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Its ok to get pissed on Sundays now. The Danes and French need worry no more either !

  • 22-09-2014 5:12pm
    #1
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭


    Obsolete law from 1661 to be binned in review

    Ireland is revoking a ban on being drunk and swearing on Sundays.

    A law from 1661 - which bans "drunkenness, cursing, swearing and profaning on the Lord's Day" - is among thousands of laws set to be scrapped.

    Ireland is also scrapping its declarations of war against Denmark in 1666, and against France in 1744.......

    http://www.todayfm.com/No-more-bans-on-getting-drunk-on-Sundays


    Great feckin news altogether.

    I had to keep looking over my shoulder for the tans while swearing at the referee in yesterday's All Ireland that I woke up with a creek in my neck.

    I need worry no more and can now swear at the television in peace.

    Our brothers and sisters in Denmark and France must be breathing a sigh of relief too !


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  • #2
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I knew there was a reason I loved Sunday sociables


  • #3
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Feck it I forgot about that...


  • #4
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    We should have held out for another year, if we reminded France we were at war with them they probably would have surrendered.


  • #5
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    A declaration announcing the death of King George the Third, who died in 1820 after nearly a decade of mental illness. is also being scrapped.

    About time too.

    That declaration has been cluttering up the courts with unwanted cases for nearly two hundred years now.


  • #6
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    just as well i suppose - i doubt we'd could afford to feed that many POWs


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  • #7
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    What a relief it is to me as Pale Dweller to be emancipated like this. Art Guinness would be so proud.


  • #8
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    ScumLord wrote: »
    We should have held out for another year, if we reminded France we were at war with them they probably would have surrendered.

    I think we should reinstate the declaration and give the frogs a damn good hiding.


    Just for le crack like.


  • #9
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Sunday has, and always will be my favourite day for a few pints in the pub. I love the atmosphere of a pub on a Sunday


  • #10
    BlibBlab
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭BlibBlab


    Could you actually take someone to court and win if they were flouting some of these laws?


  • #11
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    That was English law in Ireland. It should have been extinguished in 1921.


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  • #12
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    newmug wrote: »
    That was English law in Ireland. It should have been extinguished in 1921.

    Ah shur there's no hurry on us like.


  • #13
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    So is George III still dead or wha?


  • #14
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    So is George III still dead or wha?

    As a Dodo,but he's much calmer these days.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #15
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    1661 was a good for English law as Cromwell was executed, just a pity he was already dead.


  • #16
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,918 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    We have unfinished business with the Danes

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall


  • #17
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Lapin wrote: »
    I think we should reinstate the declaration and give the frogs a damn good hiding.


    Just for le crack like.
    We should definitely declare war on someone for the craic.


  • #18
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Isn't 1661 a beer, Kronenberg I think:confused:


  • #19
    C.K Dexter Haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Isn't 1661 a beer, Kronenberg I think:confused:

    1664. I just remembered I have some unfinished Kronenberg in my glass.


  • #20
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Now all they need to do is to get rid of the stupid Sunday licencing laws.


  • #21
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    That story is really vague

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #22
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    That story is really vague

    That's the way the elites want it. Keeps us on our toes.


  • #23
    Reiver
    Registered Users Posts: 782 ✭✭✭Reiver


    The French have been good allies to us. We bloody well won Fontenoy for them.

    The Danes on the other hand....

    I still want revenge for Limerick 1691. Until them, the Germans and the Dutch begin to pay reparations, I say we continue this state of affairs.


  • #24
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Lapin wrote: »
    [

    Ireland is also scrapping its declarations of war against Denmark in 1666, and against France in 1744.......[/I]

    !

    Cool, I'm a spy !
    What's with the French name so, traitor ?


  • #25
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    When do we get our reparations of the huns Germans. They've started and lost several wars and it turns out we were at war with them all the time. We'll have no more of this bond nonsense for a start. A small lottery win for everybody in Ireland and that should make up for WW1.
    I'll get back to you when the Committee (me and the lads down the pub) have met to discuss WW2.
    As for the Dutch - free Dutch gold for them that needs it. Should keep the Boardwalk cheerful for a bit.
    The French - well, we'll forgive you but we will need a vineyard or three.


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