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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Buttmeister posted:

*drives tank through park in 1920s and kills tens of civilians*

im helping and the good guy hi im the IRA

The tank was British, not Irish.

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Buttmeister posted:

ok sorry didnt realize the brits were as retarded as the irish

The drink makes us retarded.
Centuries of royal inbreeding makes the Brits retarded.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Quote-Unquote posted:

What is the deal with the IRA not being bad guys in American media?

Like I watched Burn Notice and Fiona is ex-IRA and blows up Miami constantly and I was like wtf why is she the good guy she's literally a terrorist from an organisation that killed more people than the 9/11 attacks

5000 Irish trouble deaths over 30 years, compared to 3000 in one day.
And half of those from the Troubles were from the other side fighting the IRA.
Some irish comedian had a joke saying that 9/11 had an upside, Irish people were no longer strip searched every time now.

And some sections of the US have this romantic idea that the IRA is fighting for 'freedom' ala Braveheart freedom.
So they still have fund raisers with fiddly dee irish music, dancing and shtty tasting Guinness, and the money raised gets sent over to drug dealers and extortionists.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Pillbug

Buttmeister posted:

I mean, you probably have cheaper drugs now, right? It's not all bad!

Bizarrely, the drug trade has helped the two sides intermingle more.
Not on the dealer level, but people looking for weed go to the whoever has the poo poo for sale.
So you get catholics hooking up with UVF drug dealers and vice versa.
Building bridges, one toke at a time.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Drink Cheerwine posted:

the irish are scummy bog folk

Stealing your Apple taxes

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Dashticle posted:

The tank didn't exist outside that movie, in real life they shot the civilians with regular guns

The tank was added machinegunning the crowd to force Americans to empathize with the underdogs in the asymmetrical warfare narrative

You are thinking of the Croke Park Massacre in 1920?
Yeah, they added a tank to that in the movie didn't they.

I was saying about the one in 1921, pics are here:

https://ansionnachfionn.com/2015/09/16/a-british-tank-on-an-irish-street/

Edit: Maybe I did misread the original guys post on it, he did say 1920s.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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How did you get a pic of my parents?

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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Millie posted:

My mother-in-law was hell bent on going to Ireland for an internship and we kept saying it was kind of a dumb idea. She went and it sucked so 7 months later she's back in the states and living in our goddamned house when she could have gotten a real job during that time, not to mention her own place so I don't have to look at all these goddamned bins of her belongings. gently caress Ireland and the Irish.

Intern as what?

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unGtpBP83as

Here is how to talk proper modern (northern) irish.

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