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St Patrick's Day trainers.

  • 12-03-2012 6:46pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭


    I wonder if they come with an 800 year guarantee?:pac:

    I wouldn't buy them because they look like sh1t.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0310/1224313106315.html?via=mr
    WITH ST Patrick’s Day around the corner, the giant footwear company Nike is releasing two beer-themed sneakers or runners to mark the date.
    The first runner is known as “The Guinness” and the second is known as “The Black and Tan”.
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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Quite accurate as the black and tan will no doubt be heavily involved in the robbery and killing of innocent Irish citizens.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Spilling (precious) Guinness all over your trainers will have a whole new meaning now .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec




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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Nice. Can you buy them online?

    Yes, you can go to Amazon and put in an orange order.:P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Sure every one knows that Pikes Nikes symbol is a slash hook;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    They're not a patch on my Nike Holocaust's I bought in Germany. They're sort of an ash colour with some nice red and black accents on them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,257 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    This is fantastic. I wonder if they did any research in to the name what-so-ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    What about the Easter Sunday Nikes,
    Jesus used them when he cleared the temple....:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,526 ✭✭✭✭fullstop




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    They'll go well with my blue shirts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,576 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Top off the day with some Ben&Jerry Ice cream.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,281 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Connolly's should make a special runner to celebrate the Fourth of July and call them Al-Qaeeda's.

    Would love to see what the Yanks'd make of that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    fullstop wrote: »

    want


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Connolly's should make a special runner to celebrate the Fourth of July and call them Al-Qaeeda's.

    Would love to see what the Yanks'd make of that.

    Only available in two sizes, 9 and 11.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Shur, it's only a bit of craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    they're runners ffs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Shur, it's only a bit of craic.

    Craic Shoes:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,526 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Babybuff wrote: »
    want

    Saw the leprechaun ones in Cape Town a couple of years ago for €20, no idea why I didn't buy them!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Owen_S


    They won't be any competition for the sea of brown brogues that will be witnessed this Saturday night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,516 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    its two colours i dont see the problem,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    its two colours i dont see the problem,

    it's the specific 2 colours and the timing that counts

    Might as well have a ****ing orange sash across it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭TreesAreCrowd


    Yes, like the skangers in the Nike's are going to know who the Black and Tans were, beyond being featured in some 'RA songs they might know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Big ****ing deal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭booboo88


    Yes, like the skangers in the Nike's are going to know who the Black and Tans were, beyond being featured in some 'RA songs they might know.

    Wow, gotta love the generalisation, not everyone who wears nikes are skangers:rolleyes:
    And Im sure we all studied history at least to junior cert level so thats a bit harsh!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    may as well have made them the colours of the French and German flags, as a tribute to our new overlords.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭TreesAreCrowd


    booboo88 wrote: »
    Wow, gotta love the generalisation, not everyone who wears nikes are skangers:rolleyes:
    And Im sure we all studied history at least to junior cert level so thats a bit harsh!
    No but you can be sure every skanger has worn, wears or wants to wear Nikes :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭lcrcboy


    So Apparently we are all really angry about the new Nike's, what do you think.
    Story taken from Yahoo News:

    Nike ‘Black and Tans’ Sneaker Accidentally Incites Outrage From Irish Community
    By Melissa Knowles | Trending Now – 2 hrs 45 mins ago
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    The name of a new Nike sneaker has people upset in Ireland. The footwear giant accidentally insulted the Irish while trying to honor the country leading up to St. Patrick's Day.
    The Nike SB Black and Tan Quickstrike is named after a black and tan colored alcoholic beverage made by mixing stout and lager--usually Guinness and Harp or Bass--in a pint glass. Even though Guinness and Harp are Irish, it is not a drink that is commonly requested in bars in Ireland. In the 1920s, a British paramilitary group, known as the "Black & Tans," used brutality to suppress an armed Irish Revolution, and it was known for its ruthless attacks against Irish civilians.
    The president of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Ciaran Staunton, said the name of the shoe "would be the American equivalent of calling a sneaker 'the Al Qaeda.'" Staunton added, "Is there no one at Nike able to Google Black and Tan?"
    Nike issued an apology for inadvertently upsetting people in Ireland, saying "no offense was intended." Nike officials also told FoxNews.com that the official name of the sneakers is 'Nike SB Dunk Low' and that the shoes were "unofficially named by some using a phrase that can be viewed as inappropriate and insensitive."
    Many people on social media are echoing Staunton, saying that Nike should have simply put the name "black and tan" in an Internet search engine to figure out the sinister connotation behind it. Even Atlanta news anchor Mark Hayes tweeted that "Nike put its foot in its mouth and now they are scrambling to do some damage control!"


    Link: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/nike-black-tans-sneaker-accidentally-incites-outrage-among-160904943.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Damn Black & Tans.

    Damn them to hell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Welcome to last week...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Well if the auld boys have no trouble drinking "Black and Tans" in the pub, I doubt they'll give a shíte about runners.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,811 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Dubarry Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine has a nice ring to it.


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


    "Nike Black & Tans, for when you really want to you run like hell away from the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra."


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Just got me a pair of Adidas kukluxklans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Just got me a pair of Adidas kukluxklans.

    As worn by Luis Suarez.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭seanin4711


    the yanks call their porter black and tan,
    talk about over the top PC on our side!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭GalwayKiefer


    I've never heard of mixing Guinness with Harp/Bass, it sounds rotten. Didn't Orange Telecom have to scrap their motto when they branched out into N.I. because they realised "The future's bright, the future's Orange." might not be well received by half the community, shame Nike couldn't have tried a quick Google just to be sure.


  • Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭lcrcboy


    GalKiefer wrote: »
    I've never heard of mixing Guinness with Harp/Bass, it sounds rotten. Didn't Orange Telecom have to scrap their motto when they branched out into N.I. because they realised "The future's bright, the future's Orange." might not be well received by half the community, shame Nike couldn't have tried a quick Google just to be sure.

    more than likely a Irish American drink rather than something that is drunk often here.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    Nike Black & Tans incites thirty seconds of cheap publicity in the morkeshing community.


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


    Yet no-one seems that bothered that "Irish car bomb" is a pretty common cocktail in America.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭Popeleo


    KTRIC wrote: »
    They're not a patch on my Nike Holocaust's I bought in Germany. They're sort of an ash colour with some nice red and black accents on them.

    They're just a copy of the Umbro Zyklons - now that was an idiotic name!


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