Swiss magazine's racist attack on Irish - claims they have bad teeth due to incest
German writer makes outrageous claims, generalizes Irish as incestuous drunken frauds
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Published Thursday, August 30, 2012, 5:23 PM
Updated Friday, August 31, 2012, 12:56 PM
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German journalist says the Irish have bad teeth due to incest
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Chantal Nash, president of Swiss Club Ireland, said, “I am really shocked and outraged to hear about it. It is not our experience as Swiss people living in Ireland. We greatly appreciate the Irish and we have never experienced anything like what the author is describing. It is shocking that she can write such ignorance.”
“I am in shock that anybody could say such things about Ireland and the Irish. The author appears to be misinformed and the things she is saying are simply not true.”
“In fact we have many Swiss retirees and students coming over to Ireland to live because they love the country so much. I can assure you that as the President of Swiss Club Ireland, none of our members have come across anything like what the author is describing.”
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EamonnDublin | Sep 04, 2012, 12:13 PM EDT
No, Seán. Self taught! Did you know that Barber was reputed to have only the one lung? I don't know if it was true - I thought maybe he had three! Éamonn.
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seanomelb | Sep 04, 2012, 05:30 AM EDT
Did Egan teach you to be so dry Eamonn.
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EamonnDublin | Sep 03, 2012, 11:22 AM EDT
I had just started a response to this woman, when two of my teeth fell out and got stuck in the keyboard between the "r" and the "y" - so I couldn't finish off the word "shi..". Then, when I was trying to extricate the two inches long molar, I knocked my two litre glass of Guinness all over the keyboard. The next door neighbour then arrived in and said she had just discovered that she is her sister's brother's boyfriend and she is pregnant to the whole lot of them. I thought she was upset, but it was tears of delight. She says she's going to call it Adolf if it's a girl. She'll know if it's a girl, because it will have a moustache. So, there you go - things are looking up. The damn cheek of that woman to say we are ugly. I saw quite a reasonable looking one down near O'Connell Bridge yesterday morning about half eleven. Go Irish!! Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.
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BigDaddy | Sep 03, 2012, 10:58 AM EDT
If you are angry, boycott the magazine and its sponsors. Write to the sponsors and tell them so....The editor in chief sounds like he works for Murdoch. "This is her personal view..." It wasn't something she said on a radio?TV program.It was submitted for publication and someone at the magazine read it and then published it. If they weren't aware of the possible repercussions, then they shouldn't have jobs. If they were aware, well, that explains itself....I can't blame her for her critique of Irish music, though. When you grow up on the kick ass beat of tuba, well nothing else really matches up, does it?
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seanomelb | Sep 02, 2012, 07:46 PM EDT
Big "peninsula" 400 million people!! I see the ethnic purgers woundedknee and Phlutie are off and running again.
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vince363 | Sep 02, 2012, 03:44 PM EDT
a stupid comment to be sure ,why live in a country you despise ?it shows a lack of common sense ,madam you do your german race a disservice ive met many fine german people in my life , one actually saved my life,so im not going to smear the german people because of your ignorance god bless ireland and germany ,.
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WoundedKnee | Sep 02, 2012, 02:38 PM EDT
Phutie: I think you're only half-right here. You talk about " the road to world Marxist socialism". Don't know about you, but I am old enough to remember the Soviet Union. And I know that they had a very strict Immigration policy. The only large group of foreigners they permitted to enter and live in their country were African students, and they kept tight control of those students while they were in the USSR, and got them to leave once they had graduated. The USSR was no poster boy for Mass Immigration!
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PhlutiePhan | Sep 02, 2012, 11:26 AM EDT
@WoundedKnee: "Unlimited" immigration is a problem for the entire European peninsula. There are socialist powers at work to "water down" the various European cultures by using Islamic interaction to destroy the Christian foundation on the road to world Marxist socialism. Gerry Adams immediately comes to mind.
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seanomelb | Sep 02, 2012, 03:44 AM EDT
It's true that the poor have a lousy dental record in most countries. Water flouridation and government policy is imperative. government subsidies of dental care will bring savings to the overall health budget. The cost will reduce by reducing the associated diseases. The Australian government will inject $4 billion dollars in dental care from 2014(fully budgeted). The dental association and most other associated groups applaud this action.
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WoundedKnee | Sep 02, 2012, 02:43 AM EDT
Crazy as it may seem, a lot of the low self-esteem Irish will be agreeing with this article. It's common to hear people who support the Mass Importation of Foreign Migrants policy in Ireland say "they'll be bring in new genes and we'll be better looking (smarter,sexier--you name it)". Indeed I was listening online to a radio show on the right-wing Dublin station Newstalk just a few days ago where the presenter welcomed the Mass Naturalization ceremonies being held over there (4000 in one event on Thursday alone). His argument as far as I could tell was that the "pasty-faced Irish" needed some new genes to darken their complexions. Ireland is probably the only country wehre radio presenters, journalists etc. can get away with low racist attacks of this type.
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susan kirby | Sep 02, 2012, 02:14 AM EDT
what a load of old tripe....irish people are the best looking in the world
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seanomelb | Sep 01, 2012, 09:07 PM EDT
My father died (95) with a full head of hair and his own teeth.All my siblings and I still have our hair and teeth. Angrypaddy and Paddyranger should team up they'd make a lousy comedy act.
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curtisjohnson | Sep 01, 2012, 08:34 PM EDT
@angrybritroll "see the amount of incest produced half witts[sic]" You're thinking of the british (in reality german) royal family.
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seamus60 | Sep 01, 2012, 05:55 PM EDT
Now we know why German comedians are so scarce on the ground.
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