[Closed] Why are the irish always shown to be a bit thick....

no offence intended if you are yourself Irish.

I hear the price of beer in Ireland atm is a joke.

That's my Irish joke.

I've only ever met lovely Irish people when abroad, once they realise you, as a Brit, have no ridiculous historic preconceptions of them. Warm, funny and intelligent people, but they've always started off as slightly aggressive, dismissive and/or a bit defensive towards us. Not surprising I suppose given this example.

Aye..................... 🙄

I've only ever met lovely Irish people when abroad, once they realise you, as [s]a Brit[/s] English, have no ridiculous historic preconceptions of them. Warm, funny and intelligent people, but they've always started off as slightly aggressive, dismissive and/or a bit defensive towards us. Not surprising I suppose given this example.

Never felt any aggression or such as s Scot 🙂

seven, yes my error there 🙂 . Their reference to us 'Brits' IME, but you are probably correct they actually ment 'English'.

I've never met any aggression from the irish either, apart from once in Donegal as a teenager - in deep IRA territory.

i reckon that a lot of irish folk pretend to be a bit thick, to keep up the myth, unlike the rest of us, who are too dim to pretend...... 😀

You forgot about me toys19. 🙂

You're only sexually agressive DD.

DD, I've never met you.

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That can't be you DD, there is no pig under the arm.

You stole it from me.

(giggling as I'm reminded of that belter of an episode of HIGNFY) 😀

So you're saying that I have taken your pork?

Can't say I miss being called a terrorist bastard in midlands pubs. Or maybe they were calling me thick and I misunderstood.

I know a few Irish who are as thick as pigsh!t (& can give you examples). However I also know even more English who are either just as thick, or thicker.
However (again) what do you mean by 'thick'?

PS, Ton knows what I work as. 😉

Jimmers, you can email your fantasies if you want. It's a bit unedifying on a public forum 😐

toys19 - ahhhh so that's where they were hiding.........

Jimmers, you can email your fantasies if you want. It's a bit unedifying on a public forum

I was referring to pig theft. Sicko.*

*email sent.

well it was a particulalry well known IRA supporting town, it wasn't like it was a secret. It wasn't nice either.

Hey ton I'm back ?

PMSL! You've been to Bundoran!

The only town where West Belfast Black Taxis take their hols.......

What did they say to you toys19, you British bastard? *

* joke 🙂

i went on tour with an irish band and they were all fantastic chaps, so having undertaken this in depth study of the irish i can safely say [s]ders more to oirland dan dis[/s] that all irish people are awesome.

but not darcy, he likes to point out how poor we are by bragging about heated wing mirrors.

how the other half live 🙄

Bejaysus.

did he say how the wing mirrors were heated though? gas lamp is my guess.

I think Apology Phil should apologise for that heated-wing-mirrorist comment.

That'd be SHOUTY RACIST Apology Phil. x

IM SORRY!

dunno, why are the english seen as a bunch of arrogant racists? except of course by the americans who look down on them like petulant children

You know all those Paddy and Murphy jokes? They are told in Wales as Dai and Ianto jokes.

I dunno what that demonstrates mind 🙂

that all nations like a ****n larf so they does

They are told in Wales as Dai and Ianto jokes.
I dunno what that demonstrates mind

PMSL! You've been to Bundoran!

The only town where West Belfast Black Taxis take their hols.......

It wasn't there, although I have been to Bundoran. Yuck. Like a pimple on blackpools bum.

What did they say to you toys19, you British bastard?

Pretty much exactly that you papist fahk.

In Greece they tell jokes about "thick Turks", here in SA - well it's either "black" or the equivalent to an "irishman" would be a "Van Der Merwe" pronounced Van Der Merva joke.

Isn't it just like blonde jokes though? Not all blondes are thick. Maybe not even a majority? 😉

That all the tick f****rs live in South Wales as I've never heard of those jokes in North Wales

That reminds me, why "gogs and wogs" for North and South Wales?

Dunno about wogs but gogs is derived from the welsh for north, can't accurately remember the word is it gogglydd? So I assume wogs might be from south?

Think it could relate to the way some of the original labourers that came over here to build most of our infrastructure were not highly educated. Most of the people leaving now in the current exodus are all leaving with degrees and a much higher skill level in general, so hopefully the thick Irish 'jokes' will finally get put to bed.

There are still a few parts of Ireland which make father ted look like it was a documentary though....

Gog = gogledd = north.

Ahh I knew it had two D's at the end..

Any country that's spent so long fighting their own countymen over 2 sides of the same religion and weather to be united or divided has to be a bit stupid.

😉

Er, PP.. I think there's some debate as to whether or not they are actually fellow countrymen..!

Any country that's spent so long fighting their own countymen over 2 sides of the same religion and weather to be united or divided has to be a bit stupid.

Hmm that shows your ignorance of what has happened, and is spelling a measure of intelligence? Whether...