Happy St Georges Day!

Mercury_Tilt

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GuanYin

*grin*

I don't think the colonials in the Free State like being part of the British Isles, but imho if the mainland celebrates St. Patricks day then the colonials in the plantations should jolly well cheer for good old St. George "Hurrah"

The_Goose

WTF?????? GTFOH!!!
Holy god almighty pray for these idiots, they no not what they do!!

Pepe LeFrits

Hurrah for St. George!

which is my dad's middle name

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therecklessone

Happy St Georges Day...

Hope the English don't experience the savagery we did on Paddy's Day. T'was like Sodom and Gommorah all rolled into one.

super_furry

On this of all days, let's take a moment to remember.....

Gawd rest 'er soul guv'nor, she were a luvely woman *sniff* Pretty little flawer snuffed out in 'er prime. S'not right!

bug

well i suppose Merc he was a palastinian born and bred so why not...

therecklessone

Originally posted by super_furry
Gawd rest 'er soul guv'nor, she were a luvely woman *sniff* Pretty little flawer snuffed out in 'er prime. S'not right!

Yeh, but the Corgi's are delighted. They ain't getting blamed for pi*sing on the sofa anymore...

Mossy Monk

why dont they have a bank holiday in England for this :mad:

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Big Chief

/me waves fist in air

bug

why dont they have a bank holiday in England for this

something about it being associated with the BNP - they dont really celebrate it over in England, I think its something got to do with the rightwing association with it...
which is kinda funny since he was a foreigner
Some bloke who owned a pub wanted to get permission from his local council to get a bar extension, and they said it wasnt appropriate.

Stephen

Maximum trollage.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by bug
Some bloke who owned a pub wanted to get permission from his local council to get a bar extension, and they said it wasnt appropriate.

i remember seeing that pub owner on Sky News. it was strange because he got a bar extension for chinese new years

politicians over here are giving out about the lack of events to celebrate. a little jealous of our party last month!

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/10402677?source=Metro

eggshapedfred

whens St Ringo's day?

fjon

Firstly what the hell does GTFOH stand for? My mind is all a boggle...

Possibly "Get the **** out of here?"
I'm highly confused Ted

ALLGOOD

Go fcuk yourself you scumbag and take your hun holiday with you.

The_Goose

Originally posted by fwk
Possibly "Get the **** out of here?"

Exactly!!!
And i is not a racist, well maybe if idiot is a race!!!!!Why dont we celebrate 4th of july while your at it???? Thats why your an idiot!!

sceptre

Originally posted by ALLGOOD
Go fcuk yourself you scumbag and take your hun holiday with you.

Parton saint of Malta too (and another few places that you probably don't have some deep resentment against) but if you weren't nine you'd know that so I'll let you off.

Incidentally the insult "Hun" is generally reserved for Germans or even Hungarians, though this is rare. Here's an entire page of insults about the English written by people who can spell.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by sceptre
Incidentally the insult "Hun" is generally reserved for Germans or even Hungarians, though this is rare

this i didnt know, you learn something new everyday

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GuanYin

I agree with merc, all around the world they show unity and empathy toward Eire by celebrating St. Patricks day (who was not Irish it should be noted) yet when somone suggest that you support our neighbours and brothers from the British Isles you attack them with racist insults.

For Shame.

full forward

Who is St. George anyway? I never even knew the British were christians.

Fysh

Eat me with a spoon. There are two kinds of people outside of Ireland who make a big deal about St. Patrick's day:

a)people wanting an excuse for a party (fair enough, but I'm not stupid enough to believe they care about Ireland), and
b)people with varying amounts of conviction as to their "Irish roots" (in some cases legitimate, mostly an excuse for a bunch of retards to bang on about how their great grandad was from Kerry or wherever and then drink green beer).

St. George is an English holiday. Not British (the Scottish and Welsh have their own saints, as far as I know), English. And given Ireland's history with England, you can't be too surprised that some are reluctant to celebrate it (myself included, on the basis that I'm not English and don't consider myself to have any strong connection to the country as a whole).

Maybe people should have been more polite about it, but the initial post can be easily interpreted as provoking. And frankly, if you take something as silly as a national holiday seriously, then it's your own fault and problem.

lukeUCD

st georges day my ass, god wonder why everybodys so mad........oh yeah the 700 hundred years of killing irish ppl and never saying sorry for it.....that might be it.

mike65

Originally posted by full forward
Who is St. George anyway? I never even knew the British were christians.

Where do we find them? Why do we let them in??! :eek:

Mike.

bug

http://www.innotts.co.uk/asperges/george/george2.html

sorry i was wrong it was his mother who was palastinian, but he did live in palastine with her.
Apparently as was said on bbc this morning England didnt have a patron saint so they just picked this guy

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Adeptus Titanicus

Mainland what anyway?

Fysh

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
What you need is a hug I think!

Cant we just forgive and forget?

By Fysh..

Damn right they should have been more polite. Again I blame the parents. A bit more rod and less x-box tbh.

I'm not overly offended at the issue personally, and I don't mean to justify the tone taken by others. My earlier post was meant more as an explanation of why people were posting angrily.

However, I do feel it's a bit harsh on the parents, since it's entirely possible to try and be a good parent for 18 years and still end up with something mentally stillborn passing itself off as your child.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think.

At the end of the day, it's nothing hugely important, and I don't think it's worth everyone getting upset about, really...

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by lukeUCD
st georges day my ass, god wonder why everybodys so mad........oh yeah the 700 hundred years of killing irish ppl and never saying sorry for it.....that might be it.

shut up paddy

Verdammt

That mainland remark is totally out of line. By saying that you are implying that we are part of the UK.

I'm not a Eire tattoo wearing scumbag who marches up and down O'Connell St every easter but I am proud of my heritage. I have always found the English to be very condesending to us.

I have even contemplated the whole thing about our history and thought "it's in the past , forgive and forget" and maybe they aren't that bad. Then some stupid Limey B@stard says something like this and starts p!ssing people off again.

I have absolutly no time for this type of sh!te.

Pepe LeFrits

you know the irish were launching raids on britain for a long time before the brits finally decided to teach the irish some manners.

joseph brand

Seeing as its St Georges Day on the main land .... thought it best to wish you all a happy St Georges day! ....

(said merc with a tremendous amount of sarcasm)


Sar-casm: A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.

Verdammt

Originally posted by kaids
you know the irish were launching raids on britain for a long time before the brits finally decided to teach the irish some manners.

The Irish raided alot of countries, even as far as Rome. We had a great time there. But we didn't stay around and opress the natives and force our language and Religion on them for centuries.

The Brigadier

Originally posted by lukeUCD
st georges day my ass, god wonder why everybodys so mad........oh yeah the 700 hundred years of killing irish ppl and never saying sorry for it.....that might be it.

You are a very well balenced chap. A chip on each shoulder.

Now why don't you grow up and act your age.

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by Billy-Joe
The Irish raided alot of countries, even as far as Rome. We had a great time there. But we didn't stay around and opress the natives and force our language and Religion on them for centuries.

I'll take your word for it, personally I wasn't there myself as I wasn't born at the time.

Just think, if the Irish colonists in Britain hadn't been hockeyed and pushed out all those centuries ago, Britain could be our little puppet now instead of the other way around.

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The Brigadier

What is the problem with some people.

Ireland used to be a colony. For hundreds of years the Great Powers in Europe held colonies around the world.

Ireland is by no means in a Unique situation. It wasn't some evil power taking a personal dislike to Ireland.

Do you really think the working classes in Britain were any better off than the working classes over here.

Why don't other ex-colonies hold their ex-imperial dictators in the same low regard?

Why, after hundreds of years of occupation by the Romans don't people in England hate all that is Italian?

Because it is completely irrational.

Oh and for everyone who likes to call the english "huns" here is a link to the history of the huns.

http://www.fernweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mf/huns.htm

If you want to use a word you might as well look it up before making yourself look like an idiot.

Verdammt

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Very true. They could have been Little Ireland instead of us being Little England. I suppose one good thing is they taught us to eat with cutlry.
Dunno if they got as far as Billy Joe Cousin Banger's neck of the woods though. Hes from Raheny see. Where men are men and sheep are shared as opposed to sheared.

I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.

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Adeptus Titanicus

Originally posted by kaids
<snip sarcasm>

Just think, if the Irish colonists in Britain hadn't been hockeyed and pushed out all those centuries ago, Britain could be our little puppet now instead of the other way around.

Actually, some Irish did stay. They were the Scoti, hence Scotland. For the most part "raids" wouldn't constitute Colonisation.

The mainland thing is just ignorance on the part of some English. Some colleagues of mine from England have embarressed themselves here by saying silly things like that at presentations to Irish clients. Just shows lack of understanding of the Irish psyche (or chip on the shoulder if you like ) I've no problem with Ireland being described as part of the British Isles, as it is as good a geographic descriptor as any, but I agree that referring to Great Britain as the mainland inferrs that the ROI "belongs" to the UK. Mainland Europe is fair enough, as we are part of the greater European cummunity.

EDIT:
Almost forgot! Happy St. Georges Day!

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Verdammt

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
ok so.

We will all pretend we didnt see that then.

/me closes eyes...

Anyways.. a Happy St. Georges day to you Billy-Bob! DOnt drink too much tonight! Be safe!!

This type of idiotic response is to be expected from the muppet that started this tread in the first place.

If you are curious about my Nick, Its the name of the lead singer of my favorite band. Yes he is white trash, that doesn't mean I am.
If we all started getting down to that level this BB would decent into madness.

The Brigadier

I have never met an Irish person in England with these outspoken views. (I am not saying they aren;t over there - I just have never encountered it)

Why are people happy to come out with this vitriol here in Ireland yet happy to go work in England with english people and keep their mouths shut?

I was speaking to a friend of mine in London recently, he asked me if I ever considered moving back. When I told him that the intense hatred I personally encountered in Ireland towards England and english people he couldn;t get over it. He said he had Irish friends and co-workers and had never heard an anti-english sentiment out of them.

When I told him about the 800 years of oppresion arguement he nearly fell off his chair. He wanted to know what made Ireland such a special case.

The Brigadier

Originally posted by full forward
Who is St. George anyway? I never even knew the British were christians.

This common mistake is as infuriating for an English person as "the mainland" so many people in Ireland get worked up about.

i.e. not very if you have half a brain

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Adeptus Titanicus

Originally posted by James Melody
When I told him about the 800 years of oppresion arguement he nearly fell off his chair. He wanted to know what made Ireland such a special case.

Yeah, the 800 years blah blah thing is funny allright, especially considering the Anglo-Normans (Strongbow and friends) were invited over here in the first place. It just happens they didn't leave.