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31 Jul 2005, 10:21 pm

eamonn wrote:

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Sean wrote:

I wonder if they have any cool surplus guns for sale?

Trust me when I say that you want nothing to do with the group of people calling themselves the IRA these days. The whole IRA/UDA thing is essentially a Crips/Bloods or Hells Angels/Outlaws scenario these days.

Its a bit more complicated than that owing to political divides and discriminations in Ireland but i agree that there is a lot of criminals in the groups you mentioned taking advantage of the situation as you would expect.

I'm sure that it is a bit more complicated, and I think a united Ireland is inherantly a good thing, but in this day and age of the EU it seems about as redundant as Long Island seceeding from the state of New York, to become a part of Conneticutt.

Another prospect also seems to playagainst a unified Ireland. I wouldn't think that the lower Counties would be too appreciative of having to deal with the Orange Order, the UDA and other loyalist Paramilitaries if the UK pulled it's troops out, and handed the upper Counties over to the Republic.

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31 Jul 2005, 10:23 pm

I have some Irish in me...

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31 Jul 2005, 10:30 pm

Kerrigan,
Are you in Ireland for vacation? If you are looking to meet WP members, your best bet would be England, the New England area of the US, and Southeastern Australia (mainly Melbourne).

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01 Aug 2005, 2:30 am

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Does this mean that it's OK for me to make Irish jokes?!

no.

i have a large dollop of irish on my father's side (my original name is absolutely irish) - he was second generation. never been there, though, especially as i don't want to be a plastic paddy.

and the "irish situation" is far too complicated to be discussed in posts of less than about 10 pages, as i'm sure eamonn would agree. (sorry if i'm making assumptions about what you think, eamonn, by the way).

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01 Aug 2005, 2:50 am

I have lived in Ireland for almost a year but I am origionally from South Africa.

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01 Aug 2005, 3:01 am

vetivert wrote:

thatrsdude wrote:

Does this mean that it's OK for me to make Irish jokes?!

no.

So what country doesn't have someone here to make fun of? Oh, I know, how do you get a one armed Antarctican out of a tree? Wave to him!

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01 Aug 2005, 5:43 am

Sophist wrote:

I am Irish, English, Scottish, German, Swiss, French, and Danish. I am a typical American mutt.

How can you be all those?

If you think about it if everyone goes back a zillion generations they are about 50 things.

Anyway I think Kerrigan means she wants to visit people that live there? (correct me if i'm worng).

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01 Aug 2005, 8:35 am

vetivert wrote:

thatrsdude wrote:

Does this mean that it's OK for me to make Irish jokes?!

Agreed, it is quite complicated. It was just a joke i made because i have read quite a few threads and its hard not to notice that sean likes guns and the republican party.

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01 Aug 2005, 8:39 am

thatrsdude wrote:

vetivert wrote:

thatrsdude wrote:

Does this mean that it's OK for me to make Irish jokes?!

no.

So what country doesn't have someone here to make fun of? Oh, I know, how do you get a one armed Antarctican out of a tree? Wave to him!

That was clearly an Irish joke. It doesnt bother me if you have Irish jokes but like the ethiopian jokes i have probably heard most of them in the eighties but if you have any funny ones then i would like to hear them though im not sure everyone agrees.

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01 Aug 2005, 8:53 am

I know two English ...er ...Antarctican jokes ...told me by a Scotsman... :wink:

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01 Aug 2005, 9:16 am

eamonn wrote:

That was clearly an Irish joke.

I never meant it to be anything else. I just thought it would be better to tell the joke without directing it at the Irish...

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01 Aug 2005, 10:47 am

I'm diverse, yay! Cajun (French with some Irish and possibly Native American), French, English, Irish, German. If I said it twice, than it comes from both sides of family. I have a red-orange-blonde beard, mostly red-orange. I'm used to hearing French jokes because it's obvious I'm mostly French by looking at me, but I've never heard any Irish ones before... :?:

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01 Aug 2005, 3:55 pm

hale_bopp wrote:

Anyway I think Kerrigan means she wants to visit people that live there? (correct me if i'm worng).

Not sure i I dare to do that, hehe. Though it would be fun.
But I want to see something of Ireland that is
different and isnt crowded by tourists..

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01 Aug 2005, 4:11 pm

Sarcastic_Name wrote:

if you're less than a 1/4 of something, it doesn't count.

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01 Aug 2005, 4:40 pm

eamonn wrote:

. The republican movement never gives up.

I knew that wasn't the right phrase when I wrote it

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01 Aug 2005, 11:04 pm

hale_bopp wrote:

Sarcastic_Name wrote:

if you're less than a 1/4 of something, it doesn't count.

Well da*n! That means I'm only French-English.

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