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If You Could Change One Thing About Ireland...

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    #92
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Bob_Harris wrote: »
    Remove multiculturalism :pac:

    How far back do you want to go - Pre Viking era? Let's just remove all culture altogether. That'd sort it.


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    #93
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    How far back do you want to go - Pre Viking era? Let's just remove all culture altogether. That'd sort it.

    Nah, their culture was already removed. 1990's will do.


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    #94
    cue
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭cue


    I would have us eat more shellfish. Go to any other country with half a shore and they have markets full of cheap food from the sea. All you can get here is cod. WTF is that all about?


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    #95
    Hank_Jones
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    We should just have a thread about what we wouldn't change.

    It would be much shorter..


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    #96
    lee_
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    cue wrote: »
    I would have us eat more shellfish. Go to any other country with half a shore and they have markets full of cheap food from the sea. All you can get here is cod. WTF is that all about?

    Very good point, maybe it has something to do with the cold climate, wonder if the costal areas of Scandanavian countries are more into the whole ShellFish/ Market culture.


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    #97
    GLUEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭GLUEY


    Make Ireland compltely bilingual, with Irish being the prodominant language.

    Also no more tabloids / 'celeb' gossip / British and American influence on Ireland.


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    #98
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,440 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    GLUEY wrote: »
    Make Ireland compltely bilingual, with Irish being the prodominant language.

    Also no more tabloids / 'celeb' gossip / British and American influence on Ireland.

    So, no more internet then?

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



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    #99
    GLUEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭GLUEY


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    So, no more internet then?

    As in those crap British and American tv shows and the likes, I'm a celebrity, Big Brother blah. Not compltely obviously, just the crap.


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    #100
    El Siglo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Change One Thing About Ireland...



    Everything.


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    #101
    derfderf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    Nepotism. Thinkin someone knows what's best for the country cos his grandfather stuck his finger up at a black and tan when he wasn't lookin.


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    #102
    free gaff?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭free gaff?


    ireland needs many changes, first of all it needs to start acting 'european' as opposed to the british crap.


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    #103
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,440 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    GLUEY wrote: »
    As in those crap British and American tv shows and the likes, I'm a celebrity, Big Brother blah. Not compltely obviously, just the crap.

    So, you want us all watching Fair City and the Late Late show round the clock?

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



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    #104
    GLUEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭GLUEY


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    So, you want us all watching Fair City and the Late Late show round the clock?

    No I never said all American and British tv is crap. It's a lot better than ours I just said to cut out the crap. Basically all that reality stuff.


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    #105
    Biggins
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    Right now: the cold.

    In general: the apathy.


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    #106
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    GLUEY wrote: »
    No I never said all American and British tv is crap. It's a lot better than ours I just said to cut out the crap. Basically all that reality stuff.

    Ah, so it's the tabloidy/celebrity **** thing? In fairness, we produce our fair share of crap here, too. Remember the farmhouse? Or the Sunday World?

    Ban it all, I say. Irrespecitve of the country of origin.

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



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    #107
    McChubbin
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    -The weather
    -The goverment
    -The price of basic items
    -Re-introduce milk rounds (Childhood nostaligia here)
    -Introduce mass sterlization for anyone who watches Big Brother.


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    #108
    El Siglo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    free gaff? wrote: »
    ireland needs many changes, first of all it needs to start acting 'european' as opposed to the british crap.

    What are you talking about? Do you not think 800 years of colonial rule would not have a greater impact on us than 36 years of EU membership? We are European to all intents and purposes, 1979 Ireland joined the EMU and abandoned the Bank of England, our government is borrowing billions from the ECB for NAMA, and like any successful monetary union (i.e. there is always rich and poor areas e.g. just like the Rust Belt of the US, North of England etc...)we're going to be so European that we will be one of the poorest members of the EU within the next five years. So we're on the path to being super European, just not the street cafes, "Le Royale with Cheese" and all that crap.;)


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    #109
    GLUEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭GLUEY


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Ah, so it's the tabloidy/celebrity **** thing? In fairness, we produce our fair share of crap here, too. Remember the farmhouse? Or the Sunday World?

    Ban it all, I say. Irrespecitve of the country of origin.

    Not half as bad though. Round them all up and organise a new reality programme where celebs play with traffic!


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    #110
    banshee_bones
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    McChubbin wrote: »
    -The weather
    -The goverment
    -The price of basic items
    -Re-introduce milk rounds (Childhood nostaligia here)
    -Introduce mass sterlization for anyone who watches Big Brother and X-Factor.


    FYP there for ya.... :D


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    #111
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I'd change how some people seem to hate the Irish identity, and blame it for their own misfortunes


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    #112
    Sideshow Mark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Sideshow Mark


    Change the psyche of the nation from the current begrudgery to a nation that celebrates success and tries to emulate the successful, not knock them.


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    #113
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    I would make a law that I could make love to any woman that I liked at any time I liked.


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    #114
    GLUEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭GLUEY


    blinding wrote: »
    I would make a law that I could make love to any woman that I liked at any time I liked.

    Some of us don't need laws. ;)




    I however do. I REALLY do! :)


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    #115
    StarshipTrooper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭StarshipTrooper


    ArseBurger wrote: »
    (note I simply use Caucasian because IQ testing is based upon race and Ireland is predominantly Caucasian - unfortunately).

    Sorry could you clear this up for me - are you saying it's unfortunate that IQ testing is based on race or it's unfortunate that Ireland is a caucasian country?


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    #116
    stripysocks85
    Registered Users Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭stripysocks85


    * The weather
    * Narrow mindedness
    * People that are two faced - extremely common


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    #117
    jif
    Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭jif


    wear sunscreen baz was right.

    serious answer: the OTT drinking culture everyone plays to.


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    #118
    Pineapple_Boi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Pineapple_Boi


    i'd get rid of all the anti-theists on boards


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    #119
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    I'd change it into LA without any of the bad bits.


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    #120
    [Deleted User]
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Right now: the cold.

    In general: the apathy.

    +1

    just look how sheepishly the last budget was accepted, even the "carbon tax"! :mad: >:[]


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    #121
    Phil D
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭Phil D


    Have people realise that "Irishness" and our culture has very little to do with the Irish language.
    Use computers to make government more efficient (sadly impossible as no one in the civil service seems to have the skill and modernity is opposed by the unions).


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