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GalataPSB wrote:

NJTom wrote:What did I say that was racist btw?

I am muslim and proud of it! That's all!

Funny that you cry racism to any negative opinion of Islam and yet in your signiture you have a good old go at the Bible!
Imagine your reaction if the word Bible was changed with word Koran!
Typical double standards on your part like always!
There are people proud to be of other religions too you know but you don't see them crying if anything negative is said to them! Even if you are of the opinion everything Muslim is "perfect"!
Open your mind!

Fugitive1979 wrote:Trust me, it's you that's missed the point, and no amount of big words and Latin phrases is going to change that.

Yes, I apologise for having a reasonable command of the English language. However, if you like, I can dumb down to your standard. What level would you prefer? The Sun, The Daily Sport, or The Beano?

If you were a UK citizen, which you're not, then you would get the point. I'm afraid that living in a country with fairly close cultural ties just doesn't cut the mustard. Your intelligence is highly admirable, but that doesn't always make you right. The value of the name 'UK' is being degraded as it is from within. We don't need those who are outwith the UK to help it along.

Thanking you, ta.

Ooh, it's Captain Britain going off on some paranoid rant about the UK being "dragged down from within". You couldn't make it up.

Drico.

Drico One wrote:

Fugitive1979 wrote:Trust me, it's you that's missed the point, and no amount of big words and Latin phrases is going to change that.

Yes, I apologise for having a reasonable command of the English language. However, if you like, I can dumb down to your standard. What level would you prefer? The Sun, The Daily Sport, or The Beano?

Drico.

Go f*** yourself.

This thread is f**king insane. Remember:

"There's no point debating anything online. You might as well hurl shoes in the air to knock clouds from the sky. The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional "live audience" quickly conspire to create a "perfect storm" of perpetual bickering.

Stumble in, take umbrage with someone, trade a few blows, and within about two or three exchanges, the subject itself goes out the window. Suddenly you're simply arguing about arguing. Eventually, one side gets bored, comes to its senses, or dies, and the row fizzles out: just another needless belch in the swirling online guffstorm."

Paddymacall wrote:

Drico One wrote:

Paddymacall wrote:
Is Ireland independent?

The Republic certainly is.

Drico.

Oh, your one of those.

I think you'll find there are about 4.34 million of those.

Now, if some competent government somewhere would like to take us over for a few years and sort out our current economic difficulties, then hand us back so we can be independent once more, I'd have no problem with that!

I think you'll find there are about 4.34 million of those.

Now, if some competent government somewhere would like to take us over for a few years and sort out our current economic difficulties, then hand us back so we can be independent once more, I'd have no problem with that!

Regardless of economical matters...


I hope you know (believe) Ireland is 'currently' divided.

The island of Ireland is currently divided.

To me, Ireland means Republic of Ireland, not including the North. I've always called my home country Ireland (never Eire mind you), not the mouthfull that is Republic of Ireland.

No Muscle Mary wrote:
To me, Ireland means Republic of Ireland, not including the North.

Oh dear.

I can see what Mary means. She's not being rude in any way. I thought everyone knew the South as Ireland and the North as Northern Ireland.

Whenever I'm abroad and people ask where I come from, when I say Ireland they know I mean the republic. I think if I was from the North I'd say I was from the North of Ireland or Northern Ireland to differentiate.
Paddy, does that mean if you're abroad you say you're from Ireland? Do people then assume you're from the south? Just curious.
Undertaker's right, I'm not meaning to be rude or insulting in any way. I'd only ever say I'm from the republic if people ask which part I'm from.
I do see your point that Ireland is the name of the whole island. I actually assumed that it was the official name of our country but no, it's Republic of Ireland or Eire. Like saying you're from Great Britain rather than England, Scotland or Wales. Now having said that, if someone asked, I'd never say 'I'm from the British Isles'. Yet I am.
I can see how calling our country Ireland is a bit insensitive from your perspective.

Paddy, does that mean if you're abroad you say you're from Ireland? Do people then assume you're from the south?

If I were abroad, and someone asked me "Where are you from?", I would say Ireland, if they asked me "what part of Ireland"?" I would say the North, the same way someone would say western part of Ireland or east of Ireland, I don't think there are only two cardinal points in Ireland TBH.

No, but there are two different countries on the island. Would it bother you that somebody might then assume you're Irish, perhaps from Donegal?

No Muscle Mary wrote:No, but there are two different countries on the island. Would it bother you that somebody might then assume you're Irish, perhaps from Donegal?

I'll iterate, if someone asked me "where are you from' , I would say Ireland, therefore I already assume that I am Irish.

Why would I be bothered?

I've met some people from the North in the past who would hate to be mistaken as being from the republic.
It's never bothered me when I've been mistaken for a nationality other than my own. Does bother some people though.