Originally posted by catfoodtimnope never lived in derry, live in role on the floor with boredom ballymena.
Oh sorry, maybe I saw you post you lived in Derry at one stage? Sometimes its hard to take out the facts from what you post.
You ignored most of my points and misunderstood the last. It was based on the incorrect presumption you were from Derry.
So everytime I've ever heard anyone say 'never trust a nordy' they've been messing? Thats pretty lame.
most have in my experience been messing but like with anything you'll get a few who believe it, thats what i find pretty lame.
how long have you lived in ireland?
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Originally posted by catfoodtimI disagree with absolutely everthing in that post- and the article you cite wasn't the one I was referring to- it was the Sunday Times I was reading, by the by.
I will say to you that I tend to slag the Scots, Welsh, Swedes and English off a wee bit. But it's just teasing. You mightn't do as much of it as we do, but it doesn't mean you should stop the rest of the world having a laugh.
I've been slagging Huckleberry for being a Scot recently, and he didn't get offended. He slagged me back. (Plus the Scots are our cousins anyway, so it's almost like slagging myself}.
You never once admitted your Englishness to me- I just snared you as a Plastic Paddy Planter as a guess. I'm also guessing that the English like to keep a low profile, hence your flag, Irish passports and the lack of slagging off other nations. Nice English people wrongly often develop a strange conscience and sense of guilt about the terrible things the English did to various people throughout history, instead of being proud of the great civilisation you had over there.
And don't make assumptions yourself- I'm 1/4 to 1/2 English, though born and raised here. Mum's a Londoner. Her Dad, God rest him, was a New Zealander, and her Mum is English. And I love London- indeed I'm like to live there for a while, even, if I got the chance.
So I couldn't be that anglophobic now, could I?
Originally posted by blade68Brilliant! They're all the same, really.
Ha ha ha... I more or less had the same conversation with the guy I know down there - and his response was exactly as you say! "But Caark is a Citee"!!!
Another story - I was on holiday a couple of years back in Fuertaventura, heard the guy a couple of sunbeds away talking to his missus... I leaned across "Are you from Cork?". He confirmed that he was and ...[text shortened]... d it!!! "Everyone hears an Irish accent and automatically thinks they're a Dub", he said.
That line about Cork being a nice wee town works best in a Dublin accent, but if you try an English Churchillian patronising tone of voice, I expect it would go down a treat.
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Actually, it is supposed to be very beautiful there. I've never been down. They come up to Dublin to annoy us up here often enough. But I've never returned the favour.
In the same way Edinburgh is 'the Athens of the North' 😕
Cork is meant to be a bit of 'the Venice of the North West corner of the continent'. Lots of bridges. 😀