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Euro Irish banter are you bored of it yet?
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Airyfairy12 wrote: »It's so cringe! Apparently we're "great craic" and "the best fans in the world". This only seems to be coming from Irish sources, Irish media and Irish websites though. The lads singing lullabys to the baby on the train was the last straw for me. It's all so fake and over the top.
I live in Bordeaux. Go visit sudouest.fr, the primary regional news source. Literally every single article about the Irish over here is gushing about how great they've been. Read all the comments from the Bordelais beneath; every one of them is talking about what a wonderful time they've had with the Irish this weekend, how they dont want them to leave. Some are even talking about organising trips to Ireland based on the back of what they've experienced.
I have been here over a year and I've never seen the city so lit. Everyone was having a wonderful time. There was a great sense of comradery between the Irish and the French. Everyone was looking after each other and I didnt see a single moments trouble. Sincerely.
It wasnt that we were just behaved.. we brought a sense of festivity to the city. So many songs, so many laughs. The French didnt stop smiling. Being here for the Euros I've seen all of the teams pass through the city and the buzz has been nothing like this for any other nationality. Though the Welsh came close
That may be 'self-congratulating', but when I see hundreds of comments from the French on Facebook telling us to please come back as soon as possible, it feels more like pride.0 -
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Muff Richardson wrote: »christ, whatever about the debate on Irish fans in this thread, your attempts at wit, humour, insult or whatever it's supposed to be are shockingly poor.
I'm reading his/her posts as sincere. In fact, his/her first post defended the Irish fans somewhat. 0 -
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Yes, Lunarsea, I have no idea how people took your comments badly.
I'm of the opinion that there's a few reasons; some people are displaying an insecurity/inferiority complex, others may have been frowned upon in the past for liking football, others are just petty minded about these things where it seems to be "if you don't like the exact same things as I do you are wrong".
Again, me saying I don't like football isn't an attack on it or its fans, it's just a statement of my personal tastes. Thread title is asking if we are bored of it, as a non-fan I am very much bored of hearing about it - once again putting the emphasis on the fact that it's my own personal taste and I have nothing against it or anyone that enjoys it.
In fact I have a mate that travelled out to France earlier today - good for him that he's going to do something he really enjoys and that he's both secure and healthy enough to take a few days off work and head over. I'll ask him about the trip and whatnot but it doesn't mean I have to don a tricolour wig and sing Olé Olé in the shower.
(and for the record I'm a non-football fan that can explain the offside rule perfectly well - so I gave it a fair go before I decided it wasn't for me!)0 -
I'm of the opinion that there's a few reasons; some people are displaying an insecurity/inferiority complex, others may have been frowned upon in the past for liking football, others are just petty minded about these things where it seems to be "if you don't like the exact same things as I do you are wrong".
Again, me saying I don't like football isn't an attack on it or its fans, it's just a statement of my personal tastes. Thread title is asking if we are bored of it, as a non-fan I am very much bored of hearing about it - once again putting the emphasis on the fact that it's my own personal taste and I have nothing against it or anyone that enjoys it.
In fact I have a mate that travelled out to France earlier today - good for him that he's going to do something he really enjoys and that he's both secure and healthy enough to take a few days off work and head over. I'll ask him about the trip and whatnot but it doesn't mean I have to don a tricolour wig and sing Olé Olé in the shower.
(and for the record I'm a non-football fan that can explain the offside rule perfectly well - so I gave it a fair go before I decided it wasn't for me!)
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Again, I've no idea what you are trying to put across, but whatever it is, it is piss poor. must try harder 0 -
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Muff Richardson wrote: »The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Again, I've no idea what you are trying to put across, but whatever it is, it is piss poor. must try harder
The lady needs to go back to school and learn to read in that case
Thread title is "Euro Irish banter are you bored of it yet?" My answer - "yes".
You accuse me of allsorts.
You strike me as the type that gets a bit too precious about what other folk think of your "heroes", so whatever.0 -
Muff Richardson wrote: »The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Again, I've no idea what you are trying to put across, but whatever it is, it is piss poor. must try harder
The lady needs to go back to school and learn to read in that case
Thread title is "Euro Irish banter are you bored of it yet?" My answer - "yes".
You accuse me of allsorts.
You strike me as the type that gets a bit too precious about what other folk think of your "heroes". Go cry into your ****ty pint of Tennants when your "heroes" invariably get dumped out of the competition.0 -
The lady needs to go back to school and learn to read in that case
Thread title is "Euro Irish banter are you bored of it yet?" My answer - "yes".
You accuse me of allsorts.
You strike me as the type that gets a bit too precious about what other folk think of your "heroes". Go cry into your ****ty pint of Tennants when your "heroes" invariably get dumped out of the competition.
Have a read back on my other posts on this thread, I think the Irish fans over there are a bunch of drunken attention seeking clowns, the media attention and the ridiculous adulation for the fans annoys me...this is the crux of the thread, not your opinion on the sport in general, or the players.
If you want to get on to it as a sport, the players should be commended for representing their country, they will invariably get knocked out as you say but I don't wish that to happen for them or us as supporters, or any other nation in the competition. It's been a cracking tournament so far, its a shame you can't enjoy it but that's your choice, why are you here if you hate football? You can't tolerate some small talk with your barber about football but you are hear with long posts of hate filled waffle about football...head out for a stroll in the good weather and log off boards while we watch no? live and let live?
My issue is and always been with your posts on this thread is that they pretty incoherent rants which are off topic and I can't really understand if you are attempting, humour, insult, irony etc. It's just nonsense and seems to be just attention seeking...so there we are chum, no hard feelings eh?
where can you get Tennants by the way?0 -
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Muff Richardson wrote: »Again, I've no idea what you are trying to put across, but whatever it is, it is piss poor. must try harder
This is so bizarre.0
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