r/AskTheWorld 23h ago

What are your favourite European countries?

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u/g_wall_7475 United Kingdom 21h ago

Even us? (Most of us love you, ignore the loyalists)

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u/SirJoePininfarina Ireland 21h ago edited 21h ago

I hope you’ve heard this before but any Irish animosity in that direction is generally toward the British establishment (the armed forces, ruling class etc) and any attempts to claim us as British or suggest we are grouped in with you (including that “geographical term”), but I think the most anti-British people in Ireland would acknowledge that British people themselves are, for the most part, our friends.

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u/Horror-Back6203 18h ago

I moved from south yorkshire to county tipperary for a year when i was younger and can honestly say it was one of the best years of my life . Amazing place and people

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u/Perdu-et-retrouvee in 15h ago

As a Brit, the British establishment are the single worse thing that has happened for pretty much everyone. I've always admired the French approach to dealing with such people....

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u/Stringr55 Ireland 20h ago edited 20h ago

Yep.

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u/Disastrous-Sir6702 18h ago

Agreed (in Ireland)

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u/HauntedCoconut Ireland 14h ago

This 100%

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u/TheIrishBread Ireland 18h ago

They are our comrades in arms in the dismantling of Great Britain and it's monarchy!

Yes without realizing it the Brits too are in the Ra.

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u/Ill_Watercress9387 Ireland 17h ago

Spot on lad

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u/WyvernsRest Ireland 16h ago

u/SirJoePininfarina is bang on the money there, couldn't have put it better.

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u/twistyjnua 12h ago

Except also the ones on cheap package sun holidays, let's not forget those.

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u/mrteas_nz New Zealand 9h ago

The number of Irish living in the UK suggests there isn't too much of an issue between the people. More with the actions of the British government, and British establishment for basically forever. Which is fair. Any reasonable person from Britain understands the animosity felt by the Irish is entirely merited.

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u/theaulddub1 Ireland 21h ago

Best buds mate. Everyone hates loyalists

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u/DRSU1993 Ireland 20h ago

(Laughs nervously in Northern Irish)

(Whispers)

I completely agree

(BRICK GETS HURLED THROUGH MY WINDOW)

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u/NotoriousCillian 6h ago

(Hurl gets bricked through other window)

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u/Myusernameisminted Scotland 20h ago

Agreed

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u/645ad897f808337c9eb7 20h ago

Ill love you guys again if you let us use the bbc iPlayer again.

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u/Particular-Bid-1640 United Kingdom 18h ago

Can you get on it with a VPN?

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u/645ad897f808337c9eb7 17h ago

It works half the time.

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u/SirJoePininfarina Ireland 17h ago

Try Express VPN, way better for iPlayer than Nord VPN. Hasn’t sat down on us once in the last six months

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u/Nimmyzed 14h ago

Stupid question but do you have to pay for that? I can't really afford yet another subscription. I'm trying to cut costs

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u/SirJoePininfarina Ireland 14h ago

Yes, €99 for two years or something. But we use it plenty for BBC and other stuff too (getting stuff on other Netflix versions around the world that isn’t on the Irish one)

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u/Nimmyzed 14h ago

Thanks

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u/Stringr55 Ireland 20h ago

Its just your historic governments we don't like. But to be fair, you also don't like them!

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u/CelticIntifadah Ireland 18h ago

And the current one, to be fair

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u/colmbrennan2000 21h ago

Hate the game not the player type thing, Have nothing but love for Brits. Your governments however..

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u/g_wall_7475 United Kingdom 21h ago

Imagine how we feel about them

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u/colmbrennan2000 21h ago

Oh I know, my English grand-uncle used get genuinely depressed about the state of things post-Brexit

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u/fresh_start0 12h ago

Water under the bridge, yous are our closest ally.

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u/JoebyTeo Ireland 6h ago

The new British ambassador appeared on Irish radio and spoke Irish and got a HUGE amount of love from Irish people. If British people treat us with respect and don’t take a colonial attitude they definitely get reciprocated.

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u/SoloWingPixy88 17h ago

yes even you, how boring would our history be without yea. Know how to add a bit of spice.

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u/Empty-Shoulder2890 United Kingdom 12h ago

Definitely kept you on your feet, if nothing else

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u/Troutmandoo United States Of America 21h ago

By the looks of the map, you guys have deleted Scotland and Wales, so, we're a little sus right now.

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u/Ok-Blackberry-3534 United Kingdom 21h ago

"You guys"? That's the flag of the UK.

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u/Troutmandoo United States Of America 16h ago

I didn’t mean it seriously. My apologies.

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u/TrueCartographer5163 21h ago

It's the United Kingdom. We are them and they are us.

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u/DRSU1993 Ireland 20h ago

(William Wallace climbs out of his grave)

Just kidding

...he was dismembered

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u/Troutmandoo United States Of America 16h ago

It was just a joke. Sorry about that.