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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| ManintheMiddle wrote: |
| I'd never peg you as Irish, not by a long shot. |
How does one go about pegging one as Irish?
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| And since you're the OP who began this little escapade, I think I have every reason to fire back. |
So now I am OTOH's sock?  |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
Correction...
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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? |
Sorry...? Did I hear a septic mumbling something...? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I think "bad bird" better suits you, you know. Bad, bad bird. Now go to your cage and sing something nice to us for a change or we will give you to a big cat and watch him eat you... |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Meanwhile, the British stocked the lifeboats, and, of course, built and captained the ship... |
..... which was American owned .... |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| I think "bad bird" better suits you, you know. Bad, bad bird. Now go to your cage and sing something nice to us for a change or we will give you to a big cat and watch him eat you... |
Tehehe
If it's a nasty American kitty, I shall swipe him with my feathery claws...  |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
How does one go about pegging one as Irish?
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Eating a spud and flemming on unsuspecting passerbys as well an gingerism are the normal signs. Gingerism is also a scottish trait, so the only way to differentiate between us and the scots, is to get within a two feet. If he headbutts you, he is scottish. |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
How does one go about pegging one as Irish?
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Eating a spud and flemming on unsuspecting passerbys as well an gingerism are the normal signs. Gingerism is also a scottish trait, so the only way to differentiate between us and the scots, is to get within a two feet. If he headbutts you, he is scottish. |
Also, friendliness. 'This is a friendly warning, stay out of the city centre this weekend'. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| rusty1983 wrote: |
| JMO wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
How does one go about pegging one as Irish?
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Eating a spud and flemming on unsuspecting passerbys as well an gingerism are the normal signs. Gingerism is also a scottish trait, so the only way to differentiate between us and the scots, is to get within a two feet. If he headbutts you, he is scottish. |
Also, friendliness. 'This is a friendly warning, stay out of the city centre this weekend'. |
LOL (applies to both posts).
Funny, we've got the gingerism going on down the English side, but the Irish side brings dark curls (my dad's of Irish Fenian stock and had jet black hair - blacker than almost any Korean I ever met). And dad passed onto me his green Irish eyes.  |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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Do Brits anatomically have 'stiff upper lips'? Are American upper lips more mushy?
This could explain why Americans love making out. |
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JMO
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I see that in west donegal quite a bit. Irish people with dark hair and non freckely sallow skin. |
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Thewhiteyalbum
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| It's funny how Yanks take offence at being called Yanks. No-one cares whether you are from the north or south, you are just a bloody Yank. like Poms are Poms, Aussies are Aussies, South Africans are Saffa's and kiwi's are sheep shaggers. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Thewhiteyalbum wrote: |
| It's funny how Yanks take offence at being called Yanks. |
Doesn't bother me one iota. Maybe you should say 'some' Yanks get peturbed (sp?). Shit, our most famous baseball team (besides the Boston Red Sox  ) is called the f'in NY Yankees. |
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Thewhiteyalbum
Joined: 13 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| Thewhiteyalbum wrote: |
| It's funny how Yanks take offence at being called Yanks. |
Doesn't bother me one iota. Maybe you should say 'some' Yanks get peturbed (sp?). Shit, our most famous baseball team (besides the Boston Red Sox ) is called the f'in NY Yankees. |
Sorry. some Yanks get a little riled up. At times. Occasionally.  |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Classified
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| 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. |
Yes, that's right, because the British have historically set a shining example of how to treat others.
Gandhi-gi! Gandhi-gi!
Jerk. |
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zipperhead2
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| GOD DAMN THE CALIFORNIA!!! God bless the Carpathia!! |
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