Comments on: Good morning, fellow Anglospherish…

By: Green Ink

Green Ink — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:15:52 +0000

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

By: Ivor

Ivor — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:52:43 +0000

Corection - he’s now doing it over in English.

By: Ivor

Ivor — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:51:45 +0000

Interesting to hear Brian Cowen delivering his panegyric for Patrick Hilary entirely as gaeilge.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:26:21 +0000

We have no need for your frivolous time-changing ways. You’ll all come back around to our time sooner or later. Mid-autumn, to be precise.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:17:34 +0000

Shane what’s the story with the IT blogs? Is daylight savings time just a joke to you guys?

By: Obsessed!

Obsessed! — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:52:36 +0000

A football aquaintance of mine routinely complains that Irish terrace culture is getting “too European” and less Irish before he goes on to chant in an English style.

By: JD

JD — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:30:41 +0000

I would have said that white (practising) Christians are in the minority in the UK, never mind anything else.

Sri Lanka as an automatic pick? There are far worse countries out there, but you could hardly put it either on an equal footing with the other “automatic” countries on that list.

Silly article really. Would have been far better to talk about India, if that is what he really wanted to do, rather than dress it up in the nonsense of an Anglosphere.

Somebody order a sub-editor?

By: 73man

73man — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:20:34 +0000

Why not just come out and say he wants Ireland back in Commonwealth?

Screw that, we need a new East India Company and Gurkhas walking down Connaught Place.

By: Steve K

Steve K — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:59:12 +0000

From one of the respondents to that article:

“I am impressed that you included Ireland. That disguises the WASP motherlode.”