Comments about britain

There are 51 comments about "britain"

Jamie: That window is an uncanny embodiment of the state modern Britain. Well caught....

in response to: Time Travelling by elaine

Nick: I wish these "Protestants" and "Catholics" in Northern Ireland would rename themselves Oil and Water instead, as there is nothing remotely Christian about their ways. As for Unionists, I don't know what your obsession about Britain......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Jim: I concur! I presume you mean the gypsies from eastern europe, man they are awful. What bothers me is the fact that most have passed through across many, many safe countries in order to come to......

in response to: Gypsy Beggar by steelisreal

EvilGentleman: I dunno how terrorism is supposed to be stopped by more guns. If the terrorists are deterred by machine guns on USCG boats, then they are pretty lame terrorists. Fact is, America and Canada are......

in response to: Did You Bring Protection ? by joey

EvilGentleman: A different type of compromise may be in order. In order to appease the hard-core nationalism that demands that a country bear such a bizarre name as FYROM, we should just let FYORM stay as......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

re: CATCH A BIKE THIEF!: : Very cool post and glad you got at least one of your bikes back! I've had two bikes stolen in the past few years and it's no picnic. One was a high end mountain bike......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

kobie: Dont worry not all council housing in glasgow or britain is as bad as this lol there are many decent council areas around and a lot of areas are being regenerated. I will be......

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

Jamie: hah, britain is quite possibly one of the most bureaucratic nations on earth. seriously, try living here. Nice find kathy, i love the vignetting on the photo....

in response to: Mr & Mrs Chimneystack by kathy archbold

not important: the projects is like inner city manchester in britain where i grew up...

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Andrew Smith: Dave - Thanks for posting these. How long ago was the power station demolished? I travel over the road swing bridge to work, then through Trafford Park and passed Old Trafford. Am I right in thinking......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Guy McLaren: Catherine 66 Jaguar 3.8s also in some quarters known as the MkII. Manufactured in England Jack Eastern Transvaal is the previous name for Mpumalanga which is a province In South Africa, Thats at the Southern tip......

in response to: Timeless Grace by Guy McLaren

Merchant Marine Memorial: I don't know if Happy Grammie is still around, but the memorial is to the merchant marine -- the men of the shipping companies who ferried goods (and sometimes troops) to Britain during WW2, at......

in response to: Battery park( NYC) memorials and sculptures by barry

A Volunteer: My Youngest was Killed on the Shankill by PIRA. I appreciate your views and understand your intelligence. But you will NEVER convince me of your views. I AM BITTER. Allways will be. For OBVIOUS reasons !! My......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Karlo: Ok ok,now you ARE funny. 'Loyalists the world over'.... Oh,you mean your support groups such as Combat 18 (for those who dont know,C18 is a 100% Nazi organisation..18 stands for the 1st and 8th letters of the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Tom: Nothing great abotu Britain? lmao, how incredibly ignorant....

in response to: Gareth the Patriotic Car by Jamie

Maria Latore: British people who complain about America need to get something through their heads. First, Britain was the original mega-power who everyone hated. Just because we kicked your ass in the revolutionary war and because......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

anon (88-111-72-44.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com): I think britain should turn against america and prepare for war,we definatly have a better army than them all though it numbers less it is proven because they are always blowing eachother up and the......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Ken- Boston, Massachusetts: Very good points Lawrence. Of course, I would never claim that "we kicked your asses and claimed independence. Obviously we won the war, but it is a far cry from kicking your asses.......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

elaine: links for twitchers and other nature lovers - it being spring here, there are many baby things to see, and obligingly many webcams to see them with. peregrine falcon family in a quarry here [[http://www.plym-peregrines.co.uk/]]......

in response to: Fledgling Greenfinches by elaine

Karlo: hello leecat,hope u enjoy your visit here,youll certainly find some parallels with your own country,but of course,major differences also..there are many guides and tours that explain to some degree,the facts about the conflict,but always keep......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

Ronan - North Belfast: Ardoyne is in NORTH Belfast!!! Reggie it's bigotted people like you that hinder progression in such segregated societies, calling them "lazy, car stealing, pensioner mugging ballbags" is a gross over generalisation, how many people have you......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

indykid: One of the most visited places on the Marsh is Prospect Cottage: "Derek Jarman was drawn to Dungeness by its desolate character; he used it as the setting for his film The Last of England, an......

in response to: Looking Down Danger Nose by elaine

anon (p54907093.dip.t-dialin.net): I think I'll make a comment on this graffiti here on the picture and then to this forum conversation. There's nothing really special about it. This is the kind of graffiti you get in every......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Jamie: yeah we do jack. but there's nothing great about britain. we dropped the 'great' prefix some time in the mid 70s ....

in response to: Rickshaw Ride by elaine

jack: is that kramer and why is he driving on the wrong side of the road? next you will tell me that in great britain they drive like that....

in response to: Rickshaw Ride by elaine

Billy: Having lived in both the USA and England, let me tell you a few things. Both countries electoral systems are fucked! None has real proportional representation. And in terms of laws probably both have an equal......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

an impossible child: 'bovvered' in my case came from little britain really (yes i watch a bit too much tv) um... very often when i sit down to put words down onto paper/screen the monster lurks up behind me......

in response to: Will You Be Waiting for Me in the Star Alley? by an impossible child

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Looks like a toupee taking a stroll. Clive James (an Australian writer, famous in Britain) once described a particualrly nasty spider as looking like a clenched fist wearing a toupee....

in response to: Killer Spiders, and Giant Turtles by johnny E

GB: I beg pardon from kroko, the queen sits on her arse all day. I don't think that is quite true. Although her preorgative powers have been eroded over a few centuries, the queen in fact......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

elaine: the famous and grand Tate Britain and Tate Modern galleries in london are built on the sweat of the slave labour of the past, for the sugar giant Tate & Lyle. the reality of such......

in response to: Something Sweet by groovehouse

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: There's a sack joke in there somewhere, but I am a lady (in Little Britain style)....

in response to: Manchester Lights A by Myke

anon (217.205.0.17): Full Listing here SANTAS GHETTO OPENS IT DOORS FOR THE FOURTH YEAR AND IS OPEN FROM TODAY UNTIL DECEMBER 24TH. The ghetto is a street level free-for-all art gallery that brings you some of the most feared names......

in response to: Santa\'s Ghetto 2004, Charing Cross Road by banksyfan

jack: have you great britainers heard of the group, bristol fashion. its played on the bbc radio. yes, the south will rise again and madonna will be the new presodent. by the way......

in response to: The Waterside by Jamie

provie: i think the people in the bogside are very proud people more should be done to remember all volenteers who gave their lives through the years. keep on the fight and tide will turn on......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

Dutchman: Damn reminds me of some folks here in the netherlands, that combine Bloods/Crips AND Ireland/Britain...then they say they have irish roots.. so they invented Green Gangster Gents.....

in response to: Cuban Solidarity Mural by Jamie

barry: I don,t think the plague did reach ireland,What did occur was a potato famine(1845-1850)FAMINE FEVER-cholera,dysentery,scurvy,typhus.Same thing i guess.Potatoes were irelands main crop and food source.Landlords at this time respond,s to there tenants who could,t pay......

in response to: 7th Century Church by barry

elaine: yep. it is a blackberry cordial and not at all acidic. there was a time when i could hurl for britain, and i found most drinks would get acidic in the stomach, but not ribena,......

in response to: Pet Bird, Bright and Shiny by GGP

elaine: suits the subject perfectly - 'hillo, this is britain. everything is marvellous, rilly it is. as long as we all buckle down and show no emotion' - specially the second one, it could be one......

in response to: Cagthorpe by Jamie

elaine: well, it's history and geography. the romany gypsies are one thing, then there are irish gypsies, and then there are elective 'new age' travellers. the new age travellers came out of a long standing squatting......

in response to: urban transgressions and taboos by elaine

Jamie: couldn't help but share some more {bushisms}: **##"Do you have blacks, too?"##** —to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001 **##"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."##** —as quoted by the New York Daily......

in response to: Chips for Lunch by Jamie

hotdogx: Lets get something straight here, the last time you visited the republic must have been in the 70s or 80s when there was a standard of living diffirence between Ni and rep. Ireland is now......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

an Irsih republican : An Ulster loyalist, is that the best you can come up with? Waht about Ian Paisley cocksucking Motherfucker murdering orannge blue nose bastard? That has a better ring to it. Now lets set......

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

elaine: [[http://www.roman-britain.org/weather/weather.htm]] for some pagan weather forecasting of UK 'summertime'...

in response to: Springfields: Mayday by Jamie

Jamie: Technically its only spring.. but this is Britain, you gotta be optimistic and grab it while it lasts. So it's summer yay!...

in response to: Springfields: Mayday by Jamie

hotdogx: I would like to thank the person above for their input here, and this illustrates the true feelings on " the tribal matters" outside northern ireland. many unionists deny this strongly, but the evidence is......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

manchesta: i totally agree with you on all points. Being english and having lived in Northern Ireland i can say without a shadow of a doubt to any loyalists reading here that the British people and......

in response to: Falls Road: Belfast by Jamie

elaine: re: le singe - le voila un quote de Eddie Izzard qui apparamentement parlements des singes. ici il parle des Americans et les Anglais et notre lange... " What? Now, um, I just want to talk......

in response to: urban orienteering by elaine

elaine: how to be a londoner - on a precedent of 2000 years standing, just let your return ticket run out. If you're here you are a REAL londoner, beause that is the nature of a......

in response to: Postcard From Suburbia by Anonymous

maxis: Re: Le Parkour: An Introduction www.parkour.com is the guy 'foucan' who was in the jump britain documentory. the link has loads of parkour movies on media player. :p have fun...

in response to: Le Parkour: An Introduction by 3flow

banksy fan: The Ghetto offered a unique opportunity to view some cutting edge art including Banksy's ##"That Christ painting"##. The image was controversially dropped from Bob Geldof's Light up London campaign in 2003 but has since been......

in response to: Santa\'s Ghetto 2004, Charing Cross Road by banksyfan

Jesus's messenger in Doc Marten boots: Oh my---what profane language. Does your God tell any of you to put profanity when exposing his word?? I may be Irish, but I don't live in Ireland, I'm not even close to it. In fact, I......

in response to: The West Belfast Peace Line by Jamie