Iceland

Atoms for Peace

With most of their population over at the world cup isn't it about time we annex it as the 29th county of the free state.
We rising house prices we could do with some lebensraum.

Blaas4life

It's really cold there though :-/

Zebra3

Useless kip. And their water stinks.

Hector Bellend

I'd rather annex Germany.

That will provide us with a far greater chance of qualifying for the world cup

Hector Bellend

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

With most of their population over at the world cup isn't it about time we annex it as the 29th county of the free state.
We rising house prices we could do with some lebensraum.

(P.S It's the 27th county)

Odhinn

Blaas4life wrote: »

It's really cold there though :-/

But they have volcanoes.

I'm going in September, sure that makes me practically one of the natives.

Fierce proud of Holmur and the lads out there at the moment. Win, lose or draw against Argentina, it's a great day for the parish.

Conservatory

What if we just got all our rubbish and dumped it in Waterford for the next twenty years. Then threw a few foot of topsoil over it and built a landmass connecting to uk but with a hard border.
And then a soft border in the north.

Then Leo Varadkar could pretend he personally is building houses on it. But he won’t he will just use it to fudge the house building stats.

Birneybau

Odhinn wrote: »

Blaas4life wrote: »

It's really cold there though :-/

But they have volcanoes.

And beautiful, beautiful women

Strazdas

Blaas4life wrote: »

It's really cold there though :-/

Not as cold as places like Sweden and Norway. Because they are right beside the Atlantic Ocean, they get a lot of changeable weather systems and strong winds coming in. Reykjavik doesn't get much snow at all, not even in winter.

Capt'n Midnight

Birneybau wrote: »

And beautiful, beautiful women

Only because the Vikings kidnapped them from us.

J. Marston

Does every Icelandic surname have -sson at the end of it?

corner of hells

Could we not just burn it down like we did with the Lidl shop in tallaght in the snow.

Birneybau

J. Marston wrote: »

Does every Icelandic surname have -sson at the end of it?

Just the men. The women's names end in dottir

Donald Trump

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Only because the Vikings kidnapped them from us.

So that's where all the good looking wans went


All makes sense now.


Couldn't get the hippos into the narrow long-boats

Conservatory

J. Marston wrote: »

Does every Icelandic surname have -sson at the end of it?

Haha you see Iceland is a bit odd with names.
The son at the end just means you are the name at the starts son. I can’t remember the ins and outs of it but gudmansson just means your dad was called gudman and you are a boy.

Star Bingo

that gunnarson is a real son of a gun

TheValeyard

There are volcanos and are close to Greenland.

We take Iceland. Use it as a base of operations to take Greenland. Then the world!

pickarooney

Hector Bellend wrote: »

(P.S It's the 27th county)

Fingal denier!

Franz Von Peppercorn

Conservatory wrote: »

Haha you see Iceland is a bit odd with names.
The son at the end just means you are the name at the starts son. I can’t remember the ins and outs of it but gudmansson just means your dad was called gudman and you are a boy.

Ireland had that of course. It’s what the O and the Mc used to mean.

Conservatory

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Ireland had that of course. It’s what the O and the Mc used to mean.

Not so much. If I had a son they would be called jimmy conservatorysson if I had a daughter her name would be Jane conservatorydottir or something like that. Then their kids would be called John jimmysson and if Jane married a lad called John and had a daughter her name would be Mary johnsdottir.


My spelling may be off but you get the jist

SEPT 23 1989

Their Wimbledon style football was a joy to behold today

Capt'n Midnight

Birneybau wrote: »

Just the men. The women's names end in dottir

so
-sson is son
and
-dottir , "doh tir" is daughter ?

it's fierce complicated

_Dara_

Zebra3 wrote: »

Useless kip. And their water stinks.

I honestly think you wouldn’t even say something good about yourself if someone asked. Such a moaning Micheál.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Birneybau wrote: »

Just the men. The women's names end in dottir

so
-sson is son
and
-dottir , "doh tir" is daughter ?

it's fierce complicated

Yep. And they don't keep the surnames. Your son's surname would actually be Captmidnightsson.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Conservatory wrote: »

Not so much. If I had a son they would be called jimmy conservatorysson if I had a daughter her name would be Jane conservatorydottir or something like that. Then their kids would be called John jimmysson and if Jane married a lad called John and had a daughter her name would be Mary johnsdottir.


My spelling may be off but you get the jist

Yes back in the day that was the Irish way. Sean McNeil was son of Neil. O’brian was grandson of Brian. So Sean would be Seán McNeil O’Brien

Sometimes you still get that in Kerry, but the mc is elided. Sean ‘Neil O’Brien.

(This is for a guy whose father is famous and called Neil/Niall).

Except in Kerry this died out in the early 11th C when the descendents of Brian Boru always wanted to be O’Brien.

Pherekydes

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

With most of their population over at the world cup isn't it about time we annex it as the 29th county of the free state.
We rising house prices we could do with some lebensraum.

We already have 29 counties!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Pherekydes wrote: »

We already have 29 counties!

Leitrim doesn't count on the basis it doesn't exist.

it's a conspiracy.

Capt'n Midnight

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Leitrim doesn't count on the basis it doesn't exist.

Obviously :rolleyes:



you've forgotten about Tipperary North Riding and Tipperary South Riding.

Fred Swanson

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riffmongous

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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One too many

Capt'n Midnight

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Next you'll be telling me we're down to four provinces.

uck51js9zml2yt

Why do you want to annex a supermarket?

odyssey06

According to my geography teacher, the first people to discover Iceland were Irish monks. So we clearly have a historic claim to this territory by right of first discovery. But what if this strategy backfires and the Icelandic folk take to GAA?

Capt'n Midnight

We might have a problem.

Given the budgetry constraints I think our naval service could be regarded as not being able to match the capabilities of the Royal Navy next door.

Today's Royal Navy has six destroyers and thirteen frigates.

That's less ships than they used for the Cod Wars against Iceland when they were at full Cold War strength.



And they lost.


Three times.

kneemos

They must be all first cousins at this stage?

Fred Swanson

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wexie

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

We might have a problem.

Given the budgetry constraints I think our naval service could be regarded as not being able to match the capabilities of the Royal Navy next door.

Today's Royal Navy has six destroyers and thirteen frigates.

That's less ships than they used for the Cod Wars against Iceland when they were at full Cold War strength.

And they lost.

Three times.

If memory serves though that was much more so because of political clout than because of naval prowess?

I'd say if we were to decide to annex Iceland we'd need to be more worried about repercussions from the US than anything else.

Perhaps if we could keep them in their box if we threatened to take away acess to Shannon :pac:

odyssey06

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

We might have a problem.

Good news: Our defence forces are about 20-1 larger than that of Iceland in terms of personnel and budget.

But, they are in some organisation called NATO, and we are not...

topper75

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Seem to be getting on fine so far judging by looking at them.

Don't forget - all humanity once had a much smaller pool that that again :eek:

Capt'n Midnight

odyssey06 wrote: »

Good news: Our defence forces are about 20-1 larger than that of Iceland in terms of personnel and budget.

But, they are in some organisation called NATO, and we are not...

Fair enough.


We'd never be able to feed that many prisoners.