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The Fighting Irish My Arse

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    #62
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    Logical_Bear wrote: »
    Well there's
    Mike Hoare:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hoare
    St patricks Battalion:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Battalion

    and not to mention the men who fought in the 2 world wars and the international brigades in Spain.

    As for your rant about Irish not fighting for the 800 years of oppression(or how ever long it was)just shows yer ignorance.It was a wee bit more complex than you make out.

    I thought people like yerself had already fukked off to oz or canada


    dont forget...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Francis_Meagher

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brown_(admiral)


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    #63
    Madam_X
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    3,360 posts since June this year? No wonder you don't have time to think before you type.
    It's the people who bitch about a group as if they're superior to it, when they're actually part of that same group, who are the ones that don't think before they type.


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    #64
    UCDVet
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    Technically - the small guy getting his face pounded in is still 'fighting'. He's just losing the fight.

    So maybe 'Fighting Irish' is appropriate?


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    #65
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    Something is being planned for the 100 year anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
    You may see another uprising..


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    #66
    9959
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    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Something is being planned for the 100 year anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
    You may see another uprising..

    Will it be televised?


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    #67
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    9959 wrote: »
    Will it be televised?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #68
    3GAINSBOROUGH
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    9959 wrote: »
    Will it be televised?

    On the news, Yes.


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    #69
    Dangerous Man
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    OP is 100% correct yet the majority of this thread has been nitpicking over this little detail and that little detail.

    Sad.


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    #70
    9959
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    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    On the news, Yes.

    Super!


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    #71
    Madam_X
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    Dangerous Man wrote: »
    OP is 100% correct yet the majority of this thread has been nitpicking over this little detail and that little detail.

    Sad.
    Hypocritical to bitch about everyone else not doing anything... while not doing anything. Makes the whinger as bad if not worse than all the other apathetic folks.


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    #72
    Andy-Pandy
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    Christ OP. Most people dont want an "uprising" and realise that the austerity measures are necessary. Do you honestly think that Ireland isn't still in a better position, both economically, culturally and socially than most of the rest of the world. There is no where that is perfect on the face of the earth, but we still live in a land that is closer to perfection than nearly everywhere else, and what do you want, for us to rise up, riot and presumably cause more social hardship and strife. People really dont think this through. We live in a democracy, are political leadership is a result of that democracy, without are democracy we are nothing.


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    #73
    coonecb1
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    I think we don't protest because

    - Militant street demonstrations are too working class for most Irish people's tastes. That's something the Shinners do, and most people don't want any association with Sinn Fein even if they're completely right about certain things

    - Protests take up time and effort

    - People feel it won't make a difference, so they don't even bother. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby if there's no protest, nothing's ever changed

    - Irish people avoid confrontation in public. Same reason why we never complain in restaurents but will immediately tell everyone afterwards about poor food/service


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    #74
    coffee_cake
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    I keep reading the title as "the irish fighting my arse"

    and then I wonder why anyone would want to


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    #75
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    coonecb1 wrote: »
    I think we don't protest because

    - Militant street demonstrations are too working class for most Irish people's tastes. That's something the Shinners do, and most people don't want any association with Sinn Fein even if they're completely right about certain things

    - Protests take up time and effort

    - People feel it won't make a difference, so they don't even bother. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby if there's no protest, nothing's ever changed

    - Irish people avoid confrontation in public. Same reason why we never complain in restaurents but will immediately tell everyone afterwards about poor food/service

    Now is the calm before the storm.
    It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
    You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.


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    #76
    coonecb1
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    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Now is the calm before the storm.
    It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
    You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

    Please elaborate.

    What will happen and who will organise it? What will the uprising be against?


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    #77
    3GAINSBOROUGH
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    coonecb1 wrote: »
    Please elaborate.

    What will happen and who will organise it? What will the uprising be against?

    I am not at liberty to discuss this.
    Suffice it to say, plans are well under way though.


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    #78
    neil_hosey
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    was the whole fighting irish thing not supposed to be ironic? Along with "youll never beat the irish", and "the luck of the irish"

    We never won any fight (war)
    We are beaten in most things we attempt
    We havent been all that lucky throughout the years...

    Still, Ill blindly shout them out when needed.


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    #79
    neil_hosey
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    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Now is the calm before the storm.
    It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
    You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

    its not the end of the world again is it?


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    #80
    StankyStevie
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    K-9 wrote: »
    You see loads fighting on a Saturday night in every town and city in the country.

    DAMN, I thought it was only here in the UK that carries on...


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    #81
    Matt_Trakker
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    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Now is the calm before the storm.
    It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
    You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

    If you're planning on dressing in a nun's habit and walking around with photos of fetuses outside the GPO someone's beaten ya to it.


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    #82
    SafeSurfer
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    neil_hosey wrote: »
    was the whole fighting irish thing not supposed to be ironic? Along with "youll never beat the irish", and "the luck of the irish"

    We never won any fight (war)
    We are beaten in most things we attempt
    We havent been all that lucky throughout the years...

    Still, Ill blindly shout them out when needed.


    Irony, I never thought of that angle. Maybe be really are the butt of the Joke.

    (I mean like we think "greatest fans in the world" everyone else things funny f*cking fans - singing you'll never beat the Irish, they're fecking great craic.)

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #83
    soapy jesus
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    If only we as a nation could revolutionize via passive aggressive means-begrudgery, ill-will, imagined grievances and so on. Surely this is a niche in the revolutionary canon that's yet to be exploited? I mean, play to your strengths, right? I'll get to work on that manifesto...


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    #84
    kupus
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    soapy jesus wrote: »
    If only we as a nation could revolutionize via passive aggressive means-begrudgery, ill-will, imagined grievances and so on. Surely this is a niche in the revolutionary canon that's yet to be exploited? I mean, play to your strengths, right? I'll get to work on that manifesto...

    Theres another one you missed....procrastination, but judging by your last sentence maybe not.


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    #85
    gobnaitolunacy
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    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Now is the calm before the storm.
    It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
    You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

    This had better be good. Any trailer for this?


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    #86
    CdeC
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    I dont think we're passive but it certainly takes a lot to get the Irish people worked up.

    Not like the french where even the mention of a tax increase and they're petrol bombing their local boulangerie.

    To be honest we should be angrier at the politicians and their complete incompetence at managing the boom years. Bertie ahern should be publicly flogged every day for a month and then exiled.

    But I remember the last elections before the recession I went to vote determined to cast all my votes for (cough) labour as I saw no future in FF and their get rich people richer policies but everyone I talked to was voting FF mostly because they had "done well for the country" Oh how wrong they were.


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    #87
    9959
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    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    I am not at liberty to discuss this.
    Suffice it to say, plans are well under way though.

    I'll take a wild guess and say our own merry band of 'National Socialists' -
    Erigi


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    #88
    sheesh
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    neil_hosey wrote: »
    was the whole fighting irish thing not supposed to be ironic? Along with "youll never beat the irish", and "the luck of the irish"

    We never won any fight (war)
    We are beaten in most things we attempt
    We havent been all that lucky throughout the years...

    Still, Ill blindly shout them out when needed.

    no it has to do with the irish joining other armies around the world the US the Argentinian and the French military had at various times irish in them.


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