How can we restore national pride?

mcmoustache · 18-07-2011 03:56PM

orourkeda wrote: »

Yes

And I'll add that while a lot of people disagree with your statement, in my experience, such people are invariably skangers who drink in shítholes.

That's the thing with skangers and shítholes: They don't know that they are drinking in a shíthole any more than they know that they are skangers.

orourkeda · 18-07-2011 06:14PM

careca11 wrote: »

Burn the bondholder's
Jail the seanie fitz's and michael fingleton's , david drumm's,
sack the incompetent top PS/banking bosses ,
jail the child abuser's.

show europe we have the balls to punish those who wrecked the country , instead of sitting on the sidelines , while europe and the rest of the world laugh at us

What do we do then?

squod · 18-07-2011 06:40PM

careca11 wrote: »

Burn the bondholder's
Jail the seanie fitz's and michael fingleton's , david drumm's,
sack the incompetent top PS/banking bosses ,
jail the child abuser's.

show europe we have the balls to punish those who wrecked the country , instead of sitting on the sidelines , while europe and the rest of the world laugh at us

If people wanted all that they would have voted for it in the last General Election.

Anyways my idea is to open a school for corrupt politician-ing. We must be the best at it. Bertie could be the principle and Cowen could teach treason, intermediate to master level.

As an aside we could could enrol journalists into the RTE school of outrageous lies. Pretty sure this one will catch on. At least it will pick up exponentially as the rate of corrupt politicians increases.

Dionysus · 18-07-2011 07:40PM

hoorsmelt wrote: »

We are royally screwed as a nation, and have lost our pride and dignity.

"We" haven't. We are still a long way off the position of the Irish people following Oliver Cromwell's arrival in 1649, or the abject misery, racism and oppression suffered by Irish people in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. A long, long way off it.

Sit down and have a good chat with an older relative, or any older person. That should give you, and anybody else, perspective on Ireland's current situation. My own older relatives, to a person, cannot believe how confident Irish people are today compared to in their generation (1940s/50s). While the younger generation are now depressingly materialistic, there's none of that cap-tipping inferiority complex to all things British. That, for them, is a massive change.

In one of the few leader-like speeches of this crisis, Éamonn Gilmore said:

“Ireland is a great country, and I believe, in every fibre of my being, that our best days are still to come,”

I couldn't agree more with the man. For a country of a mere 6 million people, Ireland has had a disproportionate influence on the international stage, an influence which extends beyond the anglophone world (e.g. U2, Beckett, Joyce). It's time for Irish people to get perspective on our current situation. Perspective.

Zebra3 · 18-07-2011 08:14PM

We could start by having mass hangings of the scum who got us into this mess.

Mike 1972 · 18-07-2011 09:02PM

Arent Iceland in NATO ?

Attack them and youd probably get nuked:eek:

orourkeda · 19-07-2011 12:22AM

jugger0 wrote: »

Are you a hun? what soccer team isnt supported by twats anyway? Rugby Synchronised swimming Ftw

Way more interesting and entertaing

LordSutch · 19-07-2011 10:49AM

Dionysus wrote: »

"We" haven't. We are still a long way off the position of the Irish people following Oliver Cromwell's arrival in 1649,
I couldn't agree more with the man. For a country of a mere 6 million people,

Ah ha, your Cromwell comment has revealed why you refered to my family as 'your lot' in another thread (Plantation stock no less)!
Oh and by the way this is a country of 4.5 million people, & not six million as you have misprinted.

Irish National pride is alive and well, its just the 'media driven' down beat image that confuses & depresses many Irish people.

LondonIrish90 · 19-07-2011 11:04AM

Get out the binoculars and look across the waters at Britain. If you want to see what a once pleasant land looks like after being systematically dismantled with malice and vindiction at the hands of several governments stretching over a vast time period, then you shall have your answer.

Or, just make cricket the national sport. Ireland seems to punch well above its weight when it comes to one day cricket. Set sights on going one further.

orourkeda · 19-07-2011 11:09AM

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

Get out the binoculars and look across the waters at Britain. If you want to see what a once pleasant land looks like after being systematically dismantled with malice and vindiction at the hands of several governments stretching over a vast time period, then you shall have your answer.

Or, just make cricket the national sport. Ireland seems to punch well above its weight when it comes to one day cricket. Set sights on going one further.

Perhaps we should make bandwagon jumping or glory hunting our national sport.

Theres no other way to explain where all these cricket and rugby fans have come from.

Monty Burnz · 19-07-2011 11:18AM

orourkeda wrote: »

Perhaps we should make bandwagon jumping or glory hunting our national sport.

Theres no other way to explain where all these cricket and rugby fans have come from.

To be fair, both are great sports - and European rugby, as a spectacle, has come on in leaps and bounds in the last decade. And the professional era has really democratised rugby, it's no longer the preserve of private schools and a few working class enclaves. In a multi-channel world, people have access to sports other than GAA and soccer, the stuff that RTE have been showing forever (along with 4 rugby games a year, back in the 80s IIRC).

Micky Dolenz · 19-07-2011 07:08PM

orourkeda wrote: »

Perhaps we should make bandwagon jumping or glory hunting our national sport.

Theres no other way to explain where all these cricket and rugby fans have come from.

There is an easy way to explain it, if we have a team that is good at something, it becomes more popular/main stream and people join in.

Since when has bandwagon jumping been a bad thing? All sporting organisation benefit from it at some point.

stovelid · 22-07-2011 05:42PM

smash wrote: »

Scottish team win Champions League to restore national pride? Might restore some revenue to a few sh!thole pubs full of skangers but will do nothing for Ireland!

orourkeda wrote: »

Isnt Glasgow in scotland?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z8mCAP9vMU

Honest opinion · 22-07-2011 09:19PM

jugger0 wrote: »

Iceland would probably beat us in a war, we have no real air units worth mentioning, no proper tanks, we have about 12,000 ground troops with no way of transport unless we book a flight with ryan air. It wouldnt end well.

eh most ignorant post ive ever seen i doubt you know anything about Iceland apart from newspaper headlines Iceland is one of the few countries in the world without a millitary

jugger0 · 22-07-2011 09:27PM

Honest opinion wrote: »

eh most ignorant post ive ever seen i doubt you know anything about Iceland apart from newspaper headlines Iceland is one of the few countries in the world without a millitary

Thats a cool story and imma let you finish, but the Irish army is small, underequipped, with no proper transport vessels. I know iceland has no proper army, they do have guns though, a few defensive positions guarded by automatic weapons would be very hard to take with just infantry, and they know the land...

ilovesleep · 22-07-2011 10:02PM

squod wrote: »

If people wanted all that they would have voted for it in the last General Election.

Leaving aside burning the bondholders, we can still do the rest - jailing the bankers, sacking the incompetant ps/banking bosses, jailing the child abusers - through protests demanding for change. Can we not?

Kidchameleon · 22-07-2011 10:16PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Win the upcoming Rugby world cup.

Stop claiming those NI golfers as our own.

FYP

Kidchameleon · 22-07-2011 10:22PM

Mr. Denton wrote: »

Qualify for Euro 2012 and then win it (which I have a sneaky feeling, crazy as it sounds, is going to happen).

+ 50,000 on this.

If We won Euro 2012 there would be no such thing as bailouts, recession or misery. The country would literally explode with pride. Ireland can do a Greece in 2004 for sure.

Son Of A Vidic · 22-07-2011 10:23PM

Restoring national pride can be achieved in small incremental steps, but here's a start. Invite Sarkozy and Merkel over for a barbecue and in the joint press conference afterwards, announce a reduction in Corporation Tax to 5%.

Sonnenblumen · 23-07-2011 06:22PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Make more bread!

Distribute some Mother's Pride to go with the cheese.

up for anything · 23-07-2011 07:11PM

If we tried to invade Iceland, the Icelanders* would let off Katla and pretend it was a Guy Fawkes celebration.

*Why aren't we called Irelanders? It has a certain je ne se quoi about it.

squod · 23-07-2011 07:20PM

ilovesleep wrote: »

Leaving aside burning the bondholders, we can still do the rest - jailing the bankers, sacking the incompetant ps/banking bosses, jailing the child abusers - through protests demanding for change. Can we not?

I just wanna see Cowen hang first. Then the court is all yours.

AudreyHepburn · 23-07-2011 07:21PM

Losing the cynicism and overly negative attitude that seems to be rife would be a start.

blahfckingblah · 23-07-2011 07:49PM

smash wrote: »

I thought it was a prerequisite? http://sweepingsince1888.blogspot.com/

that blog is one of the most offensive things i have read in a while, glasgows fox news

Dartz · 23-07-2011 07:53PM

Atlas Rocket + Capsule + 3 Irishmen. Send 'em up.... maybe bring them down again.

Kerbal Irish Space Program. It won't cost that much really... and'll be great for national moral.

carlybabe1 · 23-07-2011 09:45PM

Do to the corrupt politicians/bankers/builders what the iranians done to 3 convicted rapists this week, if nothing else it will get us global coverage (now who wouldnt be proud to say "I was there when we dragged them outta leinster house/ whichever posh hotel/golf club") and everyone loves thier fifteen minutes of fame.....it would also have the bonus affect of frightening the ****e outta the imf

although that may open us up to invaders who are interfering on the "grounds that there is all out humanitarian crisis", when in actual fact they want to get the gas and oil off the coast of our dear country.......oh wait, they already have that:eek:

KeithAFC · 23-07-2011 09:51PM

Vote Sinn Fein?

Naikon · 23-07-2011 10:19PM

Anarchism.

How can we restore national pride?

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