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    #932
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,926 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    K-9 wrote: »
    Worth far, far more.

    Wasn't it Shaw that said "some people know the price of everything, the value of nothing".

    Exactly and how much was spent on security over the years when the border was sealed due to the needless murders of innocent people by both sides.


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    #933
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Smyth wrote: »
    The murder, rape and slavery.

    Sure tis grand. Forget the plight of those who went before. It'll make us better people.

    The Queen hasn't murdered or raped anyone since the Great Rape & Murdering Spree of 1895 ended in Kiltimagh.


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    #934
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    hondasam wrote: »
    would that be the Drink :D

    Well..

    When ONE proposes a toast, one can hardly not partake..

    :)


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    #935
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Smyth wrote: »
    The murder, rape and slavery.

    Sure tis grand. Forget the plight of those who went before. It'll make us better people.


    Whats the alternative? Carry it around for another generation? where to stop.


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    #936
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,476 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Read the speech there,



    Thats as close as she came.


    Didnt go as far as I hoped.

    C'mon in the last year there has been the above words and an apology from Cameron for bloody Sunday.

    Yesterday the Queen laid a wreath in honour of Irish rebels. What more do you want?


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    #937
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    here we go pick faults with the speech, some people are just never happy.

    I'm of to find a happy thread.


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    #938
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Breaking news: Wolfe Tone and Morlar don't think apology went far enough, no blood involved.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #939
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    Well if we can pay our bills with miserable, bitter begrudgery then your post will be very useful.

    Same goes for brit loving. Guess Ireland is sorted so since there's no medium anymore.


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    #940
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    murpho999 wrote: »
    C'mon in the last year there has been the above words and an apology from Cameron for bloody Sunday.

    Yesterday the Queen laid a wreath in honour of Irish rebels. What more do you want?

    I think they want Saint Gerry to nail the Queen up onto a cross after the speech!


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    #941
    jos28
    Registered Users Posts: 7,194 ✭✭✭jos28


    hondasam wrote: »

    I'm of to find a happy thread.
    Let me know when you find one :D


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    #942
    Fulton Crown
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭Fulton Crown


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Extreme close up of Queen eating with commentary from Jimmy McGee

    Where's Gerry and the sticky lads ?

    Banks to be robbin an dole to be fiddlin ..I suppose ...:confused:


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    #943
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Whats the alternative? Carry it around for another generation? where to stop.

    can you ban all the negative people, would that be discrimination.


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    #944
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    jos28 wrote: »
    Let me know when you find one :D

    I will create one if I have to.

    cig break anyone


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    #945
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Wolfe Tone wrote: »
    Where those words worth 30 million?

    The 30 million was mainly due to the potential danger our home grown morons could have caused.


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    #946
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    El Horseboxo wrote: »
    Same goes for brit loving. Guess Ireland is sorted so since there's no medium anymore.

    What the hell is "brit loving"?

    You sound like a white man in Mississippi in the 1860s when it was seen as treason to be a "n*gger lover".


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    #947
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Pauleta wrote: »
    For real? "could have been done differently or not at all". The "not at all" part was saying that Ireland should always have been a sovereign country. It was a classy, understated way of expressing her sentiment and how not to upset unionists.

    So to recap, the record of the forces of the crown in Ireland, (including the black and tans, auxilliaries all the way back through our history up to the RUC/UDR etc) was . . . . . .'not always benign'.

    Excuse me but that is a no way to address the history of this country at the hands of britain.

    'Not always benign'. FFs.


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    #948
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Wonderful speech from Her Majesty! She came as close to an apology as she could imo.

    Thought she looked lovely tonight as well, very regal and elegant.


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    #949
    Plazaman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    El Horseboxo wrote: »
    So now that we are all "mature" and have "moved on" what exactly changes other than our bank balance going further into the red?

    And is "A Uachtaráin agus a chairde" all she said as gaeilge? From reading in this thread you'd swear she sang Amhrán na bhFiann.

    That'll be for later on off camera. She didn't drink the Guinness this morning but when she sat down there were 3 or 4 bottles of Jameson under the table. I'd say it'll be mad craic later on up there. 10/1 Biffo will be photo'd falling out of the place at half four with her tiara singing Swing Low Sweet Chariot.


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    #950
    ISDW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭ISDW


    hondasam wrote: »
    here we go pick faults with the speech, some people are just never happy.

    I'm of to find a happy thread.

    Stay here, this is a happy thread, we'll just ignore the unhappy people. If we had no unhappiness to measure against, how would we know we're happy?:D
    K-9 wrote: »
    Breaking news: Wolfe Tone and Morlar don't think apology went far enough, no blood involved.

    Shall I say I'm gobsmacked again? Nah


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    #951
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    I just saw a clip of bertie walking in the queens dinner. How can that scumbag seriously show his face on tv?

    Bertie's footprints in the mash?

    Oh, I forgot, he's careful not leave a trail behind (other than a general trail of destruction, that is)

    The prat should be in jail, not dining with dignitaries!


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    #952
    weiland79
    Registered Users Posts: 3,307 ✭✭✭weiland79


    Great speech!

    Are we still allowed to hate them when we play them in rugby or football?


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    #953
    LondonIrish90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 882 ✭✭✭LondonIrish90


    Smyth wrote: »
    The murder, rape and slavery.

    Sure tis grand. Forget the plight of those who went before. It'll make us better people.

    Only when your President apologises for the murder, rape and enslavement of British people of Wales and the South West of England around 1400 years ago :pac:

    Two very good speeches imo. HM's was very respectful and full of optimism especially imo


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    #954
    Wheelie King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭Wheelie King


    Just read through the speech. Impressive enough although an apology would have been nice and also warranted. Oh well.


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    #955
    Erinfan
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Erinfan


    I am neither British nor Irish and not very familiar with Ireland (island) politics but I find the speeches memorable.


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    #956
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Morlar wrote: »
    So to recap, the record of the forces of the crown in Ireland, (including the black and tans, auxilliaries all the way back through our history up to the RUC/UDR etc) was . . . . . .'not always benign'.

    Excuse me but that is a no way to address the history of this country at the hands of britain.

    'Not always benign'. FFs.
    Unfortunately I feel that this was a bit of a whitewash. How long will Britain hide from its past?


    Of course plenty of others want to let them because thats "mature".


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    #957
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    hondasam wrote: »

    I'm of to find a happy thread.
    Best joke thread is a barrel of laughs


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    #958
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    hondasam wrote: »
    here we go pick faults with the speech, some people are just never happy.

    I'm of to find a happy thread.

    Here you go,http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056271766 :)


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    #959
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,134 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    I am just an ordinary plain auld Dub. I have friends in the Uk who are ordinary plain folk and I am just glad to live in peace and harmony and enjoy neighbourly friendship and so are they . The ordinary folk know we are all the same and just want our kid s to play together and get along .
    I hope today makes that the way forward for us all .
    Fair play to the Queen and fair play to those who make this happen for us all .


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    #960
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    gandalf wrote: »
    I heard some northern commentator earlier on saying some of unionists were worried that the visit was going so well. They think the Brits are trying to butter everyone up for reunification ;)


    Its possible, and the brits cant have us screwed economically while it costs 8 billion sterling a year to run the north, they also do more trade with us than the BRIC combined (Brazil, Russian India & China)

    If we want the North back we need to sort the deficit quick - funny how the republican groups are all socialists and opposed ideologically to wage cuts.....


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    #961
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I was utterly cynical about this visit before it happened, and still am in many ways. The pomp which we have to pay for while many of our own are struggling to live a meaningful life day to day, is; at least questionable.

    I have to say though, as someone who considers themselves to be a republican, that the overall effect of this visit is positive, to me at least. To hell with apologies about mistakes made in the past.. Everyone knows that mistakes were made. People can apologise until they're blue in the face but it won't appease those who don't want to let go of the past.

    What could be better for republicanism than a monarch admiring its history and acknowledging its existence as an equal?


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