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Things you hate about Irish culture

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




  • Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭SNNUS


    GAA jerseys and GAA mindset.



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


    We still don't love Palestinians as much as Americans love Israel

    Now that truly is cult like devotion



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,544 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The Irish have an affinity for the underdog. Stealing land and colonising it doesn't sit right with many here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    There is also a Nazi cult in America. They hate Israel and Palestine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭L Grey


    Irish culture is very pikeyish.



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


    It's politically impotent , the GOP are cult like in their mythologizing of Israel



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


    Plus we have no tradition of end times evangelical Christianity where Israel status is central

    We were also too poor for most of our history for international finance to bother building networks like is so apparent in the UK , Israel has no long standing infrastructure here and relies on attention seeking nutters like Mark Humphreys or to a much lesser degree John mcgurk who is fishing for a big donor whale



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    GOP and Democrats are split 50/50 in support. It is not right to characterise the USA as a Jew loving cult.



  • Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭rathfarnhamlad


    Technically we do. Dispensational theology was invented by John Nelson Darby who lived in Dublin



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Marvell T shirt wearers.

    You ask the wearer anything about the character and you get a blank befuddled stare.



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


    It's Washington political class absolutely are , the North Korean style level of craven adulation for Bibi netanyahu proved that beyond reasonable doubt

    As for the general American population, the evangelicals view Israel as pivotal to biblical prophecy but this is also a lot to do with bought off charlatan preachers telling their flocks that being unequivocally pro Israel is their duty

    Americans are drenched in Israeli propaganda from cradle to grave, controlling the narrative is essential when you make up 2% of the population



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    "Views of the Israeli government have become more negative since 2022. Today, 41% of U.S. adults express a favorable view of the Israeli government, down from 47%. The share who express very unfavorable views of the government also has nearly doubled over this time period, from 12% to 21%." 21 Mar 2024 (Pew Research Centre).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    The issue of Personality Clash between 2 different individuals within an industry: Both run similar businesses but they both would like to see the other out of business to crawl into a hole and die.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005




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


    Replying to rathfarmhamlad,It has no broad based cultural influence whatsoever



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Yes the commercial flying drone industry here in Ireland

    Some fellas bad mouth each other at the earliest opportunity by word of mouth.

    They run separate YouTube channels and you'd think they're nice as pie



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,349 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    The drinking. We are not all alcoholics or even drinkers.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,544 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Agree. Settled Irish people are fond of gaudy displays of wealth.

    Awful looking houses filled with live laugh love decor and the obligatory SUV in the driveway.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,308 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    The Fairweather GAA Supporters in every county. Those when their team gets to an AI semi final get on the band wagon to Croker

    Yet the likes of them get All-Ireland Final tickets while a lot of the genuine supporters don't.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,007 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    I'd be a fairweather fan and I'd say if I tried hard enough I could've gotten a ticket for the hurling (Cork) but honestly I couldn't accept one if I was offered.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭Xander10


    We haven't seem them for awhile. The Irish supporters that attend euros etc and the "aren't we the funniest in the World"

    The ones that annoy the likes of the locals on a train going to work, with cringe singing at them. Poor locals grin out of courtesy in the hope they will go away and leave them alone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭Everlong1


    We have the Republic of Ireland football team for that. 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭rathfarnhamlad


    The whole dispensational theology thing is a pile of crap. Maybe I should have said that in my original post…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,391 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    We're inherently dishonest.

    I don't mean wink, nod, fix that ticket for me like a good man.

    Well I do mean that too, but I mainly refer to the cowardice when having a problem with someone or something, we fail to address it directly, but piss, whinge and sh1t-talk behind the back of the person or entity in question instead, often embellishing the original problem in an attempt to damage them vindictively.

    Which also makes us massive hypocrites.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Daisy78


    Overly big houses with no thought given to design, practicalities or aesthetics. We definitely adopt a “more is more” attitude when it comes to building houses here. And pine, lots of pine. Yuck.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭boardise


    Leaving flags flying from windows , in gardens and from cars ( yugh) for weeks after a game -especially when the team lost.

    Slathering GAA county colours over notices ,on vans, lorries etc.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    The dreadful lack of directness in addressing a problem or a person who we don't like - dancing around the issue without facing it head-on and resolving it - instead bitching, whinging and moaning about it to others in order to feel good about ourselves.

    And still, the problem remains unresolved…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,544 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Pastiches of the (ironically much hated) Anglo-Irish Big House, but in concrete and PVC.

    It's amazing the amount of money that gets poured into them but they still manage to look cheap. Blots on the landscape.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,544 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The village wouldn't be complete without the obligatory banger in team colours dumped at the side of the road.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭boardise


    Most of the 'crap about language ' is produced by Gaelic revival propagandists. As for heritage -it is natural and useful to critique it and effect change where desirable. Consider so many traditions and practices which have been discontinued -faction fights , drunken wakes, mourning habits like wearing only black , solemn requiem masses etc. , applying the death penalty , freeing women from servitude -there's a long list.

    As for Britain -it's our nearest neighbour with which we have innumerable cultural ,social and economic connections which operate greatly to our benefit. Those who profess to 'hate England' are indulging in a ridiculous limiting form of stunted and futile behaviour -I pity them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭Musicrules


    Misquoting what I said tells a lot. I didn't say 'crap about language', I said 'crap about our language'. You obviously have an issue about calling it our language and have a pro British outlook on life. I don't care if you do, I don't hate England or anything like that. I'm just bemoaning the fact that there's so many who belittle our culture and have a lot of self hate. That shouldn't exist, we should be proud of our heritage, our culture, our language. It's amazing and luckily there's enough of us that will continually promote it and it will never die. 😊



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭boardise


    No hedge is complete without some drinks cans nestling among the branches . Likewise every public green area needs to be decorated with some plastic detritus. Seemingly immutable Irish predilections.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I have come across stuff dumped which was the detritus of purchases in Polish shops. How bad are the Irish in comparison to other countries?



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭boardise


    Also the practice of attaching balconies ( in Ireland ! )and Spanish arches to ordinary houses and having huge elaborate iron gates into a small suburban garden . WTF ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    I buy stuff in polish shops. In fact, only today I was at my.closest polish supermarket buying lots of different items. Btw, I'm not Polish.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Nobody can prove that what Boardsie saw in our hedges was dumped there by Irish people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    Nobody can prove it was dumped by any specific nationality.

    But tbf, there is a massive reduction in the amount of rubbish dumped in this.country compared to when I grew up in the 70s & 80s.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I think it is part of the culture in a lot of countries. I hate it regardless of who does it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭boardise


    I understand that centuries ago many Irish people made an intelligent -in fact inspired- choice to learn English and adopt it as a valuable tool of communication -which is what language fundamentally is. What a favour they bestowed on us —to gift us a language of global reach which has helped Ireland achieve a profile far beyond what its size would warrant. There are many varieties of English -including Irish varieties which naturally mirror local colourings and traditions. As for Gaelic -it's no longer needed because English satisfies every conceivable communicational need.

    The idea that every country must have 'its own language' which has the name of the counry built into it is simply wrong. Consider Argentina , Bolivia , Chile , Columbia, Uruguay , El Salvador , Venezuela, Peru etc-no one speaks Chilean , Bolivian , Peruvan -they all use their own variety of Spanish. Similarly there's no such language as Swiss , Austrian or Belgian.

    On the other hand,countries like Nigeria, India , Indonesia, Papua - New Guinea have hundreds of languages in use -many with more speakers than the population of Ireland . The idea of a one-to-one correspondence between a country and a language falls apart.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭boardise


    Wow …good one …you must be a lawyer ?

    I remember Ireland from before any other nationalities darkened the littoral. Casual littering is very much built in to everyday Irish public behaviour. I've witnessed it up close in many areas near shops and schools -I see schoolchildren littering the green across from my house -off with the wrapper -straight on to the ground. We have a great litterary tradition in this country. It's why have there been campaigns like Keep Ireland Beautiful, Tidy Towns , IBAL etc . -because there's an ugly prevalence of littering in our public spaces which seems nigh on impossible to shift.

    As for the Poles , maybe it's their way of integrating , y'know , when in Ireland do as the Irish do.

    Oh ,and BTW , I'd keep a beady eye on those Ukrainians if I were you …..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    And those Columbians. Are they British Columbians?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    There is a lot of litter in Toronto, Canada. And in Melbourne, Australia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,489 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    The way the Guards and Government beg the people to behave on the roads, heard them at it on the radio today, as if it will work. just hand out 500 euro fines for phone use, give them 6 points. why are they so afraid to nip things like that in the bud?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,886 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    how the culture of the corruption, incompetency, maliciousness and malevolence in people enabled with positions of power and responsibility is overlooked and or excused… seen in workplaces, politics, clubs, or anywhere with a hierarchy.

    Yet the same people who overlook and excuse it would also throw anyone under the bus seen as ‘beneath’ them or a threat to them….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,886 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    because now everyone has an excuse, doctors note and a sob story…

    You can accidentally go over the speed limit, accidentally misjudge a light and go through an amber to red..

    You can’t take or make a phone call by accident yet the law is of little deterrent to phone users.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭suvigirl


    Tbf, in the 1920s Ireland was attempting to rid itself of violence. An Garda Siochana, guardians of the Peace, was set up as an unarmed Force, unheard of then, in an attempt to move the population away from violence.

    As an unarmed Force, they needed the assistance of the population, they needed everyone to get in board with the policing by consent. Which we still have do this day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    The will isn't there and the culture in AGS has always been problematic. My neighbour had a Garda apologise to him for "doing him" in a 50kph zone when he was doing 59kph. That's the culture you're dealing with. The guy who got the fine was less upset than the guy giving it out. You couldn't make it up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,489 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    That is true, I heard a guy lately say the Guard who took his car off him for no insurance, apologized to him for taking it, he didn't even know the Guard.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭seablue


    Littering

    Casual racism towards English people



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