Stereotypes.....

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Permalink Reply by Cookenstein on July 3, 2009 at 5:55pm

I think Dennis Leary is doing a pretty good job of redefining (as far as stereo typing goes) what a real irishman is these days...:)

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Permalink Reply by medinamatt on July 3, 2009 at 5:58pm

no. i dont see them as that.

i hardly know any irish people around my area, but they arent like that.

though they do like to drink socially.

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Permalink Reply by macman on July 3, 2009 at 7:01pm

i dont think anyone sees irish as that

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Permalink Reply by Michael Armeni on July 3, 2009 at 7:12pm

I see them as people who like to drink, but controllably. And for some reason I always thought Irish people are big on fighting.

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Permalink Reply by Beef_Log_FTL on July 3, 2009 at 8:25pm

I only think of them as people who like to drink and have a good time while drinking and thats based on what I experience with my Irish friends.

As for the Irish dancing I wish my Irish friends could do that I think that is amazing and takes so much talent. Same with the cottage thing I just wish I knew anyone who lived in a cottage think that would be pretty badass.

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Permalink Reply by Kildar on July 4, 2009 at 5:41am

Sounds more like you are describing Hobbits then Irish.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Bennett on July 4, 2009 at 6:49am

You've been watchng too much LOTR. My mum's great great grandmother is irish, she (my mum) was given a cladder ring which my mum still wears.

But my mum is british but has become more Australian in her accent ever since she came to Australia as a child in the 50's.

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Permalink Reply by Shtanto on July 5, 2009 at 1:08pm

Claddagh. Close though ;) I think that's how we used to spell it?

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Permalink Reply by Ruhi on July 4, 2009 at 6:53am

I know after a few shots of malt liquor, everyone begins to look a little more like a cottage-dwelling Irish dancer with an unnatural affinity for the drink to me. I think if the Irish re-named their food and edged the Greeks out of the diner business, in 30 years they'd be seen as something like what the Italians are seen as now. No one wants to order blaa and boiled cabbage. No one. Not even the Irish themselves.

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Permalink Reply by Shtanto on July 5, 2009 at 1:09pm

Yeah, burned cabbage isn't nice :bleaurgh:

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Permalink Reply by Shtanto on July 5, 2009 at 1:11pm

Actually, I had an American visiting there and now he knows how to play hurling, but he was rather bemused to learn that our local park has Ireland's only public baseball diamond. Patrick Kielty mentioned this on Top Gear a long time ago. Apparently all Stereotyped Irish people have a Cork accent (sorry Jen!)

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Permalink Reply by Bubbsy on July 5, 2009 at 1:42pm

LOL, ah i'm proud of my Cork accent like :P :P Just watch tommy tiernan (can't stand him) but our accent is WAY better... lol

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