Comments on: I’m offaly offended http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628 Níl ann ach raiméis : It's nothing but nonsense Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:18 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: dealga http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-870 dealga Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:46:58 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-870 my mum's family are from Laoise and Kilkenny and my sister lives in Tullamore. So I reserve the right to say: "Edenderry is a shitehole" :lol: my mum’s family are from Laoise and Kilkenny and my sister lives in Tullamore. So I reserve the right to say: “Edenderry is a shitehole” :lol:

]]> By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-866 maca Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:00:48 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-866 Well i'm a midlander Fi, so I'm assuming the right to slag off other midlanders, especially since i'm usually the one being slagged off :) Well i’m a midlander Fi, so I’m assuming the right to slag off other midlanders, especially since i’m usually the one being slagged off :)

]]> By: Antonio from Italy http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-865 Antonio from Italy Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:00:32 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-865 Fi, I know county Offaly well, I've been to Clonmacnoise three times, I know the book of Durrow being in competition with book of Kells for their beautiful decorations, I know the Esker Riada and the Bog of Allen which I think I saw some part of. I slept in Shannonbridge, one of the most quiet and romantic villages I've ever seen, I slept and had dinner in Tullamore. What else can I say, it's a beautiful county. I drove through it several times and I'm sure I have good memories of what I've seen :-) Fi, I know county Offaly well, I’ve been to Clonmacnoise three times, I know the book of Durrow being in competition with book of Kells for their beautiful decorations, I know the Esker Riada and the Bog of Allen which I think I saw some part of.
I slept in Shannonbridge, one of the most quiet and romantic villages I’ve ever seen, I slept and had dinner in Tullamore.
What else can I say, it’s a beautiful county.
I drove through it several times and I’m sure I have good memories of what I’ve seen :-)

]]> By: Fi http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-864 Fi Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:08:32 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-864 I could take offence at the slagging Offaly is taking in this post, I have blood ties there, but I won't instead here is a list of good things to be found in the Faithful County: 1. Clonmacnoise, the biggest and bestest monastic city in the country, so good that even the Pope couldn't resist visiting it! 2. The book of Durrow, a classic masterpiece of Christian literature was found in Offaly. 3. Admittedly, it was one of the first counties to be planted, but unlike Laois, in my opinion it has held onto its Gaelic heritage pretty well. 4. Pallas lake, I believe it boasts of having the biggest horesflies I have ever seen. 5. The Esker Riada, the only way to travel east west until they built roads! 6. Slieve Bloom Mountains, the highest point in the midlands. 7. The Bog of Allen, large tracts of blanket bogs, which have kept us warm for generations and boast a massive variety of rare and endangered plants. So there you go, I could list more stuff but I'm afraid of boring you. But I'm sick of people running down the Midlands just cause they've never taken the time to visit the place! So there. Oh and Antonio, don't worry, I'm not really upset, just making my point and standing up for Biffos everywhere! P.S BIFFO - Big Ignorant Fucker From Offaly! I could take offence at the slagging Offaly is taking in this post, I have blood ties there, but I won’t instead here is a list of good things to be found in the Faithful County:
1. Clonmacnoise, the biggest and bestest monastic city in the country, so good that even the Pope couldn’t resist visiting it!
2. The book of Durrow, a classic masterpiece of Christian literature was found in Offaly.
3. Admittedly, it was one of the first counties to be planted, but unlike Laois, in my opinion it has held onto its Gaelic heritage pretty well.
4. Pallas lake, I believe it boasts of having the biggest horesflies I have ever seen.
5. The Esker Riada, the only way to travel east west until they built roads!
6. Slieve Bloom Mountains, the highest point in the midlands.
7. The Bog of Allen, large tracts of blanket bogs, which have kept us warm for generations and boast a massive variety of rare and endangered plants.

So there you go, I could list more stuff but I’m afraid of boring you. But I’m sick of people running down the Midlands just cause they’ve never taken the time to visit the place! So there.
Oh and Antonio, don’t worry, I’m not really upset, just making my point and standing up for Biffos everywhere!

P.S BIFFO – Big Ignorant Fucker From Offaly!

]]> By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-851 maca Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:37:23 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-851 Don't worry Antonio, it's all just friendly "slagging" :) Don’t worry Antonio, it’s all just friendly “slagging” :)

]]> By: Antonio from Italy http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-849 Antonio from Italy Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:43:34 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-849 Hey guys, I meant no offence to anyone! I just reported what I learned during my travels to Ireland a what I read in other Irish blogs... :-) Hey guys, I meant no offence to anyone!
I just reported what I learned during my travels to Ireland a what I read in other Irish blogs… :-)

]]> By: dealga http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-848 dealga Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:53:48 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-848 when you're that far in front, the rest of us don't see who's leading! when you’re that far in front, the rest of us don’t see who’s leading!

]]> By: Winds and Breezes http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-847 Winds and Breezes Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:19:34 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-847 @dealga.... behind Dublin, surely... :-) @dealga….

behind Dublin, surely… :-)

]]> By: dealga http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-846 dealga Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:16:33 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-846 'All I knew is that Cork is top list for less pleasant... inhabitants' :lol: ‘All I knew is that Cork is top list for less pleasant… inhabitants’ :lol:

]]> By: Antonio from Italy http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-844 Antonio from Italy Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:00:44 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=628#comment-844 Winds and Breezes, be patient with me, I don't live in Ireland and I miss some of the obvious things :-) Thanks for explaining me the difference, but I hope you don't take offence if I say that some of them things I never heard before ;-) To me Ireland is all beatiful and some parts are more beautiful than others. I don't have the necessary feeling to discern a county from another just from who's living in it... All I knew is that Cork is top list for less pleasant counties (or inhabitants?). From today I put Offaly in the same list :-) Winds and Breezes, be patient with me, I don’t live in Ireland and I miss some of the obvious things :-)
Thanks for explaining me the difference, but I hope you don’t take offence if I say that some of them things I never heard before ;-)
To me Ireland is all beatiful and some parts are more beautiful than others. I don’t have the necessary feeling to discern a county from another just from who’s living in it…
All I knew is that Cork is top list for less pleasant counties (or inhabitants?). From today I put Offaly in the same list :-)

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