Things you hate about Irish culture

cathodrays

Saw a similar question on Reddit. Apart from the high cost of living and poor services.

John_Rambo

Cultural Cringe.

This is it

Complaining in a barbers, seems typically Irish not to.

You could be sitting there stewing after a barber has made a right bollox of your hair, but when they ask "How's that looking?"

Do we say, no would you mind tidying that up, take another bit off the top... do we fúck...

"That's perfect, thanks!!"

And here's a fiver tip for my shyte haircut.

F1ngers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058361608/things-you-hate-about-irish-culture

You 1st op.

At least offer something to the conversation - apart from robbing an idea from reddit.

callaway92

People can’t gather as a group without getting pissed

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The ‘buy local’ nonsense, when buying local generally means getting a fist the size of Andre The Giant’s stuck up your ass to buy the same thing you could get for half the price on Amazon. Half the time the ‘buying local’ is actually just someone dropshipping anyway….

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The person who doesn’t drink is ‘boring’

EmmetSpiceland

Being incredibly sensitive to general criticism.

Bobson Dugnutt

Father Ted memes.

tobefrank321

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122431619#Comment_122431619

Is that aimed at me?

Eoinbmw

"Trad sessions" so feckin serious and boring for the most part!

MintyMagnum

All the leprechaun shite everybody wears paddy’s day / sporting events.

MintyMagnum

We should have stuck with the original blue flag - forty shades of green white and orange shite are minging.

MintyMagnum

Drinking til you puke

MintyMagnum

Pipe bands

HBC08

Negative threads on boards.

MintyMagnum

Come-all-ye/seanos songs

JoChervil

Slagging

webpal

Funeral crashers, you know the folk that just turn up for the dinner

castletownman

The 'famous celebrity is on holiday in Ireland' shite. We are a very accessible and well off country in Western Europe.

It'd be far more random if they were visiting Central African Republic or Micronesia, but even their media wouldn't over-hype it.

rathfarnhamlad

Hating anything got to do with England even though you follow an English football team and regularly travel there for matches.

Lavdogg

Minimum pricing for alcohol

Obsession with the Irish Rugby Team

Lack of investement in a proper rail network

Dinasours on TV and in politics

Virgin Media TV channels, how many episodes of the chase is there?

bartkingcole

GAA jerseys.

A bandwagon - Taylor Swift the latest one.

Everything St. Patrick’s Day

Hyping up the rugby team at every opportunity.

Media personalities. Combined with bad radio and TV.

The round system and the need to always have ‘pints’.

Friendly Irish who are actually just nosey.

Self important civil servants who would not last a day in the private sector (there are some great ones too but a minority).

Short termism on policies and planning. Terrible.

Poor quality of politicians and leaders (linked to above).

Private school cliques which follow into universities.

An extraordinary ability to get offended at anything - who cares.

The web summit.

Tayto are not the best crisps and hurling is not the greatest game in the world.

to balance this out.

• dun Laoghaire pier on a crisp winters days
• fantastic beaches and golf courses.
• Great fish and seafood and steak and black pudding.
• Colorful houses in rural Ireland especially west cork
• The fact that we would support a donkey or a fly in an Irish jerseys
• Nice whiskeys.

Iseedeadpixels

GAA cultists

Thelonious Monk

I think in general Irish people live with a little "saudade". Generally i think we are the coolest and most interesting people in the world.

downtheroad

Scumbags who litter and break things just because. A serious lack of civic pride.

gym_imposter

The eagerness of people to tell you who their cousin are ,I live in rural Ireland ( but not where I grew up) and it's almost like it's a deliberate reminder that I'm not from the area

We love being clannish

gym_imposter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122431619#Comment_122431619

Never visit New Zealand if you think we are thin skinned on that front

kerry_man15

Chanting 'Ole, ole ole, ole" at every sporting event, especially soccer games. It's got no connection to Ireland or Irish culture whatsoever, it's so cringeworthy!

scrotist

We are no different from North Korea.

For some reason, Irish people completely worship the president. I can't even remember his name, but it's Miggledy Higgins or something. I couldn't give a fecking shyte about him. But it seems everybody just absolutely loves everything he does. "Here's a photo of Miggledy HIggins drinking a cup of tea". 5,000 comments with people saying "he's the best president ever I love him!!!!" He doesn't give the slightest shyte about you, why do you love him? It's literally like the North Koreans worshipping Kim Jong Un.

More North Korean stuff:

Everything only happens in Ireland. Here's a photo of a tractor in the countryside causing a bit of a traffic jam. "Only in Ireland bai hahah sum laf 😂" Literally no awareness of the world outside of your village.

More North Korean stuff:

"Irish food and produce is the best in the word. We have unbelievable quality produce". Somehow this mind virus has infected everybody on this island. I've heard we're a well travelled bunch, but I'm beginning to seriously doubt that. Maybe Irish people do travel a lot, but they stay in the Irish pub and hang out with Irish people, and just eat Taytos and McDonalds when they're abroad.

Any time I hear somebody saying we have the best produce in the world, I ask them what food exactly they're on about. They get flustered and go into a state of shock. Nobody has ever questioned this propaganda. They say "Uhhh…. well…. uhhh……… we have good butter like. And good beef?" So in the space of 5 seconds the propaganda goes from "best produce in the world" to two products. And we don't even appear on a google search of "best beef in the world". I know this is anecdotal but I've had tastier beef in Africa and South America. And they only use a bit of salt. No need to hide the flavour with garlic and rosemary and thyme like we do here. Yes our butter is delicious. No argument with that. But get your head out of your arse.

Iseedeadpixels

The obsession with American politics, so much so that they call themselves Trump or Harris fans! They could care less about Irish politics.

Pauliedragon

Trawling through the genealogy of every American president trying to find some "Irish" in them somewhere.