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are we more british than the british themselves?

live2thewire

what do you think? i dont know im split on the issue. i notice many irish seem to think we have some sort of cultural interlink but really its all one way. you won't find anybody in the uk knowing who our personalities are, most probably dont know what the capital is. also many irish seem to think were just a stones throw from uk when in reality the majority of them are closer to paris than dublin

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oi guvna, wot you on abaaaaaaat

Irlbo

GOD NO,I think that would justify Nuking ourselves

AnonoBoy

live2thewire wrote: »

also many irish seem to think were just a stones throw from uk when in reality the majority of them are closer to paris than dublin

What?

Zadkiel

Irlbo wrote: »

GOD NO,I think that would justify Nuking ourselves

Grand we'll buy them from England

Mr.Lizard

I'll have to ponder that question tonight whilst I cheer Liverpool onto victory against the rival town of Chelsea.

live2thewire

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What?

4 hours from london to paris

dublin longer

AnonoBoy

live2thewire wrote: »

4 hours from london to paris

dublin longer

We are just a stone's throw from the UK. I don't get your point at all.

Zadkiel

live2thewire wrote: »

4 hours from london to paris

dublin longer

dublin to London 55mins
dublin to Birmingham 45 Mins...You can fly now too!

[Deleted User]

na i'd definately say the british are more british. it's all in the name really..

HalloweenJack

Of course not.

We just watch the X-Factor, the Premiership, Sky movies/sports, Corrie, Eastenders; we just shop at Tesco's, HMV; we just support Celtic, Man U, Liverpool; we just obsess over Amy Winehouse, Jade Goody; we just read the Sun, the Mirror. That doesn't make us British.

Using the pound would and being part of the UK would.

Dudess

live2thewire wrote: »

what do you think? i dont know im split on the issue. i notice many irish seem to think we have some sort of cultural interlink but really its all one way. you won't find anybody in the uk knowing who our personalities are, most probably dont know what the capital is.

Agreed, but that hardly makes us "more British than the British themselves". We know more about Britain than Britain knows about Ireland, that's all.

stovelid

Time to merge all the British threads. Given the size, it might need its own server though

Dudess wrote: »

Agreed, but that hardly makes us "more British than the British themselves". We know more about Britain than Britain knows about Ireland, that's all.

The Brits couldn't care less; we couldn't care more. End.

live2thewire

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

I'll have to ponder that question tonight whilst I cheer Liverpool onto victory against the rival town of Chelsea.

thats what i mean. it makes no sense to me that irish have devotion to english teams. and its nothing to do with quality because english soccer was ****tt in the 80's

Rented Mule

The only people that i wopuld describe as 'more British than the British themselves' would be the Loyalists/Unionists in the North.

The only people that I would consider 'more Irish than the Irish themselves' are the Republicans/Nationalists in the North

Pighead

When we do try to be just like the British ie copying their television formats or their manufactured pop it generally turns out to be pretty embarrassing. As Jarvis Cocker once sang, it tends to be like a bad cover version.

Aah, sing your song about all the sad imitations that got it so wrong
It's like a later "Tom & Jerry" when the two of them could talk
Like the Stones since the Eighties, like the last days of Southfork.
Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV, the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in"
Like an own-brand box of cornflakes: he's going to let you down my friend.

Well said Jarvis.

live2thewire

Zadkiel wrote: »

dublin to London 55mins
dublin to Birmingham 45 Mins...You can fly now too!

london to paris under 1 hour

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Dublin is just West Britain anyway.

live2thewire

dover to calais=35 minutes

lol at the people hoping they are closer to london than parisiens

stovelid

live2thewire wrote: »

thats what i mean. it makes no sense to me that irish have devotion to english teams.

We're whores for glory and success. The teams that we are saddled with, by an accident of birth, over here don't quite chime with the inflated idea that we have of ourselves globally. Hence the constant support of English football, and the cyclical, bust-and-boom-support for rugby and international football.

Pighead

Des wrote: »

Dublin is just West Britain anyway.

Maybe you're wrong Desmond. Maybe just maybe Britain is East Dublin. Pighead was in Britain once and he heard a man say "Have you got the price of a cup of coffee there bud?" Definite Dub wannabe.

live2thewire

Des wrote: »

Dublin is just West Britain anyway.

nothing to do with politics, the masses have been brainwashed by the anti eu british tabloids

Mr.Lizard

Pighead wrote: »

Maybe you're wrong Desmond. Maybe just maybe Britain is East Dublin. Pighead was in Britain once and he heard a man say "Have you got the price of a cup of coffee there bud?" Definite Dub wannabe.

I'd imagine that was just one of our fine young minds who had emigrated in search of a better life than this country could provide. Looks like he found it.

Pighead

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

I'd imagine that was just one of our fine young minds who had emigrated in search of a better life than this country could provide. Looks like he found it.

Nope, definite Brit. He had the spotted dick and everything.

schween

live2thewire wrote: »

dover to calais=35 minutes

lol at the people hoping they are closer to london than parisiens

Well geographically Paris is a little closer to London than Dublin.
Culturally though I'd say Britain and Ireland are far closer.

I think being culturally closer is far more significant than geographically.

Mr.Lizard

Pighead wrote: »

Nope, definite Brit. He had the spotted dick and everything.

He should probably see his GP about that.

Dan Dare

We are certainly more American than the British, Irish kids with American accents etc.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

We're whores for glory and success. The teams that we are saddled with, by an accident of birth, over here don't quite chime with the inflated idea that we have of ourselves globally. Hence the constant support of English football, and the cyclical, bust-and-boom-support for rugby and international football.

Despite people's insistence on Irish people being begruders, always putting themselves down etc, I have to say the above is spot-on too.

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Dan Dare wrote: »

We are certainly more American than the British, Irish kids with American accents etc.

annoying D4 dickheads with faux valley-accents you mean.

I want to kick the teeth of all of these ****.

Pighead

Des wrote: »

annoying D4 dickheads with faux valley-accents you mean.

I want to kick the teeth of all of these ****.

You sound like an annoying British football hooligan when you say that. Makes Pighead want to write a poem about how un-Irish you are.

CamperMan

live2thewire wrote: »

what do you think? i dont know im split on the issue. i notice many irish seem to think we have some sort of cultural interlink but really its all one way. you won't find anybody in the uk knowing who our personalities are, most probably dont know what the capital is. also many irish seem to think were just a stones throw from uk when in reality the majority of them are closer to paris than dublin

what are you smoking?