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re: Did You Know There Are Two Irelands? (European Smugness Anecdote)
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:14 am to RFK
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:14 am to RFK
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Part of Ireland is in the U.K. There is an Ireland that is its own country. Pretty easy to figure some of us could be unaware, that's all I'm saying.
You are not worthy of your screen name or avatar.
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Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:15 am to RFK
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Part of Ireland is in the U.K. There is an Ireland that is its own country. Pretty easy to figure some of us could be unaware, that's all I'm saying.
Ironically that could change very soon.
1)Because the Scottish Parliament just voted to hold another referendum on whether to withdraw from the UK. This is due to
2)Scotland and NI voting overwelmingly to stay within the EU, yet England decided not to. If Scotland leaves the UK to join the EU, NI will most likely due the same. I fully expect the Irish Nationalists to pressure the Unionists to do this, and there could be push back from the former militant groups.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:20 am to NYNolaguy1
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Scotland
The motherland
Muh people!
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:20 am to germandawg
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I would bet that 1/3 who have traveled to the Republic of Ireland do not realize it...
Meh, I'd imagine that for most who go to Ireland go to Dublin, and see the history there (I'd like to think so anyway) and see the GPO and all of the Easter Proclomation stuff, you'll probably look up the remainder of the history.
Now if you go to Belfast instead of Dublin and think that you have no excuse.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 8:33 am
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:34 am to RFK
You seriously didn't know there is an Ireland and a Northern Ireland?
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:37 am to RFK
i can't tell if this post is serious or not
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:37 am to RFK
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One thing we can all agree on is that Europeans are smug.
I was in Italy a few weeks ago. I made the mistake of telling some Euros that I voted for Trump. Talk about some smug motherfrickers after that. They proceeded to tell me that I was a racist, idiotic bigot.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:38 am to MrLarson
quote:alba gu brath
The motherland
Muh people!
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:40 am to RFK
How did you not know about North Ireland or the Irish feelings toward the U.K.?
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:40 am to Machine
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alba gu brath
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:44 am to Toddy
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You seriously didn't know there is an Ireland and a Northern Ireland?
yep he didn't know and yet even when he found out he thought nobody else did either, that's what's so funny.
gee toddy all this time i thought you were the dumbest mutherphucker on the planet, now i find out you're just the second dumbest mutherphucker on the planet.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:44 am to NYNolaguy1
Let the Scots leave the U.K. They are a drain on Westminster, given their high rate of unemployment and the number of Scots who are on some form of government assistance.
Then there is the issue of the West Lothian question. English MP's cannot vote on bills that apply only to Scottish issues, as those votes are reserved solely for the devolved Scottish Parliament, but the Scottish MP's have and demand the right to vote on issues that only involve England.
It amazes me how the Scots are so willing to abandon their political union with England, Wales and NI in the name of "freedom" yet ironically want to cast their lot with the bureaucratic monstrosity that is the EU.
Then there is the issue of the West Lothian question. English MP's cannot vote on bills that apply only to Scottish issues, as those votes are reserved solely for the devolved Scottish Parliament, but the Scottish MP's have and demand the right to vote on issues that only involve England.
It amazes me how the Scots are so willing to abandon their political union with England, Wales and NI in the name of "freedom" yet ironically want to cast their lot with the bureaucratic monstrosity that is the EU.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 8:46 am
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:47 am to RFK
quote:I've read this part twice, and still can't count all the ironies.
And to equate naming Army helicopters after Indian tribes to erecting Confederate statures is a lazy argument; we understand the fact we invaded the Indians' land, and we honor their bravery and skill in battle by naming weapons after them. I see the Confederacy, a rouge faction that committed essentially treason, as wildly different in all aspects.
Suffice to say, invading tribal lands and rogue factions committing essentially treason are essentially the Irish/English history of which you are apparently ignorant.
I suggest you delete your account and create another with a different name, before someone stumps you by asking you what the letters "RFK" stand for.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:48 am to RFK
I don't know much about the IRA and all that shite (never really came up in school) and I've never been to Ireland, but I've known about Ireland and Northern Ireland for a very long time. I've assumed that it was common knowledge.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 8:50 am
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:49 am to RFK
I did, and Michael Collins is the greatest man who ever lived.
And I'll fight you if you say different.
And I'll fight you if you say different.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:51 am to FearlessFreep
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by asking you what the letters "RFK" stand for.
Really fricking kStupid
The K is silent.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:51 am to RFK
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Hard to believe posters are trying to pass this off as common knowledge.
It's close to being common knowledge. Your problem is not that you didn't know this, but that you were so smug and happy to wallow in your ignorance.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:00 am to SCLibertarian
I met a couple of Scots in London about five years ago that were there for an NFL game. They loved American football and rugby but hated soccer. One of them kept saying that the only good Englishman was a dead Englishman.
They complained about the entire English system. Their Scottish Pounds should be accepted anywhere in the UK (by law) but many English merchants still refuse them. They sold used books but something about how England started taxing them by inventing a new tax. There's obviously a lot of history that can't easily be forgotten but they had convinced me (after a few hours of drinking pints) that the English are only out for themselves and will do whatever is in their best interests (not the best interests of the group, or world, etc.).
Now that it's been a few years, I can't remember most of what they said so my opinions are diluted.
They complained about the entire English system. Their Scottish Pounds should be accepted anywhere in the UK (by law) but many English merchants still refuse them. They sold used books but something about how England started taxing them by inventing a new tax. There's obviously a lot of history that can't easily be forgotten but they had convinced me (after a few hours of drinking pints) that the English are only out for themselves and will do whatever is in their best interests (not the best interests of the group, or world, etc.).
Now that it's been a few years, I can't remember most of what they said so my opinions are diluted.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:01 am to SCLibertarian
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yet ironically want to cast their lot with the bureaucratic monstrosity that is the EU
I think they believe the economic common market is better for them than relying on the pound post brexit. If Scotland goes NI will have increasingly fewer reasons to stay in the UK, especially with the republic of Ireland using both the Euro and staying in the EU.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:04 am to RFK
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Hard to believe posters are trying to pass this off as common knowledge
It is common knowledge
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Pretty easy to figure some of us could be unaware
Sure, if you're 12
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 9:06 am
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