BS: Foot and Mouth Parade

Subject: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: The Dane
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 12:27 PM

Due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Britain, the Sct. Patrick's Day Parade has been cancelled in Dublin, Cork and Galway. This has to be first time that happens.

Isn't it somewhat ironic that the brits have once again, some 80 years after the Irish independence, managed to stop the Irish people from celebrating their national identity and culture?

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 12:33 PM

I'd take your irony somewhere else - this disease will devastate the farming population of Ireland and the UK if it continues to spread -that ain't funny one little bit.

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: nutty
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 12:35 PM

How remiss of us not to have thought of it before .... we could have used it as biological warefare and saved a lot of human deaths

Seriously though Dane ... it shows the appalling consequences of this disease is appreciated by even the most hardened nationalist. If it was widespread in Ireland it would totally demolish the economy

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 05:58 PM

Excuse me, but it has already been used as a weapon. I know of at least four places in the UK where F&M, anthrax, foulpest and swinefever have been stored ready to drop on unsuspecting countries as part of the final solution.

As stated in another thread, the sum of Irelands' agriculture is 25% of their GNP. A quarter of the country's earnings are from agriculture.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 06:12 PM

I'm not sure I should even touch this one, but it does seem sad that 'cos of something that's gone wrong HERE in Britain (for whatever reason), you folks in Ireland have to miss out on such an important event.
>That's all, nothing political, no blame, not taking sides...Aaaargh!!!!
Tigger (uncomfortably on the fence [ish])

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 06:13 PM

Better still, let's forget this one, it's getting dodgy...

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: MartinRyan
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 07:55 PM

Not 25%, for what it's worth - about 7%. But - since when did facts matter in a dispute (in English) between the "Irish" and the "British/English"?

Regards (and I still mean that)

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: Hawker
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 07:58 PM

If it's any consolation Ireland, March 5th is St Piran's Day, St Piran is the Patron saint of Cornwall. Like you Irish, we celebrate our saint's day with pride - as a rule.........Many marches and get togethers here in Cornwall also had to be postponed. I, However do not see it as some anti Cornish cunning plan........ God rest the souls of all the dead livestock! Perish the thought they died to scupper Ireland!

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: MartinRyan
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:03 PM

Hawker

Good man! < P> Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: wdyat12
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:10 PM

You Brits just get over it. Love thy neighbor and let go. How would you like to control such a mess as America right now?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: wdyat12
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:34 PM

Whoops! Foot in Mouth now here in America.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: ddw
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:22 PM

Dane — are you really that stupid or just an insensative asshole? I rarely get really pissed over some comment about what the English have done to the Irish over the years — a good portion of it is true, although a good lot of it is also crap.

But making light of something that could devastate the economies of the U.K. and a big whack of Europe is going more than a little over the top. U.K. farmers are still reeling from the hit they've taken over mad cow disease. Now, if this keeps going, they're going to lose half (or more) of the livestock they've got. And to curb it they have to stop a parade or two? Big deal. Live with it. And the next time you want to take a dig at the English, pick a topic that's funny, OK?

david

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:34 PM

Dane;

I am sick and tired of this awful brirs, poor irish crap and in this case it is just way over the mark. Why don't you smarten up. The livlihood of thousands of farmers is at risk and you make these stupid, ill-informed and childiah remarks..grow up.

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: MARINER
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 02:48 PM

If Foot and Mouth breaks out in the Republic, it's not the fault of the British people. It's the fault of some greedy asshole of a livestock dealer who smuggled infected lambs over the border into the South.Christ! Don't blame the British for everything.I'm getting sick of this "seven hundred years of English domination" crap we hear from all sides. Some things happen through greed(as above) and some things are, believe it or not,are our own fault, nothing to do with the Brits. We don't need them to make a cock up of things for us, we're perfectly well able to do it ourselves. Mariner.

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 02:56 PM

Mariner, click here. The Dane has apologised for his remarks.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: Shamrock
Date: 06 Mar 01 - 04:35 PM

Like the stuff from Chernobil F & M does not respect political boundaries. I feel sorry for the animals.

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Mar 01 - 05:03 AM

Sometimes real life can be mimicking misplaced irony:
British troops regularly and recklessly cross and recross farms and have been responsible for the spread of bovine TB. Their activities now clearly pose a danger with this Foot and Mouth crisis. They should be immediately withdrawn to barracks.

And this man (Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin) wants to be taken serious.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Foot and Mouth Parade
From: GUEST,Brendan
Date: 07 Mar 01 - 07:35 PM

Well, Wolfgang, if they don't disinfect themselves, or take proper precautions, of course they're going pose a risk.

I agree with the TD. They should be withdrawn to barracks immediately.

Who knows....their next tour of duty could bring them to a barracks near you.

B.