They were probably paying twice as much as they should have. When it comes to paying the Irish, you should make sure you're not Dublin it.

Sure. Right. As soon as the Brits pay reparations for the Potato Famine...

DslainteC: When it comes to paying the Irish, you should make sure you're not Dublin it.

Spend the extra bucks on Shane McGowan's teeth.

shivashakti: Sure. Right. As soon as the Brits pay reparations for the Potato Famine...

Not one single potato starved to death. It was a potato blight.

/half-irish
//the half that likes guinness

GB has more ways to screw the Republic out of money than the Republic has ways to keep that cash. It'll come back.

póg mo thóin

FTFA: ... overpayments could be up to €750m over the past five years, from a total bill of €2bn.

"Hey you guys, I got AIG on the other line."

/WE know how to throw money away.

You're not going to get me gold!

/had to be done

What Irish laughter may look like.

Ball of Confusion: shivashakti: Sure. Right. As soon as the Brits pay reparations for the Potato Famine...

Not one single potato starved to death. It was a potato blight.

/half-irish
//the half that likes guinness


It was indeed a potato blight and then forced starvation of the irish people by the evil british empire.

We had food, grain, barley and so on but our Evil british friends ate all our pie.

But the langers still shot mickey collins

They're afta ma lucky charms!


/Hot like krakatoa

I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

They can't even get the Lucky Charms. How do they expect to get back hundreds of millions of dollars?

/Catch Lucky!

KING5TON: They're afta ma lucky charms!

hehe, nice simulpost

They spent it all down at the pub.

ace in your face: I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

800 YEARS!!!


\\SHAKES FIST AT ENGLAND

hey... we'll give your farking teeth back. fark the brits... except pink floyd, stones and beatles... fark the rest.

hey thanks for raping and pillaging my country for 1000 years... you stupid farks

ace in your face: I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

Was that when we Rrrrraped the horses and rode off on the wimmen?


/Hot like a pornstar covered in jam

They're after me lucky 200 million euros.

jerger: hey... we'll give your farking teeth back. fark the brits... except pink floyd, stones and beatles... fark the rest.

hey thanks for raping and pillaging my country for 1000 years... you stupid farks

Shouldn't have be such pussies then should you?

Robbie the Robber: Ball of Confusion: shivashakti: Sure. Right. As soon as the Brits pay reparations for the Potato Famine...

Not one single potato starved to death. It was a potato blight.

/half-irish
//the half that likes guinness


It was indeed a potato blight and then forced starvation of the irish people by the evil british empire.

We had food, grain, barley and so on but our Evil british friends ate all our pie.

But the langers still shot mickey collins


And don't forget all that fish... Did the Irish not have fishing poles?

Joking aside... Langers. I love that word... Had a housemate from Cork who used it all the time.

KING5TON:
Shouldn't have be such pussies then should you?

I used that argument with my very Irish wife. It did not go over well.

/Scottish
//Yes, there is a lot of booze in our house.
///Yay stereotypes!

Robbie the Robber: ace in your face: I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

800 YEARS!!!


\\SHAKES FIST AT ENGLAND

If you can't have a decent revolution in 800 years that's your fault. Some countries are like gimps, they love pain and humiliation at the rough hands of another nation.

Inquisitive Inquisitor: KING5TON:
Shouldn't have be such pussies then should you?

I used that argument with my very Irish wife. It did not go over well.

/Scottish
//Yes, there is a lot of booze in our house.
///Yay stereotypes!

Make sure you quote Braveheart as an example of how to do it next time :)

Wow, the Plastic Paddies are out in force today.

So next year they will give $200M less to the Irish, and there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth and snarky comments in this forum by the socialists.

Stop the world; etc.

its an ongoing payment they dont need to ask for some back, they just stop paying for a few years!

It's been a while since I played, but isn't the headline referencing NetHack?

"NHS funds are always precious and it's completely unacceptable for the Government to be carelessly diverting £180 million a year out of our NHS...the painful impact the confusion is having on the already overstretched Irish health system."

Well, it sounds like it doesn't matter whether your health care system is private, or public, or public-private, or puvic-priblic, or whatever. It sounds like no matter the scheme, health care systems are always limping along underfunded and overly expensive. No doubt the U.S. system will get a government-driven "overhaul" and be no better off than it was before. Instead of our money disappearing into inefficient private health insurance bureaucracies, it will disappear into inefficient public health insurance bureaucracies.

jerger: hey... we'll give your farking teeth back. fark the brits... except pink floyd, stones and beatles... fark the rest.

hey thanks for raping and pillaging my country for 1000 years... you stupid farks

i didnt know milwaukee was in ireland.

keylock71: Robbie the Robber: Ball of Confusion: shivashakti: Sure. Right. As soon as the Brits pay reparations for the Potato Famine...

Not one single potato starved to death. It was a potato blight.

/half-irish
//the half that likes guinness


It was indeed a potato blight and then forced starvation of the irish people by the evil british empire.

We had food, grain, barley and so on but our Evil british friends ate all our pie.

But the langers still shot mickey collins


And don't forget all that fish... Did the Irish not have fishing poles?

Joking aside... Langers. I love that word... Had a housemate from Cork who used it all the time.

We couldn't make fishing poles we were sent to connaught were there wasn't even enough trees to hang yourself dont mind make fishing poles for the 10 million or so who lived here then.

Anyway the spanish came later to rob our fish

\\so long and thanks for the all fish

KING5TON - If you can't have a decent revolution in 800 years that's your fault. Some countries are like gimps, they love pain and humiliation at the rough hands of another nation.

You know the bit I never got? Ireland was gifted to the English Crown by the farking Pope in order to ensure that they submitted to the orthodoxy of Rome. So what did the Irish do? Reject the Celtic church (which the Holy See considered heretical and preaching heterodoxy) and wholesale embrace Roman Catholicism then blame the English for everything that happened subsequently.

Yet they never ever rag on the Catholic church, even after the 'fun' of spending much of the twentieth century being run as what was effectively a fiefdom of the Vatican...

/backing the losing side in one civil war is unfortunate, to do it in two looks like carelessness...
//half-Irish, half-Scottish
///Don't hate the English, they're wankers. We were crap enough to be colonised by a nation of wankers.

jerger: thanks for raping and pillaging my country for 1000 years

I don't remember a there ever being a British presence in Milwaukee.

KING5TON: Robbie the Robber: ace in your face: I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

800 YEARS!!!


\\SHAKES FIST AT ENGLAND

If you can't have a decent revolution in 800 years that's your fault. Some countries are like gimps, they love pain and humiliation at the rough hands of another nation.

ha ha ha ha ha we thought the world about revolution then we built america

\\GOD LOVES THE IRISH AND SO DO YOUR WIMMINS

Whitewabbit: i didnt know milwaukee was in ireland.

ahh beaten, that's what i get for checking my spelling.

Bad_Seed: Wow, the Plastic Paddies are out in force today.

Read up on that term and finally got a chance to use it?

ace in your face: I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

TheWizard: Bad_Seed: Wow, the Plastic Paddies are out in force today.

Read up on that term and finally got a chance to use it?

How else do you describe the fact that there's more extreme Irish nationalism in Boston than in Dublin, or Belfast for that matter.

shivashakti: Sure. Right. As soon as the Brits pay reparations for the Potato Famine...fark that action. Who sold the people as slaves in the first place? The Irish.

I'm sure there are still a few Black & Tans lying around a nursing home, with plenty of tips to offer the English "reimbursement agents".

TheWizard: Read up on that term and finally got a chance to use it?

Ran into a word that pretty succinctly describes you? Ouch!

canyoneer: "NHS funds are always precious and it's completely unacceptable for the Government to be carelessly diverting £180 million a year out of our NHS...the painful impact the confusion is having on the already overstretched Irish health system."

Well, it sounds like it doesn't matter whether your health care system is private, or public, or public-private, or puvic-priblic, or whatever. It sounds like no matter the scheme, health care systems are always limping along underfunded and overly expensive. No doubt the U.S. system will get a government-driven "overhaul" and be no better off than it was before. Instead of our money disappearing into inefficient private health insurance bureaucracies, it will disappear into inefficient public health insurance bureaucracies.

Yeah, but the good news is, nationalized countries like Britain spend half of what we do per capita. So, even though we'll still be wasting money, we'll be wasting a lot less.

i'm irish german ed... are you 100% native american? which tribe are you from? pretty cool man!

also... for braveheart fans... get a map... farking scottland is actually on a different island.

jerger: also... for braveheart fans... get a map... farking scottland is actually on a different island.

I'm sure the Scots have similar feelings toward the English.

Robbie the Robber: KING5TON: Robbie the Robber: ace in your face: I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

800 YEARS!!!


\\SHAKES FIST AT ENGLAND

If you can't have a decent revolution in 800 years that's your fault. Some countries are like gimps, they love pain and humiliation at the rough hands of another nation.

ha ha ha ha ha we thought the world about revolution then we built america

\\GOD LOVES THE IRISH AND SO DO YOUR WIMMINS

What you said.

/married to a tall freckle faced, blue eyed, red head

jerger: i'm irish german ed... are you 100% native american? which tribe are you from? pretty cool man!

also... for braveheart fans... get a map... farking scottland is actually on a different island.

I'm not any kind of American. I just think it's funny that you are getting worked up about something that happened centuries ago to a country that you don't live in.

canyoneer:

Well, it sounds like it doesn't matter whether your health care system is private, or public, or public-private, or puvic-priblic, or whatever. It sounds like no matter the scheme, health care systems are always limping along underfunded and overly expensive. No doubt the U.S. system will get a government-driven "overhaul" and be no better off than it was before. Instead of our money disappearing into inefficient private health insurance bureaucracies, it will disappear into inefficient public health insurance bureaucracies.

Ah good, Fark's own little ray of sunshine is back posting again.

GaryPDX: ace in your face: I would say call it even for the hundreds of years of theft rape murder starvation and slavery but still I don't think its enough. Screw you England.

;)

/Scottish too...