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Views of Ireland by Nationality

  • 16-10-2010 11:57pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭


    The legend that is Stephen Fry tweeted this today, thought it was funny with a little truth to it:

    483 - The Great European Shouting Match | Strange Maps | Big Think

    Ireland is Whiskey on the German map,
    Rugby on the Italian one,
    The Pub on the Bulgarian one,
    In denial on the gay map PMSL,
    Catholics on the French one,
    Rascals on the British one,
    St. Patrick on the American Map and
    on the European map the EU is the Union of subsidised farmers, true for us anyway.

    Poor Finland, land of the mobiles!

    Thought it was worth sharing!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Reminded me of this:

    http://bigthink.com/ideas/21155

    Just realised when i searched for it that it's from the same guy/website.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Racist thread? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    gurramok wrote: »
    Racist thread? :P

    Equal opportunities on that regard.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    Haha, I'd seen the gay map but the others are brilliant too!

    Although I think the gay map is still my favorite...I love that there is a "?" for NI...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    K-9 wrote: »
    Equal opportunities on that regard.

    I think its racist against Scots in that they are the No. 1 whiskey Distillers and consumers rather than us:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    It is a drunken thread no? :confused: Had a shot of whiskey and a shot of mojo + two drinkies and currently drinking a little bit of red wine...ha

    I'm so going to have a bad hangover tomorrow morn! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    kiddie fiddling on the moral map.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Jesus, did you see what the Italians think of the Romanians?

    Thieves it says on the map. ROFL!!

    And the Americans think of Turkey as an 'ThanksGiving Meal'!! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    It is a drunken thread no? :confused: Had a shot of whiskey and a shot of mojo + two drinkies and currently drinking a little bit of red wine...ha

    I'm so going to have a bad hangover tomorrow morn! :eek:

    As with many of your posts, snuggles, i find this one both baffling and entertaining.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Sprouts


    gurramok wrote: »
    I think its racist against Scots in that they are the No. 1 whiskey Distillers and consumers rather than us:pac:
    The Scots have Whisky, we have Whiskey called different because distilled different.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Stick it up your arse Stephen Fry, ye spanner


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Is this a poetry, football or some sporting thread I do not know of? :confused: I'm drunken confused!:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    It is a drunken thread no? :confused: Had a shot of whiskey and a shot of mojo + two drinkies and currently drinking a little bit of red wine...ha

    I'm so going to have a bad hangover tomorrow morn! :eek:

    No actually, makes a change for a Saturday night.

    Wonder what an Irish view would be?

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    gurramok wrote: »
    I think its racist against Scots in that they are the No. 1 whiskey Distillers and consumers rather than us:pac:

    It's quality not quantity that counts!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Ah its a nationality thread not a goolge maps thread no? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    K-9 wrote: »
    No actually, makes a change for a Saturday night.

    Wonder what an Irish view would be?

    Hmm...

    Spain - Sunburn & senoritas

    Netherlands - Hookers and hash

    German - OVERLORDS

    Eastern Europe - hot chicks

    Greeks - There but for the grace of God

    Iceland - Should have been us


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    K-9 wrote: »

    Wonder what an Irish view would be?

    I feel a photoshop comp coming on...

    LOL at the American map


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Hmm...

    Spain - Sunburn & senoritas

    Netherlands - Hookers and hash

    German - OVERLORDS

    Eastern Europe - hot chicks

    Greeks - There but for the grace of God

    Iceland - Should have been us

    And the big one?

    Brits - delusions of grandeur!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭The Agogo


    someone should draw one up for ireland's views



    ^^what they said


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Ah its a nationality thread not a goolge maps thread no? :confused:

    Yeah, good piss take though.

    Finland would still be mobiles though!

    Sweden - hot women

    Norway - we wish

    Denmark - Vikings

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    Australia - shrimp on the barbie & Crocodile Dundee
    New Zealand - Sheep and LOTR
    Thailand - Ladyboys


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    K-9 wrote: »
    Yeah, good piss take though.

    Finland would still be mobiles though!

    Sweden - hot women

    Norway - we wish

    Denmark - Vikings

    I always associate Finns with death metal.

    And I always associate the Swedes with the Vikings, and the Danes with hot dudes/chicks.

    All I think of with Norway is cold, funny sweaters, and Roald Dahl.

    What would Italy be?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Mrmoe wrote: »
    Australia - shrimp on the barbie & Crocodile Dundee
    New Zealand - Sheep and LOTR
    Thailand - Ladyboys

    I know the EU is expanding but come on now...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    I always associate Finns with death metal.

    And I always associate the Swedes with the Vikings, and the Danes with hot dudes/chicks.

    All I think of with Norway is cold, funny sweaters, and Roald Dahl.

    What would Italy be?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    I always associate Finns with death metal.

    And I always associate the Swedes with the Vikings, and the Danes with hot dudes/chicks.

    All I think of with Norway is cold, funny sweaters, and Roald Dahl.

    What would Italy be?

    Berlusconi - sexist pigs?

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    Wertz wrote: »
    I know the EU is expanding but come on now...

    You obviously didn't see that clause in Lisbon 2:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Will give an educated guess....

    Ireland - Whishkey in a barrel
    England - thugs no?
    Wales - rugby fanatics
    Scotland - courtious
    Spain/Portugal and brazil/ South America - good looking people
    France - stuck up, not friendly
    Sweden/Norway/Denmark/Belgium/Austria/Switzerland - better standard of living, nice people
    Germany - not friendly
    Netherlands/Holland - pompus, open and up for anything
    Italy - fashion mad
    Iceland - very much like us especially the coruption of the government and banks being bankcrupt fisaco dilemma scenario type thing
    Rest of Europe just as corupt and bankrupt as us including Greece!
    New Zealand - culture and environment like us people similar but mannerisms different
    Australia - matey
    USA - oh we love Iralend, very patriotic, full of themselves, know it alls, splashy the cashy, greedy, all about looks, 24/7 types
    South Africa - No concept of Irish folk yet poshy noshy with their yaws
    Canada - frenchys, a tad bit strict government but no money problems or no economic problems and no recession!
    China - got the monies we don't have, strict culture and government
    Parts of Asia/Antartica/The Artic/The Far East, doesn't give a fúck about Ireland! Asia and the Far East very strict governmental laws and policies - sucks!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭GizAGoOfYerGee


    I love the Bulgarian one for Ireland. It´s just "Pub". :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭Sitec


    K-9 wrote: »
    And the big one?

    Brits - delusions of grandeur!
    i dont even understand this


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Jamiekelly


    Russia: Kiss me or I crush you
    France: Cheese eating surrender monkeys
    Italy: Pornstar central


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Somebody did do an Irish one, not bad actually:

    How Ireland views Europe - GeoGraphic.ie Posterous

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    England: 800 YEARS.

    Surely?

    Edit:
    K-9 wrote: »
    Somebody did do an Irish one, not bad actually:

    How Ireland views Europe - GeoGraphic.ie Posterous


    snap. :p

    Actually, it should be England: Brummytom


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,648 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    K-9 wrote: »
    Somebody did do an Irish one, not bad actually:

    How Ireland views Europe - GeoGraphic.ie Posterous

    Hahahaha! - "Eurovision vote for each other zone"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    K-9 wrote: »
    And the big one?

    Brits - delusions of grandeur!

    Wouldn't you have to split them up? So something like:

    England - EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS!!!!!!

    Wales - Rugby

    Scotland - Hm, not sure here.

    Northern Ireland - deeldle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle de situation.

    EDIT: ah, shiz, somehow I missed THe Rigger's comment...well, I co-sign anyway... :o
    Edit #2: How did I miss the entire above page? Need coffee...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Seaneh wrote: »

    Cheese eating surrender monkeys! LOL and the kebabs for Turkey!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    One of the comments on that page says that the European map is probably the Russian view. Makes sense.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,348 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Forgot to add russia!

    Russia - From Russia with love!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Screw you Stephen Fry, with your intelligence and witticisms!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Forgot to add russia!

    Russia - From Russia with love!

    Nothing beats Ursula Andress coming out of the ocean in Dr. No. Often copied, never bettered.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker




  • Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭ManAboutCouch


    K-9 wrote: »
    Somebody did do an Irish one, not bad actually:

    How Ireland views Europe - GeoGraphic.ie Posterous

    Thanks! If I had known how widely linked that map was going to be I'd have done a better job on it..


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