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Are we a laughing stock.?

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  • #152
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,464 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Ah okay, stupid me. I was just imagining people from out foreign insulting an Irish person and it annoyed me!

    Why can't a foreigner insult an Irish person.


  • #153
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why can't a foreigner insult an Irish person.

    Because we're preciousssss


  • #154
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Shryke wrote: »
    Japanese are xenophobic dolphin haters. Koreans eat dogs. English are hooligans and horrible on holiday. Americans don't grasp irony and they're stupidly forward. Romanians are thieves. French are stuck up. Ze Germans are efficient but humourless. So it goes.
    We have a good reputation and we're welcomed most places we go.


    Very Stereotypical post. How Ironic!


  • #155
    fitzYOLO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭fitzYOLO


    Pretty much nobody takes us seriously but what does it matter?


  • #156
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why can't a foreigner insult an Irish person.

    Because we'll get drunk and kick the fuck out of them.

    That's why.

    losthorizon wrote: »
    Very Stereotypical post. How Ironic!

    Yeah....


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  • #157
    Itwasntme.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    Irish people are spuds. Irish people are drunks. Irish people are....*drawing a blank*





    *ducks for cover*


  • #158
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    If you consider that the current Irish catchphrase sweeping social media sites is "AHHH LEAVE IT AOOUUUUUUUU.... LEAVE IH BLEEDIN' AOUU..." I'd have to venture a yes.
    Even our parliament is a laughing stock: this is the first video result on youtube for the phrase "Dail Eireann"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wZX_Jfvm_Y


  • #159
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Anyway the potato is the greatest vegetable on Earth, I mean, we could have been called 'turnip heads' like the English and that's way worse.
    That's the joke


  • #160
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Do you know for all our Gombeens and jaysus chancers, we've also produced more than our fair share of great minds who've contributed greatly to the literary world in particular.


  • #161
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Ah okay, stupid me. I was just imagining people from out foreign insulting an Irish person and it annoyed me!

    Nooo. Just the fact that a human head can be compared to a vegetable such as a potato and thought I'd do a bit of veg-human head comparing myself. Basically a ****e attempt at a joke. Joke fail if you will.


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  • #162
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Do you know for all our Gombeens and jaysus chancers, we've also produced more than our fair share of great minds who've contributed greatly to the literary world in particular.

    Irish literature was and still is amongst the best.


  • #163
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,464 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    Nooo. Just the fact that a human head can be compared to a vegetable such as a potato and thought I'd do a bit of veg-human head comparing myself. Basically a ****e attempt at a joke. Joke fail if you will.

    Like a man who walks into a bar and says..ouch.


  • #164
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Do you know for all our Gombeens and jaysus chancers, we've also produced more than our fair share of great minds who've contributed greatly to the literary world in particular.
    Yep. A lot of great scientists too for such a small nation.


  • #165
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    Low-level trolling is not venomous, that's why its called low-level trolling.
    I'd have thunk it's snide, passive-aggressive, ultimately malicious, often personal digs rather than jokey comments in response to a vent out of the blue and to a person who is such a troll they're now banned, but maybe it's subjective.
    Orizio wrote: »
    Power and influence.
    Influence in terms of what? For example, Irish literature is very influential.
    BlueSmoker wrote: »
    that was very much a general statement out of fustration, and I apologies now for anyone who was offended by it.
    Again my apologies for any offence I have caused.
    None taken, no need for apology. Just wondered was all. :)
    fitzYOLO wrote: »
    Pretty much nobody takes us seriously
    How do you know this? The "Ole ole shur Ireland's the best" brigade and the "We're inferior" brigade are as bad as each other. :p


  • #166
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    When i look at the prominence of Sports on News websites i wonder what are we serious about .Why should other Nations take us seriously ?


  • #167
    emul8ter25
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭emul8ter25


    kneemos wrote: »
    With our spudlike faces and our reputation for drunkiness,fighting and laziness do you think other countries really take us seriously.?


    its called a stereotype. usually there is a bit of truth behind them....


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