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re: Did You Know There Are Two Irelands? (European Smugness Anecdote)
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:05 am to litenin
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:05 am to litenin
quote:
There's obviously a lot of history that can't easily be forgotten
No shite. It's hard to forgive 800 years of enslavement.
We were fortunate enough to break away from that shite.
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Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:08 am to Mo Jeaux
quote:
Your problem is not that you didn't know this, but that you were so smug and happy to wallow in your ignorance.
This.
OP has found a way to bring DS and Mo Jeaux together.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:15 am to litenin
quote:
One of them kept saying that the only good Englishman was a dead Englishman.
This is the stuff that drives me nuts. The Scots have a Braveheart view of history instead of realizing that England and Scotland invaded one another for centuries during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses.
From the time of King James I until Queen Anne, the Stuarts ruled England. They were a Scottish dynasty. Since the early 1700's, they have been in a political union with England and Wales.
If the Scots are still so pissed about wars that occurred 7 centuries ago, you would think they'd be wary of joining a political union dominated by Germany, a country with which they were at war only 7 decades ago.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:22 am to germandawg
quote:
I would bet that the vast majority of Americans do not know this...and I would bet that 1/3 who have traveled to the Republic of Ireland do not realize it...
That is because the vast majority of Americans are dumbasses just like the OP. See Obama and Trump.
...and let Northern Ireland and the Scots leave the UK. They are all uncivilized savages anyway.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 9:24 am
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:27 am to RFK
quote:
I could tell she was not impressed.
Wow, cant believe the political breakfast stalker thing didnt work...
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:28 am to germandawg
quote:Because Americans are retarded, smug children.
I would bet that the vast majority of Americans do not know this...and I would bet that 1/3 who have traveled to the Republic of Ireland do not realize it...
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:48 am to Draconian Sanctions
Damn RFK has toddy pounding him
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:49 am to RFK
quote:If you had to Wiki this you deserved way more smugness than you got
When I later Wiki'd 'Ireland' I was shocked to see that 'Ireland' proper and its relationship with the UK is a point of contention...
Posted on 4/26/17 at 10:02 am to RFK
quote:I would love to have been at the next table to watch her face as this conversation happened.
Just had breakfast with an Irish journalist staying at my bed and breakfast in Rome. She apparently is researching Italian politics for the Financial Times, which threw me off because it is printed in London.
When she mentioned that she was from Ireland, I nodded and said although I had never been there, I had traveled throughout the rest of the UK, and had served overseas with UK army and naval officers on several occasions.
Especially when she asked if you had been to Ireland and you replied that you hadn't but you did visit "the rest of the UK".
Posted on 4/26/17 at 10:57 am to RFK
Northern Ireland is mostly protestant and is part of the UK, uses pounds and miles. The rest of Ireland is mostly Catholic and is it's own country, uses the euro, kilometers. It made driving near the border pretty weird. There is no real border, so the road just switches to km all the sudden. I thought this was common knowledge
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 10:58 am
Posted on 4/26/17 at 10:58 am to mmcgrath
Four Irishmen are playing poker. Shamus has a good hand and bets everything he's got...$500. He loses. He clutches his chest and dies of a heart attack.
His friends continue playing for a half hour and then call it a night.
'Someone has to go to Shamus' house and tell his wife.'
Sean: "I'll go."
They warn him to be discreet.
Sean: "Discreet is me middle name."
Sean goes to the house and knocks on the door. Shamus' wife answers.
Sean: "Bad news, ma'am, Shamus lost $500 at poker tonight."
The wife becomes furious: "Tell that bastard to drop dead!"
Sean, walking away: "Consider it done, ma'am."
His friends continue playing for a half hour and then call it a night.
'Someone has to go to Shamus' house and tell his wife.'
Sean: "I'll go."
They warn him to be discreet.
Sean: "Discreet is me middle name."
Sean goes to the house and knocks on the door. Shamus' wife answers.
Sean: "Bad news, ma'am, Shamus lost $500 at poker tonight."
The wife becomes furious: "Tell that bastard to drop dead!"
Sean, walking away: "Consider it done, ma'am."
Posted on 4/26/17 at 11:01 am to RFK
Why yes, I did know that. I am also literate.
This post was edited on 4/26/17 at 11:02 am
Posted on 4/26/17 at 2:25 pm to Zach
Big difference between a Scots-Irish joke and a drunk Irish joke.
Scots-Irish ... we're mostly Southerners. Good folk.
Drunk Irish ... they're mostly potatoe eatin' yankees. Worst kind of sort.
Scots-Irish ... we're mostly Southerners. Good folk.
Drunk Irish ... they're mostly potatoe eatin' yankees. Worst kind of sort.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 2:48 pm to RFK
Did you go to college or graduate high school?
Posted on 4/26/17 at 2:55 pm to RFK
quote:
that's where they had the storm...George W Bush didn't do anything about that, did he?"
and that would be a lie.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 2:58 pm to RFK
My wife's grandfather was banned from Northern Ireland because of his "patriotism."
Posted on 4/26/17 at 5:07 pm to RFK
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No joke, I just didn't know. Why would I? I'm an American.
Dude, you should just burn this account. I will never be able to read a post from you without thinking about what a raging dumbass you are. Just start over.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 5:40 pm to OTIS2
She had Two Irelands? That's nothing. Tell her that YOU have Two Mommies.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 8:59 pm to RFK
quote:
Did you know there were two Irelands?
Yep. Seamus O'Edwards gave a lot of speeches about it.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 9:28 pm to SCLibertarian
Actually Brexit might do more for Irish reunification than anything before it.
The pathetic Scottish leadership wants a new independence referendum, thinking if the people vote for independence, the EU will accept them. But the EU has already said they don't want an independent Scotland. And now polls in Scotland are starting to tilt to pro-Brexit.
Ireland and NI fear the reestablishment of a "hard border" between them after Brexit. Unification would bring NI into Ireland and thus into the EU, thus eliminating the border entirely. I am all for it.
The pathetic Scottish leadership wants a new independence referendum, thinking if the people vote for independence, the EU will accept them. But the EU has already said they don't want an independent Scotland. And now polls in Scotland are starting to tilt to pro-Brexit.
Ireland and NI fear the reestablishment of a "hard border" between them after Brexit. Unification would bring NI into Ireland and thus into the EU, thus eliminating the border entirely. I am all for it.
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