Saint patrick's day!

[Que-Ever]

I'm celebrating tomorrow. And by celebrating I mean eating some corned beef.

And some milk D:

 

[Sulkdodds]

I'll drink to that.

In exactly...one hour.

 

[Tyguy]

Car Bombs!!!!

 

[Pulse]

God I'm pissed. I still found time to type this though. Hope you all had a feckin' great St. Patricks day, yer ejits!

Time for me to bed *collapses*

 

[Robbo]

There were so many green backpackers in the city yesterday, and they were yelling things at me. I can't think why they would be doing this maby they were happy about somthing.

 

[Sulkdodds]

This Saint Patrick's Day I learned that the secret ingredient in Jaegermeister is ABORTED FOETUSES D:

 

[Pulse]

This Saint Patrick's Day I learned that the secret ingredient in J?germeister is ABORTED FOETUSES D:

Jagerbombers ftw!

(May contain traces of infant)

 

[Solaris]

The good thing about Ireland Danny, is that people know how to take a joke. Say "Only in America" and you wind up un a political debate. Make a reference to Irish drinking and most Irish people will laugh.

Yes there's that. But for instance, I was at an amateur comedian stand up thing once and some guy just made Irishman, englishman scotsman jokes the whole time, it wasn't that funny and was just pathetic, people seemed to laugh. The comedian who was supposed to follow him refused, turned out he was Irish and was rightfully offended.

On a serious note. Northern Ireland is nowhere near half the island and is part of the UK and not the Republic so it's not being occupied. Anyway, AFAIK it costs the British government alot more than they make from it and they'd love to unload it, but (and this may shock you) alot of people in Northern Ireland want to be part of the UK and there would be a huge uproar if they tried to sign it over to the Republic.

Yes they have put a lot of money into Northern Ireland, they hold onto it because of some strange imperialistic nature or something, I don't really understand why. Sure things are quiter now, I'm just worried what will happen when another Magret thatcher comes along

You tell me it's not an occupation? Well, in 1916 the people of Ireland rose up against British rule, they believed Britain had no right to occupy their land, steal their food, rape their people, kill their sons. I don't think anybody could argue that was not an occupation, thanks to resistance groups such as the Irish Citizen army, and the Irish republican army and others, Britain was forced out of Ireland, but not completely.

During British occupation, some people had emigrated to the North of Ireland creating a protestant majority loyal to the British crown in the North. Britain held on to the six counties in the north and created a state basically built upon sectarianism. Since it's creation up to the modern day, the catholic minority have been oppressed, murdered, bombed and killed by loyalist mobs supported by the government, the police, the army. Army intelligence. British army intelligence gave details of catholic families who in some cases had connections with the IRA to these loyalist mobs who went in and shot fathers in front of their children, and very often slaughtered entire families.

Even today, loyalists march through - with police protection may I add - catholic/nationalist neighborhoods - singing racist sectarian chants outside the homes of those killed by loyalists mobs.

Tell me that a state which supports such actions against it's own people, commits such crimes, supports terrorists groups that murder children in the night, is a legitimate one. Then it is an occupation.

 

[ríomhaire]

You tell me it's not an occupation? Well, in 1916 the people of Ireland rose up against British rule, they believed Britain had no right to occupy their land, steal their food, rape their people, kill their sons. I don't think anybody could argue that was not an occupation, thanks to resistance groups such as the Irish Citizen army, and the Irish republican army and others, Britain was forced out of Ireland, but not completely.

Home Rule was about to be passed before World War 1 broke out. It was only after the Easter Rising that the bill was thrown out. If it wasn't for the rising Ireland may well have gotten independance sooner.

I'm not going to respond to the rest because I don't want to get into politics.

 

[Solaris]

Home Rule was about to be passed before World War 1 broke out. It was only after the Easter Rising that the bill was thrown out. If it wasn't for the rising Ireland may well have gotten independance sooner.

I'm not going to respond to the rest because I don't want to get into politics.

Home rule would merely have changed the flag, James Connelly and Pearce were out for a Socialist Republic.

 

[Pulse]

Lole Politics.

 

[Goo3y]

I, so it'was.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

They had a Saint P's Day thing yesterday. Nothing but drunks and dumbasses. I had front row seats to a few fights, almost all of them involving beer bottles being broken on somebody's skull.

Much fun.