[KaiserPro]

100%

we used to have toilets on the tube, but the IRA kept on sticking bombs in them.

the "troubles" were utterly destructive, and left permanent scars in the UK. However it nothing to the sheer destruction that occurred in NI/6 counties.

The Financial Times only recently(~2010) began receiving post at their HQ because the amount of suspicious shit that used to mailed to them and other press outlets. All of the glass was laminated, so that should a lorry bomb be detonated there, it wouldn't shred everyone behind them.

for the UK, terrorism was always something to do with the troubles all the way up until well past the iraq war. London was neutral ground, much to the annoyance of the rest of the five eyes.

[jan_Inkepa]

For those out of the loop, NI/6 counties = counties in Northern Ireland (the UK part)

[KaiserPro]

Sorry, yes I should have been more explicit.

In the UK we call it Northern Ireland, in some/most[1] parts of Ireland its called "the 6 counties".

[1] I only have a limited frame of reference here

[OJFord]

I've also heard 'the Northern counties' or just 'up North' for what it's worth.

[dekken_]

Being from the ROI I call NI a third world country.

[jmkni]

lol, parts of Dublin are worse than anything I've seen in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is far from a third world Country, don't believe everything you see on TV, come up and visit us and see for yourself :)

[dekken_]

Yeah I was exaggerating, I just wish it wasn't so messed up up there. Years of intergenerational violence have really done a number on some places.

[danans]

> parts of Dublin are worse than anything I've seen in Northern Ireland

Hah, if that isn't the perfect illustration of the folly selecting your data to support your argument.

No doubt N Ireland is lovely. Dublin is too. A lot of people of the world be thrilled at the opportunity to live in either place.

And I'm sure both have worse parts, since every sizable settlement needs a less desirable part to concentrate it's less desired residents.