lordhaha wrote:Fruitcake wrote:Ah yes...St Patricks day.
Yet another excuse for certain celtic races to get hammered, bemoan their lot in the world, generally make complete arses of themselves sit in circles crying over the old country while their wives slave over hot dinnes they demand with menaces, only for them to get home and fall into a drunken stupor on the couch.
Way to go.
Sounds like another case of jealousy from a person belonging to a country which has no knowledge of what it means to belong.
I.E.
National dish being a curry
A National Anthem that does not have any reference to their country
A country where in some cities they are the minority
As stated by Tyche a patron saint that was never in the country
A country where most people don't know what day is their national feast day or who the "Turk" is, for that matter.
Can't but feel sorry for you Fruity but as we are a happy bunch we would welcome you to the world wide party that is
St. Patrick's Day anyway
And as I fully expected some one jumps in without thinking something through and wondering if there wasn't just a touch of the kiddology.
In actual fact my Grandfather, on my maternal side, was Irish. He was the son of a pretty legendary IRA freedom fighter and poet, shot by the English. His Brother was also shot by the British, his wife killed during a raid on a safe house. My wife's Father had to leave Ireland when he was hunted by the occupying forces with a death sentence hanging over him during struggle for liberation. I am not, as you quaintly and incorrectly put it, belonging to another country, my English heritage is less than half, my greatest is Irish. I am justifiably proud of my heritage
I posted what I posted deliberately to see what the reaction would be and lookie lookie, just I predicted to myself there would be some one who would rear up. I am not jealous, how could I be? I know fully what it is to belong, my family history ensures that.
Your arrogance in assumption does you little favour. Your searching for denigration does you no favours at all. Then you wonder why the British look at the Irish with a patronising attitude.
