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"They can't even grow potatoes!..."

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    #62
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    trollface.jpg


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    #63
    c_man
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    MajorMax wrote: »
    He's right, I haven't a clue how to grow potatoes

    Bollox, it's in your blood man. The Anlgo-American media have managed to convince you otherwise, but deep down you yearn for The Land and potatoes with which to grow.


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    #64
    Sam Kade
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    alchemist33 wrote: »
    He's right about the tree/three thing, though. Does my head in.
    Do you know what our native language is? The clue is in the answer ;)


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    #65
    nokia69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭nokia69


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    He's right about the tree/three thing, though. Does my head in.

    its just one of the small quirks of Hiberno-english

    not to worry it will die out soon enough and we will all sound like the cast of friends

    wunderbar


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    #66
    [Deleted User]
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    blinding wrote: »
    Kinda of forgot about the "white n*ggers" one myself. I am getting "careless" as I get older.

    Does Elvis Costello have something about that in a song?

    Oliver's Army.


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    #67
    geraardo
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    I thought our national symbol or emblem was the harp,please correct me if I'm wrong.


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    #68
    anncoates
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    blinding wrote: »
    Does Elvis Costello have something about that in a song?

    Olivers Army.

    But it's not in reference to Irish people.


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    #69
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    It must make all these people wince that Ireland is more toward looking than themselves,he is only demonstrating what an oaf he is with his remarks.


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    #70
    P_1
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    Bloody convicts


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    #71
    LDN_Irish
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    Sciprio wrote: »
    Wouldn’t it be funny if we can get the Irish in Australia to send lots of potatoes to his office? haha

    It'd just prove his point really. Couldn't even send Irish potatoes from ireland because there are none. :(


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    #72
    Duckworth_Luas
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    A dingo stole my potatoes! :(


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    #73
    AllGunsBlazing
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    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    A dingo stole my potatoes! :(

    Did you hear the one about the Irish dingo?


    It ate the tent.:o


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    #74
    fiachr_a
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    They have the Sydney opera house but no opera of their own!


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    #75
    YFlyer
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    Classic Alf Stewart :D


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    #76
    Sam Kade
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    LDN_Irish wrote: »
    It'd just prove his point really. Couldn't even send Irish potatoes from ireland because there are none. :(
    They wouldn't get through customs either way as you see in them stupid Aussie nothing to declare programs. If they had a feed of beans before entering the country and sh1t a bean in the airport jacks they would nearly arrest them for bringing in foreign food.


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    #77
    SpaceTime
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    I'm delighted to see that Sir Les Patterson is still active in Australian politics after all these years.

    Barry Humphries' is definitely a bit of a comic genius :)


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    #78
    Agricola
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    Get daaaaa Bouncer, ya flamin' baaaaastid!


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    #79
    cbyrd
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    kneemos wrote:
    Planted a row of potaetoes last year...disaster.


    See that was your first mistake... It's a drill of potatoes.. They'd never grow in a row..try again with a drill, but not a real electric drill, you don't have to screw them in or bolt them, just, ah feck it, it's too complicated.. Just go down to aldi, the man is right,


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    #80
    CFlat
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    I tried to sow potatoes tree times but day didn't grow. I don't tink I planted dem right.


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    #81
    Eugene Norman
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    I'm confused that we can be mocked given that we have dominant white privilege and belong to a dominant white privileged group who culturally dominate the world. Dominately.

    Could it be that that's not true? It's more complex than that?


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    #82
    Sam Kade
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    Who gives a sh1t what that stupid Aussie b@stard thinks anyway. Bloody social media picking on every little word around the world if he said that 20 years back very few would hear it and even less would care.


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    #83
    SpaceTime
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Who gives a sh1t what that stupid Aussie b@stard thinks anyway. Bloody social media picking on every little word around the world if he said that 20 years back very few would hear it and even less would care.

    I donno - I think to be honest stuff like that needs a reaction.

    This guy has done a piece of very poor PR for Australia and I think it's something they should be aware of.

    We live in a globalised world of communication - if you slag someone or a group off, they'll hear about it!!

    I think I'd be more offended if I were Australian than Irish. We're just the butt of a bad joke. He's not representing or advising us!!


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    #84
    Pumpkinseeds
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    Meh, some has-been Dame Edna look alike wants to insult the Irish people and the best he can do is a thinly veiled reference to a distant famine and a dislike of our Shamrock. :D I'd not take anything he has to say too seriously, he clearly has no idea what the famine was about and he's only succeeded in making himself look like a dick.


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    #85
    BlaasForRafa
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    the australian accent is is obviously superior :rolleyes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpBYnL5fAXE


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    #86
    droidman123
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    We have a mutant weed as our national symbol. Says this australian whos national flag is tainted by a foreign flag in its top corner, whos head of his country is a foreign queen from a country 10500 miles away. Ha this is guy is in serious need of a brain transplant!


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    #87
    fryup
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    blinding wrote: »
    An acquaintance once told me that a nickname that some aussies have for the Irish is :

    Potato N*gg*rs (I mean no offence to anyone with this)

    I wonder if others can corroborate if this is true or not ?

    don't know about that

    but when the irish first arrived in America they we're called white ****


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    #88
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    fryup wrote: »
    don't know about that

    but when the irish first arrived in America they we're called white ****

    You'll still hear that in NYC to this day. Potato N also.


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