What's caused the downfall of this country?

[Cian]

MYOB this is Taken from the net:

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In the Republic of Ireland a Black and Tan is normally made from a half pint of Smithwick's topped off with Guinness.

No, no its not. Hence I seriously doubt the truthfulness of the rest of the article. I'm going to guess you got it from Wikipedia, The Worlds Least Reliable 'Encyclopedia'?

Ask any barman/landlord in Ireland what a 'half and half' consists of, and you'll be told its Guinness/Harp. Not Guinness and Smithwicks. What that is known as is usually a 'Guinness Top', and has more than half a pint of Smithwicks in it.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

8 pages and notr ONE argument

Bah. Boring.

 

[Dandyman]

Immigrants come here because there is money to be made if you work hard, they dont come for any other reasons, they send most of the money home. Hungarian guy I work with occasionally cant wait to get back on his days off etc, he actually thinks that England is a shit hole, and I cant honestly argue.

Its certainly not the fault of immigrants, its the Government, normal everyday folk are getting more and more pissed off when they have paid National Ins/Tax for years and years but find it harder and harder to get simple things like a Doctors appointment, buses and trains get more and more crowded, but the Government do NOTHING to elieviate the problem.

Immigrants take the brunt of the bad feeling, but its understandable its there, when the country feels like its getting harder and harder to get basic services that you pay for out of your wages, sensible people know it has little to do with the influx, but the Goverment have to realise that if you take say an influx of 10,000 eastern europeans (conservitave estimate) into somewhere like Portsmouth, then you have to create the equivelent school, health and transport provisions, so are they ? No they are NOT, am I racist for thinking that the Government should think carefully before taking any more immigrants until they create the infrastructure ? I hope not, its just plain common sense.

And those bloody Jocks can f*** right off, too.

 

[GNF on Tour]

Thatcher

 

[kalinski]

where is "none of the above"? my suggestion would be capitalism

 

[Rougvie]

And those bloody Jocks can f*** right off, too.

AGREED.

As I was born in Brighton to Brighton born and bred parents, I heartilly agree.

 

[BensGrandad]

Ask any barman/landlord in Ireland what a 'half and half' consists of, and you'll be told its Guinness/Harp. Not Guinness and Smithwicks. What that is known as is usually a 'Guinness Top', and has more than half a pint of Smithwicks in it.

That is exactly what the article quoted said about half anf alf also that a a Guinness top is mainly Smithwicks with a small Guinness Top the point in question was Black and Tan which as everybody in Ireland will tell you is half Guinness and Half Smithwicks again as stated in the article.

 

[Buzzer]

where is "none of the above"? my suggestion would be capitalism

Like der....Yeah, this country was a nice socialist country until those nasty capitalists took over. Capitalism was what made this country great in the 1st place. How can it be the downfall?

 

[Cian]

Black and Tan which as everybody in Ireland will tell you is half Guinness and Half Smithwicks again as stated in the article.

As I've already said, no, they won't. Having worked in bars/clubs here, and most importantly, LIVING HERE I can tell you categorically that you're wrong. Quoting from articles you found somewhere random on the net and claiming that they're "experts" is also probably one of the worst ideas possible.

 

[Les Biehn]

Its typical Blair, if he REALLY wanted to do something about it he would scrap a Nuclear weopon we dont need and spend the 20 Billion over 20 years creating an infrastructure for immigration, I certainly would have NO problem with that. No Blair just wants Bums on seats so that the economy is not damaged by a lack of workforce, f*** all the other social consequesncies.

 

[goldstone]

£5.6 billion in overseas aid is one of the problems. FIVE point SIX BILLION! And the biggest recipient ... India??

No one asked me.

If they had of done the amount would have been ZERO. Let the johnny foreigners look after themselves.

Just think what useful things we could have done with £5.6bn? A tax cut would be top of my list.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Just think what useful things we could have done with �5.6bn? A tax cut would be top of my list.

Classy. Give ourselves a little extra disposable income to spend on CRAP, and remove aid which is helping people remain ALIVE.

I can never get my head around the kind of attitude which disregards other humans standard of living as nothing at all to do with us. "Well, if they're starving or being killed by easily curable disease that's their problem really. Give the leftover steak to Sheeba won't you Miriam."

 

[NMH]

Classy. Give ourselves a little extra disposable income to spend on CRAP, and remove aid which is helping people remain ALIVE.

I can never get my head around the kind of attitude which disregards other humans standard of living as nothing at all to do with us. "Well, if they're starving or being killed by easily curable disease that's their problem really. Give the leftover steak to Sheeba won't you Miriam."

Miriam and Sheeba, they are the downfall of this country

actually, it is Thatcher.

 

[Frutos]

I blame the changing of brand names. Opal Fruit, marathon, oil of ulay, smarties no longer being sold in tubes with lids with letters.

Crisps in the wrong colour packets - light blue is salt and vinegar, green is for cheese and onion.

That's when it all went wrong.

This man speaks the truth.

 

[m20gull]

smarties no longer being sold in tubes with lids with letters.

since when ?!!!!!! how did we allow this to happen?!!!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Only 17 blame education, but 24 blame 'blacks'?

 

[NMH]

Only 17 blame education, but 24 blame 'blacks'?

More proof, that education is a problem. Why was there no option for 'whites' ?

 

[Questions]

£5.6 billion in overseas aid is one of the problems. FIVE point SIX BILLION! And the biggest recipient ... India??

No one asked me.

If they had of done the amount would have been ZERO. Let the johnny foreigners look after themselves.

Just think what useful things we could have done with £5.6bn? A tax cut would be top of my list.

Wait to global warming really gets going. There will be immigration and migration on a scale never seen before on this planet as crops from the hotter countries fail and drought increases in those same areas.

So all you xenophobes out there turn off those lights.

 

[British Bulldog]

Women's Lib was the start of our country's downfall.

 

[Trufflehound]

Frankly I'm shocked there's no option for Morris Dancing. How can any country be great when its citizens spend their time skipping around with bells on their ankles and waving tissues in the air?


Failing that, I agree with Buzzer's earlier comment that the real rot set in when they started putting cheese & onion and salt 'n' vinegar crisps in the wrong packets. If that isn't a reason to bring back the death penalty, I don't know what is...