The Irish are my favorite people in the world - Loaf to the head



that's actually the cooliest, starriest bra I've seen on wff in a while.
 
wezcountry said:
I'm partial to a pint of Kilkenny but that's as far as my Irish love-in goes.
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Can't believe I missed this thread. I just youtubed the show it's from.. Unfortunately, not the Irish TPB I thought/hoped it might have been. Do I need to stick with it?

Also, holy shit those traveller fight videos have blown up, since my big fat gypsy wedding (I guess?) Can't find em, but a couple of funny videos that were on YT 2006-8 or thereabouts - one with Paddy Doherty and another lad calling some people out ("theres a man for any man") and one where big Joe Joyce is calling someone out ("you baldy pig bastard") <- best insult ever.
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
Bring your faggot ass back stateside and we can discuss it.
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Do you have an emotional stake in this bigging-up the Irish? Are your ancestors Irish? I'm English btw.

Have you been to Ireland? I have, 4 or 5 times. It's nice, a bit rainy, but very green. Dublin is pretty - most of the beautiful parts of the city were all built by the English during their 'stay' there. At the main post office in O'Connell Street, there is a display of large paintings depicting the battles between the Irish Republican Army and the British Army. I had sympathy with the Irish when looking at these paintings and to be honest I was nervous about opening my mouth in case people heard my accent. When engaged in guerrilla war the IRA were very effective; when they came face-to-face with the British army they were slaughtered.

I remember drinking in a pub in Dublin somewhere, it was a local and I was the only Englishman around, as far as I could tell. People started talking about 'the troubles'. A woman asked me 'surely you're sick of paying all that money to occupy six counties of Ireland aren't you?' - everyone looked at me. It was then I realised how difficult this issue is and how the two sides see it completely differently. My answer was 'no, those people are British and want to stay British and live in a part of GB'. This view did not go down too well, but I said historically it was wrong that part of Eire is now part of the UK, but if you go back historically the problem is very complex.

The Irish did not help matters by staying neutral in WW2 and although there was some co-operation between Ireland the Britain, if Ireland had been taken by the Germans, Britain would have been fucked. I think Churchill was considering sending an army to Ireland at one point.

I lived in Liverpool for quite a few years, it's known as the Capital of Ireland due to the number of Irish there and the strength of the Catholic church (the city has both a Catholic and Protestant cathedral). The Irish seem a friendly lot, love to party and have a good sense of humour, I just found them to have a strong victim mentality.

Irish neutrality during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Unarmed Gunman said:
You expect they should have fought alongside the British? lulz
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Why the lulz?

Their premier didn't want any of it - said they were too small and would be hammered. A lot of Irish people volunteered and fought in the British army though, so I don't respect him for that stance.

If Hitler had invaded Britain instead of Russia, who knows, he might have made it, and then what would the premier of Ireland have to say with Nazi Germany on their doorstep? 'Please don't invade us, we'd prefer to stay out of it'?

Let's not forget that this wasn't a British war, this was a world war.
 
Not sure why people are beating up on wezcountry for saying Ireland is "complicated".

It really is because no-one knows what goes on in their heads.

Here's a story from yesterday:

Major bomb plot foiled in Northern Ireland | UK news | theguardian.com

Police on both sides of the Irish border have foiled a major bomb attack on a target in Belfast, it emerged on Thursday.

Gardaí and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are linking the plot to the arrest of two teenagers at a house just north of the border in south Armagh on Wednesday.

PSNI officers discovered grinders and fertiliser used for making an explosive mix for a car bomb at the property.

Armed officers from the Garda Siochana later arrested a 43-year old man at seperate premises in Dundalk on Wednesday night.

...The find comes after two separate dissident republican bomb attacks in Belfast's commercial centre since Friday. The PSNI are still hunting for a suspected fire bomber who suffered burns to his head and upper body on Monday night after the incendiary device he was carrying ignited inside a golf store in Cornmarket.

On Friday a bomb concealed in a hold all partially exploded outside a restaraunt in the Cathedral Quarter of the city.

Security has been stepped up not only in Belfast also along the border in the run up to Christmas as the PSNI and Garda seek to thwart dissident republicans from carrying out a so-called terrorist 'spectacular' during the festive period.

Meanwhile two men arrested earlier this week in connection with an attempt to bomb Belfast's Victoria Square shopping centre and the nearby Musgrave Street PSNI station on November 24 have been released without charge.
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That's three separate bomb attacks in the last month from them. Despite the "peace" process and the fact that we're subsidizing the 1 million N.I. lot with £6 billion per annum (their whole economy is public sector because no sensible private business wants to go there). And we gave the Irish Republic another £6 billion to help with their bank bailout mess.

If you are British you are as likely (and sometimes more likely) to be killed by an Irish nutter as an Islamist nutter.
 
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