Originally Posted by
carlos marvado
I could'nt agree with you more Nads. Irish TV and TV in other countries have gone down the American route, as are the medical and educational systems here. I gave up watching TV some years ago in favour of reading and sex. With the exception of Discovery and National Geographic, everything else is pure americanised shite. But then, as some of our americanised politicians like to tell us, Ireland is closer to Boston than to Brussels or Berlin. Maybe, in time, some Irish citisens may adopt the American approach to dealing with politicians that they do not approve of. In the meantime, I think I'll just have to go back to start growing bananas again; appropriate in the current climate.
On a happier note, welcome back to Ireland Isabel. I had the pleasure of spending some time with you when you were still touring rather than living here, and you're a fine woman.
Spain's loss is Ireland's gain. We need more ladies of Isabel's calibre.
As for the journalists, politicians, judiciary, police, priests, Ruhama, et al, if you can't get a referendum passed, can't run a health service, could'nt predict on economic downturn (recession) that was just waiting to burst your bubble, can't manage an economy, can't manage your employees, engage in cover-ups and passing the buck, and spend more time at tribunals or investigations of your own passed corruptions, cock-ups and cover-ups, than doing what the tax payers pay you to do, what do you seriously think your chances are of putting the oldest business out of business.
If heaven forbid, we ever did become the 51st state of the Union, at least we could then send that shower of f***ers across a stretch of water that makes the Irish Sea look like a duck pond. And if air fares become prohibitively expensive, they might just have to swim back or drown valiantly in the attempt.
Yours etc.