Polar bears are Irish!

cashback

All today's polar bears' maternal ancestors were from Ireland apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13965286

I did not know that.

dubtom

Me neither,although I'm not surprised.Sure everyone knows that every thing or one of importance somehow originated here:D I'm fairly certain that we Irish will claim we used to breed wolly mammoths or TRexes at some stage.

Needler

Is there a way we can use this to summon all the polar bears and maul the crowd running the IMF?

cc4life

Needler wrote: »

Is there a way we can use this to summon all the polar bears and maul the crowd running the IMF?

wouldnt imagine

FunkZ

Needler wrote: »

Is there a way we can use this to summon all the polar bears and maul the crowd running the IMF?

Hey Polar Bear guys, remember that one favour you still owe us? :pac:

Kevin Duffy

We due royalties? If not we should have inserted a claws in the research contract.

policarp

Do Polar bears eat porridge?

Superbus

They emigrated because it was too warm.

That's a first.

Biggins

I had to paws for a second when I read that article.
I can bearly believe it!

sollar

Ireland must have been really really crap back then if they left it for the north pole.

Kevin Duffy

Biggins wrote: »

I had to paws for a second when I read that article.
I can bearly believe it!

It made sense to me and I gave it credit straight away. The polar opposite to your reaction.

We should see what other animals we can claim, this could be just the tip of the iceberg.

Latchy

So that's why there's are no snakes left in ireland ,the polar bears ate them all .

Biggins

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

...We should see what other animals we can claim, this could be just the tip of the iceberg.

That would be just cold!

General General

This is the foothold we need to claim some of that Arctic oil the Russians are after..

Yes!

Kevin Duffy

Biggins wrote: »

That would be just cold!

Other countries do it, we should just go with the floe.

markesmith

If you've ever seen the heads of some of them in Offaly, this story makes a bit of sense

Lia_lia

How much does a polar bear weigh?

problemchimp

Maybe Trappatonni could have a look and use the granny rule.

zuroph

Pól O'Bear

Snowie

and we also had giant elks

Kevin Duffy

Lia_lia wrote: »

How much does a polar bear weigh?

It's broken the ice with me baby, how you doin'? :cool:

policarp

"Mom, are you sure I'm a polar bear?"
"Of course you're a polar bear my son. Why do you ask?"
"'Cause I'm fffin freezing."

aligator_am

cashback wrote: »

All today's polar bears' maternal ancestors were from Ireland apparently.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13965286

I did not know that.

Never would have thought of it, thanks for the link and info

aligator_am

markesmith wrote: »

If you've ever seen the heads of some of them in Offaly, this story makes a bit of sense

Have you seen the heads of some of the people in Offaly? like something from the show Sliders :P

Stinicker

D'ya hear about the Polar bear who thinks he's from Ireland?...........



























He's Bi-Polar!

aligator_am

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

and we also had giant elks

When they got rid of happy hour that put an end to them

ArtSmart

yeah, apparently though different in every possible way, the polar males were able to mate successfully with the Irish females.

Damned vikings and their pushiness.

ArtSmart

Stinicker wrote: »

D'ya hear about the Polar bear who thinks he's from Ireland?...........






He's Bi-Polar!

he he. winner.

Latchy

problemchimp wrote: »

Maybe Trappatonni could have a look and use the granny rule.

Well he had the bear bones of a squad for a long enough so why not .

charlemont

Are the polar bears Loyalist or Republican ?

Kevin Duffy

policarp wrote: »

"Mom, are you sure I'm a polar bear?"
"Of course you're a polar bear my son. Why do you ask?"
"'Cause I'm fffin freezing."

Those bears are very arctic-ulate.

Latchy

charlemont wrote: »

Are the polar bears Loyalist or Republican ?

Always had the look of Jehovah Witnesses to me ....:cool:

Stinicker

charlemont wrote: »

Are the polar bears Loyalist or Republican ?

Possibly Royalist more than anything, The Royal Bear Force having good loyalties, however making hats for the Buckingham palace guards out of dead bears could turn the relationship grizzly.

aligator_am

ArtSmart wrote: »

yeah, apparently though different in every possible way, the polar males were able to mate successfully with the Irish females.

Damned vikings and their pushiness.

Weird thing is though, my brother lives in Norway and all the Norwegian girls think Irish men are georgeous!!! (in fairness I took advantage of this while there lol), and weirder is that if they hear you talking with an Irish accent then you're basically in...

What didn't make any sense to me is that you could basically have a Norwegian version of Brad Pitt standing beside you and you'd still pull all the insanely stunning girls, so maybe us Irish males do have some "mega awesomeness" gene that we're not aware of...

Or maybe I just got daft lucky, either way, I'm not complaining :P

So I have to wonder, is this island the same locale from Fantasy Island, and will Ricardo Montalban wander out with martinis at any minute?

Latchy

aligator_am wrote: »

So I have to wonder, is this island the same locale from Fantasy Island, and will Ricardo Montalban wander out with martinis at any minute?

You're more likley to have mrs doyle serve you a cup of tea over on craggy island while fr jack dips your pockets for the price of a pint .

General General

charlemont wrote: »

Are the polar bears Loyalist or Republican ?

Fox's Glacier Mints Polar Bear is likely Loyalist. Iorek Byrnison is likely Republican.

aligator_am

charlemont wrote: »

Are the polar bears Loyalist or Republican ?

Even though they're wild beasts, even they would likely have the sense to not pick sides lol.

When you're dealing with humans who act like beasts then you can't win.

zuroph

charlemont wrote: »

Are the polar bears Loyalist or Republican ?

they're in the middle
the tricolour is made up of
the green of republicanism
the Orange of loyalism
and the white of polarbearism

cashback

policarp wrote: »

Do Polar bears eat porridge?

Yes but just Flahavans apparently.

tallaghtmick

Polar bears are irish......cant wait for all things ireland haters aka irish people to start slagging polar bears off.

WindSock

Is it coz they is white?

Nulty

WindSock wrote: »

Is it coz they is white?

They're actually black but its the content of their character that's important.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/inside-natures-giants/episode-guide/series-3/episode-3

L.Jenkins

The polar bear story is further proof that we're slowly talking over the world without anyone ever knowing.

Pupito

If polar bears were really Irish, the Christian Brothers would have beaten the left-handedness out of them.

L.Jenkins

Maybe that's why they fled the Country.

Pupito

Solves the mystery of why my grandmother used to get seal meat in the post every week. Remittences, man.

gamgsam

I heard they all originated in Birr...

I'll get me fur coat.