This is what the BBC think of Ireland

waitinforatrain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

Latchy

Nothing worng with those pics imo .There are no leprechauns In Ireland dummy

Agricola

Whats intrinsically Irish about a double decker bus?

Ah, national sterotypes, ya got to love em!

Elliemental

Whats` your problem? The pics all looked relevant to me.

admiralofthefleet

whoever told you there was leprecauns in ireland was telling you porkies

InkSlinger67

waitinforatrain wrote: »

....I mean... where's the leprechaun?

I found the bastard with his head in my Lucky Charms! Cnut!!!!!

My name is URL

Look at the pic the Times used yesterday

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6856111.ece

Latchy

My name is URL wrote: »

Look at the pic the Times used yesterday

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6856111.ece

Garda looks pissed off and dont tell me that's a preist on the sax ?

asdasd

The Times picture is alright. The real bigots in the UK - towards Ireland - have always been the liberals.

Seillejet

I thought they were decent pics in fairness. Particularly harsh on the little red haired girl I thought.

Knifey Spoony

waitinforatrain wrote: »

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

Sure everyone knows that they are extinct, it was the Japanese that hunted them down for their rare, gamey meat.

Captain Darling

My name is URL wrote: »

Look at the pic the Times used yesterday

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6856111.ece

What the fcuk is going on there??

Bonkers_xOx

waitinforatrain wrote: »

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

C'mon. Everyone knows St.Paddy got rid of them yonks ago.

My name is URL

Captain Darling wrote: »

What the fcuk is going on there??

It's all very Twin Peaks :pac:

Muggy Dev

Saved the Timesonline pic for my desktop.Pure Father Ted.Classic!

Sharpshooter

Captain Darling wrote: »

What the fcuk is going on there??

Five out of the seven eligible voters voted.
They should be applauded.:D

Micilin Muc

Here's another strange one from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8272802.stm

novarock

waitinforatrain wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

Well its not as if they mocked them up now is it? They are great photo's in my opinion.

jumpguy

Micilin Muc wrote: »

Here's another strange one from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8272802.stm

It proves that people who voted "Yes" are almost 90% more likely to be more attractive than people who vote "No".

Captain Darling

My name is URL wrote: »

It's all very Twin Peaks :pac:

Come back Laura Palmer all is forgiven.

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Five out of the seven eligible voters voted.
They should be applauded.:D

The other two are under the floorboards.

Sharpshooter

Captain Darling wrote: »

The other two are under the floorboards.

Still alive, hence the need for the sax, aye Capt'n we both think alike.:pac:

Fratton Fred

I wonder if the Irish are the most easily offended nation in the world?

Sharpshooter

Not according to this thread.:pac:

Latchy

Maybe more suspicious than Offended :pac:

Scrambled egg

My name is URL wrote: »

Look at the pic the Times used yesterday

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6856111.ece

Thank you, new desktop background

dvpower

waitinforatrain wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

The bastards! How dare they insinuate that we have.... busses .....
Where in the bejasus is me semtex?

MagicMarker

waitinforatrain wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

You probably don't want to turn over to the late late show right now, a ukulele, a fiddle and a harpsichord!!

Stereotypes gone mad!!!:eek:

ScumLord

waitinforatrain wrote: »

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

It's in your own post??

5. Gerry Adams

mike65

The nuns was a bit OTT

ascanbe

waitinforatrain wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

Nary a pint of Guinness to be seen...
The Beeb do be slippin'.

ascanbe

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I wonder if the Irish are the most easily offended nation in the world?

Pretty sure that's Israel.
We're up there, though.

Namlub

Can't have everyone knowing Ireland still has gingers, those mythical creatures...

Terry

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I wonder if the Irish are the most easily offended nation in the world?

English people are the biggest **** to ever have walked the earth.

/me checks reported posts.

ScumLord

Terry wrote: »

/me checks reported posts.

Why don't you just ignore them anyway.


*hopes*

The_Kew_Tour

ascanbe wrote: »

Pretty sure that's Israel.
We're up there, though.

Christ you could put any Muslim country in there too.

Been to few places and they get in rage over thing slightest thing

Poland is up there too

Kalashnikov_Kid

adrian280582 wrote: »

Christ you could put any Muslim country in there too.

Been to few places and they get in rage over thing slightest thing

Poland is up there too

And France, USA...

tech77

My name is URL wrote: »

It's all very Twin Peaks :pac:

Looks like a David Lynch-directed Father Ted tbh

Black Swan

Where's the pot of gold? Oh... the Brits took it with them when they left the Republic.

Terrontress

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Where's the pot of gold? Oh... the Brits took it with them when they left the Republic.

Which Republic was this that the Brits left?

mike65

Jebus here we go again....:rolleyes:

DarkJager

The Garda in that times online pic is just thinking to himself "If you play that ****ing Rick Astley song once more, I'll batter ya"

Elliemental

asdasd wrote: »

The real bigots in the UK - towards Ireland - have always been the liberals.

This is the funniest post I`ve ever read, in my life.

Warfi

I think BBC means Bring Back our Colonies. I always knew the smarmy, upper-class accented gits had an agenda

robinph

I doubt they went to the bother of photo shopping those pictures in order to make them fit some stereotype.

Are there ginger people in Ireland?
Are there nuns in Ireland, and are they allowed to vote?
Part of Biffo's job is to have photos taken of him voting.
It was a picture of an election poster that happened to be on a bus.
Gerry Adams just has to get himself into any story he can about Ireland on the BBC.


Now the Times picture was just comedy gold, you can't deny them the chance to print that shot if the photographer is lucky enough to see it.

I'm sure that there will be the chance for RTE to get a picture of some Morris Dancers voting next year to even things up a bit. Oh, and that one eyed Scottish idiot.

Abi

I'm not offended by the pictures, I don't see why I should be. You'd have an incredibly small world to see something offensive in those pictures imo.

Agricola wrote: »

Whats intrinsically Irish about a double decker bus?

Ah, national sterotypes, ya got to love em!

Nothing. It's about the advertisement on the side of it.

Latchy

Strange how a few pics from the BBC website has the potential to let the thread become another the brits are this /that / or the other .

You would really have to have a big chip on your shoulder to be offended in any way by those pictures

orourkeda

They're right. We're a nation of backward hillbillies.

Kalashnikov_Kid

I was reading the English Independent this morning and, OMG like, there was a picture of Biffo and a butch-looking woman and a nun - the cheek of those durty English feckers :rolleyes:

robinph

How dare they take a picture of a countries leader voting, it's just plane rude.

Obama Merkel etc ...

Google Image search for "blair voting" shows some odd pictures though.

joseph brand

It seems that some posters are taking the OP's post too serious. And at the same time, wondering why HE is taking his post so serious. Funny that.

I found it a slightly humorous post. Something to add to, not attack.


There should have been a photo of some old men, (toothless Micks if you will) with eyebrows on their cheeks and walkin sticks. Eating sods of turf and drinkin Guinn. . . stout.

Photographers obviously not doing their jobs.

dodgyme

waitinforatrain wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8287222.stm

Here's 6 pictures the BBC took for Lisbon polling, including:
1. A ginger with freckles
2. Three nuns
3. Biffo
4. A double decker bus
5. Gerry Adams

I mean... where's the leprechaun?

everytime there is something happening in ireland the bbc show a priest or a nun. Something I noticed also for number of years. ?????

rte dont show a picture of morris dancers every time they have an equivalent