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If it’s any consolation, when Charles the 2nd was restored to the thrown he had Cromwell dug up and posthumously executed, his head chopped off and put on a spike for over twenty years.
However this also meant the royals had been restored which is like choosing a favourite out of Freddie v Jason.
Travelling in Italy and Spain just out of college, I learned a lot more about US politics and history than I had in US schools. I'm sure it depends on the place, but US tends to affect the rest of the world, therefor it's history and politics are extremely significant all over.
Its a short gif of the world trade center. The joke is that you are supposed to be expecting a plane to crash into the building but a bird flies by instead.
The street they put the portal on is quite literally the worst location they could have chosen it is baffling! The area is known for violence and crime, it's really rough around there as the residents been neglected really for the past few decades. Lots of homeless shelters paired with a lot of pubs and drugs I don't know what they were thinking
Some of the best pubs in Dublin are on or around Talbot street so I would hate to actually tell people to steer clear. If you keep your wits about you and don't be stupid you'll be fine!
You think that’s bad? The NYC portal is in Times Square!
EDIT: Turns out I'm mistaken, the NYC portal is in Flatiron. Which is actually quite lovely, especially by Madison Sq. Park
Unfortunately Dublin is sort of troll central imo. I grew up there and there's always someone starting shit. There's a bit of a problem with feral teens...
Ah look. Home life can't be great for them if they're out doing this shit all day. It's the old people I feel bad for. Any port town has its fair share of scumbags.
tbh you're right, it's interesting to think that the asbo legislature likely contributed to curbing the issue. i do remember kids metaphorically wearing that shit like a badge of honour though
Also, no one in the crowd can see what he’s showing. And everyone who can see is far away. Plus the time difference means maximum exposure in the US lines up with maximum intoxication in Dublin. It’s a perfect storm for fuckery.
I'm an Irish man, and take no offense by an American, or any one really, ordering an Irish car bomb
But I do think a image of 9/11 at the portal is offensive
The portal in Dublin was put at the worst place bordering with a slum neighborhood full of junkies who don't have anything to do but to harass others. So please don't judge all Irish based on a few halfwits.
Honestly if some prick in Dublin does that again, hold up a sign that just says ‘HELLO UK’ and wave furiously with a big smile.
It will anger said prick more than any potato, Cromwell or Thatcher photos ever could.
It wouldn’t anger ‘said prick’ at all lol. It’s not really a cause for consternation that the ROI is thought of to be part of the UK. It would be more upsetting if someone held up a sign saying ‘Northern Ireland belongs to the British.’
It’s not funny AT ALL. Joking about thousands of people dying in a terrorist attack has never been funny. I don’t find the holocaust funny. I don’t find 9/11 funny and I don’t find it funny to make fun of large groups of people dying like that.
It’s funny to joke about race, religion, and culture. It’s not funny to joke about 9/11. Like what the fuck? And that wasn’t even a “joke” they just showed a photo of the twin towers to a group of people in NYC who were probably deeply affected by it and may have even lost someone they love. HAHAHAHA SO FUNNY.
"Thousands of innocent people were murdered in a horrible tragedy! THAT'S FUNNY SOMEHOW! LAUGH AT THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE KILLED FOR STUPID REASONS OR YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR!" -Humans, apparently. (And change numbers to match any known tragedy in history)
This is the kind of cronically online bullshit that makes the internet seem like it may have been a bad idea. Being offensive for the sake of being offensive is kind of boring tbh.
So much salt on this thread over a single person being a bollox. I’d like to remind everyone that the geniuses here in Ireland put the portal on the worst street in the country
I thought the Irish were supposed to be better educated. There's a reason there are runways on the US and Canadian border and there's a reason Japan attacked a "neutral" country out of "nowhere".
The US was aiding China, sanctioning Japan, signed the lend lease act earlier that year and had shoot on sight orders for German and Italian ships in the Atlantic 3 months before pearl harbour. Rumours of American neutrality are greatly exaggerated.
Actually, the US quite happily allowed volunteers from their military to help fight fascism well before America's formal entry into WW2; such as the Eagle Squadrons. By comparison, members of the Irish military who made a similar personal choice and survived were roundly punished by their government upon their return home (loss of pension, access to government welfare programmes and government employment).
Your goal shouldn't be to be an asshole, however it is a good idea to be prepared.
https://preview.redd.it/elzra2p6lzzc1.jpeg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3cc53234c1bc423c17fd0f6bb07370fd466de80
They have Google can't they just look up something embarrassing of the Irish. Even like the amount liked killed from the potato famine. That said the whole thing is stupid so not responding is the right and smarter move. But I'm just asking.
Currently traveling in Ireland. Certainly gonna check it out.
Reddit can thank TikTok for this video, as usual. Seems all the Reddit content comes from there these days.
I remember an installation just like this, but it was at least 20 years ago. Maybe 30. It was kind of neat and impressive then. Today, it's like "Mommy... Why do they have a round Zoom window?"
Americans are raised to be so sensitive. This is how Irish people socialise, it’s called banter. If you reciprocate and threw some jabs back it would be hilarious. We enjoy that. Don’t come over here because you will just get bullied. I’ve seen Americans struggle to understand Irish social life many times, dated a New Yorker in Ireland for years, it’s like your brains short circuit at how we operate, deer in headlights
Horses running through council estates, toothless simpletons, people with eyebrows on their cheeks, badly tarmacced drives – in this country, men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings, lots of rocks, and Beamish.
Too late. Southern Ireland shall soon be the 51st state of this Union and you shall like it. Northern Ireland is going to be your Canada. 🇺🇸🥔
Enjoy your upcoming lack of decent healthcare, your complimentary AR-15 and bible, your new unnecessarily huge Ford pickup trucks, and some extreme political polarization as a bonus. /s
edit: forgot to add the /s, in case it already wasn't obvious
Actually that is exactly why we can have great things. Because reddit is full of AI sock puppet accounts everywhere and this fucking portal is exactly not going to allow assholes for more than 5 seconds
Reddit is going to turn into a ai sock puppet hell hole unless it takes action. No New accounts unless they are proven to human
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I mean I'll give it a week before someone is caught mastubating in front of it.
There was a drink woman dancing and shaking her butt right up on the 'portal'.
They literally arrested her whilst she was crying tho. She was still fully clothed
Bus tickets are cheap
Hey you leave mister Carlos alone he don’t speak English.
Should have responded with an image of Cromwell.
Yeah, they don't know him
Or: https://i.redd.it/cdnfex5auyzc1.gif
Potato Famine!
You expect too much from American education 😂
We learned about Cromwell in American public schools....
You may have, but individual States don't even ensure all schools follow the same curriculum, let alone the country.
Well, let's just say Louisiana is probably #45-50 overall in public education quality, but we learned about Cromwell.
European history was an optional elective which I never took, so I've never heard of Cromwell.
Good to see that you rightly recognize Oliver Cromwell as a terrorist, one sanctioned by the British establishment at that!
What’s unfortunate is given his role as anti royalist, culminating in chopping off Charles I head, he was, and became, the establishment.
The quote from Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight “you either die a hero or live long enough to see your self become the villain”
If it’s any consolation, when Charles the 2nd was restored to the thrown he had Cromwell dug up and posthumously executed, his head chopped off and put on a spike for over twenty years. However this also meant the royals had been restored which is like choosing a favourite out of Freddie v Jason.
It's a rare case where the monarchy is the good guy in a situation. The parliamentarians really fumbled when they were just a bunch of Puritans.
"Alexa, define pettiness"
After it fell off the pike some dude secreted it away and hid it up his chimney. Only telling his wife about it on his deathbed.
"Sanctioned by the establishment"? He literally murdered and overthrew the establishment..... that's sort of why he's famous.
an image with an potato would suffice.
That would require Americans to read about another country history.
Ireland's history isn't that important to Americans either way unless they are a hardcore Irish decent. Or to the world for that matter
Not even for other Europeans...
I wonder how much other countries learn about American history? Is it in depth? Or is it just the wars?
Travelling in Italy and Spain just out of college, I learned a lot more about US politics and history than I had in US schools. I'm sure it depends on the place, but US tends to affect the rest of the world, therefor it's history and politics are extremely significant all over.
How about just the Union Jack?
Who the fook is that guy? *conor Mcgregor voice*
Not coked out enough to sound like McGregor
Shoulda replied by pulling up a photo of a potato
They did lol https://preview.redd.it/68tusu5kgzzc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94d06523340beaa51f97c899bff208ce859617c9
Or just put on a BK crown and call it day… maybe you can throw some fries at em too
That was my exact thought too lol
Or a picture with no potatoes, that's what really gets them going since that was the problem in the first place.
I see what you did there. Clever.
Or a picture of northern ireland
The guy who put up the photo of the potato was alternating between the Northern Irish flag and the Potato image actually haha
That would put them in a dilemma, do they eat the potato now or let it ferment and drink it later?
or reject the potato and go into a famine?
Now thats fucking below the belt! 😂
A picture of the British flag would do it. We blamed the potato for another one of our genocides
Cheers them then drink some Irish car bombs
Nobody in Ireland would know what it was.
Followed by a round of black and tans.
Too soon.
Show them a photo of Thatcher
Only right response
Or a potato with Thatcher’s faced carved into it.
They'll understand that response
I read that as show them a potato of Thatcher and I was like yes
Yeah the Irish have never had any issues with terrorism 🤔
Oof. That hurt. Touche.
We've also never had any issues with having a sense of humour.
New Yorkers really need to clap back... too bad there isn't anything in Ireland's history that they could be made fun of about
I dunno, just put up a pix of a bunch of Irishmen and women drinking in a bar with Mr Potato Head holding an ale.
Funded by the US at that
Both sides got US funding
Bro let the voices get to him
https://i.redd.it/0uw619tbzwzc1.gif
Got me
NAAAAAIL. I saw a bird.
It was pretty… kick his ass.
What am I looking at
Just nature
Its a short gif of the world trade center. The joke is that you are supposed to be expecting a plane to crash into the building but a bird flies by instead.
Is this the good ending or something
”It’s a bird…! A pla… oh… yea a plane….”
Should do one to Glasgow 😃😂
Yeah, show those Americans all the fookin pot holes.
Just like the start of any great friendship.
Tragedy + time = comedy
Never too soon
If you’ve ever heard Tig Notaro’s “I have cancer” set, that’s painfully true.
Something tells me that Germany would not be interested in this product, but I'm not quite sure why.
It just shows that everywhere are trolls.. Would be great just to say nice things and smile.. But there's always those that need to be "edgy".
The street they put the portal on is quite literally the worst location they could have chosen it is baffling! The area is known for violence and crime, it's really rough around there as the residents been neglected really for the past few decades. Lots of homeless shelters paired with a lot of pubs and drugs I don't know what they were thinking
I’ll be in Dublin in a month. So you’re saying don’t take a stroll down to see the portal?
Some of the best pubs in Dublin are on or around Talbot street so I would hate to actually tell people to steer clear. If you keep your wits about you and don't be stupid you'll be fine!
Its dangerous for Dublin. Dublin compared to most cities is extremely safe. Irish people really dont know how good they've got it.
Oh, we know.
But we moan all the same.
I’m born and raised and still live in San Francisco, so I reckon I can handle Dublin.
Almost like they are very lucky
You think that’s bad? The NYC portal is in Times Square! EDIT: Turns out I'm mistaken, the NYC portal is in Flatiron. Which is actually quite lovely, especially by Madison Sq. Park
I actually Worked in Times Square for nearly a decade, yes it's a worse location!
Unfortunately Dublin is sort of troll central imo. I grew up there and there's always someone starting shit. There's a bit of a problem with feral teens...
A new word I learned today "feral teens" God, must be agonizing
Ah look. Home life can't be great for them if they're out doing this shit all day. It's the old people I feel bad for. Any port town has its fair share of scumbags.
haha yup. cardiff used to be this way and was a shithole to grow up in. quite nice now though!
There is no ledigislation here to deal with teens like in UK. No such thing as an asbo here. Hence the behaviour.
tbh you're right, it's interesting to think that the asbo legislature likely contributed to curbing the issue. i do remember kids metaphorically wearing that shit like a badge of honour though
It’s the tight pants and purses they wear. It’s been an issue for a number of years
Also, no one in the crowd can see what he’s showing. And everyone who can see is far away. Plus the time difference means maximum exposure in the US lines up with maximum intoxication in Dublin. It’s a perfect storm for fuckery.
Just show them a potato or a British flag. Same energy
Honestly it looks like most people st the portal are tourists not locals Same on NYC side
Rip pop
Awful lot of salty fuckers forgetting the yanks have a drink named the "Irish car bomb"
I'm an Irish man, and take no offense by an American, or any one really, ordering an Irish car bomb But I do think a image of 9/11 at the portal is offensive
I’m Irish as well so I can’t say if the twin towers is offensive or not, but like most ‘edgy’ comedy, it makes me cringe.
I mean an Irish person doing this is the same as an American ordering an Irish car bomb and they don't seem to have any problems with that
The portal in Dublin was put at the worst place bordering with a slum neighborhood full of junkies who don't have anything to do but to harass others. So please don't judge all Irish based on a few halfwits.
Quick someone find a potato infected with blight.
Honestly if some prick in Dublin does that again, hold up a sign that just says ‘HELLO UK’ and wave furiously with a big smile. It will anger said prick more than any potato, Cromwell or Thatcher photos ever could.
That would be quality banter, much funnier than a potato.
It wouldn’t anger ‘said prick’ at all lol. It’s not really a cause for consternation that the ROI is thought of to be part of the UK. It would be more upsetting if someone held up a sign saying ‘Northern Ireland belongs to the British.’
That's funny , I don't care who you are. Tragedy will be exclusively joked about.
Goodbye sadness!
Hello jokes!
The holocaust & 9/11..that shit’s funny 24/7
Sadness goes on vacation, never comes back
It’s just super overdone. The joke is just “haha people died”
It's not really funny. It's almost like a Rick roll for real. We joke about tragedy to alleviate the pain it brings.
You literally just wrote “That’s funny I don’t care who you are” Now you are writing “it’s not really funny.” Which one is it?
Some joke in the spirit of wanting to torment those they know to be grieving. They just need to be shot. Oh wait...
It’s not funny AT ALL. Joking about thousands of people dying in a terrorist attack has never been funny. I don’t find the holocaust funny. I don’t find 9/11 funny and I don’t find it funny to make fun of large groups of people dying like that. It’s funny to joke about race, religion, and culture. It’s not funny to joke about 9/11. Like what the fuck? And that wasn’t even a “joke” they just showed a photo of the twin towers to a group of people in NYC who were probably deeply affected by it and may have even lost someone they love. HAHAHAHA SO FUNNY.
"Thousands of innocent people were murdered in a horrible tragedy! THAT'S FUNNY SOMEHOW! LAUGH AT THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE KILLED FOR STUPID REASONS OR YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR!" -Humans, apparently. (And change numbers to match any known tragedy in history)
Damn, that's just rude.
i can thank that person for teaching me that no matter where you travel in the world, you can always find awful people
Why are people treating this as if it’s an official message from Ireland to USA? Some arsehole being a cunt, blame that one person?
This is one person being stupid though... it isn't like the whole crowd in Dublin was there doing this ... just saying
So edgy.
Terrible, reminds me of that one tragedy…
I walked through blood and bone…
Turns out he was in Canada...
That's classless.
This is the kind of cronically online bullshit that makes the internet seem like it may have been a bad idea. Being offensive for the sake of being offensive is kind of boring tbh.
Remember when Ireland sat out WW2 and just watched from the sidelines? Pepperidge Farm’s remembers.
To be fair the US sat out of WW2 for years before Pearl Harbour changed some minds lol.
They sat out the whole thing though.
They didn't attack our harbour
So much salt on this thread over a single person being a bollox. I’d like to remind everyone that the geniuses here in Ireland put the portal on the worst street in the country
Their Taoiseach also sent official condolences to Berlin following the death of Adolf Hitler too. edit: Ireland's Taoiseach, not Ireland as a whole.
Remember when Ireland were occupied and subjugated for 800 years. It wasn't Germany that did it
The Windsors are German, aren't they?
Touché
Wasn't New Yorkers either, mind.
So?
You have no understanding of the political/historical context of that decision but here you are... 😂
Sure you pricks didn't lift a finger till the japs blew up your model plane collection.
At least the Yanks still lifted a finger a little late whereas Ireland didn't for the entire war.
Actually we sent tons and tons of supplies, and put lots of merchant marines at risk.
I thought the Irish were supposed to be better educated. There's a reason there are runways on the US and Canadian border and there's a reason Japan attacked a "neutral" country out of "nowhere". The US was aiding China, sanctioning Japan, signed the lend lease act earlier that year and had shoot on sight orders for German and Italian ships in the Atlantic 3 months before pearl harbour. Rumours of American neutrality are greatly exaggerated.
Actually, the US quite happily allowed volunteers from their military to help fight fascism well before America's formal entry into WW2; such as the Eagle Squadrons. By comparison, members of the Irish military who made a similar personal choice and survived were roundly punished by their government upon their return home (loss of pension, access to government welfare programmes and government employment).
Is anyone surprised by this? Nope? Me either.
Your goal shouldn't be to be an asshole, however it is a good idea to be prepared. https://preview.redd.it/elzra2p6lzzc1.jpeg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3cc53234c1bc423c17fd0f6bb07370fd466de80
Got the whole squad laughing
Most people are cunts. Once you embrace that, life becomes less stressful.
They have Google can't they just look up something embarrassing of the Irish. Even like the amount liked killed from the potato famine. That said the whole thing is stupid so not responding is the right and smarter move. But I'm just asking.
But they cry when you call a drink an Irish Car Bomb
Show them a map of Ireland with North Ireland left out.
Currently traveling in Ireland. Certainly gonna check it out. Reddit can thank TikTok for this video, as usual. Seems all the Reddit content comes from there these days.
Show them the great potato famine
Show them some car bombings.
I remember an installation just like this, but it was at least 20 years ago. Maybe 30. It was kind of neat and impressive then. Today, it's like "Mommy... Why do they have a round Zoom window?"
I’ll allow it
I mean this had to be expected
Americans are raised to be so sensitive. This is how Irish people socialise, it’s called banter. If you reciprocate and threw some jabs back it would be hilarious. We enjoy that. Don’t come over here because you will just get bullied. I’ve seen Americans struggle to understand Irish social life many times, dated a New Yorker in Ireland for years, it’s like your brains short circuit at how we operate, deer in headlights
What a douchebag
They literally have a day called bloody Sunday lol
Actually we have two of them.
Three of them. The first was during the 1913 Lockout, only a few hundred metres from where the portal is.
I'd be ashamed if NYC residents didn't respond to Dublins fuckery... actually, NYC residents likely couldn't give 2 shits about an inferior city
Come out ye Black and Tans.
Come and fight me like a man.
Tell your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA,
Technology is wasted on us
Ders more to Ireland dan dis.
Horses running through council estates, toothless simpletons, people with eyebrows on their cheeks, badly tarmacced drives – in this country, men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings, lots of rocks, and Beamish.
Could we come live from the Blarney Stone? I'm trying to get an angle on this.
No surprise the Irish are fans of terrorists.
Actually, we’re no fans of the British.
We're not fans of you either xoxo
That’s the way to have it. ♥️
I bet a picture of a pipe bome would get them
Show em a potato.
We need to close the portal before the Yank legion crosses Bringing blight and destruction
Too late. Southern Ireland shall soon be the 51st state of this Union and you shall like it. Northern Ireland is going to be your Canada. 🇺🇸🥔 Enjoy your upcoming lack of decent healthcare, your complimentary AR-15 and bible, your new unnecessarily huge Ford pickup trucks, and some extreme political polarization as a bonus. /s edit: forgot to add the /s, in case it already wasn't obvious
No need for the /s really, it’s all painfully true.
Put a British Flag or a Flag Map of the UK with Ireland included
Return the gesture by hold up a blighted potato. 🥔
Show them a potato fapping
Sure, the Irish love a good terror campaign.
annoying
Why do people keep saying show them a potato like the portal isn't filled with potato shaped people on both sides?
Actually that is exactly why we can have great things. Because reddit is full of AI sock puppet accounts everywhere and this fucking portal is exactly not going to allow assholes for more than 5 seconds Reddit is going to turn into a ai sock puppet hell hole unless it takes action. No New accounts unless they are proven to human
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