Jim Allister is no different from the KKK, he has some of their beliefs, hes anti-catholic and he dislikes anything that is either non british or isnt a friend of britain, to sum it up, jim is a racist. On his parties website, they attacked the Irish language and was even critized by other unionist political parties for doing so.
Keep talking Jim - keep talking. You go to Brussels with a mandate and use it to perpetuate your views which leave most Europeans scratching their heads and wondering when the next speaker is coming on with something relevant to say. You are in the biggest legislative house in the world Jim and you waste your few minutes speech time per year to spew garbled hatred that's wasted on most people listening. Focus inward for a while, the answers are there.
Such a petty man.........would do anything to just be a bigot......Gaeilge is the native indigenous language of the entire Irish Island....deal with it you sad little angry man..........
Is cúis náire gan amhras don Aontas Eorapach go bhfuil ceann cipin cosiúl leis fein ábalta a tuirimí saefóideacha a insint os cómhair an domhain is a mhaitair. Dún do bhéal allister, níl a fhois agat faoin streacahit go raibh againn mar náisiún chun aitheantas a fháil. Is fearr Gaeilge briste ná Béarla cliste, ar aon nós!
tá mó gaeilge ceart go leor agus is aiobhinn liom ag caint as gaeilge.jim allister. tá tu leathceann. Nil se do gnó. Tá Eire an tír is fearr sa domhannach. bhfuil muid ag comhoibriú ann le trí thír eile ar fad go bhfuil cumhacht níos airde do phíosa beag talún.i bhraitheann brón orm go ní bheidh ort a bheith ina chuid d'ár náisiúin glórmhar. EIRE ABU!!!!!!!!!
Why do people fight so hard to preserve languages and cultures? Preserving differences between human beings only promotes racism in the small-minded who think culture is anything more than social convention. We shouldn't actively seek to exterminate cultures and languages, obviously, but if one is dying out and being replaced by another, I can't help feeling it would be easier for everyone to just let it happen.
@Blueman2805 Tell me do you have any respect for the thousands of irish men and women who fought and died for a simple principal two of the basic human rights to have a nationality and a language? And what good would a world without any irish cultural influence? Pretty much all of europe would be boreing pencilpushers who cant enjoy themseves because the irish drinking and musical culture would never have influenced them.
@EOINPOM I get drunk off my arse just fine without any influence from the Irish culture... I think you might want to give that argument some more thought. I have utmost respect for the people who died for Irish independence, a just cause which they believed in, but that was history. If today a language is disappearing, why fight to preserve it? Languages come and go and change - to tamper with the forces at work for no reason seems bizarre.
@Blueman2805 Again i'll say the number of Irish speakers is growing, and you ask why preserve a language, well to start there are words in in Irish that would take two or three sentances to express in english, why is this? because irish is a language of real people that can express feeling and the mystery of the world it is the language that developed for the use of irish people that is perfectly suited to the geneticly irish style of comunication. And getting absoloutely pissed...hardly Irish?
@EOINPOM The only argument that I found convincing there is that the number of Irish speakers is growing. We shouldn't put any effort into preserving dying languages or cultures - the faster we're all speaking the same language and practising the same culture (and that day will inevitably come), the better - but if it's growing, let it grow.
@FacnyCatFighter Yes, I know, which is why it seems so absurd to me to spend money on translating English statements into Irish and producing government literature in both languages when every Irish person speaks English and so few speak Irish as a second language. Just publish them in English. Without having looked at statistics, I'd imagine there are more people who speak Gujarati and nothing else in Ireland than speak Irish and nothing else.
@Blueman2805 As much as I sympathise with your opinion, I'm certain that this wasn't the catalyst for Jim Allister's outburst. He is simply against any expression of Irish culture, whether it's a cost to the taxpayer or not. On his website, he described the Irish language as a "leprechaun language". He's an insolent swine and should be treated as such.
@FacnyCatFighter Sorry, I meant "nationalism" with a lower case N rather than Nationalism as in Irish Nationalism. Unionism is a form of nationalism, it's just the other side of the coin from Irish Nationalism - it's British nationalism. I tend to equate all nationalism with racism because it's about preserving the arbitrary divisions between human beings. But yes, this is a vile man. I don't agree with much of what he says, just that we shouldn't devote resources to preserving languages.
@Blueman2805 I understand where you're coming from.
Despite this, one must consider the historical and cultural significance of language. The Government provides millions in support of cultural landmarks, such as historical buildings and heritage sites. We preserve our culture and identity for the emerging generations, and a fundamental part of this is our indigenous language.
Jim Allister of all people advocates spending on the Ulster-Scots dialect - He's a hypocrite, essentially.
@FacnyCatFighter Certainly, and there's no reason that the language shouldn't be preserved for historical interest - indeed, all languages should. I simply don't think any special measures should be taken to preserve it as a day-to-day language in common usage, just as I don't think it's necessary to continue druidic rituals at Stonehenge to appreciate the monument's cultural and historical significance, or to attempt to revive Latin as an everyday language.
@FacnyCatFighter I certainly don't believe that material like government records or road signs should be published, at expense, in both Language A and Language B when everyone who speaks Language B also speaks Language A anyway. Obviously this goes for Ulster Scots, Welsh, and all similar languages equally.
@xGoRdii Ignoramus, who are you to declare any language dead what the fuck do you know about it. Show me your credentials and give an example of any other language that has survived a colonisation after hundreds of years and then miraculously died out, Facts show a rise in recent years in the number of irish speakers. So go fuck yourself
Im a prod and I and 99% of the prodestant community cant stand this guy! Im completely up for the gaelic language. It would be a absoulute disgrace for it to die out. Why should it, when its what Irish people have been speaking for thoasands of years!
BODAIRE isea an leaid seo ba cheart go gcrochfaí é tar éis a leithéid a rá táim ar buile nár maraíódh é sula d'fhág se an fhoirgneamh "Tír gan Teanga tír gan anam" níor éirigh leis an bhreatain na Gael sa tuaisceart a mhúchadh nó fáil réidh leis an ghaeilge agus "Beatha teanga í a labhairt" Labharaigí ar fad agus scríobhaigí trí ghaeilge labhair amach i gcoinne an dream mhalaithe tras-phóirithe seo. Béarla isea teanga na bodairí. Tá dóchas ag na hÉireanaigh taispeán é!
@brokenglassesshaner Labhraim, s'é gaodhluinn mo theanga dóchais agus labhraim lem chlann agus mo cháirde é muireach go bhfuil duine gan gaodhluinn liom. Is as don ghaeltacht mé agus feidhmíonn beagnach gach cumann agus eagraíocht anseo trí ghaodhluinn.Go raibh maith agat as ucht ceist a chur!
@EOINPOM Sin go iontach maith ! Bhi mé ag iarraidh mar is as an galltacht mé i mBÁC agus tá cupla cairde agam atá laidir sa ghaeilge ach saghas dhuíltaíonn chun an teanga a húsáid, bh'fheidir focal amhain no dhó ag uasmhéid. Bronach tá fhios agam, sin an fadhb is mó ceapaim. Freisin cínnte tá cúpla bútun ann i mo clóscríobh
@brokenglassesshaner Gaodhluinn = Gaeilge is é sin an foghraíocht (pronunciation) atá againn i nGaeltacht na nDéise. Is cuma má bhíonn botúin agat chomh fad agus go labhrann/scríobhann tú trí ghaeilge!
Is amadán ceart an fear sin. Níl Gaeilge teanga marbh. Foghlann gach paiste in Eireann é. Tá a ndoitóin duine in ann Gaeilge a leabhairt agus a thuiscint. Ceapaim go bhfuil lucht ag an rialtais nach bhfuil sé ina úsáid níos mó sa tíor. Brón orm faoi mo chuid litriú
I agree that these Sinn Fein puppet masters should not have a translation service for something they use so very little in parliament. I also wish they would lay off attaching their cause to the Irish language. The Irish language should be natured and preserved, but not by these ex-murdering quasi-politicians. Jim Allister is the perfect example of a man consumed by hatred.
if learning irish could help children to get job it would be ok but teaching a kid irish should be left out of this country unless you wish to take it on your self
wow, I have many unionists mates, none of them would give this man an ounce of respect - this guy is NOT a normal human! Why do we vote egits into power?!?! He is probably the biggest bigot in Ireland!
Im Irish and I completely agree with this man. While the EU must be officially multi lingual, There must be some limits. The Irish government voted against Catalan being an official EU language despite being spoken fluently by over 10m people and being the first language of about 7m. Irish on the other hand is spoken by no more than 100 thousand, and is the first language of about 10 thousand at most.
@23Stork Latin and Cornish (Cornish slowly being revived) are extinct or dead languages they are not practiced on a daily basis by a minority or majority, there are no areas similar to the Gaeltacht's that speak Irish in Ireland. Therefore Irish is not only a part of Ireland but it is deeply rooted in certain groups of people in Ireland, so maybe the term racism is not appropriate but Discrimination a better word to use in this context.
saying it's pointless wasting Irish taxpayers money because, AFAIK everyone in Ireland knows English, is not Racism OR discrimination. It's the same with Welch, it's a shame when languages die or become irrelevant, but breaking banks to rectify it is foolhardy.
People fear things they don't understand. Guys like this don't like to be reminded that
Ireland is and was a country long before the english invaded it's people have their own culture and language which has survived war and government orchestrated genocide.
@MrIrishBilly Ireland has never been a country in the nation state sense that you and people like you have been lead to believe it was. Please try to prove otherwise.
@MrIrishBilly Ireland had one undisputed 'All Ireland King' for an unstable period of about three years while Leinster was still a disputed territory and the Normans where pushing into Ireland. They were invited in by Diarmait Mac Murchada. The other High Kings you speak of did not rule the whole island. It was not a nation.
Translated means "The high king of all of Ireland" All the kings of Ireland met at Tara which had served as the seat of the high kings of Ireland? for thousands of years.
Ireland through its kings was ruled under Brehon Law which predates the Iron age.
It governed everything from hospitality to taxes.
Irish (Brehon)law is the oldest, most original, and most extensive of mediaeval European legal systems
@MrIrishBilly It's wishful thinking to say that Ireland was a nation. It simply did not work that way. To say it did, simplifies history for people who would use it as a tool to churn up resentment in others.
Actually! i do agree with him. Irish is not a universal language, only spoken in parts of ireland and by irish wannabe's in the US and any other place where irish have settled. But compared to english, it's a language that serves no purpose really, only as a historic example of ancient language.
@MrPenfold84 Well by that logic, German should be the sole language of the European Parliament - being the language spoken by the most people in the EU. Or if not that, only German, English, French, Spanish and Italian with all others ignored (including Czech, Slovakian, Polish, Catalan, Basque, Galego, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Welsh, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Portuguese). Right?
@bkelleher91 The main language of Ireland, North and south is English! Irish is only a heritage language that serves no real purpose in main stream. The other language that you've dedicated your time to typing out, apart from a a handful, they are the mother tongues of the designated countries.
@MrPenfold84 As far as Bunreacht na hÉireann's concerned (the Irish constitution), the main language is Irish. That was approved by the Irish people in '37 and no democratically-elected representative has proposed any deviation from such a stance.
Either way, there are a sizable number of people that speak it as their first language. My point was if that is arbitrarily judged to be not enough to be an official language of the EU, can we not also make a similar arbitrary judgment on the others?
@connorjjg He sounds retarded when he opens his mouth, what a horrible thick sound he produces. Makes NI people, (the decent ones) ashamed to be part of NI.
@coolcelt1 This is the nonsense that the Irish community (45% of the population) have had to put up with for 90 years in Northern Ireland.They are treated like foreigners in their own country.
Every expression of 'Irishness' has been treated like some sort of Popish plot to overthrow N.I.
I'm a lapsed catholic-cum-nationalist frm the south (blaw clee) and I respect him.
he has a right to air his view just as you and i DO on you tube.
now, can we be less rude to him?
IF YOU S MILE AT HIM, HE WILL SMILE BACK.
IF YOU FROWN AT HIM, HE WILL FROWN BACK.
There are Unionists who DO speak Irish. There are Catholics who are lUnionists. There are Protestants who are NATIONALISTS. So, be careful what you sayand how you say it!
You CANNOT have a reunited Ireland until the lower class Catholics of Northern Ireland get out of bed on Election Day to cast a vote for one of their parties. Until then, no reunion. Butmost of these people think only "better classes" go to the polls and they would feel out of place. The ball is in their hands but they are too ignorant to throw it. But does Dublin like competition? What would WE do if we were reunited? Embrace it? Tax it? Probably the latter!And Enda would increase his pay!!
not being rude - i promise - but some of these ulster people don't even speak english,properly or otherwise. even on bbc 1 - the oldest tv station in ireland - the announcers still have that ulster twang!! mind you, the way back street dubs speak english is even worse. but we need proper english, not a dead irish lingo. Fuck irish, it was walloped into me at school. Fuck these elitist anglophobes. they hate Protestants, too, you know. ask around discretely.
DEAR SIROR MADAM: I don't like this new layout of You Tube.
Have you asked around for our opinnions? You probably did and I probably didn't even notice it. Even so, ask around again! seriously,i don't like it. the layout, i mean. but i love the peopole who take the time to write to you. thanks for letting us let off steam. The daily newspapers wouldn't print our opinions. You do. we share and you help us to share.
@superbread12345 Would you say the same to the Scottish and the Welsh? There language is apparently dead, but it still remains a facet of their culture and heritage. Even some Unionists choose to embrace the Ulster-Scots dialect, despite being effectively a dead language. Many British schools continue to teach Latin.
I'm guessing your problem is not with maintaining a dead language, but with Catholics alone. Don't fill yourself with so much hate.
so lets say he, the very anti irish unionist man was made learn a new language but in history the language he should be speaking is english. He would do his best to re-energate the english language. Narrow minded, its our culture heritage and so much more! plus their are schools all around the country that learn everything in irish!
Ba chóir do pholaiteorí Éireannacha atá mar bhaill do Phárlimint na hEoraip Gaeilge i a labhairt i PE le saorántacht na tíre seo a chuir chun cinn agus le beocht an teanga álainn seo a thabhairt le fios. Más rud é go bhfuil an pholaiteoir seo as tuaisceart na hÉireann ag iarraigh an Ghaeilge a chaitheamh amach as PE bhí sé chomh-maith do an bhéarla a chaitheamh amach leis,agus go labhairfaidh Fraincis nó Gearamáinis i PE amháin.
Why should we preserve Irish? The vast, vast, vast majority of people on this island don't speak the language and have no real desire to do so. Well over 10% of the Irish population are foreign, and plenty more were born here to foreign parents.
Estimates are between 40,000 and 80,000 people using it as their first language, the 72000 figure I came up with was based on CSO statistics that I can't find right now. Nonetheless, Irish is spoken as a first language by quite a small minority of people, undeniably.
@ParamoreWorshipper So what! What exactly is your point? That because 2 per cent speak it as their first language it doesnt matter? What about the many many more who would love to speak it? should they be forgotten about too like the 80 000 you want to ignore? The Irish language is a rich part of our history and culture and should be promoted as much as possible.
My point is that in Northern Ireland, 1,450,467 out of 1,789,000 have absolutely no knowledge of the Irish language. Irish translation services are a waste of time, and British tax-payer's money. I would bet that nobody in Northern Ireland speaks only Irish. Therefore, it's unnecessary.
I hate the bullshit excuse of people "wanting to learn it". Then learn it, nothing stopping you. Also, English is a far more important aspect to Irish culture, and is far older than modern Irish.
@ParamoreWorshipper "I would bet" and "have absolutley no knowledge of Irish" completely ridiculous statements to make and to be honest I'm getting tired of responding to your opinions wrapped up as facts.
To say english is a far more important aspect to Irish culture is perhaps the most idiotic thing you have said in this whole conversation (and probably your whole life)
I think it's ridiculous to say that there is anyone in Northern Ireland who can't speak English, but only Irish. Translation services are not necessary, and you haven't said why they would be. 1,450,467 people out of 1,789,000 in Northern Ireland said that they had absolutely no knowledge of the Irish language - couldn't speak it, read it, write it or understand it. So, that's not "my opinion"
Part of who's heritage? A lot of people in this country are decended from Normans or Scottish settlers. Don't forget that Irish as we know it today is a very new language. I don't learn it because it's a waste of time, I'm not lazy.
I fully respect their right to speak it, but they have absolutely no right to demand that it take the prominence that it now takes in Irish society. It is a minority language - more people in this country speak Polish.
whats this big jock in the EU for a fucking walking disaster? Here Allister son wipe your mouth you and frazer are the biggest bigots about and cunts. Tiocfaidh ar la
Suppose ud pump a load of money into 'Ulster Scotts' instead then? Cash well spent Jim, keep telling yourself that in ur little Orange bubble, with ur little orange friends in ur little orange town.
Loyalism is a sinking orange ship in a BIG green sea...just join us, and accept that you are as the rest of the world sees you...Irish
That man, Jim Allister, has just revealed (as we all knew anyway) that hes a racist and hates Irish people. Why esle would be speak of irish language in such a hate filled way? He mentioned a fellow MEP, Miss De Brun and always trys to provoke her into arguement? Is that professional?
So if *you* disagree with him, he's a "racist cunt"? It's so easy to call anyone you disagree with racist; of course, it makes no sense when he's from the same race as you, but never mind.
And never mind the fact that there would be almost no people in Ireland that speak Irish/Gaelic and don't speak English, and those that do usually do it for the cameras as part of their (as Jim put it) aggressive Republicanism.
One divisive, bigoted politician with his own British political agenda against Hundreds of years of Irish culture and heritage..
teachill 20 hours ago
Anam means soul!
PG90210 20 hours ago
stupid fucking prick against our proud heritage and culture. It's a true skill to be able to speak Gaelic and we are proud of that! fuckin asshole!
acooke 1 day ago
WHO THE F**K IS HE?
SuperJesss111 1 day ago
Fair play
mariosumo 1 day ago
Okay, just google 'Tír gan teanga, tír gan' and see what comes up first after 'gan'! I'm really embarrassed for you.
PG90210 1 day ago
@PG90210 different dialects possibly? I never learned it "anam" I always knew it as "ainm." but who cares really its the same language
BobbyRay28 1 day ago
Nooope, take it from a person who studies Irish at university level, it's anam!
PG90210 2 days ago
@PG90210 Well might want to rethink your choice; it's ainm.
YourBreakfast 2 days ago
Bet the cunt campaigned for Ulster Scots. It's not even a fucking language.
TheJamesy52 3 days ago
Fuck you because your people stopped my people from doing what we wanted, which was learning our own language!
atlascassidy 4 days ago
Jim Allister is no different from the KKK, he has some of their beliefs, hes anti-catholic and he dislikes anything that is either non british or isnt a friend of britain, to sum it up, jim is a racist. On his parties website, they attacked the Irish language and was even critized by other unionist political parties for doing so.
CrazyIrishDrunk1 5 days ago
wanker
i'll like to keep my culture thank you very much!
irishwemo 6 days ago
what about your wages? can we save on that?
TheFashionvictim6 1 week ago
Keep talking Jim - keep talking. You go to Brussels with a mandate and use it to perpetuate your views which leave most Europeans scratching their heads and wondering when the next speaker is coming on with something relevant to say. You are in the biggest legislative house in the world Jim and you waste your few minutes speech time per year to spew garbled hatred that's wasted on most people listening. Focus inward for a while, the answers are there.
JohninRosc 1 week ago 2
Such a petty man.........would do anything to just be a bigot......Gaeilge is the native indigenous language of the entire Irish Island....deal with it you sad little angry man..........
TheAvarusAnimus 1 week ago
WANKER
turbetmac 1 week ago
sectarian arsehole
seanymo 1 week ago
Cur do mhéar i do thóin chomh fada le halt agus muna dtáirneoidh tú smaois go dtáirneoidh tú cac !!!!!
charlieruddy 1 week ago
Is cúis náire gan amhras don Aontas Eorapach go bhfuil ceann cipin cosiúl leis fein ábalta a tuirimí saefóideacha a insint os cómhair an domhain is a mhaitair. Dún do bhéal allister, níl a fhois agat faoin streacahit go raibh againn mar náisiún chun aitheantas a fháil. Is fearr Gaeilge briste ná Béarla cliste, ar aon nós!
kelly16993 1 week ago
tá mó gaeilge ceart go leor agus is aiobhinn liom ag caint as gaeilge.jim allister. tá tu leathceann. Nil se do gnó. Tá Eire an tír is fearr sa domhannach. bhfuil muid ag comhoibriú ann le trí thír eile ar fad go bhfuil cumhacht níos airde do phíosa beag talún.i bhraitheann brón orm go ní bheidh ort a bheith ina chuid d'ár náisiúin glórmhar. EIRE ABU!!!!!!!!!
Bradley167765 2 weeks ago
the anti irish racist and bigot wants to get rid of the irish language what a surprise
SArmagh681 2 weeks ago
Why do people fight so hard to preserve languages and cultures? Preserving differences between human beings only promotes racism in the small-minded who think culture is anything more than social convention. We shouldn't actively seek to exterminate cultures and languages, obviously, but if one is dying out and being replaced by another, I can't help feeling it would be easier for everyone to just let it happen.
Blueman2805 2 weeks ago
@Blueman2805 Tell me do you have any respect for the thousands of irish men and women who fought and died for a simple principal two of the basic human rights to have a nationality and a language? And what good would a world without any irish cultural influence? Pretty much all of europe would be boreing pencilpushers who cant enjoy themseves because the irish drinking and musical culture would never have influenced them.
EOINPOM 2 weeks ago
@EOINPOM I get drunk off my arse just fine without any influence from the Irish culture... I think you might want to give that argument some more thought. I have utmost respect for the people who died for Irish independence, a just cause which they believed in, but that was history. If today a language is disappearing, why fight to preserve it? Languages come and go and change - to tamper with the forces at work for no reason seems bizarre.
Blueman2805 2 weeks ago
@Blueman2805 Again i'll say the number of Irish speakers is growing, and you ask why preserve a language, well to start there are words in in Irish that would take two or three sentances to express in english, why is this? because irish is a language of real people that can express feeling and the mystery of the world it is the language that developed for the use of irish people that is perfectly suited to the geneticly irish style of comunication. And getting absoloutely pissed...hardly Irish?
EOINPOM 2 weeks ago
@EOINPOM The only argument that I found convincing there is that the number of Irish speakers is growing. We shouldn't put any effort into preserving dying languages or cultures - the faster we're all speaking the same language and practising the same culture (and that day will inevitably come), the better - but if it's growing, let it grow.
Blueman2805 1 week ago
@Blueman2805 You realise it's possible to speak two languages?
FacnyCatFighter 1 week ago
@FacnyCatFighter Yes, I know, which is why it seems so absurd to me to spend money on translating English statements into Irish and producing government literature in both languages when every Irish person speaks English and so few speak Irish as a second language. Just publish them in English. Without having looked at statistics, I'd imagine there are more people who speak Gujarati and nothing else in Ireland than speak Irish and nothing else.
Blueman2805 1 week ago
@Blueman2805 As much as I sympathise with your opinion, I'm certain that this wasn't the catalyst for Jim Allister's outburst. He is simply against any expression of Irish culture, whether it's a cost to the taxpayer or not. On his website, he described the Irish language as a "leprechaun language". He's an insolent swine and should be treated as such.
Also, he is not a nationalist. He's a Unionist.
FacnyCatFighter 1 week ago
@FacnyCatFighter Sorry, I meant "nationalism" with a lower case N rather than Nationalism as in Irish Nationalism. Unionism is a form of nationalism, it's just the other side of the coin from Irish Nationalism - it's British nationalism. I tend to equate all nationalism with racism because it's about preserving the arbitrary divisions between human beings. But yes, this is a vile man. I don't agree with much of what he says, just that we shouldn't devote resources to preserving languages.
Blueman2805 6 days ago
@Blueman2805 I understand where you're coming from.
Despite this, one must consider the historical and cultural significance of language. The Government provides millions in support of cultural landmarks, such as historical buildings and heritage sites. We preserve our culture and identity for the emerging generations, and a fundamental part of this is our indigenous language.
Jim Allister of all people advocates spending on the Ulster-Scots dialect - He's a hypocrite, essentially.
FacnyCatFighter 6 days ago
@FacnyCatFighter Certainly, and there's no reason that the language shouldn't be preserved for historical interest - indeed, all languages should. I simply don't think any special measures should be taken to preserve it as a day-to-day language in common usage, just as I don't think it's necessary to continue druidic rituals at Stonehenge to appreciate the monument's cultural and historical significance, or to attempt to revive Latin as an everyday language.
Blueman2805 5 days ago
@FacnyCatFighter I certainly don't believe that material like government records or road signs should be published, at expense, in both Language A and Language B when everyone who speaks Language B also speaks Language A anyway. Obviously this goes for Ulster Scots, Welsh, and all similar languages equally.
Blueman2805 5 days ago
@FacnyCatFighter ...that said, Jim Allister is a horrid, bigoted little nationalist.
Blueman2805 1 week ago
Irish is a dead language, correct. What a waste of resources!
xGoRdii 2 weeks ago
@xGoRdii Ignoramus, who are you to declare any language dead what the fuck do you know about it. Show me your credentials and give an example of any other language that has survived a colonisation after hundreds of years and then miraculously died out, Facts show a rise in recent years in the number of irish speakers. So go fuck yourself
EOINPOM 2 weeks ago
Jim Allister: Pog mo thoin you ignoramus
lightlytreading 2 weeks ago 16
Im a prod and I and 99% of the prodestant community cant stand this guy! Im completely up for the gaelic language. It would be a absoulute disgrace for it to die out. Why should it, when its what Irish people have been speaking for thoasands of years!
NornIron19 2 weeks ago 3
Sod this. I'm Welsh hoping to learn the native tongue.
jamesaellis 2 weeks ago
BODAIRE isea an leaid seo ba cheart go gcrochfaí é tar éis a leithéid a rá táim ar buile nár maraíódh é sula d'fhág se an fhoirgneamh "Tír gan Teanga tír gan anam" níor éirigh leis an bhreatain na Gael sa tuaisceart a mhúchadh nó fáil réidh leis an ghaeilge agus "Beatha teanga í a labhairt" Labharaigí ar fad agus scríobhaigí trí ghaeilge labhair amach i gcoinne an dream mhalaithe tras-phóirithe seo. Béarla isea teanga na bodairí. Tá dóchas ag na hÉireanaigh taispeán é!
EOINPOM 2 weeks ago
@EOINPOM Tá ceist amhain daíríre agam, an labhraíonn tú gaeilge go minc? le do chairde nó pe?
brokenglassesshaner 2 weeks ago
@brokenglassesshaner Labhraim, s'é gaodhluinn mo theanga dóchais agus labhraim lem chlann agus mo cháirde é muireach go bhfuil duine gan gaodhluinn liom. Is as don ghaeltacht mé agus feidhmíonn beagnach gach cumann agus eagraíocht anseo trí ghaodhluinn.Go raibh maith agat as ucht ceist a chur!
EOINPOM 2 weeks ago
@EOINPOM Sin go iontach maith ! Bhi mé ag iarraidh mar is as an galltacht mé i mBÁC agus tá cupla cairde agam atá laidir sa ghaeilge ach saghas dhuíltaíonn chun an teanga a húsáid, bh'fheidir focal amhain no dhó ag uasmhéid. Bronach tá fhios agam, sin an fadhb is mó ceapaim. Freisin cínnte tá cúpla bútun ann i mo clóscríobh
brokenglassesshaner 2 weeks ago
@EOINPOM duíltaíonn siad* agus cad is "gaodhluinn" i mbearla?
brokenglassesshaner 2 weeks ago
@brokenglassesshaner Gaodhluinn = Gaeilge is é sin an foghraíocht (pronunciation) atá againn i nGaeltacht na nDéise. Is cuma má bhíonn botúin agat chomh fad agus go labhrann/scríobhann tú trí ghaeilge!
EOINPOM 2 weeks ago
Is amadán ceart an fear sin. Níl Gaeilge teanga marbh. Foghlann gach paiste in Eireann é. Tá a ndoitóin duine in ann Gaeilge a leabhairt agus a thuiscint. Ceapaim go bhfuil lucht ag an rialtais nach bhfuil sé ina úsáid níos mó sa tíor. Brón orm faoi mo chuid litriú
Orlaalro1 2 weeks ago
Yeah If he learned to speak English first before talkin to us abbout ours!
steveythefox 3 weeks ago
racist
irishmckiddo 3 weeks ago
I agree that these Sinn Fein puppet masters should not have a translation service for something they use so very little in parliament. I also wish they would lay off attaching their cause to the Irish language. The Irish language should be natured and preserved, but not by these ex-murdering quasi-politicians. Jim Allister is the perfect example of a man consumed by hatred.
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
@MrRationalgaze nurtured*
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
@MrRationalgaze
Not respecting people and not giving those people a voice leads to one thing only
I believe the english are doomed to never learn from their mistakes.
Éirinn go Brách
MrIrishBilly 3 weeks ago
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@MrRationalgaze
"Please try to prove otherwise"
MrIrishBilly 3 weeks ago
@MrIrishBilly Hmm. No sense talking to someone who randomly changes the subject in a rhetorical manner, my ma used to say. You I mean.
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
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@MrRationalgaze
This is the response to your statement above
"I agree that these Sinn Fein puppet masters should not have a translation "
Not respecting people and not giving those people a voice leads to one thing only
I believe the english are doomed to never learn from their mistakes.
Éirinn go Brách
"Please try to prove otherwise"
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MrIrishBilly 3 weeks ago
@BELFASTHOODS2013YEHA You want to fap??
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
if learning irish could help children to get job it would be ok but teaching a kid irish should be left out of this country unless you wish to take it on your self
willym262000 3 weeks ago
nobody even speaks it , what about all them irish languge schools up west belfast the classes are empty waste of time.
NorthernIrishUltra 3 weeks ago
fucking prick
irishmckiddo 3 weeks ago
This guy is a unionist, nuff said!
odinreln 3 weeks ago
wow, I have many unionists mates, none of them would give this man an ounce of respect - this guy is NOT a normal human! Why do we vote egits into power?!?! He is probably the biggest bigot in Ireland!
DMG118 3 weeks ago
Im Irish and I completely agree with this man. While the EU must be officially multi lingual, There must be some limits. The Irish government voted against Catalan being an official EU language despite being spoken fluently by over 10m people and being the first language of about 7m. Irish on the other hand is spoken by no more than 100 thousand, and is the first language of about 10 thousand at most.
moransteve 3 weeks ago
Wow. What a cunt.
killie84 3 weeks ago 2
Cunas a faidheann tu fada le mearchlar mac?
fralgiemo 3 weeks ago
Níl aon daoine abalta gaeilge a mharú. Freastlaím ar gaelscoil agus leabhríom gaeilge i gcomhar hocht n'uaire gach la. Is teanga bás é.
Zigactly 3 weeks ago
Tír gan teanga, tír gan ainm.
BobbyRay28 4 weeks ago 11
@BobbyRay28 *anam
PG90210 3 days ago
@PG90210 Nope, it's ainm.
BobbyRay28 3 days ago
Tiocfaidh Ar Lá ;-)
maddogmcglinchey 4 weeks ago
racist cunt
youngfeniansofeire 1 month ago
póg mo thóin ya bastard, is é gaeilge an teanga is fearr ar domhan!
eeveefan121 1 month ago
Racist scum!
scouseprovo 1 month ago 2
@scouseprovo Republican Sectarian Fascist Bigot March The Streets of Liverpool and Glasgow.
Jungleloyalscouse 1 month ago
idle idle idle idle sitiation!
TheIcedlime 1 month ago
well, he's an idiot
Toshfunk 1 month ago
He's Northern Irish Lads,Don't mind him.Just jealous of us.
IrishFTW123 1 month ago 4
one person claps at the end LOL
Eoin1414 1 month ago
Jim Allister..................yesterday's man.
Vince1303 1 month ago
go on home to fuck you bigotted oul bastard!!!!!
killyneary 1 month ago
what a dirty,filty,racist,cunt,whor of a shithead he is.hes a bitter secterian uneducated cunt,disgrace to his fellow irishmen
92LiamO 1 month ago
@92LiamO So are you with that's your idea of an insult
ThisNameWasntUs3d 1 month ago
@ThisNameWasntUs3d how can u possibly defend that racist and i think my insult is fairly accurate,even unionists are sick and tired of his bullshit
92LiamO 1 month ago
In this day and age, what a filthy little racist
LCRCBOY 1 month ago
@LCRCBOY
Is it racist to say that Latin and Cornish are dead languages?
23Stork 1 month ago
@23Stork Racism doesn't enter into the issue!
MrPenfold84 1 month ago
@MrPenfold84
LCRCBOY seemed to think it did.
23Stork 1 month ago
@23Stork Latin and Cornish (Cornish slowly being revived) are extinct or dead languages they are not practiced on a daily basis by a minority or majority, there are no areas similar to the Gaeltacht's that speak Irish in Ireland. Therefore Irish is not only a part of Ireland but it is deeply rooted in certain groups of people in Ireland, so maybe the term racism is not appropriate but Discrimination a better word to use in this context.
LCRCBOY 1 month ago
@LCRCBOY
saying it's pointless wasting Irish taxpayers money because, AFAIK everyone in Ireland knows English, is not Racism OR discrimination. It's the same with Welch, it's a shame when languages die or become irrelevant, but breaking banks to rectify it is foolhardy.
23Stork 1 month ago
like this if you were only concentrating on the man in the back :L
MagicFitzy2k11 1 month ago
People fear things they don't understand. Guys like this don't like to be reminded that
Ireland is and was a country long before the english invaded it's people have their own culture and language which has survived war and government orchestrated genocide.
It will survive Mr Allister
Éirinn go Brách
MrIrishBilly 1 month ago 40
@MrIrishBilly Ireland has never been a country in the nation state sense that you and people like you have been lead to believe it was. Please try to prove otherwise.
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
@MrRationalgaze
Ireland hÉireann
Ruled by
a common law
a common language
a common culture.
a structure of kingdoms
ruled by one king
Ireland probably was the most well defined nation on earth.
MrIrishBilly 3 weeks ago
@MrIrishBilly Ireland had one undisputed 'All Ireland King' for an unstable period of about three years while Leinster was still a disputed territory and the Normans where pushing into Ireland. They were invited in by Diarmait Mac Murchada. The other High Kings you speak of did not rule the whole island. It was not a nation.
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
@MrRationalgaze
Ard Rí na hÉireann
Translated means "The high king of all of Ireland" All the kings of Ireland met at Tara which had served as the seat of the high kings of Ireland? for thousands of years.
Ireland through its kings was ruled under Brehon Law which predates the Iron age.
It governed everything from hospitality to taxes.
Irish (Brehon)law is the oldest, most original, and most extensive of mediaeval European legal systems
MrIrishBilly 3 weeks ago
@MrIrishBilly It's wishful thinking to say that Ireland was a nation. It simply did not work that way. To say it did, simplifies history for people who would use it as a tool to churn up resentment in others.
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
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@MrRationalgaze
Any one of these would have been a defining characteristic of a nation.
To deny that Ireland did not have all is to be english.
Ireland hÉireann
Ruled by
a common law
a common language
a common culture.
a structure of kingdoms
ruled by one king
MrIrishBilly 3 weeks ago
@BELFASTHOODS2013YEHA Why don't you like the Irish language?
geragna 1 month ago
NORTHERN CUNT
fifaizdabest 1 month ago
Actually! i do agree with him. Irish is not a universal language, only spoken in parts of ireland and by irish wannabe's in the US and any other place where irish have settled. But compared to english, it's a language that serves no purpose really, only as a historic example of ancient language.
MrPenfold84 1 month ago
@MrPenfold84 Well by that logic, German should be the sole language of the European Parliament - being the language spoken by the most people in the EU. Or if not that, only German, English, French, Spanish and Italian with all others ignored (including Czech, Slovakian, Polish, Catalan, Basque, Galego, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Welsh, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Portuguese). Right?
Wrong.
bkelleher91 1 month ago
@bkelleher91 The main language of Ireland, North and south is English! Irish is only a heritage language that serves no real purpose in main stream. The other language that you've dedicated your time to typing out, apart from a a handful, they are the mother tongues of the designated countries.
MrPenfold84 1 month ago
@MrPenfold84 As far as Bunreacht na hÉireann's concerned (the Irish constitution), the main language is Irish. That was approved by the Irish people in '37 and no democratically-elected representative has proposed any deviation from such a stance.
Either way, there are a sizable number of people that speak it as their first language. My point was if that is arbitrarily judged to be not enough to be an official language of the EU, can we not also make a similar arbitrary judgment on the others?
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fucking anti-catholic little bastard
connorjjg 1 month ago
the mans struggling to speak english up there..idiot
connorjjg 1 month ago 27
@connorjjg He sounds retarded when he opens his mouth, what a horrible thick sound he produces. Makes NI people, (the decent ones) ashamed to be part of NI.
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connorjjg 1 month ago
WHAT A WANKER!!
KassemGfive 1 month ago
well said
boo89able 1 month ago
fuck sinn fein and their batty language
LOYALISTMUSIC1 1 month ago
Is this guy for real? he wouldnt survive one week in wales with his attitutde!
coolcelt1 1 month ago
@coolcelt1 This is the nonsense that the Irish community (45% of the population) have had to put up with for 90 years in Northern Ireland.They are treated like foreigners in their own country.
Every expression of 'Irishness' has been treated like some sort of Popish plot to overthrow N.I.
TheFutureadvocate 1 month ago
Sums up what's wrong with NI.
1984corkery 1 month ago
A leithéid de stúmpa amadáin !! Jeepers jack Jim .. it's you're the waste of time and money....
Ollphiast 1 month ago
fuckin cac! is cunt é amach is amach! fuckin seafóid atá ann, is féidir leis dul suas ar fhéin :/
meditatingjack 1 month ago
I don't know how more insulting he can be.
ireland1953 1 month ago
jim is a joke,even the loyalists laugh at him
1vnman 1 month ago
this unioinist uses a ballot, not a bullet.
I'm a lapsed catholic-cum-nationalist frm the south (blaw clee) and I respect him.
he has a right to air his view just as you and i DO on you tube.
now, can we be less rude to him?
IF YOU S MILE AT HIM, HE WILL SMILE BACK.
IF YOU FROWN AT HIM, HE WILL FROWN BACK.
There are Unionists who DO speak Irish. There are Catholics who are lUnionists. There are Protestants who are NATIONALISTS. So, be careful what you sayand how you say it!
right?
squirell1952 1 month ago
You CANNOT have a reunited Ireland until the lower class Catholics of Northern Ireland get out of bed on Election Day to cast a vote for one of their parties. Until then, no reunion. Butmost of these people think only "better classes" go to the polls and they would feel out of place. The ball is in their hands but they are too ignorant to throw it. But does Dublin like competition? What would WE do if we were reunited? Embrace it? Tax it? Probably the latter!And Enda would increase his pay!!
squirell1952 1 month ago
@squirell1952 when was Ireland ever united? This is an historical inaccuracy accepted by most dewy eyed republicans.
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
not being rude - i promise - but some of these ulster people don't even speak english,properly or otherwise. even on bbc 1 - the oldest tv station in ireland - the announcers still have that ulster twang!! mind you, the way back street dubs speak english is even worse. but we need proper english, not a dead irish lingo. Fuck irish, it was walloped into me at school. Fuck these elitist anglophobes. they hate Protestants, too, you know. ask around discretely.
squirell1952 1 month ago
DEAR SIROR MADAM: I don't like this new layout of You Tube.
Have you asked around for our opinnions? You probably did and I probably didn't even notice it. Even so, ask around again! seriously,i don't like it. the layout, i mean. but i love the peopole who take the time to write to you. thanks for letting us let off steam. The daily newspapers wouldn't print our opinions. You do. we share and you help us to share.
GO REV MEELA MAW OGGOT. Ta very much, in Irish!
squirell1952 1 month ago
total unionist!!!
sm81148 1 month ago
fucking ignorant cunt
666morgoroth 1 month ago
racist fucker
youngfeniansofeire 1 month ago
Poll asal Saill.
Pyware50 1 month ago
lolol fucking Irish PIIGS your language is dead and you are reading this in English, ENGLISH FROM ENGLAND. How pathetic you are.
superbread12345 1 month ago
@superbread12345 Would you say the same to the Scottish and the Welsh? There language is apparently dead, but it still remains a facet of their culture and heritage. Even some Unionists choose to embrace the Ulster-Scots dialect, despite being effectively a dead language. Many British schools continue to teach Latin.
I'm guessing your problem is not with maintaining a dead language, but with Catholics alone. Don't fill yourself with so much hate.
FacnyCatFighter 1 month ago
@superbread12345 "ENGLISH FROM ENGLAND"
English is a Germanic language, much as the Angles. Saxons, and Jutes are from Germany.
Sincerely, An American
hobbit2245 1 month ago
@superbread12345 England: A nation of Chavs and Muslims.
TheFutureadvocate 1 month ago
@TheFutureadvocate Ha ha, that's true
watsupbrudder 4 weeks ago
@superbread12345 Again please. In English.
MrRationalgaze 3 weeks ago
in ainm an cunt
RottingYoda 1 month ago
Well someone's a fucking bigot.
At the risk of getting into a debate it's about heritage not politics.
Is actually so sad to see that.
Gavinkeenan1 1 month ago
Jims from Crossgar, wonder if he can explain the origins of that name without using Irish??
ELGRIFFO1981 1 month ago
To borrow a phrase from the great Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé. He's chomh dubh le corcán na dtrí gcos a bhí ag an baile againn
phleota 1 month ago
so lets say he, the very anti irish unionist man was made learn a new language but in history the language he should be speaking is english. He would do his best to re-energate the english language. Narrow minded, its our culture heritage and so much more! plus their are schools all around the country that learn everything in irish!
bobbyRing96 1 month ago
A bitter bitter little narrow minded man
johnkelly46 1 month ago
Who is this scumbag?
angofbew 1 month ago
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what a vindictive little shit
muiris 1 month ago
what a vindictive little shit
muiris 1 month ago
total loser
ieyedmonster 1 month ago
Waow, that guy is racist. Fuck him.
Eoinzero 1 month ago
Ba chóir do pholaiteorí Éireannacha atá mar bhaill do Phárlimint na hEoraip Gaeilge i a labhairt i PE le saorántacht na tíre seo a chuir chun cinn agus le beocht an teanga álainn seo a thabhairt le fios. Más rud é go bhfuil an pholaiteoir seo as tuaisceart na hÉireann ag iarraigh an Ghaeilge a chaitheamh amach as PE bhí sé chomh-maith do an bhéarla a chaitheamh amach leis,agus go labhairfaidh Fraincis nó Gearamáinis i PE amháin.
Paddyeire11 1 month ago 2
Is Jim Allister homosexual?
sherlockhaimes 2 months ago
Why should we preserve Irish? The vast, vast, vast majority of people on this island don't speak the language and have no real desire to do so. Well over 10% of the Irish population are foreign, and plenty more were born here to foreign parents.
ParamoreWorshipper 2 months ago
@ParamoreWorshipper Id love to know where you plucked those figures from.
martyc7 2 months ago
@martyc7
rte [DOT] ie/news/2007/0726/census.html
ParamoreWorshipper 2 months ago
@ParamoreWorshipper That article has no reference to the "vast, vast, vast majority" of Irish people or the languages they speak.
martyc7 2 months ago
@martyc7
Well, there are 72000 Irish speakers in a country with a population of 4,581,269 people.
ParamoreWorshipper 1 month ago
@ParamoreWorshipper Again, lovely figures but where are you getting them from?
martyc7 1 month ago
@martyc7
Estimates are between 40,000 and 80,000 people using it as their first language, the 72000 figure I came up with was based on CSO statistics that I can't find right now. Nonetheless, Irish is spoken as a first language by quite a small minority of people, undeniably.
irishexaminer [DOT] com/archives/2004/1124/ireland/eu-grants-irish-official-language-status-517225942.html
So ne or two percent of people in this country speak Irish as their first language.
ParamoreWorshipper 1 month ago
@ParamoreWorshipper So what! What exactly is your point? That because 2 per cent speak it as their first language it doesnt matter? What about the many many more who would love to speak it? should they be forgotten about too like the 80 000 you want to ignore? The Irish language is a rich part of our history and culture and should be promoted as much as possible.
martyc7 1 month ago
@martyc7
My point is that in Northern Ireland, 1,450,467 out of 1,789,000 have absolutely no knowledge of the Irish language. Irish translation services are a waste of time, and British tax-payer's money. I would bet that nobody in Northern Ireland speaks only Irish. Therefore, it's unnecessary.
I hate the bullshit excuse of people "wanting to learn it". Then learn it, nothing stopping you. Also, English is a far more important aspect to Irish culture, and is far older than modern Irish.
ParamoreWorshipper 1 month ago
@ParamoreWorshipper "I would bet" and "have absolutley no knowledge of Irish" completely ridiculous statements to make and to be honest I'm getting tired of responding to your opinions wrapped up as facts.
To say english is a far more important aspect to Irish culture is perhaps the most idiotic thing you have said in this whole conversation (and probably your whole life)
martyc7 1 month ago
@martyc7
I think it's ridiculous to say that there is anyone in Northern Ireland who can't speak English, but only Irish. Translation services are not necessary, and you haven't said why they would be. 1,450,467 people out of 1,789,000 in Northern Ireland said that they had absolutely no knowledge of the Irish language - couldn't speak it, read it, write it or understand it. So, that's not "my opinion"
ParamoreWorshipper 1 month ago
@ParamoreWorshipper its still part of our heritage , its not irish speakers fault a lazy cunt like yourself couldnt bother to learn our language ,
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homebrew2011 2 months ago
@ParamoreWorshipper are you not irish , you might not speak the language but respect the rights of those who do !!
homebrew2011 2 months ago
@homebrew2011
Part of who's heritage? A lot of people in this country are decended from Normans or Scottish settlers. Don't forget that Irish as we know it today is a very new language. I don't learn it because it's a waste of time, I'm not lazy.
I fully respect their right to speak it, but they have absolutely no right to demand that it take the prominence that it now takes in Irish society. It is a minority language - more people in this country speak Polish.
ParamoreWorshipper 2 months ago
@ParamoreWorshipper You are a cluesless half wit with no right to even live in this country with that attitude,
ceaser500 1 month ago
@ceaser500
How so? Elaborate.
I was born in this country and have full citizenship.
ParamoreWorshipper 1 month ago
whats this big jock in the EU for a fucking walking disaster? Here Allister son wipe your mouth you and frazer are the biggest bigots about and cunts. Tiocfaidh ar la
XxshughesxX 2 months ago
Suppose ud pump a load of money into 'Ulster Scotts' instead then? Cash well spent Jim, keep telling yourself that in ur little Orange bubble, with ur little orange friends in ur little orange town.
Loyalism is a sinking orange ship in a BIG green sea...just join us, and accept that you are as the rest of the world sees you...Irish
dratsab1980 2 months ago
How does he get to decide that our language is dead
brianmullins1991 2 months ago
That man, Jim Allister, has just revealed (as we all knew anyway) that hes a racist and hates Irish people. Why esle would be speak of irish language in such a hate filled way? He mentioned a fellow MEP, Miss De Brun and always trys to provoke her into arguement? Is that professional?
No wonder he lost his MEP seat
AnimalWelfare1000 2 months ago 2
what a bitter little orange
1stoner2 2 months ago 10
D1ckhead.
fiannafailscum 2 months ago
Someone really really needed more hugs as a child.
mageepaddy 2 months ago
orange scum
MrFunkehMonkeh 2 months ago
BRTS OUT, IRA ARE STILL HERE, IN OUR PROMISE LAND
mjunior3310 2 months ago
So if *you* disagree with him, he's a "racist cunt"? It's so easy to call anyone you disagree with racist; of course, it makes no sense when he's from the same race as you, but never mind.
And never mind the fact that there would be almost no people in Ireland that speak Irish/Gaelic and don't speak English, and those that do usually do it for the cameras as part of their (as Jim put it) aggressive Republicanism.
It's a massive wank; get over it.
disamjisa 2 months ago
@disamjisa yes. this whole argument is just as simple as that. you're so straight forward and intelligent. are you single? I hope so. All my love xx
geofism 2 months ago
@geofism Oh god, how creepy. A youtube person asking about my boyfriend; should probably start carrying mace or something.
If you disagree, say so. If you have nothing to contributem, gtfo eh?
disamjisa 2 months ago
but this guy is an irishman
karanmartina 2 months ago