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Seeing "Irish-American" people on TV/video/ and even meeting people identifying as "Irish-American" in pubs & bars etc is really starting to piss me off. I will never understand why someone who wasn't born in Ireland, has likely never even visited Ireland and only has a direct relation from that country, some bloody six or seven generations back BUT insists on identifying to an almost psychotic level with that country, WTF? When I have visited America and been into Irish bars, I have been in some sticky situations with over-identified Irish-Americans going ape-poo poo, threatening violence for me being British (I am half Irish) and for pointing out their hypocrisies and total lack of understanding of what they want to believe is their culture. Walking into an "Irish-American" bar is like watching the blackest of black comedies with so-called "Irish" whiskey named "Black and Tan" (no doubt purchased and drunk completely unironically right?) I nearly poo poo myself when I saw it and the "Irish-American" dickheads drinking "Irish Car Bombs" thinking it's something that flies back in the old country. Someone seriously needs to make a comedy sketch about "Irish Americans" having drinks to drown their sorrows after the Boston bombing, and ordering "Irish car bombs" when they get to the bar.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:11
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I too dislike people from new england.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:15
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tu-ra loo-ra loo-ra op
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Nov 12, 2016 16:17
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Kelly is a girls name you loving weirdos.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:19
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I'm technically Irish-American and yeah, our 'culture' is pretty embarrassing. Also, I wouldn't give a poo poo if Ireland just sank into the Atlantic.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:20
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StuG Jeebus posted:I'm technically Irish-American and yeah, our 'culture' is pretty embarrassing. Also, I wouldn't give a poo poo if Ireland just sank into the Atlantic. You idiots use Paddy's day for a piss-up which bothers me on so many levels because it's not an Independence day celebration. It's a Saint's Day celebration that has been co-opted as Ireland's national day which just furthers you "Irish-American" wankers notion that to be Irish is to be Catholic. Hell no, you American's can gently caress off with that idea. Pancake day here is not Shrove's Tuesday anymore, It's just a day when everybody gets over excited about pancakes, and upsets the French by putting lemon juice on them.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:27
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I knew a guy whose mom was adopted by an American-Irish family (second generation immigrants, I guess they had some Family in Ireland). This guy literally said he was blood Irish and changed his name to Seamus. It really irritated me and I always was like, you're not Irish, you moron, while he would wear green and get wasted with "pride" on St Patrick's day.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:32
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i don't give a gently caress about fake irish people
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Nov 12, 2016 16:34
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why stop at the irish? if i had a dollar for every person desperately trying to cling to any shred of non-american culture. it's so loving sad and embarrassing to see clearly whitewashed latinos try to speak spanish to appeal to me. i'm literally shuddering just thinking about
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Nov 12, 2016 16:37
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Ignore Me posted:You idiots use Paddy's day for a piss-up which bothers me on so many levels because it's not an Independence day celebration. It's a Saint's Day celebration that has been co-opted as Ireland's national day which just furthers you "Irish-American" wankers notion that to be Irish is to be Catholic. Hell no, you American's can gently caress off with that idea. Pancake day here is not Shrove's Tuesday anymore, It's just a day when everybody gets over excited about pancakes, and upsets the French by putting lemon juice on them. To be Irish is to be Catholic you fuckin orangie
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Nov 12, 2016 16:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaz7OqyTHQ
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Nov 12, 2016 16:40
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Ignore Me posted:You idiots use Paddy's day for a piss-up which bothers me on so many levels because Welcome to America! Now sure if you've noticed but we do the same for Cinco De Mayo when we drink into a stupor of corona beer and margaritas while wearing sombreros, we do the same on our own independence day where we dress in flags and shout USA while pounding back budweiser. Halloween used to be a sacred time but now we use it as an excuse to wear silly costumes and drink ourselves into a stupor. St. Patricks day? Wear green and shamrocks, and drink yourself into a stupor. The birth of the lord and savior Jesus Christ? Wear a tacky sweater and drink yourself into a stupor! We're a country of immigrants who came together with one thing in common - we like to play dress up and get loving trashed together, and we don't take it seriously, and neither should you.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:40
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935 posted:Welcome to America! Now sure if you've noticed but we do the same for Cinco De Mayo when we drink into a stupor of corona beer and margaritas while wearing sombreros, we do the same on our own independence day where we dress in flags and shout USA while pounding back budweiser. Halloween used to be a sacred time but now we use it as an excuse to wear silly costumes and drink ourselves into a stupor. St. Patricks day? Wear green and shamrocks, and drink yourself into a stupor. The birth of the lord and savior Jesus Christ? Wear a tacky sweater and drink yourself into a stupor! We're a country of immigrants who came together with one thing in common - we like to play dress up and get loving trashed together, and we don't take it seriously, and neither should you.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:41
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Senor Dog posted:To be Irish is to be Catholic you fuckin orangie Whats wrong with being Ulster Protestant?
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Nov 12, 2016 16:42
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Basically if you were an immigrant (forced or otherwise) who came to America after another group got here first, you were persecuted by the earlier immigrant groups and that fed into bullshit identity politics quite nicely. Toss that in with capitalist marketing of holidays and you get insufferable people today. hth
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Nov 12, 2016 16:43
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fake Irish > real English
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Nov 12, 2016 16:45
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935 posted:Welcome to America! Now sure if you've noticed but we do the same for Cinco De Mayo when we drink into a stupor of corona beer and margaritas while wearing sombreros, we do the same on our own independence day where we dress in flags and shout USA while pounding back budweiser. Halloween used to be a sacred time but now we use it as an excuse to wear silly costumes and drink ourselves into a stupor. St. Patricks day? Wear green and shamrocks, and drink yourself into a stupor. The birth of the lord and savior Jesus Christ? Wear a tacky sweater and drink yourself into a stupor! We're a country of immigrants who came together with one thing in common - we like to play dress up and get loving trashed together, and we don't take it seriously, and neither should you. when I visit the States no "Irish-Americans" there I meet really (outside a few nutcases) give a poo poo about whats happening in Ireland, about sectarian differences or Papist plots or Jewish cabals or whatever they just want to get poo poo-face drunk in their made-up Irish fantasy. Also all the "Irish-Americans" I met wanted gay people excluded from Paddy's day celebrations which is ironic really for an event that symbolizes the acceptance of a hated minority. You couldn't make it up.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:46
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My only wish is to retake Jerusalem for Christendom. I am Templar-American!
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Nov 12, 2016 16:51
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I steal marshmallows from children, I'm a victim of racial expectations
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Nov 12, 2016 16:52
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Also I end every sentence by yelling "DEUS VULT" at the top of my lungs. Heritage not Hate, imho!
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Nov 12, 2016 16:53
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There are more Irish Americans than there are Irish. Really makes you think who's copying who.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:54
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Ignore Me posted:when I visit the States no "Irish-Americans" there I meet really (outside a few nutcases) give a poo poo about whats happening in Ireland, about sectarian differences or Papist plots or Jewish cabals or whatever they just want to get poo poo-face drunk in their made-up Irish fantasy. have you considered that getting stupid drunk and being an idiot in the streets is simply a better way to enjoy life than somberly reflecting on sectarian differences or paying attention to modern Irish politics? you may have invented Irish culture but we perfected it
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Nov 12, 2016 17:00
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Earwicker posted:have you considered that getting stupid drunk and being an idiot in the streets is simply a better way to enjoy life than somberly reflecting on sectarian differences or paying attention to modern Irish politics? Your actually defending the Paddy Macshitstains who use Irish heritage for the sole purpose of going to pubs and bars to get drunk and stupid?
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Nov 12, 2016 17:05
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Yes, are you a teetotaler or somethin bub
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Nov 12, 2016 17:07
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Ignore Me posted:Your actually defending the Paddy Macshitstains who use Irish heritage for the sole purpose of going to pubs and bars to get drunk and stupid? thats what most of our holidays are for. if you want to sit on a soggy island thinking about the pope thats cool I guess but its not a superior version of Irishness its just older
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Nov 12, 2016 17:16
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I went on a trip to Ireland once with someone who wanted to be there for their birthday and researched where his namesake came from. When we were. there he would tell people this and they would laugh him out of the bar every time. He also had no concept of any Irish history at all learning about the famine, troubles, titanic, recession, etc.. as we traveled around. It was as though he just wanted to identify as an oppressed people instead of a rich white American that he was.
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Nov 12, 2016 17:18
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Yeah. Both my parents have Irish last names, I have an Irish first name, and if my parents had mailed the embassy I could have had EU membership but I've never cared about Ireland other than seeing it as a distant relative and I've always thought the US caricatures as tacky. Then again, a we do a lot of tacky things in the US. I do understand why there are people who are desperate to identify with some kind of deeper cultural roots and I can't blame them for that, even if I think the way they go about it is gauche.
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Nov 12, 2016 17:41
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Budget Dracula posted:I went on a trip to Ireland once with someone who wanted to be there for their birthday and researched where his namesake came from. When we were. there he would tell people this and they would laugh him out of the bar every time. He also had no concept of any Irish history at all learning about the famine, troubles, titanic, recession, etc.. as we traveled around. It was as though he just wanted to identify as an oppressed people instead of a rich white American that he was. I did some work there for the department of welfare and the Irish are dicks but it was fun. Who knows if it's real or not, they're like "gently caress you prick" it's the Boston of Europe.
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Nov 12, 2016 17:45
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getting drunk is cool
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Nov 12, 2016 17:50
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Nov 12, 2016 17:51
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why are you so consumed with hate and anger? just for yourself, in your own life. you're going to die and it's not a productive way to spend what time you have left.
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Nov 12, 2016 17:51
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I'm a Bostonian, and although I was adopted and have an Italian surname, my biological father was an immigrant from Ireland in the '50s, so I'm kinda hosed up like that... The South Shore of Boston is horrible - all the two-toilet Irish from Southie and Dorchester that got rich in the trades or other union jobs hosed off to Hingham, Cohasset and the Cape, and they and their progeny are insufferable with their racist clan (as opposed to Klan) bullshit. It's like March of the Boyos, they're like a loving green plague down there.
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Nov 12, 2016 18:03
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Everyone knows that True Irishness involves dressing like you're from 1995, keeping a malnourished horse in your garage and living in terror of the various pinch-mouthed old harridans that play their weird political games around the local Catholic church. And then your sister gets pregnant out of wedlock and your granny keeps putting on Daniel O'Donnell albums.
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Nov 12, 2016 18:12
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Nov 12, 2016 18:12
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Your first-foot at New Year's is a Protestant. You welcome him in cause it's the spirit of the season, but conversation is stilted and there's palpable tension when he puts his glass on the table without a coaster.
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Nov 12, 2016 18:17
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The Irish bars of my youth were not full of Begosh and Begorra bullshit. They were places dads went to drink Hamm's (it was cheapest), watch the Pats lose and avoid Puerto Ricans.
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Nov 12, 2016 18:36
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Yes, people water down their culture and forget about the stupid poo poo going on in the terrible places their ancestors escaped from. See also: Italian Americans - that's-a spicy meatball. Unrecognizable to real Italians. And also they're all siciliano Jewish Americans - made up a new religion called Reform Judaism which is basically Protestant Christianity minus Jesus. German Americans - woo beer, Oktoberfest, and white power. African Americans - well, can't really blame them for this one, although all attempts to get back to their roots have been comically out of touch with what Africa is. Now we have made up names and kwanza. Canadian Americans - don't even end every question with "eh" anymore.
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Nov 12, 2016 18:43
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Melt it all down and skim the slag.
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Nov 12, 2016 18:46
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A new and revolutionary perspective op
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Nov 12, 2016 18:50
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I come from a long line of poor Irish drunks but I don't particularly give a poo poo about which patch of dirt my ancestors originated from.
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