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If you can't keep your hands to yourself, that's your problem matey!

whatwhat wrote:
PHWOOOOOAR!

The one on the left is especially segsah, if you like gurning weasels. Like Anne Robinson on PCP.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:If you can't keep your hands to yourself, that's your problem matey!

Scotland also invented Harry Potter, although I'm not sure if that's in the 'good' column for you or not...

As for boycotting Norn Iron, all we've ever exported is Terrorism, so go ahead. Oh, and four of your Presidents...

Elessar, you also forgot the ridiculous IRish Accent as an export!

Don't forget Guiness and Irish Whiskey of course.

Neither of those are Northern products.

Arthur Guinness was a Dubliner.

Of course, we did try and export the Titanic, but that didn't quite go to plan...

Wait wha? Northern Ireland is not Ireland? wha?

Frazzled wrote:Wait wha? Northern Ireland is not Ireland? wha?

/FACEPALM

being a moderate, I'll continue my boycott of haggis and scotch, but I will continue to support the Maine highland games. http://www.mainehighlandgames.org/

Frazzled wrote:Wait wha? Northern Ireland is not Ireland? wha?

No we still need liberated from our English oppressors...without Thomas Washington, Peter Parker and George Jefferson we're screwed. Sigh. I wish we could break free of those chains.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Wait wha? Northern Ireland is not Ireland? wha?

/FACEPALM

1. Facepalm for what? Sorry, but my back yard is larger than the British Isles, whats the dealeeyoo?

2. Thats not a facepalm. Do it right!



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Elessar wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Wait wha? Northern Ireland is not Ireland? wha?

No we still need liberated from our English oppressors...without Thomas Washington, Peter Parker and George Jefferson we're screwed. Sigh. I wish we could break free of those chains.

wait so it the island of Ireland right-all "irelands" are on the same landmass correct?

Elessar wrote:English oppressors

You mean... you don't like us? *sniffle*

Here you go, Frazz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland

C'mon Frazzled, you've heard of the IRA, the UDA, 'The Troubles', Ulster, Orangemen, Sinn Féin, the events of Bloody Sunday?

Really didn't know about the division of Ireland, the mostly protestant North still retained as part of Great Britain?

I'm not taking a shot mate, that's just surprising considering your interest in politics and world events, the ongoing problems there have occupied the public eye on many occasions and America has often mediated, interceeded and found it's self involved.

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halonachos wrote:
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halonachos wrote:We must go one step further and boycott england for preventative measure.

...Are you including Cornwall in that.../twitch

I am including everything on that island, I am also going to include northern Ireland. I will wait to see if boycotting the rest of the Ireland Isle is necessary as well.

The Cornish Nation hereby withdraws your pasty privileges. Neither Fairings nor Saffron cake, Heavy cake nor StarryGazey Pie will you know from now until the ends of time.

Playing hardball eh, then I am forced to include Ireland in that boycott. All of canada except for quebec is next if you keep this up, and don't even think I will not boycott portions of the caribbean.

Besides, I have all that I need.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:C'mon Frazzled, you've heard of the IRA, the UDA, 'The Troubles', Ulster, Orangemen, Sinn Féin, the events of Bloody Sunday?

Really didn't know about the division of Ireland, the mostly protestant North still retained as part of Great Britain?

I'm not taking a shot mate, that's just surprising considering your interest in politics and world events, the ongoing problems there have occupied the public eye on many occasions and America has often mediated, interceeded and found it's self involved.

I knew all of that, but got confused that the North Ireland we were talking about was not part of the the island of Ireland. I'm used to contiguous states and that threw me.

To me its all Ireland.

It's almost two completely different cultures nowadays.

Interesting. Which one was called the "emerald dragon" because of economic growth?

Which one makes better beer?

They're as disparate as Irish and Scottish, although frankly they used to be further apart.

m8 guinness is overated mass produced piss. British beer is ten times better.

The answer to both your questions Frazzled is the Republic.


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Personally, I don't like Guinness, but it's better than Belfast Ale.

Northern Ireland literally doesn't have a seperate economy. Without £3billion a year from the UK, we'd be a Third World country.

Haggis is friggin' aesome.

That is all.

So republic is south? they don't have a penchant for fried foods and gravies do they? It would explain a lot.

Yes, Republic = Eire = Celtic Tiger = The South.

Fried foods are more a British Isles love...but if anything NI prefers them, while Scotland prefers the Deep-Fried variety, including the humble Mars bar.

Gravy...IMO that's more an English thing, for the sheep they steal from the Welsh, and the pies from the Cornish.

I'm kidding, the Cornish aren't and have never been a nation.

whatwhat wrote:m8 guinness is overated mass produced piss. British beer is ten times better.

Guiness is better I believe, only because it even gets the bubbles so drunk that they float towards the bottom instead of the top.

The only beers I can drink are Carlsberg and Miller. That said, I keep meaning to try Fosters, but just haven't. It's a waste of money to buy a drink I might not like, when I could have vodka.

Elessar wrote:The only beers I can drink are Carlsberg and Miller. That said, I keep meaning to try Fosters, but just haven't. It's a waste of money to buy a drink I might not like, when I could have vodka.

Fosters tastes pretty much the same as Carlsberg and Miller. And every other lager on the planet. That stuff is full of absaloute rubbish btw. I'd rather drink guiness than that.

What, vodka?

No lager. Rule of thumb, if it comes in a bottle it's probably just shyte.

Beer, not lager is what you want.

Elessar wrote:I'm kidding, the Cornish aren't and have never been a nation.

Kiss my arse

The kingdom of Cornwall was at war with Wessex before there was a nation called England. Our borders stretched as far as Bristol at one stage.

Dark and Middle Ages
The Kingdom of Cornwall began to emerge in the sub-Roman era. Modern Cornwall finds itself in territory which included the tribes known to the Romans as the Dumnonii and later the Cornovii – mentioned in the Ravenna Cosmography. The Kingdom of Cornwall emerged from the "shadowy", semi-legendary Kingdom of Dumnonia around the 6th century AD.[36].

The power vacuum left by the Roman abandonment of Britannia led to the formation of petty kingdoms. This was also the period of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England. This brought the native Britons or Romano-Britons into conflict with the Anglo-Saxons. In 577 The Battle of Deorham near Bristol resulted in the separation of the West Welsh (i.e. the Cornish) from the Welsh- the two peoples effectively cut off by a Saxon wedge driven between them. The period is marked by a series of conflicts between Wessex and the Dumnonian/Cornish kingdom. The territory under Brythonic control gradually receded in the wake of the Saxon advance. In 927, according to William of Malmesbury who was writing c1120, Athelstan the king of Wessex evicted the "Cornish" from Exeter and perhaps the rest of Devon: "Exeter was cleansed of its defilement by wiping out that filthy race".[37][page needed] A key moment in the history of the Cornish people was in 936 when Athelstan set the border between Cornwall and England at the east bank of the River Tamar, thus defining the approximate modern area of Cornwall.[38]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_people#Dark_and_Middle_Ages