They took ouurrrrr juuuuuurrrrbs
Posted on | July 16, 2008 | 134 Comments
Some stuff on Newstalk this morning when they spoke to Conor Lenihan, Minister for Kebabs, about how the economic downturn has caused more racism.
I tend not to listen to the radio too much early in the morning as it makes my brain hurt. It’s bad enough the rest of the day when I’m awake but too much at an early hour is not good for me. Still, I generally put it on while I’m waiting for the kettle to boil.
Last week the Newstalk breakfast show sent a ‘roving reporter’ to a dole office in Dublin’s inner-city to ask them if they thought foreign workers were denying Irish people work. What they broadcast was something akin to poor satire.
‘Ah yeah, dem furreners are takin’ all de jobs, you know? Dey come here and dey do work and dere’s no work den for de Irish people who pay all de taxes. And de udder ting, right, is dat de furreners are claimin’ all de benefits an’ all. And who’s payin’ for dat? We are’.
Honestly, not only are the foreigners taking all our jobs, they’re claiming all the benefits too and not paying any tax. Talented bunch, aren’t they? Working, tax dodging and signing on. Good job no Irish person would ever do that.
Anyway, they had another three or four people at that labour exchange bemoaning the fact that the foreigners in Ireland had ALL the work. One lad, who worked in construction, said there was no work in construction. The girl asked him if he’d try and get work doing something else. His reply?
‘Nah. You mean work in a deli, like? Nah’.
And there’s the thing. The last 10 years have seen Irish people leave what they consider the ‘menial’ jobs, generally those in the service industries, to foreign people. Would it be an exaggeration to suggest that 75% of people who work in shops, bars, restaurants and hotels are all foreign? I don’t think it’s far off.
We were too good, all of a sudden, to do this kind of work and now that it looks like we might have to leave our snobbery at the door it’s the foreigners who are to blame. Fuck those cunts for coming over and working hard, the inconsiderate bastards.
Anyway, the point really was the Newstalk thing. When real life starts imitating South Park you know you’re in trouble.
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July 16th, 2008 @ 8:03 am
Well, it’s not like it’s a surprise to anyone. It’s a boringly predictable response.
My husband interviewed some young guy a few years back, for an off licence job. The kid asked what the pay was, and was told it was the minimum wage, at the time six euro something.
Oh, right, he said. I was hoping for a bit more…
Well, what of licence experience do you have?
- Oh, none.
Well, what retail experience do you have?
- Oh I don’t, I was just… hoping for a bit more…
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:05 am
That was a class bit of reporting, especially yer man who thought that applying for jobs was “all cv’s and tha’” The fucker wouldn’t travel for a job either.
PS. I am one of those furreners but have not worked out how to stop paying tax or claim benefit, anyone that can help out there?
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:07 am
And most people know about the Polish builder experience – we were just talking alast night about a friend who got an atic conversion – first quote from Irish gus who did hte whole huming and hawing, and well, we could probably come in a few weeks, a month maybe… then a couple Polish guys who gave a lower quote, pulled up in their van at 7am, worked til 7pm, did it for two more days and finished, cleaned everything up after them, totally friendly and nice…
what are we going to do when they all go home?
It’s not taking jobs, it’s providing a much needed quality service in the absence of one!
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:14 am
Anyway in a few years all those foreigners wages will be slashed down to 2 Euros an hour, and the same hairballs down the dole queue will still be complaining about it and buying an all-cash instead of getting the bus to work.
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:17 am
Do away with the dole. Problem solved
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:25 am
A colleague of mine just tried to get a painter, after two weeks she was put in touch with a Polish bloke who came in did four rooms, plus doors and skirtings for 150 quid, a local tradesman would not get out of bed for that.
In the North of Scotland the economy is suffering because they cannot get labour for agriculture or hospitality industries, they reckon 66% of the migrant workforce have gone home because employment prospects have improved.
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:26 am
i’m one of those furreners too PP and i’ve been paying tax and collecting no benefits whatsoever for years now, i wonder what i’m doing wrong!!!
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:26 am
Who cares, it’s the 75 guys from Davy Stockbrokers arriving to sign on in their Eden Park jerseys that I feel sorry for.
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:27 am
This phenomona on economic based racism is most prevalent prior to a recession – as foreigners come in the front door, money goes out the back – as they say
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:33 am
Seems they took the video too. Bloody Foreigners taking jobs good job im in Lebanon working .
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:41 am
Hey MacDara, do you think there’s a lebanese guy somewhere shouting “They took our jurrrbs”
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:42 am
Video’s fine. Where have you been MacD?
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:43 am
And is there a yellow pages for efficient, Polish builders?
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:43 am
Those feckers in Southpark took Twenty’s jurrrb!
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:45 am
Where have you been MacD?
He’s nailerzzz’s bitch now.
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:50 am
A friend of mine had to sign on recently for a few weeks in Cumberland Street – He reckons he was the only local person signing on that was’nt “on the nod”
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:53 am
The only reason Irish builders/tradesmen are more expensive is they have to pay for their Nissan Cockwagon supersized pickup with 4WD.
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:55 am
Well Twenty I had to close my Blog so was avoiding reading others. Some told me yours was good today so here I am. They were right.
They say here that the Syrians took all their Jobs but its because the Lebs wont do certain types of work.
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:58 am
A bricklayer in my local was offered a job last January by another guy from the pub at 1200 per day. He said “no, why should I drop 500 a day from what a was getting on my last job”.
He’s doing nothing now, has been for weeks.
Another guy in the pub (my local is so like Ron’s)knows for a fact that foreigners get given a car when they come here. No matter how often I argue with him, he insists it’s true, and all the others believe him, coz he works for the OPW.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:00 am
Sorry, I sounded like Gluestain there. The bold was meant to stop after ‘fact’.
Sorry if my yelling woke anyone up.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:00 am
How come you had to close it down, MacD?
€1200 a DAY, Tinman?
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:01 am
I got fuck all car, where do I sign up, seems to me being a furrener has all kinds of benefits that I am not getting. I think the problem is all the Irish fleecing the benefits system meaning I don’t get all the jobs or a car. I did hear a lady in Centra muttering under her breath “and i bet you got a house for fuck all” when served by a furrener.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:02 am
I just want to add that I don’t want all the jobs, one is quite enough and on some mornings I feel even 1 job is too much.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:03 am
Free car and house would be nice though…
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:04 am
You’re not foreign enough, PP. Have you thought about blacking up?
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Or pretending to be Welsh ?
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Tried that, sang “Ohhhh Mammmy” and was roundly lambasted for being a shit Al Jolson Impersonator. Anyway the way forward is to wait until the pikeys are officially classed as Ethnic Minorities in legislation, then I am going to get a pony,dog-on-string, and caravan, I will park in areas that are awaiting development and watch the cash flowing in from local councils.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:17 am
…….and large stone boulders are like kryptonite to you !!
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:18 am
On a more serious note – will Áine Ní Chonaill’s group, the ICP, become serious players in the future ?
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:18 am
Respect to anyone who’s willing to move country to improve their life, or that of their family. It’s never easy, and certainly never done with the intention of taking someone else’s job.
It’s a lot more than any of the retards who complain would ever do.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Indeed MB – and Ironic when we see all the people calling for special treatment for the whinging gits illegally in yank-land.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:24 am
Conor Lenihan knocked on my door prior to the last election. Told him I couldn’t stay and talk, I was heading out for a kebab. By the look on his face, I think he understood.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:25 am
Some one didn’t like what I was saying and started making trouble so it was close it down or move home.It wasn’t really a difficult choice.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:33 am
Well although they may be taking all our jobs, all our benefits and all our women, they do have that charming sense of rhythm don’t they?
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:35 am
Fucking Hell MacDara, not good. My girlfriend was sacked because of her blog. Despite never naming anyone or the company, her boss guessed that “the whinging welsh arsehole” was in fact her husband and sacked her.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:37 am
“It wasn’t really a difficult choice.”
An offer you couldn’t refuse?
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:37 am
You are dating a woman married to a Welshman PP ? Gross!
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:37 am
PP, she can sue the arse off him for that.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:38 am
“…….and large stone boulders are like kryptonite to you !!”
Not anymore, my cousin’s cousin (who maybe my wife) will know someone who works on the tar that can borrow a JCB.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:41 am
I noticed as well on the front of the Irish Times as well
“Foreigners taking 3 times as much benefit as last year”.
Then underneath they explain that foreigners can’t actually get benefit until they’ve been working for at least two years, but why bother including that in the hatemongering frontpage headline?
Our company recently dropped our native cleaning company for a polish cleaning company.
It’s cheaper, they’re more efficient and they’re polite, prettier (there are fellas too but i havent seen them, i’ll assume they’re very handsome) and don’t smell.(the local knacker bitches reeked of sweat).
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:42 am
Holemaster, not in the UK, she had only worked for her for 6 months, no employment rights thanks to Thatcher. In fact it was a blessing, the woman used to pay her late because “she had her own mortgage to pay first”. The real cheek was she phoned her on a Sunday to sack her. Made us move here in the end to take all your jobs,cars and houses.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:56 am
There’s no employment rights here before 11 months. My husband got fired recently – because they thought they’d found someone who could do two jobs at once, and he wa surplus to requirements. He’d only been there three months. So that was that.
July 16th, 2008 @ 9:58 am
They did te same thing to someone else who worked for them shortly after, having caused her an injury too – they thought she hadn’t been there long enough but she actually had, so she’s got a lawyer on the case now. Excellent.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:05 am
Maggot – Since Free housing for furreners specifically excluded swimming pool and Irish Maid/Butler. The Welsh have just been commuting over to sign on and collect cash every week. It is all very inconvenient, particularly since they’ve slowed the seacat down… its a 4.5hr commute now to dun laoghaire.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:06 am
I used to work in a place where the policy was to renew contracts early, usually including a Job-Title change. It was only done to keep us all on the minimum wage, but Jesus, I had such a good time there that I never complained, and won’t name the place.
Also because I used to rob the place blind, in collusion with the Security Guards.
Happy days.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:14 am
Also the Welsh did not qualify for a furrener funded car, they were entitled to a Tractor, but due to the great Tractor shortage (caused by a syndicate from Carlow winning the lotto and trading up models) they were given fuck all.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:16 am
Jo – you know the way, right, when you click on someone’s name in the comments, it takes you to their blog, should they possess one? Well your linky thing isn’t working.
I mention this because it takes me at least three goes to spell ‘infantasia’ right, due to my stupid fingers and I liked it when I could just clicky.
I got sacked once two days before the six-month “probationary” period on my contract was up. They tried to make out like I was shit at my job, but I think it MAY have had something to do with the fact that they were culling people left right and centre and they wanted to get rid of me with no fuss, or notice. Horrible it was.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:18 am
It would be a tremendous boost to the tourist industry if they legalised Welsh hunting with dogs.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:21 am
Maggot you are a cunt, there is no way you can put dogs through the trauma of biting a Welshman. Ferrets are not as discerning though, and I have it on good authority the Welsh live in burrows like Hobbits.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:23 am
Michelle – today’s blog is about a hidden nappy.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:25 am
You misunderstand me PP – the dogs are only for the chasing – the tourists get the pleasure of dispatching the Taffs – and you are right, Taffs will go to ground like foxes – digging them out would be part of the fun.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:27 am
They’d never catch them on their pimped up tractorau… i assume of course that for full authenticity the dogs would be corgis?
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:29 am
I see the problem Michelle. It was down to general cackhandedness, and is hopefully now remedied.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:29 am
Apparently Queen Elizabeth’s corgis have bagged many a miner.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Must admit Jo – it’s a great excuse for the oul flatulence – PARP – “Oops, we must have mislaid a nappy”
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:39 am
Anyway hunting Welsh is easy:
1) Set up a blind/hide in a clearing
2) Pipe some male voice choir music: “Men of Harlech” works a treat
3) Stake an attractive looking sheep in clearing
The Welsh males will come flocking (pardon) and you can blast way merrily with your ordanance of choice.
Welsh females are easier, just shout “who’s for a half of lager” and the same effect can be had.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:49 am
Back in the late 90s, when the same crap was being spouted about Africam immigrants (free cars and all that good stuff), I worked in this small company, mostly Irish…
Anyhoo, went in one day, this guy says to me ‘Grover, where is your missus from?’ in front of everyone.
‘Malaysia’ says I.
‘See, I told yiz she was a refugee!!’ he roars at the others.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:51 am
theres a part of me thats glad about the economic downturn. Obviously not people losing their jobs. But people of a certain generation got very fucking cocky in the last few years. Y
I hope it also leads to less jeeps on the road too. God I hate them
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:57 am
maybe less ugg boots if we are lucky ?
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:57 am
Did anyone read about the developer in the Times on Sunday. The one who has multiple cars, got Girls Aloud for his daughters party and flew in his private helicopter to work.
Anyway he was looking for sympathy because he is set to lose it all because of his dodgy dealings, he was laying it on thick about selling his Bentley etc etc.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:09 am
Fewer jeeps and ugg boots, lads, less is for uncountables, like coffee and rice.
PP, I thoughtthe Welsh and Scots were united in their hatred of the English, no? Or is that only when there’s one in the room?
My husband wants to buy a jeep, the aforementioned Nissan. I may not be able to stop him, it’s a practical choice. Perhaps if I tell him it’ll be known as a ‘cockwagon’ it’ll sway his decision.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:12 am
A practical choice would be a van, not a cockwagon, I don’t hate anyone Jo based on nationality or race, there are a lot more interesting factors to take into account when spewing my hatred.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:14 am
You may want to point him towards the Mitsibushi range, they are not cockwagons, they are just cuntmobiles.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:21 am
they took ur jobbbbbsss
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July 16th, 2008 @ 11:24 am
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July 16th, 2008 @ 11:27 am
“Fewer jeeps and ugg boots, lads, less is for uncountables, like coffee and rice.”
You’re talkin’ dirty again Jo.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:28 am
I wonder whether the Government ever carry out any opinion polls before pleading to the US on behalf of the illegal Irish there.
In my experience(again, my local),everyone here, whether racist about our own immigrants or not, thinks they should all be deported.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Less jeeps is right, Jo, the number of the bloody things is uncountable.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:41 am
People should be able to drive whatever the hell they like. I going to buy a Jag as soon as I sell this kidney.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:44 am
Most people in this country shouldn’t be allowed to drive at all. And no they shouldn’t be allowed to drive whatever the hell they want, because half the fucking idiots in cars are killing people because they have no idea how to handle a vehicle.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:45 am
I’d love a jag, but they’re so shiny, it’s bashed and scratched to fuck within seconds of me climbing into it.
Though the day I can afford one (lotto) I will also be able to afford a chauffeur, so it’s all good.
PP, we started at van, but need something for kids too… so here’s where we’re at.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:48 am
Fair comment Jo, nned to have room for Kids, but can you hubby not have a nice car for the family and have his roadies haul his gear about for him?
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:49 am
Although I must say I think it is not responsible letting your kids drive at their age. can you not get them a trike or something.
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:49 am
Go far enough back in time and we are all foreigners, right? Wonder what the original inhabitants thought when those fucking Normans arrived with their fancy castles and stole all the best chainmail manufacturing jobs?
July 16th, 2008 @ 11:52 am
True, PP, true.
The roadie idea was the plan alright, but is a wee bit farther in the future than was hoped :(
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:12 pm
Jo – the green option is a horse and cart.
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
I going to buy a Jag as soon as I sell this kidney.
How much do you want for the pair FMC ?
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
There isn’t any amount of organ replacement that will repair the damage done by Harp.
Fucking Vikings coming over here with their raping,pillaging and stealing ourrrr jurrrrbs
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
Fecking Tuatha Dé Danann took the Firbolg’s jurrrrbs! Fuck them!
Vikings rule OK ya bas.
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
I have just read that the Fir Bolg may have been descended from the Belgae. That means you are all descended from Chocolate eating paedos
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
..yeeaahhhh, descended from…
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
That explains the priesthood then…
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
Mayo on chips is the sole redeeming feature of Belgium
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
and 7% beer
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
I think we’ve had this conversation very recently
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
That means you are all descended from Chocolate eating paedos
not me sunshine – 100% planter
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Do you eat mussels Jo ?
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
Mayo on chips hardly makes up for
1) Paedos
2) Boredom
3) Even more boredom
4) A nation of schizo fuckers with no sense of humour
5) Brussels
60 Inspector Poireaut
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:40 pm
It does in my book PP.
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:41 pm
nothing like freshly roasted and salted planters
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
Jo, the answer to your vehicle dilemma is a Ford Transit Crew Cab! A van with more seats.
http://static.preloved.co.uk/uploads/userphotos/230804.jpg
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
The aboriginal Irish, such as porridge, hate us becuse we are not paedos.
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
Maggot I can trade you a liver? Going cheap?
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
My canary doesn’t need a liver translant FMC – gedditt ????
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
no, we are just allergic to nuts
July 16th, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Why do you ask, maggot? I have, in fact, an extreme aversion to all things shell/fishy. Always did.
I suspect the Transit has been considered and rejected, perhaps due to financial considerations – I know he wants the other as well :(
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
Going back to Irish Origins again,
my understanding is that most Irish until the invasion of the normans were basically a mixture of Belgae(belgium),Celts(germans) and Iberians(spanish).
Dubs obviously don’t count as they’re vikings.(the vikings must have been partial to wearing pyjamas outside too)
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
Jo, the jeep can be ok. If you buy a 2.5L Turbo Diesel jeep, it’ll be ok on emissions compared to an SUV with a massive petrol engine. So not as bad as you might think. And they take up the same space on the road as a van anyway.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
jo problem solved
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2070161134_1c8d06d4bc.jpg?v=1196447255
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
Old Chris Columbus’s's’s's Diary has a an entry in it which refers to meeting people in Galway who claimed to have travelled across the Atlantic from the west (not the Aran Islands) and they were of a darker complexion. I think there’s a bit of Injin in us. Prevailing winds are from the west so it would have been easier to sail west to east, makes sense.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
as if them bricklaying fucks would be willing to do some of the awful things the eastern europeans are doing.
Some of them were cleaning portaloos DURING oxegen!
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
Very eco friendly car…
http://www.strangevehicles.com/images/content/112354.jpg
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
Ah, that’s the plan, Hm. The silly fucker keeps insisting it’s the same size as a large car! He has this expression ‘it’s all a square’ to explain his inane shortcuts – I think he’s applying that thinking here.
If Fenyman’s ghost is reading, I’m well aware how boring this is, sorry :)
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
I feel for him Jo, it’s the grown up version of wanting a Tonka truck, god I loved my tonka…. and mecanno…. and train set…. and lego….. and muck.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Ha, cute, to the car pictures.
That’s interesting about Americans here. Sometimes when you look at old photos of the old people from the islands, you can see the connection in their craggy faces, very Chief Sitting Bull sometimes!
I also saw a programme on red haired dna found in prehistoric Indian skeletons… an early exchange student programme, maybe?
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Poor man, he had a Tonka digger as a kid – his evil friend Lorainne buried it somewhere, never to be found again.
She also coached him to threaten his mother he’d pee on the sofa if she didn’t meet his demands, apparently.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
Yep some of the Aran islanders and Connemara people have a longer face and nose and look like Spanish or maybe native americans. They have darker hair and complexion.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
Well, we know the Spanish connection. I never heard of the Native American one though. That’s really interesting. I must google it.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Extract from Columbus’ Diary:
CC: So you came from a land far west over the sea?
NA: Yes many weeks on the sea from the land of the setting sun.
CC: How?
NA: How.
CC: No How?
NA: Yes, How.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
Jo, I will ssolve your vehicular crisis. There will soon be lots of unemployed people looking for work. The minimumw age will be decreased. Thus buy yourself a couple of eastern european powered sedan chairs. Cheap to run, and good for the environment and easy to maintain.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
Are we all not direct inbred descendants of Adam and Eve, dont tell me the christian brothers lied to me….
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
No, Adam and Paul
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Are we all not direct inbred descendants of Adam and Eve, dont tell me the christian brothers lied to me…
They wouldn’t lie Dessiegee, it’s supposed to go up there.
Just don’t tell anyone.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
They also said it’s supposed to hurt – the bastards.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Badaboombadabing Maggot.
July 16th, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
I’d like to meet this Lorraine, she sounds useful.
July 16th, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
Are you in the market for an evil henchwoman, FMC?
I suspect there might be a power struggle.
July 16th, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
“Extract from Columbus’ Diary:”
Here’s the real dialogue HM:
CC: So yow comma froma de land far west acrossa de sea eh?NA: What the fuck…
July 16th, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
hotwaterbottleBadaboombadabing
sorry
July 16th, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
Paudge Behan – he gonna have a lot to answer for!
July 16th, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
I need someone who can be ‘fitted-up’ and she sounds ideal.
July 16th, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
The irish as was most of the western british isles were made of of peoples from the western coasts of Iberia (spain hadn’t been invented), north africa and the med.. the belgian cunts (that probably had been invented – (what else was there to do?) were german really but they didn’t know that either.. and the celts sadly didn’t exist until they got invented in the 17th century..all based on a couple of jugs from Austria and deep seated need to not be English.. bad news is there were a fair few brits and worse still picts (there weren’t any jocks either woo woo woo they were still Brits) milling around and copying stories from the bible and being saintly like.. as for the normans they sold volvos to the french and things led from there.. and Jo you should try a VW T5 i cant afford one but they are great
July 16th, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Not strictly true, Scots were made up of Picts,Gaels and Britons with a few of yer Germanic Types, like the Angles and Norsemen.
Gaels came to Scotland around the 5th/6th Century. The nomenclature “Celts” in its current form does come from the 17th century but the earliest reference goes back to Roman Times. The nation of the Picts extended from northern Scotland to the Forth (central Scotland). There was no notion of Britain as such in those times. So fuck you.
July 16th, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
Nothing sinister Jo – I know some veggies who eat shellfish
July 16th, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
How old is this Lorraine ? Is she a social worker ?
July 16th, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
@Papalamour
I take great issue with pretty much everything you said.
July 16th, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
Just watched a programme about travelling salesmen from yesterday. Lovely old fellas talking about their days selling shop to shop and how their business and their customers was destroyed by the likes of Dunnes and Quinnsworth. Mad me all sad. Spars Centras all over the sh… eh place. Fuck all choice really and all controlled by the distributers.
And I really hate when they shout next at you when there’s some old lady still packing her bread and a couple spuds in front of me. I always make them wait until the counter is clear.
July 16th, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
salesmen from yesteryear I meant! Shit there’s loads of mistakes in that post.
July 16th, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
Well, it works too, the salesmen of yesterday…
I don’t know. It sounds like a horrible, stressful job to me. And they all seemed terribly conflicted and unhappy, confused about their salesman personas v their family personalities.
Of course, that maybe just from film and fiction, that I’ve gleaned that perception.
July 16th, 2008 @ 7:42 pm
Eoghain Harris recomended that programme in yesterday’s Sindo so I steered clear of it.
July 16th, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
These guys seemed to be more into the chat and banter with the shop owners than actually selling. As they and shop keepers said, they were just trying to make a living as opposed to making money. My Dad used to do it years ago for a while, selling ice cream to shops and he liked it to a point. He said Dunnes were right fuckers and refused to deal them. I recently had the opportunity to refuse their offer of a tender. I enjoyed that immensely.
July 16th, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
@holemaster – sorry, not intended.
@PP – fair comment. brit / britain should read brython.. of which there was a general idea of across both islands from 5th & 6th/Roman times onward. Britain didn’t come into being as we know it till a lot later. Brython has as much to do with English as whatever “the talented Mr Behan-Ripley” was saying had to do with Italian.
The Gaels were all over the western coast of Britain and well, well beyond that even i.e. from Dal Riada right down to the south coast of England Dorset et al long before the 5th and 6th Century. This date was the first time that there are reliable written records. We’ve got a few Gael hut/farmstead from before 5th C outside our village.. no sign of any activity from the Welsh/Brythons that lived her prbly because they were still taming sheep and things.
Bring back GLUSTEAIN. OFF TO THE PUB
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:03 pm
@papalamour
I was only kidding. You seem informed about old civilisations, interesting stuff, worlds away from what we are today.
June 23rd, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
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