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A thread once again edition.

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Last digits of the next post will be the number of my horse at 13:25 in Southwell

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Dragonite @ 80/1

Weebs training horses now? Lmao

Do you reckon you'll beat NZ again next game?

I'm not an anime poster

No, I don't have my hopes up at all desu

No, Dragonite is a pokemon.

Ahh I see, hopefully its a good Pokémon?

Yes, yes it is. Probably one of the most liked from the first series from the 90s.

And their off

Fecking weeb horses

>tfw no average irish gf

world class edition

9.5/10

Fucking stressfull night lads
Could be doing with a blowy from a certain double-gendered frog

Mate of mine fingered her outside an underage disco in Carlow once

>STILL no 205 ticket

Well I saw the gentleman soldier as a sentry he did stand
He saluted a fair maid by a wavin of his hand
So boldly then he kissed her and he passed it off as a joke
He drilled her up in the sentry box wrapped up in a soldier's coat

stfu REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Alri lads

Are most micks in Ireland lefties or right wing?

Socially right, economically left

Lefties.

The two types of people who dominate the class that are "allowed" to talk about politics are Dublin's lower/middle-lower class, who've been riled up by socialism, and the Dublin or wannabe-Dublin upper/upper-middle class, who use Anglophone/EUrophile leftism as another foreign culture to bludgeon the true Irish with.
Then I suppose there's the Gaeltacht-sphere, but they're tied at the hip with bourgeoisie-ism (the other half being the native "parish pump" issues of the Gaeltacht).
All of them have the misfortune of being dominated by women, though, and thus tending towards the same type of what we would call "leftism".

Two weight world champion soon lads

But it IS true that there is an undercurrent of right-wing sentiment stronger here than in other countries, of the type that is socially disadvantageous to voice and unsupported by any "acceptable" cultural outlet.

flight tomorrow morning

cannae wait lads

Did you end up getting your ticket half-off?

it's craigslist NY so i'll have to get it in person, there's still plenty on there and i've nothing to do on friday but meet friends in the evening so i should get one.

no in all seriousness the Swiss-American is genuinely dead.

Be careful it's not a scam and you don't end up watching the fight in an "Irish bar" in New York.

won't be buying without plenty of evidence. imagine ending up in a pub after flying out for it.

I want an irish girlfriend(male)

Trannies are rare here.

The closest substitute available would probably be an actual British girl.

what about a feminine irish boy?

What is the average Irishman opinion on Mexicans? Ive always admired their pride and heart, I believe they're the only people on Earth that are as proud as Mexicans

Would I be welcomed if I moved there?

You'd be better off going for a masculine English boy if that's what you want.

I just really want a cute, lithe, red-haired, pale boyfriend to be fair.

There's about half a dozen of them that regularly post here.

>Irish people
>proud

Eh, we have little contact with Mexicans or South Americans here. They're very rare, and the few I've seen here have been hard workers with a palpable sense of being in a foreign country, something they don't seem to have in the US. (At least until now, Trump getting elected might change that).

>Dragonite
A.K.A. Fat Charizard.

Define "proud".

Jesus you're clueless.

i lived in san francisco for a while and a couple of my friends worked with mexicans doing plumbing/electrician/manual labour and it was pretty much only new irish emigrants (on short term visas) and mexicans doing the work, they got on well and bantered each other all the time about differences.

Doing a Protestant

>proud
The word you're looking for is "angry"

>tfw protestant
>tfw people keep calling me a poo

Not being ashamed of who you are. It may not always be specifically towards the fact that they're Irish, but someone like McGregor is very outspoken and isnt brought down easily. I love the music he walks to stage with.

He said before he stopped posting he had tests coming up.

Something could have happened to his phone either.

What's your complaint?

What is there to be proud of in Mexico? Genuine question. I'd wager that I'm not the only one that thinks predominantly of bad things when Mexico comes to mind.

>pic
I will never understand this meme. Why is being a Centrist portrayed as edgy when it's anything but?

Everything.

>Why is being a Centrist portrayed as edgy when it's anything but?
That's the joke

If swooce made a come back, will you man also?

your man is dead, hit by a swerving truck on his way to day care

Because centrists are the epitome of conformity

Rip

your man is dead, got hit in the chest with a fly swatter on his way to sign language lessons

Heritage and culture. Of course arrogance is a big part, which is why you still Mexicans proudly waving the Mexican flag in the US. But that being said, you wouldnt see an American doing the same in Mexico. The soccer fans have a chant where they say "And now you see, now you see, we are the locals once again." Regardless of where they play, the fans are there, and in big numbers.

Im not surprised only bad things come to mind when you think of Mexico though, this website isnt too fond of the country or its people. I say youd have to visit a country and interact with the people in order to really get a feel from them. I couldnt say much about France besides what ive seen in the media, which is mostly baguettes, and more recently, terrorist attacks.

Interesting. I can't see how somebody could muster the anger to hate Centrists. It's like hating wallpaper paste.

So we should all be little anarchic rebels?

Rip
Have you seen your man lately?

>asking someone to tell him what to do
Classic Centrist

>I will never understand this meme. Why is being a Centrist portrayed as edgy when it's anything but?

It's a format that makes fun of people saying contradictory, obfuscatory or stupid things by reducing their statements to very simple language and showing it next to silly-looking faces.

In this example it's making fun of people who look at right or far-left opinions and say "ha ha, I believe nothing other than what's socially approved of, so I'm obviously smarter than those who stick their opinions above the parapets".

So you believe the opposite is true?
What do you think the case is?

Do you think right-wing politics are allowed or supported here, especially among the media-"intellectual" political classes I described?

I posted an addendum post saying that the average Irish person was more right wing than other countries, if you didn't see that.

why do you dislike us?
we dindu nuffin to you

My brain did not receive one single electric pulse in regards to the information you have posted

>In this example it's making fun of people who look at right or far-left opinions and say "ha ha, I believe nothing other than what's socially approved of, so I'm obviously smarter than those who stick their opinions above the parapets".
That's just arrogance though - not edginess.

What do you mean?

When you nod your head yes
But you wanna say no

Your optic nerves were engaged by it though.

It's artificially inducing the self-righteousness that comes from edginess though. Righties and lefties will say something genuinely edgy, but centrists just insert themselves to say that everything "edgy" is wrong for being "edgy", while expecting their unprincipled naysaying to be "edgy". Only a positive statement unwelcome in "polite society" is edgy.

>replying to the attention whore

dont do that

Really activates the cranial almonds

I can believe that your cranium contains almonds.

no surrender the pope's a bender

>Righties and lefties will say something genuinely edgy, but centrists just insert themselves to say that everything "edgy" is wrong for being "edgy", while expecting their unprincipled naysaying to be "edgy"
This is where I fundamentally disagree. A centrist would be unlikely to say anything edgy by definition while also not perceiving anything they say to be edgy (unless they don't consider themselves to be a centrist, which isn't the case in the original picture). Only extreme Lefties or Righties would consider anything a Centrist would say to be edgy.

Your man, have you seen him?

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>generally not holding extreme views
>bad
wut

>perceiving anything they say to be edgy

"Centrists" get notions of being "above partisan politics" and hate anyone who has convictions on any issue as "ideologues". They get delusions of grandeur and think the fact that they have equal pressure from both the right and left is a sign that they have found "the happy medium", and that they are the only ones who can "think independently".

Righties and lefties don't actually consider centrists to be edgy, they only call out edgelord posturing from centrists because they are used to being or battling edgelords in their own camp and the opposite camp.

>substituting apathy for intellect

Legends

>insult huns
>with a flag that dedicates a whole 3rd to huns

>Are most micks in Ireland lefties or right wing?
Ireland doesn't fall under the left/right paradigm.

There are some lefty parties but they are tiny and meme tier, usually electing one or two TD's. They constantly squabble with each other and bitch about muh austerity until they collapse..

Then there are a handful of right wing parties who, rather than squabble with each other end up fighting within the party itself and collapse that way.

The vast majority of people vote for the main parties FF, FG, SF and Labour.

FF and FG are basically centrist populist parties. They do not have any ideological convictions to speak of and their policies are aimed at stitching together disparate social groups in order to win elections. They generally see what ideas are popular among the public, wait til they gain critical mass and then implement them, or hold a referendum. They then take credit for this. They go in a cycle where whichever party is in government implements pro-business policies and which ever is in opposition adopts pro-worker rhetoric. they switch places every election. They are both corrupt. They sound shit but it's better than the culture war shit you see everywhere else so meh

Labour are the same, though they do not have the civil war baggage and are rarely in government, only ever as a junior coalition partner. The one rule of Irish politics is never be a junior partner as you will get rekt for the next three election cycles.

Sinn Féin are a strange bunch. They are very populist, their number one issue is the North and they wil do anything to further the cause of reunification. They were literally the IRA. They are unashamedly nationalist and vocally socialist. They are strongly-anti-racism and probably the most "refugees welcome" party but are also usually the ones to defend the working class when they are accused of racism and promote national pride etc. They're a lefty party who attract a lot of disaffected right wing voters. It's weird.

Your flag dedicates a whole third to Irish people. :)

Oh fuck

St Patrick's Cross isn't a third it was made small because Scotland didn't want to give the impression that you were our equals.

>What is the average Irishman opinion on Mexicans?
Tequila, burritos other memes. Generally positive. Some people will love you because muh San Patricios or muh Catholicism but most will not know or care much about your country.

>Would I be welcomed if I moved there?
Yes you would be welcomed but it can be hard to integrate into the social scene. You have to be prepared to drink and to take the initiative in hanging out with people.

>St Patrick's Cross isn't a third
Yes it is.

No it isn't.

They'll say the cross itself is smaller, but besides the fact that that's for aesthetic reasons, the white of St Andrew's cross is the natural background of St Patrick's, so it's not very jarring.

Yes it is

I'm not really sure what the complaint is. Individual issues are debated on an individual basis, the image only seems to hate apathy insofar as it means they can't pigeonhole their opponent into subscribing to a bunch of other ideas.

fuck you stupid shit

No it's not.

>"Centrists" get notions of being "above partisan politics"
Ireland is probably the only country where centrists are partisan so if people on the internet are saying this then they have a point.

>and hate anyone who has convictions on any issue as "ideologues".
Ideologues cluster on the left and the right. There are basically no relevant centrist ideologies anymore, and hasn't been since classical liberalism.

>They get delusions of grandeur and think the fact that they have equal pressure from both the right and left is a sign that they have found "the happy medium", and that they are the only ones who can "think independently".
It's not that centrists have found the "happy medium" it's that they are the only ones looking for it in a lot of countries. Again, Ireland is bizarro-world so things are a bit different here.

Nah that just represents our part of your island.

Yes it is.

>They are strongly-anti-racism and probably the most "refugees welcome" party
Didn't they have a poll recently where Sinn Féin supporters were found to be the most against letting in refugees? Party should change its policies tbqh.

Ironic how the only Scots who are obsessed with the Irish are descendants of Irish people from Ulster.

Genuinely find it humourous.

>Righties and lefties don't actually consider centrists to be edgy, they only call out edgelord posturing from centrists because they are used to being or battling edgelords in their own camp and the opposite camp.
I guess that makes sense. I just so rarely see a Centrist say anything that could be considered remotely edgy by anybody except the extreme left or right.

>Ireland is probably the only country where centrists are partisan
That's only because we lack a Right wing, hence the Centrists become "right wing" by virtue of not being left wing.

Not by choice :^) since we btfo of you and didn't give you one.

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