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This forum really makes me want to visit Ireland, BUT...

  • 24-02-2011 03:56PM
    #1
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭


    I just love America too much. It is honestly the greatest country ever. Opportunity abound, best higher education system in the world and most enlightened form of government.

    Please help convince me to make the trek across the Atlantic to your nice country.


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    We're not quite as fat, but we're getting there.


  • #3
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    I just love America too much. It is honestly the greatest country ever. Opportunity abound, best higher education system in the world and most enlightened form of government.

    Please help convince me to make the trek across the Atlantic to your nice country.

    your after me pot of gold aren't ya yank


  • #4
    Assassin saphir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭Assassin saphir


    Why would you ever want to leave....?:rolleyes:


  • #5
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    I just love America too much. It is honestly the greatest country ever. Opportunity abound, best higher education system in the world and most enlightened form of government.

    Please help convince me to make the trek across the Atlantic to your nice country.

    Don't bother, we don't take kindly to american people.


  • #6
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Nah, you're dead right. If you must leave America, go somewhere like Japan.


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  • #7
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    I just love America too much. It is honestly the greatest country ever. Opportunity abound, best higher education system in the world and most enlightened form of government.

    Please help convince me to make the trek across the Atlantic to your nice country.

    It'd want to be for the amount it costs.

    We can swap, you live here and I'll move to the States. deal?


  • #8
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    what makes you think we want you?


  • #9
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    I just love America too much. It is honestly the greatest country ever. Opportunity abound, best higher education system in the world and most enlightened form of government.

    Please help convince me to make the trek across the Atlantic to your nice country.

    Your American? I thought you lived under a bridge.


  • #10
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    This isn't logical, we have no oil.


  • #11
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Mr. Spock


    Gunsfortoys wrote: »
    Don't bother, we don't take kindly to american people.

    Why not? We're the same as you Irish folk, just born on a different mound of dirt.


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  • #12
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Just send your wallet and credit cards, so you can have the full tourist experience from the comfort of your own home


  • #13
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,217 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    best higher education system in the world

    Which you end up paying for over most of your adult life! Unless of course your a trust fund baby?


  • #14
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Mr. Spock


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Nah, you're dead right. If you must leave America, go somewhere like Japan.

    Location: France.

    Are you really from France? Should I join the French Foreign Legion?

    I like it cause its got the word "Legion" in it, which is pretty badass.


  • #15
    Jimmy the Wheel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Jimmy the Wheel


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    Why not? We're the same as you Irish folk, just born on a different mound of dirt.

    After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting.


  • #16
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    Opportunity abound, best higher education system in the world and most enlightened form of government.
    Opportunity doth abound indeed, but I'm not sure about the other two. Higher education at degree and masters level is no better than here tbh. It's at doctoral and post-doc level where there are 15 or 20 great universities with huge endowments that there's a difference.


  • #17
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,725 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    Use one of your bountiful opportunities to take a week's holiday. Transatlantic flights do go both ways, you know. You could nearly cut it down to a day-trip if you miss the US that much when you're here.


  • #18
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Mr. Spock


    youcancallme>al wrote: »
    Which you end up paying for over most of your adult life! Unless of course your a trust fund baby?

    Heh, I wish. It shouldn't take me too long to pay it off though, I'm guessing ~6-12 years.


  • #19
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


    This post has been deleted.


  • #20
    R P McMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭R P McMurphy


    Is not such a bad place www.youtube.com/watch?v=5emdftOIoos


  • #21
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    Location: France.

    Are you really from France? Should I join the French Foreign Legion?

    I like it cause its got the word "Legion" in it, which is pretty badass.
    Location: Vulcan

    Are you really from Vulcan? Should I join the Federation?

    I like it cause its got the word "Federation" in it, which is pretty badass.


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  • #22
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    After Hours makes you want to visit Ireland? :confused:


  • #23
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Obaraten wrote: »
    You better not come Spock after all there are many Romulans here who dont take kindly to your kind
    Yeah, that's what the Troubles were about.


  • #24
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Mr. Spock


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Opportunity doth abound indeed, but I'm not sure about the other two. Higher education at degree and masters level is no better than here tbh. It's at doctoral and post-doc level where there are 15 or 20 great universities with huge endowments that there's a difference.

    http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp

    ^Top 100 universities in the world.


  • #25
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Mr. Spock


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Location: Vulcan

    Are you really from Vulcan? Should I join the Federation?

    I like it cause its got the word "Federation" in it, which is pretty badass.

    I am indeed from Vulcan. I joined the Federation after completing my secondary education against my fathers wishes. I'd highly recommend it, a lifetime of service is rewarding indeed.


  • #26
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Mr. Spock wrote: »
    http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp

    ^Top 100 universities in the world.
    Thanks for that. Do you have any idea how that list is compiled?

    Didn't think so.

    My point is correct. (I'm doing PhD research at one of the universities on that list)


  • #27
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    If you visit I`ll personally save you some authentic Jars of Irish air! All your American comrades have bought them in the thousands

    1146499635donegal01.jpg


  • #28
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Mr. Spock


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Thanks for that. Do you have any idea how that list is compiled?

    Didn't think so.

    My point is correct.

    It uses a standardized criteria, including prestige of professors, nobel winners, student success rate, research and some other junk.


  • #29
    Mr. Spock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Mr. Spock


    Also what point are you making, Monty Bunz?


  • #30
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Gunsfortoys wrote: »
    Don't bother, we don't take kindly to american people.

    Cmon Skeeter, he aint hurtin nobody


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  • #31
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    R P McMurphy wrote: »
    Is not such a bad place www.youtube.com/watch?v=5emdftOIoos

    Highest cliffs in Europe mother****ers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Take that, Dover!


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