Just asking out of curiosity.

31 comments
  1. I don’t know half of them half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.

  2. Tories and toffs, not great. Lower classes, sound enough but need to realise your Tories and toffs have been subjucating you for centuries. Also, ye stole all our trees to build your navy ships.

  3. As a people they are no better or worse than any other nation – you’ll meet some really sound people and some complete bastards, same with anywhere you go.

    Their monarchy/establishment can go fuck themselves though.

  4. A lot of the ones I know can come across as having a bit of a superiority complex.. used to dislike them for it but kind of pity them now… the bastards!!

  5. We are very similar in a broader cultural perspective.

    Socially, I think we’re less compatible with them than we are with people from the likes of Scotland and Poland. I can’t really articulate why. Anecdotally, I think we’re similar but there’s some weird subtle differences in how they conduct themselves in a social situation.

    I really don’t mind the English. I think as a broader group, they tend to sometimes become a bit arrogant / proud, but I have generally got on with English people on an individual level. Maybe less so as a lone Irish person in a larger English group, then I feel like a bit of an alien.

  6. I like some English people, some I dislike, most of my distrust of England is based on past history, and also focused on its government. As noted in other posts, many English people are “sound”.

  7. Depends. There’s English and then there’s British English. I’ll let you decide which ones sound and which one is full of knobs.

    *my siblings are all married to the sound ones, thanks be to god

  8. Like any other nationality really, majority are sound with some bastards. Can say the same about us. They tend to really like us as well in my experience.

  9. Almost every Irish fam ily will have a connection to English people.

    My bother in law is marrying a girl from London later this year, and they live in England. We visit often and have a lovely time.

    English people are great.

    Tory governments and their increasingly bastard shenanigans are not.

  10. I was raised by an English Foster family after losing both my parents at 10. They were the nicest people I’ve ever met. They set rules and boundaries for me but we’re never strick or gave out to me. I lived with them for 6 years, brought me to America and Europe countries on Holiday. Bought me the best of gear for birthdays and Christmas. I was the longest foster child they had cared for. Their own family i.e both their sons welcomed me and were so sound too. I never acted the bollix too much, I was a bit of trouble like most teenagers were growing up, but they never gave up on me. Even my foster mums grandparents were nice, sometimes I’d have to eat my lunch there and the aul fella would tell me stories about WW2.

    These people saved my life in all actuality. The life I came from and what might of happened to me were grim. I owe these people everything.

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