I was there for three months earlier this year, "buddy". I visit for at least a month each year, usually in summer and winter. My family and many of my friends live there. My opinion is no less informed than yours. As I recall, wasn't the GFA signed in 1998? Those days aren't that long gone, in fact the Indo had an article on the increase in RIRA activity along the border just last week.
Oh behalf of yourself, by all means apologise. But not on my behalf, thanks. It's fashionable to hate Catholicism these days, and your rant is all about that. I'm an aetheist myself, born and raised in West Cork, living outside Ireland for a long time now -- 13 years since I last lived there, I'm 38 years old. There has always been a tendency to blame "The Church" for many of Ireland's former ills. But to be quite honest, most God-fearing Irish Catholics agreed with the nonsense you describe above, and those laws were made by the will of the (majority of) the citizenry. My point is, it's a cop-out to blame the Catholic Church, and not the people themselves.
You also neglect to incorporate contextual information. Since the foundation of the State we've been engaged in a low-instensity proxy conflict with our old colonial masters "up North". Whatever the origins of that conflict, it quickly moved into sectarianism. This served to make sectarian identity much stronger, giving it a false importance. Just saying that this is part of the reason why the people paid so much attention to Church teaching.
Ireland was and is a strange contrast of ueber-conservatism and Quixotic individualism. I've always felt as free, if not more so, there than I do here (St. Louis), or many places I've lived (rural Germany, Louisiana, The Netherlands).
The KLF were a seriously fascinating bunch. Didn't they also shoot a load of cash out the turret of an armoured personnel carrier (painted bright yellow) 'doon North' in Scotland somewhere? I was off my head on E at the time so my memories are sketchy...
I think the point is that he clearly used Babelfish or some other form of machine translation, in an attempt to convince us of his elite French language skills. What a tool (I refer to the O.P.).
I believe Safari uses the rendering code from Konqueror, so that might explain that, if Gecko does too. I gave up trying to keep track of the Irish nationalist paramilitary-like fragmentation of open sores projects long ago.
Interesting... I speak reasonably good German, and I can generally make out the gist of Swedish text. Sweden's a very cool country. My first girlfriend, Anna Bourcell, was Swedish (her family moved to Ireland). Gosh she was beautiful and I miss her.
There's a shit market? What?!?!?! Why did nobody tell me about this before... I've lost a fortune. My output is full of shit. Just look at most of my posts.
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I was there for three months earlier this year, "buddy". I visit for at least a month each year, usually in summer and winter. My family and many of my friends live there. My opinion is no less informed than yours. As I recall, wasn't the GFA signed in 1998? Those days aren't that long gone, in fact the Indo had an article on the increase in RIRA activity along the border just last week.
Wolfe Tone.
This isn't insightful, it's just nasty to both Arabs and Irish people.
Bang on the money. Irish ways and Irish laws... the law is just a guideline, or a jumping-off point.
You also neglect to incorporate contextual information. Since the foundation of the State we've been engaged in a low-instensity proxy conflict with our old colonial masters "up North". Whatever the origins of that conflict, it quickly moved into sectarianism. This served to make sectarian identity much stronger, giving it a false importance. Just saying that this is part of the reason why the people paid so much attention to Church teaching.
Ireland was and is a strange contrast of ueber-conservatism and Quixotic individualism. I've always felt as free, if not more so, there than I do here (St. Louis), or many places I've lived (rural Germany, Louisiana, The Netherlands).
Might be more accurate if you called the site harp.ie...
I'm Irish, live in the midwest US too. They misuse wanker here all the time to refer to their dicks.
Testify, brother! Deadly post...
The Cramps referenced on Slashdot?!?! [stunned]
Get off your high horse, Canadian... your beers are WEAK compared to some fine northern European beers.
KLF... uh-huh!
The KLF were a seriously fascinating bunch. Didn't they also shoot a load of cash out the turret of an armoured personnel carrier (painted bright yellow) 'doon North' in Scotland somewhere? I was off my head on E at the time so my memories are sketchy...
I think the point is that he clearly used Babelfish or some other form of machine translation, in an attempt to convince us of his elite French language skills. What a tool (I refer to the O.P.).
I believe Safari uses the rendering code from Konqueror, so that might explain that, if Gecko does too. I gave up trying to keep track of the Irish nationalist paramilitary-like fragmentation of open sores projects long ago.
You most certainly are not Yuri Gagarin. I've been pretending to be him since 1995. Go find your own famous dead person.
This is very specific to Britain. I can't think of another western EU country that engages in camera use to the level seen in Britain.
Interesting... I speak reasonably good German, and I can generally make out the gist of Swedish text. Sweden's a very cool country. My first girlfriend, Anna Bourcell, was Swedish (her family moved to Ireland). Gosh she was beautiful and I miss her.
You speak French! WOW! That's AMAZING!
He was joking, for Christ's sake.
I have a single icon -- the HD. Pleased to meet you.
Oh, and I forgot to call you an amadán. Don't "sonny" me, boyah.
There's a shit market? What?!?!?! Why did nobody tell me about this before... I've lost a fortune. My output is full of shit. Just look at most of my posts.
Well congratulations on your commercial success, although that doesn't really seem germane to this discussion. It's still childish behaviour.
Yes, it's right up there with your insistence that every "Brit" you encounter is a "sodomite".
Incorrect. Ireland is 81,000 km2, Britain is 218,000 km2. Just looking at a map, it's obvious...
You're an awful eejit. Would you ever shut up and stop embarrassing the rest of us? Christ, talk about manufacturing an argument.