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The British: Like, hate or feel completely indifferent??

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Andrew33 wrote: »
    Well, the word "Scotland" translates as "land of the Irish" in Latin so if anyone has a right to claim Irishness its the bloody Scots:D

    What language?

    Doesnt Hibernia relate to Ireland and Caledonia to Scotland in Latin anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,415 ✭✭✭The Pontiac


    stovelid wrote: »
    Or that handball. Who was that fella again?

    It's slipped my mind to be honest, as you never hear people talk about it now.

    In fairness, Maradona was out of order then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    Seriously Sky Sports News will be UNWATCHABLE if they win.

    It's unwatchable all the time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    and set up a campaign to have it voted best English sporting moment :eek:

    They might have the last laugh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Indeed.

    I had a conversation about something similar recently and perhas its partly attributable to the education system.

    I remember from my own school days that we spent more time learning about he renaissance and similar stuff and practically nothing about real irish history.
    These days if one picks History for the LC there is a lot about Irish history.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    I've lived here for almost two years.
    It's a lovely place and I've been made feel very welcome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    any time i have been over there i found them sound, especially once you say you are visiting from ireland.
    if they win the WC, id be happy for them.
    and if france win, id be gutted, not because its france thats won, but because we will be moaning how "that should have been us" forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    These days if one picks History for the LC there is a lot about Irish history.

    Fair enough.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    mike65 wrote: »
    Never forget! (unless its someone other than the Brits, is the Irish mantra I think) You'd have no railways without the Brits of course, just as Britain would have no motorways without the Irish.


    Meh - trains - who cares??? Motorways are way more useful . . .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭SIX PACK


    I suppose someone should start another stupid thread now- Do you Like Hate or feel completely indifferent about your bordering county....
    Id urge a Moderator to Close this pointless ****e


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭drakshug


    orourkeda wrote: »
    You are British though. You dont have any real say in the matter.

    That would be like saying you are not European.

    Neither did the Irish 100 years ago. Aren't you being a bit begrudging and missing out that many Irish can't tell the difference between England and Scotland. It is very insulting when people ask me when I'm going home to visit England.
    As for nationality I'm Scottish by birth and British by passport. I can't get any other passport but enough Irish quite happily apply for British passports. The european comment beats me as if you narrow it down......geographically.......British isles......
    As I said. I'm Scottish so cant claim to be independent from the uk but that doesn't make me a Brit. At least we don't ape the English.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭SIX PACK


    God save Our Queen

    God save our gracious queen!
    Long live our noble queen!
    God save the queen!

    Send her victorious,
    Happy and glorious,
    Long to reign over us,
    God save the queen!
    ][/SIZE]
    thats for all you queen lovers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Meh - trains - who cares??? Motorways are way more useful . . .

    Wouldn't have been the case a century ago though.

    drakshug, you are Scottish and British until the Scots vote for a different soverign arrangement


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    drakshug wrote: »
    Neither did the Irish 100 years ago. Aren't you being a bit begrudging and missing out that many Irish can't tell the difference between England and Scotland. It is very insulting when people ask me when I'm going home to visit England.
    As for nationality I'm Scottish by birth and British by passport. I can't get any other passport but enough Irish quite happily apply for British passports. The european comment beats me as if you narrow it down......geographically.......British isles......
    As I said. I'm Scottish so cant claim to be independent from the uk but that doesn't make me a Brit. At least we don't ape the English.

    Ireland is no longer part of Britain.

    Scotland is.

    I dont begrudge anything to anyone. Just stating that Scotland is part of the UK.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    SIX PACK wrote: »
    God save Our Queen

    God save our gracious queen!
    Long live our noble queen!
    God save the queen!

    Send her victorious,
    Happy and glorious,
    Long to reign over us,
    God save the queen!
    ][/SIZE]
    thats for all you queen lovers



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Thats what Ireland needs, an punk band doing the Soldiers Song. Take some of the stuffy nonsense out of it. :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭SIX PACK


    SIX PACK wrote: »
    I suppose someone should start another stupid thread now- Do you Like Hate or feel completely indifferent about your bordering county....
    Id urge a Moderator to Close this pointless ****e
    this post needs to be seen :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭drakshug


    orourkeda wrote: »
    What language?

    Doesnt Hibernia relate to Ireland and Caledonia to Scotland in Latin anyway

    I think he is referring to scotti in Latin. This was what the Romans called the raiders from Ireland. Caledonia was the name for the territory inhabited by Gaels, Britons and Picts which became Scotland mainly due to the expansion of the Gaels from argyll.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭nordisk celt83


    OP here.

    Thanks for all the responses. Results are pretty much what I anticipated!! I always felt such feelings of positivity/apathy are replicated by the vast majority of people in Britain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭nordisk celt83


    SIX PACK wrote: »
    this post needs to be seen :mad:

    Is after hours not full of threads on pointless, stupid threads??? I thought that was almost the point.
    It was a thread born out of a genuine curiosity; not an aim to create a stir.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40 mallubear


    I like the Brits.

    After all they did bring the best band ever: Pink Floyd

    Although they did bring the most overrated band ever:The Beatles.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭drakshug


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Ireland is no longer part of Britain.

    Scotland is.

    I dont begrudge anything to anyone. Just stating that Scotland is part of the UK.

    But I'm not a Brit. The word Brit has the wrong connotations. Same here and the same in Scotland. West Brit is a favourite insult in Ireland and calling me a Brit is just as bad. I'm a scot. Full stop. I'd have thought Irish people would understand that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    I know threads like this are done to death

    Yes, they are. That and the Catholic church, Muslims, headshops and scumbags. AH is at times just a branch of the Daily Star.


  • Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Sunny Colossal Transition


    What most Irish people don't understand is that most British people are just totally oblivious to the history between the two countries and have no idea that they might not be liked by the Irish. The average British person knows little about Ireland, and doesn't care. And not only tools, educated people as well. I met plenty of British people on Erasmus who didn't really realise that Ireland isn't part of the UK and doesn't use pounds sterling, and even people who know it's a different country know very little about it. Irish people are seen as easygoing fun people who drink a lot, and that's it. If I were to tell my British friends that a lot of Irish people have a problem with Brits, they'd be genuinely confused as to why. Most people are aware of the issues in the north but few understand what it's really about. It's hard to explain to most Irish people how little the average Brit knows about them or their country. I'm half Irish and half English so I've always seen it from both sides. The ignorance of some Brits annoys me but the attitude of some Irish (anti-Brit sentiment) annoys me as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Thread poll is fcuking stupid. If I don't pick the third option, that makes me stupid. See? Fcuking stupid options. Bias much?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    drakshug wrote: »
    But I'm not a Brit. The word Brit has the wrong connotations. Same here and the same in Scotland. West Brit is a favourite insult in Ireland and calling me a Brit is just as bad. I'm a scot. Full stop. I'd have thought Irish people would understand that.
    The man is Scottish. If he feels that strongly then what is being done here is akin to calling an Irish man from the 6 counties a Brit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    [quote=[Deleted User];66267947] Irish people are seen as easygoing fun people who drink a lot, and that's it. .[/QUOTE]

    How wrong they are
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    The man is Scottish. If he feels that strongly then what is being done here is akin to calling an Irish man from the 6 counties a Brit.

    Or calling a british man from the 6 counties Irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭nordisk celt83


    Thread poll is fcuking stupid. If I don't pick the third option, that makes me stupid. See? Fcuking stupid options. Bias much?


    That's my post(opinion, which is obv gonna be biased), NOT the poll!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭Calibos


    [quote=[Deleted User];66267947]What most Irish people don't understand is that most British people are just totally oblivious to the history between the two countries and have no idea that they might not be liked by the Irish. The average British person knows little about Ireland, and doesn't care. And not only tools, educated people as well. I met plenty of British people on Erasmus who didn't really realise that Ireland isn't part of the UK and doesn't use pounds sterling, and even people who know it's a different country know very little about it. Irish people are seen as easygoing fun people who drink a lot, and that's it. If I were to tell my British friends that a lot of Irish people have a problem with Brits, they'd be genuinely confused as to why. Most people are aware of the issues in the north but few understand what it's really about. It's hard to explain to most Irish people how little the average Brit knows about them or their country. I'm half Irish and half English so I've always seen it from both sides. The ignorance of some Brits annoys me but the attitude of some Irish (anti-Brit sentiment) annoys me as well.[/QUOTE]

    Jaysus, your not only a Brit, your a posh Brit!! Feck off out of it, ye posho!!

    ;):D
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


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