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  • 14-11-2011 08:59PM
    #1
    Duke Leonal Felmet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭


    I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

    "In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I want to kill that guy...'"

    - Paul Hewson



    Irish culture, beautifully summed up.


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  • #2
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Heard this from somebody on the radio today who saw this sign in a Dublin shop window .

    '' Ear's pierced while you wait '' .

    Anon


  • #3
    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »
    I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

    "In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I want to kill that guy...'"

    - Paul Hewson



    Irish culture, beautifully summed up.

    - Duke Leonal Felmet, 2011


  • #4
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Did you have to start with such a negative self-loathing-Irish one?



    Different strokes for different folks.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Everything in this - saw it on broadsheet the other day.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBkw2vtW6AE


  • #6
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »
    I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

    "In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I want to kill that guy...'"

    - Paul Hewson



    Irish culture, beautifully summed up.



    Irish culture beautifully summed up?

    All that quote really shows us is how much Bono likes talking through his hole.


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  • #7
    doomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 490 ✭✭doomed


    "I never forget a face but in your case I'd be willing to make an exception"

    Groucho


  • #8
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »
    I may as well start with one that will rile people. I heavily paraphrase here:

    "In America, the people look at a rich man and say 'I want to be that guy...', in Ireland they look and him and say 'I don't care if he's rich, he's really ****ing annoying.'"

    - Paul Hewson meant to say

    I think it scans better as above.

    I like the one below. It just seems so psycho.

    “If the Gods could build a ladder to the heavens, I'd climb up that ladder and drop an elbow on the world.” — Cactus Jack


  • #9
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    If you can keep your head, when everyone around you is losing theirs, you probably don't understand the situation.

    You ain't drunk til you can't lie on the floor without holding on.


  • #10
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    '' Here's a toast to our wifes and girfriends ...may they never meet '' .

    Groucho


  • #11
    AnamGlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭AnamGlas


    "If ya can't lift her, don't shift her"

    And of course...

    "Go hard or go home"


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  • #12
    mrbango
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭mrbango


    stay hungry and stay foolish:cool:


  • #13
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    " F*ck all the self hating Paddies in the house, for they, are self hating Paddies, who hate, who self and who Paddie "

    The Internet Explorer
    November 2011


  • #14
    earpiece
    Closed Accounts Posts: 550 ✭✭✭earpiece


    Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend, inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

    Groucho Marx


  • #15
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,090 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    "Life is like a bar of chocolate. Ya never know what one your mammy's gonna bring back from the shop"

    Eddie Durkan, Hardy Bucks

    "Sex addiction is a real disease with medicine and doctors and ****"

    Chazz Michael Michaels


  • #16
    coonecb1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭coonecb1


    "Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion"

    - Spike Milligan


  • #17
    MungBean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    "All art is quite useless."

    Oscar Wilde



    One of the few quotes that has stuck in my head.


  • #18
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    He had a flute on him that could beat an ass out of a quarry :D


  • #19
    Rocky_Dennis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Rocky_Dennis


    "How do you know he was Spanish? Or a sailor? He couldve been a
    Pakistani postman if you were that drunk"

    Dessie Curley

    "That was A1 Sharon"

    George Burgess

    "You should have shoved one of you tits in his mouth"

    Yvonne Burgess


  • #20
    HazDanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    "Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."

    - Elie Wiesel


  • #21
    FinnLizzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭FinnLizzy


    "My mam would always say, children should neither be seen or heard, and preferably belong to another family"

    Ardal O'Hanlon


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  • #22
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭Skid


    "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"

    Mahatma Ghandi


  • #23
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    "You don't want girls to think that you suck dick at fúcking pussy!" - Seth, Superbad

    :D


    "If experience really mattered, Man would never have walked on the Moon."

    "You can't polish a turd - but you CAN roll it in glitter"


  • #24
    Duke Leonal Felmet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭Duke Leonal Felmet


    A nation of begrudgers. I don't listen to much of what Boooonooo says, but he hit the nail on the head there.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

    - Douglas Adams


  • #26
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSgqrrWyF0Y


    ^ '' was you ever bit by a dead bee"? ^

    Lauren Bacall


  • #27
    Daith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Daith


    "In the end what We regret most are the chances We never took"

    or

    "Tommy Bowe is a ride"


  • #28
    filthymcnasty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭filthymcnasty


    "All generalizations are false, including this one."
    Mark Twain


  • #29
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    'bitches ain't **** but hoes and tricks'

    - Ghandi


  • #30
    Thrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    If you cant beat em, hide.


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  • #31
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "Man himself, at the very least, is music, a brave theme that
    makes music also of its vast accompaniment, its matrix of storms and stars. Man
    himself in his degree is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things. It is very good
    to have been man. And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts,
    and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own courage. For we shall make after all
    a fair conclusion to this brief music that is man." - Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon.



    I'm also very fond of the oft-quoted final line of A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens (spoiler!), but it really only works in context:
    It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.


    And there's my sig, the opening line from "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles, which I'm forced to credit to John Lennon.
    I just think it's a great piece of general advice.


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