Pick somewhere for me to go for my birthday!

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

...must have cost them a fair few bob to get a pint in the Antarctic too

why do ya think they WENT to the antarctic? If they went anywhere that has a pub they'd never see anything

Irish Al

Drogheda

Jennytree

Irish Al wrote:

Drogheda

Thats a fuckin excellent idea

And here's me wondering why they ever put the bypass around there

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Really? Funny how Ernest Shackleton or Tom Crean didn't come up there... Shackleton being one of the most famous of explorers that's odd...

oh they would come up if i typed in their names... although Ernest Shackleton threw me as his name was far too Irish for me too type... :rolleyes: *coughEnglishmancough*

on wiki there is a LIST of scottish explorers.. type in scottish explorers and all their names come up.. type in Irish explorers and you get "Michael Fagan... circumnavigated Buckingham Palace trying to shag the Queen"


both of those guys explored Antartica? why? its a vast frozen ice cap... what did they think they'd find??? golden penguins, palaces made of diamonds... no... fucking igloos and frostbite... thick fuckers



Jenny.. Hamburg or Edinburgh :cool:

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

oh they would come up if i typed in their names... although Ernest Shackleton threw me as his name was far too Irish for me too type... :rolleyes: *coughEnglishmancough*

on wiki there is a LIST of scottish explorers.. type in scottish explorers and all their names come up.. type in Irish explorers and you get "Michael Fagan... circumnavigated Buckingham Palace trying to shag the Queen"


both of those guys explored Antartica? why? its a vast frozen ice cap... what did they think they'd find??? golden penguins, palaces made of diamonds... no... fucking igloos and frostbite... thick fuckers



Jenny.. Hamburg or Edinburgh :cool:

He's Irish... his cousin (who I've been emailing) even wrote a book about him called 'shackleton an Irishman in antarctica' or something like that... even if you read all these kinds of books all the authors refer to him as the Irishman. Tom Crean was maybe the most amazing of all the explorers... and he was definitely Irish... even had the tricolour on his sled despite the rest having union jacks.

They didn't know what they'd find there... nobody did...

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

He's Irish... his cousin (who I've been emailing) even wrote a book about him called 'shackleton an Irishman in antarctica' or something like that... even if you read all these kinds of books all the authors refer to him as the Irishman. Tom Crean was maybe the most amazing of all the explorers... and he was definitely Irish... even had the tricolour on his sled despite the rest having union jacks.

They didn't know what they'd find there... nobody did...

aye i know.. but i was meaning his name was hardly Irish... Ernest Shackleton... fuckinghell.. stick Lord before it and it'd work a charm.

whats wrong with a good Irish name like Seamus O' Flaherty.... oh wait Shackletons mum and dad were English gentry werent they


you've missed me point a bit.. type "scottish explorers" into wiki and you get a list of scottish explorers.. type "irish explorers" into wiki and its says "no such page exists"..

now i know that they exist but there isnt enough of them to create a wikilist... maybe help them out

jamie uk

I saw a documentary about Shackleton, he looked and sounded just like Kenneth Brannagh ie, posh and English. Actually, maybe it was a movie. Was he Irish really? He was a brave bastard, watch the film.

Jennytree

Cheers for staying on topic lads

grrr... I still can't decide :(

dunkman

Jennytree wrote:

Cheers for staying on topic lads

grrr... I still can't decide :(

i fancy other weirder places like Riga or Tallin (sp?)... the Baltic states basically...

strangely enough i have no interest in places like Rome, Paris, Madrid.. i'd rather go to Bucharest or Prague or summat my dream destination is Moscow.. well any big Russian city actually.. :cool:

Heineken Helen

dunkman wrote:

you've missed me point a bit.. type "scottish explorers" into wiki and you get a list of scottish explorers.. type "irish explorers" into wiki and its says "no such page exists"..

but I've never heard of any of them

We could also have added St. Brendan (who they reckon discovered America) and Irish monks used to do PLENTY of travelling back in the day and discovered quite a few places but just never took the credit for them.

Heineken Helen

jamie uk wrote:

I saw a documentary about Shackleton, he looked and sounded just like Kenneth Brannagh ie, posh and English. Actually, maybe it was a movie. Was he Irish really? He was a brave bastard, watch the film.

well he was born in Ireland and lived here til he was 10. His mother was Irish and the English part of his family had been here for about 100 years... so yeh, I spose all that makes him Irish. Having lived in England from when he was 10 though woulda given him an English accent but it doesn't make him English

He was pretty fucking brave indeed... you should learn more about Tom Crean :eek: even braver.


Hmm... by any chance did Kenneth Brannagh PLAY him in the movie? Think it was called endurance maybe.

Sorry Jenny I'll stop now.

Jennytree

dunkman wrote:

i fancy other weirder places like Riga or Tallin (sp?)... the Baltic states basically...

strangely enough i have no interest in places like Rome, Paris, Madrid.. i'd rather go to Bucharest or Prague or summat my dream destination is Moscow.. well any big Russian city actually.. :cool:

I was told to go to Prague alright... apparently there's a church made out of bones there

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

I was told to go to Prague alright... apparently there's a church made out of bones there

really? I'd agree with Prague... although meself and surfanddestroy were talking about having a PJ meetup over there coming up to the summer. Hmm... you go first and suss out the pubs and tell us where to drink