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Are the Irish the new English of Europe?

  • 19-08-2008 11:48am
    #1
    Daithi McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭


    With the recent air rage incidents and now the young un's running rampant in Crete creating lots of Juicy tabloid headlines while bringing shame on the nation, the question beckons, are we now going to be like the English were in the 90's? Is this what our Celtic Tiger has given us? Bad little cubs with no respect?


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  • #2
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Well since our football teams rarely get to visit anywhere fancy in Europe, I don't think we'll really get the chance to cause any major hassle.


  • #3
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    javaboy wrote: »
    Well since our football teams rarely get to visit anywhere fancy in Europe, I don't think we'll really get the chance to cause any major hassle.

    Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal are all in Europe this year. Don't know what you're talking about, bub.


  • #4
    Steve_o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Its headin that way me thinks, but as Javaboy said, it wont get as bad cause we wont make it to World Cups etc...


  • #5
    Silenceisbliss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Silenceisbliss


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal are all in Europe this year. Don't know what you're talking about, bub.

    since when are they in OUR country?


  • #6
    Silenceisbliss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Silenceisbliss


    saying "im irish" has saved my ass more than on just one occasion.

    just recently here in hamburg on a night out, myself and a friend approached this big group of lads asking where a good spot was, (they turn out to be polish), they all look at us brutally "ARE YOU ENGLISH?", we say "no, god no, were irish",big smiles all of a sudden all round, 2/3 of them go back to their own conversation, the rest are listing off decent places for us to go. JOB

    TWO HUNDRED POSTS....W000000T!!!!1


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  • #7
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Wuh you talkin' abaaaaaaaaaaaah maytey. C'mon dahn the local and we geh a few piy-nts a bittah eh?


  • #8
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Silenceisbliss wrote: »
    since when are they in OUR country?

    Since FEBRUARY of 1992.


  • #9
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    We'll never be that bad...will we...


  • #10
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Sherifu wrote: »
    We'll never be that bad...will we...

    you already are, there's just a lot less Irish so they go unnoticed.


  • #11
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    I thought we were the blacks of Europe. Now the English of Europe? What's next? The Polish of Europe? Who's going to be the Irish of Europe?


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  • #12
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    Does this mean we'll have to beef up our armed forces and blindly follow Bush into whatever shambles he has planned next? On the plus side, we'll get a better health service out of it.


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