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    #2372
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    gigino wrote: »

    Do you think the image of O'Connell street with its sex shop / junkies / beggars etc is a great image of our main street of our capital city, and one Bord Failte should use in advertising more ?

    I don't see that whenever I'm home. Maybe I'm not looking as hard for bad things like yerself? :)


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    #2373
    Cathaoirleach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Cathaoirleach


    Your beloved Queen has left. Now, please let this thread die.


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    #2374
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Cathaoirleach wrote: »
    Your beloved Queen has left. Now, please let this thread die.

    She's not my beloved anything. But I do have a wee bit more respect for herself, following the visit.

    You can always unsubscribe to the thread if it ails you, so :)


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    #2375
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    She's not my beloved anything either. But I do have respect for her. I probably would'nt go out of my way to see her though, but then I would not do that for any head of state. None of them put food on my plate.

    As said above, people can always unsubscribe to the thread if it ails them.


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    #2376
    groveman60
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭groveman60


    I watched Olivia O'Leary's speech and found it totally cringeworthy. She spoke about the queen as if it was behind her back. Her reference to the royal couple as the petite woman and tall man are personal remarks that are inappropriate and out of order. She should have known better. Olivia O'Leary was not going to be a 'safe pair of hands' to contribute this unnecessary speech. There should have been someone in authority to check over what she was going to come out with. And I don't mean Gay Burne.


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    #2377
    end a eknny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭end a eknny


    went to my local earlier had to leave couldnt move in the place with all the brits and yanks waving their sterling and dollars about


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    #2378
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    Gigino, it would be well worth remembering the UK has it's problems too
    The economy is in dire trouble, the country seems to have a disproportionate amount of bigots and imgrint haters, the media is ****ty, hates the EU and there is about one good paper
    Scotland may leave even lol (ok dramatization ...)

    I'm not saying we wouldn't have been better off in the long run in the UK ... but I wouldn't want to reunite particularly


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    #2379
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    shadowninty wrote: »
    Gigino, it would be well worth remembering the UK has it's problems too

    I know that. Most countries have lots of problems. I'm staying in Ireland anyway. Many of us are emigrating ( usually to UK or commonwealth countries like Australia, New Zealand or Canada ....jasus many of us paddies must want to live under the queen again ). Even the American economy is borrowing vast amounts of money. Economically the countries which are lending the rest of the world money ( China + the oil states ) are themselves not very nice countries to live in, for quality of life.


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    #2380
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    end a eknny wrote: »
    went to my local earlier had to leave couldnt move in the place with all the brits and yanks waving their sterling and dollars about

    you almost had me till I saw the location tag :pac:


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    #2381
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    shadowninty wrote: »
    you almost had me till I saw the location tag :pac:
    talking about tracing roots, I see Obama after his 10 hour visit here has gone over to the UK, and has told the people there his mothers people were British !


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    #2382
    Opelfruit
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Opelfruit


    gigino wrote: »
    talking about tracing roots, I see Obama after his 10 hour visit here has gone over to the UK, and has told the people there his mothers people were British !
    Christ almighty, you're tedious!


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    #2383
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,004 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    gigino wrote: »
    talking about tracing roots, I see Obama after his 10 hour visit here has gone over to the UK, and has told the people there his mothers people were British !

    Has he mentioned that the British beat the crap out of his Grandfather in Kenya yet?:confused:


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    #2384
    getz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Has he mentioned that the British beat the crap out of his Grandfather in Kenya yet?:confused:
    yes its also a keen member of the commonwealth


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    #2385
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Has he mentioned that the British beat the crap out of his Grandfather in Kenya yet?:confused:
    On the contrary, Obama's praise of the British is second to none, and he is claiming British ancestory too :
    http://obama-speech.org/transcript.php?obama_speech_id=5142


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    #2386
    Opelfruit
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Opelfruit


    gigino wrote: »
    On the contrary, Obama's praise of the British is second to none, and he is claiming British ancestory too :
    http://obama-speech.org/transcript.php?obama_speech_id=5142

    Why do you guys feel so insulted by his every action then?

    Obama's top 10 insults against Britain.

    Obama's top 10 insults against Britain - 2011 edition.

    Looks like a certain POTUS isn't giving someone enough attention.


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    #2387
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    Opelfruit wrote: »
    Why do you guys feel so insulted by his every action then?

    Obama's top 10 insults against Britain.
    the Torygraph
    An actual good reason to dislike Britain


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    #2388
    mike65
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    For the love of Christ someone lock this thread!


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    #2389
    LondonIrish90
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    shadowninty wrote: »
    the Torygraph
    An actual good reason to dislike Britain

    Why? Proper conservative newspaper.

    While the mail is known to be sensationalist at times (sells copies though, so why would they change?) the Telegraph is a very good and well respected paper.


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    #2390
    orourkeda
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    shadowninty wrote: »
    the Torygraph
    An actual good reason to dislike Britain

    Do you dislike Ireland for producing the Sunday Independent


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    #2391
    end a eknny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭end a eknny


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Do you dislike Ireland for producing the Sunday Independent
    only suitable as toilet paper


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    #2392
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Do you dislike Ireland for producing the Sunday Independent
    yes. lol
    LondonIrish90 wrote: »
    Why? Proper conservative newspaper.

    While the mail is known to be sensationalist at times (sells copies though, so why would they change?) the Telegraph is a very good and well respected paper.

    look at it, full of sensationalism, anti yoorup sentiment based on bull, hate for any party other than the Tories
    I'm not talking about the Sun, but a broadsheet ffs


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    #2393
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    shadowninty wrote: »
    look at it, full of sensationalism, anti yoorup sentiment based on bull, hate for any party other than the Tories
    I'm not talking about the Sun, but a broadsheet ffs

    It has a very good crossword though.


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    #2394
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    shadowninty wrote: »
    the Torygraph
    An actual good reason to dislike Britain

    Or maybe just dislike tories, instead? :)


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    #2395
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    Obama didn't endear himself to the British right from the off when, as soon as he became President, he removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. It was a gift from Britain to America in the wake of 9/11.


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    #2396
    zephyrz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭zephyrz


    Smell of Inbred around here


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    #2397
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    Batsy wrote: »
    Obama didn't endear himself to the British right from the off when, as soon as he became President, he removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. It was a gift from Britain to America in the wake of 9/11.
    you cant please everyone when interior decorating...


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    #2398
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    end a eknny wrote: »
    went to my local earlier had to leave couldnt move in the place with all the brits and yanks waving their sterling and dollars about

    What pub in Offaly accepts Sterling and Dollars?:pac:


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    #2399
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    galwayrush wrote: »
    What pub in Offaly accepts Sterling and Dollars?:pac:

    The Trading Post on the county border - they cut out the pictures on them and use them as wards against Flu. It also accepts beads, mirrors and geegaws. I'm given to understand that a pound of beads is worth two shrunken heads these days.


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    #2400
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    zephyrz wrote: »
    Smell of Inbred around here
    Maybe your nose is too close to your mouth.
    :D


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    #2401
    hardCopy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Batsy wrote: »
    Obama didn't endear himself to the British right from the off when, as soon as he became President, he removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. It was a gift from Britain to America in the wake of 9/11.

    What a crap gift


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