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05-23-2008, 09:27 AM
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The lack of the Irish
It occurs to me, in the many English-language forums I have participated in, that there are loads of people from the States, from Australia, from Britain, even Scotland, even from Asia and Europe . . . but almost never from Ireland. In fact, I don't recall any. I wonder why? They speak English there, don't they? Are there any Cellardwellars from Ireland?
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05-23-2008, 09:37 AM
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Yes, but not vocal.
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05-23-2008, 10:02 AM
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They're busy drinking in the pubs, tending sheep and making love.
oh and I am of Irish decent....and native american. There isn't any of those either. I can't tell you where they're drinking or if they have anything do do with sheep since they built the casino. ( joke) I am not as dumb as I sound....well maybe a little but in a spry way. |
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02-18-2009, 03:32 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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 Only 1/16...legal enough but not like I know the way of the people or anything. 
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05-23-2008, 10:14 AM
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The Irish can't make it online, because they are too busy talking the hind leg off a donkey somewhere. You can't stop them once they've started.
(Yes, I am from an Irish family, so I am allowed to say that). Seriously - it has a much smaller population than the UK - approx 4 million vs 60 million - so maybe it's just a numbers thing.
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05-23-2008, 11:20 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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Should also mention I'm about as Irish as the day is long.
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05-23-2008, 10:14 AM
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I'm Irish and I think Sundae is, too.
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05-23-2008, 10:15 AM
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Slattern of the Swail
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jinx!
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02-18-2009, 06:04 PM
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I'm irish though...on both sides. I think the reason you don't see them is because the Irish are too fucking cheap or poor to buy computers.
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02-19-2009, 01:24 PM
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I'm also Irish on both sides, and you may have had a point a few years ago, but in the last 5-6 years the economy in Ireland has taken off. They have a lot of high tech jobs. A lot of call center stuff from America goes there. They're working, or at the pub for the most part. It used to be that half of Ireland was on the dole and the other half was working to pay for it.
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02-19-2009, 03:02 PM
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And even when the dole was introduced, it was not a national trait that half the country just couldn't be arsed to work. My best friend from the age of 13+ was Irish, and her Da moved the family to England to get a better life for them. I had two work colleagues with Irish mums - one who escaped the Troubles at the last second with a mob at her heels because she was pregnant to a Catholic (they reunited in England) and another who was shipped to Manchester by her family at the age of 14 to get a job in a factory. I know a fair amount of Irish history. Being a typical mongrel, I'm too English to take the Fuck the English stance that you do, but I'm happy enough to stand up for the country some of my ancestors grew up in. Cite. Please.
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02-19-2009, 03:43 PM
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02-19-2009, 06:46 PM
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I'm talking about the 80s, 90s, through about 2002 not 80 to a hundred years ago and nothing I've said is derogatory towards Ireland. That's just the way it was.
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05-23-2008, 12:01 PM
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What about kiwis? We've got a buncha aussies, where're all the new zealanders?
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05-23-2008, 12:09 PM
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Just checked and NZ has approx the same population as Eire.
There you go then, under say 5 million and they slip under the radar (note, not the Radar). We did have a Kiwi, once.
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