What are differences between ireland and britain that the average person will notice upon visiting both?

The honesty in the language. The British will dance around things wherever they can, but the Irish will call a spade a fucking spade at the first opportunity.

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audigex@reddit

The overtake line and the calling a spade a spade, sure

But the space thing really depends where you are in the UK - Cumbria, Scotland, Yorkshire, Wales can be pretty similarly empty

And I'd say the use of "fuck" is pretty comparable

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Pyriel@reddit

I'm from South Wales. My wife's family are from Roscommon/Galway. My best mate lived in Lucan.

Nah. I stand by my comments.

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audigex@reddit

South Wales is the only full part of it

If you don't think British people use "fuck" much like Irish people do, you've not been to the right parts of the UK

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GrabbedByTheGhost@reddit

Which Britain?

Grea Britain or one of the lesser isles?

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

nobody is referring to the hebrides or the isle of wight as britain

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GrabbedByTheGhost@reddit

But they are isles of Britain.

Can you not just say that you meant UK and not Britain so we can all go to sleep happy

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

well the uk also includes a part of ireland

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GrabbedByTheGhost@reddit

The island of Ireland is geographically part of the British Isles...

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

and i said britain not the british isles

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ButteredNun@reddit

Shout “BONO IS…”

“A SINGER” 🇬🇧

“AN EEJIT” 🇮🇪

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StockKick4984@reddit

A man who’s real name was used in a multi million pound fraud case against the NHS 😅

True story although the CPS could only find 500k of the fraud

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Major-Credit-2442@reddit

Where in Britain? It’s pretty diverse

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notmenotyoutoo@reddit

That both of them have capital letters at the start but they are different letters.

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audigex@reddit

Some of the rest of the letters are different too, if you look closely

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pearsareforbidden@reddit

Petrol stations in Ireland have these hot food and deli counters that are so good.

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Darkgreenbirdofprey@reddit

Ireland foliage is a darker shade of green.

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Odd-Quail01@reddit

Less intensive agriculture/fewer woods but more hedgerows. More birdsong.

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JimDixon@reddit

Forty shades of green, if you believe Johnny Cash.

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Devious_Pudding@reddit

The road signs also use a different font. That threw me first time going over there.

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Odd-Quail01@reddit

Roads in better condition in Ireland.

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Puzzleheaded-Lynx204@reddit

If we're saying km we can probably say Euros too

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EBfarnham@reddit

Open at 10:30am(Sunday 12am), close at 10:00pm. Supermarkets must abide by the same hours.

Pain in the hoop.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

Open at 10:30am(Sunday 12am), close at 10:00pm

Similar in Scotland, alcohol is only allowed from 10am-10pm, so that's not a massive difference.

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JourneyThiefer@reddit

Think the hours are even less here in NI

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The biggest one that stuck out to me when i visited Dublin this year was the pedestrian crossings. In the UK they make a sort of soft beep and often have a big yellow box. In Dublin (can’t say and for the rest of Ireland as i haven’t been) they make a sort of fluttering sound that is much more similar to the crossings in Germany and the rest of Europe etc.

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

I will continue to maintain that the UK has the best designed pedestrian crossings in the world. There's heaps and heaps of consideration put into them for everyone of every ability. From the textile paving to the green man to the little turning knob underneath them

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EUskeptik@reddit

What struck me on a recent visit to Ireland was the excellent behaviour of children and young people in stark contrast to their foul-mouthed feral equivalents in mainland Britain.

I flew into Shannon and visited Limerick, Cork and Cobh.

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ActionBirbie@reddit

Lol, you have not spent a single second in Ireland or anywhere (assuming this is a genuine opinion, might just be a troll).

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tmr89@reddit

I guess you didn’t visit Dublin

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EUskeptik@reddit

No, it’s quite a few years since I visited Dublin.

I speak as I find, so cannot comment on Dublin.

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whosUtred@reddit

Sorry but that’s just bullshit, both countries have their fair share of feral idiots, but equally a far higher proportion of decent people!

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EUskeptik@reddit

And you would be one of the former. Bye! 👋

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StockKick4984@reddit

The hate for the English 🤣

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Front_Society1353@reddit

Nah you can find that in Scotland , Wales and NI as well.

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

I knew a bloke who was a welsh nationalist. spoke the language, wanted a hard border, and wanted hereford and shropshire in wales too. He did ancestry.com hoping to find out he was related to valley miners etc, turned out his whole family was from birmingham.

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Front_Society1353@reddit

Thats gotta be the worst place to find out your from as a Welsh Nationalist

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

I really do wonder what he wanted hereford and shropshire in wales for anyway, those were the borders centuries ago, nowadays they're just full of enlgish people, who he can't stand

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Front_Society1353@reddit

More farmland or something? Dont see what makes them valuable to Wales

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

something about them being colonised welsh lands that were owed back. Amazing how some people can't cope with the fact that countries grow and shrink arbitrarily over time. Imagine if scotland wanted cumbria back

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Front_Society1353@reddit

Or if England wanted any of the countries its ruled back

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StockKick4984@reddit

There’s a joke there but I’m not saying it as I’ve had a beer so I’m sure it’s only funny in my head 😅

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

go on lad

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StockKick4984@reddit

If his family history goes back to Birmingham there’s still no guarantee he’s part English.

I’ll see myself out 😅

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JourneyThiefer@reddit

Why would you want a hard border lmfao?

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

i asked him once and he said to "legitimise" wales as a country, given that every other country had passport checks at the border. He used spain and france as an example when he said that. clearly not the brightest bulb

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rybnickifull@reddit

Poland, France, Czech Republic, Latvia...

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Front_Society1353@reddit

Eh?

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rybnickifull@reddit

People who express dislike for English people. As an English born person I've heard it in all those and more, thanks entirely to stags.

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Front_Society1353@reddit

Pretty much everyone hates English people including other English people. People in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland particularly dislike us because they view the government in London as oppressing them

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

They dislike the government and some vague idea of the people. Maybe 50 years ago you'd get grief but nobody in this day and age is going to have a go at you purely on the basis of being english

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StockKick4984@reddit

Which kinda proves my point 😅

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

the english hate the english too

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Front_Society1353@reddit

People hate people from the next town over

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StockKick4984@reddit

Only the southerners and anyone not from Yorkshire 😅

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Feeling_Pen_8579@reddit

Never saw it personally, at all in fact.

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StockKick4984@reddit

I did but maybe that was because my partner at the time dad couldn’t wait to tell people in the pub I used to be in the British Army.

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

well there's your problem

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StockKick4984@reddit

Ahh wasn’t so much of a problem just every so often I’d have to do a short but energetic dance 😅

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tmr89@reddit

It mustn’t be nice for them to have hate in their hearts

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ernfio@reddit

Golden Crisp bars

Tayto crisps.

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JourneyThiefer@reddit

Yous don’t have golden crisp in GB?

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ButteredNun@reddit

We can do you a Toffee Crisp

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JourneyThiefer@reddit

We get both here in NI lol

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_Denizen_@reddit

They're on different islands.

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happyhippohats@reddit

The accent

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Manifestival1@reddit

Well yeah depending on which part of Ireland you're in you want to hope you hear they're accent before they hear yours.

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

even now? tons of blokes go on lads weekends in belfast and kneecap sells out stadiums in england

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Manifestival1@reddit

I don't know. I lived in Belfast 2007 and a friend of mine a couple of decades older seemed to think we had reason to be wary then. So it's not something I'm certain of myself and that was obviously almost a decade ago.

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit (OP)

almost two decades ago mate

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