All the Irish have left

Johnny Foreigner

All the Irish have left;
Irish names.
Irish accents.
Gaelic Football.
Hurling.
The tricolour flag.
The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

we still have spuds

TeddyTedson

Things change. If people had the same attitude hundreds of years ago nothing would ever change. We'd be in darkness. Let's cut the bull**** going forward...

Also, are you a troll?

Johnny Foreigner

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

we still have spuds

Actually massive amounts of potatoes are imported to Ireland from the EU.

token101

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

All the Irish have left;
Irish names.
Irish accents.
Gaelic Football.
Hurling.
The tricolour flag.
The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

What the **** are you on about?

Odaise Gaelach

I don't think that post could have been make by anyone with a more ironic username.

talkinyite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcm3MmD7uyc

The King of Moo

We still have our red lemonade.

arybvtcw0eolkf

The King of Moo wrote: »

We still have our red lemonade.

They can take my lemonade and eat all our swans... But they'll never take away my Clonakilty pudding, my red pubes & freckles dammit.

Johnny Foreigner

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Things change. If people had the same attitude hundreds of years ago nothing would ever change. We'd be in darkness. Let's cut the bull**** going forward...

Also, are you a troll?

Electric Ireland (formerly ESB) are doing a good job of putting us in the dark by raising bills. You think we would be in darkness without progress? Progress is putting us into the dark faster.
Going forward is being part of the EU? The EU is going backwards not forward. Their economy is shrinking not growing.
I am not a troll. My opinions differs from yours, but that doesn't make me a troll for expressing it on a forum.

Johnny Foreigner

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

I don't think that post could have been make by anyone with a more ironic username.

I am glad you get the irony of it.
So many people don't get it.

pickarooney

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

All the Irish have left;
Irish names.
Irish accents.
Gaelic Football.
Hurling.
The tricolour flag.
The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

Yime to go back home to Blighty Johnny?

prinz

I remember the day down in Rosslare when I sat on the docks and watched the Eurocrats load up the ferries with lorry loads of hurleys..

syklops

What happened to hurling? :eek:

4zn76tysfajdxp

It's all the Foreigners coming over.

TheZohanS

pickarooney wrote: »

Yime to go back home to Blighty Johnny?

I think he might actually be talking about home tbh, I'm looking out my window here and I see a tricolour at full mast. I see a sign and it's in both English and As Gaeilge...my own name is still Irish...that hasn't changed. My drivers licence is as gaeilge and in english.

Nope...Johnny is in a different country alright.

Johnny Foreigner

pickarooney wrote: »

Yime to go back home to Blighty Johnny?

England is not my home.
Home is where one belongs.
That would like suggesting Shane McGowan returns to Kent.

OneArt

The metric system makes logical sense. The other system is just random.

Is it not British anyway?

Johnny Foreigner

David Drab Cheetah wrote: »

It's all the Foreigners coming over.

No.
Its more a case of all the Irish emigrating.

FoxT

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

All the Irish have left;
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The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.

Yes, that is definitely on the cards. Once the new format driving licenses are issued, then the Govt has plans to transition to driving on the RHS.

They are going to phase it in gradually. It will start with just trucks, then cars with even number plates, then those with oddones, over about a 4 month period.


-Foxt

ejmaztec

David Drab Cheetah wrote: »

It's all the Foreigners coming over.

They should reintroduce a ban on the johnnies as well.

al28283

The Eu has nothing to do with most of the OPs points. He is not a smart man

Johnny Foreigner

OneArt wrote: »

The metric system makes logical sense. The other system is just random.

Is it not British anyway?

The metre was French, not British.

However, in 1793, France adopted as its official unit of length a metre based on provisional results from the expedition. Although it was later determined that the first prototype metre bar was short by a fifth of a millimetre because of miscalculation of the flattening of the Earth, this length became the standard. The circumference of the Earth through the poles is therefore slightly more than forty million metres (40 007 863).[4]

Ben D Bus

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

No.
Its more a case of all the Irish emigrating.

It's a case of the Irish going abroad then coming back with their heads full of ideas.

Bad things, ideas! Rice & pasta ffs! What's wrong with spuds?

Going abroad is bad for our heritage.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

No.
Its more a case of all the Irish emigrating.

Ah sure, no harm.

kfallon

Let us give up Cork as the sacrificial lamb to the EU so in return we can keep our Irishness......sounds like a win - win situation to me anyway

The King of Moo

Tayto
Bacon and Cabbage
British postboxes painted green
Club Orange/Rock Shandy/Lemon
King Crisps
Hurling and Gaelic Football
Red Lemonade
Mince meat and boiled spuds
Drystone walls
The Late Late Show
Complaining about The Late Late Show
Standing down the back at Mass and leaving before the Communion
Lyon's Tea
Liveline
Emerald sweets
"Stand clear: luggage doors operating!"

Sure we'll be grand for a while yet.

Will I Amnt

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

1All the Irish have left;
2Irish names.
3Irish accents.
4Gaelic Football.
5Hurling.
6The tricolour flag.

1-it's actually a tiny minuscule minority
2-if anything,more people are calling their children Irish names.
3-just no.
4-take a look at the fixtures for the weekend.
5-see 4
6-they must have been backwards Ivory Coast flags flying in the Aviva the other night.

What a crock of bullshít :rolleyes:

who the fug

kfallon wrote: »

Let us give up Cork as the sacrificial lamb to the EU so in return we can keep our Irishness......sounds like a win - win situation to me anyway

You think we have an ego now, wait till we get into Europe

MonkeyTennis

Im Irish AND a European. Ive eaten me own swans.

With curry sauce.

NakedNNettles

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

All the Irish have left;
Irish names.
Irish accents.
Gaelic Football.
Hurling.
The tricolour flag.
The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

:pac: I couldn't give a flying F.. you sound like some 70-80 year old ould lad. Are you sure it's not the shilling and halfpence you want back?

Looking down through history, countries, cultures, languages and people have always been evolving. It's called progress, get with it or get left behind....the alternative is ending up like Cuba or North Korea.

Johnny Foreigner

kfallon wrote: »

Let us give up Cork as the sacrificial lamb to the EU so in return we can keep our Irishness......sounds like a win - win situation to me anyway

No, let them have Donegal; the county the North didn't want.
Its already the forgotten county, so we wont miss it.

pickarooney

TheZohan wrote: »

I think he might actually be talking about home tbh, I'm looking out my window here and I see a tricolour at full mast. I see a sign and it's in both English and As Gaeilge...my own name is still Irish...that hasn't changed. My drivers licence is as gaeilge and in english.

Nope...Johnny is in a different country alright.

But you're in New York?

Johnny Foreigner

NakedNNettles wrote: »

:pac: I couldn't give a flying F.. you sound like some 70-80 year old ould lad. Are you sure it's not the shilling and halfpence you want back?

Looking down through history, countries, cultures, languages and people have always been evolving. It's called progress, get with it or get left behind....the alternative is ending up like Cuba or North Korea.

No, I just want to bring back the Irish punt (not the shilling and half pence).
The same as 680 others here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-the-PUNT-Irish-Pound/166331883412705

ejmaztec

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

No, I just want to bring back the Irish punt not the shilling and half pence).
The same as 680 others here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-the-PUNT-Irish-Pound/166331883412705

680, that should swing it.

Anyone

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.[/FONT]

4zn76tysfajdxp

Poor old Johnny Foreigner. Spent his youth in his native England, ostracised and shunned by his pals for being "Irish."

"I'll show them" he says. "I'll go to where I belong. Ireland, the birthplace of my ancestors. Then I will truly feel at home."

But, of course, when he lands he's confronted by the reality in Ireland. Quite different from the dancing on the crossroads images he comforted himself with in his youth.

"Where are the comely maidens? The singing bishops? The punts?" There has to be someone to blame. It's not like he deluded himself into thinking Ireland hasn't progressed beyond the 1980s.

"Ah, it's the EU" he mutters angrily to himself. "They're the ones taking the Ireland out of Ireland. They're swapping our Cadet Red Lemonade for Mountain Dew."

So he registers on Boards and he posts and he posts and he posts about being Irish and how we're not Irish enough. But deep down, he knows he's just another Englishman, telling the Irish how to be Irish.

Poor old Johnny Foreigner.

the keen edge

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

we still have spuds

"You may take our freedom; but you'll never take our spuds".

Enda Kennys defiant speech to the European Council.

StupidLikeAFox

Plenty of culture around if you want to find it. If your sitting around waiting for the government to shove it in your face its not going to happen.

Its a bad attitude to have Johnny, if you want to keep a culture alive you have to get out and contribute, not sit back and hope the government does because you like the idea of it

foxyboxer

I think they tried and failed to take our Begrudgery but failed.

I'll have a look for the source.

Stiffler2

They can take our moral, they can take our money & soverignity

but they'll never take our FFREEEDOOMMMM.....







/oh wait

Paparazzo

"they took our miles"

cassi

Paparazzo wrote: »

"they took our miles"

The B@stids!! :mad:

200yrolecrank

Johnny foreigner your not going to like the fact that the new drivers licenses can be obtained in English and Polish if you want.

Reamer Fanny

They took our jeerrrrrbs

KeithAFC

Still got one of the greatest musical duos in the world of music today in Jedward. So it isn't all bad for you. You might win Eurovision too.

arybvtcw0eolkf

KeithAFC wrote: »

We still got one of the greatest musical duos in the world of music today in Jedward. So it isn't all bad for us. We might win Eurovision too.

G'Day Paddy

Defiler Of The Coffin

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

All the Irish have left;
Irish names.
Irish accents.
Gaelic Football.
Hurling.
The tricolour flag.
The EU has taken away everything we have which makes us Irish and not just Europeans. We lost the Punt, now its the Irish driving licence. We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.
The Irish language is dying out, and the Irish Government has sold our sovereignty to the EU.
Ireland has become a country of bastardised American and British culture.
The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.
Membership of the EU has its benefits, but right now the cons outweigh the pros. The Irish are losing everything they have to the EU. The sad thing is that the Irish Government are letting them. We are losing all we have left.

If you're trying to rouse the freckled red-haired rabble to grab their pitchforks and hang-sangwiches and march on Brussels then you will will fail. You are talking nonsense.

Kilometres > Miles anyday. Much rather say I was doing 100 out the ring-road than 60.

gjc

dont forget we have......

the birthday bumps

and there is also a place in Galway called Muckanaghederdauhaulia

and we'll always have Father Ted.

the_syco

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

We can't even have our road signs in miles, it has to be kilometres.

A mile is 1760 yards. Way easier to count meters!

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

The next thing the EU will want us to do is drive left hand drive cars on the right side of the road, in order to harmonise with the rest of the EU.

Would this mean cheaper cars?

kylith

I like kilometers, and the metric system in general; it makes much more sense than the Imperial system.

Feck off with yer 'my car gets 40 roods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it'