Vive La Difference - between the Irish and the French

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This week’s Irish joke that's gone viral is ..

You know you're Irish when:


  1. You can't wait for the other guy to stop talking so you can start talking

  2. You show your love for friends and family by insulting them

  3. I will my arse means.....no

  4. You touch the electric fence for the craic

  5. The best reason to do something is for the craic

  6. Nobody can go a day without saying 'Jaysus'

  7. Flat coke or 7up heals all illnesses

  8. You don't know the words but that doesn't stop you from singing

  9. The word 'like' goes in every sentence

  10. You end all telephone calls with "Right, bye, bye, bye, bye"


How about les Francais?

You know you're French when:


  1. You don't make small talk and you could not be bothered to talk to strangers

  2. You are polite to your family ( the ones you haven't fallen out with over inheritance issues/divorce) and may even still vous voyer your parents

  3. Non means no, and sometimes yes means no, and a shrug means no too.

  4. You have never experienced "the craic"

  5. The best reason to do something is so that you will look smarter/better/thinner

  6. No-one can go a day without saying 'merde'

  7. You are a hypochondriac and take a myriad of medicaments

  8. You have never partaken in a sing song and never will. The thought of same brings you out in a sweat

  9. The word 'quoi' goes in every sentence

  10. You end all telephone calls with "Je t"embrasse très très fort, bisous", hang up and have a bitch about the person


Can you think of any others?
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hee hee, that's funny Bruce, Mayo without the craic! And Dave , did I say thanks a million for the comment ;-)

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Yes Barbara, I get that a lot. French people will assume I'm English and then when I say I'm Irish, they'll apologise profusely for making the mistake!!!!

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By the way the French seem to like the Irish.

J is always greeted with a smile of acceptance when he says "by the way I am not

English I am irish"

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Thanks a lot is not enough. It needs to be thanks a million!

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Ironically, Kaz, when an Irish friend visited us here in France, and I asked him what he thought about it, he replied: “It’s like Mayo without the craic”!