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Things you hate about Irish culture

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  • #182
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,774 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Thinking the whole world loves us.



  • #183
    black & white
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭black & white


    Not to bash GAA but it drives me mad to see players not waiting until the end of the National Anthem before they start moving around. I haven't seen it in any other sport and often wonder why it happens.



  • #184
    Highlighter75
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Highlighter75


    The zombie language. Let it die ffs.



  • #185
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    drink till you puke…and if you dont drink till you puke your labeled a dry old shite…


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?



  • #186
    L Grey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭L Grey


    The absolute cowardly, simpering and panicked refusal to actually back ourselves.



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  • #187
    SpoonyMcSpoon
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭SpoonyMcSpoon


    I don’t like the submissiveness and infantile nature of Irish people with a strong subservience to the State. Call it a hangover from the Catholic Church or the English conquering the Irish but it really holds the country back and results in so many of the problems experienced by people in the country; putting up with high taxes and atrocious public services and infrastructure; enduring inept and wasteful politicians and civil servants; being afraid of confrontation and needing to please everyone and go out of one’s way to show how sound the Irish are whether it is to the stranger on the street or on the international stage (confrontation is okay); abandoning culture and adopting the grotesque consumerism of the United States (Irish people don’t even celebrate their national day properly as so many people dismiss it and just treat it like any other bank holiday). All the while going to the pub and drinking to a mental state which enables Irish people to tolerate the underachieving and unimpressive life they have here, captured in a statement of “it’s grand”. It is unfortunate.



  • #188
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,436 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122433119#Comment_122433119

    Uncomfortable truth. If enough people were motivated to speak it, it would be a lingua franca, but there aren't and it isn't.

    You can't force people to do something they don't want to do.



  • #189
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,192 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445379#Comment_122445379

    I don't want to force anyone to do anything. It just baffles me that there are quite a few European countries where many people are fluent in both their native tongue and English but no Irish government has shown a flicker of interest.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #190
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,231 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445290#Comment_122445290

    I am not infantile or submissive. And it is not a part of Irish culture.



  • #191
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,669 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122442082#Comment_122442082

    Of course it's connected to Ireland, and Irish drinking culture in particular.

    "Ól é…Ól é…Ól é…Ól é…Ól é!!!" meaning "Drink it…Drink it…Drink it…Drink it…!!!".

     Gaeilgeoirí, eh? 🤪



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  • #192
    I see sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 1,782 ✭✭✭I see sheep


    The obsession with money which seems to have infected many Irish people.



  • #193
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,436 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445404#Comment_122445404

    The government/official Ireland has been trying to force/cajole people to speak it for a century now. Millions must have been spent on it.

    It's up to people themselves. All the tools are there to learn it, but they have no interest.

    If people want to get into anything else, an activity, a sport or play an instrument, they are motivated enough to devote time and money to practices and matches, equipment, classes etc. They don't sit around for the magic government fairy to make it come true. You are blaming government for the "failings" of people.

    Typical Irish response "I'd love to learn it but * insert list of excuses*"



  • #194
    Vote4Squirrels
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Vote4Squirrels


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445209#Comment_122445209

    I've noticed that lately cos I'm off the gargle as I can't drink on my painkillers - even the smell of stale lager as I pass my local annoys me…!!



  • #195
    Pauliedragon
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445209#Comment_122445209

    I think those days are numbered. For medical reasons I can have a couple of pints and then have to go on the 00. Nobody calls me a dry shite. If they did I'd find new friends.



  • #196
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,192 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445462#Comment_122445462

    They've been shovelling money to incompetent but well-connected idiots for generations. No incentive to do the job if nobody demands results.

    But yes, you are correct. There are more tools and options available than ever for anyone wanting to learn the language but they're more concerned about making the next generation jump through the same hoops than do anything meaningful about it.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #197
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443474#Comment_122443474

    They'll all be here.

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  • #198
    SpoonyMcSpoon
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭SpoonyMcSpoon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445434#Comment_122445434

    Good for you but I am generalising. Too many Irish people looking for politicians to sort out the country and take charge of their lives for them. So many Irish people in their 20s living at home with mammy and daddy like big babies despite working full time jobs; a lot of colloquialism in attitudes and a bit of a herd-thinking bubble in the country.


    “The shower in government are a bunch of idiots.” and at the same time “The government have brought this in so we have to go along with it.”



  • #199
    youtheman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭youtheman


    1. our ability to litter. Can't understand how that is in our DNA (not all of us, but still a fairly large number).
    2. our desire to have an 'enquiry' if anything goes wrong. In the last few decades we've had multiple enquiries, generated ten of thousands of pages of reports, thousands of 'recommendations', yet nothing changes or nobody is held accountable. As Ray Bourke (I think!) christened them as 'a Barrister Fattening Exercise'. Plenty of portly barristers around!.



  • #200
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,436 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122444980#Comment_122444980

    De Passhin!



  • #201
    tom23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭tom23


    Thinking we’re special and it can’t happen here. Getting rode in every hole and not doing anything about it. Shure be grand.



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  • #202
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,436 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122437521#Comment_122437521

    The problem with lots of things here, like the water system, instead of reforming it we shortsightedly abolish it and create an even worse monster.

    Rates were abolished (which was obviously popular) but a race to the bottom was created, private operators with different lorries belching fumes around the same areas. Result people still pay, the operators cartel charge what they like and fly tipping and dumping goes up.



  • #203
    gym_imposter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭gym_imposter


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445602#Comment_122445602

    Ya boy ya



  • #204
    hoodie6029
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    Parochialism

    GAA obsession. People putting before everything else. People have left weddings etc to go train or play a match. FFS.

    The Leaving Cert. The same exam for 60 years and they still try to claim it’s fair. It’s not. It only exists in its current form because the teaching unions won’t let it change in order to protect their income.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



  • #205
    brokenbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122434371#Comment_122434371

    Or worse still, when watching international rugby on tv and everyone goes silent in the pub when a player lines up to take a conversion kick….



  • #206
    brokenbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    Court cases where a gobshite being convicted of assault/ robbery/ fraud/ drunk driving gets outstanding character references such as "he's a pillar of the community" or "he does untold work with the local GAA club" or "he comes from a well respected GAA family"…….fcuk right off



  • #207
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445713#Comment_122445713

    This is not confined to those with connections with the Gaah, and extends to Soccer and Rugby.



  • #208
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Jarlath Burns speeches after the All Ireland finals , almost lecturing the country on how to be GAA is to be the real Irish people and you’re not a true Gael if you’re not involved


    Thinks he’s the president of the country and not of a sports organisation.

    Post edited by tastyt on


  • #209
    Clo-Clo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,545 ✭✭✭Clo-Clo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445404#Comment_122445404

    The options to learn Irish are easily accessible and easier now than every with new teaching methods


    The population at large don’t want to bother

    In the kids gaelscoil you have people from overseas learning Irish

    In the primary school you have Irish parents complaining because then kids are learning Irish

    No government or anyone can change that attitude



  • #210
    Clo-Clo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,545 ✭✭✭Clo-Clo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445694#Comment_122445694

    which doesn’t happen in reality and was made up by comics as a joke and people have run with it


    Similar to PP making a very good rugby fans video which is now taken as reality and rugby fans use those phrases


    The power of TV



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  • #211
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    Country 'n Irish. It's sad to see such shite so popular especially in the context of our great musical output over the years.



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