WILF 49,495 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 At the risk of causing a groan, when you visit the home nations and see how people who are basically the same people effect home nations differently to the indigenous people you can clearly see how a place shapes it’s people character…..you often hear or the hardy Scot’s or the relaxed Irish and it’s true because those lands make you that way…..that’s how you know that when they say “anyone can be British” it’s bollocks. We are special and unique and yet, as a whole sum of parts, mighty……amazing history of amazing people. We don’t appreciate ourselves nearly enough 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pardus 1,609 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 1 minute ago, WILF said: At the risk of causing a groan, when you visit the home nations and see how people who are basically the same people effect home nations differently to the indigenous people you can clearly see how a place shapes it’s people character…..you often hear or the hardy Scot’s or the relaxed Irish and it’s true because those lands make you that way…..that’s how you know that when they say “anyone can be British” it’s bollocks. We are special and unique and yet, as a whole sum of parts, mighty……amazing history of amazing people. We don’t appreciate ourselves nearly enough What is British? It's not an ethnicity, it's a national identity. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chesney 5,578 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 Well if all these niggers there leaving in decide to take up farming we going have another famine to be talking about 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Francie, 2,736 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 43 minutes ago, WILF said: We prefer to call it liberating pallets from republican captivity pal ! lol Joking aside, I’m sure you’ve been seeing that all your life, I doubt it shocks you that much anymore mate. It's shocking when they man handle young teens for no reason at all,none,for collecting firewood,there was a video were a young fella just ignored them an walked on with a trolley an pallets an the big fat c**t of a cop came up behind him an swung him on to ground face first,no reason for it at all there not doing anything illegal,just collecting wood. Anyway that's all I'm saying back on topic Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pardus 1,609 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 1 minute ago, Francie, said: It's shocking when they man handle young teens for no reason at all,none,for collecting firewood,there was a video were a young fella just ignored them an walked on with a trolley an pallets an the big fat c**t of a cop came up behind him an swung him on to ground face first,no reason for it at all there not doing anything illegal,just collecting wood. Anyway that's all I'm saying back on topic Injustice everywhere Francie lad, the victims of discrimination? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Francie, 2,736 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 5 minutes ago, Pardus said: Injustice everywhere Francie lad, the victims of discrimination? Sectarianism mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
waltjnr 7,875 Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 11 hours ago, WILF said: Sorry mate, sometimes I forget my audience ! lol True! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 3,016 Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 (edited) 16 hours ago, NEWKID said: Shane knew how to write a lyric i think it was Phil chevron that wrote thousands are sailing he was the guitarist for the Pogues. just scrolled down and seen Aled's post Edited June 7 by greg64 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,461 Posted June 8 Report Share Posted June 8 On 06/06/2025 at 13:45, tatsblisters said: I think a few of us wouldn't be on this site and born if not for the famine though i believe a lot would have come to this country in the industrial revolution tbh. I suppose another way of saying that is many of us would not be English if not for the famine? Me personally, if thinking of my own lineage as a dog's pedigree, obvious know Irish outcross over the years but the foundation stock remained a mystery and all we really had to go on was a surname. Repeated attempts by a few only managed to get so far back before hitting a wall. The missing part of the jigsaw was discovered almost by accident by a gentleman who helps people of Irish lineage trace their ancestry. On an unrelated search he remembered us when going through records of a workhouse in Glasgow, where my great+ grandmother ended her days. That's why previous searches had had failed, great+ grandfather and grandmother+ had not came directly to England. This piece of information broke through the wall, she came from Ballinamore Co. Leitrim. Bear with me, there is point to my rambling in the context of the thread. The of timing of finding this out was is to me serendipitous in that it allowed me to take my dad back to where we had came from before his health began to fail. A lovely lady spent time with us going through church records and we found out more about Patrick and Mary. They had left in 1873 after the worst of it I suppose but this lady said something, and that was that in a way the area has still not fully recovered. I regret not asking for her to elaborate on that. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 49,495 Posted June 8 Report Share Posted June 8 1 hour ago, eastcoast said: I suppose another way of saying that is many of us would not be English if not for the famine? Me personally, if thinking of my own lineage as a dog's pedigree, obvious know Irish outcross over the years but the foundation stock remained a mystery and all we really had to go on was a surname. Repeated attempts by a few only managed to get so far back before hitting a wall. The missing part of the jigsaw was discovered almost by accident by a gentleman who helps people of Irish lineage trace their ancestry. On an unrelated search he remembered us when going through records of a workhouse in Glasgow, where my great+ grandmother ended her days. That's why previous searches had had failed, great+ grandfather and grandmother+ had not came directly to England. This piece of information broke through the wall, she came from Ballinamore Co. Leitrim. Bear with me, there is point to my rambling in the context of the thread. The of timing of finding this out was is to me serendipitous in that it allowed me to take my dad back to where we had came from before his health began to fail. A lovely lady spent time with us going through church records and we found out more about Patrick and Mary. They had left in 1873 after the worst of it I suppose but this lady said something, and that was that in a way the area has still not fully recovered. I regret not asking for her to elaborate on that. You can see what she means herself in the villages and towns mate, there’s a town near me, it’s Main Street as you approach the gates to the manors house and estate is a Georgian masterpiece……but there are empty and derelict places everywhere same as a lot of other towns. I read the actual effect was in total an almost 50 or 60 % reduction in the population of the country ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinytiger 872 Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 On 06/06/2025 at 13:14, Francie, said: Don't start the English men of on here,if they weren't taking all the resources an shipping them it might not of happened,but they left us way the should spud But they will deny it but its all recorded on the ships logs etc f**k predictive text lol They were providing aid to Ireland until the young irelander rebellion in Tipperary.(where nobody got killed). Ireland had a massive middle class of small farmers who hated the poor - the blame for the genocide lay chiefly at their door. (I had a great grandmother until I was 17- would have heard a lot of stories from her of her grandparents-they were still living on the road until 1902 after it). I'd make 1 exception - Donegal was definitely genocided (before,during and after the famine) 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinytiger 872 Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 On 06/06/2025 at 22:03, Francie, said: Wilf the young fellas collect pallets for the annual bonfire,assumption of Mary,the ruc torture them an take them of them an Harras them an even arrest some of them,even tho the pallets are given by business. But the protestants are allowed to have a big bonfire with no bother from the ruc,they've actually took the pallets of the young fellas an put them in back of armoured land rovers an drove over the bridge to waterside an dropped them of,just sectarian scumbags Bonfires,flegs and a gay Dutch king- culture Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Francie, 2,736 Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 10 minutes ago, tinytiger said: Bonfires,flegs and a gay Dutch king- culture No mate,it's a Catholic bonfire for the assumption of mary 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinytiger 872 Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 7 minutes ago, Francie, said: No mate,it's a Catholic bonfire for the assumption of mary Meant the other ones. Was in Cyprus around 20 years ago, whole place ground to a halt for the assumption -was nice to see,reminded me of Ireland when I was a child. Probably changed now like everywhere that joins the E.U 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Francie, 2,736 Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 5 minutes ago, tinytiger said: Meant the other ones. Was in Cyprus around 20 years ago, whole place ground to a halt for the assumption -was nice to see,reminded me of Ireland when I was a child. Probably changed now like everywhere that joins the E.U One rule for one an all that carryon tiger 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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