Do you know the story of the potato famine ?

At least the version I heard from an Irish geography PhD over here was about Irish landlords continuing to divide plots of agricultural land to allow 1) more and more people to farm and 2) to of course increase the total amount of rent they could charge, to a point where it made it impossible to effectively farm productively.

The landlords themselves were ultimately associated with and supported by the British government, but it wasn't all black and white.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on November 8th 2011 at 17:09:30

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Fifa pricks (NCFC) - Dave ncfc davies, Nov 8, 16:36:36
- I'll stick to me white poppy thanks (n/m) (NCFC) - Only1Doherty, Nov 8, 16:50:54
  - seems a bit rebellious tho (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:57:37
    - I dunno. For me it's saying (NCFC) - Only1Doherty, Nov 8, 17:00:16
      - Indeed. That is how I see it. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 17:04:14
      - yeah i'm sure we all agree on that tbf (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 17:01:04
        
        True. I'm not very good with words so there's some more info here if anyones bothered (NCFC) - Only1Doherty, Nov 8, 17:03:17
    - Yep - not sure I like it (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:58:53
      - No but it has changed a bit in recent years to a bit of an undertone of (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 17:06:13
- You could not make it up it's PC gone mad. This, no I mean that, no I mean those countries (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 8, 16:41:18
  - Get ready to duck. The poppy gets on my tits a bit. It is almost as though if you (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:47:10
    - yes, i'm with the Dutchess on this (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:50:14
    - Agreed. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 8, 16:49:43
    - excellent, us patriots can burn you atop some war memorial as a warning to other (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:49:27
      - lol (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:51:06
    - jon snow wouldn't wear a poppy on the news would he? (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:49:02
      - Something like that. The white poppy sparking outrage too. FFS. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:49:25
        
        Poet chap on Question Time was wearing one of them. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:50:26
        
        white poppies? I think I've seen them. What do they mean? (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:50:09
        
        Could do something to remember the lives taken from people (NCFC) - pants, Nov 8, 16:54:18
        
        and a small potato for the Irish victims of the potato famine (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:56:57
        
        ha ha (NCFC) - Tombs, Nov 8, 17:21:45
        
        If you're going to be a fussy eater, I'm not sure you deserve the title of victim. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, Nov 8, 17:00:07
        
        rofl (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:59:22
        
        I guess British history likes to gloss over the bad bits (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Nov 8, 16:58:15
        
        Do you know the story of the potato famine ? (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 17:09:30
        
        that's more of a human trait than being a particularly British one (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 17:01:13
        
        Yep. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 17:00:01
        
        hare gew (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:52:39
        
        Hmmm (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:58:21
        
        What about a t-shirt saying (NCFC) - duke of york, Nov 8, 16:59:50
        
        or CHAMPIONS! (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 17:05:40
        
        yes seems fair enough to me (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:54:48
        
        Something like that, yes ! (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:56:08
        
        remembering the other side? (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:51:07
        
        lol you little minx (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:52:51
        
        that can't be right. White=good, black=bad (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:52:28
        
        one good thing about poppies (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:53:16
        
        And you can make opium from them (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:54:48
        
        brilliant yes, we shoudl do more of that. It's what the empire was built on (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 17:00:59
        
        Remember all wars and all that died would be my guess. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:50:54
- Yeah! Like all those other Novembers when England have worn the poppy! (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:40:38
  - is it an anniversary or something this year? (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:41:14
    - surely the poppy used to be just for Remembrance sunday anyway didn't it? (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:44:48
      - Someone needs to come up with a decent poppy attachment thing too, they always fall off. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:48:18
        
        Cheap muck. Should get foreigners to make them. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:49:05
        
        They're made in China aren't they? (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:50:53
        
        No, Surrey, by ex-services people. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 16:53:54
        
        I only know that, by the way, becuase I heard a trail for a programme about the factory on (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 16:54:34
        
        but I bet they buy the plastic bits from China (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 17:03:14
        
        Oh, more than likely. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 17:06:01
        
        Japanese would be best, brilliant engineers. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:49:52
        
        Yeah. Have them outsource to prisoners. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:55:12
        
        Like Wrath heads. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:48:54
      - i think it's always been for the few weeks leading up (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:45:42
        
        It is getting more and more like Christmas to be fair. Will start in June soon (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:48:04
        
        LOL (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:49:16
        
        only so's people could ensure they'd have a poppy on the sunday (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:46:54
        
        but they all wear it in the weeks before (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:48:15
    - It's an anniversary every year. (n/m) (NCFC) - norway, Nov 8, 16:42:47
      - lol i mean significant anniversary (n/m) (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:44:30
        
        I think any anniversary of commemorating our glorious dead is significant. Don't you? Hmm. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 8, 16:45:40
        
        yes but why have we not asked previous times? (NCFC) - 1 5CC, Nov 8, 16:47:07
        
        Exactly (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Nov 8, 16:48:25
- Can't understand why this hasn't caused more noise really. (NCFC) - tudders, Nov 8, 16:38:01
  - i think i can answer that (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:40:47
- . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 8, 16:37:57
  - I did read, it's to do with design and if a shirt is changed the sponsers have to be asked (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:41:10
    - there isn't any sponsorship on international shirts (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 8, 16:42:15
      - *yet* (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 8, 16:47:30
      - That will teach me for reading the News of the World in the surgery. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Nov 8, 16:46:40

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