Things Irish people erroneously think are uniquely Irish.

augustus gloop · 17-09-2012 9:58am

summerskin wrote: »

Nonsense. Black puddings are available everywhere. Bury, in Lancashire, is where you will get the best black puddings in the world. There are shops there that sell black pudding and nothing else.

People in Bury eat so much black pudding that the local hospital had to stop taking stool samples for medical tests because there was always blood in the stool as a result, thus making the test results inconclusive.

LOL, pee euuuh!!:D:D
thats pretty rank

Crooked Jack · 17-09-2012 10:16am

augustus gloop wrote: »

rory mc illory
eddie irvine
glasgow celtic football club
the fastest game in the world sh*te talk

Rory McIlroy = Irish
Eddie Irvine = Irish
Celtic = Obviously Scottish, I doubt if anyone thinks they are Irish. i dont know much about them myself though they do seem to have been set up in Scotland by an Irish monk and Irish immigrants.
Again I'm no expert but the internet seems to agree that hurling is the fastest field sport in the world.

LordSutch · 17-09-2012 10:30am

The Beatles
Wayne Rooney
Red hair
Freckles

gobnaitolunacy · 17-09-2012 10:34am

augustus gloop wrote: »

rory mc illory
eddie irvine
glasgow celtic football club
the fastest game in the world sh*te talk

1 and 2 would probably say they were 'Ulster Scots' rather than Irish.

Crooked Jack · 17-09-2012 10:47am

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

1 and 2 would probably say they were 'Ulster Scots' rather than Irish.

When I was a kid I would have said I was more dinosaur than human. Didnt make it so...sadly

augustus gloop · 17-09-2012 10:49am

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Rory McIlroy = Irish
Eddie Irvine = Irish
Celtic = Obviously Scottish, I doubt if anyone thinks they are Irish. i dont know much about them myself though they do seem to have been set up in Scotland by an Irish monk and Irish immigrants.
Again I'm no expert but the internet seems to agree that hurling is the fastest field sport in the world.

both sportsmen are N Ireland, we give out when Katie Taylor is called British, but the 2 lads are in fact British.
I didnt explain what I meant about Celtic alright, I was getting at the notion that by wearing a Celtic jersey it somehow makes you somewhat of a republician, and its an Irish Catholics duty to hate those Rangers blah blah, the riots in Dublin a few years back type of mindframe is what I am referring to.

Hurling is not the fastest game in the world, end of.

Crooked Jack · 17-09-2012 10:55am

augustus gloop wrote: »

both sportsmen are N Ireland, we give out when Katie Taylor is called British, but the 2 lads are in fact British.
I didnt explain what I meant about Celtic alright, I was getting at the notion that by wearing a Celtic jersey it somehow makes you somewhat of a republician, and its an Irish Catholics duty to hate those Rangers blah blah, the riots in Dublin a few years back type of mindframe is what I am referring to.

Hurling is not the fastest game in the world, end of.

Yes, I gave out when people said katie Taylor was British, so I reserve the right to also give out when people try to claim other Irish sports personalities as British.
Cant stand soccer myself but i know plenty of Celtic fans, none of whom seem to have this mindset you describe, this appears to be your issue.
Nobody claims hurling is the fastest sport in the world, surely that would go to something like F1 (although I personally think that is stretching the definition of the word sport) what seems to be fairly agreed upon is that hurling is the fastest field sport in the world. Care to offer an alternative or is saying "end of" your only argument?

who_me · 17-09-2012 10:59am

Ire

HeyThereDeliah · 17-09-2012 10:59am

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Bob the Seducer · 17-09-2012 11:06am

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

1 and 2 would probably say they were 'Ulster Scots' rather than Irish.

To quote Eddie Irvine:

"But at the end of the day, I'm Irish. I mean, I've got a British passport, but if you're from Ireland, north or south, you're Irish. And 'British' is. . . such a nondescript thing, isn't it?"

http://www.andrewmueller.net/display.lasso?id=68

augustus gloop · 17-09-2012 11:12am

irvine and mc illory both from Down in Northern Ireland. They travel on British passports.

Yes, you are very right in pointing out how the vast majority of Celtic fans are normal people, I take back that broad statement.

A well hit sliothar travels at 95 mph.
Tiger Woods hits a golf ball at 180mph off the tee.
Elite badminton players will constantly hit the shuttle over 200mph.

gobnaitolunacy · 17-09-2012 11:12am

Bob the Seducer wrote: »

To quote Eddie Irvine:

http://www.andrewmueller.net/display.lasso?id=68[/QUOTE]

Fair enough, from the horses mouth so to speak.

Feisar · 17-09-2012 11:15am

augustus gloop wrote: »

irvine and mc illory both from Down in Northern Ireland. They travel on British passports.

Yes, you are very right in pointing out how the vast majority of Celtic fans are normal people, I take back that broad statement.

A well hit sliothar travels at 95 mph.
Tiger Woods hits a golf ball at 180mph off the tee.
Elite badminton players will constantly hit the shuttle over 200mph.

"fastest field sport". Badminton isn't a field sport. And no one has to react to a golf ball hit by Tiger Woods. Quite unlike one hit by myself!

MakeEmLaugh · 17-09-2012 11:19am

People are naming plenty of things that are erroneously thought of as uniquely Irish, but they're not saying where else they can be found...

summerskin · 17-09-2012 11:36am

Feisar wrote: »

"fastest field sport". Badminton isn't a field sport. And no one has to react to a golf ball hit by Tiger Woods. Quite unlike one hit by myself!

a baseball pitcher can pitch at up to 105mph, and the batter can hit the ball at up to 127mph, with a reaction time of one tenth of a second. A sliotar has been measured at 105mph thus far off the hurl.

Off that, the reaction times in baseball would be faster, both for the batter and also for the blokes fielding in the infield when a ball is hit at full speed, but hurling is clearly the faster all round game i suppose.

AEDIC · 17-09-2012 11:41am

Also I believe that the Lacrosse ball can travel in excess of 100mph so I think that too would also be higher than the average speed of the sliothar? it is also a very fast paced all round game.

augustus gloop · 17-09-2012 11:44am

Feisar wrote: »

"fastest field sport". Badminton isn't a field sport. And no one has to react to a golf ball hit by Tiger Woods. Quite unlike one hit by myself!

where did I ever use the word field

Hallyington · 17-09-2012 11:46am

Being a catholic

Crooked Jack · 17-09-2012 11:49am

augustus gloop wrote: »

where did I ever use the word field

You didnt, which was the problem. Nobody has ever claimed hurling is the fastest sport in the world, the do however claim it's the fastest field sport in the world, a claim that seems hard to argue with. Someone mentioned lacrosse which seems to be the only similar game that can rival it, but even at that I'd say hurling is faster.

Fratton Fred · 17-09-2012 11:55am

Crooked Jack wrote: »

You didnt, which was the problem. Nobody has ever claimed hurling is the fastest sport in the world, the do however claim it's the fastest field sport in the world, a claim that seems hard to argue with. Someone mentioned lacrosse which seems to be the only similar game that can rival it, but even at that I'd say hurling is faster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_bowling

Feisar · 17-09-2012 11:56am

augustus gloop wrote: »

where did I ever use the word field

You didn't, I inverted comma'd the commonly used phrase related to hurling.

dan1895 · 17-09-2012 11:57am

Hating cats

augustus gloop · 17-09-2012 12:08pm

wow, trollnation here, thanks guys im outta here.
and hurling still is not the fastest game in the world:D

Intensive Care Bear · 17-09-2012 12:11pm

I think a few people here might want to have a look at this http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/erroneous

seamus · 17-09-2012 12:19pm

Incompetent government and parish pump politics.

There are Bertie Ahernes and Healy-Raes in every other country in the world.

Crooked Jack · 17-09-2012 12:23pm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_bowling

Looks pretty nippy alright. Id still say hurling is an overall faster sport but clearly its a difficult thing to measure, are we just talking about ball speed, reaction, distance covered, etc...
Nice to see someone offering an alternative suggestion rather than just making an empty statement.

Crooked Jack · 17-09-2012 12:24pm

augustus gloop wrote: »

wow, trollnation here, thanks guys im outta here.
and hurling still is not the fastest game in the world:D

nobody said it was.

Frynge · 17-09-2012 12:29pm

3 bananas fuuur a pawuund

karma_ · 17-09-2012 12:45pm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_bowling

Fast bowling isn't a sport, Cricket is. And no one could ever make a valid argument that Cricket is a faster sport than Hurling.

CelticRambler · 17-09-2012 12:47pm

summerskin wrote: »

Bury, in Lancashire, is where you will get the best black puddings in the world.

It was an Irish producer that won the world black pudding championships last year though. Don't know when the next competition's on.

fasttalkerchat · 17-09-2012 1:09pm

augustus gloop wrote: »

wow, trollnation here, thanks guys im outta here.
and hurling still is not the fastest game in the world:D

You learned something in you time here then. That's good.

Everybody now, fastest FIEEEEEELD game.

LiamMc · 17-09-2012 1:11pm

CelticRambler wrote: »

It was an Irish producer that won the world black pudding championships last year though. Don't know when the next competition's on.

Rio de Janeiro 2016

2nd Sunday of September every year Black Pudding Throwing Contest in Ramsbottom, Lancs, England.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqUZnQiw-zI
See, food wastage is not only restricted to Ireland.

Red Lemonade advertised in Chandigarh, India. (I know, I know..... obviously the Irish in the British Army brought in over)
http://rasoi.chandigarhcity.info/recipe.php?r3=116&r=B2&supname=Beverages+%26+Drinks&r2=B2F2&subname=Juices&recipe=Red+Lemonade

Now that links are provided it's only fair that the skeptics must now travel to these places.

LiamMc · 17-09-2012 1:12pm

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

You learned something in you time here then. That's good.

Everybody now, fastest FIEEEEEELD game.

Hockey.... dude.

gobnaitolunacy · 17-09-2012 1:17pm

St Patrick

AEDIC · 17-09-2012 1:40pm

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

You learned something in you time here then. That's good.

Everybody now, fastest FIEEEEEELD game.

Lacrosse

Fratton Fred · 17-09-2012 1:53pm

karma_ wrote: »

Fast bowling isn't a sport, Cricket is. And no one could ever make a valid argument that Cricket is a faster sport than Hurling.

In parts it is as fast, as demonstrated.

You could argue that Tennis is faster, because it Hurling, as with all team sports, you aren't involved all the time.

Anyway, wtf is this arguement about anyway?

fasttalkerchat · 17-09-2012 2:08pm

AEDIC wrote: »

Lacrosse

Lacrosse would be if the players moved the same way as in hurling. Unfortunately that's what slows down Lacrosse, making hurling the fastest.

And hockey, you joking me?

AEDIC · 17-09-2012 2:18pm

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Lacrosse would be if the players moved the same way as in hurling. Unfortunately that's what slows down Lacrosse, making hurling the fastest.

And hockey, you joking me?

Field may be smaller but the game is quite similar in that the players are 'zoned' and I can assure you they move pretty quickly

You rarely get the players in Hurling venturing the full length of the field either so it is the nearest comparable in my view.

Who knows Fred...who knows, but it passes away a few minutes

professore · 17-09-2012 2:28pm

CJC999 wrote: »

Driving a car registered in another country on the roads here.

Ireland is the only place this happens. No where else would tolerate it. Blaming VRT or high road tax is a pathetic excuse for blatant disregard for the law.

That's why there are queues at the borders of every EU country every morning, people living on one side of the border and working on the other all have to re-register their cars twice a day. Some have even designed a James Bond style flip plate to change from one reg to another as they cross.

Sales reps and tourists who cross several borders have a filofax style plate that flips over as they cross multiple borders each day, and a smart chip implanted in their brain to track them as they go eating their straight bananas.

Bloody EU red tape!!!!

Fratton Fred · 17-09-2012 2:51pm

professore wrote: »

CJC999 wrote: »

Driving a car registered in another country on the roads here. Ireland is the only place this happens. No where else would tolerate it. Blaming VRT or high road tax is a pathetic excuse for blatant disregard for the law.

That's why there are queues at the borders of every EU country every morning, people living on one side of the border and working on the other all have to re-register their cars twice a day. Some have even designed a James Bond style flip plate to change from one reg to another as they cross. Sales reps and tourists who cross several borders have a filofax style plate that flips over as they cross multiple borders each day, and a smart chip implanted in their brain to track them as they go eating their straight bananas.
Bloody EU red tape!!!!

It's only a matter of time.

Things Irish people erroneously think are uniquely Irish.

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