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All the Irish have left

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  • #32
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    kfallon wrote: »
    Let us give up Cork as the sacrificial lamb to the EU so in return we can keep our Irishness......sounds like a win - win situation to me anyway :p

    No, let them have Donegal; the county the North didn't want.
    Its already the forgotten county, so we wont miss it.


  • #33
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    TheZohan wrote: »
    I think he might actually be talking about home tbh, I'm looking out my window here and I see a tricolour at full mast. I see a sign and it's in both English and As Gaeilge...my own name is still Irish...that hasn't changed. My drivers licence is as gaeilge and in english.

    Nope...Johnny is in a different country alright.

    But you're in New York?


  • #34
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    NakedNNettles wrote: »
    :pac: I couldn't give a flying F.. you sound like some 70-80 year old ould lad. Are you sure it's not the shilling and halfpence you want back?

    Looking down through history, countries, cultures, languages and people have always been evolving. It's called progress, get with it or get left behind....the alternative is ending up like Cuba or North Korea.

    No, I just want to bring back the Irish punt (not the shilling and half pence).
    The same as 680 others here:
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-the-PUNT-Irish-Pound/166331883412705


  • #35
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,278 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    No, I just want to bring back the Irish punt not the shilling and half pence).
    The same as 680 others here:
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-the-PUNT-Irish-Pound/166331883412705


    680, that should swing it.


  • #36
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
    It's with O'Leary in the grave.    [/FONT]


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  • #37
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Poor old Johnny Foreigner. Spent his youth in his native England, ostracised and shunned by his pals for being "Irish."

    "I'll show them" he says. "I'll go to where I belong. Ireland, the birthplace of my ancestors. Then I will truly feel at home."

    But, of course, when he lands he's confronted by the reality in Ireland. Quite different from the dancing on the crossroads images he comforted himself with in his youth.

    "Where are the comely maidens? The singing bishops? The punts?" There has to be someone to blame. It's not like he deluded himself into thinking Ireland hasn't progressed beyond the 1980s.

    "Ah, it's the EU" he mutters angrily to himself. "They're the ones taking the Ireland out of Ireland. They're swapping our Cadet Red Lemonade for Mountain Dew."

    So he registers on Boards and he posts and he posts and he posts about being Irish and how we're not Irish enough. But deep down, he knows he's just another Englishman, telling the Irish how to be Irish.

    Poor old Johnny Foreigner.


  • #38
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    we still have spuds

    "You may take our freedom; but you'll never take our spuds".

    Enda Kennys defiant speech to the European Council.


  • #39
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,808 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Plenty of culture around if you want to find it. If your sitting around waiting for the government to shove it in your face its not going to happen.

    Its a bad attitude to have Johnny, if you want to keep a culture alive you have to get out and contribute, not sit back and hope the government does because you like the idea of it


  • #40
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    I think they tried and failed to take our Begrudgery but failed.

    I'll have a look for the source.


  • #41
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    They can take our moral, they can take our money & soverignity

    but they'll never take our FFREEEDOOMMMM.....







    /oh wait


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  • #42
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    "they took our miles"


  • #43
    cassi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭cassi


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    "they took our miles"

    The B@stids!! :mad:


  • #44
    200yrolecrank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭200yrolecrank


    Johnny foreigner your not going to like the fact that the new drivers licenses can be obtained in English and Polish if you want.


  • #45
    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    They took our jeerrrrrbs


  • #46
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Still got one of the greatest musical duos in the world of music today in Jedward. So it isn't all bad for you. You might win Eurovision too.


  • #47
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    We still got one of the greatest musical duos in the world of music today in Jedward. So it isn't all bad for us. We might win Eurovision too.

    G'Day Paddy :D


  • #48
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    All the Irish have left;
    Irish names.
    Irish accents.
    Gaelic Football.
    Hurling.
    The tricolour flag.
    The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
    The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
    Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
    Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

    If you're trying to rouse the freckled red-haired rabble to grab their pitchforks and hang-sangwiches and march on Brussels then you will will fail. You are talking nonsense.

    Kilometres > Miles anyday. Much rather say I was doing 100 out the ring-road than 60.


  • #49
    gjc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭gjc


    dont forget we have......

    the birthday bumps

    and there is also a place in Galway called Muckanaghederdauhaulia

    and we'll always have Father Ted.


  • #50
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
    A mile is 1760 yards. Way easier to count meters!
    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
    Would this mean cheaper cars?


  • #51
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I like kilometers, and the metric system in general; it makes much more sense than the Imperial system.

    Feck off with yer 'my car gets 40 roods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it'


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  • #52
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    We're still a sheep-like, self loathing shower of superstitious cowards though!

    They'll never take that from us!


  • #53
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    gjc wrote: »
    and we'll always have Father Ted.

    British... Like our hurley's we gave it away!.


  • #54
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Still got one of the greatest musical duos in the world of music today in Jedward. So it isn't all bad for you. You might win Eurovision too.

    Dam straight, they can never take our eurovision record... or Jedward, they are ours to torture the EU with. See we always find a way to get revenge!


  • #55
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Kaitlyn Salmon Somewhere wrote: »
    G'Day Paddy :D

    Always thought of him as a Ciaran.


  • #56
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    Electric Ireland (formerly ESB) are doing a good job of putting us in the dark by raising bills. You think we would be in darkness without progress? Progress is putting us into the dark faster.
    Going forward is being part of the EU? The EU is going backwards not forward. Their economy is shrinking not growing.
    I am not a troll. My opinions differs from yours, but that doesn't make me a troll for expressing it on a forum.

    Electric Ireland are the reason we're going backwards is it? Right.....


  • #57
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,278 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    token101 wrote: »
    Electric Ireland are the reason we're going backwards is it? Right.....

    I wish their meter would go backwards.:(


  • #58
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    All the Irish have left;
    Irish names.
    Irish accents.
    Gaelic Football.
    Hurling.
    The tricolour flag.
    The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
    The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
    Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
    The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
    Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

    Good riddance to it, and good riddance to catholic internal devalera Ireland when incest was the only thing that kept us warm in our straw beds.

    The EU was a catylist for modernizing the empire.


  • #59
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I wish their meter would go backwards.:(

    Turn off or stop using the power then!


  • #60
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    England is not my home..

    go home ya brit
    Johnny Foreigner wrote: »
    That would like suggesting Shane McGowan returns to Kent.

    wish he would he's nothing but an embarrassment


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  • #61
    JohnMearsheimer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    Since when are we defined by road signs and driving licences :confused:


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