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The Great Britain Appreciation Thread

  • 14-03-2019 8:23pm
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭


    A thread to celebrate the nation of our neighbor and their achievements :cool:


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  • #2
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    What have the Romans ever done for us?


  • #3
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,192 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


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    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • #4
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Possibly doing this wrong, but here goes.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doegoa3spKo


  • #5
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Nice creamy ales, the type you can't get here.


  • #6
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


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  • #7
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    I prefer London over Dublin (sorry, not sorry) or Paris.
    Cardiff is a nice city.
    Haven't been to Edinburgh yet, but I hear it's lovely.


  • #8
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


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  • #9
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,945 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    A thread to celebrate the nation of our neighbor and their achievements :cool:
    ..............................




    Yep, getting away with mass murder, robbery racism and sectarianism for a fair few centuries is rather an achievement, when you look at the scale of it.


  • #10
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Let's not. They're a blight on the planet.


  • #11
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I prefer London over Dublin (sorry, not sorry) or Paris.
    Cardiff is a nice city.
    Haven't been to Edinburgh yet, but I hear it's lovely.

    Cardiff a nice city? It’s the only place I’ve ever been that had a KFC inside a nightclub.


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  • #12
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Some great thinkers, scientists and artists.

    David Hume (Scottish), Charles Darwin (English), Dylan Thomas (Welsh).


  • #13
    Giveaway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Giveaway


    Cool Britania = celebrating mediocraty


  • #14
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    They built all the nice houses in Dublin, and around the country.


  • #15
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,712 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    A British thread on AH, quelle surprise.


  • #16
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    stimpson wrote: »
    Cardiff a nice city? It’s the only place I’ve ever been that had a KFC inside a nightclub.

    It has that. But a very good museum and well kept parks. The area by the University is very Parisien. The bay is a nice area. Lovely old style shopping arcades.

    It's a compact and lively city, with a castle at its heart. I always like my time there.


  • #17
    Giveaway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Giveaway


    Was in Bath viewing a fine museum of a city house for the uber rich of the day. This onr was the most palatial...built by an absentee landlord from roscommon with money made off the backs of the irish serfs of the time that lived in absolute poverty. But the whole tour stick was best of british etc and not a mention of how the buildimg had been funded. A formal demand for reparations is in order.


  • #18
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Giveaway wrote: »
    Cool Britania = celebrating mediocraty

    Well yeah. Britpop!


  • #19
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


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  • #20
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    I have to give it to them lately. They have a remarkable ability to make all politicians super intelligent... relative to their own.


  • #21
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8KSAtos-dk


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  • #23
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Churchill looked down on the Irish, like you Kermie.

    I'ma go with: awesome music, television, literature, comedy.


  • #24
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Very good at the queing up and standing in line

    I think the Brits are better at this than most


  • #25
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Let's not. They're a blighty on the planet.

    Would've been clever.


  • #26
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Would've been clever.

    But less true.


  • #27
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    90% of Irish football fans **** themselves silly over British teams and even refer to them as 'us' in a lot of cases, so there's that. GSTQ!


  • #28
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    This guy was a childhood hero of many

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  • #29
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    Mens shoes, Private Eye magazine, jungle music, Liverpool FC, David Hockney...

    The problem is all their worst ****e is the most celebrated.


  • #30
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Railways, the world wide Web, computer (says no), gravity, Australia, the English language, Chris Morris, Liverpool football club, Father Ted ( cos RTE would never have made it).


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  • #31
    rgodard80a
    Registered Users Posts: 568 ✭✭✭rgodard80a


    I don't think the Brits done anything for anyone out of the goodness of their hearts however I'll give them

    - the industrial revolution : steam engines, railways, clocks, compass etc
    - the scientific process
    - democracy ?
    - we inherited their legal system, constitution etc
    - production of steel ( bessemer process )
    - chemistry ?
    - better bridges / arches / steel bridges
    - World War 2
    - football

    Most was sold through capitalism not donated, so can't exactly claim the moral high ground on it.


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