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Irelands hard on (obsession) for the Kennedys

  • 22-06-2013 7:23pm
    #1
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 ✭


    What is the big deal with the Kennedys? A bunch of drunkards and adulterers that left Ireland for Boston because the spuds wouldn't grow.

    The waste of public money is shocking. Why are we pandering to these bunch of nobodies from America?


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  • #2
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote: »
    What is the big deal with the Kennedys? A bunch of drunkards and adulterers that left Ireland for Boston because the spuds wouldn't grow.

    ....a story that could be any of ours, so it is.


  • #3
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Calm down Dessie, don't get your tutu in a knot.


  • #4
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    whinge whinge whinge


  • #5
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Yakult wrote: »
    whinge whinge whinge

    Chowdah.


  • #6
    TheKeenMachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 388 ✭✭TheKeenMachine


    Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote: »
    What is the big deal with the Kennedys? A bunch of drunkards and adulterers that left Ireland for Boston because the spuds wouldn't grow.

    The waste of public money is shocking. Why are we pandering to these bunch of nobodies from America?

    :rolleyes: Yeah, it's not as if they're one of the most famous and influential families of all time.


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  • #7
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Nodin wrote: »
    Chowdah.

    It's Chow-there!


  • #8
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote: »

    The waste of public money is shocking.

    Apart from an event in New Ross, a visitor centre in Dunganstown and RTE making a few shows what public money?

    And the events in Wexford will probably pay for themselves with tourists


  • #9
    Al_Coholic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭Al_Coholic


    Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote: »
    What is the big deal with the Kennedys? A bunch of drunkards and adulterers that left Ireland for Boston because the spuds wouldn't grow.

    The waste of public money is shocking. Why are we pandering to these bunch of nobodies from America?

    sure you dont get drunkards and adulterers from any other country?

    so his family left ireland to go to america....he got to be president.....i think thats pretty 'awesome' to be honest


  • #10
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote: »
    What is the big deal with the Kennedys? A bunch of drunkards and adulterers that left Ireland for Boston because the spuds wouldn't grow.

    The waste of public money is shocking. Why are we pandering to these bunch of nobodies from America?

    Just an excuse for yet another festival that Ireland seems to riddled with throughout the summer.


  • #11
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    They're hardly nobodies. Arguably the most famous American family of the 20th century.


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  • #12
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    I suppose its a way of them advertising Ireland as a country to corporate america.
    There's still a lot of gung ho towards J.F.K. in the states and I imagine its that
    sort of influence they're after.

    I do agree however, that the whole affair is quite cringy.


  • #13
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I'm obsessed with them. They were class. Bad as fcuk but class none the less.


  • #14
    KindOfIrish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭KindOfIrish


    kneemos wrote: »
    Just an excuse for yet another festival that Ireland seems to riddled with throughout the summer.
    Ireland doesn't have "the summer". A summer either:(


  • #15
    Chinaman666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭Chinaman666


    If you think we talk up the Kennedys you should hear the way the americans go on about them...


  • #16
    yore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote: »
    What is the big deal with the Kennedys? A bunch of drunkards and adulterers that left Ireland for Boston because the spuds wouldn't grow.

    The waste of public money is shocking. Why are we pandering to these bunch of nobodies from America?

    Good man Dessie. Those pesky nobodies. Could never achieve in the their whole lives, a fraction of the impact and influence that your opening post has made on humanity and the course of history.

    We salute your greatness oh amazing one!


  • #17
    Duiske
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    No doubt Clare Daly is now organizing a visit by the descendants of Lee Harvey Oswald.


  • #18
    HurtLocker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 655 ✭✭✭HurtLocker


    If Ireland has a hard on for the kennedys rte news is ejaculating all over the place now.


  • #19
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,399 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    kneemos wrote: »
    Just an excuse for yet another festival that Ireland seems to riddled with throughout the summer.

    Ya i mean i wish there was less to do then we could spend some time whingeing about having nothing to do on AH, oh wait!! :rolleyes:


  • #20
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    KindOfIrish wrote: »
    Ireland doesn't have "the summer".

    We do. It was last Tuesday week. You missed it.


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