People who try to emmigrate

token101 · 08-03-2012 05:13PM

micropig wrote: »

No, we should all join together and fight the system...Rebellion of 2012 I tells ya, that's what's needed..Pitchforks to the Dail etc:D

On your own. Call me if it fixes the country. I'll leave my Canadian number at Shannon

Finneen · 08-03-2012 05:14PM

Smcgie wrote: »

Not enough money in your bank account to get into oz I take it? Haha

They're not as Catholic as the ones who remain. We're repenting for the sins of the Celtic Tiger!

micropig · 08-03-2012 05:15PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

HAHHAH It's all a big joke to you people isn't it!BAN HIM BAN HIM NOW! BAN BAN BAN HIM

Let's deport them instead...;)

micropig · 08-03-2012 05:17PM

token101 wrote: »

On your own. Call me if it fixes the country. I'll leave my Canadian number at Shannon

We'll send the boys over to Canada with the collection boxes, we'll call you;)

WoollyRedHat · 08-03-2012 05:23PM

micropig wrote: »

Let's deport them instead...;)

I say throw them on a boat and set them into the atlantic with loads of ice and the only the soundtrack to " My heart will go on" by Celine Dion to listen to on infinite loop until they freeze to death from the merciless waters and see how they like it then.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 08-03-2012 05:27PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

You fail in your own logic. It should be, "There is only one "m" in emigrate, but two in immigrate.

Get back to dasboot camp, and learn to grammar nazi properly.

No capital T in "there". You're not starting a new sentence.

token101 · 08-03-2012 05:59PM

micropig wrote: »

We'll send the boys over to Canada with the collection boxes, we'll call you;)

So you'd fly lads over to get my Trocaire box pennies? **** me did you graduate from the Charlie McCreevy school of Economics?

micropig · 08-03-2012 07:49PM

token101 wrote: »

So you'd fly lads over to get my Trocaire box pennies? **** me did you graduate from the Charlie McCreevy school of Economics?

With flying colours:p

and it'll be a silent collection only;)

KeithAFC · 08-03-2012 07:53PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Go on, shoot your slings & arrows, I can take it cause I'm Irish.
I was born with a bollock proof neck ready for nothing but hardship.
It's in my genes, we're altogether on this lads, shoulder to shoulder.

The Irish immigrated to countries years ago. When the ship was sinking years ago, you just jumped off and swam to America. This fighting Irish is nonsense to be honest.

al28283 · 08-03-2012 07:55PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

The Irish used to take pride in our poverty & lack of hope for the future, it defined us as a people.

Are you even Irish? Leaving Ireland when **** gets bad defines us more

Princess Peach · 08-03-2012 08:06PM

I'll just leave some historical data here.

One of the most obvious effects of the famine was emigration. Although the famine itself probably resulted in about 1 million deaths, the resultant emigration caused the population to drop by a further 3 million. About 1 million of these are estimated to have emigrated in the immediate famine period, with the depression that followed continuing the decline until the second half of the 20th century. These migrants largely ended up in North America, with some in Australia and in Britain.

Source-http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/emigration.html

In the 12 months leading up to April of 2010, over 65,000 people left Ireland, a similar level to the 70,600 people who emigrated in 1989, when unemployment stood at 18 percent.

Source-http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-emigration-figures-mirror-the-1980s-112544539.html

Not sure when this time of Irish people taking pride in the poverty was.

Defiler Of The Coffin · 08-03-2012 08:07PM

KeithAFC wrote: »

The Irish immigrated to countries years ago. When the ship was sinking years ago, you just jumped off and swam to America. This fighting Irish is nonsense to be honest.

Evidently you haven't been to enough takeaways at 3am on a Saturday night

walrusgumble · 08-03-2012 08:14PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

How bloody dare you, the rest of us here suffering & off you pop to Bondi beach.
If I'm going to ride out this miserable recession then so are you.
The Irish used to take pride in our poverty & lack of hope for the future, it defined us as a people.
Having nothing to look forward to is an Irish way of life.

So put away your backpacks & stop visiting your job fares, the ship is going down & we want you all on-board.

Go on the Bull McCabe.

Sure we will have their fecking grandsons coming back to our towns, taking our women, drinking our drink and trying to tarmacadam our lovely fields.

walrusgumble · 08-03-2012 08:16PM

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Evidently you haven't been to enough takeaways at 3am on a Saturday night

aye, fighting amongst themselves, fighting over money, fighting over who is the best barstooler/hardman, fighting over the wimmen, but rarely fighting for town pride (well, thanks to the GAA, thats covered) or national issues.

walrusgumble · 08-03-2012 08:18PM

KeithAFC wrote: »

The Irish immigrated to countries years ago. When the ship was sinking years ago, you just jumped off and swam to America. This fighting Irish is nonsense to be honest.

Is is nonsense, because, its an American Thing.

They fought America's War of Independence and their Civil War, their World War 1 and 2, even Vietnman, but sure, when Ireland called by the phone, they were in town busy doing something else. Throw a few quid at us, try and but into the politics, but never some fighting. Sure when they ran for High Offices, someone them tried to Anglophile themselves and hid their Catholicism (i Know you will say, "i don't blame them") or Irishness, only to come out in song at canvassing among the Irish

Hey, even Ombama seems keen on giving a few notes of a song recently, maybe he picked that up from Biffo

al28283 · 08-03-2012 09:35PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

we're altogether on this lads, shoulder to shoulder.

Except those of us who think you're an idiot

ZombieBride · 08-03-2012 09:46PM

If a mouldy potato was good enough for my great-grand-daddy then it's good enough with me. Who wants to to live in a world without damp?

al28283 · 08-03-2012 09:48PM

ZombieBride wrote: »

If a mouldy potato was good enough for my great-grand-daddy then it's good enough with me

They weren't, hence the famine

micropig · 08-03-2012 10:53PM

al28283 wrote: »

They weren't, hence the famine

You'd think they would have ate more fish:rolleyes::D

ItsAWindUp · 08-03-2012 11:20PM

Ireland is mine and it owes me a living

micropig · 08-03-2012 11:21PM

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

Ireland is mine and it owes me a living

You're entitled to it:p

OneArt · 08-03-2012 11:32PM

I didn't emigrate, I just decided to go traveling for a huge chunk of my life. Couple of years here, couple of years there. Maybe I'll hit Spain when I'm finished with Germany.

I want to end up as a fifty-something-year-old living on some obscure island in the West Indies selling coconut bombs. Or something.

Rented Mule · 08-03-2012 11:33PM

Rabidlamb wrote: »

How bloody dare you, the rest of us here suffering & off you pop to Bondi beach.
If I'm going to ride out this miserable recession then so are you.
The Irish used to take pride in our poverty & lack of hope for the future, it defined us as a people.
Having nothing to look forward to is an Irish way of life.

So put away your backpacks & stop visiting your job fares, the ship is going down & we want you all on-board.

Apparently, you missed the 150 years before the Celtic Tiger.