The most annoying words used by Irish people in 2011

George, youre a right one to talk about racism! You have insulted and put down various races who have moved to Ireland for a better life. You have slagged the Irish off for not being out on the streets marching against immigration! The most racist people I have ever met in my life are Americans with an Irish background so you really need to take a look in the mirror.

I don't have much contact with the current wave of Irish migrants, legal and illegal, but I had a lot to do with the illegal aliens from Ireland in the late 1980s. What struck me, and others, was their arrogance, their racism, and lack of ambition. Arrogance because they arrived thinking they knew everything about the US, on the basis of having watched movies like Taxi Driver or TV shows like Hill Street Blues. They Knew It All. Racism, because they had scarcely unpacked when they started adopting and using all the nastiest cliches and racial stereotypes that most Americans long avoid. And unambitious, because they were quite content to live their whole lives in the space of a couple square miles of Inwood or Van Cortland Park. An unimpressive lot, indeed, and I see from Ciaradexy and her "buddy" that the mediocrity has carried into another generation.

AMWilson - well said. AIs don't all behave or think alike and neither do the Irish. Anyone with a brain should be able to see that from reading IC posts. Knock off the inaccurate stereotyping of people, no what country they're from, and judge people on an individual basis. Quit using "all" and substitute "some" when talking about people. Those who rely only on generalizations and stereotypes (and films) to form opinions about other people are lazy, ignorant, narrowminded thinkers.

AMWilson-good for you but a huge majority on here seem to think that way and if they dont, they certainly post as if its their thinking.

And "this" AI cares not for the humble spud, the excessive reliance upon which brought calamity upon my ancestors. Sorry, ciara, but as an AI, I refuse to be pigeonholed by the likes of you. Your lazy thinking has determined that all AI's are shallow, ignorant simpletons, and we're not. Not all of us, anyway.

Here we go, ciara: "We" AI's don't attend giant conventions and come reach consensus regarding how "we" are going to stereotype Native Irish. "I" don't have stereotypical notions of Native Irish because I have friends from Ireland who work over here, and "I" pay attention to the nuanaces of their speech and behavior, which show me that they are not hard-drinking, potato-junkie leipreachans who dream of the Quiet Man so that they don't have to think about their childhood experiences of clerical abuse. About the only stereotype I can throw their way is that "they" are better hurlers than "we" are, every one of them. Do you do this much outrageous generalizing in your cancer research? I'd have thought that your (presumably) high level of education would preclude such narrowmindedness but, then again, I'd probably be guilty of stereotyping.

Jacers, I did catch that, and was in awe!

Aw Jacers, bless! First of all, I dont drink so I didnt have a hangover on NYE and secondly, I do not put .com after anything other than web addresses. Ive just realised that because I dont drink, I dont fit in with the AIs idea of traditional Irish culture or ways! You posted recently in regards to an article on the death of the humble spud, this article must have killed AIs a little! You poor poor creatures! I hope people reading about children being raped by priests which seemed to be a massive part of irish culture helps all AIs sleep a little better at night too.

oops btw AMW - did ya see how banalily I used every one of the most annoying words used by Irish people last year in my previous posts? It's called TDP.

Yep, I agree, AMW.

Turd attempt at posting (...more!) I mean it means.... It means ... It means... There’s another year of IrishCentral to suffer! Helllp meee Oh Soooper Karioohh!! - *Okay, I’m calming down now*... going forward, yes, ok, Kario, you’re really right... we should burn all bondholders with all the same due respect they gave us in respectful return to them… You’re right Kario, I really think they’re donkeyholes as it were… exactly! Boom! There I’ve said it! Boom boom that, if you don’t believe me. Just bear with me another mo... no, c’mon c’mon... We’re European partners aren’t we? We are where we are and we have to turn the corner, all confident now, altogether now, let’s all quietly, submissively turn the corner. Ok? >>> ** Boom Boom**... what the eff was dat? Are you still there? Am I still here? Whaaat?!! Look, jacers! They cut the feet from under us! The Troika just stole their dinner again! Aaaww sheet! Aaaawh effit! Wow! How Did they do that? Now that’s really a’gnawing (spelling?).

While this discussion may be going nowhere, at least it's helped us to establish that some of us think that the term "Irish" didn't truly have meaning before the political independence of the Republic created the concept of "Irish citizenship", while others of us think that "Irish" is an inherently ethno-cultural term that transcends political affiliation.

Me (...more) was blocked by that idiotic ICentral 'puter. Never wrote a bad word in it. @AMWilson, I agree. There is a gulf between understanding of Irish today in Ireland and that of Irish tradition in America. You I-A people should really set up a commission to re-educate Irish people in real Irish ways as those preserved by Irish-Americans, not those of fake revisionist historians of Irishism.

Jacers, my point is that Native Irish and I-A's clearly have differing (political vs cultural) definitions of the term "Irish" and, I suppose, both sides are using their respective definitions to exclude the other. When I repeatedly read here that immigrants with no Irish ancestry and no regard for Irish culture are infinitely more "Irish" that those of us with close ties to Ireland and who are devoted to the preservation of Irish culture, I become increasingly convinced that the idea here is to continue to adjust the term "Irish" until every I-A has been successfully excluded.

By way of hopeful lighening, here’s another novel for ciara-d-exy/stroke/Laoise. >>> Aw c’mon ppl! There’s nothing that annoys me more than a discussion going nowhere. This discussion is going that funny way... You know that kind of way…? At the end of the day we’ll all be kicking the can down the road. Young people like ciara and Laoise saying dotcom after things, ie - OOOPS! .. that should be eee.dot.geee.dot, sorry for that. Ye see, I was SO out last night on the High Street and now I’m visiting those brill websites hangoverdotcom, confuseddotcom and itsdelishdotcom. This constant abuse of the word ‘collateral’, sorry, I mean ‘literal’ reference to High Street bothers me. It’s really, really annoying! *Sigh* Whatever! This totally marks a downturn in Irish Central’s credit rating as an Irish news site. OMG!! Did I just say that? How gross of me! Gosh! The Jedi would never forgive me for that, never mind their hair sprung wood sons! That’s really out of me to say that, really crazy, like, really crazy out, like ya know, sorry! That’s not like me! I must get over my NYE’s hangover! It absolutely makes no sense as well as to being irritating to sirpeter and Towngate and their friend Georgie Boy. *Panicking now* I must pray to my Super Angel Kario. We hafta move on! Really! God Almighty Help me! It means... it means...! (More...)