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crazylemongirl
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ok enough of the bollocks lets get the important stuff...
does that beautiful irish accent make you better kissers? |
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coffeeman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea
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| We all know the forced relationship you and Scotland have with England (I'm pissed about it too because I have some Scottish blood). but I am just curious why England never took France. The French are so crappy at war, that should have been an easy grab. You should be more knowledgeable about Brittish history than I am. |
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bigverne
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| We all know the forced relationship you and Scotland have with England |
'Forced' relationship?
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| I'm pissed about it too because I have some Scottish blood |
Culloden happened, get over it! |
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coffeeman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| bigverne wrote: |
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| We all know the forced relationship you and Scotland have with England |
'Forced' relationship?
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| I'm pissed about it too because I have some Scottish blood |
Culloden happened, get over it! |
No! I'm pissed and it's going to stay that way! My kids and my grandkids and my great grandkids are gonna watch Braveheart even if I have to tied them to the sofa.  |
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coffeeman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea
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Here's a joke that belongs here 4 ya,
After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer. The guy from Corona sits down and says, 'Hey Senor, I would like the world's best beer, a Corona.'
The bartender dusts off a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him.
The guy from Budweiser says, 'I'd like the best beer in the world, give me
'The King Of Beers', a Budweiser.' The bartender gives him one.
The guy from Coors says, 'I'd like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water, give me a Coors.' He gets it.
The guy from Guinness sits down and says, 'Give me a Coke.'
The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered.
The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask, 'Why aren't you drinking a Guinness?'
The Guinness president replies, 'Well, I figured if you guys aren't drinking beer, neither would I.' |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| We all know the forced relationship you and Scotland have with England |
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He's not wrong, Bigverne. It is a forced relationship. Scotland's economy relies almost totally on handouts from England. Free health prescriptions, free universities....who pays for all this? It sure as heck isn't the 5 million scots. No - it's the 47 million English. As an Englishman, I'm strongly in favour of the break-up of the United Kingdom. Let these parasite nations fend for themselves.
We might save ourselves a few quid, whilst these leaches, who hate us yet survive because of us, rely for their economies on exports of leeks. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| I'm strongly in favour of the break-up of the United Kingdom. |
I couldn't agree more.
Just remember though. Scotland and Ireland (don't know about the Welsh) didn't actually want to be part of the union in the first place! |
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bigverne
Joined: 12 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| It is a forced relationship. Scotland's economy relies almost totally on handouts from England. |
And still they whine! Let's not forget about the Scottish Mafia in Westminster either, or the disproportionate amount of seats they have in parliament, or the fact that their MPs can vote on solely English matters, while English MPs have no say in Scottish matters. The UK is well past its sell by date. Time for England to go it alone. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:36 am Post subject: |
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I admire your radicalism but I don't trust this rising nationalist sentiment you see all over the world.
England and Scotland are mixed up together anyway, going way back.
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Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that. |
Back on topic: what are the top Irish inventions? Besides Guinness. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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Just remember though. Scotland and Ireland (don't know about the Welsh) didn't actually want to be part of the union in the first place!
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Ireland didn't and they deserve credit for being a separate country. I'm not at all sentimental towards the Irish like the rest of the world is (albeit without having a clue what they're talking about most of the time) and I'm someone who's got a lot of Irish blood...but they do deserve a lot of credit for being a seperate country entirely. The Scots and the Welsh by contrast hate the English and define themselves by what they're not, yet are reap the rewards of a union with one of the richest countries in the world and mother of the world language. They limp around pathetically on the crutches of English.
The Scots have a history of fierce rivalry with England, yet were all too happy to put all that aside and join us in dominating the world, getting rich. Typical scots! Political union with England was an economic necessaity for Scotland in 1707 as it is today. It's time they stood up like the tough, Braveheart guys they like to think and go it alone. |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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Are abortions and birth control legal in Ireland? I thought before everyone went to England to slay the mistake they made... Also, who uses more drugs Irish or English? English are all on X as they go to those raves and die of heat stroke on drugs but are the Irish as sad too?
(Of course Americans are Meth head freaks - I know I had a crazy meth Head bug me when I was livin down there in my trailer park dog gone it! Drugs is gonna kill us all as fast as a Pig gets kilt in a hobo camp) |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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Toad,
This isn't 1993. Sure, folks still do E in clubs but it's nothing like as big as it was in the previous decade.
Ireland can't possibly have a worse drugs problem than England. Northern Ireland has a massive drugs problem however. Drugs are so big in England now that prohibition of drugs is economically disastrous. According to some report or other, the most drug-infested place in Britain is Paisley in Glasgow. As for just England, take your pick from any town or city above 200k population, especially in the more deprived areas of London and northern England. The black market heroin and crack trade is worth hundreds of millions.
Interesting question.....does Ireland have as much of a problem with drinking (binge-drinking, anti-social behaviour, alcohol-related crime and violence) as England? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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I would say the drug and alcohol abuse in the North and south of Ireland are in many ways just the same as the British mainland.
N.I. has a very small heroin problem because the IRA/UDA used to (maybe still do?) punish hard-drug dealers well hard.
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| Interesting question.....does Ireland have as much of a problem with drinking (binge-drinking, anti-social behaviour, alcohol-related crime and violence) as England? |
I think not much has changed in the 6 years since I lived in Belfast. On my visits home I noticed the same level of binge-drinking and related violence as ever. So many meat-heads can't hold their drink. I really don't know how it compares to England. |
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Porter_Goss
Joined: 26 Mar 2006
Location: The Wrong Side of Right
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Toad,
This isn't 1993. Sure, folks still do E in clubs but it's nothing like as big as it was in the previous decade.
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Producer of limited amounts of synthetic drugs and synthetic precursor chemicals; major consumer of Southwest Asian heroin, Latin American cocaine, and synthetic drugs; money-laundering center. |
Ireland
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Transshipment point for and consumer of hashish from North Africa to the UK and Netherlands and of European-produced synthetic drugs; minor transshipment point for heroin and cocaine destined for Western Europe; despite recent legislation, narcotics-related money laundering - using bureaux de change, trusts, and shell companies involving the offshore financial community - remains a concern. |
Source
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
Just remember though. Scotland and Ireland (don't know about the Welsh) didn't actually want to be part of the union in the first place! |
For the longest time that forced union was for security--France and Spain (and later Germany) had spent a great deal of time and energy building large navies trying to figure out a way to invade England over the centuries... with many unsucessful attempts landed in Ireland/Scotland.
With a Catholic population in Ireland and Scotland sympathetic to Continental Catholics, Protestant England knew its rear flank was always the weakest point from which Continental armies could invade.
No one ever managed to do it.
These days though, all that doesn't apply anymore. |
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