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we have divorce now. last time fine gael were in the brought in a referendum about it. i can assure you there irish people still alive today, i'm one of them. so still have an irish culture.

You don't get the point.

You don't get the point.

no i dont, since you havent explained yourself. we dont we have an irish culture anymore? france has french culture, germany has german culture, why doesnt ireland have irish culture.

you people from kansas know nothing about europe.

The rest of the country is thinking of putting together a petition to remove Kansas from the Union, on the grounds that "they're just too weird". :D

Remember, Kansas is where Fred Phelps is from.

no i dont, since you havent explained yourself. we dont we have an irish culture anymore? france has french culture, germany has german culture, why doesnt ireland have irish culture.
we have never had an exceptional culture it has always been incrisingly merged with the english culture (700 yrs of oppresion will do that.)
also ireland isn't the best place to live when your buting houses yould get a 4-5 bedroom house in ireland for €1,000,000 where as in france youl get a château in france for the same price.

we have never had an exceptional culture it has always been incrisingly merged with the english culture (700 yrs of oppresion will do that.)
also ireland isn't the best place to live when your buting houses yould get a 4-5 bedroom house in ireland for €1,000,000 where as in france youl get a château in france for the same price.

ah come on now. there very huge differences between irish and english culture. we are hell of alot friendlier.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4020523.stm



Who'd have thunk it? And it seems that apart from Australia, all of the top 10 countries are European. America's 13th, France is 25th, Germany 26th, Britain 29th...and Zimbabwe 111th and bottom.

damn right.

ah come on now. there very huge differences between irish and english culture. we are hell of alot friendlier.

That's a very big claim... from peronal experience, I can not second that. Friendlier than the Germans any day, but friendlier than the English?

That's a very big claim... from peronal experience, I can not second that. Friendlier than the Germans any day, but friendlier than the English?

Come on, nearly anybody is friendlier than the English.

Come on, nearly anybody is friendlier than the English.

I haven't lived in england yet, but the times I've been there they really impressed me. And I take it you've never been to Germany? Even the French are friendlier ;)

I haven't lived in england yet, but the times I've been there they really impressed me. And I take it you've never been to Germany? Even the French are friendlier ;)

Nah, haven't been to Germany....that's what the "nearly anybody" was fore ;)

Nah, haven't been to Germany....that's what the "nearly anybody" was fore ;)

I'd say the Irish and the English are about equaly friendly. The English are more polite, the Irish more direct, that's about the whole difference.

I'd say the Irish and the English are about equaly friendly. The English are more polite, the Irish more direct, that's about the whole difference.

I've never thought of the English as particularly polite people...or the southern Irish, for that matter.

I've never thought of the English as particularly polite people...or the southern Irish, for that matter.


I'd be insulted..... if it wasn't true. Depends where you're coming from and going to- regardless of southern Irish, English, German or American. Depends on the situation.

The 'southern Irish'; not very polite? Have you actually been 'down south'? Ireland is the only country that I've been to where everybody (well anybody decent) greets the busdriver when they get on the bus and say thanks when they leave. I don't think that the English are impolite; it's just that the Irish are far more talkative; which isn't always a good thing. On a regular basis I'll have elderly people having chats with me about who knows what. But, d'you know what - when I go abroad the first assumption is that I'm English; when I say that I'm Irish people suddenly light up. The Irish have got to be doing something right if people like them, right?

The high court still hasn't decided if it's going to recognise the marraige of two Canadian women who moved here. :(
Look, if they chose to live in this country then they have to live by its laws. That's like me going to China and assuming that they'll be okay with my being a Christian.

If it doesn't then it should. I want a cream egg sooooo badly now. I know; I hate the way that they release them in like March and then they've gone bad by like July. Why can't we have cream eggs all year round? It's torture I tell you!

you sound like a boring person. in my perfect world your kind will be dead.
Why thank you, Gorias, and you seem like an extra nice person for wishing me dead. :rolleyes: So your perfect world would consist of everyone constantly getting drunk. By that logic who would serve the drink, and more importantly, make the drink? Fantastic world. I found a lovely image that'd show why I have to watch where I walk on my way to college on Friday mornings. But I thought that it might offend some people so I'll just leave it up to the imagination.

The 'southern Irish'; not very polite? Have you actually been 'down south'?

You're offended because I called you southern Irish?

Well shit...

Germany versus France again?

in France the mirrors at camp sites are 15 centimeters too low too see my hair
in Germany the camp sites are full of descriptions on how to use stuff
I have never seen cleaner camp sites than Austrians ones, the French ones are certainly worse. Then again, the Austrian ones were twice as expensive. In Croatia you get the hygiene of France, but just for a cheaper price.

The French I have spoken with frustrated me like hell. Blablah you tourists know nothing about our culture blahblahblah our culture is so beautiful. And refusal to speak English even though they noticed I couldn't keep up with the difficult parts of the conversation.

A drunk French gave me two kisses, because I called men-on-men kissing "gay". annother insult on his culture.

people at cafés are approx. twice as slow at their work, dramatically postponing the time between when my body needed beer and actually got it. I tried not to be a nationalist bastard so I did not order Heineken (I dont drink it at home either, but it just seems to be everywhere and is a safe choice), they gave me Kroenenburg, I never want it again.

A country where 17% of the population voted on Le Pen? Nah not my type of friendliness.

You're offended because I called you southern Irish?

Well shit...

Sorry about that. I had a big debate about North and South on another forum and 'Southern Irish' therefore had warning signals written all over it! No, it's more geographically I'm thinking that 'Southern Irish' doesn't fit. Being in south Munster I consider myself to be Southern Irish, I guess, but wouldn't see somebody from, say, Dublin as being 'Southern'. And I definitely wouldn't see people from Donegal as 'Southerners'.

I've never thought of the English as particularly polite people...or the southern Irish, for that matter.

A Canadian friend of mine on a number of trips that included England
Wales and Ireland told me she found the Welsh and Irish much friendlier
seeming than the English.

She felt the English people she encountered seemed more abrupt.

But I can certainly imagine that English people of a certain background
might well be more formally polite than the Irish.

It may depend on which you are more comfortable with
formal politeness or casual friendliness.

Sorry about that. I had a big debate about North and South on another forum and 'Southern Irish' therefore had warning signals written all over it! No, it's more geographically I'm thinking that 'Southern Irish' doesn't fit. Being in south Munster I consider myself to be Southern Irish, I guess, but wouldn't see somebody from, say, Dublin as being 'Southern'. And I definitely wouldn't see people from Donegal as 'Southerners'.
My girlfriend is from a county called Donegal, and I consider her a southerner.

What website by the way?

Sorry about that. I had a big debate about North and South on another forum and 'Southern Irish' therefore had warning signals written all over it! No, it's more geographically I'm thinking that 'Southern Irish' doesn't fit. Being in south Munster I consider myself to be Southern Irish, I guess, but wouldn't see somebody from, say, Dublin as being 'Southern'. And I definitely wouldn't see people from Donegal as 'Southerners'.

Well, I wasn't referring to the Republic. Hence the fact that I didn't capitalise the "s" at the beginning of "southern". I mean the southern Irish, not the outdated and geographically inaccurate Southern Irish.

Not mean to offend anyone. But some of the English I saw during my stay in York looked like erected penises, only with out the excitement.

Plus waiting in line for the bus is so.... nevermind.

That's a very big claim... from peronal experience, I can not second that. Friendlier than the Germans any day, but friendlier than the English?

my experience, ireland>germany>france>england.

according to a servey, english people ae supose to be the least social.

Come on, nearly anybody is friendlier than the English.
Nonsense. The English are as friendly and polite as it gets. Reserved, maybe, but in general my experiences in England are positive. I cannot say the same of elsewhere in Europe, aside from maybe Sweden...

Sorry about that. I had a big debate about North and South on another forum and 'Southern Irish' therefore had warning signals written all over it! No, it's more geographically I'm thinking that 'Southern Irish' doesn't fit. Being in south Munster I consider myself to be Southern Irish, I guess, but wouldn't see somebody from, say, Dublin as being 'Southern'. And I definitely wouldn't see people from Donegal as 'Southerners'.

Generally I give the benefit of the doubt until either "Free stater" or "fenian" surfaces.....

Nice thread...
Time for the Irsh folk to go back to Ireland now.

Great, it will free lotta flats in Hammersmith and Camden.
And that's a great opportunity for Spanish masons to get a job around London.

I'm happy to see Ireland first class country, first class reproductive of music and other commercial folk culture.
I do not know why some people said Ireland is a great country without the Irish singing around.

On the opposite Zimbabwe needs some help, time for some Irish to go there and help them to make a first class third world country, like Ireland.

Better than the US!

...at NOT KILLING ALL OF ITS NATIVE INHABITANTS!
...or NOT GETTING INVOLVED IN RIDICULOUS WARS!
...at DANCING!

TAKE THAT!

By the way - did you go to the same school as MTAE or something?

We didn't kill off the inhabitants of America. Small pox from Europe did. As far as wars at least our laundry list of ridiculous wars compares no where near what the UK's is. Dancing? You call the river dance dancing? ;)

You call the river dance dancing? ;)

there are different kinds of irish dancing, riverdance is a vague commercial attempt at irish dancing. irish dancing competitions dont look like that. none of any celie's(sp?) i've been to look like that.

there are different kinds of irish dancing, riverdance is a vague commercial attempt at irish dancing. irish dancing competitions dont look like that. none of any celie's(sp?) i've been to look like that.

Ceilidh

We didn't kill off the inhabitants of America. Small pox from Europe did. As far as wars at least our laundry list of ridiculous wars compares no where near what the UK's is. Dancing? You call the river dance dancing? ;)

Michael Flatley is an american if memory serves correctly.Yep! thats right I am blaming the yanks for that one.;)