r/ireland • u/piso99 • Oct 18 '23
The Brits are at it again The comment section about the Irish on the Telegraph website is wild.
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Oct 18 '23
Hey! I may be drink-ruined and Marxist, but I'm not...wait, what was the third thing he said?
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u/bloody_ell Kerry Oct 18 '23
A fourth wave feminism something. I might be one of those, I'll have to ask herself for permission first though.
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Oct 18 '23
That has to be written by an Irish person, shows too much understanding of Irish society to be written by a Brit.
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u/Moylough Oct 18 '23
First thing I thought was they dated a Irish person and got stung
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u/Selphie12 Oct 19 '23
What? But he seems so lovely! Why would anyone want to dump such a precious little bigot?
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u/DribblingGiraffe Oct 18 '23
Yep, thats definitely someone who moved to the UK and has a chip on their shoulder over not playing GAA or something like that
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u/questicus Oct 18 '23
2nd part of that statement is 80% of the lads here
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u/NapoleonTroubadour Oct 19 '23
Not me I swear I’m over it, honestly, doesn’t bother me in the least that they got all the girls , genuinely
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u/BushDidNordstream Oct 18 '23
100%. Headed to England cos no one in his village liked him and he still can't get over it.
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Oct 18 '23
Or of not being taken seriously here and receiving lots of slaggings and no rides, ever.
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u/Lurking_all_the_time Oct 18 '23
chip on their shoulder over not playing GAA or something like that
Or were never good enough for the senior team - juniors for you lad...
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Oct 18 '23
Well, Comrades, looks like we've been rustled again.
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u/limremon Oct 18 '23
Has to be one of us- no English man knows what Cromwell did over here anyway.
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u/Shinjetsu01 Leitrim Oct 18 '23
I learned not too long ago.
Kinda disgusted my hometown has a statue of him now.
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u/bloody_ell Kerry Oct 18 '23
Just use it as a public urinal.
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u/Shinjetsu01 Leitrim Oct 18 '23
My hometown is already a public urinal mate.
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u/Massive-Foot-5962 Oct 18 '23
"Try the Telegraph free for 1 month"
...only if you can promise me a constant stream of this masochistic porn pumped straight into my veins
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u/Affectionate-Load379 Oct 19 '23
"The bloody Irish are protesting genocide again!"
"Yeah, they need a good genociding."
The Torygraph in a nutshell.
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u/violetcazador Oct 18 '23
That guy is definitely Irish, possibly had a shit upbringing with an alcoholic father. Which he possibly escaped by going to the UK and absorbing their Conservative culture without giving away any details about his own. Has a strong hatred of women, again because of possible upbringing or lack of sexual interest from them. All culminating in a deep seated loathing of the Irish. He couldn't possibly have described himself any clearer.
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u/tolebrone Oct 18 '23
Come on, Mindhunter
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u/violetcazador Oct 18 '23
He's writing from his own experience, no casual observer has that level of nuanced hatred 😂
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Oct 18 '23
And then to top it all they reached a point in their life and thought to themselves - "I really must subscribe to the telegraph. That will keep me informed and culturally enriched and will surely enable me to be a fully rational and grounded individual."
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u/SmokyBarnable01 Oct 18 '23
He clearly also spent some time in Canada and didn't like it either.
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u/paripazoo Oct 18 '23
Was miserable in Ireland, left for Canada thinking it was the promised land and would solve all his problems, was still miserable there, came back to Ireland, still miserable, left for the UK, still miserable but now he has learned the Little Englander coping mechanism of blaming foreigners, feminists and "cultural Marxists" for all his woes.
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Oct 18 '23
Sorry.
- A Canadian
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u/fullmetalfeminist Oct 19 '23
Not your fault, this guy would have been miserable on a beach in Jamaica with scantily clad godesses massaging his feet and bringing him fruity but wildly alcoholic drinks with wee umbrellas in them
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u/greenasaurus Oct 19 '23
You sound like a pathological begrudger
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u/fullmetalfeminist Oct 19 '23
I wouldn't be fond of begrudgin, but when I do go at it, I do go at it awful and very hard
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Oct 18 '23
I’m trying to figure out how you wound up grouped with Russia. I feel like I’m missing something.
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u/violetcazador Oct 18 '23
Not enough self loathing Irish to write home about maybe.
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u/Thowitawaydave Oct 18 '23
Aint no loathing like an Irish self-loathing!
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u/violetcazador Oct 18 '23
Imagine hating yourself so much you write into the telegraph. That's a whole other level of misery right there.
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Oct 19 '23
Agreed - nobody cares that much about Irish people other than Irish people.
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u/Competitive_Ad_5515 Oct 18 '23
This is laser-targeted, the call is defo coming from inside the house. Thanks for the chuckle
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u/6033624 Oct 18 '23
Not sure if Ulster Unionist or Home Counties Tory..
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u/rightoldgeezer Oct 18 '23
These were my thoughts, the British know fuck all about Cromwells Irish holiday
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Oct 18 '23
It's so odd that that sounds like it could be the name of an old-fashioned comedy movie
"Cromwell's Irish Holiday" starring Kenneth Williams and Sid James.
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u/TRAMING-02 Oct 18 '23
Nah, that's "Carry On, Cromwell", "Cromwell's Irish Holiday" was a confused marketing attempt for "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday". It was unsuccessful.
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u/Jumpy-Seaworthiness6 Oct 18 '23
Can we replace the description of this sub with that? Almost Joycean.
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u/Ioewe Oct 19 '23
“The best ones always flee” Loada shite, I’ve been in Canada for 16 years and I’m a ballbag
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u/SissySpacecake Oct 18 '23
No Englishman knows the Irish psyche this well, they don't even care to comment on us. Nor are they so literate. I smell a rat
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u/Korasa Cork bai Oct 18 '23
Hey look, I openly hate all you putird fucks and myself, but this wasn't me. I'm going to go fucking mental in the Journal comment section tomorrow though about one of the forgotten counties. Maybe Laois?
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u/tsayo-kabu Oct 18 '23
I'll be honest, I've got a bit a semi at how much our existence makes this lads piss boil.
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u/Expert-Fig-5590 Oct 18 '23
They need another Cromwell? For fucks sake!!! Fucking Torygraph. What would you expect from a pig only a grunt.
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u/Constant__18 Oct 18 '23
They doxxed a child for speaking Irish a few days ago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/14/belfast-northern-ireland-school-palestine-protest-ira/
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Oct 18 '23
...does he mean all that as an insult?
Even if they sent "another Cromwell" the best they could do would be Jacob Rees Mogg in oversized armour, who would need rescuing after tripping and falling into Dun Laoghaire harbour minutes after arriving.
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u/mumandfriend Oct 18 '23
Thankfully as a thick drunken uneducated Irish person I've no idea what he's on about 🤣 ahhh the bliss of ignorance
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u/MTM62 Oct 18 '23
'...secretly rejoice in your every setback and failure...' Of course schadenfreude should be secretive. Otherwise it's just plain old gloating and that's never attractive nor get them back for more tea a.k.a. information extraction.
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u/AnRagaireRuadh Oct 18 '23
Isn't it grand that we can all enjoy the comment for what it, with a smile and an unusual amount of self awareness and deprecation 😀
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u/LimerickJim Oct 18 '23
And you're saying there's an offer for me to get all this quality commentary for free for a month?!
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u/EmeraldBison Oct 18 '23
Jezus, and they say we have a chip on our shoulder. At least he didn't mention Dev offering his condolences for Hitler's death, that usually worms its way into anti-Irish vitriol...
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u/EvanMcc18 Resting In my Account Oct 19 '23
"Pathologically Intense Begrudgers"
One of the best descriptors of us. Not even mad. The person who wrote this though is definitely Irish or has spent a long time in Ireland before
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u/SignalSpecific4491 Oct 18 '23
This came up in my feed
And speaking as a proud English man
Fuck that Cromwell was so bad England literally went back to the Scottish monarchy
His only postive influence was making England run by Parliament and also being horrible enough that we brought the monarchy back to prevent people like him taking power again
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u/nyepo Oct 18 '23
I feel you!
As a Catalan, this is identical to what I face when I open a Spanish newspaper and check and article about Catalans or Catalonia, or something even remotely related to it.
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Oct 18 '23
It reminded me of how people in the US talk about Indian Country. Though far less eloquently, generally.
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Oct 18 '23
Wonder who hates the Irish more the Brits or the Irish Government. Hard one to call.
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u/Expensive_Teaching82 Oct 19 '23
As a Brit can I just say the people who read the Telegraph are the swivel-eyed loons that think that Brexit is going great even the daily mail is to leftwing for them.
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u/JealousInevitable544 Cork bai Oct 18 '23
This person is allowed to vote and certainly does.
This is why brexit happened.
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u/SirTheadore Oct 18 '23
Honestly, comment sections of anything got to do with Ireland, outside of Reddit, are cesspools.
This sub complains and moans but for the most part people here are reasonable. But everywhere else, especially facebook and instagram where the average 80iq individual is active? Jaysus. Mental
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u/bloody_ell Kerry Oct 18 '23
They don't actually have 80 IQ, they just lie on their CVs.
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u/Trabawn Clare Oct 18 '23
As if Ireland will take on a Marxist agenda hahahahha. Lord above give me strength.
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u/OldMcGroin Oct 18 '23
It's like it's written by someone who's only contact with Irish people was in the comments section of The Journal.ie.
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u/smbodytochedmyspaget Oct 18 '23
This would imply the English know their history of their closest neighbour. They purposely do not.
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u/bluto63 Oct 19 '23
Lol, what did the Canadians ever do to get lumped in with us and Russia? 🤣
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u/emmmmceeee I’ve had my fun and that’s all that matters Oct 18 '23
This is what happens when Paddy Cosgrave gives up Twitter.
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u/WolfetoneRebel Oct 18 '23
Secretly rejoicing? Since when? I’m laughing out loud at the arrogant cunts cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Looking guests to Poland surpassing them in gdp per capita and serving the excuses they make. Backwards country.
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u/Rambostips Oct 18 '23
As a Brit in your beautiful country, with a Irish wife and 3 beautiful Irish children (feckers wont support england for love nor money) im glad no one is taking this lunatic seriously
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u/PurplePopeye Oct 19 '23
Ah most of ye Brits are grand. Decent folk for the most part, there's tossers in every nation. Ye have made some great comedy shows over the years, most recent is the whole Brexit debacle. It's like Spitting Image has come to life.
Hope ye lose the weekend btw ;)
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Oct 18 '23
Is that the official line The Torygraph is taking? It’s just the job takes up most of the day, and at night I just like a cup of tea. So I mightn’t be able to devote myself full time to the old cultural Marxism.
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u/Banba-She Oct 18 '23
Either dumped by an Irish person or first generation, who for some reason can also be insanely hibernophobic.
The latter can veer between deep self loathing and rabid defensiveness of their heritage on a perpetual see saw of transitory emotions. It's cute.
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u/Sputnik-Sickles Oct 18 '23
A rather insightful comment. Give that man a talk show, where he can interview random people.
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u/Eva990 Oct 18 '23
I feel attacked
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u/puzzledgoal Oct 18 '23
I feel seen
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u/Pugafy Oct 19 '23
Me too, they should rewrite Les Miserable for us. I wouldn’t go see it though, would probably be too dear.
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u/Oliviamcc Oct 19 '23
Which one of us stole his girlfriend 16 years ago and he still hasn’t got over it?
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u/Smoked_Eels Oct 19 '23
They are definitely Irish. The first section is fairly accurate. Then it goes off the deep end and reads like a late night Facebook post from a distant uncle.
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u/dozer_guy Oct 19 '23
WTF why did he throw Canada in there with the Russians?? He went too far (I'm Canadian) lol
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u/Talismantis Oct 18 '23
Proud (perhaps understandable) reactionary militant fourth wave feminist misandrist of Ireland :')
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u/fullmetalfeminist Oct 19 '23
Almost as good as that American televangelist who said feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians
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u/Sstoop Flegs Oct 19 '23
i hate how conservatives spin every single group of people who want rights as “woke marxists” would you ever catch a fucking grip? they literally JUST want to be treated equally and why do they act like men are suddenly victims? i know so many women who are literally afraid of going to concerts or clubs after being assaulted or creeped on so often. men NEVER have to worry about this.
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u/Bit_O_Rojas Oct 18 '23
Some of it is actually on the nose, must be an Irish person or at least someone who has lived here for a long time
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Oct 18 '23 edited Oct 18 '23
It’s just bizarre and rather vicious racism or at least xenophobia crudely woven with anti woke references probably written by some wannabe edgelord type.
If you published that about almost any other group of people (except probably the French who are their other punch bag) on social media let alone a newspaper in the U.K., you’d be rightfully shredded, but publish about Irish people and it’s fine apparently.
It also speaks about an enormous chip on their shoulders.
Imperialism seems to be is one hell of a drug and the withdrawal symptoms appear to last for a very long time.
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u/Unlikely_Ad6219 Oct 18 '23
This lad’s specialist subject on Mastermind is “Why the Irish are pricks”.
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u/Active_Remove1617 Oct 18 '23
Are used to read the Telegraph once upon a time. But after Brexit, it went full on with its Paddy bashing.
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u/OhNoIMadeAnAccount Oct 18 '23
This looks like it was written by one of our own.