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Things in Ireland that Britain dont have?

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  • #102
    Rockery Woman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Rockery Woman


    Sexy Taoiseach ;)

    Angelina Jolie has big lips and everyone thinks she is really sexy.

    Brian Cowen has big lips..........


  • #103
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Redzer7 wrote: »
    Mary Harney.

    It is a thing right?


    Or possibly even an 'it'.


  • #104
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Mary Kennedy.
    Mi Wadi.
    News that reports on nothing but the recession.


  • #105
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Nailz wrote: »
    Cause we base our culture around them, speak their language and have equally **** weather, why not base everything else around them to...

    Eh, no we dont:mad:

    They dont have GAA, the ploughing championships, fleadh ceoil na h-Eireann, the Gaeilic language, and Europe's biggest amateur football stadium, to name but a few


  • #106
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    stovelid wrote: »
    Everybody in England doesn't speak French and support Marseilles and PSG though. :0)

    The English don't have a **** football league so do not need to look abroad.


  • #107
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    newmug wrote: »
    Eh, no we dont:mad:

    They dont have GAA, the ploughing championships, fleadh ceoil na h-Eireann, the Gaeilic language, and Europe's biggest amateur football stadium, to name but a few

    :confused: Plenty of GAA clubs over there


  • #108
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    :confused: Plenty of GAA clubs over there

    Its a minuscule following, mostly by people with Irish connections. I was replying in the context Nailz's post. Its not part of their culture.


  • #109
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    The English don't have a **** football league so do not need to look abroad.

    S'true. I stopped supporting Ireland years ago in favour of Spain.


  • #110
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Waterford.


  • #111
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    JohnMearsheimer wrote: »
    the Irish Times, I know I could read it online for free but I liked having a physical copy of the paper.

    Well, I suppose it gave you something substantial to wipe your 'arris with..........


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  • #112
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Mr. Presentable wrote: »
    Waterford.

    Why can't you thank your own posts? I almost choked on my gin when I read that back! Chin-chin chaps :pac:


  • #113
    google faps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭google faps


    Leitrim.
    The M50.
    Judges who are paedophiles.
    A dye, on the market. that is as black as the one Brian Lenihan uses.
    Swan eaters.
    Eamon Dunphy.
    Anyone that looks as ugly as Brendan O'Connor.
    the ability to see that rugby is ghey.
    Gary Twigg.
    A sense that following rugby elevates your social status.
    People like Jackie Healy-Rae outside of the Monster Raving Loony Party.
    Trocaire boxes.
    Lads heading to the pub in Ferguson 20s.
    Carrolls Ham.
    A pointless tv station that copies all of its content from ITV - tv3.


  • #114
    breadandjam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭breadandjam


    google faps wrote: »
    Swan eaters.

    What about the Queen?


  • #115
    Noffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Noffles


    breadandjam wrote: »
    What about the Queen?

    She don't eat em... she owns em.. the Romany Gypo's eat em!


  • #116
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Thomas828 wrote: »
    Soda bread, potato farls, buttermilk... I can count on one hand the shops in London that sell them.

    Tesco, Sainsburys and Waitrose?


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


    Travellers' feuds
    Country & Irish music
    Tower records
    Border smuggling
    Supermacs
    People emigrating


  • #118
    Noffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Noffles


    Nolanger wrote: »
    Travellers' feuds
    Country & Irish music
    Tower records
    Border smuggling
    Supermacs
    People emigrating

    We have Tower in the UK, in Piccadilly..
    And the Pikeys are always scrapping.


  • #119
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    white pudding
    decent bar staff
    signs pointing in opposite directions to the same place
    dodge/fake California accents
    trains that are slower than cars.


  • #120
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Noffles wrote: »
    We have Tower in the UK, in Piccadilly..

    No not anymore, actually not for some time now, it was taken over in 2003,Tower did remain on the site closed last year though.


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  • #121
    Noffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Noffles


    "motorways"... that aren't really motorways..


  • #122
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    why are people saying white pudding? black pudding is where its at


  • #123
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    You don't have me.



    Your loss


  • #124
    xkariex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭xkariex


    Superquinn !! Nicest food ever !!


  • #125
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Gay Bryne. Although we did manage to land them with Terry Wogan.


  • #126
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    brummytom wrote: »
    You don't have me.



    Your loss

    you dont have snyper


    your loss gain


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  • #127
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    up for anything wrote: »
    Gay Bryne. Although we did manage to land them with Terry Wogan.

    He used to be on British TV, think he had his own show.


  • #128
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    lizt wrote: »
    tayto.

    Asda do them
    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Bilingual signs.
    Got them
    A charge for plastic bags.
    Lots of places charge
    White pudding.
    Got it
    Nicknames for statues.
    "Floozie in the Jacuzzi" - got them
    gurramok wrote: »
    Dunnes Stores 'because we're Irish' ;)
    Got
    thee glitz wrote: »
    You can't get a good pint of it in Britain.
    You're not looking in the right places

    orourkeda wrote: »
    Bacon fries?????
    Yep, those are here
    limklad wrote: »
    Wee Daniel O' Donnell
    We've far more of him here than we need - I was looked after by his cousin when I was younger
    Nolanger wrote: »
    Travellers' feuds
    Have them allll the time
    Country & Irish music
    Plenty of it around
    newmug wrote: »
    fleadh ceoil na h-Eireann
    Cheoil*

    Of course we don't - the last word shows it's an Irish festival.

    But we do have the Scottish, Northern, Midland and Southern fleadhanna... as well as the fleadh na Breataine




    :D


  • #129
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Good Guinness

    I've never had it off this island

    Edit : And it can be hard to find on this island


  • #130
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    brummytom wrote: »
    You don't have me.



    Your loss
    I bet you say that to all the girls:D


  • #131
    th3 s1aught3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭th3 s1aught3r


    Fianna Fail


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  • #132
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Sticky_Fingers wrote: »
    I bet you say that to all the girls:D
    The last thing I said to a girl I liked was "I'd do you up the bum"


    I'm a charmer alright


  • #133
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    brummytom wrote: »
    The last thing I said to a girl I liked was "I'd do you up the bum"


    I'm a charmer alright
    Lucky sod,
    Ireland has girls who don't do it up the bum:(


  • #134
    baldbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭baldbear


    McDonells Curry and Boxty.


  • #135
    round tower huntsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭round tower huntsman


    RobitTV wrote: »
    What do we have That britain does not have?
    inferiority complex!


  • #136
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Lux23 wrote: »
    He used to be on British TV, think he had his own show.

    Gay Byrne?? He never!!! C4 used to show the Late Late between Countdown and Judge Judy on a Monday afternoon but I never thought that he physically defected, even for a time.


  • #137
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Sticky_Fingers wrote: »
    Lucky sod,
    Ireland has girls who don't do it up the bum:(

    I haven't met any.


  • #138
    apoch632
    Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭apoch632


    up for anything wrote: »
    Gay Byrne?? He never!!! C4 used to show the Late Late between Countdown and Judge Judy on a Monday afternoon but I never thought that he physically defected, even for a time.

    He did I believe in the early 60s


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