Belgium bans roadsigns written in French.

There is a village in Cambridgeshire (England) called Six Mile Bottom.

By the same token, Adam, will the village have to be renamed Nine Point Six Five Five Six One Six Three Kilometre Bottom? They'll have to have village signs almost as wide as the road leading into the place!

Yep.

"The whole 9 yards" will become "The whole 8.2296" metres.

We won't be burying people "6 feet under." We'll be burying them "1.8288 metres under."

The American band "9 Inch Nails" will have to change their name to "22.86 Centimetre Nails."

"We won't be burying people "6 feet under." We'll be burying them "1.8288 metres under."

The American band "9 Inch Nails" will have to change their name to "22.86 Centimetre Nails.""

The horror of it all. Won't somebody think of the children. Big deal, grow up.

"What the hell is wrong with symbols on roadsigns? Ireland along with other EU countries including Poland uses standardized EU symbols. So I assuming the Poles would understand the signs."

The symbols will remain the same. The writing on them at the moment is in Irish and English. Polish will be added to it. I don't see how this move can help prevent accidents. The important signs such as stop or children crossing are obvious which leads me to the conclusion again that the adding of Polish will do feck all to help.

"The Poles have a website "Our Cork" ,they are laying claims already."

You better start learning polish because the slavs are pouring into Ireland. The BBC web site states that 50,000 latvians are in Ireland at the moment. That doesn't include poles or estonians or any other eastern european. Your country seems to be going down hill fast.

<The symbols will remain the same. The writing on them at the moment is in Irish and English. Polish will be added to it. I don't see how this move can help prevent accidents. The important signs such as stop or children crossing are obvious which leads me to the conclusion again that the adding of Polish will do feck all to help. >

I don't see the point putting Polish on signs. I think they should just make them have a bi-ligual driver's test. It's much better to hit 2 birds with one stone - their lack of English and learning the Irish road rules.

BNP - Why do you give a damn about the Republic of Ireland? I met one of your representives of my area to my disgust calling for the downfall of the Irish Republic. Again we English are pulled into the mud by idiots like you and your party.

Ireland, France, Germany etc - Brussels's poodles.

Adam - another BNP member?

"Adam - another BNP member?"

Just a Prick.

"Ireland, France, Germany etc - Brussels's poodles."

Of course, Britain is included in that etc.

"BNP - Why do you give a damn about the Republic of Ireland? I met one of your representives of my area to my disgust calling for the downfall of the Irish Republic."

The BNP is a wannabe neo-nazi group. They're about as much a threat to us as a poodle. What a weird comparison. Where did I get that from? Ah well.

I personally find it normal that signs are written in Flemish is the Flemish part of Belgium and in French in the French part. I don't understand the meaning of this post ?...

"The British National party and other far-right groups may be behind a spate of vicious racist attacks in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland, it emerged yesterday.
The most recent came over the weekend when a family originally from Uganda and a group of Chinese people - including two heavily pregnant women - were driven from their homes in the deprived Village area of South Belfast.

One of the women is due to give birth on Christmas Day and has been taken into hospital for observation.

Inspector Keith Gilchrist of the Police Service Northern Ireland said: "It is absolutely horrific that people should be put out of their homes at any time but particularly at this time of year. We are having to seek temporary accommodation with the assistance of the social services."

A gang attacked at least three houses, smashing windows with bricks. In one house a man was battered in the face with a brick.

The African man who did not wish to be named said: "I think the best thing that the politicians can do is just to educate the people that are thought to be doing all this.

"If only they could educate them that we are just part of the community, that we are as normal as them, we breathe the same air, we have the same blood, we are simply the same as they are."

Police are treating the attacks as racially motivated and it is thought that racist groups based in England may be organising them. The BNP recently announced it would be fielding candidates in the next round of council elections in the province.

Councillor Bob Stokoe, a former Lord Mayor of Belfast who lives in the Village area, said he thought that individuals from groups such as the BNP or Combat 18 may be involved."




I'm from Crossmaglen in South Armagh. Come on down and we'll have a friendly chat. We know how to deal with you racist Brit bastards.


"1970
12 August: Two RUC were blown up by gelegnite bomb on Lisseraw Rd, Crossmaglen
1971
29 August: A member of the Royal Hussars was fatally wounded by rifle fire at Shelagh, Crossmaglen.
1972
January: A two and one half hour battle took place south of Forkhill between Shean, Co. Armagh and Dungooley, Co. Louth. The British Army admits to having fires over 2,500 rounds of ammunition into the South and claim that the IRA fired about 500 rounds into the North. There were no injuries on either side.
21 January: A member of the Devon and Dorset Regiment was fatally wounded by a culvert mine at Derrynose.
10 February: Two members of the Devon and Dorset Regiment were fatally wounded by a landmine at Freeduff, Cullyhanna. They were traveling in the first vehicle of a two Land Rover patrol which took the full force of a 200 pound blast. The vehicle was blown 20 feet into the air and a 15 foot crater was created. After the explosion, a further 13 landmines were found in the area.
March: A three hour battle took place across Carlingford Lough. The Lough is about 300m wide at this point, near Warrenpoint and the IRA had set up an ambush on a British patrol on the northern side. There were no injuries on either side.
17 April: A UDR man was shot to death near Killen.
17 May: A Royal Engineer was fatally wounded by rifle fire at their base in Crossmaglen
15 July: A Royal Army Ordnance Corps member was fatally wounded in Silverbridge.
16 July: Two members of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment were fatally wounded by a command wire landmine on Carran Rd., Crossmaglen.
10 August: An attack was launced on a permanent VCP south of Crossmaglen. The Volunteers fired from two positions and forced a Souix helicopter, which had arrived to reinforce the British, back to its base. There were no British casualties.
24 August: A member of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was fatally wounded by a command wire landmine at Richardsons's Cross, Moybane, Crossmaglen.
29 August: A Ferret scout car was blown up south of Crossmaglen. It had ben traveling in convoy with a Saladin armoured car when a 150 lb landmine destroyed it. The driver was crushed under the wreck. The Volunteers had been waiting at least two days for the attack.
10 September: A convoy consisting of a Saracen armoured personel carrier and a one-ton Pig was attacked near Drumintee. There were no British casualties.
22 September: A member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was fatally wounded by rifle fire near Moybane.
20 November: Two members of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders fatally wounded by boobytrap in Cullyhanna. Twenty pounds of explosives destroyed an abandoned farmhouse when the two soldiers entered it. The building had been under observation by the British Army for some time after a tip was recieved about arms being stored there. The butt of a gun was visible protruding from some hay. This turned out to be a booby trap and when the two soldiers went near to it, the explosion took thier lives.
1973
8 March: A member of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment fatally wounded by boobytrap in Mullaghbawn.
13 March: A member of the Royal Hampshire Regiment fatally wounded by boobytrap on Coolderry Bridge, Croaamaglen.
29 March: A Saracen armoured car came under rocket and rifle attack outside Newtownhamilton. There were no British casualties.
7 April: Two members of the Parachute Regiment were fatally wounded by a command wire culvert landmine on the Carrickavaddy Rd, Tullygallaghan. The device was estimated to contain 300 lbs. of explosives and completely destroyed the Land Rover in which the soldiers were traveling. The blast was heard four miles away in Newtownhamilton and had been set off from 500 meters away, The Land Rover was one of a column of two which together with a Saracen had been traveling in the area that day.
5 May: A member of the Parachute Regiment was fatally wounded by a command wire landmine near Moybane, Crossmaglen. They were examining a pile of sones left in the road by the IRA to lure them into a trap.
5 May: Two members of the 14th/17th Lancers were fatally wounded by booby trap attached to the command wire which activated the device which killed the Para on the same day.
24 May: A member of the Royal Engineers and a member of the Parachute Regiment were fatally wounded by a radio controlled bomb in St. Brigit's Park, Cullaville. Word had been passed to the British Army that a boobytrap may have been left in a house known to be friendly to them. They approached the house carefully looking for a small device but were ambushed by the massive radio-controlled device instead.
10 July: A member of the UDR was shot to death near Tully's Bar in Belleek.
20 July: A member of the UDR was shot to death at Ballintemple, Newtownhamilton.
28 October: A member of the Light Infantry was fatally wounded by rifle fire near in the Square, Crossmaglen.
6 November: A member of the Royal Corps of Signals was fatally wounded by rifle fire in Newtownhamilton..
24 November: A member of the Welsh Guards was fatally wounded by a radio controlled bomb on the Monog Rd, Crossmaglen.
24 November: A twenty minute gun battle took place after the attack on the Welsh Guards patrol. There were no casualties.
5 December: An audacious attack was made against two British Saracen Armoured Cars on the Newry to Dundalk road. A 500 pound landmine was detonated and blew both cars from the road. There were no British casualties.
1974
30 January: An ASU fired serveral rounds at a British patrol of Welsh Guards on the Cullyhanna Rd leaving Crossmaglen near the Ardoss estate.
8 February: An ASU of the First Battalion attacked destroyed the customs post at Killeen.
8 February: An ASU of the Second Battalion attacked a British Army patrol as it landed from a helicopter. Several landmines greeted the British soldiers as they landed and a day-long gun battle followed. There were several British casualties.
10 February: An ASU of the Second Battalion attacked a British Army patrol. There were several British casualties.
11 February: A ten member ASU of the Second Battalion attacked a British Army foot patrol at Mount Hill, near Crossmaglen. The Volunteers fired over 500 rounds and there was one British injury.
11 February: A five member ASU of the Second Battalion attacked a British Army foot patrol at Culloville. The Volunteers fired over 200 rounds and there were two British injuries.
13 February: A landmine exploded near a British foot patro near Dromintee. There were several British casualties.
18 February: A member of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps was fatally wounded and another wounded by a command wire landmine near Moybane, Crossmaglen. The device contained 150 pounds of explosives.
18 February: A one half hour battle took place after the landmine attack on the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during which 20 Volunteers exchanged about 500 rounds with the British Army.
8 March: Several British Army patrols came under the fire of the South Armagh Brigade.
15 March: Two trains were commandeered near Meigh in an effort to lure the British Army into an ambush. The British efused to approach the trains for 24 hours until the area had been saturated by them.
16 March: Two members of the Parachute Regiment were fatally wounded by rifle fire from the Second Battalion on the Dundalk Rd. Crossmaglen. The Paras had only arrived the previous day and their commander had boasted that in 14 daya, he would have Crossmaglen 'cleaned up'.
16 April: A member of the RUC was shot to death in Newtownhamilton.
2 July: A member of No. Three Squadron of the Royal Engineers was fatally wounded by a booby trap at Carrickgallogly, near Belleek. The soldier was entering a derelict house at Drumhoney when the device went off killing one and injuring two others.
13 August: Two members of the Royal Marnes were fatally wounded by a radio controlled bomb at Drummuckaval. Members of the Second Battalion planted the landmine very near to a British observation post. The dead Marines were stationed in that post but did not observe the Volunteers who were preparing their demise.
5 October: There was a heavy fire-fight with the British Army in Crossmaglen.
6 November: A member of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment and a member of the Devon and Dorset Regiment were fatally wounded by rifle fire on the Square, Crossmaglen.
14 December: A member of the Royal Green Jackets was fatally wounded by rifle fire on the Drumintee Rd, Meigh. An RUC member was killed as well,
1975
3 June: A member of the UDR was shot to death at Killeen.
17 July: Four members of the British Army from 4 different regiments were fatally wounded by a command wire landmine at Cortreasla Bridge in Tullydonnell. The soldiers believed that they had discovered an IRA bomb in a milk churn some days before this. When they finally approached the suspect device, they were ambushed by a unseen landmine.
15 August: A member of the RUC Reserve was shot to death in Dorsey.
30 August: A member of the UDR/UVF was shot to death at Ballymoyer near Whitecross.
31 August: A member of the UDR was shot to death near Keady.
September: The permanent vehicle checkpoint on the Newry to Omeath raod came under a bomb attack from the IRA. There were no British casualties.
9 October: A member of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was fatally wounded by a culvert mine at Ford's Cross. The soldier had been traveling in a Saracen armoured car which was destroyed by the mine.
6 November: A member of the UDR was shot to death at Ballymoyer near Whitecross.
10 November: A member of the UDR was shot to death near Keady.
21 November: A British soldier was fatally wounded and another injured by a landmine near the border..
22 November: Three members of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers were fatally wounded by rifle fire from a ten-strong ASU of Volunteers. The British has hoped to set up a secret observation post, but were instaed observed and ambushed by the IRA at Drumuckavall.
1976
26 February: A member of the UDR was killed at Tullygeasy, Newtownhamilton.
31 March: Three members of the Royal Scots were fatally wounded by a command wire landmine at Carrickgallogly, near Belleek.
5 April: A member of the UDR/UVF was shot to death in Tullyvallen, Newtownhamilton.
26 April: A twelve-member ASU attacked the British Army near Courtbane with rifle and machine-gun fire. The battle lasted an hour and one half.
28 June: A member of the Parachute Regiment was fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine at Drumlogher, Cullyhanna.
8 August: Private James Borucki a member of the Parachute Regiment, was fatally wounded by a radio controlled bomb in the Square, Crossmaglen. The sanger on the Square was named for him..
1977
2 January: A member of the Royal Highland Fusiliers was fatally wounded by rifle fire on the Dundalk Rd. Crossmaglen.
14 May: Captain Nairac of the Grenidier Guards was killed in Drumintee.
1978
23 January: A mortar attack was launched against the British fortress in Forkhill. After the attack, 2 RUC attempted to drive the vehicle which had launched the mortars away, when it exploded seriously wounding them.
25 January: A patrol of the Royal Green Jackets came under sustained landmine and rifle attack near Crossmaglen.
17 February: A patrol of the Royal Green Jackets came under fire near Jonesborough. A helicopter carrying the Battalion's commander, crashed after taking fire from the IRA, fataly wounding the Colonel.
4 March: A member of the Royal Green Jackets was fatally wounded by a booby trap while trying to remove a tricolour from a pole on the Newry Rd, Crossmaglen.
6 March: An ASU used an M60 machine gun in a one half hour attack on British forces near Crossmaglen.
10 June: A remote controlled landmine was used against a five-man patrol of British soldiers in the Square, Crossmaglen.
17 June: Two members of the RUC were shot to death in Sturgan Brae, Camlough.
12 July: A member of the Parachute Regiment was fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine on the Dundalk Rd, Crossmaglen.
17 August: A member of the Royal Marines was fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine in Main St, Forkhill.
19 August: A member of the UDR was shot to death near Keady.
12 November: A member of the Royal Marines was fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine in Castleblaney St, Crossmaglen.
21 December: Three members of the Grenidier Guards were fatally wounded by rifle fire on the Newry Rd, Crossmaglen.
1979
19 March: A member of the Queen's Regiment was killed by a mortor bomb in the Newtownhamilton base. This was the twelfth attack on this station by the IRA.
17 April: Four members of the RUC was blown up by a radio controlled landmine on the Millvale Rd, Bessbrook.
3 June: Two members of the RUC was blown up by a radio controlled landmine near Crossmaglen.
24 June: A member of the UDR was shot to death in Mount Norris.
8 July: A member of the Queen's Own Highlanders was fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine in the Square, Crossmaglen.
27 August: Eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment were fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine at Narrow Water Castle near Warrenpoint.
10 September: A Gazelle helicopter came under IRA fire near Cullaville.
13 November: A member of the Welsh Guards was fatally wounded by a radio-controlled landmine at Ford's Cross.
16 December: A member of the Parachute Regiment was fatally wounded by a command wire landmine in Tullydonnell.
1980
1 January: A member of the UDR was shot to death in Kingsmill.
15 March: A member of the Kings Own Border Regiment was fatally wounded by rifle fire on the Newry Rd. Crossmaglen.
21 March: A member of the Kings Own Border Regiment were fatally wounded by a radio controlled bomb on North Rd. Crossmaglen.
9 August: A member of the Parachute Regiment was fatally wounded by a radio controlled bomb at Shean Rd, Forkhill.
31 August: A member of the RUC Reserve was shot to death near Newtownhamilton.
1981
2 April: A member of the RUC Reserve was killed by a booby trap in Bessbrook.
19 May: Three members of the Royal Green Jackets and a member of the Roal Corps of Transport were fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine on the Chancellor's Rd, Bessbrook.
28 May: A member of the RUC was shot to death in Whitecross
16 July: A member of the Royal Green Jackets was fatally wounded by rifle fire during an attack on a Close Observation Platoon position at Mounthill, Crossmaglen.
1982
29 October: A member of the UDR was shot to death in Lislea.
1983
13 April: A member of the Territorial Army was fatally wounded by rifle fire in Keady
7 November: A member of the Devon and Dorset Regiment was fatally wounded by a radio controlled bomb in the Square, Crossmaglen.
1984
31 January: Two members of the RUC were blown up by a command wire landmine near Meigh.
18 April: Two members of the RUC were blown up by a command wire landmine near Lislea.
29 May: A member of the Statfordshire Regiment was fatally wounded by a command wire landmine at Mounthill, Crossmaglen.
1985
28 February: Nine members of the RUC were killed by a mortor bomb at the Correy St station in Newry.
20 May: Four members of the RUC were blown up by a radio controlled landmine near Killeen.
15 November: A member of the RUC was blown up by a radio controlled landmine near Crossmaglen.
1986
22 May: A member of the Royal Anglican Regiment and two RUC members were fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine at Cornoonagh Hill, Crossmaglen.
9 July: Two members of the Royal Anglican Regiment were fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine at Glassdrumman.
1987
25 April: A Lord Justice was blown up by a radio controlled landmine near Killeen.
1988
21 May: A member of the Royal Pioneer Corps was fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine at Tullyard Hill, near Crossmaglen.
28 July: A member of the Parachute Regiment was fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine on the Skeriff Rd near Cullyhanna.
1989
20 March: Two RUC Superintendents were shot to death at Killeen,
4 May: Two members of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Forresters Regiment were fatally wounded by a radio controlled landmine at Cashel.
20 October: A member of the RUC was shot to death in Belleek.
1990
7 May: A member of the Scots Guards was fatally wounded by rifle fire during an attack on a Close Observation Platoon position at Slatequarry Rd, Cullyhanna.
16 September: A member of the RUC was shot to death in Killeen.
24 October: A member of the Royal Irish Rifles was fatally wounded by a bomb detonated by a radar gun at the permanent vehicle checkpoint at Cloghogue.
1991
17 August: A member of Second Battalion of the the Coldstream Guards was killed by a landmine in the Carrickovaddy Woods near Belleek. The device was believed to be 100kgs. British soldiers had been seen combing the area for some time before the attack searching for a missing book of known IRA Volunteers.
27 November: A member of the UDR was shot to death in Cullaville.
1992
1 May: A member of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was fatally wounded at the permanent VCP at Cloghogue.
28 August: A member of the Light Infantry was fatally wounded with a .50 calibre rifle in the Square, Crossmaglen.
1993
25 February: A member of the RUC was shot to death in Crossmaglen.
17 March: A member of the Royal Scots was fatally wounded by rifle fire in Church Rd, Forkhill.
26 June: A member of the Duke of Edinburg's Royal Regiment was fatally wounded by rifle fire on the Carrickacullion Rd, Newtownhamilton.
17 July: A member of the Duke of Edinburg's Royal Regiment was fatally wounded with a .50 calibre rifle on the Carran Rd, Crossmaglen. The British Army denied at the time that the soldier had been hit by a Barret Light 50 rifle at the time, but history has shown this to be a lie.
2 November: A member of the RUC shot to death with a .50 calibre rifle in Crossmaglen.
2 December: A member of the Royal Artillery was fatally wounded with a .50 calibre rifle in Victoria St, Keady.
30 December: A member of the Grenidier Guards was fatally wounded with a .50 calibre rifle outside Murtagh's Bar, Crossmaglen.
1994
14 May: A member of the Royal Logistics Corps was fatally wounded by a landmine near Keady.
1997
12 February: Lance Bombadier Stephen Restorick of the Royal Horse Artillery was fatally wounded with a .50 calibre Barret 90 rifle on the Green Rd, Bessbrook. At this time, he is the last member of the British Army to have been killed in Ireland by the IRA. If England keeps faith, it will remain so."

"We know how to deal with you racist Brit bastards."

Scary.

I'm British, so the threatening rants of a foreigner don't bother me. We just keep calm, yawn, wait for whatever's coming, and then punish whatever country inflicted damage upon us.

In Republic of Ireland's case, how would they be able to cope with hundreds of British troops parachuting in on Dublin and Royal Navy warships prowling the coast of Ireland?

Your silly rants don't bother us either. Most of the time we just scroll past whatever you've plagiarized this time. Only the new people pay attention to you -- except for when the old ones feel like making fun of you.