Irish jokes

[User removed 4]

Oh and I say that and I actually DO have a tiny bit of Irish blood in me.

you mean you use kerrygold on your toast ?

 

[Simster]

The reason the Irish are not laughed at these days is because they are no longer as economically dependent on us these days, and the Irish economy grew significantly in the '90s.

Back in the '60s, the Irish were little more than a cheap source of labour to the British economy. I'm sure this fuelled the impression that all Oyrish were TICK.

 

[Simster]

you mean you use kerrygold on your toast ?

dats royt.

 

[tip top]

you mean you use kerrygold on your toast ?

That or he let Stephen Gately rape his bottom

 

[User removed 4]

dats royt.

Why am i finding it so amusing to imagine you sitting there trying to work out the phonetic spellings of your posts in an irish accent

 

[User removed 4]

That or he let Stephen Gately rape his bottom

I thought stephen gately was a taker ?

 

[Brovion]

I think the targets have changed. Blonde jokes seem to have taken up the laugh at the thicky angle, and nowadays the muslims are the bogeymen so cover the terrorism angle.

I think that pretty much sums it up, you don't hear jokes any more where the humour is based on the supposed fact that the Irish are thick; as you say it's blondes who fulfill that role now.

Also I don't want to get too PC and say 'we know better now'. As you imply in Britain back in the 1970s there was an element of defiance in telling 'Irish' jokes; after all there was a risk that you could nip out for a pint and get blown up and so mocking the people who were planting the bombs was a simple defence mechanisim. On that 'terrorist bogeman' point I haven't really heard that many anti-Muslim jokes, and I wonder if that's because people are to an extend scared of the reprisals? I do remember an edition of Mock The Week when Dara O'Brien started by saying "Hello and welcome to Mock The Week where we're going to be making fun of Christians, Jews, Hindus and Bhuddists. But not Muslims. Oh no. We're not stupid."

Some might say that we don't hear so many anti-muslim jokes because we HAVE become more PC and think it's wrong to mock elements of other people's culture. Fair enough and I agree to an extent. Just so long as it ISN'T because people are scared at what might happen to them ...

 

[rool]

I'm off for 'paddys day' tomorrow but I won't be celebrating.

After living here for seven years any feelings of irishness I may have harboured, from my father being Irish, have been eroded away by a corrupt system of governence, a catholic church guilty of cover ups to this very day on paedophilia and a population so deferential that they keep these guys in power saying 'ah well, sure, that's the way it's always been'.

The latest news that the top bishop in Ireland (Sean Brady) made two abused children sign an oath to secrecy in 1975 and did not feel morally obliged to report this to the police. The guy then went on to abuse almost 100 more children until 1994 while the church moved him from pillar to post. The Catholic church wished only to protect itself and it's finances. Mr Brady, meanwhile, thinks he did nothing wrong and feels it is not necessary for him to resign.

I'm afraid I find nothing funny about Ireland or the Irish and can't get back to the UK quick enough.

 

[alan partridge]

Is the correct answer. And in hindsight, all their WHINGING it made it even funnier.

What, from their politicians and media?

I know what you mean. Thank CHRIST our lot don't do that.

 

[cunning fergus]

I think these days the likes of Guinness have made it trendy and cool to be Irish rather than something shameful and embarrassing. Just look at the fuss that gets created over St Patrick's Day each year. With every man and his dog rooting up some hitherto unmentioned Irish heritage it stands to reason that we're not all going to be taking the piss out of them as a nation if we're all claiming to have some Irish blood ourselves.

There was surprisingly little pisstaking that came about after Thierry Henry's handball ensured the paddy's won't be going to the World Cup. Generally speaking there was a lot of sympathy for the injustice of it all and I think it's indicative of the shift in attitude towards our Emerald Island neighbours

Irish blood what a load of nonsense!

Ireland has by and large been subject to the same level of population movements and invasion as Great Britain, and in many ways more so. Not withstanding the Vikings Normans etc. in the last 700 years there was massive immigration from the Scots and English.

So, Irish Mongrel blood at best..........as for tommorow the daft fuckers cant even celebrate with a home grown Irish patron saint. Tragically for the bogtrotters its well understood that 'Paddy' was in fact a Brit.

The irony.

 

[gull-able]

I'm off for 'paddys day' tomorrow but I won't be celebrating.

After living here for seven years any feelings of irishness I may have harboured, from my father being Irish, have been eroded away by a corrupt system of governence, a catholic church guilty of cover ups to this very day on paedophilia and a population so deferential that they keep these guys in power saying 'ah well, sure, that's the way it's always been'.

The latest news that the top bishop in Ireland (Sean Brady) made two abused children sign an oath to secrecy in 1975 and did not feel morally obliged to report this to the police. The guy then went on to abuse almost 100 more children until 1994 while the church moved him from pillar to post. The Catholic church wished only to protect itself and it's finances. Mr Brady, meanwhile, thinks he did nothing wrong and feels it is not necessary for him to resign.

I'm afraid I find nothing funny about Ireland or the Irish and can't get back to the UK quick enough.

Then F**K off mate

i am english (originally from brighton), but have been living in ireland for the last eight years, and i can say without a single reservation that ireland is an infinatly better place to live than the uk.

-People much friendlier
-its cleaner and less crime ridden
-less racists
- less chavs
-more beautiful
- better pubs
-better police
-better schools


the list could go on and on

 

[Colossal Squid]

Irish blood what a load of nonsense!

Ireland has by and large been subject to the same level of population movements and invasion as Great Britain, and in many ways more so. Not withstanding the Vikings Normans etc. in the last 700 years there was massive immigration from the Scots and English.

So, Irish Mongrel blood at best..........as for tommorow the daft fuckers cant even celebrate with a home grown Irish patron saint. Tragically for the bogtrotters its well understood that 'Paddy' was in fact a Brit.

The irony.

It's just what people say innit. I've no doubt that half the folks claiming to have Irish blood are giving it large but they're still making those claims.

As for St Patrick not being Irish, is St George English??

 

[Chicken Run]

Paddy and Mick were out together looking at grave stones, paddy shouts to Mick , there's a guy here that was 152 years old, realy replies Mick what was his name, miles to London paddy replies

 

[niknokseagull]

Did you hear about the Irish expedition to climb Mount Everest?

Had to be abandoned half way up when they ran out of scaffolding.

 

[niknokseagull]

..... and then there was the one about the Irishman who thought any itchy fanny was a Japanese motorbike.

 

[cunning fergus]

It's just what people say innit. I've no doubt that half the folks claiming to have Irish blood are giving it large but they're still making those claims.

As for St Patrick not being Irish, is St George English??

Understood.

However its an oft view on this forum that its somewhat ironic that the English should seek to celebrate a non English saint on SGD.

The same view seems less forthcoming for SPD, and yet for any patriotic Irishman its surely just as ironic that they should seek to celebrate a British patron saint.

Just a view.

 

[Martinf]

Irish blood what a load of nonsense!

Ireland has by and large been subject to the same level of population movements and invasion as Great Britain, and in many ways more so. Not withstanding the Vikings Normans etc. in the last 700 years there was massive immigration from the Scots and English.

So, Irish Mongrel blood at best..........as for tommorow the daft fuckers cant even celebrate with a home grown Irish patron saint. Tragically for the bogtrotters its well understood that 'Paddy' was in fact a Brit.

The irony.

I'd love to see you call some of my relatives 'daft fuckers' and 'bogtrotters' to their faces.

 

[User removed 4]

I'd love to see you call some of my relatives 'daft fuckers' and 'bogtrotters' to their faces.

what a silly comment, you dont know anything about him , he could be 6'5 and a heavyweight boxer, then what would you do ?

 

[User removed 4]

Then F**K off mate

i am english (originally from brighton), but have been living in ireland for the last eight years, and i can say without a single reservation that ireland is an infinatly better place to live than the uk.
-less racists
-

perhaps because there is less reason to be ?

 

[User removed 4]

Then F**K off mate

i am english (originally from brighton), but have been living in ireland for the last eight years, and i can say without a single reservation that ireland is an infinatly better place to live than the uk.

-People much friendlier
-its cleaner and less crime ridden
-less racists
- less chavs
-more beautiful
- better pubs
-better police
-better schools


the list could go on and on

And a hell of a lot of paid for by EU , I.E British money.