Things I learned today (Part 1)

Things
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Sounds Like West Limerick to be fair

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Out of interest are you a frequent visitor or do you just believe everything you read??

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I believe everything I read.

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Good Man, I recommend Tom Ryan’s column in the Daily Mail

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You’ll go well around here skin. :smiley:

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You left out corrupt. Like a whole country version of central Dublin :slight_smile:

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Or just another version of Ireland

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Surely the more pertinent point here is why the fuck are we learning German & French instead of Spanish & Chinese?

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Vladimir Smicer is running in the European elections

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Who is he?

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For a guy who has Tassotti as his username, I would have thought you would know who Smicer is.

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I know, that is why we want to go mad on dairy cows and send them all the infant formula and milk powders they can consume

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More Americans attended the Emerald Isle Classic between Notre Dame and Navy in Dublin, than attended the London Olympics.

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Another bank holiday here next monday. Class. Another heavy session on sunday in london. I be up around finsbury, and the faltering fullback if anyone wants a fight

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Another success for Enda and “The Gathering” :clap:

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There is no black card in hurling.

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German was only one vote away from being the language Of the US.

How much of a difference would tht have made to the world?

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[QUOTE=“caoimhaoin, post: 947154, member: 273”]German was only one vote away from being the language Of the US.

How much of a difference would tht have made to the world?[/QUOTE]

That’s an oft quoted urban legend…

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa010820a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_the_United_States#German_as_the_official_US_language_myth

The US has no, and never has had, an official language, despite the best efforts of looney right wing types to make English the official language.

Reminds me of a story. I was driving around the wilds of Nova Scotia years and years ago, going through Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Anyway, they were doing a bit of construction on part of the road up in the mountains, so cars would be stopped in one direction for 5 or 10 minutes while, while cars coming the other direction were allowed to pass. A couple of park rangers went car to car to explain to people what was going on. There was a car in front of me, with Missouri license plates, and big ENGLISH OFFICIAL LANGUAGE bumper sticker on the back of it. As the park ranger left my car and started to walk to the car in front she noticed the bumper sticker, so she stops and motions to the other park ranger, who of course happened to be Quebecois and says… “I’ll let you have this one!” So the other ranger goes up to yer man in the car in front and proceeds to explain to him what’s going on… all in French of course.

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That the fact that German almost became the official language of the US is an urban myth.