@CrankyOldMan first it doesnt suck to be irish! its a proud thing to be irish!
i'm going to reply to all your points and show how you are infact just a old freak who has never set foot inside ireland or even ouside his own country.
1. ireland still probably dominates the whiskey market, look at jameson probably the best selling whiskey ever. the greeks may have been the first proof of distillation of whiskey but why do you think its the irish that sell the best! its cause we make things better"
2. violence is ripe in ireland but are you telling me you see from our news is worse than what us irish see on the news. just yesterday i stood shaking my head at the tv at the fact a 20 year old went into a school and shot more than 27 people including children! most of our violence isnt religious based its crime based. you only see religious based violence in Northern Ireland (which is of British rule making it a separate nation) because of the majority of prodestants and fighting with the catholics which are more a religions than any of your rubbish brainwashing cults yous call a church in your neighbourhood block. we just have two versions of christianity you ignorant fool.
3. Ireland isnd a destination for women, men and children trafficked for the commercial sexual population, i think your forgetting a place called amsterdam? maybe even any romanina city. Ireland is a destination for the less fortunate and poorer of folk from other countries like Poland that come here to rip off our generous government and benefits. we get robbed every day of people who just claim off our government and dont have jobs, even our own natives sit on the benefits they receive and give nothing back to the country itself. the irish arent too drunk to be productive. the fact you think this shows you have never been to ireland because thats a stereotype that all irish are drunks. i'll set you a fact! the majority of people that built the Pacific Railroad (your first cross country rail road) were irish immigrants, is that not productive. as for the 20th centurary the irish have invented radiotherapy, nickel-zinc battery, splitting an atom, the ejection seat, clofazimine and the portable defibrillator just to name a few, so tell me how thats not productive.
4. the irish accent is no more impressive than the amount of overweight americans that popluate your 'glorious country'. Hey have you taken the trash out?? want a soda pop?? you can change the words in a dictionary but it doesnt change the fact you didnt invent the english speaking language. Our accent is merely a result of the english forcing the irish natives to speak english instead of Irish (Gaelic) during their invasions, the english used to send mental patients and soldiers unstable because of war over to ireland at around the year 1914 and they were known as 'the Black and Tans' and by the time the irish forced the english forces out of our country there was not many people left to continue the language, thankfully today there are many that still speak gaelic. Also to @ILOVEJ thats an example as to why we are a nation. a better nation than america who become strong invading smaller countries for oil and such.
5. the irish you find in america are not 100% irish they claim they are but they arent. and the ones that are 100% irish are merely in america for travel and to broaden their horizons which is why you would find them as party animals and drunks.
6. Cars are twice as expensive because we dont have a general motors that controll most of the car sales in a country. also due to your falling currency i can see why you think its expensive. In europe we have a currency that can fall because of the recession but its strong thats why things cost more here. its mainly down to your currency not being worth much in euros.
7. Sir Earnest did enjoy whiskey but its not true that he stopped doing useful things after finding whiskey. he was a key member during the race to the south pole. and actually Shackleton died of a heart attack while his ship, Quest, was moored in South Georgia before his next expedition. so your a liar.
8. Walton was a great man he helped to usher in an era of particle-accelerator-based experimental nuclear physics. It was this research of his at Cambridge in the early 1930s that won him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1951, so that clearly isnt a waste of his life! he had 5 children Dr. Alan Walton (college lecturer in physics, Magdalene College, Cambridge), Mrs Marian Woods, Professor Philip Walton, Professor of Applied Physics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Jean Clarke and Winifred Walton.
9. We have newspapers that report nonsenses, but we also have papers that dont and we all know which ones to avoid and which to read for real news. No body published an article saying alcohol is harmless for babies, its an article saying pregnant women can drink some alcohol in small amounts, again you lied by twisting words. but sure i dont think i need to tell you all this, maybe i'll tell most of the pregnant crack addicts in your country willing to have sex and pick up std's during pregnancy just for their next fix.
10. Ireland doesnt have gays in their government, they have a government party called the LGBT. (Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual Transexual) party fights for their rights, i may not be for what they have to offer but theier humans too and have a right for their own beliefs.
10 reasons to hate americans:
1: Any american that meets an irish person claims they are from irish decent when they may be only 1/10000th irish.
2. Most of the country is filled with inbred redknecks that think they own the country and nobody but whites should inhabit it.
3. An american should have a right to bear arms but americans shouldnt be able to purchase a gun and slaughter innocent people. i'm going to refer again to the shooting in Connecticut this week where a 20 year old boy got his mothers illegal guns and shot up the school where his mother worked. what about the man claiming to be the joker who killed innocent cinema goers during the dark knight premier
http://www.examiner.com/article/poli...r-find-25-guns. Its incerdible americans like this can get a gun.
4. Americans have a stereotype of being drunks but they also have an image of being drunk wife and children beaters
5. America is so overweight Annual medical costs of obesity are as high as $147 Billion, unbelieveable, all it takes is a bit of exercise.
6. America believes it has a right to everything. look at the war yous are involved in? bet you dont even know why your there?? why are you even still there? Hussaine and Bin Laden are gone. americans spend more money in military forces then any one in the world. What for? the russians would still out number yous even if they had shit equipment from the 90's.
7. Land of the free and home of the brave. Bollox. free? is freedom allowing people to have debts so severe they cant afford to pay bills, and are forced out of homes? maybe havin no home is freedom. the only brave people in america are those that face cold nights on the streets.
8. you have no national recognised language. you stole English from the brits, and changed a few words like garbage/rubbish, soda/fizzy drink, candy/sweets.
9. when it comes to religion americans god is the us dollar. Is God is for dummies? How many do believe in Jesus as savior? no real religions there except for ours like Christianity, Buddhism etc...
10. My final reason?? is just because people like this ignorant piffle @CrankyOldMan continue to breed or inbreed and spread bullshit word that they believe instead of having a basic opinion and conscience. its their way of the highway. i'll give an example. Apple Inc in the early 90's set out to stop big brother which was IBM, everything steve jobs and steve wozniak stood against. Now in 2012 they are fighting samsung for phones that look similar to theirs, and are probably the most highest grossing company around, look who's the new big brother. Have a right opinion and dont listen to lies, otherwise you'll be as ignorant and foolish as @CrankyOldMan.
Most americans are great, its the people like yous that make me sick to death. but hey you's will learn eventually, most likely when yous come face to face with the lord and he tells you there is no single answer/religion/belief, each person is entitled to one.