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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by TruBrit
(Post 4443604)
but peeps do that here all the time so i've noticed...i've never met anyone who's said they are american without adding that they are 1/4 english 1/4 irish etc etc :confused:
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
For gods sake, some of you need to remove the rod from your rectum, have a green beer (although I prefer mine stout and untinted)and relax.
I know if some country had a day of celebration where "everyone was an American" (I know, hell would freeze:rofl: ) I would take it as a bit of a compliment. And as for people claiming various ancestries, that is a part of culture that I'm not sure I can explain without a little more time to think about it. It is sad that some get offended though. |
Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 4445895)
. And as for people claiming various ancestries, that is a part of culture that I'm not sure I can explain without a little more time to think about it. It is sad that some get offended though.
It isn't offensive, it is just, well a bit odd to say the least. It is one thing to mention heritage but claiming a nationality is another thing. My hertiage goes back to Norway and Scotland but I am not Norwegian or Scottish. Are you telling me if you visited or lived in africa, russia, ireland, france, or whatever and someone told you they were american it wouldn't come across as strange? |
Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by spuggy
(Post 4445926)
It isn't offensive, it is just, well a bit odd to say the least. It is one thing to mention heritage but claiming a nationality is another thing. My hertiage goes back to Norway and Scotland but I am not Norwegian or Scottish. Are you telling me if you visited or lived in africa, russia, ireland, france, or whatever and someone told you they were american it wouldn't come across as strange?
Everyone in the U.S. either came from somewhere else themselves or is descended from immigrants. It's what links us, we all came from somwhere else at some point. I knew this would be difficult to explain! |
Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 4446023)
I would guess that most aren't trying to claim an actual nationality but as you say, a heritage. In common conversation someone might say"I'm half Italian, half Irish."
Everyone in the U.S. either came from somewhere else themselves or is descended from immigrants. It's what links us, we all came from somwhere else at some point. I knew this would be difficult to explain! well can't stay and play, have work to do, time to quit being amused on the net, swirch off and tune out. see ya later. |
Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
[QUOTE=spuggy;4446043]Someone saying they have irish or part irish heritage is vastly different than claiming a nationality and you know it./QUOTE]
Of course! If someone is claiming to actually be Irish or anything else and not was not born in that country but perhaps has never even been there then that person has a screw loose. |
Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by Tbag
(Post 4443719)
That is so true and actually a bit of a pet peeve of mine! :)
I still try not to give a really vague, here we go again look, when someone tells me how there family is British Irish etc..... and when you ask where from? It's usually a story of how they traced back the family tree to Uk descent. I suppose I should be pleased at there wanting to be little bit Euro, but it get's so old after years and years of it :rolleyes: |
Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 4446593)
Bloke came to our house a couple of years ago to give us a quote for new windows. After talking to him for about two minutes and noticing his broad NJ accent he then said to me "hey, are you English? I'm English too!" I then asked him which part of England he was from and he replied "oh, I've never been there, I'm Jersey born and raised, but one of my grandfathers was born in England". Then he gave me his business card and his name was something like "Vito Spaghettini". Well, I thought, you can't get more anglo saxon than that.
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by britvic
(Post 4446782)
Twat :rolleyes: the patter these sales men come out with :sneaky: did you get your windows off him then ?
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by elfman
(Post 4446804)
er no, we went with Pella. It also didn't help that virtually the first thing he said to me was "this is a cute neighbourhood - I've lived my whole life in this area and never even heard of this place". oookaay
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by Molly Malone
(Post 4443721)
Posted by Silly Sod thinking I was using my account rather than Mrs SIlly Sods. This could happen a lot.
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by Maz
(Post 4447588)
Download Firefox and log in to IE and Firefox under the two different names (one name for each browser, I mean). Then you just have to remember which browser to open, to post under which name. Simple really. :p
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by Molly Malone
(Post 4447828)
Ooh, great idea! Right now we're just reminding each other to log out before we close the browser window. But it's easy to forget to!
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Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 4446023)
I would guess that most aren't trying to claim an actual nationality but as you say, a heritage. In common conversation someone might say"I'm half Italian, half Irish." Of course they are going to look confused when you ask what town in Ireland, their descendants probably came over at the time of the potato famine! What they mean is their ancestors are Italian and Irish. It's so common to be mixture of many "nationalities" here that people have just shortened it to "I'm xxx." Instead of "My ancestors emigrated from xxx." It's just kind of taken for granted that that's the case.
Everyone in the U.S. either came from somewhere else themselves or is descended from immigrants. It's what links us, we all came from somwhere else at some point. I knew this would be difficult to explain! It seems to me that Americans can never be truly american until they drop the Irish, German, English, Scottish or whatever from before the word american. You can't be two things guys. You are either american or you are not. Nobody in the Uk says - I am scots english, I am african english, I am welsh scots and so forth (though americans living there might claim to be Irish American English ha ha). Anyway, I guess it is harmless. I just don't like Shamrock dish cloths or the sight of people wearing Guinness hoodies when they would gag at even a sip of the lovely black stuff. Bleedin bloody bollox - I have done it again. sorry. Silly Sod. Such a silly sod!!!! |
Re: Dreading my first Paddys Day
Originally Posted by cpe111
(Post 4443022)
Saint Patrick was Welsh anyway.
Cymru am byth |
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