The President is coming! The President is coming!

CommuterIE

When I was in town this evening the anti-war movement were having a little spectacle outside the GPO claiming "The Americans have landed in Shannon" (like we are being invaded) utter nonsense out of them anyway...

Wait until the Stars & Stripes are being flown all over the country, in stark contrast to the British Queens visit... I did not see one single Union Jack.

Anyway, enough of that, he's coming and this visit will be crucial for Ireland...

I for one welcome Barack Obama to Ireland!

thehairyelbow

Yup. Welcome home Mr. President.

The King of Moo

CommuterIE wrote: »

When I was in town this evening the anti-war movement were having a little spectacle outside the GPO claiming "The Americans have landed in Shannon" (like we are being invaded) utter nonsense out of them anyway...

Wait until the Stars & Stripes are being flown all over the country, in stark contrast to the British Queens visit... I did not see one single Union Jack.

Anyway, enough of that, he's coming and this visit will be crucial for Ireland...

I for one welcome Barack Obama to Ireland!

From the thread title, it sounds like he's very excited about his visit.

LondonIrish90

Its only a Union Jack when flown from a boat.

I saw a couple of Union Flags however. Sadly both were being burnt.

squod

L.

Lapin

CommuterIE wrote: »

When I was in town.....

In before the "Which Town" brigade.

CommuterIE

The King of Moo wrote: »

From the thread title, it sounds like he's very excited about his visit.

In before "which President"! The mods didn't have it in them to change the title of 'The queen is coming' thread despite numerous requests... bunch of west brits :P

phasers

Sure the Burlington is already full of lads from the CIA

bonerm

I expect hoards of unemployed men from council estates to be out in force in their Chicago Bulls jerseys and hastily constructed placards.

starbelgrade

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

Its only a Union Jack when flown from a boat.

I saw a couple of Union Flags however. Sadly both were being burnt.

I just watched a video of some retards trying to burn a Union Flag in Dublin..

http://www.twitvid.com/U1P8F

Fucking spas couldn't even do that properly.

Pauleta

He's loike a war criminal and stuff and illegally occupies Iraq and Afghanistan. Me and my chum Richard Boyd-Barrett will be making a citizens arrest loike and stuff, ya!

CommuterIE

Pauleta wrote: »

He's loike a war criminal and stuff and illegally occupies Iraq and Afghanistan. Me and my chum Richard Boyd-Barrett will be making a citizens arrest loike and stuff, ya!

Wow, Obama can do all this by himself!!! :eek: I'm starting to like the guy :P

theteal

bonerm wrote: »

I expect hoards of unemployed men from council estates to be out in force in their Chicago Bulls jerseys and hastily constructed placards.

there's a team from boston who wear green. . .

Augmerson

He's no Ross Perot.

bonerm

theteal wrote: »

there's a team from boston who wear green. . .

There is indeed. Interestingly they can't pronounce the word either.

El Weirdo

starbelgrade wrote: »

I just watched a video of some retards trying to burn a Union Flag in Dublin..

http://www.twitvid.com/U1P8F

Fucking spas couldn't even do that properly.

And then chanting "Who are ya? Who are ya?". Straight from the football terraces of England. Brilliant.

COYW

starbelgrade wrote: »

Fucking spas couldn't even do that properly.

Fire is a complicated things for a certain section of Irish society, obviously. The Obama visit wont come into the spotlight until the visit of Queen Elizabeth II ends. I would expect a strong anti-war protest out for that visit.

Wheelie King

bonerm wrote: »

I expect hoards of unemployed men from council estates to be out in force in their Chicago Bulls jerseys and hastily constructed placards.

I live in a council estate and tbh most people round here work. In fact out of the 95 or so houses only 3-4 men don't work. Not bad imo considering the unemplyment rate is 15% on this island.

rossie1977

when bush visited here you had americans in ireland protesting his visit :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPqwqg7G3M

The King of Moo

They're gonna try to burn down Eddie Rocket's!! :eek:

looksee

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

Its only a Union Jack when flown from a boat.

I saw a couple of Union Flags however. Sadly both were being burnt.

A pub in Waterford was flying the red, white and blue today. Sadly they did not have any Union flags and were flying the French flag instead.

mike65

looksee wrote: »

A pub in Waterford was flying the red, white and blue today. Sadly they did not have any Union flags and were flying the French flag instead.

Probably to mark France staging the Tour de france this year...::pac:

bonerm

Wheelie King wrote: »

I live in a council estate and tbh most people round here work. In fact out of the 95 or so houses only 3-4 men don't work. Not bad imo considering the unemplyment rate is 15% on this island.

I'm genuinely interested as to how you know this?

Terry

El Weirdo wrote: »

And then chanting "Who are ya? Who are ya?". Straight from the football terraces of England. Brilliant.

Hmm. That comment seems similar to the one I made...

Wheelie King wrote: »

I live in a council estate and tbh most people round here work. In fact out of the 95 or so houses only 3-4 men don't work. Not bad imo considering the unemplyment rate is 15% on this island.

Welcome to AH.
As a fellow council estate scumbag, I'd just like to point out to you that we are the scum of the earth.
It's common knowledge that every single person living in a council estate is unemployed.
We're all products of single mothers and/or broken marraiges. Because we live in council houses, we are, by default, nothing but alcoholics who have 17 kids for 37 different mothers and just bum off the tax payers.

Everyone who has ever posted in AH pays about €1,000,000 in tax every year, so we have to bow down to them.

Terry

bonerm wrote: »

I'm genuinely interested as to how you know this?

You have obviously never lived in a council estate.

I've lived in both a private estate and a council estate.
I'll take a council estate any day.

In a council estate your neighbours are the friendliest people on the planet.
In a private estate they are insular. They're actually afraid of each other.

By the way, people in council estates are only there because they cannot find work at a certain point in time. As soon as wok is available, they;ll jump at it. No matter what it is.
In a private estate the resident will never lower themself to manual labour.

Wolfe Tone

I dont like Obama. He promised change, and we have seen none really, especially in foreign policy. Did he even get rid of Guantanamo bay in the end?

jimmycrackcorm

I'm not surprised, Michelle is hot enough for her age and after the anti-bush rally you'd want some pro-bush activity.

El Weirdo

Terry wrote: »

Hmm. That comment seems similar to the one I made...

Where? Someone sent me the link on facebook with a similar comment, I think. Didn't think I was plagiarising you Terry. Please accept my humble apologies.

hotmail.com

Michelle seems like a very dim person.

Terry

El Weirdo wrote: »

Where? Someone sent me the link on facebook with a similar comment, I think. Didn't think I was plagiarising you Terry. Please accept my humble apologies.

This one? http://www.twitvid.com/U1P8F

My comment is down near the bottom.
6 hours ago.

El Weirdo

Terry wrote: »

This one? http://www.twitvid.com/U1P8F

My comment is down near the bottom.
6 hours ago.

Can't remember reading the comments tbh. Anyway, doesn't matter, you can have the credit. Would you like me to edit my post to reflect this?:D

dan719

Terry wrote: »

You have obviously never lived in a council estate.

I've lived in both a private estate and a council estate.
I'll take a council estate any day.

In a council estate your neighbours are the friendliest people on the planet.
In a private estate they are insular. They're actually afraid of each other.

By the way, people in council estates are only there because they cannot find work at a certain point in time. As soon as wok is available, they;ll jump at it. No matter what it is.
In a private estate the resident will never lower themself to manual labour.

Responding to an (unfair) generalisation with another unfair generalisation is rubbish Terry.

Plenty of people living in private homes do manual work for a living. My 'auld lad' for example.

It is unfortunate but true that today's protests were manned by a certain section of society. That is, the "absolutely retarded with no sense of irony" subset. I'll say nothing more on this, tbh.

conscious

CommuterIE wrote: »

When I was in town this evening the anti-war movement were having a little spectacle outside the GPO claiming "The Americans have landed in Shannon" (like we are being invaded) utter nonsense out of them anyway...

Wait until the Stars & Stripes are being flown all over the country, in stark contrast to the British Queens visit... I did not see one single Union Jack.

Anyway, enough of that, he's coming and this visit will be crucial for Ireland...

I for one welcome Barack Obama to Ireland!

Do you welcome his foreign policy and wars which claim thousands of innocent lifes?

bonerm

Terry wrote: »

You have obviously never lived in a council estate.

I've lived in both a private estate and a council estate.
I'll take a council estate any day.

In a council estate your neighbours are the friendliest people on the planet.
In a private estate they are insular. They're actually afraid of each other.

By the way, people in council estates are only there because they cannot find work at a certain point in time. As soon as wok is available, they;ll jump at it. No matter what it is.
In a private estate the resident will never lower themself to manual labour.

No I meant specifically how he knew the current employment status of 95 individual houses. That appears to go beyond they kind of info being friendly neighbours would elicit.

LighterGuy

I for one, welcome our new american overloads.

TheUsual

We should all dress up in Osama Bin Laden masks and scare the shi-ite out of the CIA lads.

On second thoughts, I won't be doing that myself.

Turtyturd

What odds will I get on Paddy Power for him to wear a green hat during the visit?

vampire of kilmainham

i bet half of those scumbag fcuks dont even know the history of Ireland

conscious

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

i bet half of those scumbag fcuks dont even know the history of Ireland

what scumbags are you referring to?

Freddie59

Terry wrote: »

You have obviously never lived in a council estate.

I've lived in both a private estate and a council estate.
I'll take a council estate any day.

In a council estate your neighbours are the friendliest people on the planet.
In a private estate they are insular. They're actually afraid of each other.

By the way, people in council estates are only there because they cannot find work at a certain point in time. As soon as wok is available, they;ll jump at it. No matter what it is.
In a private estate the resident will never lower themself to manual labour.

I'm assuming this is a wind-up. Otherwise its complete bollocks. I was reared in a Corporation House. Have lived in four "private" (that term always amuses me) estates. The worst type of cretin we encountered (ended up in court)? In the "private" estate.

FWIW I live in a "private" estate. I do manual work. Have done so for 35 years.

And why would they be looking for a wok.......................

Freddie59

conscious wrote: »

Do you welcome his foreign policy and wars which claim thousands of innocent lifes?

Nothing about the hundreds of thousands of American lives given up down the years so that people like us could have the freedom to post on message boards like this - amongst many other things. As usual, very conveniently forgotten. Same ole story.

who the fug

Do you reckon that is what Mary shouts out at the magic moment

Bluefoam

Terry wrote: »

You have obviously never lived in a council estate.

I've lived in both a private estate and a council estate.
I'll take a council estate any day.

In a council estate your neighbours are the friendliest people on the planet.
In a private estate they are insular. They're actually afraid of each other.

By the way, people in council estates are only there because they cannot find work at a certain point in time. As soon as wok is available, they;ll jump at it. No matter what it is.
In a private estate the resident will never lower themself to manual labour.

I grew up in a private estate, I bought a house in a council estate a few years ago. It was very nice.

I would still chose to live in a private estate.

Big Nasty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk

AudreyHepburn

I'm very much looking forward to Obama's visit, I've always been a fan of his.

I'll always remember watching his election, not least because I was stuck in bed with a bug that day . It was great day imo and I for one welcome him here now.

Deus Ex Machina

Terry wrote: »

You have obviously never lived in a council estate.

I've lived in both a private estate and a council estate.
I'll take a council estate any day.

In a council estate your neighbours are the friendliest people on the planet.
In a private estate they are insular. They're actually afraid of each other.

By the way, people in council estates are only there because they cannot find work at a certain point in time. As soon as wok is available, they;ll jump at it. No matter what it is.
In a private estate the resident will never lower themself to manual labour.

It seems like you have a chip on your shoulder. It is unfounded and unfair to make generalisations either way. It's also unfortunate that you would react that way to being the subject of other people's lazy generalisations.

The King of Moo

I hope he has his baptismal cert when he arrives..

CommuterIE

Overkill do you think?

http://blackwatertown.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/flag-house.jpg?w=294&h=152

Mint Sauce

And according the Beeb, we're still part of Britian.

In their headlines, the presenter said that the President was beinging his trip with a visit to Britain, tomorrow.

gigino

The yanks probably think we are part of Britain. They put the infrastructure here / built everything of note, they protected us from Nazism and communism ( ww2 + the cold war ) etc, they gave our emigrants jobs, they funded us through 4 decades of EC / EEC handouts, they lent us money + they contributed to our bailout last Nov. I remember meeting a few Irish - Americans in the states and they had not a clew about Ireland. Some ordinary Americans could not even put Ireland on a map of the world.

The American president is just using us as a stopover on his longer, main visit to England anyway. A few irish-americans may be swayed in to supporting him if they think he comes from the auld sod. Talking about Obama, he bowed when he met the Queen last time. I wonder will he meet our president, and if he does would he bother bowing, or are we that important / unimportant ?

ejmaztec

gigino wrote: »

The yanks probably think we are part of Britain. They put the infrastructure here / built everything of note, they protected us from Nazism and communism ( ww2 + the cold war ) etc, they gave our emigrants jobs, they funded us through 4 decades of EC / EEC handouts, they lent us money + they contributed to our bailout last Nov. I remember meeting a few Irish - Americans in the states and they had not a clew about Ireland. Some ordinary Americans could not even put Ireland on a map of the world.

The American president is just using us as a stopover on his longer, main visit to England anyway. A few irish-americans may be swayed in to supporting him if they think he comes from the auld sod. Talking about Obama, he bowed when he met the Queen last time. I wonder will he meet our president, and if he does would he bother bowing, or are we that important / unimportant ?

That's no way to talk about his mother.:(