You know you're Irish when...

The other day I was sitting in a delightful Krakovian Cafe, hereby to be known as Gulliver's, with three other international students, one of which is Irish, just like me, and it hit me, the Irish really aren't like most other European cultures! (Now I say it hit me but this is actually something I've argued for a while now, but realised just how true it is.)

We are probably the only group of people, that when we decide to go out foreign, straight away we're googling Irish pubs, trying to find out where we can get proper breakfast and get real tea, we are also the only nationality, in my Erasmus group at least that don't feel the need to eat bread with every meal, though we do with potatoes! But what it really was that made me think just how uneuropean, i.e. uncultured, we the Irish are, was our casual discussion of Cow-Tipping

The Full Irish breakfast, a big plate of fat, grease, cholesterol and happiness

Now for those civilised amongst us that don't know what Cow Tipping is, well let me just tell you. It is a game which involves a cow, though a bull may also suffice, but this just depends on how big your balls are, and you or even better one of your drunken friends. You wait by a field and when a cow falls asleep, standing up, you run over and push it on its side!

Now this is an incredibly cruel act, which is quite difficult to do, as most of the time Cattle do not sleep standing upright though it does happen and as well as that they are pretty big creatures and even if Wikipedia says they are slow moving, believe me they are not (I know, I live in the countrysides of Ireland, cows can run, FAST!) but worst of all, Cow-Tipping can cause the animal to go into shock or even have a heart attack, you know like shaking someone awake who has been sleep walking.

Run away! Save yourselves!!!

But m'colleague and I were discussing this like no big thing, both knowing people who have done it, our European friends however, despite being mildly enthused by the idea at first, were ultimately, and not surprisingly disgusted!

And I wonder is it just me and the people I associate with that are so uncivilised, so uncultured so uneuropean, or is it us Paddies in general?!

Feckin' Irish! Cultureless sum!