Keep an eye on your swans Ireland...

Terry · 08-08-2007 02:16PM

pvt. joker wrote:

Did you happen to READ the story or did you just skim the topic and then get vaginally hurt?

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_01/noswanDM0608_468x344.jpg

Daly mail, sun et al = national enquirer.

AlmightyCushion · 08-08-2007 02:17PM

whiskeyman wrote:

Their colostomy bags will keep 'em afloat...

We're talking about the old people who use their underwear as colostomy bags.

Kintarō Hattori · 08-08-2007 02:17PM

AlmightyCushion wrote:

There's the ones who smell like they're decomposing as well. Man, can they not shower?

I dunno what's up with them. They should be given those sit-in baths for free and free pass's for the laundry. That'd solve the problem.

billy the squid · 08-08-2007 02:18PM

This is complete and utter horse ****. swan is not poart of the eastern european diet.

Also it would be easier to eat a size eight boot than to eat a swan due to the toughness of swan meat.

The chances are, as was the case down here, swans were being used by local scumbags for target practice with airguns/shotguns/pelletguns

AlmightyCushion · 08-08-2007 02:18PM

eo980 wrote:

I dunno what's up with them. They should be given those sit-in baths for free and free pass's for the laundry. That'd solve the problem.

A free bullet to the head would also solve the problem.

pvt. joker · 08-08-2007 02:19PM

eo980 wrote:

Gee JOKER.......... you're story referenced the UK (a whole other country) not Ireland. I mentioned IRELAND. Did you read my response or just skim?

BTW- what's the situation with the wildlife in the US? There must be none left. After all America is a land built upon immigration and there are huge communities of Eastern European's there. I guess the only wildlife left is that which is in the zoo's eh?

Where exactly did i say that they were eating them in Ireland?

404 reading comprehension not found

cornbb · 08-08-2007 02:19PM

pvt. joker wrote:

so it's a giant conspiracy? Seems kind of ridiculous to make something like that up.

Not a conspiracy, an urban myth.

From Wikipedia:

Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by email. People frequently say such tales happened to a "friend of a friend" - so often, in fact, that FOAF has become a commonly used acronym to describe this sort of story. Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often false, distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized.

Kintarō Hattori · 08-08-2007 02:19PM

AlmightyCushion wrote:

A free bullet to the head would also solve the problem.

Ah now sure that's a bit harsh. They're smelly alright, but I wouldn't put them down or anything. Hmnnnnnnnn do I want to be seen talking to you now???! :eek:

pvt. joker · 08-08-2007 02:21PM

internet...serious business.

flogen · 08-08-2007 02:24PM

Deyy Tuk Arr Swans!!!!!!

08-08-2007 02:26PM

flogen wrote:

Deyy Tuk Arr Swans!!!!!!

Bravo.

On a serious note, this thread has me wondering how tasty a swan is. Brb, just, um, going for a walk to the park.

Slow Motion · 08-08-2007 02:28PM

flogen wrote:

Deyy Tuk Arr Swans!!!!!!

All Your Swan are Belong to us !

whiskeyman · 08-08-2007 02:28PM

Myth wrote:

On a serious note, this thread has me wondering how tasty a swan is. .

Just like corn on the cob

togster · 08-08-2007 02:34PM

pvt. joker wrote:

I'm a yank

That explains alot. Shall i buy you a plane ticket?

Kintarō Hattori · 08-08-2007 02:39PM

togster wrote:

That explains alot. Shall i buy you a plane ticket?

Seriously togster. That's not constructive or helpful and only fuels the situation in favour of posters who would post in support of these silly claims.

Edit - Oh and he's actually already in America.

togster · 08-08-2007 02:46PM

eo980 wrote:

Seriously togster. That's not constructive or helpful and only fuels the situation in favour of posters who would post in support of these silly claims.

Edit - Oh and he's actually already in America.

Oh sorry bout that. The plane ticket is so he can get outside of his own country (USA) and come and realise the UK isn't part of ireland and that in fact eastern europeans don't eat swans and that durka durka isnät how the rest of the world refers to muslims.
Hope that was more constructive.

Tha Gopher · 08-08-2007 03:10PM

FREDDIE POLLAK ATE MY HAMSTER!!!! :eek: :eek:

pvt.joker- in relation to the heated posts most irish are relaxed, laid back types (just like our stereotype : ), boards can be somewhat, eh, disproportionate in terms of opinion. re these stories, may be true, might not be. To dismiss anything out of hand makes as much sense as those who claim it as gospel fact, neither side can prove or disprove. Dont believe it is a large scale problem, if an issue at all, myself, but anyone who is claiming it has never happened as an actual fact hasnt any grounds to base it on.

They used to say Chinese restaurents cooked sray cats, dogs and rats back in the day, but tbh going out to catch stray animals sounds like more effort than buying legitimate meat.

cooperguy · 08-08-2007 03:11PM

Thats complete BULL. There was a story like that in the Limerick papers a while back and it turned out to be guys with too much time on there hands making up stories

pvt. joker · 08-08-2007 03:14PM

togster wrote:

Oh sorry bout that. The plane ticket is so he can get outside of his own country (USA) and come and realise the UK isn't part of ireland and that in fact eastern europeans don't eat swans and that durka durka isnät how the rest of the world refers to muslims.
Hope that was more constructive.

The UK isn't part of Ireland? Really?

I also love the hypocrites here. "Eastern Europeans don't eat swans and then i'm going to post a few random american stereotypes"

laughable

Kintarō Hattori · 08-08-2007 03:19PM

One American stereotype out of a thread of 51 replies. That's not bad!

pvt. joker · 08-08-2007 03:19PM

Tha Gopher wrote:

FREDDIE POLLAK ATE MY HAMSTER!!!! :eek: :eek:

pvt.joker- in relation to the heated posts most irish are relaxed, laid back types (just like our stereotype : ), boards can be somewhat, eh, disproportionate in terms of opinion.
They used to say Chinese restaurents cooked sray cats, dogs and rats back in the day, but tbh going out to catch stray animals sounds like more effort than buying legitimate meat.

This is afterhours. I read the article and laughed and thought i would post it. I didn't know people would get their panties in a knot about it lol

As for chinese food, i personally witnessed skinned cats being sold in chinatown in philadelphia and also a deer being drug into the backdoor of a chinese restaraunt. Hence the reason i haven't eaten it in about 15 years

Kintarō Hattori · 08-08-2007 03:20PM

Unfortunately in After Hours personal experiances just don't cut it. People wants hard facts, proof that these things have happened. Anyone can have had any sort of a personal experiance to back up their claims.

AlmightyCushion · 08-08-2007 03:22PM

eo980 wrote:

Unfortunately in After Hours personal experiances just don't cut it. People wants hard facts, proof that these things have happened. Anyone can have had any sort of a personal experiance to back up their claims.

Well I know from personal experience that hard facts don't prove anything.

Kintarō Hattori · 08-08-2007 03:23PM

Heh Heh.

cornbb · 08-08-2007 03:24PM

The american bashing is unfair alright but the propogation of the swan-eating stories is pretty hard on the eastern europeans who live here. I lived with a Polish girl who got pretty upset when that story was published in the Limerick Post last year. I guess its the fault of the seedy xenophobic journalists though, not the readership.

pvt. joker · 08-08-2007 03:25PM

eo980 wrote:

One American stereotype out of a thread of 51 replies. That's not bad!

I count three in that one post alone, but what do i know since i can't even locate my own country on a map

Kintarō Hattori · 08-08-2007 03:26PM

I don't think blame can be totally put upon the journalists, although they certainly deserve their fair share. Whatever happened to common sense? It's society on a whole that really needs to cop on.

Mortmain · 08-08-2007 03:29PM

Why the consternation? - It's all simple really
Polish people eat swans,
Chinese people skin cats and drug deer at back doors

,
Roma Gypsies masquerade as polish people and beg in remote rural locations for tins of Mr Sheen,
Americans make Irish people laugh,
Irish people are smart arses.

And these are hard facts - I read them in the National Enquirer.

pvt. joker · 08-08-2007 03:29PM

eo980 wrote:

Unfortunately in After Hours personal experiances just don't cut it. People wants hard facts, proof that these things have happened. Anyone can have had any sort of a personal experiance to back up their claims.

do you want a video of a pollack eating a swan by the side of the Thames?

DEmeant0r · 08-08-2007 03:31PM

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Ah the smelly old people. Man I hate those fúckers. They used to always come into me when i worked in Tesco and wrech my head with their piss drenched clothes. I wish they'd fúck off and die already.

Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but huh?

Keep an eye on your swans Ireland...

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