US Politics - A Society in Meltdown

[Julio_Geordio]

@flattythehurdler

I’ve always found them great to deal with.

Machines?

[balbec]

A great bunch of lads

[flattythehurdler]

@Fitzy post is slightly ironic given the origin of the phrase “fair dinkum”

[Sidney]

A lovely little parting shot at Trump from the Director of the US Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub as he quits.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Sidney

A lovely little parting shot at Trump from the Director of the US Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub as he quits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Stf9IQyH7A

[Juhniallio]

@Fitzy

In the bit of training I’ve been given on negotiating with Chinese suppliers and in the meetings I’ve had with them, it became very apparent that they don’t want to engage in any form of face to face conflict. They will pretty much readily agree to anything in a face to face meeting and it becomes very obvious very quickly that you have no hope of getting definitive answers, they will be very polite, smile and nod in agreement with everything.
That changes of course when they’re back home and production is actually happening, they don’t fuck around and if there is a problem, they will let you know quickly and usually with a work around / contingency, which generally comes with some form of additional cost. They will charge for fucking anything, which is fair enough. On the whole though, I’ve found Chinese companies great to deal with, once you’ve done enough due diligence with informed third party accreditors. Once you do some business with them and form a relationship, they will move heaven and earth to produce what you need. But face to face is hard going with them and quite frustrating, I’ve learned to just go through the motions of meet and greet, let them go home and then do the real negotiation on email.
@Juhniallio may have a different perspective having lived there (that right Juhy?).

I’d agree with most of that. Losing face in public is a massive no-no for them. In the 4 years I was there they moved from being reverential towards foreigners to having thinly disguised contempt for them. They’d fleece you if they could and play on the lost in translation a bit too.
Beijing GAA were storing a set of goalposts in the irish embassy and they went missing… Turns out the local staff had nicked them and cut them up and sold the metal. They claimed they thought it was rubbish.

[flattythehurdler]

Unlike the Irish??

[Tassotti]

The orisih are the most unprofessional people you could possibly deal with it. They have a terrible reputation, always late (or not turning up) and turning up sick from drink

[Julio_Geordio]

@Tassotti

The orisih are the most unprofessional people you could possibly deal with it. They have a terrible reputation, always late (or not turning up) and turning up sick from drink

But we’re great craic though

[gilgamboa]

@Tassotti

The orisih are the most unprofessional people you could possibly deal with it. They have a terrible reputation, always late (or not turning up) and turning up sick from drink

A very shrewd German told me before that the difference between the Irish and the English is that when you first meet an irishman you might think he was a bit of an idiot but every single time you meet them after that you realise a bit more how much you have underestimated them.

With the English you think you have met a genius within the first 30 mins and realise very quickly that they are full of piss and vinegar and the vast majority have incredibly overinflated egos.

It explains why so many Irish people excel in England (present company excepted)

[Tassotti]

thats a nice fuzzy story of what the orish like to think about themselves, it ties in with their world view “the best lads/supporters/etc” in the world, the cold reality is a lot different

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Tassotti

thats a nice fuzzy story of what the orish like to think about themselves, it ties in with their world view “the best lads/supporters/etc” in the world, the cold reality is a lot different

[Ashman]

You’d never think he could be the bastard he turned out to be . He ended up under a patio.

[Watch_The_Break]

In my experience the Germans are very good at flattery.

[Tassotti]

gil the muldoon, sitting there getting codded by a german, and loving it ,“ah yes, zee paddies, very astute, very good businessman”

[Juhniallio]

@Ashman

You’d never think he could be the bastard he turned out to be . He ended up under a patio.

Bryan Murray is a fucking snake of a man. One of life’s genuine cunts. I know I’ve mentioned it on here before but it’s no harm to remind people every now and then.

[Watch_The_Break]

The greatest strength and weakness of Irish people is the capacity for compromise. With the Brits it’s the opposite.

[balbec]

Yeah. They flatterred their way across Europe a while back.

[Juhniallio]

@balbec

Yeah. They flatterred their way across Europe a while back.

Aah Ffs sake. You guys have to let this go. You’re not even a real polish person

[balbec]

I’m Italian mate