What has Ireland got to do with it?
C’mon down south sometime, Miller. I’ve heard mispronunciations that would make the straw in the baby Jesus’ manger cry.
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You could offer no clearer confirmation of your idiocy than this and the preceding post. Ireland has outstranding beer, a fascinating ancient culture, beautiful rugged mountains, a lively social scene and IT market in Dublin, not to mention its being the home of Wilde, Butler, Yeats, Synge, Joyce, Swift, to name just a few of Irelan’ds literary and artistic giants.
According to Yahoo, Wicjita can boast among other fine museums and galleries, the Country Bumpkin Craft Shoppe, Nanny’s Niche, and the Wichita Art Museum, which is closed for renovations according to its Web page–no doubt making room for the Dogs Playing Cards Wing and the Velvet Elvis collection. Sure must put the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels to shame!
So, you’ve got:
Beer, which makes Ireland a verrrry unique country.:rolleyes:
Fascinating ancient culture - so does China. I’m sure it makes for a good read.
Mountains - how exciting. I’m sure they’re better mountains than anything that can be found in the Rockies.:rolleyes:
Lively social scene?! LOL!
I don’t why anyone would care who used to live in their country.
I really don’t have anything against Ireland, but I don’t understand why other poster immediately began supporting France.
Maybe it’s the socialism they envy. I don’t know.
Clint, Clint, Clint… will you ever learn?
You’ve obviously never been to either France, or Ireland. I think you may not ever have been outside the US. In fact, I’d bet good money that -besides that one trip to Disney Land-, you never left Kansas.
Judge what you have witnessed with your own eyes. Shut the fuck up about the rest.
Clint, no one is “supporting France”. A lot of posters are trying to stop others from perpetuating stupid stereotypes about France. With rather limited effect, in your case.
Not one word of your post rebutts anything I have typed.
I’ve never left North America, nor do I have any desire to.
If my country was the size of a small state, chances are I’d have been to more countries, too.
Having said that: I’m mighty curious about your upcoming analysis about my country, the Netherlands. I’ll give you a few pointers. Largely socialist/democratic government, legal weed, legal prostitution, legal gay marriages, legal abortions, and a legal framework that makes euthanasia possible in extreme cases. The top tax rate is 52%, gas costs EUR 1,22 a liter, and we only have 16 million people crammed together in less than 37,000 square kilometers.
C’mon me lad, give it a go. This ought to be fun.
Well, I gotta say that while I deplore France’s grandstanding in the UN, I’ve had marvelous times in France itself. The people were friendly and receptive to my efforts to speak French (except for this one bitch at the ticket counter at the Chartres train station), the food is glorious, the art treasures of the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou are mesmerizing, and the men are hot! I remember one drunken evening hanging out with two guys at a wine bar in the Marais and, boy howdy, did we have a time!
And while nobody surrendered to me, I had a few guys “give it up.” 
And Coldfire, Amsterdam is a blast. Apart from the obligatory visits to the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk, I loved the Indonesian restaurants, the hash bars, the wild gay nightlife (oh, the Eagle!), and the friendly Dutch guys. Not to mention that Amsterdam is a major nexus for travel to Asia, Africa, and Europe with tons of bucket shops selling discounted fares.
Hmm, maybe the Goboyfriend and I ought to book another visit there this year.
Then please stop shooting your mouth off about countries you know nothing about. And for God’s sake, if negative stereotypes about Americans make you angry, try not to ACT like one of those stereotypes.
Guinness is the drink of the gods.
I don’t need to read because I’ve been there-and China, too, although if you want authentic Chinese culture you need to go to Taiwan or Hong Kong. There’s not much left in the Mainland that is verifiably ancient-not even parts of the wall, such as the section at Badaling.
If you want to know what Ireland looks like, rent the John Boorman movies Excalibur or Zardoz because they were filmed in the Irish countryside, mostly County Wicklow IIRC.
Reading about a place or watching it on a video is no substitute for seeing it with your own eyes.
Please, stay right where you are.
Oh the hurt. I am wounded by your mocking of our puny countries’ land area. How can I carry on in such a small country?
Actually - all mocking aside - I have met lots of people with an attitude similar to yours: they were communists in China. Strangely, the many Americans I know that have left their country seem to be considerable less assholic, narrow-minded, ignorant, and bigoted than you. In fact, now I think about it, every single American I know who hasn’t left America is less of an asshole than you, too.
If you’d have every got off your wilfully ignorant, stay-at-home dickwad ass, you’d find that France is fucking lovely, the women are beautiful, the food astonishing, the countryside wonderful, the culture rich, the history fascinating (the president’s a fucking tool, but you can’t have everything).
[BTW, Coldie, I don’t think there’s a cooler place on earth than the Netherlands. If only you could do something about the damn weather, which appears to be the cast-off rain that even Ireland didn’t want! ;)]
We’re trying to get a deal on a piece of Tunesian coastline, jjimm. They’ll ship it over as soon as the check clears.
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you’d find that France is fucking lovely, the women are beautiful, the food astonishing, the countryside wonderful, the culture rich, the history fascinating (the president’s a fucking tool, but you can’t have everything).
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Wait a sec… we have beautiful women, wonderful countryside, rich culture (stop that snickering) and fascinating history, plus our president’s a fucking tool, too. Dang, I’m in France!
Screw the Tunisian coastline…if you could transport Amsterdam into the Tuscan countryside, then you’d have paradise on earth.
gobear, I have to ask you to stop posting your fondness of Guinness and Amsterdam, as well as making the jokes I was just about to type out. As you are a foaming-at-the-mouth gunhappy American conservative, I feel much more at ease calling you an airheaded Bush-yesman.
I mean, rather than having to agree with you all the time. 
Can’t I be both a a foaming-at-the-mouth gunhappy American conservative AND a well-traveled hedonist with a taste for good beer, hot men, transcendant art, and an appreciation for other cultures?
Well, I suppose you can. I’ll try and adapt.
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