You know you've been in the US too long when...
Nov 27th 2013, 1:48 am
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
The average America Scots-Irish seem to see themselves as Irish and certainly not British, they seem to have been morphed into Irish.
Nov 27th 2013, 10:50 am
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Nov 27th 2013, 12:01 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
You know you've been in the U.S. too long when you begin to panic that you might not be able to get out.
Nov 27th 2013, 12:36 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Yes this! And the overt hostility towards the English and a strange reluctance to move on. I've actually had Oirish Mercans brag about their great granddads involvement in the IRA...and not realizing how offensive they're being. I feel I can say that as my Mother is Scottish with her mum coming from Donegal.
Nov 27th 2013, 12:54 pm
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Nov 27th 2013, 1:57 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Yes this! And the overt hostility towards the English and a strange reluctance to move on. I've actually had Oirish Mercans brag about their great granddads involvement in the IRA...and not realizing how offensive they're being. I feel I can say that as my Mother is Scottish with her mum coming from Donegal.
Side note, a bit hypercritical, since conversely she is proud of her Mayflower roots.After all, we are pretty much mutts here.
Nov 27th 2013, 2:12 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Nov 27th 2013, 2:20 pm
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Nov 27th 2013, 3:12 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
My neighbor who has an Irish surname has been continually harping on the English/Irish thing for the last 10 years, starting with DH's arrival here. I finally spoke up last week when she made another crack about his Englishness to remind her, that HIS mother had an Irish surname and I was frankly sick of the sniping and to let it go. Side note, a bit hypercritical, since conversely she is proud of her Mayflower roots.
After all, we are pretty much mutts here.
Side note, a bit hypercritical, since conversely she is proud of her Mayflower roots.After all, we are pretty much mutts here.
Anyhow I was in Chicago waiting at an "L” station abnd this guy came up and started talking too me and mentioned his parents were from Kilkenny he then asked my weather I said Derry or Londonderry. I dodged the question by saying it depends who I'm talking too, theb he said ”well I say Derry& and walked off. That is the only type of Irish American type jibe I have had so far, but the I live in Texas, most of the plastic paddies live in the North East or in the likes of Chicgo they never really ventured South.
Nov 27th 2013, 3:17 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Nov 27th 2013, 4:13 pm
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Nov 27th 2013, 4:33 pm
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
You know you've been here to long when an English accent on TV/radio sounds really harsh and chavvy...
