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Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 3:01 pm**

we're from near Dublin. Carlow.

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 3:07 pm**

Ah, didn't even know you were from Ireland.

Glad you're not from Dublin, cause then I would have had to say 'gwon ya langer'

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 3:13 pm**

It's funny how the Irish in general don't 'get' PSB yet pride themselves on being a literate bunch. I'd suggest that PSB were too English if it weren't for the Irish Oscar Wilde industry.

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 3:19 pm**

not a jackeen no. Was born in Ireland came over here at a young age.

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 3:26 pm**

Janet Street-Porter wrote:It's funny how the Irish in general don't 'get' PSB yet pride themselves on being a literate bunch. I'd suggest that PSB were too English if it weren't for the Irish Oscar Wilde industry.

I don't agree. It's not that the Irish 'don't get' PSB. When they were in their 'imperial' phase they had more number ones over here than they did in Blighty (What have I was no.1 here). I think the Irish lost interest in them.

I hope you're not trying to suggest that the Irish are thick.

And it's an insult too to suggest that the PSB are too English for Irish tastes. I suppose the Beatles are too English for us, Duran Duran, Elton John, Rolling Stones, Artic Monkeys... would you like me to go on?

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 3:45 pm**

No Muscle Mary wrote:And it's an insult too to suggest that the PSB are too English for Irish tastes. I suppose the Beatles are too English for us, Duran Duran, Elton John, Rolling Stones, Artic Monkeys... would you like me to go on?

A group like Artic Monkeys are more regional than anything. I don't consider them quintessentially English like PSB. Both Elton and the Rolling Stones wear their American influences heavily on their sleeve so are bound to be popular in a 'rawk' environment like Ireland. Everybody* likes the Beatles and plenty of Irish girls fancied John Taylor too.

*except Zeus

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 3:54 pm**

So by your thinking, the Spice Girls should never have had a hit over here, what with Ginger prancing about in a union jack dress.

The Irish are not racist against the English and I take offence to any suggestion that they are.

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 4:45 pm**

Janet Street-Porter wrote:Everybody* likes the Beatles and plenty of Irish girls fancied John Taylor too.

*except Zeus

You cannot be serious about there being something in common with me and lowlife people?

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 5:06 pm**

Technotrancemix wrote:You cannot be serious about there being something in common with me and lowlife people?

Well most people don't have sealed promos of the white album.

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 6:56 pm**

Hold on!! A meet up? In a pub? with a bar? Before the Tower gig? With alcohol?

Tempting....

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 8:13 pm**

Janet Street-Porter wrote:Well most people don't have sealed promos of the white album.

Believe it or not, niether do I

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 8:55 pm**

Janet Street-Porter wrote:It's funny how the Irish in general don't 'get' PSB yet pride themselves on being a literate bunch.

Oh, some of us do and some of us are.

Drico.

PS The notion of the PSBs being somehow "too English" for Paddy Potatohead isn't far off the mark at all. I have long suspected the quintessential Englishness of the PSBs to be a stick with which to beat the band in Ireland. Throw in the gay thing - and let's face it, there are no homosexuals in Ireland - and you pretty much have a pariah act.

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 9:06 pm**

Drico One wrote:
and let's face it, there are no homosexuals in Ireland -

Unless you count boybands...

Posted: **Wed 12 Apr 2006, 9:13 pm**

Well, he wasn't gay when he left the country for England!

Drico.

Posted: **Thu 13 Apr 2006, 9:31 am**

that's what he told his mammy

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