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Poem by an Irish Expat In Australia

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    #32
    Mongfinder General
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    cloud493 wrote: »
    Ireland is a lovely country full of lovely people. What a load of ****e.

    You don't like it, leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself €15,000. Tonight! In two hours!


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    #33
    bodice ripper
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    Straylight wrote: »
    You see there's your problem right there. If I learned one thing from the Leaving Cert it's that no good comes from reading poetry.

    It lets you know early on that life is about transience and unrequited love...


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    #34
    Wompa1
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    The Aussies have a problem with their ancestry aswell. Everytime I asked them what crime their relatives committed to get sent to Oz they started shouting at me. They have problems.

    You should go to the museum down by the Opera House...it's a bleak, bleak museum. They don't hide their history at all.


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    #35
    cloud493
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    Sure I was referring that comment to the poet, not the sentiment. I love Ireland (Dublin) and I'm a relative foreigner (as foreign as a British person can be considered) :p


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    #36
    Don Kedick
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    Wompa1 wrote: »
    You should go to the museum down by the Opera House...it's a bleak, bleak museum. They don't hide their history at all.

    Does it show all the stuff they did to the Aboriginals?


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    #37
    humberklog
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    According to the poem they left 8 years ago...in 2006. Not exactly hard times here in that year.

    A whiff of the Frank Mccourt about it...just as crap but thankfully not as long winded.


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    #38
    The Aussie
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Does it show all the stuff they did to the Aboriginals?

    Yeh you Irish, British Whatever... did some nasty things before you handed over a whole big mess...

    LOL...


    Que frothing in 3... 2... 1.


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    #39
    Donkey Oaty
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    Mongfinder General wrote: »
    You don't like it, leave. I can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself €15,000. Tonight! In two hours!

    I've got Patel. :mad:


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    #40
    Don Kedick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Don Kedick


    The Aussie wrote: »
    Yeh you Irish, British Whatever... did some nasty things before you handed over a whole big mess...

    LOL...


    Que frothing in 3... 2... 1.

    Are your ancestors convicts then or what's the story?


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    #41
    bodice ripper
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Are your ancestors convicts then or what's the story?

    I'd be certain that all of us have convicts in our ancestry.


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    #42
    -=al=-
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    I Recently returned from a year in Aus 2 months ago and had a great time there... I didn't so much miss Ireland much at all just friends, friends and familiarity. It was great to see Australia but I could give or take living there... But the weather was pretty nice!

    There is some dark stuff in the Aussie history and I tried to learn as much as I could over there. There is a bit of a strange sexist/racist kind of attitude but in the cities it's generally ok... Lot's of rules and regulations and I find they obey rules quite well over there (in the cities at least) In the more rural places there is some mad people! I saw quite a bit and met some strange folks.

    Some of the stuff in the poem I'd agree with and some might be a bit exaggerated but I have to admit coming home to all this water charge stuff was just ridiculous! For such a small country it's mad to look back at what happened for years with all the political nonsense when you return from living in another country!

    Sure we're one step away from turning into an ISIS situation... :pac:


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    #43
    kingchess
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    Its not even a poem-it does not even rhyme for f....sake.


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    #44
    sashafierce
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    #45
    jimgoose
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    It reads like a load of dross written by a ten-year-old. It's awful, cringeworthy sh1te.


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    #46
    mad muffin
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Ireland is a wet sh1thole full of nasty, racist people.

    ;)


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    #47
    Don Kedick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Don Kedick


    mad muffin wrote: »
    ;)

    We've never attempted to whipe out a whole race of people!


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    #48
    mad muffin
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    We've never attempted to whipe out a whole race of people!

    Pah-lees… :rolleyes:

    You guys are so fücking racist it's unreal. And that's after being treated like the blacks of Europe. Get away with yourself.


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    #49
    elefant
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    It reads like a load of dross written by a ten-year-old. It's awful, cringeworthy sh1te.

    Agreed. Besides the shockingly bad content, it is also written like a poem a child would write in primary school. What word rhymes with 'shut' teacher?

    On par with:
    I don't want to see a ghost
    It's a sight I fear the most
    I'd rather have a piece of toast
    And watch the evening news.


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    #50
    Don Kedick
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    Pah-lees… :rolleyes:

    You guys are so fücking racist it's unreal. And that's after being treated like the blacks of Europe. Get away with yourself.

    Everyone gets treated fairly here, I wouldn't like to be an Asian trying to live in Oz land that's for sure.


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    #51
    DoYouEvenLift
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    Not a bad poem but it paints a picture of Ireland being some post apocalyptic sh!thole


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    #52
    mad muffin
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    Don Kedick wrote: »
    Everyone gets treated fairly here, I wouldn't like to be an Asian trying to live in Oz land that's for sure.

    What do you know? You know nothing. So please just stop.


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    #53
    kowloon
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    TheZohan wrote: »
    Who honestly gives a fvck about someone moaning as if they left Ireland on a coffin ship to go over to Oz? I know I don't. Idiots.

    Well, there was the bit at the end about them possibly coming back. I think we should all be concerned.


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    #54
    Bipolar Joe
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    Beckett saw the poem and cried.
    bodice ripper wrote: »
    I'd be certain that all of us have convicts in our ancestry.

    Not mine, my family is great at getting away with it.


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    #55
    Awkward Badger
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    Reads a bit like a bad rap song.


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    #56
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    That poem would be improved tenfold if every second line was followed by "And the pint of Harp."


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    #57
    Don Kedick
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    What do you know? You know nothing. So please just stop.

    Even if you google 'racist Australia' you'll see plenty of evidence. Considering their history it's really sad that there's still such a huge level of racism.


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    #58
    Insect Overlord
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    bodice ripper wrote: »
    The execution is more annoying than the sentiment expressed.
    jimgoose wrote: »
    It reads like a load of dross written by a ten-year-old. It's awful, cringeworthy sh1te.
    elefant wrote: »
    Agreed. Besides the shockingly bad content, it is also written like a poem a child would write in primary school. What word rhymes with 'shut' teacher?

    All of this, + infinity.
    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Not a bad poem but it paints a picture of Ireland being some post apocalyptic sh!thole

    Trust me, I know bad poetry. This is definitely an example of it.


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    #59
    RGDATA!
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    super_furry wrote: »
    "As the sun burns my skin and the sweat stings my eyes,
    Covered in dust and tormented with flies."

    Is this Australia or Ethiopia he's talking about?

    Well tonight thank God it's them - instead of youuuu
    And there won't be snow in Australia this Christmas time....


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    #60
    con___manx1
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    if i were to wright a poem about australia it would included fat bastards, racists plus the rednecks in the outback
    im an ozzie
    its too hot too exercise
    lets go to mcdonalds and get even fatter ; )


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    #61
    sashafierce
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