WILF 46,588 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 I do mate.......and I will absolutely gutted if there is in any paki in me ! Lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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WILF 46,588 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 I think we can all try and be as clever about it as we like but it boils down to this, when someone says English/German/Scandinavian you have a picture of a white person because they are for as long as anyone can trace traditionally white, same as when you say Nigerian, Somalian, Pakistani you have a picture of a black person and so on and so forth. So really we all know what we mean don't we...... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RTurlough 160 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 Here is a better question............what does being Irish mean to you? Hunting, the craic, rallyin old cars down ramparts, soda bread, potato bread, wheaten terriers, St. Paddy's day, and buckfast. Tea solves everything, even thirst on a hot day. If you go out shopping and leave the emersion on you come home a nervous wreck! The main aim of the day is for everything to be 'grand'. If you worry about something you go light a candle and it's 'grand' again. Wakes are great craic but no smiling on the funeral day. If your mucker has no cousins then he is a weirdo and his family are shooting blanks. If ya miss goin to mass before the age of 16 you are extradited by the family and someone goes and lights a candle that you will come back. Doesn't get any better than that! oh and family, everything is about the family.......like if it wasn't for your Ma telling you to sign the birthday card she went and got everyone would really know ya didn't actually remember it was your sisters birthday! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RTurlough 160 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 Also being Irish is about every single American wanting to be Irish and the Irish reminding the British there is this big Blue thing between them and the British called the SEA! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,588 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 Haha, brilliant.......you forgot "I'll be to ya one of the days" which translates to anything from that afternoon to the following year ! Lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,588 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) Oh and I almost forgot, raising one finger off the steering wheel at every single car you see and saying "bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.......bye.......bye" at the end of every phone call ! Lol Edited March 24, 2017 by WILF 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RTurlough 160 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 The auld sham wave while trying not to hit the ditch when driving by your mates comin the other way. class! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RTurlough 160 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 And to bring this back to the original post so I cannot be accussed of hijacking it........speaking of hijacking.....being British means that you are the first to die when a terrorist hijacks a plane. Irish can wave the neutrality flag. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,588 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 Oddly enough I have found more of the England I remember and would like to see again since I have lived in ireland. They teach their own history in school, they fly the national flag outside school, they retain their own language (no f****r really understands it but that's not the point) They are polite to each other, they will help you if you are stuck.....got a problem? Strangers will be arriving in tractors and various machines to help, people from up the road will be fetching you dinner without being asked or having asked if you want it, kids will behave because they don't want to bring shame in the family. No one dreams of nicking your stuff as you are all pretty much just the same, if they do there is uproar. The guards don't have to send half the army and 28 vans of coppers to two blokes having a barny outside the pup......one guard, calm down son and home most of the time. They are just easy on each other, they look on baffled if you tell them about "black history month"........its not that they are raving racists it's just that they don't understand why you would have it in a country that's not historically black?!! They don't beleive it when you say you can't fly the St. George's flag outside your house or that some council official wants to drive you mad if you put up a shed that's too big ! I have found a home here amongst people who look like me, speak my languge and share my values.......how odd that I had to travel to ireland to find England. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jacknife 2,005 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 Irish means being the subject of all English jokes..... You know the ones giving him 20 shovels and telling him to take his pick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 12,861 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 Did the potatoe blight not effect main land Britain as it did Ireland. Also why would they not know the history. It was a part of the British Isles history. At j I'm going to be really unpopular with this next comment but fuuck it!! The Blight and famine (although granted, could have been made less of an issue by the British government of the time - major missed opportunity IMO) was manufactured and caused by the Irish farmers themselves. Why you ask? The Irish farmers did not diversify their crop, grew only one type of potato, which incidentally was very susceptible to Blight and because of this their entire crops failed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 12,861 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 the welsh are the true pure Britons according to research .scientists were able to trace there dna back to the first tribes to that settle in the british isles after the last ice age over 10,000 years ago Don't forget the north west and Scotland! Very old DNA lines Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,588 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) Did the potatoe blight not effect main land Britain as it did Ireland. Also why would they not know the history. It was a part of the British Isles history. At j I'm going to be really unpopular with this next comment but fuuck it!! The Blight and famine (although granted, could have been made less of an issue by the British government of the time - major missed opportunity IMO) was manufactured and caused by the Irish farmers themselves. Why you ask? The Irish farmers did not diversify their crop, grew only one type of potato, which incidentally was very susceptible to Blight and because of this their entire crops failed. I will add to that mate, matters were made worse because grain and meat were worth a lot of money.......there was plenty of all of that to feed ireland but the British government decided it had a higher value than Irish lives and exported it all out of Ireland while people starved.........I think that's the really important bit. Edited March 24, 2017 by WILF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,588 Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 You have to think about the numbers lads, 25% of the population dead.........to put that in perspective that's 15.5 million people in Britain today !! Just let that sink in for a second Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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