so i learned a new slur on twitter.

[mopinko]

lol. enjoying the convos w the cousins across the pond. only a couple centered on whether i, personally, and ia’s in general, are actually irish.

1 was w a guy who called me a ‘plastic paddy’. and he hated us, cuz we funded the ira. then went on to display his own ignorance of the troubles.
also said that we came to america and stole the land from the natives.

dude is a uk wingnut, of course. went back and forth for a while, then he gave up.

but plastic paddy. i mean, i know who he means. but it aint me.

[marble falls]

1. Hadn't heard that one. It was certainly apt in the eighties what with the deadly joke of NorAid ...

... and such.

It's like what they said about Serbians during the Kosovo crisis - Serbs would do anything to keep Kosovo. Except live there.

[mopinko]

2. heard that 1 for the 1st time, too.

[multigraincracker]

3. I love druken Irish Pries jokes

An Irish priest is driving along a country road when a police man pulls him over. He immediately smells alcohol on the priest's breath and notices an empty wine bottle in the car.

He says: "Have you been drinking?"

"Just water," says the priest.

The cop replies: "Then why do I smell wine?"

The priest looks at the bottle and says: "Good Lord! He's done it again!"

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Bad news to give you.

In the nineties I spent several years on the Irish and British social groups. I participated and lurked to learn about cultures that always fascinated me. Every now and then an American right-winger would come along to break the fun banter in the groups, sounding like a crazy person. It was embarrassing.

Anyway, one of the things I did learn was that many of the Irish were confused about Irish Americans.The Irish were so protective of their culture that there were self-appointed mods who began to remove Irish-Americans from their group. It drove them insane when the IAs would come in with "Top of the mornin to you." And talk about corn beef, and anything that was born from Hollywood. It was not pretty. I eventually left. They kept me around because I was very good at puns and had a wicked retort. When they started a hall of fame, they included me, or my nom de plume. And they put a drag queen as my picture. Until then, I didn't realize that my assertiveness was coming across as masculine. I was okay with it.

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5. I was in Dublin for a few weeks and

made friends with a local that took me around. On the second day he gave me some great advice.
As we met people I would tell them I was an American and got a nice welcome. He then ask if I was familiar with Canada. Told him I live across the bridge from Windsor and knew it well. He suggested I say I was Canadian. I did and started get very warm greetings.

[mopinko]

6. it's been in interesting look at the dynamics of it all.

but i sure never heard that folks got off the coffin ships and took over the west.
maybe they believe the myths of america were true. they must, to imagine them having the power to push anyone anywhere, w rare exceptions.

found out after ole liz died that i knew more about irish history than a lot of the irish tweeters.

found this lil rant very interesting.

Link to tweet