The Fighting Irish My Arse

nice_very · 31-10-2012 05:53PM

Logical_Bear wrote: »

Well there's
Mike Hoare:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hoare
St patricks Battalion:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Battalion

and not to mention the men who fought in the 2 world wars and the international brigades in Spain.

As for your rant about Irish not fighting for the 800 years of oppression(or how ever long it was)just shows yer ignorance.It was a wee bit more complex than you make out.

I thought people like yerself had already fukked off to oz or canada

dont forget...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Francis_Meagher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brown_(admiral)

Madam_X · 31-10-2012 06:26PM

SafeSurfer wrote: »

3,360 posts since June this year? No wonder you don't have time to think before you type.

It's the people who bitch about a group as if they're superior to it, when they're actually part of that same group, who are the ones that don't think before they type.

UCDVet · 31-10-2012 07:02PM

Technically - the small guy getting his face pounded in is still 'fighting'. He's just losing the fight.

So maybe 'Fighting Irish' is appropriate?

3GAINSBOROUGH · 31-10-2012 08:54PM

Something is being planned for the 100 year anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
You may see another uprising..

31-10-2012 09:15PM

3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »

Something is being planned for the 100 year anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
You may see another uprising..

Will it be televised?

SafeSurfer · 31-10-2012 09:19PM

9959 wrote: »

Will it be televised?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0

3GAINSBOROUGH · 31-10-2012 10:18PM

9959 wrote: »

Will it be televised?

On the news, Yes.

Dangerous Man · 31-10-2012 10:25PM

OP is 100% correct yet the majority of this thread has been nitpicking over this little detail and that little detail.

Sad.

31-10-2012 10:26PM

3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »

On the news, Yes.

Super!

Madam_X · 31-10-2012 10:28PM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

OP is 100% correct yet the majority of this thread has been nitpicking over this little detail and that little detail.

Sad.

Hypocritical to bitch about everyone else not doing anything... while not doing anything. Makes the whinger as bad if not worse than all the other apathetic folks.

Andy-Pandy · 31-10-2012 10:44PM

Christ OP. Most people dont want an "uprising" and realise that the austerity measures are necessary. Do you honestly think that Ireland isn't still in a better position, both economically, culturally and socially than most of the rest of the world. There is no where that is perfect on the face of the earth, but we still live in a land that is closer to perfection than nearly everywhere else, and what do you want, for us to rise up, riot and presumably cause more social hardship and strife. People really dont think this through. We live in a democracy, are political leadership is a result of that democracy, without are democracy we are nothing.

coonecb1 · 31-10-2012 11:08PM

I think we don't protest because

- Militant street demonstrations are too working class for most Irish people's tastes. That's something the Shinners do, and most people don't want any association with Sinn Fein even if they're completely right about certain things

- Protests take up time and effort

- People feel it won't make a difference, so they don't even bother. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby if there's no protest, nothing's ever changed

- Irish people avoid confrontation in public. Same reason why we never complain in restaurents but will immediately tell everyone afterwards about poor food/service

31-10-2012 11:09PM

I keep reading the title as "the irish fighting my arse"

and then I wonder why anyone would want to

3GAINSBOROUGH · 31-10-2012 11:20PM

coonecb1 wrote: »

I think we don't protest because

- Militant street demonstrations are too working class for most Irish people's tastes. That's something the Shinners do, and most people don't want any association with Sinn Fein even if they're completely right about certain things

- Protests take up time and effort

- People feel it won't make a difference, so they don't even bother. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby if there's no protest, nothing's ever changed

- Irish people avoid confrontation in public. Same reason why we never complain in restaurents but will immediately tell everyone afterwards about poor food/service

Now is the calm before the storm.
It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

coonecb1 · 31-10-2012 11:28PM

3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »

Now is the calm before the storm.
It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

Please elaborate.

What will happen and who will organise it? What will the uprising be against?

3GAINSBOROUGH · 31-10-2012 11:35PM

coonecb1 wrote: »

Please elaborate.

What will happen and who will organise it? What will the uprising be against?

I am not at liberty to discuss this.
Suffice it to say, plans are well under way though.

neil_hosey · 31-10-2012 11:44PM

was the whole fighting irish thing not supposed to be ironic? Along with "youll never beat the irish", and "the luck of the irish"

We never won any fight (war)
We are beaten in most things we attempt
We havent been all that lucky throughout the years...

Still, Ill blindly shout them out when needed.

neil_hosey · 31-10-2012 11:45PM

3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »

Now is the calm before the storm.
It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

its not the end of the world again is it?

StankyStevie · 31-10-2012 11:53PM

K-9 wrote: »

You see loads fighting on a Saturday night in every town and city in the country.

DAMN, I thought it was only here in the UK that carries on...

Matt_Trakker · 31-10-2012 11:58PM

3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »

Now is the calm before the storm.
It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

If you're planning on dressing in a nun's habit and walking around with photos of fetuses outside the GPO someone's beaten ya to it.

SafeSurfer · 01-11-2012 12:01AM

neil_hosey wrote: »

was the whole fighting irish thing not supposed to be ironic? Along with "youll never beat the irish", and "the luck of the irish"

We never won any fight (war)
We are beaten in most things we attempt
We havent been all that lucky throughout the years...

Still, Ill blindly shout them out when needed.

Irony, I never thought of that angle. Maybe be really are the butt of the Joke.

(I mean like we think "greatest fans in the world" everyone else things funny f*cking fans - singing you'll never beat the Irish, they're fecking great craic.)

soapy jesus · 01-11-2012 12:16AM

If only we as a nation could revolutionize via passive aggressive means-begrudgery, ill-will, imagined grievances and so on. Surely this is a niche in the revolutionary canon that's yet to be exploited? I mean, play to your strengths, right? I'll get to work on that manifesto...

kupus · 02-11-2012 10:56AM

soapy jesus wrote: »

If only we as a nation could revolutionize via passive aggressive means-begrudgery, ill-will, imagined grievances and so on. Surely this is a niche in the revolutionary canon that's yet to be exploited? I mean, play to your strengths, right? I'll get to work on that manifesto...

Theres another one you missed....procrastination, but judging by your last sentence maybe not.

gobnaitolunacy · 02-11-2012 11:02AM

3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »

Now is the calm before the storm.
It wont be Sinn Fein organising the uprising on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
You will see something you will remember for the rest of your life.

This had better be good. Any trailer for this?

CdeC · 02-11-2012 11:04AM

I dont think we're passive but it certainly takes a lot to get the Irish people worked up.

Not like the french where even the mention of a tax increase and they're petrol bombing their local boulangerie.

To be honest we should be angrier at the politicians and their complete incompetence at managing the boom years. Bertie ahern should be publicly flogged every day for a month and then exiled.

But I remember the last elections before the recession I went to vote determined to cast all my votes for (cough) labour as I saw no future in FF and their get rich people richer policies but everyone I talked to was voting FF mostly because they had "done well for the country" Oh how wrong they were.

02-11-2012 11:37AM

3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »

I am not at liberty to discuss this.
Suffice it to say, plans are well under way though.

I'll take a wild guess and say our own merry band of 'National Socialists' -
Erigi

sheesh · 02-11-2012 01:14PM

neil_hosey wrote: »

was the whole fighting irish thing not supposed to be ironic? Along with "youll never beat the irish", and "the luck of the irish"

We never won any fight (war)
We are beaten in most things we attempt
We havent been all that lucky throughout the years...

Still, Ill blindly shout them out when needed.

no it has to do with the irish joining other armies around the world the US the Argentinian and the French military had at various times irish in them.

The Fighting Irish My Arse

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