BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Amos
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 10:46 AM

The Irish have shown the world what amazing language can sound like, have bred poets and minstrels of the first order, and kept the Mystery alive in thousands of corners where it might have succumbed to ordinarity.

The Brits have shown the world how to take a pummeling and come back fighting. They have demonstrated an awesome capacity for untrammeled introspection and the tireless concatenation of odd thoughts one after another.

The Canadians have provided the world with the ultimate Refuge.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Grab
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 07:31 AM

The English invented *proper* beer. What more could you ask for? If it wasn't for the English, everyone would be drinking insipid urine-coloured rubbish. Proper European beers are nice enough, but not a patch on a decent pint of Theakstons or Spitfire.

Apologies to our American cousins who sadly have no option but to put up with insipid urine-coloured rubbish. Maybe the English should start a charity campaign. I can just see the TV spot now. Cue the Moonlight Sonata or something - picture of sad-eyed old American guy with a pint of flat Miller Lite - "Randy has never had a proper pint. He's never known what beer with flavour tastes like. But with your help, we can provide emergency barrel shipments. We can provide training and raw materials, so that no-one need suffer again in pubs across America. Won't you help us to stop this dreadful cruelty to Randy and others like him?" ;-)

Graham.

(OK, OK, yes I know there are great microbreweries across the US. I just wish there were better macrobreweries...)

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 07:15 AM

Shields Folk - didn't the Romans invent the aqueduct? Or maybe the Greeks? Or even the Minoans? Certain it was neither the Irish nor the British.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 04:23 AM

Sorry about the title name, couldn't fit them all in.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 02:03 AM

"The Irish and British"??
Penicillin
Television--
Tar Macadam Roads--
Telephone---
Steam engines--
Disinfectants---
Porridge and Rabbie Burns--

Nuff said---!!

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Alba
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 01:15 AM

We ALL make feckin great MUSIC!
Luv Ya all
Jude   *smile*

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 12:48 AM

Canadians in Orillia are nice too. We're so nice that it's almost scary. Come visit and see. We have folk music concerts about once a month at the Stephen Leacock Centre.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 06 Dec 06 - 12:24 AM

(Sorry, gang, I couldn't resist it).

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 11:51 PM

And then there's the English ...

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: NH Dave
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 11:08 PM

I know who the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish are, but I'm a little confused by the British.

The Scots brew some fine spirits, loom some fine cloth, and have kept the art of Highland Piping alive over the centuries, even when banned by those currently in power.

The Irish are some of the friendliest people on the earth, unless you happen to be Irish and of the wrong faith. As a result of transportation and the Potato Famines, the Irish have given the world fine soldiers and governors, and do a great Stout as well as good whisky as well.

The Welsh have some fine singers as well as outstanding non-professional choirs. Having worked with a few in the forces, I came to love their sense of humor and way of speaking.

The British, well they as a group settled and governed large areas of the globe, shipping the products grown in these outlying areas of their empire around their empire and to other countries, to the eventual profit of all. They raised mighty armies of the locals, officered by British Officers, and their own peoples to insure that some form of Pax Britanica existed, for the betterment of all, in the countries they ruled. Over the last hundred years they sent their own armies to fight in Europe, Asia, and Korea, not for a little bit more land, over which to rule, but to help the local people find freedom in which to live. Ans some of these oppressed peoples had been traditional enemies of the British for centuries, and would never have lifted a finger to save England were it in dire straits.

The British have an ingrained sense of what is fair and right, and will fight whenever needed, to preserve these rights both for themselves and for others who have never done them any service. Tommy Atkins served in the blistering hot Indian and Afghanistan locales, the hot and dusty African plains, as well as in the mud and degradation of the trench warfare of WWI. He went ashore at Suvla Bay, Siciy, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, offering his all to make the world a safer place to live. Their people, free and convict alike, settled North America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, to find land and new ways of living, and yet still remain loyal British subjects - for the most part - lots of free land in America thoroughly overcame British loyalty, so they started their own country, and twice fought the mother land to keep their freedoms.

On top of all this, they have developed literature, art, and architecture to a point where they have it down to a fine art, and few can call themselves educated until they have experienced these arts for themselves.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 11:01 PM

Southern English Scrumpy, and where it can be got, if at all, these days, Brains Beer! ( S Wales or Cwmru )

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: number 6
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 09:26 PM

Donegal Tweed.

the Peterson Pipe.

Van Morrison (even if he is a grump).



biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 09:20 PM

With the exception of a few persons in Orillia, Canadians are some of the nicest people on earth. Except that they produced Shatner.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 08:11 PM

There was a series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet In which they pulled down the Middlesbrough Bridge and rebuilt it over in North America, somewhere in Nevada I believe. But the real bridge is still there in Middlesbrough. Here it is, along with a few other bridges.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Tootler
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 08:03 PM

The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge. There were only about six built in the world and I believe the Middlesbrough one is the only one still working.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Shields Folk
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:42 PM

As McGrath has pointed out, the ability to mock ones self

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Shields Folk
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:40 PM

and the aqueduct...

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:38 PM

Morris Dancing. While the English can keep that alive, they'll never take themselves too seriously.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Shields Folk
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:28 PM

sanitation...

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:27 PM

I should mention I was complementing the British Isles in my post. I'm from the USA.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:25 PM

Good beer, for the most part. I've never had Welsh beer. The traditional music is also good, and helped give rise to American traditional music. ANd some of my ancestors came from Scotland. There are some good sitcoms from the UK, and some good detective shows, too. And good mystery writers. Someone else can pick it up from here.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: bobad
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:23 PM

"What more could you possibly want?"

Palm trees.

Subject: RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:21 PM

Canada...a lovely place in the Northland. We welcome visitors and immigrants. We have a national medicare system. We have an undefended border. We have an absolutely mind-boggling number of both moose and beaver. We have the world's tallest freestanding structure. And we produced William Shatner!!!

What more could you possibly want? ;-)

Subject: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:18 PM

To help lift the gloom of winter for all our members who enjoy the threads about the Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh let's list their good points. Now no fighting boys and girls before we start.

I will start with a British and Irish one.

Cheap flight British airlines to get me out of this bloody cold country again and see some sunshine.

Ireland the country of my heart and soul is the greatest little patch of soil on earth when it comes to welcoming visitors from far off lands. We can offer you history, music, scenery, craic and very pleasant people who never start arguments concerning politics.

Now go think about it and fight your corner and fly the flag. Maybe our American and Canadian friends could do the same, not forgetting the Australians.