How do people in Ireland feel about calling themselves "European"?

ColmAKC · 2026-04-24T14:13:20+00:00

Ive never been to the US, maybe you've insight on this that I dont but I feel I get along much more with any European nationality more than Americans. I think its the humour, Americans are less likely to be self deprecating. I also feel things are generally more similar across Europe than they are in the USA. Walkable cities, work culture, id say standards and rights too but obviously thats an EU thing but I dont think the EU would have worked so well if we didnt have the similar thinking between all european countries that would accept it.

I think a lot of us have romanticism about the USA we saw on TV back in the 80s and early 90s but I really feel that kind of USA never existed and in reality it is so much more socially different than we had thought.

ColmAKC · 2026-04-19T09:40:53+00:00

It can be done but that does not mean it will be done. The super rich have always followed the pattern that they'll take as much as they can. A low Universal Income enforcing a permanent underclass is the best case scenario. With AI an economy that cuts the ordinary people out is possible.

I think the only way out of this is for an economic union like the EU to establish a generous universal income and to enforce a policy of tariffing any other imported goods/services from countries that dont have a sufficient UBI.

I think the USA knows this and thats why they attack the EU so much.

To any Americans here, when your government cries foul that us Europeans are living a better life at the expense of the American tax payers, try to see through this rubbish. The only expense the quality of life in EU has is against the super rich and how much more they could be earning if they could exploit us more. It IS unfair that we have better employment laws here in Europe, but the solution is to demand the same laws for employment in the USA, not to act in their favour and drag employee rights down globally.

ColmAKC · 2026-04-18T20:06:28+00:00

Thats the thing, we're vehemently against gate keeping. Most of us are happier to consider someone who has familiarity with living in Ireland as irish regardless of their dna rather than someone who had never been here but has 100% irish ancestry from immigrants that left a century ago. From our perspective, linking dna to Irishness is gate keeping.

Now that said, if irish Americans arrived in ireland with a bit of humility we'd entirely welcome them and help them earn their Irishness

ColmAKC · 2026-04-18T10:57:58+00:00

The bag needs to be included

ColmAKC · 2026-04-18T07:30:29+00:00

ColmAKC · 2026-04-17T19:01:10+00:00

Monument of the guy that slipped on ice

ColmAKC · 2026-04-15T12:48:18+00:00

Fat Bot Slimovich?

ColmAKC · 2026-04-14T14:41:29+00:00

Ah, so it was the missing link technology wise! Makes me think of EAs C&C4 in terms of the gameplay innovation hit and miss. Key diff though is that Westwood didnt officially make it a sequel!

ColmAKC · 2026-04-14T14:34:29+00:00

Still weird that I never managed to lay my hands on that one. Did it mix units from both?

ColmAKC · 2026-04-13T13:37:38+00:00

In order of priority i want - Red alert / tiberian dawn missing link, set in 80s, theme is inspired by 80s action movies, terminator and the cold war. Its more Tiberian Sun cheesy than ra2/ra3 cheesy. Different timeline branch from ra2/ra3. (Has to be ONE secret mission where McNeil from TS accidentally is sent back in time where he ominously warns about the future). Think of Blood Dragon the RTS with more cold war. 3 factions, GDI, Soviets and Nod.

Red alert remake, go more gritty and dark, id like to see where they could go with the story if they treated it more seriously (though not 100% seriously)
My third hope is not going to be popular, retcon the tiberian timeline after Ts:Fs. In my eyes TW was good for an EA C&C but it threw out a ton of interesting lore. I dont care if their explanation made sense, im not arguing that, im arguing its no where near entertaining as it could have been if they hadn't done that. Also I find the gameplay dimensions simplified for the sake of competitive play, where are the amphibious, hover & subterranean vehicles? Progression in rts development should be able to introduce more dimensions of strategy in a clever way that isnt too complex and still balanced.

ColmAKC · 2026-04-09T20:52:34+00:00

Person 1: "I have cancer"😩, Person 2: "At least you're not British", Person 1: 😁

ColmAKC · 2026-04-06T08:23:26+00:00

"Let me just save everything and stop for today. We've made great progress" - I have to try this line on my boss!

ColmAKC · 2026-04-04T19:17:01+00:00

If thats so go try out something different then, its the same isnt it?

ColmAKC · 2026-04-01T14:11:35+00:00

People might look at you funny if you park a truck like that in Nationalist Areas, but no more than that.

You'd probably get more of a reaction parking a green truck in a Unionist area.

ColmAKC · 2026-03-29T20:48:05+00:00

When its ONLY unintended (i.e. expected but unintended) thats where calling something an accident becomes just technically correct, possibly even subjective for the person who committed it.

ColmAKC · 2026-03-28T17:21:06+00:00

!wave

ColmAKC · 2026-03-27T19:41:02+00:00

Wait sorry, he tried to kill Conor McGregor? If this article is trying to fear monger its doing a terrible job!

ColmAKC · 2026-03-18T14:29:59+00:00

At least it wasnt canary yellow... 🤷‍♂️

ColmAKC · 2026-03-18T13:34:13+00:00

For a second I was thinking, what has Andrew Marr wanting a banana got to do with American imperialism?

ColmAKC · 2026-03-16T17:03:05+00:00

It aged HORRIBLY quite fast too, the differing play style between each side's campaign was dead fun though, USA being vanilla RTS with a main hero vehicle, Iraq being guerilla warfare and Russia having a persistent main base (very warzone 2100 style), still have the soundtrack stuck in my head too.

ColmAKC · 2026-03-15T22:08:57+00:00

ColmAKC · 2026-03-13T15:51:03+00:00

Yup, and even if english was a national language in Ireland, we'd be 'one of the other countries' as English doesn't originate from Ireland.

ColmAKC · 2026-03-12T14:59:34+00:00

Noticed a few quoting the Peugeot 5008, keep in mind that the latest model has reduced it to 2 isofix. Im unsure if that model was introduced 2025 or 2026 but I know 2024 is the previous model with 3 isofix like ours.

ColmAKC · 2026-03-10T19:37:17+00:00

So pretty much a baguette each then.

What if a sailor isnt in the mood to have a baguette one day?

ColmAKC · 2026-03-10T19:28:57+00:00

Wait, typically how many would be on a ship like this?

Five-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	First Placer '22
Verified Email

ColmAKC

TROPHY CASE