How about challenging them to darts? A few pints, you guys win.
I thought you had a reasonably good but small Coast Guard, Ireland might have enough to stop a 1967 era Israeli invasion.
Yes, but Israel has a Navy that’s only slightly more powerful than your own, and no real experience with sealift, convoy operations, or large scale amphibious operations. Unless you’re willing to posit that the Israelis are going to get material aid from the UK, I don’t think they’d be able to press a beachhead.
I have to admit, however, if the RN were supporting them, you really are screwed.
ETA: What Exit?, they’ve got a flotilla of eight of what the USN would call frigates and cutters. Not a huge military force, but I suspect enough to prevent an Israeli landing.
Years ago, when I lived in Britain, I thought the coverage of America was surprisingly excessive.
I don’t blame you An Gadaí: I have limited interest in the UK and even less in Ireland. Sure, I think Britain is a great country and I trust Ireland is as well. But I might read an article about them once a month, or less.
That the European media is covering the Pennsylvania primaries is laughable. News flash: Hillary is toast: this week’s US election news deserves maybe a sentence at most.
Maybe not, but they were able to pull off Operation Rooster 53.
That is correct. They took an enemy radar installation away. They didn’t destroy it, they stole it. How can you beat guys like that?
No, it’s a good rant, and I’ve said much the same thing. The media has been covering election campaigns for so long that they’ve come to view them as the candidates do. Of course the candidates care about how blocks of votes (if there even are such things) will go, how their messages are being received. But no one has ever told me why I should care.
I don’t give a damn if Hillary is polling well with Hispanics. There’s nothing in that that I can use. I want them to tell me who the candidates are, what the likely consequences of their policies would be, and whether they have their facts straight. And then shut up.
OK, we’ll stop if you’ll get rid of those Irish Spring soap ads.
I’m actually starting to feel sorry for the candidates. Five years* of mouthing the same platitudes day after friggin’ day without ever being allowed to ever say anything that means anything, and you still haven’t even selected the PARTY CANDIDATES YET!!!11!! And you can’t really blame other countries that don’t care about your election for watching coverage of it; we turn on our news, and there it is. I DON’T CARE! Tell me who won the all-the-marbles election, and leave me alone until then.
*At least, that’s what it feels like to me.
I’m sorry our dysfunctional political process has managed to disturb Ireland’s peace. We are like a spirited, rowdy and occasionally embarrassing extended family. It could be worse. We could be your neighbors, inviting ourselves over for toast and tea every morning.
Let me help you out with the American system, my little Leprechaun. The POTUS is not the Mac truck, he’s the little chrome dog on the hood. We all know it but we pretend… but then again we watch reality TV in spades.
Seriously [and I mean this], there are enough stupid hillbillys here to re-elect the worst president we’ve ever had. The reason? it’s easier to take what we want at gunpoint than actually work for it. You may not care now, pray the pendulum doesn’t swing against you.
That’s a wonderfully enlightened attitude you have there. “Stupid hillbillys.” Because all rural folks voted for Bush. And everyone who voted for Bush was a rural, working-class white person. And it’s okay to throw judgmental slurs their way, because, you know…they’re white. And probably racist.
Wow. Are you serious? Go back and re-read the OP. I was responding in kind. Let me serve you a Tiger Woods while you ponder your next post.
::shakes head::
Nevermind
Please, serve me a Tiger Woods. I’m trying to figure out what you’re talking about. What do you mean responding in kind? You said you “meant this,” “seriously.” What, you didn’t think anyone would object to such a broad and judgmental characterization of “hillbillys?” Or were you joking? Was I whooshed? Tell me.
Sorry, Argent Towers, I meant no disrespect. I was referencing this from the OP, “I think you’re in great shape America, so enough already with the election coverage.”
Clearly not sincere. To blame America for their coverage is so laughable as not to be worthy of a response, IMHO. It was satire.
For the record, I’m from East Texas. We throw the term hillbilly loosely around here , even though this is rice country. Now excuse me, I need to go wash my ‘Foghat’ t-shirt.
Alright, cool. Thanks for explaining.
De nada.
No, but seriously, fucking hillbillies get their hillbilly candidates elected all the time. Stop voting, already! How can you even read the ballots with a first grade education?!
You are my neighbour, my annoying obnoxious one that never shuts up, plays his music way too loud, has no consideration for others, and even worse, parks on the lawn, MY lawn ya bastards!
Get off my lawn!
Yeah, you just watch out. While you’re out front trying to get us off your lawn, Alaska’s sneaking in the back door to steal your lumber. 