The Irish

who built the irish motorways? i don't mean germany i mean the construction workers themselves

pfunkboy is suggesting all the irish builders were building british motorways

first encounteer with real england was flying knock-wet midlands and virgin training it to old trafford and back to stay in a generic city centre birmingham hotel that night. streets were ugly and threatening and every building looked like the back of another building. kfc zinger box was good. i was reading, iirc, one of robin hobb's farseer trilogy. nobody came in and danced on the bed, but there wasn't as much fighting outside and we could come and go as we pleased. c+

thats the old stereotype
xp

fianna fail were in charge during the building of a lot of the newer motorways and national routes, so it's quite likely that we sent them over to the brits under agreed terms, organised a terrorist scare so that no work could be carried out, had them back into dun laoghaire that night with the material and equipment and had the job done here before anyone knew different. leases and documents all provided by goodmans meats.

can't recall the firms involved tbrr idk if sisk do motorways, twas all eu funding but yeah the roads running through the place now are tip top. the n5 through swinford, which iirc you will have known nakh, has won several awards or so i'm informed every time i sit next to the GIS fella at work outings.

spending a couple of nights in wigan certainly made me appreciate ireland that little bit more

when I first came to England I thought "I feel like I'm on TV".

yeah i recognise that, weatherfield vibes from the walk back from old trafford to the centre, ross kemp on gangs from the front gates of anfield until the safety of the airport bus and rogue cops go wild caught on tv! from birmingham centre after 8pm

spent a v memorable night in dulwich after a 0-0 draw with villa in which a cousin had an episode and scratched up several passers by before we spotted her turning, up til then it had all been fond cameraderie and singsongs to total eclipse of the heart and sambuca in the vale i have videos of most of the above iirc

6/10, that one, mainly for total eclipse

weatherfield vibes lol

I was in your County Kerry this year and things got pretty real. Chips on the pavements, smashed up phone boxes, the fuckin lot.

by 'your' I am of course addressing the entire irish peoples wherever they may be.

tralee?

xp we'll take it with good cheer, at least you got the country right

every building looked like the back of another building = this is probably true of most cities of the non-historical/picturesque variety but probably more true of english ones than most other european countries east of the soviet bloc

Nah not tralee. That's a real dump. Right on the coast and that. It's very nice round there tbf.

There was a group of people passing through on the way to puck fair, that's all. All very friendly I'm sure.

ballybunion? that can be a bit dodge

jaysus i figured tralee from the warzone depictions, that town has gone ta fuck and no mistake from what i hear

Look lads I'm not going to start naming villages cos you just never know, do you.

While I was there I saw a v twee 'cupcakery' and of course it was run by some bloody English.

xpost to darragh: it has indeed

ah you wouldn't be without the english arts and crafts and suchlike cottage industries, they'll fuckin pay anything for anything if you tell them its local

fuckin eejits

deems what do u think of this dude

http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.1315463.1361917127!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_140_140/image.jpg

in how many letters

i'll try to think of a uk equivalent but rly..

derivatives

Eejit I think is the word that springs to mind

eejit with serious public road frontage.

let me know if i've ticked any of the wrong boxes here

religious nut, craves the sceptre across the back from the old days
pretty much a fascist wrt the proper authorities doing the public's thinkin for them and all that entails
a bad, bad, stupid writer without any interest in actual discussion nor argument v-a-v exchange of views or any such
gives men's rights/the kickback against lefty nutcases a bad name tbh

feel free to add more

shit songwriter with weird Eurovision fixation

lol I'd forgotten about that

Who is it?

john waters. i read my father's copy of jiving at the crossroads at one point & remember very little of it.

can we get a list of ppl who give men's rights a good name?

nah

thought not

:x

nearest brit equivalent to john waters is paul morley, although thats quite unfair on paul morley

Is he iona or can he not even get on with that lot

do yez call puddings pudding or do you just call whiney sausage pudding

pudding as after dinner sweet is called dessert/afters
pudding as xmas pudding boiled dough raisins etc kinda suety thing is xmas pudding
whiney sausage pudding is black or white pudding

couldnt be clearer tbh

afters is british imo

why don't u take a plane to boston, drive up the coast to gloucester, find my father and say that to his face

cos like

if pudding is afters, then what do you call befores

famine

why don't u take a plane to boston, drive up the coast to gloucester, find my father and say that to his face

my dad was actually born in england. he only revealed this a few years ago.

well far be it form the likes of you then to tell a true gael what to call his hard-earned afters imo

never heard anything other than dessert used.