsons, eat dominos it is all the damn same. You'd expect a little more variety after moving 4000 miles (Maybe I should have gone to China).

There is more differences between different states and counties here than there is between Ireland and the Boston (No you can't own silenced machine gun in boston, parts of texas probably require you to).

So arguing over some minor stuff is stupid, it like arguing over which shade of green makes one blade of grass better than the other.

Jumpy

Biggins wrote: »

As your heading back to Boston OP, please leave your passport at the departure gate.

*tick..taptaptaptap* stupid pen has run out

*gets new pen*

*tick*

Jumpy

Anyone else for the "Typical Irish Response" board?

Go on... you know you want to.

shivkk06

me please jumpy

Jumpy

shivkk06 wrote: »

me please jumpy

I marked yours off already.

shivkk06

Jumpy wrote: »

I marked yours off already.

thanks i think