Irish Supporters Club (Polish Branch)

[culloty82]

It appears that as part of initiatives surrounding the Ireland v Poland match, the FAI plans to set up a branch of the Irish Supporters Club involving members of the Polish community (http://www.fai.ie/international/senior-men/102970-fai-announce-initiatives-for-poland-game.html). A few questions come to mind:

1. Is this five years too late?
2. How many Poles are likely to remain if, as seems highly probable the recession endures?

Of course, the experience of our own diaspora would suggest families are more likely to put down roots in their host country, so anything that widens exposure to the sport is welcome.

[nigel-harps1954]

I think it's a silly idea. It's like me going to Poland and being told to support Poland now ahead of their upcoming match against Ireland.

[Crosby87]

The shame of it is, they built that nice shiny stadium in Warsaw and they can't use it. Its all sight obstructed, Every seat is behind a pole.

And incidentally, know why you can't get ice over there? They forgot the recipe.

[Yard of Pace]

Make it a Poland and Ireland supporter's club. My lad is Irish but with a Polish mother. There are 100s, probably 1000s of kids being born here with dual Polish/Irish nationality. Tis rare we'd ever be in the same group as them so make it for both.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Aye, that sounds a more reasonable suggestion. Some will feel more Polish than Irish and vice versa.

[Crosby87]

And also, the reason the Germans were able to take that country over so fast was becasue they marched in backwards! The Polish thought they were leaving! True Story!

[Charlie Darwin]

And also, the reason the Germans were able to take that country over so fast was becasue they marched in backwards! The Polish thought they were leaving! True Story!
You realise we don't have Polish jokes in Ireland, right?

[peadar1987]

You realise we don't have Polish jokes in Ireland, right?

Yeah, it's very poor form to make jokes about people from different countries.

People with ginger hair on the other hand...

[Charlie Darwin]

Yeah, it's very poor form to make jokes about people from different countries.

People with ginger hair on the other hand...
No! I just mean people who aren't American generally won't really understand them.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Too true. Aren't all our jokes about Cavan & Kerry people anyway...

[peadar1987]

No! I just mean people who aren't American generally won't really understand them.

I've found Americans have a lot of ethnic jokes that go waaaaay over my head. It's quite hard figuring out which minority group is stupid, which one is bad at sports, which one installs sub-standard drywall and guttering...

[Charlie Darwin]

Too true. Aren't all our jokes about Cavan & Kerry people anyway...
I honestly hadn't heard a Cavan joke until I started going out with a girl from up that way. She made a joke about them eating their dinner out a drawer and I was like "what?"


I've found Americans have a lot of ethnic jokes that go waaaaay over my head. It's quite hard figuring out which minority group is stupid, which one is bad at sports, which one installs sub-standard drywall and guttering...
Irish, Irish and Irish... am I right?

[osarusan]

I'm pretty sure it's Mexicans who are bad at sports because everybody who can run, jump or swim is already in America.

[Crosby87]

So then i wont even get into the submarine with the screen door or the solar powered flashlight.
I feel like David Letterman the time he hosted the Oscars. Crickets.

[BonnieShels]

So then i wont even get into the submarine with the screen door or the solar powered flashlight.
I feel like David Letterman the time he hosted the Oscars. Crickets.

...or the inflatable dart board or the water-proof tea bag or the glass hammer or the long stand... all great inventions from Kerry.

[youngirish]

I've found Americans have a lot of ethnic jokes that go waaaaay over my head. It's quite hard figuring out which minority group is stupid, which one is bad at sports, which one installs sub-standard drywall and guttering...
I didn't think it was possible for an American's sense of humour to go over anyone's head with the exception of maybe another American. Their humour is usually about as evolved as Wayne Rooney and as sophisticated as Katie Price. It generally involves people smacking each other and then falling over - oh how I laughed when I lived there. Their comedy reminded me of sitting in the pub in Dublin in the 1930s again.

[BonnieShels]

[scene missing]

[Crosby87]

Yeah like legendary fisherman Bill Dance's unintentional humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLsOXDzF3pw

[youngirish]

I like this better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLTnacYvvg4

[nigel-harps1954]

Christ....I hate how Americans have to make everything about themselves..

[Charlie Darwin]

I didn't think it was possible for an American's sense of humour to go over anyone's head with the exception of maybe another American. Their humour is usually about as evolved as Wayne Rooney and as sophisticated as Katie Price. It generally involves people smacking each other and then falling over - oh how I laughed when I lived there. Their comedy reminded me of sitting in the pub in Dublin in the 1930s again.
God I used to hate sitting in the pub in Dublin in the 1930s. Good riddance to those days.

[peadar1987]

God I used to hate sitting in the pub in Dublin in the 1930s. Good riddance to those days.

I'm going out to sit in the pub in Dublin in the 1930s tonight, you should come.

[BonnieShels]

I'm going out to sit in the pub in Dublin in the 1930s tonight, you should come.

Is half seven not a bit early to start a night out?

[youngirish]

God I used to hate sitting in the pub in Dublin in the 1930s. Good riddance to those days.

They were good times, good times. When men were men and women could be bet for not having the dinner ready when you got home from the pub. When we had a real recession to talk about not this mickey mouse one you hear about these days. Good days but alas no more bar the slapstick sense of humour which I see our American cousins still hang onto.

[ArdeeBhoy]

I can see now why everyone felt obliged to emigrate...
:rolleyes: