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Emerald · Wed 05/03/2008 16:51:25

Which all combine to make truly great writers.

Granted, most of them probably died stuck in traffic outside Crummy (Crumlin) Hospital after being shivved with a screwdriver, but at least we have the potential...

Antonio · Wed 05/03/2008 16:53:45

...MARTIN AMIS
JANE AUSTEN
ANTHONY BURGESS
LEWIS CARROLL
DANIEL DEFOE
CHARLES DICKENS
E.M. FORSTER
SAMUEL JOHNSON
JOHN KEATS
D.H. LAWRENCE
CHRISTOPHER MARLOLWE
ALEXANDER POPE
JOHN RUSKIN
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
MARY SHELLEY
ALFRED TENNYSON
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
P.G. WODEHOUSE
VIRGINIA WOOLF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH...

Jack Sheehan · Wed 05/03/2008 17:01:37

Quote from: Antonio on Wed 05/03/2008 16:53:45
...MARTIN AMIS
JANE AUSTEN
ANTHONY BURGESS
LEWIS CARROLL
DANIEL DEFOE
CHARLES DICKENS
E.M. FORSTER
SAMUEL JOHNSON
JOHN KEATS
D.H. LAWRENCE
CHRISTOPHER MARLOLWE
ALEXANDER POPE
JOHN RUSKIN
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
MARY SHELLEY
ALFRED TENNYSON
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
P.G. WODEHOUSE
VIRGINIA WOOLF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH...

Ah but you also gave the world Jeffrey Archer! Explain that one away!

Antonio · Wed 05/03/2008 17:03:55

Duly noted...

Emerald · Wed 05/03/2008 17:05:20

Fair enough, then explain to me why, if you have so many literary geniuses, that when you go to study English literature, half of them are Irish...

Antonio · Wed 05/03/2008 17:09:14

Just a guess here... Too many Irish teachers?!

Emerald · Wed 05/03/2008 17:13:57

Quote from: Antonio on Wed 05/03/2008 17:09:14
Just a guess here... Too many Irish teachers?!

Tell that to Mary Hanafin...

LimpingFish · Wed 05/03/2008 22:00:03

This has become the most Irish thread in the history of AGS.

...and I've just died a little inside.

Emerald · Wed 05/03/2008 22:32:49

I have that effect on threads. What can I say, I'm a patriot...

Layabout · Thu 06/03/2008 15:33:09

You don't see yufster or meowster or whatever she is called these days being very patriotic. Why does the Irish girl living in Brighton complain about her adopted country? Yes there are chavs here. Yes the uk needs to sort itself out, but it ain't that bad.

Emerald · Thu 06/03/2008 16:37:30

Quote from: Layabout on Thu 06/03/2008 15:33:09
Yes the uk needs to sort itself out, but it ain't that bad.

Compared to what, North Korea?

Jack Sheehan · Thu 06/03/2008 16:41:38

Quote from: Emerald on Thu 06/03/2008 16:37:30
Quote from: Layabout on Thu 06/03/2008 15:33:09
Yes the uk needs to sort itself out, but it ain't that bad.

Compared to what, North Korea?

Calm down now, we dont want this to turn into a Sinn Fein thread now do we? Britain is a lovely place and so is ireland, I'd venture to say that we produce more lovely girls per head of population but the British did give the world afternoon tea, which im having right now.....mmm.....oh sorry.

Emerald · Thu 06/03/2008 17:05:23

Quote from: Jack Sheehan on Thu 06/03/2008 16:41:38
I'd venture to say that we produce more lovely girls per head of population

It's more the other way around. The hot-to-not ratio is in bad favour, but when an Irish girl is hot, she's really hot...

shbaz · Thu 06/03/2008 23:45:10

Quote from: Emerald on Thu 06/03/2008 17:05:23
It's more the other way around. The hot-to-not ratio is in bad favour, but when an Irish girl is hot, she's really hot...

Just like everywhere else, I'm sure the following rule applies:

1. Single
2. Attractive
3. Mentally stable

(pick two)

Emerald · Thu 06/03/2008 23:48:38

I'm the type of guy to go for 2&3 and take my chances...

Meowster · Sat 08/03/2008 15:58:43

England isn't my adoptive country. I was born here. I'm English.

I don't know what's worse, irish chavs or english chavs. I went to a really good school in Ireland, but then my mum moved and so I had to go to college at a really chavvy place. It was pretty dire. I had no friends for those two years because they were all such really rubbish and pointless people. Their idea of fun was to go "knacker drinking" (buying cheap booze and hiding somewhere such as a ditch to consume it), or car racing along the quay. 'Cos I didn't like doing these things, I was considered snobby and was therefore not accepted by them. Which is fine 'cos I am very snobby and they were right - I would have spent all my time mocking their pointless lives, rubbish accents and cheap slaggy clothes.

But at least most Irish chavs still go to uni and sort themselves out a bit, and by the time they emerge they're not quite so bad... have probably developed a slight sense of style, stopped buying their shoes in Primark, stopped drinking Fat Frog etc. All the horribly pointless individuals I went to college with ended up going to university, even if it was to study something like childcare or hairdressing (though most did fairly good courses...)

But most english chavs, even if they manage to finish school, generally just hang around on streets causing trouble thereafter. Then they have babies and knives and drugs and stuff.

Stupot · Sat 08/03/2008 16:16:44

Quote from: Emerald on Wed 05/03/2008 17:05:20
Fair enough, then explain to me why, if you have so many literary geniuses, that when you go to study English literature, half of them are Irish...

It was their decision to write their literature in English...

Emerald · Sat 08/03/2008 18:10:00

Quote from: Stupot on Sat 08/03/2008 16:16:44
Quote from: Emerald on Wed 05/03/2008 17:05:20
Fair enough, then explain to me why, if you have so many literary geniuses, that when you go to study English literature, half of them are Irish...

It was their decision to write their literature in English...

I mean 'English literature' as in 'Literature written by English People'. When Americans study 'English Lit', they spend a lot of the time on Irish writers...

Tuomas · Sat 08/03/2008 18:23:02

eah, but that's because they're American and most of them don't know the difference between Ireland and England.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sun 09/03/2008 07:40:06

Gotta keep those stereotypes alive. Because they make you seem so witty!