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All the Irish have left

  • 02-03-2012 12:06PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭


    All the Irish have left;
    Irish names.
    Irish accents.
    Gaelic Football.
    Hurling.
    The tricolour flag.
    The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
    The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
    Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
    Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    we still have spuds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Things change. If people had the same attitude hundreds of years ago nothing would ever change. We'd be in darkness. Let's cut the bull**** going forward...

    Also, are you a troll?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    we still have spuds

    Actually massive amounts of potatoes are imported to Ireland from the EU.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    All the Irish have left;
    Irish names.
    Irish accents.
    Gaelic Football.
    Hurling.
    The tricolour flag.
    The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
    The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
    Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
    Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

    What the **** are you on about?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Odaise Gaelach


    I don't think that post could have been make by anyone with a more ironic username.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 349 ✭✭talkinyite




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    We still have our red lemonade.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    We still have our red lemonade.

    They can take my lemonade and eat all our swans... But they'll never take away my Clonakilty pudding, my red pubes & freckles dammit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    Things change. If people had the same attitude hundreds of years ago nothing would ever change. We'd be in darkness. Let's cut the bull**** going forward...

    Also, are you a troll?

    Electric Ireland (formerly ESB) are doing a good job of putting us in the dark by raising bills. You think we would be in darkness without progress? Progress is putting us into the dark faster.
    Going forward is being part of the EU? The EU is going backwards not forward. Their economy is shrinking not growing.
    I am not a troll. My opinions differs from yours, but that doesn't make me a troll for expressing it on a forum.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    I don't think that post could have been make by anyone with a more ironic username.

    I am glad you get the irony of it.
    So many people don't get it.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,131 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    All the Irish have left;
    Irish names.
    Irish accents.
    Gaelic Football.
    Hurling.
    The tricolour flag.
    The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
    The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
    Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
    Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

    Yime to go back home to Blighty Johnny?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    I remember the day down in Rosslare when I sat on the docks and watched the Eurocrats load up the ferries with lorry loads of hurleys..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    What happened to hurling? :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    It's all the Foreigners coming over.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Yime to go back home to Blighty Johnny?

    I think he might actually be talking about home tbh, I'm looking out my window here and I see a tricolour at full mast. I see a sign and it's in both English and As Gaeilge...my own name is still Irish...that hasn't changed. My drivers licence is as gaeilge and in english.

    Nope...Johnny is in a different country alright.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    Yime to go back home to Blighty Johnny?

    England is not my home.
    Home is where one belongs.
    That would like suggesting Shane McGowan returns to Kent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    The metric system makes logical sense. The other system is just random.

    Is it not British anyway?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    It's all the Foreigners coming over.

    No.
    Its more a case of all the Irish emigrating.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    All the Irish have left;
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    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.

    Yes, that is definitely on the cards. Once the new format driving licenses are issued, then the Govt has plans to transition to driving on the RHS.

    They are going to phase it in gradually. It will start with just trucks, then cars with even number plates, then those with oddones, over about a 4 month period.


    -Foxt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,278 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It's all the Foreigners coming over.

    They should reintroduce a ban on the johnnies as well.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    The Eu has nothing to do with most of the OPs points. He is not a smart man


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    OneArt wrote: »
    The metric system makes logical sense. The other system is just random.

    Is it not British anyway?

    The metre was French, not British.

    However, in 1793, France adopted as its official unit of length a metre based on provisional results from the expedition. Although it was later determined that the first prototype metre bar was short by a fifth of a millimetre because of miscalculation of the flattening of the Earth, this length became the standard. The circumference of the Earth through the poles is therefore slightly more than forty million metres (40 007 863).[4]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    No.
    Its more a case of all the Irish emigrating.


    It's a case of the Irish going abroad then coming back with their heads full of ideas.

    Bad things, ideas! Rice & pasta ffs! What's wrong with spuds?

    Going abroad is bad for our heritage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    No.
    Its more a case of all the Irish emigrating.

    Ah sure, no harm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Let us give up Cork as the sacrificial lamb to the EU so in return we can keep our Irishness......sounds like a win - win situation to me anyway :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Tayto
    Bacon and Cabbage
    British postboxes painted green
    Club Orange/Rock Shandy/Lemon
    King Crisps
    Hurling and Gaelic Football
    Red Lemonade
    Mince meat and boiled spuds
    Drystone walls
    The Late Late Show
    Complaining about The Late Late Show
    Standing down the back at Mass and leaving before the Communion
    Lyon's Tea
    Liveline
    Emerald sweets
    "Stand clear: luggage doors operating!"

    Sure we'll be grand for a while yet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,222 ✭✭✭✭Will I Amnt


    1All the Irish have left;
    2Irish names.
    3Irish accents.
    4Gaelic Football.
    5Hurling.
    6The tricolour flag.
    1-it's actually a tiny minuscule minority
    2-if anything,more people are calling their children Irish names.
    3-just no.
    4-take a look at the fixtures for the weekend.
    5-see 4
    6-they must have been backwards Ivory Coast flags flying in the Aviva the other night.

    What a crock of bullshít :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    kfallon wrote: »
    Let us give up Cork as the sacrificial lamb to the EU so in return we can keep our Irishness......sounds like a win - win situation to me anyway :p

    You think we have an ego now, wait till we get into Europe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Im Irish AND a European. Ive eaten me own swans.

    With curry sauce.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭NakedNNettles


    All the Irish have left;
    Irish names.
    Irish accents.
    Gaelic Football.
    Hurling.
    The tricolour flag.
    The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
    The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
    Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
    Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

    :pac: I couldn't give a flying F.. you sound like some 70-80 year old ould lad. Are you sure it's not the shilling and halfpence you want back?

    Looking down through history, countries, cultures, languages and people have always been evolving. It's called progress, get with it or get left behind....the alternative is ending up like Cuba or North Korea.


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