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Why are you proud of Ireland?

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    #92
    PaulieD
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    poisonated wrote: »
    we are a very loved nation.

    This is a myth. Go to the South of Spain and see how much the locals love the Irish. Getting rubber drunk and wrecking the place does not normally win the hearts of the locals. Funny that.:)


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    #93
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    PaulieD wrote: »
    This is a myth. Go to the South of Spain and see how much the locals love the Irish. Getting rubber drunk and wrecking the place does not normally win the hearts of the locals. Funny that.:)

    But without us they'd be nothing! :D


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    #94
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    brendansmith wrote: »
    We bet the italians in WW2
    We helped St Patrick make no snakes
    We have the highest mountains in europe
    U2 have eliminated poverty in Africa (They R Irish)
    More underground oil than any other nation

    The list goes on
    Okay, I'm not sure if your joking about any of that, but if you're not, then wow.


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    #95
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    Brendan Kilkenny


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    #96
    big b
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    jumpguy wrote: »
    Okay, I'm not sure if your joking about any of that, but if you're not, then wow.

    I thought it was an ad by some anti-drugs group


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    #97
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Because we're the only country to gain independence and then hand control over to the Catholic church.


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    #98
    PaulieD
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Fink Goddie wrote: »
    But without us they'd be nothing! :D

    They need tourists alright, they need moronic drunks like a hole in the head. It costs the Spanish government a fortune dealing with drunkards, the policing, the medical costs. You get the picture.

    The only time I am embarrassed about being from Ireland is when I run into fellow Irish abroad, be it in Prague or the Costa Del Sol, always the same.

    Big mangey red face on them, more than likely looking for a brothel, Wooo everybody loves me I am Irish, I p*ss all over the street and spew my guts up on the road. Arent I great. Tools.


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    #99
    PaulieD
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    Nolanger wrote: »
    Because we're the only country to gain independence and then hand control over to the Catholic church.

    I think you will find that was Dev, but please continue bashing the church.:rolleyes:


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    #100
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Can't think of anything in particular...it's certainly improved dramatically since I was born, but that doesn't make me proud, it makes me think "about bloody time; better late than never".
    For me to be proud, Ireland would have to be excelling at something relative to other countries...but most of the things we excel at, other countries are just as good at, and some things we were excelling at, or hoping to excel at, we're trailing behind now, like our science-based knowledge economy.

    Contrastingly, there are many things in Ireland than make me ashamed and scandalised, like the abuse scandal, the health service and "Fine Fail/Fianna Gael" being our pepsi/coke answer to politics.


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    #101
    mickydoomsux
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    PaulieD wrote: »

    Big mangey red face on them, more than likely looking for a brothel, Wooo everybody loves me I am Irish, I p*ss all over the street and spew my guts up on the road. Arent I great. Tools.

    But that's 'The Craic'! You can't take out 'The Craic' from us!

    It's our free pass to be douchebags in most Irish peoples mind by the looks of it.


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    #102
    Peppapig
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Peppapig


    PaulieD wrote: »
    I p*ss all over the street and spew my guts up on the road. Arent I great.


    When did you do this?


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    #103
    Peppapig
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Peppapig


    I'm proud of the fact that we have came from nothing , to having nearly the highest quality of life and GNP in the world

    Yeahy us!:p


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    #104
    Fink Goddie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    PaulieD wrote: »
    They need tourists alright, they need moronic drunks like a hole in the head. It costs the Spanish government a fortune dealing with drunkards, the policing, the medical costs. You get the picture.

    The only time I am embarrassed about being from Ireland is when I run into fellow Irish abroad, be it in Prague or the Costa Del Sol, always the same.

    Big mangey red face on them, more than likely looking for a brothel, Wooo everybody loves me I am Irish, I p*ss all over the street and spew my guts up on the road. Arent I great. Tools.

    Are you from Belgium???


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    #105
    Crotchety
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Crotchety


    The fact that you can hit an aul one over the head on Talbot Street and get away with it!


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    #106
    PaulieD
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    Fink Goddie wrote: »
    Are you from Belgium???

    No, why are you?


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    #107
    scop
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    Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Wilde, Behan, Heaney...


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    #108
    PaulieD
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Peppapig wrote: »
    When did you do this?

    When I brought your other half away for a weekend. I lowered my standards.:p


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    #109
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users Posts: 5,788 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    I don't see why anyone should be "proud" of characteristics they had no control over. I like that I'm Irish a lot, but I also like having brown hair. I didn't choose or work hard to get either. I'm proud of some of my academic achievements on the other hand, so I always think "proud" is the wrong word to choose. I would say though that probably only Jamaica come close to "country people have inexplicable affection for" :D


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    #110
    batari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭batari


    I'm proud of...

    Mr. & Mrs. Do Be and the little Does Be's.

    If ya see them around, tell them I said hi.


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    #111
    razorblunt
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    Our sporting pedigree, punching way above our weight in almost every sport we undertake.


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    #112
    Dazd_N_Confusd
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    I'm sorry, I don't understand the question!

    Really, i've never understood national pride, and I've got 2 Sinn Feiners in my family.

    BTW, anyone proud to be white?

    See, it just doesn't sound right. Why be proud of something that was pure chance?


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    #113
    Dazd_N_Confusd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Dazd_N_Confusd


    scop wrote: »
    Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Wilde, Behan, Heaney...
    But you're not them so why be proud?

    Unless you happen to be a literary genius?


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    #114
    Crotchety
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Crotchety


    Could you give me a reason why you think I'm not Seamus Heaney?


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    #115
    audismelly
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    Fr Ted.Even if RTE turned it down:mad:


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    #116
    Crotchety
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Crotchety


    2 words -

    Tommy Tiernan.


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    #117
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Slane '09 - not even a third-world country would make such as balls of it.


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    #118
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    ♫ wrote: »
    2 words -

    Tommy Tiernan.

    Unfunny hack. Shouting doesn't make you funny, it just makes you an annoying douche.


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    #119
    Crotchety
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Crotchety


    Tommy is a good lad.

    "Jesus on the cross. And Mary Magdalene below him." Comedy genius


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    #120
    PaulieD
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    Dazd_N_Confusd wrote: »
    I'm sorry, I don't understand the question!

    Really, i've never understood national pride, and I've got 2 Sinn Feiners in my family.

    BTW, anyone proud to be white?

    See, it just doesn't sound right. Why be proud of something that was pure chance?

    You cannot compare white nationalism to patriotism. It is absurd, Ireland is my home, its where I was brought up, its where I was educated, its where I live. I am proud of some aspects of Ireland, with all its faults, I would rather live here 90% of other countries. I am proud of some of the achievements of such a small nation.


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    #121
    PaulieD
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 932 ✭✭✭PaulieD


    ♫ wrote: »
    2 words -

    Tommy Tiernan.

    Tommy needs a good oul root up the hole. Administered by my good myself. Repeatedly.


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