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What have the Brits ever done for us?

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  • #32
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Our own legal system was good. It'd be fascinating to see it if it had continued and evolved to the present day.

    They made some good television shows.


  • #33
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,276 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    Dead provos?

    Plenty dead civilians too.

    Famines also are good for population control, so, eh, thanks Britain


  • #34
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    They gave us premiership football, so Irish fellas in Liverpool and Chelsea jerseys can moan about the Brits.


  • #35
    _Whimsical_
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    A currency whose weakness we can occasionally take advantage of to buy stuff cheaply online.

    And according to Arlene Foster they're considering extending their border to include us!
    Amongst other reasons, to keep us safe from terrorists apparently...because nothing makes a terrorist have feel warm and fuzzy feelings for you like wrapping yourself in a Union Jack.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1130/835434-foster-northern-border/


  • #36
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    ...according to Arlene Foster they're considering extending their border to include us!
    Amongst other reasons, to keep us safe from terrorists apparently...because nothing makes a terrorist feel warm and fuzzy feelings for you like wrapping yourself in a Union Jack.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1130/835434-foster-northern-border/

    'Scuse my ignorance chief, but wouldn't that sort of technically be an actual invasion??


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  • #37
    Everlong1
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    The Beatles, The Stones, The Smiths, The Police, Kate Bush.


  • #38
    Winterlong
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    The amount of fcuking moaning, p*ssing and whinging about them has filled many a Boards thread. Build a fcuking bridge and get over it.

    I don't think there's another country in the world that obsesses about it's neighbour as much.

    We would give North Korea a run for their money in the 'Neighbour obsession' stakes.


  • #39
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,611 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    https://youtu.be/doN2ZcE7ov4


  • #40
    Lux23
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    I haven't watched the Brit awards in years.


  • #41
    davmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭davmol


    I find it funny that the same IRA knuckle draggers blame the brits for everything.

    the same lads that wear Man Utd,liverpool,chelsea jerseys and fight fellow Irishmen for supporting opposite teams.The same lads that watch corri,eastenders and go to Liverpool for stags weekends and cant get enough of English birds.

    I remember some lads on the radio lambasting the BBC for lack of coverage of Ireland in the Olympics when our own national broadcaster had a full day of Ireland coverage but typical knobend wanted to blame the brits when we are not part of Britain so why should they cover the Irish teams.

    Also,if there was a rogue plane coming towards Ireland full of explosives or on a Kamikaze tour to plough into the middle of Oconnell street,who would it be we call??The RAF,as we cannot even defend ourselves.
    We are such a weak country that we are totally dependant on their airforce.

    They also gave us Jobs,Plenty of Jobs.Hoards of Irish have headed for the UK to be builders,to work in Finance in the City and generally do very well for themselves.

    I would say the Brits have done a good deal for Ireland but we will never admit it and always be the first to Blame the Brits for anyting we can.

    Some people are still stuck in the 60'/70's.Time to move on ,


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  • #42
    learn_more
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    They invented the World Wide Web so that you can ask on the internet what the Brits ever did for us.


  • #43
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,254 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    How to lose an empire and still think you are a world leader when in fact you are a world power's gofor.
    And Marmite, don't forget the Marmite. ;)


  • #44
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    learn_more wrote: »
    They invented the World Wide Web so that you can ask on the internet what the Brits ever did for us.

    They actually invented the computer. Twice! :D

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers


  • #45
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    Steve F wrote: »
    Something to aspire to?
    hqdefault.jpg


  • #46
    MRnotlob606
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    BalcombeSt4 wrote: »
    Lots & lots of massacres.
    Famines
    Some of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history.

    and the development of the MOPE (Most Oppressed People Ever) mentality..


  • #47
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    How to lose an empire and still think you are a world leader when in fact you are a world power's gofor.
    And Marmite, don't forget the Marmite. ;)

    Mein Gott! 
    The product that was to become Marmite was invented in the late 19th century when German scientist Justus von Liebig discovered that brewer's yeast could be concentrated, bottled and eaten.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite


  • #48
    sondagefaux
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Winterlong wrote: »
    They gave us something to whinge about.

    The amount of fcuking moaning, p*ssing and whinging about them has filled many a Boards thread. Build a fcuking bridge and get over it.

    I don't think there's another country in the world that obsesses about it's neighbour as much.
    You've never been to Poland or Canada then?


  • #49
    5rtytry56
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    On the subject of computers,

    2 mainstream 8 bit computers:

    Clive Sinclair is responsible for the ZX Spectrum

    Alan Sugar for the Amstrad CPC 464

    yes, I know the other mainstream 8 bit was the Commodore 64 which had the biggest following, but magazines for all of the above were on sale in Easons here etc.


  • #50
    Graham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,642 ✭✭✭✭Graham


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    How to lose an empire and still think you are a world leader when in fact you are a world power's gofor.

    As opposed to delivering a bowl of foliage to The White House once a year?


  • #51
    trashcan
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    Everlong1 wrote: »
    The Beatles, The Stones, The Smiths, The Police, Kate Bush.

    3/4 of the Beatles had Irish roots, Morrissey and Marr (Maher) both had Irish parents, so technically they should be thanking us there. ;)


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  • #52
    sondagefaux
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    Graham wrote: »
    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    How to lose an empire and still think you are a world leader when in fact you are a world power's gofor.
    a bowl of foliage
    That's no way to talk about Nigel Farage...


  • #53
    Graham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,642 ✭✭✭✭Graham


    sondagefaux wrote: »
    That's no way to talk about Nigel Farage...

    You're confusing foliage and vegetables.


  • #54
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    ...I know the other mainstream 8 bit was the Commodore 64 which had the biggest following, but magazines for all of the above were on sale in Easons here etc.

    The C64 would have been considerably less popular without rock-star games programmers like Jeff Minter and Dennis Caswell - both Brits. :D


  • #55
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,254 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    sondagefaux wrote: »
    The product that was to become Marmite was invented in the late 19th century when German scientist Justus von Liebig discovered that brewer's yeast could be concentrated, bottled and eaten.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite

    Forget the Marmite then. :)


  • #56
    The_Valeyard
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    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    and the development of the MOPE (Most Oppressed People Ever) mentality..

    Black lives matter claimed that.


  • #57
    kneemos
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    Decent telly before satellite. On the east coast at least.


  • #58
    AgileMyth
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    They built Piers, harbours, breakwaters etc. back in the 1700s which we're still using to this day.

    There'd be no maritime industry in the island nation of Ireland if our government had their way.


  • #59
    Capt'n Midnight
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    They actually invented the computer. Twice! :D

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

    Three times if you include this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC :P

    Of course the computer was really invented by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse.


  • #60
    The_Valeyard
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    AgileMyth wrote: »
    They built Piers, harbours, breakwaters etc. back in the 1700s which we're still using to this day.

    Ah now, they just built them as an easy way to land their invasion armies.


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  • #61
    5rtytry56
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Ah now, they just built them as an easy way to land their invasion armies.

    Both of yee forgot the Martello Towers, a few of which hipster Paddy has turned into his own hangout crib.


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