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What a stupid site!

  • 21-04-2010 12:58PM
    #1
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭


    So put 'Irish Bank Holidays 2010' into Google and the first site that comes up is this one:

    http://www.bankholidaydates.co.uk/HolidayDates/year/Ireland/2010.aspx

    So I visited, and have never been so disgusted in my life with the sheer ignorance if it!

    Since when do we celebrate Queen Elizabeths Birthday or St Georges Day... amongst others!

    MUPPETS!!!


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  • #2
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,032 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Well if that all you have to worry about then your not doing too bad.

    EVENFLOW



  • #3
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    It's not the first site that comes up for me. You were on google.co.uk weren't you?


  • #4
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    is there a contact email for these twats


  • #5
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    What the hell is Robert Burns Night (Burns Night) ?


  • #6
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    phasers wrote: »
    What the hell is Robert Burns Night (Burns Night) ?

    It's a night to celebrate the life of Robert Burns.

    'Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new'...and all that.


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  • #7
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    SINCE WHEN do I celebrate Valentine's day........what a stupid site.


  • #8
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    did the .co.uk bit not give it away?


  • #9
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    It's a night to celebrate the life of Robert Burns.
    Oh yeah, I remember my first Burns Night Party, quite the roof raiser...

    Is it this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns

    I don't see why he deserves his own day


  • #10
    bobblepuzzle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭bobblepuzzle


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    did the .co.uk bit not give it away?

    Doesn't matter, who gives a ****e in the Republic about Queen Elizabeths B'day? :eek:


  • #11
    Noopti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Noopti


    Jesus, who the f*ck cares...


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  • #12
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »
    Doesn't matter, who gives a ****e in the Republic about Queen Elizabeths B'day? :eek:

    Maybe all the Brits that live here do?


  • #13
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,032 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »
    Doesn't matter, who gives a ****e in the Republic about Queen Elizabeths B'day? :eek:


    aaa you seem to get huffed about it;)

    EVENFLOW



  • #14
    consultech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »
    So I visited, and have never been so disgusted in my life

    Really?

    Life-swapsies?


  • #15
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    phasers wrote: »
    Oh yeah, I remember my first Burns Night Party, quite the roof raiser...

    Is it this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns

    I don't see why he deserves his own day


    He's Scotland's national poet. It's a night to celebrate scottish culture (and can be a great night).


  • #16
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    phasers wrote: »
    Oh yeah, I remember my first Burns Night Party, quite the roof raiser...

    Is it this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns

    I don't see why he deserves his own day

    As Robert himself would probably say...
    'Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.'


  • #17
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    AND they called it Boxing Day.:(


  • #18
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    The Queen throws OSSIM parties. I always celebrate her birthday.


  • #19
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Big f*cking deal!:rolleyes: No doubt half the people getting offended support Man united or Liverpool at the expense of St Pats and Cork city.


  • #20
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    It's a night to celebrate the life of Robert Burns.

    'Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new'...and all that.

    People from Scotland or who have scottish roots generally eat haggis, bashed tatties and neeps(turnips), drink scotch and quote Robert burns.
    When chapman billies leave the street,
    And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet;
    As market days are wearing late,
    And folk begin to tak the gate,
    While we sit boozing at the nappy,
    An' getting fou and unco happy,
    We think nae on the lang Scots miles,
    The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
    That lie between us and our hame,
    Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
    Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
    Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

    ^^ I typed that!


  • #21
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »
    http://www.bankholidaydates.co.uk/HolidayDates/year/Ireland/2010.aspx
    Boxing Day :eek:
    Brit ****ards


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  • #22
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    syklops wrote: »


    ^^ I typed that!

    Cheers for clearing that up. For a second there I was thinking you were telepathically communicating that to me.


  • #23
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »
    Since when do we celebrate Queen Elizabeths Birthday or St Georges Day... amongst others!

    MUPPETS!!!

    I'm pretty sure they think Ireland includes Northern Ireland......

    ..........MUPPETS!!!!!!!


  • #24
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    Cheers for clearing that up. For a second there I was thinking you were telepathically communicating that to me.

    I meant I didnt copy and paste it from a website.


  • #25
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Those evil Brits don't get those days as holidays either though so don't worry about it, most wouldn't know when they are either.


  • #26
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    syklops wrote: »
    People from Scotland or who have scottish roots generally eat haggis, bashed tatties and neeps(turnips), drink scotch and quote Robert burns.


    My Dad is from Scotland and has never eaten haggis.
    He does have Dundee Cake on Burns Supper night.. it is always celebrated in our house.


  • #27
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »
    So put 'Irish Bank Holidays 2010' into Google and the first site that comes up is this one:

    http://www.bankholidaydates.co.uk/HolidayDates/year/Ireland/2010.aspx

    So I visited, and have never been so disgusted in my life with the sheer ignorance if it!

    Since when do we celebrate Queen Elizabeths Birthday or St Georges Day... amongst others!

    MUPPETS!!!
    You realize by linking to tha site on boards.ie of all places, which is getting to be one of the biggest independent sites in the web - in her most popular forum - on a wednesday morning - that you've probably just ensured that google will regard that muppet website as the rank 1 search result for irish bank holidays for a long time to come?


  • #28
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    syklops wrote: »
    People from Scotland or who have scottish roots generally eat haggis, bashed tatties and neeps(turnips), drink scotch and quote Robert burns.



    ^^ I typed that!

    Rabbie Burns invented deep-fried battered Mars Bars, ginger wigs and alcoholism.


  • #29
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    Tar.Aldarionftw wrote: »
    So put 'Irish Bank Holidays 2010' into Google and the first site that comes up is this one:

    http://www.bankholidaydates.co.uk/HolidayDates/year/Ireland/2010.aspx

    So I visited, and have never been so disgusted in my life with the sheer ignorance if it!

    Since when do we celebrate Queen Elizabeths Birthday or St Georges Day... amongst others!

    MUPPETS!!!

    Only the dates in bold are meant to be Irish Bank Holidays. Anyway, if you don't like the site, don't use it. There's freedom of dissassociation on the internet.

    On an aside, don't you think the more worrying thing is that Christmas is on the 28th of December this year?


  • #30
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Overheal wrote: »
    You realize by linking to tha site on boards.ie of all places, which is getting to be one of the biggest independent sites in the web - in her most popular forum - on a wednesday morning - that you've probably just ensured that google will regard that muppet website as the rank 1 search result for irish bank holidays for a long time to come?

    He shoulda waited till Thursday.
    Now there'll be a 'Who the feck is Robert Burns?' thread in AH every 25th of January. :(


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  • #31
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    I just can't believe that an internet website, of all things, might contain inaccurate information.


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