# My boycott against Ireland **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 27, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497 "2003-04-27T15:56:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/41 "2003-04-28T14:56:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*So **L\_C** thought a middle class Northside accent was a working class Southside accent… > > Sounds about right. > > :d&r: > > BTW **elfje** , a few of us live near Drumcondra - give us a shout if you’re ever up for a pint. \*\* I don’t go out to pubs that much, but why don’t you give me a shout when you guys are going? I’ve never met anyone from the SDMB. My profile is linked to my email address, so feel free to mail me, whenever you guys are going to meet up. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/42 "2003-04-28T14:58:30Z")
Why Boycott? Both the ROI and the NI are Hotbeds of Terrorism. Can’t we just carpet bomb all the Millies & Spides and then start over with a Democratic Goverment with no DUP or Sinn Fein??? [I wonder where would Gerry & Rev. Ian be on That deck of playing cards…] ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/43 "2003-04-28T15:01:49Z")
Well there you go then: the Picts need to rise up against their Irish oppressors. Bloody imperialists. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/44 "2003-04-28T15:21:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by everton \* > \*\*And there was me thinking this was going to be about the origin of the word “boycott”. \*\* Well, I was sort of hoping nobody would notice _that_ little detail. I guess if I’m going to do this properly, I have to boycott boycotts as well. :: head explodes :: ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/45 "2003-04-28T15:22:06Z")
**elfje** - "Niall of the Nine Hostages’ Band name ! And as soon as they clear out the Picts, they turn on the poor English ! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/46 "2003-04-28T15:26:39Z")
Starting with your pubs and building sites. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/47 "2003-04-28T15:57:18Z")
and this purely of interest to me (as one of the tribe of the Belgae, that is): [http://www.britam.org/traditions2.html](http://www.britam.org/traditions2.html) in other words, the Belgae were supposed to be a Jewish tribe, later became Celts and moved to Ireland. So it’s the _Jewish Belgians_ that conquered the world! right lads, everyone speak Flemish from now on, you hear! (I may be the sublimation of the three groups, as I’ve a Jewish nose, born in Belgium, and I speak like a nortsoider 🙂 ) hihi ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/48 "2003-04-28T16:01:00Z")
**London\_Calling** , even better is “Niall of the Nine Sausages” as many an Irish schoolchild has missunderstood his name to be. Btw, re whole thread? I think I just wet my knickers. Please continue. ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/49 "2003-04-28T16:08:37Z")
> [@](#): > > …carpet bomb all the Millies & Spides … This classic thought is going to sustain me on my drive home today. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/50 "2003-04-28T16:17:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\ ***elfje** - "Niall of the Nine Hostages’ > > Band name ! > And as soon as they clear out the Picts, they turn on the poor English ! \*\* We’ll give you back Northern Kilburn when you give us back Northern Ireland 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/51 "2003-04-28T16:21:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*We’ll give you back Northern Kilburn when you give us back Northern Ireland 😃 \*\* mheheh 😃 sounds about “roigh” to me! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/52 "2003-04-30T08:18:17Z")
Well it seems that Northern Irish loony and leader of the DUP, the ‘Reverend’ Ian Paisley has joined **Fretful Porpentine’s** campaign. While bitching about the increasing influence of Dublin in Northern Irish politics, Paisley said this of the facially-challenged [Brian Cowen](http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0910/cowenb3.jpg), Dublin’s minister for foreign affairs: > [@](#): > > “Someone told me the other day that the reason his lips were so thick was that when his mother was bringing him up he was a very disobedient young boy, so she used to put glue on his lips to keep him there and that has been recorded in his physical make-up. > > “Away with him indeed and if he wants to use his lips to better effect, he should do it somewhere else, and go to people of like physical looks,” Rev Paisley said. And Paisley is, of course, right to criticise, because he’s something of a [supermodel](http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep-img/whos/leg5/1396.jpg) himself. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/53 "2003-04-30T09:44:39Z")
Yes, that was a vicious attack, wasn’t it? have to say, I’ve not much time for Fianna Fail, but Cowen did not deserve that. At least he has a smidgen of a brain. What does it say of the DUP, though, that their main vote-getter is a crazed, 78 year old geriatric, with a chip on his shoulder? Let’s not get into s discussion of the Troubles up North, though, as it always makes my blood boil… maybe it should be mandatory for politicians to undergo a psych evaluation before they run for office? Mr Paisley is clearly not far removed from being a constant inhabitant of Lala-land. ---
**Author:** ![Rigel\_Haloran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rigel\_Haloran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigel_Haloran)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/54 "2003-04-30T09:54:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \* > \*\*As a nation we’re awfully good at starting fights and holding grudges - I still know people who won’t shake hands with a Campbell, for instance. \*\* Did you ever read the **Sten** series by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch? One of the charectors (from a whole **PLANET** of Scots) uses Campbell as his most vile profanity, without explanation until the last book. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/55 "2003-04-30T09:57:14Z")
Ah well, Paisley just discredits himself. And Cowen’s response was suitably dignified. He does ming, though. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/56 "2003-04-30T10:31:21Z")
ming? as in dynasty? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/57 "2003-04-30T10:34:39Z")
Ming as in minger as in ugly. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/58 "2003-04-30T10:35:36Z")
“Ming” as in “is in the act of being hideous”. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/59 "2003-04-30T11:22:20Z")
aah, a minger, mingin’ ugly 🙂 me get. yes, but then again, he’s from Offaly. Farming communities are not known for their son’s and daughter’s beauty, especially if they have been cut off from any new genes for a while. I take it you guys know what a BIFFO is? Well, Cowen seems to be the textbook example 🙂 (i’m probably being a bit harsh. He did react with dignity to the attack. Fair f\*cks to you, Brian) ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497/60 "2003-04-30T11:25:58Z")
Thats Cowen’s nickname within Fianna Fail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-boycott-against-ireland/171497.md?page=4)