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curiousaboutkorea
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
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| Too bad. In British slang a yank is simply an American, and nobody gives a toss if you are from New York or Phoenix or Florida. You are simply a yank. Or, a septic (tank). |
Would you like to be called a Limey or Pom? How about Redneck?
Your attitude of "I'll call you what I want, so stop bitching" is infantile. The only septic tank around here seems to be your keyboard, spewing out crap all over these boards. |
Nothing is more dull than the distant whine of an indignant septic... |
Remind me, who took a $h!+ on who for two wars and then tell me who the septics are... |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| curiousaboutkorea wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| Guri Guy wrote: |
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| Too bad. In British slang a yank is simply an American, and nobody gives a toss if you are from New York or Phoenix or Florida. You are simply a yank. Or, a septic (tank). |
Would you like to be called a Limey or Pom? How about Redneck?
Your attitude of "I'll call you what I want, so stop bitching" is infantile. The only septic tank around here seems to be your keyboard, spewing out crap all over these boards. |
Nothing is more dull than the distant whine of an indignant septic... |
Remind me, who took a $h!+ on who for two wars and then tell me who the septics are... |
Oh look, another one of those septics that would have run and pushed his way to the front of the queue. Tut tut! |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Big Bird:
Still haven't address my reply about the Irish in steerage?
How typically British of you.
Septic tanks...hmm...now would that be a code word for British food? |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Sorry to burst your bubble but I am not even American. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| curiousaboutkorea wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| Guri Guy wrote: |
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| Too bad. In British slang a yank is simply an American, and nobody gives a toss if you are from New York or Phoenix or Florida. You are simply a yank. Or, a septic (tank). |
Would you like to be called a Limey or Pom? How about Redneck?
Your attitude of "I'll call you what I want, so stop bitching" is infantile. The only septic tank around here seems to be your keyboard, spewing out crap all over these boards. |
Nothing is more dull than the distant whine of an indignant septic... |
Remind me, who took a $h!+ on who for two wars and then tell me who the septics are... |
Oh look, another one of those septics that would have run and pushed his way to the front of the queue. Tut tut! |
Americans don't push and shove. No, we wait calmly in our cars in the fast food lane to purchase our supersized Big Mac value meals.
Down with negative stereotypes! |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| ManintheMiddle wrote: |
Big Bird:
Still haven't address my reply about the Irish in steerage?
How typically British of you.
Septic tanks...hmm...now would that be a code word for British food? |
Genetically I'm as Irish as I am English, and while some of my forbears may have had reason to resent the British, I don't think an American can harp on about class systems and racism given their own disgraceful history. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Irish in the steerage? That's progress. 60 years before that the Irish were going to the states in coffin ships.
Now we go on planes and have to listen to eejits who think they are Irish, because their great grandmother once ate a spud. |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| The only possible conclusion that one can draw from this is that all British people are 100 percent the superiors of all Americans. In fact, it would also seem to suggest that British people are practically incapable of doing anything wrong. |
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ED209
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| The Irish were British back then, weren't they? And so were Americans 140 years before that. I hope this settles the debate. |
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it's full of stars
Joined: 26 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
Irish in the steerage? That's progress. 60 years before that the Irish were going to the states in coffin ships.
Now we go on planes and have to listen to eejits who think they are Irish, because their great grandmother once ate a spud. |
Lol. I met a guy in an lift (elevator) in New Jersey, who told me his dog was Irish  . Didn't feel like asking him what that meant.
Some other guys in a bar in Syracuse said I was their ancestor, but they bought me a couple of beers  . Thanks guys. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| it's full of stars wrote: |
| JMO wrote: |
Irish in the steerage? That's progress. 60 years before that the Irish were going to the states in coffin ships.
Now we go on planes and have to listen to eejits who think they are Irish, because their great grandmother once ate a spud. |
Lol. I met a guy in an lift (elevator) in New Jersey, who told me his dog was Irish . Didn't feel like asking him what that meant.
Some other guys in a bar in Syracuse said I was their ancestor, but they bought me a couple of beers . Thanks guys. |
maybe an Irish wolfhound? an Irish setter? an Irish spaniel? an Irish terrier? |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Genetically I'm as Irish as I am English, and while some of my forbears may have had reason to resent the British, I don't think an American can harp on about class systems and racism given their own disgraceful history. |
I'd never peg you as Irish, not by a long shot. And since you're the OP who began this little escapade, I think I have every reason to fire back.
Oh, and let's not forget that the British were at this genocidal game with the Irish for four centuries or more and also in India.
And it wasn't the entire U.S. that was involved in slavery and then Jim Crow, need I point out. And I do believe it was on European ships that the slaves first started arriving in the colonies. |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| it's full of stars wrote: |
| JMO wrote: |
Irish in the steerage? That's progress. 60 years before that the Irish were going to the states in coffin ships.
Now we go on planes and have to listen to eejits who think they are Irish, because their great grandmother once ate a spud. |
Lol. I met a guy in an lift (elevator) in New Jersey, who told me his dog was Irish . Didn't feel like asking him what that meant.
Some other guys in a bar in Syracuse said I was their ancestor, but they bought me a couple of beers . Thanks guys. |
That does my head in too, the way everybody in the world has an Irish relative and is therefore Irish. Why would you want to boast about such a thing? Id be covering it up. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| And I do believe it was on [Western] European ships that the [African] slaves first started arriving [to work for Western European, especially British, interests] in [Western Europe's] colonies [in North America and the Caribbean, as far as this discussion is concerned]. |
We all, collectively speaking, can look back upon shameful histories, Big_Bird. Are we no more than this? |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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| ESL Milk "Everyday wrote: |
| The only possible conclusion that one can draw from this is that all British people are 100 percent the superiors of all Americans. In fact, it would also seem to suggest that British people are practically incapable of doing anything wrong. |
No, the idea of this story is to tell everyone how much we love queues in England. We really really love a good queue. Queues are everywhere and to imagine not having to queue for anything would be terrifying to a proper Englishman.
You just cant beat a good, long queue. |
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