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How British are You?

  • 14-04-2012 2:59am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭


    What do you love about our neighbours?
    Do you like them alot more than the kuntz next door.


    Ya?


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    How is liking them to some degree being british?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    The kuntz next door to our neighbours...



    Why, that's us! Heyyyyyyyy. :mad: :mad: :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 814 ✭✭✭Tesco Massacre


    I hate those Brit cu*ts.


    Erm, what time are United playing on Sunday?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    love about them :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Trash Ninja


    I was sent to Coventry for 8 years.

    Literally.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    The British?

    Ah shure they're a grand bunch of lads.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭General Relativity


    'Everyone likes to see England loose at sport... and war' - Tommy Tiernan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    'Everyone likes to see England loose at sport... and war' - Tommy Tiernan

    i only ever liked to see them lose at soccer and that has decreased since I stopped reading their newspapers. I remember hearing on Atlantic 252 after Brazil knocked them out of the world cup in 2002(?) how they were professionals paid to win so why didn't they win. Priceless, even if you were going to believe in that silly logic the Brazil team combined would have been paid a lot more than the English one. saying that at the Olympics or something I like to see British athletes do well in the absence of Irish ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,964 ✭✭✭Sitec


    Nowt wrong with them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Sitec wrote: »
    Nowt wrong with them.


    Rabble,Rabble 800 years etc.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    I bleed blue, red and white, mostly red though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I liked that Saint, Saint Oliver Cromwell. He seemed liked a decent Christian man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Senorwipesalot, why did you feel the need to ask the question?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Senorwipesalot, why did you feel the need to ask the question?

    Ooh, you're getting a bit defensive - pure, unbridled hatred much?

    C'mon, it's AH, he's just having a bait'n'goad.

    Seriously though, if anybody considered themselves 1% British (without blood relations), the vast majority of our miserable plebeian population would label them a turn-coat.

    A better question would be "Why are so many people so nationalistic when we've evolved beyond the need for it?".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I love their TV and music.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Great Comedy and some good music.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


    I was conceived in London.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Just getting scientific for a moment, I'd imagine DNA taken from many Irish people would show similarities to DNA taken from white English people. Irish people and English people have been "intermingling" for many centuries.

    We are probably more "British" than we care to admit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    I was conceived in London.


    Your ma's called London? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭ihsb


    I was sent to Coventry for 8 years.

    Literally.

    I lived there 12 years! Dump of a place.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    chughes wrote: »

    We are probably more "British" than we care to admit.

    Nah, they are more Irish than they care to admit.

    I like Brits, just couldn't eat a full one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Most of the Brits I have encountered in my life are very stingy, I dont know why that is


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


    Dont have a problem with most of them, like the Irish and other countries there are some good ones and bad ones :-)





    Never ask a foreigner where he is from. If he is not english he will tell you within a few minutes, and if he is English, why embarrass him ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Ghandee wrote: »
    I liked that saint Oliver Cromwell. He seemed liked a decent Christian man.
    Oliver Cromwell is misunderstood in history. He should really be liked in Ireland. If he didn't do what he did with the killing at Drogheda, people would admire him much more than they do.

    You just have to look at it from a historical point of view and understand these things happened back then. Cromwell actually give orders for his soldiers to not harm the country folk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I love their foods like Tikka Masala....:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭davetherave


    I'm in England right now :eek: so.... very British?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Oliver Cromwell is misunderstood in history. He should really be liked in Ireland. If he didn't do what he did with the killing at Drogheda, people would admire him much more than they do.

    You just have to look at it from a historical point of view and understand these things happened back then. Cromwell actually give orders for his soldiers to not harm the country folk.

    What a troll.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Oliver Cromwell is misunderstood in history. He should really be liked in Ireland. If he didn't do what he did with the killing at Drogheda, people would admire him much more than they do.

    You just have to look at it from a historical point of view and understand these things happened back then. Cromwell actually give orders for his soldiers to not harm the country folk.

    Woww
    Come -on Keith it could be argued he was histories the first republican, now I have never seen any of your posts expressing a love of republicans.

    He committed regicide to assert the rule of parliament but then he became a king and such a tyrant that when he died people demanded the restoration of the monarchy.

    But yes the world was put on a path to true democracy.

    But Keith a republican, well I never.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    To answer the OP, id imagine many of the west-Brits on boards are very British, even though they were born here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    NinjaK wrote: »
    What a troll.
    Look up the history. Oliver Cromwell tried to over throw the Monarchy and many people should like him for that in Ireland. The problem comes with what he did during Drogheda. That is the main problem.

    But if he hadn't done that, he would probably be admired in some quarters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,314 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I like the english except for when I'm playing CoD. Then they're a bunch of camping ba$tards. Yeah, sit in the corner with your barrat you camping fcuking ba$tard. You're good at camping aren't you. Come over here on a visit and stay for 800 FCUKING YEARS. YER ALL CAMPING BA$TARDS!!!

    Until some french guy starts whinging and we both start insulting him. CoD really brings out the inherent racism in everyone.
    I had a UK passport


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    I'm not British in the slightest, but I and my family and neighbours are all so devastatingly attractive to Britain that they keep offering us citizenship. It must be rough for them, getting knocked back by us all the time, a bit like being the fat burd at a disco.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,314 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Look up the history. Oliver Cromwell tried to over throw the Monarchy and many people should like him for that in Ireland. The problem comes with what he did during Drogheda. That is the main problem.

    But if he hadn't done that, he would probably be admired in some quarters.

    Something like a third of the UK's population died in the civil war. As much as irish ppl hate cromwell, he was far, far worse to his own ppl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Look up the history. Oliver Cromwell tried to over throw the Monarchy and many people should like him for that in Ireland. The problem comes with what he did during Drogheda. That is the main problem.

    But if he hadn't done that, he would probably be admired in some quarters.

    The 11 year siege of Galway wasn't very popular here at the time............


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Grayson wrote: »
    Something like a third of the UK's population died in the civil war. As much as irish ppl hate cromwell, he was far, far worse to his own ppl.
    Yep. That is true. He was hated in many quarters but some people in Ireland would like him if he didn't do what he did in Ireland at the time.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Look up the history. Oliver Cromwell tried to over throw the Monarchy and many people should like him for that in Ireland. The problem comes with what he did during Drogheda. That is the main problem.

    But if he hadn't done that, he would probably be admired in some quarters.

    I have 'look up the history'. He is the Gaelics mans worst enemy thoughtout history. He is our Hitler. No northern Protestant from boards.ie will change that:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    NinjaK wrote: »
    I have 'look up the history'. He is the Gaelics mans worst enemy thoughtout history. He is our Hitler. No northern Protestant from boards.ie will change that:D

    Ah, you can't be taking Keith seriously. That's going about things the wrong way entirely. He's a bit like a Morrissey album. Full of hilarity once you get the joke.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I would regard myself as west British and proud. I like the British people their traditions, history, culture, music, comedy, sport. But I am secure enough been Irish to say something like that.

    Like it or lump it they had a huge influence on us and our identity and still do. But largely now they are very good neighbours. What more could a country ask for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


    well looking at my passport

    ah fook it

    Rule Britanina


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    44leto wrote: »
    I would regard myself as west British and proud. I like the British people their traditions, history, culture, music, comedy, sport. But I am secure enough been Irish to say something like that.

    Like it or lump it they had a huge influence on us and our identity and still do. But largely now they are very good neighbours. What more could a country ask for.
    Would you vote to re join the Union?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Would you vote to re join the Union?

    No I think it is advantageous for Ireland to remain independent as in economically, influence, keeping our own Atlantic resources oil included, also been small keeps us out of stupid wars which Britain always end up in.

    I am happy to be out of the Union, but I am also happy with the recent state of Anglo/Irish relations. I actually enjoyed the Royal visit last year as did most Irish.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    NinjaK wrote: »
    I have 'look up the history'. He is the Gaelics mans worst enemy thoughtout history. He is our Hitler.
    Godwin this early? :D To be fair to Keith he has something of a point. Cromwell gave quarter more than average for a general of his time. He certainly gave more in Ireland than in England. That was an unbelievably vicious civil war. Atrocities a go go. Tens of thousands dead in single battles and 100's of thousands dead from disease in the trail of it.

    In all but one of the towns that negotiated a surrender with Cromwell he gave safe passage to the civilians. The exception being Wexford, though his troops went batshít on that occasion. He issued orders when he arrived that no civilian was to be harmed or robbed of property and actually hanged a few of his own men(inc officers) for breaking this order.

    Was Cromwell a cúnt? Yes, but no more than most Puritan Religious nutbags at the time, especially if moving about in a Catholic country. Was he "Irelands Hitler"? The people left in command after him were way worse. It was they who kicked off the mass killings, theft and enslavement of us.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Oliver Cromwell is misunderstood in history. He should really be liked in Ireland. If he didn't do what he did with the killing at Drogheda, people would admire him much more than they do.

    You just have to look at it from a historical point of view and understand these things happened back then. Cromwell actually give orders for his soldiers to not harm the country folk.

    Yeah just like Hitler, if he hadn't done the concentration camps and the gassings and the wars etc etc. But these things happened back then. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Godwin this early? :D To be fair to Keith he has something of a point.

    Loads of revisionist waffle...

    Come off it, Wibbs. There are limits to revisionism. Hitler after all was a decent water colourist who rebuilt Germany's economy, eh? And was still a complete and utter sh1tbag. As was Oliver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Come off it, Wibbs. There are limits to revisionism. Hitler after all was a decent water colourist who rebuilt Germany's economy, eh? And was still a complete and utter sh1tbag. As was Oliver.
    Erm, actually yes, that is true. Why deny history and try to rewrite it? No one is denying the other parts like Drogheda and so on. But the truth should be put forward.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Erm, actually yes, that is true. Why deny history and try to rewrite it? No one is denying the other parts like Drogheda and so on. But the truth should be put forward.

    You'll note I didn't deny any history, Keith. I just reminded everyone that Oliver Cromwell like Hitler had some marginal and arguable positives heavily outweighed by the fact that both were genocidal loopers of the highest order.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    You'll note I didn't deny any history, Keith. I just reminded everyone that Oliver Cromwell like Hitler had some marginal and arguable positives heavily outweighed by the fact that both were genocidal loopers of the highest order.
    Has anyone denied that though? I don't think so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    grindle wrote: »
    Ooh, you're getting a bit defensive - pure, unbridled hatred much?

    C'mon, it's AH, he's just having a bait'n'goad.

    Seriously though, if anybody considered themselves 1% British (without blood relations), the vast majority of our miserable plebeian population would label them a turn-coat.

    A better question would be "Why are so many people so nationalistic when we've evolved beyond the need for it?".

    No, it's just showing that he's a trolling, brain-dead goon.

    I know that I'm not 100% Irish (if that exists) because my brother has done DNA tests to show the areas of Ireland, Scotland, England, and (going back) Norway, but non-intelligent people like the OP annoy me. I usually don't respond but this time I did...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    To paraphrase some Brits whom I have great time for -

    "what av the British ever done for us?"
    :)


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