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Excessive Happy Birthday !!! messages on Facebook. Such happy friendly people when they're online

rowan wrote:Excessive Happy Birthday !!! messages on Facebook. Such happy friendly people when they're online

People who go on about having 30 million 'friends' on Facebook/Twitter etc. You don't have any friends sad excuse for
a sentient lifeform just a load of other sad, lifeless barstewards who can't make real friends cos they have all the social
skills of an amoeba.

Also people who go on about 'chatting' on social media sites that have no webcamj/live feed option. You need to phyiscally
talk to someone to have a chat you morons

Pretentious neology - particularly of the American variety. How on earth does the alt-right differ to right wing, and how does alt-left different to left wing. It's like somebody looked at their keyboard, saw the alt button and thought, hey, this'll make me sound more intellectual

People who proudly boast about expensive technology equipment .



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* which probably none of you reading this can afford

Not picking on the Americans here per se but they are a generally the best example, claiming they are "Irish" or "Scottish" as they have a genetic link from many generations ago, but are unable to point to either country on a map and have certainly never been there (or owned a passport even).

AL. wrote:Not picking on the Americans here per se but they are a generally the best example, claiming they are "Irish" or "Scottish" as they have a genetic link from many generations ago, but are unable to point to either country on a map and have certainly never been there (or owned a passport even).

If you said the same about African~Americans no doubt someone would be screaming ' racist ' .

Discreet Hooker wrote:People who proudly boast about expensive technology equipment .



Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8 *




* which probably none of you reading this can afford

Good skills!

Sent from Scunthorpe by telegram.

AL. wrote:Not picking on the Americans here per se but they are a generally the best example, claiming they are "Irish" or "Scottish" as they have a genetic link from many generations ago, but are unable to point to either country on a map and have certainly never been there (or owned a passport even).

Did you ever wonder why, in a country with a population of 220-odd million, not one of 'em ever claimed to be English-American?

They must think you lot are a right bunch of cunts.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:

AL. wrote:Not picking on the Americans here per se but they are a generally the best example, claiming they are "Irish" or "Scottish" as they have a genetic link from many generations ago, but are unable to point to either country on a map and have certainly never been there (or owned a passport even).

Did you ever wonder why, in a country with a population of 220-odd million, not one of 'em ever claimed to be English-American?

They must think you lot are a right bunch of cunts.

An Irish lad I use to work with went over to Boston to link up with ' family' three or four generations down the USA line . They were apparently fond of claiming their Irish heritage but treated him badly taking the piss outa his accent and introducing him as Mick or bog trotter .Seems the claim of ' the ol' country ' suits so long as you don't meet up .

Btw , we just gave them the language which you might know they fked up completely .

I have done a good bit of traveling in the US and have yet to happen upon an Irish-American who has the first fecking clue about Ireland and us fucked-up clowns who live here.

There's a bar called the Roisin Dubh in Boston that prides itself on being the model of the Irish pub in the heart of Irish Boston. I was put out of there for arguing about the decor and suggesting that no Irish pub would ever hang photographs of Michael Collins and Dev together. This led to a mini-lecture on the Irish Civil War, which they refused to admit had ever taken place and that the whole sheebang was a British fabrication.

On another occasion I was in a bar in Charlestown in (West Virginia, rather than South Carolina) when they passed around the NORAID tin. I told them to stick it up their arses and that as an Irish soldier in a British Army that had fought alongside Americans in Iraq I took offence at them collecting to buy weapons for terrorists that would try to kill me. I got chatting to the bloke with the tin and he was quite convinced that the money was for the children in the internment camps and orphans. His name was Campbell and when I asked him how he would describe his ancestry he proudly boasted that he was Scotch-Irish. I then gave him a quick lesson in the Plantation and how, had his family stayed in Ireland, he would likely have been in the UDR. He was genuinely appalled; not at his lack of knowledge or understanding, but that if word got out he'd be fecked out of the local Hibernian Club!

The "Irish" thing is Boston is quite cringeworthy.

It's a self-justification issue, white Americans being burdened with a sense of guilt over the past, but the Irish being more synonymous with the suffering they endured under English tyranny. So if you're a white American, that means you stole the land, but if you're an Irish-American, that means you were forced to flee there as a victim.

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:I have done a good bit of traveling in the US and have yet to happen upon an Irish-American who has the first fecking clue about Ireland and us fucked-up clowns who live here.

There's a bar called the Roisin Dubh in Boston that prides itself on being the model of the Irish pub in the heart of Irish Boston. I was put out of there for arguing about the decor and suggesting that no Irish pub would ever hang photographs of Michael Collins and Dev together. This led to a mini-lecture on the Irish Civil War, which they refused to admit had ever taken place and that the whole sheebang was a British fabrication.

On another occasion I was in a bar in Charlestown in (West Virginia, rather than South Carolina) when they passed around the NORAID tin. I told them to stick it up their arses and that as an Irish soldier in a British Army that had fought alongside Americans in Iraq I took offence at them collecting to buy weapons for terrorists that would try to kill me. I got chatting to the bloke with the tin and he was quite convinced that the money was for the children in the internment camps and orphans. His name was Campbell and when I asked him how he would describe his ancestry he proudly boasted that he was Scotch-Irish. I then gave him a quick lesson in the Plantation and how, had his family stayed in Ireland, he would likely have been in the UDR. He was genuinely appalled; not at his lack of knowledge or understanding, but that if word got out he'd be fecked out of the local Hibernian Club!

Did you enjoy the old South? would you recommend a visit?

I wouldn't consider Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland Old South, but still very different from New England or Pennsylvania. Once you break into Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana and the parts of Florida that lay off the tourist-beaten trails it started to get a little weird. Put a toe in Mississippi and its Deliverance time.

I am a bit of an eejit for walking battlefields and the eastern US has plenty of them. You meet some utter nut jobs who spend their lives re-enacting their civil war and while most are harmless geeks, some are really quite dangerous. I met one bloke in Franklin, Tennessee who was so delighted that a real Paddy had come to worship (His word, not mine) at the place where Patrick Cleyburne was killed that he bought me dinner and fetched along his family to meet me. In the course of a decidedly uncomfortable evening I learned that he was the publisher of a journal called the Southern Heritage Press and his daughters were all in a society called Daughters of the Confederacy and were married in period costume, with the men all wearing Confederate uniform. The civil war - or the War of Southern Independence as he called it - was far from over for them.

I was also invited to leave a small emporium on the boundary of Shilo National Battlefield Park for daring to suggest, when asked, that Grant was the best general of the civil war by virtue of being in command of the army that won it.

Perhaps this should be on the America thread?

morepork wrote:The "Irish" thing is Boston is quite cringeworthy.

Still, without it we wouldn't have had The Departed or the Dropkick Murphy's.

morepork wrote:The "Irish" thing is Boston is quite cringeworthy.

I can tell you that many English/British naval personnel have been physically assaulted and verbally abused when in uniform in Boston . Perhaps if there are any x~navy lads on here who may have visited Boston , they could tell us of any instructions they received whilst on shore leave .

For some reason the Welsh don't figure. Maybe because they got the wrong America and ended up in Patagonia.

Or because nobody in america has never heard of it ...

When I came to Turkey nobody had never heard of Wales either, but since they played in the Euros every Turkish male has suddenly become an expert on the place. The women still don't have a clue where Galler is, however...

rowan wrote:Or because nobody in america has never heard of it ...

When I came to Turkey nobody had never heard of Wales either, but since they played in the Euros every Turkish male has suddenly become an expert on the place. The women still don't have a clue where Galler is, however...

Don't do no parking here.

welshsaint wrote:For some reason the Welsh don't figure. Maybe because they got the wrong America and ended up in Patagonia.

There are quite a few Welsh names in areas around Philadelphia, and I understand the Welsh were quite influential in the Quaker movement. Thoams Jefferson was apparently of Welsh descent.

morepork wrote:

welshsaint wrote:For some reason the Welsh don't figure. Maybe because they got the wrong America and ended up in Patagonia.

There are quite a few Welsh names in areas around Philadelphia, and I understand the Welsh were quite influential in the Quaker movement. Thoams Jefferson was apparently of Welsh descent.

Don't forget Donny Osmond...

George Bush & Dick Cheney, too. Are you sure you want us to continue with this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Welsh_Americans

Gavin Henson is from Orange County .

Jesse James and his brother Frank are in there. Well done, Wales!

ps I'm part-Welsh myself, before anyone accuses me of picking on the boyos...

rowan wrote:George Bush & Dick Cheney, too. Are you sure you want us to continue with this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Welsh_Americans

Anthony Hopkins is listed as an American with Welsh ancestry ffs.

The rest of the tenuous "distant Welsh ancestry" ones are just that, a load of American actors like to claim they have Welsh lineage for some reason, perhaps in desperation to disassociate themselves from the US.