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User avatar #1 - lathyrusvii (01/10/2016) [-]
Tons of Irish slaves, not a hint of activism.
User avatar #137 to #1 - lathyrusvii (01/11/2016) [-]
Well, now I have no idea what's accurate or not, and I'm not vested enough to parse the accuracy of any claims.
There are papers on both sides, and nobody cites legal sources, so it's buried in paperwork, somewhere.

Ah well. Is this what's important, anyway?
#11 to #1 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
Indentured servants*
#25 to #11 - dawnartemis (01/11/2016) [-]
You can call a **** chocolate but it still smells.
#53 to #25 - etfhan (01/11/2016) [-]
I may be reading too much into it, but anon's statement was to show the way by which the treatment of Irish people was justified. "Indentured servant" sounds a lot better than slave, just as "collateral damage" sounds better than "killed an innocent."
#139 to #53 - innocentbabies (01/11/2016) [-]
They do have slightly different meanings, though.
At least currently, slavery was usually much closer to indentured servitude than what we think of today
User avatar #150 to #25 - peanutsaurusrex (01/11/2016) [-]
unless you spray it with enough Febreeze odor-blocker
User avatar #12 to #11 - lathyrusvii (01/11/2016) [-]
Well, aren't we all, really.
#91 to #12 - shrew (01/11/2016) [-]
Ooh la la, someone's gonna get laid in college
User avatar #90 to #1 - Ajracer (01/11/2016) [-]
I cringe every time I see this **** . You guys desperately want to believe that Irish indentured servitude was comparable to black slavery so that you can whine about black people some more. It's just not true - the same "slavery facts" comp pops up on this site every couple of months with all these supposed facts and figures that the blacks don't want you to know. Thing is, the only source is one author who has pretty much no academic credentials and is basically the only one making that sort of claim. It's pure propaganda, google that **** and all you will find is hardcore right wing sites and white supremacy sites. But it fit's so nicely into FJ's little make believe world where us straight white men have it harder than everybody else that it gets thumbs every time its posted, spawns comments like this, and just keeps on circulating. Everyone on this site is entitled to their own opinion, but pretty much everything I see posted about "Irish slavery" is hyperbole at its best and ******** at its worst.
User avatar #107 to #90 - deutschblut (01/11/2016) [-]
And I bet you think all white people are millionaires and never go to jail for committing crimes?
User avatar #126 to #107 - Ajracer (01/11/2016) [-]
I don't think they're all millionaires but they're a hell of a lot less likely to go to prison even for the same crime.

www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/18/chart-of-the-week-the-black-white-gap-in-incarceration-rates/
#143 to #126 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
its almost like black people commit more crime
WOAH NO OH MY GOD DAS RACIS
User avatar #154 to #126 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
Black people go to prison for committing crimes.

Name one case where where they did not send a murderer or rapist to prison for being white.

Racist.
#151 to #126 - failtotheepicpower (01/11/2016) [-]
thank god someone is saying it, even if you're getting thumbed down. Anyone who says the courts are equal and not slanted by race is demonstrably wrong, and yet it's somehow the fault of black people.
User avatar #155 to #151 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
So you are saying black people are not capable of committing crimes?

Worst troll move ever.
#111 to #90 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
Why are you trying to make a contest out of it...? Are you really going to belittle the Irish slaves just because they weren't as many, as if human suffering is only counted in numbers?
User avatar #125 to #111 - Ajracer (01/11/2016) [-]
They weren't ******* slaves. They weren't treated as property. There is no historical precedent for such claims, "Irish slaves" is a myth. I'm speaking to deaf ears here.
User avatar #144 to #125 - derpstrider (01/11/2016) [-]
The only debate is whether or not they were slaves in America. Irish slavery was a very real thing in Europe for centuries, and one very undeniable example was when Oliver Cromwell shipped off thousands of Irish to work as slaves in (I want to say Barbados) working in the sugar cane fields and growing tobacco. They were treated as lesser beings. It's not brought up to undermine Blacks arguments as it is to join together with them and agree that everyone has suffered and slavery is not ******* okay - it's like ******* Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter. We're not trying to undermine anybody, and the Black Lives Matter movement is creating a further divide between the races where as the All Lives Matter movement is trying to just bring everybody ******* together because we're all ******* humans.
#140 to #125 - innocentbabies (01/11/2016) [-]
Only if speaking in regards to American slavery. I have no sources, but I doubt the Romans shied away from enslaving the Celts anymore than they did anyone else. Although, while involuntary, it was still closer to indentured servitude than the livestock-style slavery that we associate with the word.
User avatar #130 to #90 - lathyrusvii (01/11/2016) [-]
<< You have sources?
User avatar #132 to #130 - Ajracer (01/11/2016) [-]
Liam Hogan is probably the best source - he's an Irish scholar who has written or contributed on several op-ed pieces on the subject and has a book coming out later this year.

www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/liam-hogan/%E2%80%98irish-slaves%E2%80%99-convenient-myth

www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-slaves-myth-2369653-Oct2015/

User avatar #97 to #1 - deutschblut (01/11/2016) [-]
Irish are white.

There is no such thing as white slaves.

Even though the word "slave" comes from the word "Slav"....
User avatar #13 to #1 - Shiny (01/11/2016) [-]
Uh... the IRA?
User avatar #14 to #13 - lathyrusvii (01/11/2016) [-]
Specifically in response to slavery?
User avatar #15 to #14 - Shiny (01/11/2016) [-]
No, but when was the last time that happened for anyone?
User avatar #17 to #16 - Shiny (01/11/2016) [-]
I don't think slavery was quite a racial thing in those ex-colonies.
User avatar #18 to #17 - lathyrusvii (01/11/2016) [-]
I think it was. Segregation, whatnot... presumptions based on skin color...

Anyway. >> Where's this going?
User avatar #19 to #18 - Shiny (01/11/2016) [-]
Sure, but enslavement was just a thing colonial empires used to do. Only in the US was slavery based on race, and even this was a later development: pro-abolitionist sentiments were starting to hold root, so the slave trade used propaganda and us vs. them mentality to preserve their cash flow.

It all boils down to one thing: $$$
User avatar #20 to #19 - lathyrusvii (01/11/2016) [-]
Yes of course. Washington, Jackson... Benjamin. It all makes sense; we're ALL slaves to little green men.

Green man is master race.
#112 to #20 - stillnotbob (01/11/2016) [-]
Little green men?
User avatar #158 to #16 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
Apparently blacks are not as successful as these crafty fellas:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_Conference
#159 to #158 - anon (01/12/2016) [-]
That's aside the point. Aside, you talk enough **** . The **** outta here.

-lathyrusvii (because you're blocking me.)
User avatar #161 to #159 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
What language is that, anon lathyrusvii ?

I am not blocking you.

You are just a pussy and like to post as anon.
#162 to #161 - anon (01/12/2016) [-]
English. And, you are. Liar.

-lathyrusvii
#164 to #162 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
I just hate Filipino bakla that try to get me to send them dick pics via funnyjunk, silly lathyrusvii anon.
User avatar #163 to #162 - lathyrusvii (01/12/2016) [-]
Same, me, again.
User avatar #160 to #159 - lathyrusvii (01/12/2016) [-]
Yeah, btw. It's me.
#74 to #16 - Jowi (01/11/2016) [-]
I don't get it. That's not the same as slavery being carried out, this is just when the most recent discussions of reparations were
User avatar #129 to #74 - lathyrusvii (01/11/2016) [-]
You gotta keep up with the conversation.

He pointed out the IRA as a response to slavery, then asked when the last time anyone took up activism in response to slavery, and this is the answer to that question.

User avatar #23 to #1 - distortedflare ONLINE (01/11/2016) [-]
But but they is white. ANd if white people enslave other white people then the white people that are enslaved still have privilege. Despite african slaves being valued more.
#27 to #23 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
I know you're just being a little **** , but the word slave came from Slavic servants who were treated brutally. Slavic people are white as **** .
User avatar #29 to #27 - distortedflare ONLINE (01/11/2016) [-]
I know that.
#54 to #27 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
>implying everything is based off english language
**** you anon
#72 to #54 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
Origin of the word slave:
Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavic (captive)’: some South Slavic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th century.
#116 to #54 - luluwho (01/11/2016) [-]
GIF
No, the English Language is based off everything (all other languages).
User avatar #105 to #1 - bonlino (01/11/2016) [-]
im gonna be honest, i never even knew irish slaves existed until recently. im only 19 but my school/college never told me about irish slaves, only black slaves. feels kind of prejudiced.
#84 to #1 - Bloodgartham ONLINE (01/11/2016) [-]
Now now, we dont speak ill of Great Britain and their glorious accomplishment. Or the West Brits in power in Dublin and their slave mentality... or the concious segregation of nationalist professors up at Queen's University Belfast and Unionist benefits.

We also do not speak of warcrimes, ethic crimes, crimes against humanity, close proximity genocide or being the country which has broken more International humanitarian laws than nay other country almost combined.
User avatar #50 to #1 - ImmortalBaconEater (01/11/2016) [-]
This isn't really true though. I'm half Irish myself and I know all about how the Irish were treated in the earlier days of America. They weren't slaves though, or at least not in the same sense as African slaves. They were indentured servants. They were still treated like **** but not nearly as badly as African slaves. They were freed after they payed their debt for the crossing to America (generally after 7 years). Many chose this fate for themselves to escape famine or poverty though others were captured and forced into it. Not only were they freed after 7 years, their children were not forced into servitude nor were their decisions of who to marry controlled by their owner. While their treatment was certainly subhuman and deplorable, it was not nearly as destructive as generational slavery. It was really more similar to the form of slavery practiced in Western Africa in which people (sometimes prisoners, sometimes family members) were used as collateral for debt. Once the debt was payed, or after a certain period of time, the person was returned home unharmed. The Irish were essentially using their lives (for seven years) as collateral to escape to a new world where they could be free of British tyranny. While some were captured against their will, these were the minority, and the alternative was likely spending the rest of their lives in some debtors prison rather than becoming free men after 7 years. The treatment of the irish (and many other races for that matter) during the period of indentured servitude was certainly horrible, but it does not compare to people who were captured to become slaves for their entire lives, and for their children, and their children, and their children children children and so on to have a single day of freedom. 7 years is nothing compared to being born, living, and dying all as a slave. To never know freedom, to never know that freedom is even possible, is a far crueler fate.
#156 to #50 - anon (01/12/2016) [-]
you are a **** racist
User avatar #145 to #50 - awesomeexpress (01/11/2016) [-]
******* racist go back to ireland whitey
#41 to #1 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
This is what happens when you read one little infographic on the internet and do no further research.

The facts you all are blindly circle-jerking to come from this one unsubstantiated article that made it's way through the internet. www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076 Unfortunately, the stuff written in this article is not backed by any historical documents, articles, or... Well, anything at all, really. It's total bollocks.

Now don't get me wrong. Modern social-justice, race-based nonsense is complete ******** . Pretending that Irish went through 'slavery' the same way Blacks did centuries ago is ALSO ******** . It's history and it's no excuse for black behavior today, but don't twist the facts to suit your own agenda or you end up looking like just as big of a fool as the social justice warriors do. No, things are not as bad for blacks now as many people pretend they are. But YES, they WERE really ******* bad for blacks centuries ago.

www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/09/slavery_myths_seven_lies_half_truths_and_irrelevancies_people_trot_out_about.2.html

limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.y5mjmhlhk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="medium.com/limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.y5mjmhlhk">medium.com/limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.y5mjmhlhk

www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/liam-hogan/%E2%80%98irish-slaves%E2%80%99-convenient-myth

I hate social justice propoganda as much as the next guy. But I don't hate social justice propoganda so much that I'll blindly consume propoganda from the opposite side, either.
#42 to #41 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
Wow that third link got ****** ... Hm. One more try.

limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.y5mjmhlhk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="medium.com/limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.y5mjmhlhk">medium.com/limerick1914/the-imagery-of-the-irish-slaves-myth-dissected-143e70aa6e74#.y5mjmhlhk
#43 to #42 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
Okay, no idea what's going on there, that's not the text I'm posting at all. Weird.
User avatar #3 - devilofscience (01/10/2016) [-]
I wouldn't mind if they killed the new leprechaun, like violently, like dig his eye out with a grapefruit spoon cut off his dick and shove it in his eye hole... or something.
#4 to #3 - funpunk (01/11/2016) [-]
Got you, fam.
User avatar #9 to #4 - luciafoxx (01/11/2016) [-]
I knew this was gonna be brought up! and I'm glad it was
#98 to #4 - oddygnak (01/11/2016) [-]
I've never seen any Rick and Morty episodes. I was under the impression that it was a kid's show along the same wavelength as Adventure time or gravity Falls, you know, kinda weird and wacky but ultimately...for kids...I'm getting a sneaking suspicious that this is in fact not the case
User avatar #109 to #98 - drekinn (01/11/2016) [-]
100% **** no, Rick and Morty is the best thing i'm following right now, it's so much funnier than family guy or simpsons or any of that **** . I do like adventure time though, but it's not similar in any way, except the voice actor for one character is actually one of the creators of Rick and Morty.
#182 to #109 - oddygnak (22 hours ago) [-]
might just have to start watching it
#149 to #98 - irishlawyer (01/11/2016) [-]
No, it gets depressing as **** , I would not let any kids anywhere near it
User avatar #65 to #4 - ugoboom ONLINE (01/11/2016) [-]
RIP Tophat... Jones
#5 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
Dunno, they seemed pretty offended by the english.
#147 to #5 - irishlawyer (01/11/2016) [-]
Log in and say that like a man, ya pussy
#7 to #5 - sanictheedgyhog (01/11/2016) [-]
everyone hate the english
#100 to #7 - oddygnak (01/11/2016) [-]
Ivory Coast mentioned
Swell with hatred for the French and the current president
User avatar #22 to #7 - Sterski (01/11/2016) [-]
I'm English and I hate the English.
User avatar #96 to #7 - jazzd (01/11/2016) [-]
Andorra stronk
#81 to #7 - datmine (01/11/2016) [-]
The french hate the english more than everyone else though.
*cough cough* battle at agincourt *cough*

Have a free wallpaper as a souvenir.
#6 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
the Irish are human honey badgers, they do not give a **** .
User avatar #108 to #6 - CommentLord (01/11/2016) [-]
Irish-American reporting in to confirm
User avatar #95 to #6 - leec (01/11/2016) [-]
Until you knock into me and pill my poxy pint all over my shirt, lookin like an absolute bellend and 5 quid down the drain
#69 - oosulley (01/11/2016) [-]
You can't very well moan about stereotypes when it gets all the Plastic Paddies valued American guests to come here and spend their money

We even have a leprechaun muesuem, to fleece foreigners to share our rich history
User avatar #102 to #69 - deutschblut (01/11/2016) [-]
I never understood how Europeans seem to look down on their American cousins...

I don't blame the Irish for milking the tourists though. Ireland is still a relatively poor country.
#110 to #102 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
Personally I don't like the Americans because they bang on about how they're proud to be German or Irish, but not one seems to be proud to be English, even though it was English Americans who founded the ******* country.

And, before anyone says, being born in America doesn't count, you're English by blood so be proud of it. If a dog is born in a stable, it doesn't make it a horse, and if your last name is:
Smith
Johnson
Williams
Jones
Brown

Then you're almost definitely paternally English.
User avatar #115 to #110 - gmarrox (01/11/2016) [-]
tfw my last name is attributed to almost every ******* region of Europe
User avatar #120 to #115 - oosulley (01/11/2016) [-]
Whats your name, fella?
User avatar #121 to #120 - gmarrox (01/11/2016) [-]
My last name is Martin, which when I research, I learn that it's attributed to the Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, English, and Italian, and apparently is derived from the name Mars, after the god of war.
User avatar #122 to #121 - gmarrox (01/11/2016) [-]
Oh and the French, and there's a Spanish variation.
User avatar #124 to #121 - oosulley (01/11/2016) [-]
Yup....theres no helping you there I'm afraid. Its something like Mairtín in Irish/Gaelic.

Its common as **** , but sure so is mine here.

There are areas of Ireland, where a surname is so common, every 2nd shop is called in the town, for example "Doherty's" in Donegal.
#142 to #110 - innocentbabies (01/11/2016) [-]
Why should I be proud of how I was born? I did nothing for, it's just a part of who I am. I would no sooner be proud of being blonde. It's what you do with what you're given that really matters, in my opinion, and I haven't done ********* .
User avatar #175 to #142 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
I am proud I am not a ****** .
#174 to #110 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
There is a reason why no one is proud to be English...

Seriously though, they mostly live in SW Idaho and N. Utah. Old Mormon families. They are more ginger than ginger there.
#114 to #102 - oosulley (01/11/2016) [-]
"Relatively Poor"......Check dat GDP per capita, fella.

Its just a joke, m8. Chinese tourists are just as bad, if not worse, but everyone moans about US tourists.
User avatar #157 to #114 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
Having a high GDP does not mean that the people are wealthy. It means the GDP is high.

The USA has one of the highest GDPs in the world.

Everyone I know is so poor they can barely eat. Homelessness is such an epidemic, we just arrest people that have no place to live.

Ireland's GDP ranks 56th in the world. And their per capita GDP is USD$50,000. That is not much to live on in Ireland.
User avatar #167 to #157 - oosulley (01/12/2016) [-]
And the average wage here according to the CSO, is €35,768.
www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/elca/earningsandlabourcostsannualdata2014/

Where exactly are you from?

Just because the people you know are poor doesn't mean everyone is....
User avatar #169 to #167 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
No, there are many rich in America.

But many destitute.

In Ireland they all seem pretty equal.

My only point is that having a high GDP does not make the people rich. Just the nation.
User avatar #172 to #169 - oosulley (01/12/2016) [-]
Ireland is a very unequal country, look up any measure of inequality.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
User avatar #177 to #172 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
Well, I am not an expert, only someone with experience there.

Maybe there is more middle class in Ireland than the USA?

BTW-your link, which is wikipedia, not a source, states that Ireland is very equal.
User avatar #179 to #177 - oosulley (01/12/2016) [-]
Wiki lists its sources well. ITs easy to read and compare.

Its quite unequal, compare the coefficients with the USA or UK. Not as bad, but not equal either. There isn't data on much of the 3rd world.
User avatar #183 to #179 - deutschblut (22 hours ago) [-]
According to wiki, Ireland is way more equal than America though.

And America has the same equality as many 2nd and 3rd world nations.

That is sad.

Ireland needs more equality at the dental clinic... Sorry, couldn't resist. I love the Irish. Great craic.
User avatar #168 to #167 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
Isn't 35,000 Euros about $50,000 USD?

Again, how does anyone live on that in Ireland? Not to mention that is mean.

Most people probably live on more like 1,500 quid a month. Lucky to rent a flt in the ghettos for that. Let alone buy food.

Most people live comfortably enough in Ireland. Don't get me wrong. They are just not rich. For instance, very few people own houses in Ireland. Or "single detached homes". What the Irish call "houses" are usually what we give people for free in America to live in, because they can't afford their own place. "Townhouse" they are called. Basically just an apartment or flat that is a little bigger. I rarely ever saw people in Ireland driving Hummers.

I am not saying the Irish live in a 3rd world nation like the Philippines. There just does not seem to be many rich people running around. But people seem pretty equal there. I loved Ireland. As a German-American who cannot identify with the Irish at all, I loved the nation and the people very much. Actually, I just realized typing this, that I think I enjoyed myself there more than anywhere I ever lived. But with 5 kids, probably never be able to move back there again...

User avatar #170 to #168 - oosulley (01/12/2016) [-]
Your assertation was that Ireland was "a relatively poor country". It is not.

I never said it was a cakewalk living here.
Your assertation about house ownership is plain wrong. Irish people, much more than people on the continent, seek to own their own homes, for better or worse. We also have comparitvely few apartments, especially family ones. You must have never left Dublin, because even in the suburbs, a 3-bed semi-detached 2 storey house is the norm. Townhouses like you describe date from the Georgian period, and cost a bloody FORTUNE.

There aren't that many rich people in ANY country, in terms of populace.
User avatar #180 to #170 - deutschblut (23 hours ago) [-]
What does "semi-detached" mean?

And yes, I lived in Dublin's wonderfully expensive ghettos that people claim do not exist...
User avatar #185 to #180 - oosulley (20 hours ago) [-]
Semi- detached....well em...it means THAT.

Its a house that isn't a terraced, nor is it stand alone. It adjoins one other house. Standard building practice of late.

Pics are best explanation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-detached
User avatar #187 to #185 - deutschblut (19 hours ago) [-]
Ah, duplex.

I remember when I had to learn what a "detached house" was.

When I was shown one I was like "that just looks like a house."

"Yes but it is detached".

"Detached from what? Why would you attach your house to something?"

lol I am American at times...
User avatar #166 to #157 - oosulley (01/12/2016) [-]
GDP per capita....Where ARE you getting your numbers?

Of course our absolute GDP is low, theres only 4.5million of us, hence GDP PER CAPITA....oyyy...
User avatar #171 to #166 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
You even said the GDP per capita is 35,000 Euros.

Is that really far off from 50,000 USD?

I don't know the current exchange, but doing it in my head, that seems about the same...
User avatar #173 to #171 - oosulley (01/12/2016) [-]
Converting, its $38,000.

Average US salary is $52,000. So not that far away, really, once one considers the sheer amount of concentration of US wealth in the hands of the richest.
User avatar #176 to #173 - deutschblut (01/12/2016) [-]
That is my point.

The US is immensely richer than Ireland.

But there are way more poor people in America than Ireland.

And less rich people in Ireland.

That is what I mean that the GDP does not mean that people are rich. Some people, maybe, like in America. But not people in general.
User avatar #178 to #176 - oosulley (01/12/2016) [-]
Fair point.

I just took exception to your characterisation of Ireland as "relatively poor".
User avatar #181 to #178 - deutschblut (22 hours ago) [-]
You said you are in Ireland?

Are you Irish?
User avatar #184 to #181 - oosulley (20 hours ago) [-]
Yes.
User avatar #186 to #184 - deutschblut (19 hours ago) [-]
Well if I can ever make it back I'll buy you a Harp.

Or if you are a rich Irish, you can buy me a Guinness
#64 - nuciferatu (01/11/2016) [-]
Ireland mentioned! Swell with potatoes and not giving a ***** !
#67 to #64 - DremoraValkynaz (01/11/2016) [-]
Don't forget Irish water
Don't forget Irish water
User avatar #77 to #67 - nuciferatu (01/11/2016) [-]
Am I the only one that thinks paying for a service actually makes sense? Sure, water should be free, but actually getting it to my house is a service that needs cash to function. That's not a problem for me.
User avatar #89 to #77 - dudenectar (01/11/2016) [-]
i totally agree, i mean, it doesnt just fall from the sky
User avatar #78 to #77 - DremoraValkynaz (01/11/2016) [-]
No, but the way they've approached it has been absolutely abysmal.
User avatar #79 to #78 - nuciferatu (01/11/2016) [-]
Oh, I didn't really follow that I just found out at one point "now we pay for water". Cool, I'll set up a standing. Done. *shrug*
User avatar #93 to #79 - iamnuff (01/11/2016) [-]
you already paid for it. that's what taxes are for.
#136 to #77 - neweire (01/11/2016) [-]
yes,but the situation in ireland is a bit different as your social housing charge goes towards your water payment,along with your tax money, ALONG with part of the money you pay on motor tax, not to mention that the Siemens company approached the irish government saying they would install and supply the meters at no/next to no cost but yet some prick in dail eireann wanted to line his buddies pockets with a massive contract. Thats why people can be pissed off about Irish water.
#80 to #77 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
What do you think taxes are for? Do you think the water just magically flowed to our taps before this?

The issue is that they're making an entirely new branch of government to deal with it, wasting **** knows how many taxpayer euros to pay utterly unneeded government employees, in addition to the strong chance that it will later be privatized, meaning we could lose our basic right to drinking water.
User avatar #104 - lolollo (01/11/2016) [-]
It's not necessarily because we're not pussies, its because we pick our battles. We do get offended, its just that when we get offended, we don't do so through internet hatefights. If you offend us, you don't get a hurtful tweet, you get a moltov cocktail to the face.

Though the moltov cocktail will be full of piss and won't really work Gratuitous waste of alcohol...
User avatar #33 - asotil (01/11/2016) [-]
False, the Irish are too drunk to know anything even exists apart from " **** ENGLAND"
User avatar #141 - feelythefeel (01/11/2016) [-]
The new mascot looks like a parody of itself from Rick and Morty.
#92 - iamnuff (01/11/2016) [-]
If you upset the irish, the IRA will send you a sternly worded bomb letter.
#128 to #92 - woolfy (01/11/2016) [-]
Our day will come?
Tiocfaidh ár lá PIRA traitor scum.

#8 - masterwafflez (01/11/2016) [-]
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Why the **** did I read this in an Irish accent?
#37 - ostemad (01/11/2016) [-]
Irish aren't offended by jack **** ..

>Union jack raised
>shots fired
#71 to #37 - kewolsky ONLINE (01/11/2016) [-]
go on home british soldiers!! Quite literally
#113 to #37 - BrayBoy ONLINE (01/11/2016) [-]
Definitely not all Irish would be offended, up the north in the tense areas yeah probably.
But having said that I dont know anyone who'd wear clothes with a union jack on it, so maybe theres a little dis taste for it, but I wouldn't call it offensive
#131 to #113 - woolfy (01/11/2016) [-]
On the other hand, the only people you see wearing the Union Jack in the UK are tourists, weirdos obsessed with the royal family, and members our borderline fascist political parties.

Pictured: People in need of psychiatric care.
User avatar #52 to #37 - clitpearl (01/11/2016) [-]
Irish person here. I don't find that flag offensive in the slightest. Perhaps if I were a provi maybe, but I don't speak for them.
#75 to #37 - Jowi (01/11/2016) [-]
Depends what Irish you're talking about
#99 - deutschblut (01/11/2016) [-]
It's because they are drunk.

No, but seriously Irish are great craic. I love the Irish. Very down to Earth fellows.
User avatar #87 - themanwithavoice (01/11/2016) [-]
Part Irish here, can confirm that I dont give a **** about anything Irish.
#21 - lollypopalopicus (01/11/2016) [-]
Keeping being you Ireland.
User avatar #10 - wilburn (01/11/2016) [-]
got a few Irish friends via wow, they actually support stereotyping people and themselves, to them, and pretty much the whole country, its comedy gold
User avatar #135 - derpthefifth (01/11/2016) [-]
I was gonna say, **** off the Irish are offended. The Irish are never offended, unless they're punching you or going to war or forming the IRA
User avatar #106 - enjoigiggity (01/11/2016) [-]
We're always too drunk to notice anything
#103 - anon (01/11/2016) [-]
I think a lot of the stink that's made about so-called offensive logos and such isn't actually made by the supposed offended group. It's often made by rich white people with too much time on their hands.
User avatar #85 - forsakenxii (01/11/2016) [-]
what the **** is that thing, and wheres lucky?
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