Denmark finally apologises for the crimes it has commited

AlmightyCushion

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21297876.shtml

postchronicle wrote:

The Danish government has officially apologized to Ireland for a destructive Viking invasion more than 1,000 years ago.
The apology was given Tuesday by Danish Culture Minister Brian Mikkelson as he stood among thousands of Irish citizens watching a replica Norse ship arrive in Dublin, Ireland, The Evening Echo said.
"In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship, but we are not proud of the damages to the people of Ireland that followed in the footsteps of the Vikings," Mikkelson said. "But the warmth and friendliness with which you greet us today and the Viking ship show us that, luckily, it has all been forgiven."
The replica ship was created to re-enact the invasion of Ireland by the Viking pirates, the Irish newspaper said.
A crew of 65 took the replica of a 1042 Viking vessel from Denmark to Dublin for the celebration. (c) UPI

I seen this on sky news and just did a google and this was the only site I could find it on. This is so unbelievably ridiculous. What the fúck is the world coming to.

Dave!

It's about bloody time too!

Anto McC

AlmightyCushion wrote:

What the fúck is the world coming to.

An end.

tallus

Damn danes and their invasions! Hahah it's feckin ridiculous. I wonder if there were any reparations offered? I could do with a few €'s

homah_7ft

You mean I was supposed to have a chip on my shoulder about this:eek: All those years... all those wasted years.

Terry

tallus wrote:

Damn danes and their invasions! Hahah it's feckin ridiculous. I wonder if there were any reparations offered? I could do with a few €'s

To hell with the money.
I want all those hot chicks that they stole. Well, their descendants anyway.

tallus

Terry wrote:

To hell with the money.
I want all those hot chicks that they stole. Well, their descendants anyway.

All of those Scandinavians are uber good looking races. I love going there for trips!

Pompey Magnus

homah_7ft wrote:

You mean I was supposed to have a chip on my shoulder about this:eek: All those years... all those wasted years.

I know, all this time I had been blaming the Norwegians when it had been the Danes all along. Them coming over here uninvited and taking all our jobs and women.

Red Hand

homah_7ft wrote:

You mean I was supposed to have a chip on my shoulder about this:eek: All those years... all those wasted years.

Well, many Republicans still wave pitchforks over-


"800 years! 800 YEARS!!!!"

tallus

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:

Well, many Republicans still wave pitchforks over-


"800 years! 800 YEARS!!!!"

That's a whole other days argument.

mike65

I don't get it - Danes establish civilization on edge of known world and they are apologizing?

Mike.

Terry

Because there was already a civilisation here.
It's not like the Irish were living in caves at the time and hadn't yet discovered fire.

I still don't see the need for the apology though.
Well, apart from the stealing of all the hot chicks.

Tabnabs

Forgive them? We should be showering them with thanks and praise, the Vikings brought trousers to the men of Ireland, before that we were weak, cross dressing sissy's!!

The Vikings popularised new art styles and probably popularised the wearing of shoes with separate soles and uppers, as well as the wearing of trousers.

http://havhingsten.dk/index.php?id=721&L=1

Pigman II

mike65 wrote:

I don't get it - Danes establish civilization on edge of known world and they are apologizing?

Mike.

That's what I was thinking. Same with England, they gave us some great achitecture and a useful language and how did we repay them?

Anyway, I agree that Denmark has some atonement to make with us and that the best solution would be the aforementioned exporting of hot chicks to our shores.

AlmightyCushion

Terry wrote:

Because there was already a civilisation here.
It's not like the Irish were living in caves at the time and hadn't yet discovered fire.

I still don't see the need for the apology though.
Well, apart from the stealing of all the hot chicks.

Do you not get enough coke and hookers off the admins?

Tabnabs

Pigman II wrote:

Anyway, I agree that Denmark has some atonement to make with us and that the best solution would be the aforementioned exporting of hot chicks to our shores.

I can see it now, as the babes step down from the plane carrying cans of beer, the caption above them reads;

"Carlsberg don't do apologies, but if we did, it would be the best apology in the world!"

Terry

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Do you not get enough coke and hookers off the admins?

There is no such thing as enough when it comes to coke and hookers.

I suggest boards.dk so that we can lure Danish hookers over.

Actually, screw it. We should just take Iceland. That's where most of the hot Irish chicks ended up anyway.

AlmightyCushion

Dyflin wrote:

I can see it now, as the babes step down from the plane carrying cans of beer, the caption above them reads;

"Carlsberg don't do apologies, but if we did, it would be the best apology in the world!"

I could actually see that happen. Do you work in advertising?

AlmightyCushion

Terry wrote:

There is no such thing as enough when it comes to coke and hookers.

*goes to start a thread about how Ireland is shít and everyone in it is greedy and blah, blah, blah etc.*

Tabnabs

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I could actually see that happen. Do you work in advertising?

No, I just spend an inordinate amount of my time thinking about beer and women

AlmightyCushion

Dyflin wrote:

No, I just spend an inordinate amount of my time thinking about beer and women

I think this is the place for you.

Talliesin

Please tell me that this was humour that didn't translate well or something.

At least it should wait for the apology for the French for the persecution that led to the Vikings seeking territory further afield.

Now. Can we persuade the Danish to invade again?

Imagine it, pølser carts on every other street corner, cheaper cigarettes, a train service where they apologise if they are two minutes late. Proper weinerbrod instead of that Cuisine de France rubbish. Hmm, yeah Cuisine de France are to blame for our crappy "danishes". It's all the French's fault. And the Danish had a resistance during the war that actually shot at the ones in the grey uniform instead of in-fighting.

(Just one more week and I'm off to Denmark, \o/).

homah_7ft

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote:

Well, many Republicans still wave pitchforks over-


"800 years! 800 YEARS!!!!"

I thought I dropped that penny ages ago. I could have sworn I just heard it fall

AlmightyCushion

Talliesin wrote:

Just one more week and I'm off to Denmark, \o/.

Make sure that everyone there you meet apologises to you.

ali.c

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Make sure that everyone there you meet apologises to you.

weight a second though, does that not mean that we need to apologise to the brits for raiding their shores? :eek: lol i'd say the chances of that happening are slim.

jaysus i read it in the paper, though it was crazy **** alright!!

AlmightyCushion

ali.c wrote:

jaysus i read it in the paper, though it was crazy **** alright!!

Yeah it's mad all right.

Ruu_Old

I propose we go take out Legoland in Denmark, that'll show them! *pulls head off lego man and throws aside*

AlmightyCushion

Ruu wrote:

I propose we go take out Legoland in Denmark, that'll show them! *pulls head off lego man and throws aside*

*Steps on said lego man wearing only socks*

AAAAHHHHHHH They're stronger than they look. RETREAT!

Pigman II

Ruu wrote:

I propose we go take out Legoland in Denmark, that'll show them!

Woah woah woah! Wait a second! What's our intelligence on Legoland? Are the pieces glued together or just clicked? If the latter then our army might have a chance.

Conor108

OK Men we're in a tough situation. I want people scouring Google Earth for satellite images of legoland and plain clothes boardsies reconing the area and for gods sake - Wear shoes! :D:D

smashey

They still haven't apologised for this yet. Damn you Denmark, damn you.

galwayrush

If the Danes held on to us for a few hundred years more, we'd we surfing with 50MB Broadband now.:D And we shouldn't have booted out the English when we did, we should have waited until they built a few Motorways here.:rolleyes:

Talliesin

Given Danish dead-pan humour it actually could have been a joke.

Tha Gopher

Terry wrote:

To hell with the money.
I want all those hot chicks that they stole. Well, their descendants anyway.

Isnt the Viking blood the reason Dublin has more blonde women?

meh, Ive seen ugly Scandanavian women on tv at least tbh. Not sure ive ever met any in real life.

WindSock

I for one am glad they have finally apologised. Now I can get on with my life :cool:

tSubh Dearg

Talliesin wrote:

Given Danish dead-pan humour it actually could have been a joke.

As someone who is half Danish I have come to the conclusion that the Danish Culture Minister was probably doing it tongue in cheek.

Let me give you an example of a Danish joke, this is one that was favoured by my great-great-aunt.

A man is stuck in a wellington factory that is on fire. Desperate to escape the blaze he puts on many pairs of unfinished wellies and jumps out the window.

However, the elasticity of the wellies make him bounce back up again. He keeps bouncing up and down, up and down and he can't stop. So the fireman shot him.

Talliesin

Some of your dad's jokes show the Danish influence for that matter.

tSubh Dearg

If you mean the one about the Venetian blinds, I agree.

fly_agaric

tSubh dearg wrote:

A man is stuck in a wellington factory that is on fire. Desperate to escape the blaze he puts on many pairs of unfinished wellies and jumps out the window.

However, the elasticity of the wellies make him bounce back up again. He keeps bouncing up and down, up and down and he can't stop. So the fireman shot him.

LOL. Well, snigger out loud anyways...

Talliesin

"SOL"?

Incidentally, are you Danish?

BlitzKrieg

How is this an official apology?

Are you sure we are not reporting it wrong?


It sounds like he was admiring the ship and then said aside 'Pity it was used for pillaging and kidnapping and stuff.' And now its being reported as an *official apology* from the state of denmark.

I thought official apologies had to come with a document or something signed by the country leader?

jimmycrackcorm

I think the guinness and heineken breweries should apologise to people for all the hangovers they've given.

pred racer

tSubh Dearg wrote:

As someone who is half Danish I have come to the conclusion that the Danish Culture Minister was probably doing it tongue in cheek.

Let me give you an example of a Danish joke, this is one that was favoured by my great-great-aunt.

A man is stuck in a wellington factory that is on fire. Desperate to escape the blaze he puts on many pairs of unfinished wellies and jumps out the window.

However, the elasticity of the wellies make him bounce back up again. He keeps bouncing up and down, up and down and he can't stop. So the fireman shot him.

Hmmm. I LOLed, ive blonde hair and blue eyes...............

OMFG I'm Danish:p

Caliden

Did the danes bring us gingers?

Tar.Aldarion

My god...

Cunny-Funt

....it's full of stars.

Victor

mike65 wrote:

I don't get it - Danes establish civilization on edge of known world and they are apologizing?

Apology not accepted until they remove Dublin. :mad:

Maximilian

Lets face it folks, if the Vikings had not come here and made whoopee with all our women, there would be an awful lot more mingers out there today.

estebancambias

And you people say we don't need guns!!!

WhiteWashMan

Talliesin wrote:

Given Danish dead-pan humour it actually could have been a joke.

i heard that the newsagent 7-11 wanted to open up a chain of stores throughout Denmark, but they couldnt get any locals to work 4 hours....

ive been to denmark many times and i can honestly say that you must be mixing up deadpan sense of humour, with no sense of humour.

WhiteWashMan

although, now that i think about it, i think we should apologise to england for taking over their country back in 1916, and give it back, andalso apologise for making a dogs bollocks of it since then.

id also like to apologise to any black people for slavery, to the persians on behalf of the greeks, and to anyone else that feels the need for an apology for something that happened outside if their own life time.

i am still waiting for an apology from the irish people for giving me a diddili di do accent that the rest of the world take the piss out of, and from the people of the famine that gave the rest of the world the belief that the irish have no other form of food other than a potato.