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(HA HA HA HA no) Unlikely Britain discovers it has overpaid the Irish health service about €200million a year, asks Irish Government if they could please have their money back. Faint sound of laughter heard in the distance   (rte.ie) divider line 106
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DslainteC [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 08:30:09 AM  
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.

 
shivashakti [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 08:31:29 AM  
Sure. Right. As soon as the Brits pay reparations for the Potato Famine...

 
RoxtarRyan [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 09:07:03 AM  
DslainteC: When it comes to paying the Irish, you should make sure you're not Dublin it.

i110.photobucket.com

 
BunkoSquad 2009-04-09 09:32:14 AM  
Spend the extra bucks on Shane McGowan's teeth.

 
Ball of Confusion 2009-04-09 09:33:22 AM  
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

 
Tenebreux 2009-04-09 09:33:40 AM  
GB has more ways to screw the Republic out of money than the Republic has ways to keep that cash. It'll come back.

 
Danielsan [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-04-09 09:34:57 AM  
póg mo thóin

 
Shakespeare's Monkey 2009-04-09 09:37:33 AM  
z.about.com

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.

 
Guntram Shatterhand 2009-04-09 09:37:36 AM  
pages.prodigy.net

You're not going to get me gold!

/had to be done

 
quisph 2009-04-09 09:37:39 AM  
i92.photobucket.com

What Irish laughter may look like.

 
Robbie the Robber 2009-04-09 09:38:27 AM  
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

 
KING5TON 2009-04-09 09:39:17 AM  
They're afta ma lucky charms!
images.buycostumes.com

/Hot like krakatoa

 
ace in your face 2009-04-09 09:39:25 AM  
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.

 
zootsuit 2009-04-09 09:39:56 AM  
They can't even get the Lucky Charms. How do they expect to get back hundreds of millions of dollars?

/Catch Lucky!

 
zootsuit 2009-04-09 09:40:37 AM  
KING5TON: They're afta ma lucky charms!

hehe, nice simulpost

 
Tigggy 2009-04-09 09:41:14 AM  
images.icanhascheezburger.com

 
DrZiffle 2009-04-09 09:42:31 AM  
They spent it all down at the pub.

 
Robbie the Robber 2009-04-09 09:43:03 AM  
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

 
jerger 2009-04-09 09:44:05 AM  
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

 
KING5TON 2009-04-09 09:44:44 AM  
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?
www.dirtragmag.com

/Hot like a pornstar covered in jam

 
the_chief 2009-04-09 09:45:18 AM  
They're after me lucky 200 million euros.

 
KING5TON 2009-04-09 09:45:57 AM  
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?

 
keylock71 2009-04-09 09:50:50 AM  
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.

 
Inquisitive Inquisitor 2009-04-09 09:51:02 AM  
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!

 
KING5TON 2009-04-09 09:52:30 AM  
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.

 
KING5TON 2009-04-09 09:53:38 AM  
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 :)

 
Bad_Seed 2009-04-09 09:55:56 AM  
Wow, the Plastic Paddies are out in force today.

 
GORDON 2009-04-09 09:58:32 AM  
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.

 
phead 2009-04-09 10:00:01 AM  
its an ongoing payment they dont need to ask for some back, they just stop paying for a few years!

 
docmattic 2009-04-09 10:01:58 AM  
It's been a while since I played, but isn't the headline referencing NetHack?

 
canyoneer 2009-04-09 10:02:49 AM  
"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.

 
Whitewabbit 2009-04-09 10:06:35 AM  
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.

 
Robbie the Robber 2009-04-09 10:07:39 AM  
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

 
rev9of8 2009-04-09 10:08:21 AM  
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.

 
Edd17 2009-04-09 10:08:44 AM  
jerger: thanks for raping and pillaging my country for 1000 years

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

 
Robbie the Robber 2009-04-09 10:09:19 AM  
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

 
Edd17 2009-04-09 10:10:06 AM  
Whitewabbit: i didnt know milwaukee was in ireland.

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

 
TheWizard 2009-04-09 10:13:14 AM  
Bad_Seed: Wow, the Plastic Paddies are out in force today.

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

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 10:16:49 AM  
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.

blog.tmcnet.com

 
Bad_Seed 2009-04-09 10:17:12 AM  
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.

 
StinkyFiddlewinks 2009-04-09 10:17:19 AM  
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.

 
Ludovicus 2009-04-09 10:17:48 AM  
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".

 
Edd17 2009-04-09 10:18:04 AM  
TheWizard: Read up on that term and finally got a chance to use it?

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

 
rumpelstiltskin 2009-04-09 10:18:26 AM  
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.

 
jerger 2009-04-09 10:19:29 AM  
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.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 10:21:04 AM  
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.

 
ace in your face 2009-04-09 10:22:04 AM  
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

 
Edd17 2009-04-09 10:22:30 AM  
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.

 
Shatner's Bassoon [TotalFark] 2009-04-09 10:22:50 AM  
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.

 
ace in your face 2009-04-09 10:23:59 AM  
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...

 
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