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Calling Dubliners west Brits

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    #152
    midlandsmissus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    CDfm wrote: »
    To be a West Brit is sad and to call someone a West Brit is mean.

    Gerry Ryan is a West Brit - 1970s Brit Type DJ- confessional radio that would put Tony Blackburns marriage breakdown to shame. How Brit is that.

    To call them C**ts would be demeaning to c**nts and would heap unmerited praise on them.

    CDfm :eek:

    I didn't know you were like that. why do you feel like that?


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    #153
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    midlandsmissus wrote: »
    CDfm :eek:

    I didn't know you were like that. why do you feel like that?

    Because CDfm is a closet West Brit. you know the saying

    "Denial is not a river in Egypt" :D


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    #154
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    CDfm wrote: »
    Gerry Ryan is a West Brit - 1970s Brit Type DJ- confessional radio that would put Tony Blackburns marriage breakdown to shame. How Brit is that.

    So a west-brit means that you do something that an English dickhead has done at some stage. Like speaking English. Or wearing a Liverpool shirt. Or listening to English bands.
    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Because CDfm is a closet West Brit. you know the saying

    "Denial is not a river in Egypt" :D

    That's right. Fess up, CDfm.


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    #155
    nobodythere
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale

    Game over ya british bashhhterd. 800 years!!!


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    #156
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    grasshopa wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale

    Game over ya british bashhhterd. 800 years!!!

    in other breaking news, the Pope was today confirmed as being Catholic. :D


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    #157
    midlandsmissus
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Because CDfm is a closet West Brit. you know the saying

    "Denial is not a river in Egypt" :D


    ahhh so it's like the severe homophobic in that film 'American beauty' . ahem ;)


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    #158
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    but we're all west brits when you think about it

    i mean look around you most of us shop in British owned stores .i.e tescos, currys, pc world, argos etc etc

    and lets not forget all the irish who...
    • watch british television
    • read british newspapers
    • support british football clubs
    and also eat walker crisps:pac:


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    #159
    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    fryup wrote: »
    but we're all west brits when you think about it

    i mean look around you most of us shop in British owned stores .i.e tescos, currys, pc world, argos etc etc

    and lets not forget all the irish who...
    • watch british television
    • read british newspapers
    • support british football clubs
    and also eat walker crisps:pac:

    live on "prince charles st" in D4...


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    #160
    Dudess
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    CDfm wrote: »
    +1
    Do you mean you've also been called a "west Brit" or that you agree Fratton Fred is a "west Brit" when people call him one? Fratton Fred, incidentally, is a Brit. There's no need for the "west".
    CDfm wrote: »
    Well - David Norris -well he is a West Brit
    How? He's a protestant, has a posh accent... wow, shoot the bastard.
    as is John Bowman
    How? Cuz he's (presumably) protestant?
    Gay Byrne and Gerry Ryan too.Ed Byrne
    How, how and how?
    D'unbelieveables were never West Brit.
    Erm... they're not even real people. But I see where you're going now - a person who's maybe intellectual and not a big mucksavage ignoramus is more likely to fit into the "west Brit" category...
    CDfm wrote: »
    But really - its what it is -not what you would like it to mean.
    Which are?
    CDfm wrote: »
    Gerry Ryan is a West Brit - 1970s Brit Type DJ- confessional radio that would put Tony Blackburns marriage breakdown to shame. How Brit is that.
    Again, could you clarify how that makes him a west Brit?


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    #161
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Dudess wrote: »
    as is John Bowman How? Cuz he's (presumably) protestant?

    nope he's a catholic...there is a thing as posh catholics you know:)

    ps - not all prods are posh either


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    #162
    Dudess
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    Ah... wasn't ruling it out, just making an assumption - what with the name and all.

    I love the way if you're a well spoken intellectual, you're a "west Brit". :rolleyes:


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    #163
    ntlbell
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    Dudess wrote: »

    I love the way if you're a well spoken intellectual, you're a "west Brit". :rolleyes:

    That's probably why there's no west brit's in Cork...


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    #164
    Warper
    Registered Users Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    This whole thing about watching British TV and watching the Premiership makes you a West Brit is ludicrous - that is simply entertainment.

    The term West Brit is used to describe many Dublin people - the reason being is the complete lack of interest in the 6 counties. If asked, a lot them do not even want a United Ireland for a number of reasons mainly financial. They view people from the North as "Northie B***ards" and from a completely different country.

    For some reason - it must be a lack of education but most Dubs do not have a clue about Ireland, i mean ask them where is Sligo and they wouldnt have a clue, let alone places in their own city. There is a lot more passion about having a United Ireland in the "country" compared to Dublin hence the term "West Brit".


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    #165
    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Warper wrote: »
    T

    For some reason - it must be a lack of education but most Dubs do not have a clue about Ireland, i mean ask them where is Sligo and they wouldnt have a clue.

    to be honest, why would they fecking care where Sligo is?

    Our brains can only hold so much important informatiion you don't want to be filling it up with nonsense like directions to sligo...

    who the f*ck cares.

    i'll just add to that why does ones ignorance of their own country make them west brits? what has ignorance got to do with nationality?


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    #166
    Dudess
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    Warper wrote: »
    This whole thing about watching British TV and watching the Premiership makes you a West Brit is ludicrous - that is simply entertainment.
    What about supporting Premiership football?
    The term West Brit is used to describe many Dublin people - the reason being is the complete lack of interest in the 6 counties. If asked, a lot them do not even want a United Ireland for a number of reasons mainly financial. They view people from the North as "Northie B***ards" and from a completely different country.
    But surely when the phrase contains the word "Brit" it implies there's some sort of allegiance to Britain in there... yet, being complacent about the North and even being opposed to a united Ireland for financial reasons still can mean **** all allegiance to Britain. Those same people might be just as complacent about Britain as they are about the North.
    For some reason - it must be a lack of education but most Dubs do not have a clue about Ireland, i mean ask them where is Sligo and they wouldnt have a clue, let alone places in their own city.
    Generalise much? On what do you base all of the above?


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    #167
    javaboy
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    ntlbell wrote: »
    That's probably why there's no west brit's in Cork...

    If you're going to make pointed remarks about intellect, you ought to get it right.


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    #168
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Warper wrote: »
    This whole thing about watching British TV and watching the Premiership makes you a West Brit is ludicrous - that is simply entertainment.

    enterainment from....? Anyone who ridiculed Colm and Jim Jim should be classed as a West Brit then!
    The term West Brit is used to describe many Dublin people - the reason being is the complete lack of interest in the 6 counties. If asked, a lot them do not even want a United Ireland for a number of reasons mainly financial. They view people from the North as "Northie B***ards" and from a completely different country.

    Then we're all West Brits. Or whatever the **** you want to call us. I wouldn't say I don't care, though - I just have a different level of interest.
    For some reason - it must be a lack of education but most Dubs do not have a clue about Ireland, i mean ask them where is Sligo and they wouldnt have a clue, let alone places in their own city. There is a lot more passion about having a United Ireland in the "country" compared to Dublin hence the term "West Brit".

    Lack of interest rather than lack of education, accepted. But like a lot of the current syllabus, people don't have (and haven't had) a lot of interest in traditional education for some time. And how many, exactly, have you actually asked?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #169
    RiverWilde
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    ntlbell wrote: »
    to be honest, why would they fecking care where Sligo is?

    Our brains can only hold so much important informatiion you don't want to be filling it up with nonsense like directions to sligo...

    who the f*ck cares.

    i'll just add to that why does ones ignorance of their own country make them west brits? what has ignorance got to do with nationality?



    Ah this thread makes me think it should be renamed to the 'Wasn't it great in 1750's Ireland' thread. I mean with all the parochialism, narrow-minded get off my patch attitude, 'ach sure the world was grand when we didn't have the wheel, didn't we get along just fine without it?'

    'What have the Romans ever done for us?'

    Riv


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    #170
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Warper wrote: »
    There is a lot more passion about having a United Ireland in the "country" compared to Dublin hence the term "West Brit".

    are you kiddin me!!.....there's loads of mad republicans in dublin..look at all the sinn feiners that get voted in...not to mention Ding Dong Dinny O'Reilly


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    #171
    stovelid
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    ntlbell wrote: »
    That's probably why there's no west brit's in Cork...

    You've obviously never been to West Cork.


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    #172
    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    javaboy wrote: »
    If you're going to make pointed remarks about intellect, you ought to get it right.

    Sorry English is my second language I'm Irish..;)


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    #173
    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Dudess wrote: »
    What about supporting Premiership football?

    But surely when the phrase contains the word "Brit" it implies there's some sort of allegiance to Britain in there... yet, being complacent about the North and even being opposed to a united Ireland for financial reasons still can mean **** all allegiance to Britain. Those same people might be just as complacent about Britain as they are about the North.

    Generalise much? On what do you base all of the above?

    What about supporting Spanish football?

    does it make you Spanish?


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    #174
    javaboy
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    ntlbell wrote: »
    Sorry English is my second language I'm Irish..;)

    Zing!


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    #175
    ManFromAtlantis
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    My definition of a dublin west brit.

    a certain element living in dub ya know the 'Dort' (dub area rap trans) type (not always but usually) . well they would prefer to be like the posh sounding southern english folk rather than their parents/grand parents who more often than not came from 'down the country' (oh lord save us).
    sad really isnt it. ...?


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    #176
    Four-Percent
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    ntlbell wrote: »
    Sorry English is my second language I'm Irish..
    Really?What language were you brought up speaking?

    What language do you speak when out with your mates?

    What language do you your work in?


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    #177
    stovelid
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    Dudess wrote: »
    What about supporting Premiership football?

    I've been told in a pub on more than one ocassion not to applaud a 'brit' goal by some patriotic gobsh*te in a premiership shirt who has never set foot in a Irish football ground in his life. They have no idea how utterly pathetic they look.


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    #178
    Dudess
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    I hate those *****, and as a moderate republican, they embarrass me.
    ManFromAtlantis wrote: »
    My definition of a dublin west brit.

    a certain element living in dub ya know the 'Dort' (dub area rap trans) type (not always but usually) . well they would prefer to be like the posh sounding southern english folk rather than their parents/grand parents who more often than not came from 'down the country' (oh lord save us).
    sad really isnt it. ...?
    Again, no indication they've an allegiance to/love for Britain, hence the phrase "west Brit" is not necessarily relevant.
    ntlbell wrote: »
    What about supporting Spanish football?

    does it make you Spanish?
    Well if you're a Basque and ETA supporter who wants the Basque region to be a separate state from the rest of Spain and you're constantly bitching and moaning about the bastard Spanish and you make derogatory remarks about any of your fellow Basques who don't hate the Spanish as much as you do... but you still enjoy Spanish football and support a Spanish team, I'd say that would make you... a hypocrite.


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    #179
    tribulus
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    stovelid wrote: »
    I've been told in a pub on more than one ocassion not to applaud a 'brit' goal by some patriotic gobsh*te in a premiership shirt who has never set foot in a Irish football ground in his life. They have no idea how utterly pathetic they look.

    :eek:

    Lol.


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    #180
    RiverWilde
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    Dudess wrote: »
    Well if you're a Basque and ETA supporter who wants to be separate from the rest of Spain and you're constantly bitching and moaning about the bastard Spanish and you make derogatory remarks about any of your fellow Basques who don't hate the Spanish as much as you do... but you still enjoy Spanish football and support a Spanish team, I'd say that would make you... a hypocrite.

    lmao


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    #181
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    fryup wrote: »
    not to mention Ding Dong Dinny O'Reilly

    That's not his real name is it?


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