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luka

luka

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My special thing is that by not being good at anything I'm a cheery Everyman
shiels said:
Some cultures have better storytellers because of social pressure to be entertaining in groups. Craic over all. I'm baffled about how comfortable some English people are with moaning on and on without a thought to make it funny or interesting.
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the english are much funnier than the irish.
 
luka

luka

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ive never met a funny irish man. they think their accent will do all the work for them. much like northerners and glaswegians in that regard. they make themselves into a quaint gift shop sovenier and ask you to admire them.
 
entertainment

entertainment

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I agree it's a socialized quality to some degree. A product of life long minute trial and error runs in communication. What impresses me the most is when someone shy takes the word and makes everyone shut up. That's magic.
 
entertainment

entertainment

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Ha! the accent thing is so true. People sometimes do a fake accent as a joke when trying to be funny. You need to pyschosomatically mute those ones.
 
shiels

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The average glaswegian is twenty times funnier than the average southern English person. The average southern English person just likes laughing at people making mistakes,the less fortunate, poor people etc. It's because they don't have souls. But yes, very funny English people are very funny.
 
shiels

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Southern English people assume i'm totally thick because of the accent. They also fear it slightly, I can tell. In my stubborness the most i'll do is slow down a little. Very occasionally i'll pronounce my NGs
 
luka

luka

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funniest people are londoners. then essex people. this is becasue they have energy, spirit, vivactiy, generosity. scottish people overdo the negativity. they think they are hardbitten so nothing can ever be good. they always have to be 'dour.'
 
luka

luka

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irish person wiping the guiness froth from his lips and about to launch into some over-elaborate anecdote
 
shiels

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No, no the opposite. Less hierarchy but more pressure to be entertaining means in large groups you have to be in and out quick, so the craic is bare bones, lean and lyrical. Southern English people have all the time in the world, droning on with this heir of entitlement. Get on with it mate!
 
entertainment

entertainment

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I'm not at all for that tyrannical bar lads notion of what it means to be entertaining. There's not a single person on this earth I wouldn't find entertaining if they could narrate their inner life with earnesty.

I'm like Isaiah Berlin: "People are my landscape."
 
C

catalog

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thing about most londoners, they've not been to all the rest of the UK. like most of my friends from london, they've been to berlin and mexico, but they've not been to halifax or whitby. so all they see is what they get in london. which is obviously people acting up, dazlled by the big city lights and the sweet lager
 
luka

luka

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southern england i have to be honet, they dont have souls. thats actually true. but london and essex is set apart from that. but i dont buy this irish self mytholoigising. i dont think theyre particularly funny people. craner says the welsh are much funnier than the irish and although i havent met many welsh or irish i agree with him
 
luka

luka

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you and washyourhands and your shit celtic bollocks. we have to put a stop to this. most celtic fans are racists that wave a palestine flag to wind up their protestant next door neighbours. horrible nasty people the lot of them.
 
entertainment

entertainment

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You go out in some countries and on the first night, the people are so funny it's like revelation or something. And then in the following nights it starts to dawn on you that they're mostly just copy pasting straight from the national funny man mythology.
 
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