The Family Album - Page 852

Helvete · #**25531** 03-17-2009, 02:34 PM

Yeah whatever, plastic Paddies. My Brother in Law is an ACTUAL Irish-American (Born in IRELAND to IRISH parents, but grew up a majority of his life in New York, thus obtaining a US Passport).

None of this "ooh, me parent's neighbours dog is an Irish Wolfhound, which means I was practical born in Dublin"

Bob · #**25532** 03-17-2009, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Helvete

Yeah whatever, plastic Paddies. My Brother in Law is an ACTUAL Irish-American (Born in IRELAND to IRISH parents, but grew up a majority of his life in New York, thus obtaining a US Passport).

None of this "ooh, me parent's neighbours dog is an Irish Wolfhound, which means I was practical born in Dublin"

ooh, can i touch him?

Helvete · #**25533** 03-17-2009, 03:09 PM

NO FUCKING WAY! You fake Americans can't get any of that exclusiveness.

Just to remind you all, HE IS REAL IRISH!

ericlee · #**25534** 03-17-2009, 03:33 PM

I like House of Pain.

Helvete · #**25535** 03-17-2009, 04:02 PM

You're practically a leprachaun.

Planetary · #**25536** 03-17-2009, 04:08 PM

i had a pint of guinness today but only because it was £1.95

why does everyone want to be irish?

Bob · #**25537** 03-17-2009, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Planetary

i had a pint of guinness today but only because it was £1.95

why does everyone want to be irish?

seriously. it's all "oh no, all the potatoes are rotten, better cram into a boat and go to america so i can live in a slum and in stand in line at a factory all day hoping someone will hire me for a barely liveable wage so that i can work hard and put my grandkids in college so that someday they can get all haughty and say shit like 'my grandfather lived like shit for years until he could make enough money to get a home and support his family, why can't the black people and mexicans do it too?'"

stupid irish

checkyourprez · #**25538** 03-17-2009, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Planetary

i had a pint of guinness today but only because it was £1.95

why does everyone want to be irish?

no one really wants to be irish. 1 day is about it.

next year im thinking about making a shirt that says "St.Patrizio was Italian".

its like, do we all eat spanish rice and drink sangria on Columbus day because he sailed for spain? pffff. no.

beastiegirrl101 · #**25539** 03-17-2009, 05:12 PM

Everyone is Irish on St. Paddy's. I am FAR from Irish, but I still celebrate-ish.

Checkurprezzzzzzz- if you're Italian don't forget Thursday is St. Joseph's day!

checkyourprez · #**25540** 03-17-2009, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by beastiegirrl101

Everyone is Irish on St. Paddy's. I am FAR from Irish, but I still celebrate-ish.

Checkurprezzzzzzz- if you're Italian don't forget Thursday is St. Joseph's day!

whooot woooo st.joe in the hizzouse.

but what does one do for st.joseph's day?

Planetary · #**25541** 03-17-2009, 07:17 PM

I'm gonna go out and get really battered on Bombardier this St. George's day

Echewta · #**25542** 03-17-2009, 10:06 PM

LOL youareapeeners who think that Americans celebrate St. Paddy's Day as if it were a true blue Irish holiday to be Irish proud.

Bob · #**25543** 03-17-2009, 10:37 PM

we kind of do over here, actually

checkyourprez · #**25544** 03-17-2009, 10:47 PM

very few if any american holidays are truly celebrated by americans as they should be, imo.

a majority are celebrated by the majority as an excuse to excessively eat and drink.

camo · #**25545** 03-18-2009, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Planetary

I'm gonna go out and get really battered on Bombardier this St. George's day

Had a couple of bottles of that last night just to be an awkward cunt

Praying Mantis · #**25546** 03-18-2009, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by beastiegirrl101

Everyone is Irish on St. Paddy's. I am FAR from Irish, but I still celebrate-ish.

Checkurprezzzzzzz- if you're Italian don't forget Thursday is St. Joseph's day!

IM italian....St. Josephs Day is awesome. St. Josephs cakes are even better. I can't fake being Irish!!!!! Anyone want a St. Josephs cake...

AceFace · #**25547** 03-18-2009, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebasser

Also, lolz at United Statesians desperately clinging on to some sort of notion that despite the fact that their last ancestors travelled over from Europe 100 years ago, that deep down they are in fact 50% Irish.

i explained this to an english friend of mine once...

we Americans cling to our family heritage b/c we're displaced. we're not from here, unless we're native americans. we have this need to belong to somewhere else... at least i do. we have a need to know our heritage and where our family is truly from. i don't think the english or other europeans or whoever really understand that need b/c you know who your anscesors are. your mom is english and your dad is english. not in every case, of course, but mostly.

i know i'm mostly english/irish from my father and scottish from my mother with about 5 other things mixed in there.

camo · #**25548** 03-18-2009, 10:10 AM

Yeah but it's strange to us English folk (hardly any national pride) that you guys (shit loads of it) hold onto your tentative foreign heritage.

I mean look at the aussies, they're basically all from English origin but you try and find one who celebrates St Georges day. In fact that's pretty English in itself!

AceFace · #**25549** 03-18-2009, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by camo

Yeah but it's strange to us English folk (hardly any national pride) that you guys (shit loads of it) hold onto your tentative foreign heritage.

I mean look at the aussies, they're basically all from English origin but you try and find one who celebrates St Georges day. In fact that's pretty English in itself!

i can see how that seems strange, but that's def the way it is. hell i know an african american dude that's so proud of his very small ammount of irish heritage that he actually tells people he's irish decent. you should see the look on people's faces when he says that! haha.

camo · #**25550** 03-18-2009, 10:34 AM

You do know that there are black people from all over the world.

Echewta · #**25551** 03-18-2009, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by checkyourprez

a majority are celebrated by the majority as an excuse to excessively eat and drink.

We call that the weekend.

AceFace · #**25552** 03-18-2009, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by camo

You do know that there are black people from all over the world.

yes yes yes, i do know that. i'm not an idiot. but it's obvious his ancestors were from Africa mostly. that's all i was saying. i don't doubt at all that he has some Irish ancestry. it just throws people off at first.

don't make me look like a jerk! i'm not a jerk!

Nuzzolese · #**25553** 03-18-2009, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by AceFace

yes yes yes, i do know that. i'm not an idiot. but it's obvious his ancestors were from Africa mostly. that's all i was saying. i don't doubt at all that he has some Irish ancestry. it just throws people off at first.

don't make me look like a jerk! i'm not a jerk!

Jerk!

AceFace · #**25554** 03-18-2009, 12:51 PM

Dr. Jerkberg!

funk63 · #**25555** 03-18-2009, 01:07 PM

I'm American Indian. Everyone gee tee fuck out of my country. No, but really it annoys me when people who are like my great grandfather was half indian. They do it to sound more exotic and stuff but real indians are a rare breed, because most of them mixed and assimilated with the english way back, except for the ones on reservations or the ones who live in small ass towns. So I dont see the point. I'm half indian but I can pass as white, or mexican, when I have a tan.The reason people are allowed to have irish pride or black pride is because they didnt colonize people and stuff. So its like the more innocent your ancestors the more pride you can have? Idk.. I think having pride in something you have no control over is retarded.

jennyb · #**25556** 03-18-2009, 01:28 PM

The BBMB Luvvvve Connection!

...and neither of us are Irish nor did we celebrate yesterday ... (just tryin to roll with the convo

)

Lex Diamonds · #**25557** 03-18-2009, 01:52 PM

Seeing as I actually am St. Paddy I drank about 10 rounds of a pint of Guinness, a triple Bailey's and a whiskey each time. Then I ran out of money and drank a crate of Grolsch at some flat.

My stomach feels like a warzone today.

na§tee · #**25558** 03-18-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by camo

k at the aussies, they're basically all from English origin but you try and find one who celebrates St Georges day. In fact that's pretty English in itself!

i don't know a single english person who celebrates st georges day. it has bad, you know, NATIONAL FRONT connotations.

australians are a curious case, but i'm drinking beer at my desk surrounded by proofs and my eyes are bleeding looking at indesign all day, so i'm not gonna get in to it.

paddy i thought you didn't have any money? how'd you manage that? GUINNESS! i had some yesterday.. served to me by an australian, curiously enough. me: "how'd YOU get here?" him: "aeroplane"

b i o n i c · #**25559** 03-18-2009, 02:12 PM

did you know that ireland was populated by the galecians in spain (galicia) ? they were celtic tribes, look it up. most people would laugh that off, but its true. a lot of irish people might be irked at the thought of being part mexican

paul jones · #**25560** 03-18-2009, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jennygirl

The BBMB Luvvvve Connection!

...and neither of us are Irish nor did we celebrate yesterday ... (just tryin to roll with the convo

)

I bet you drank some coffee and posed for pictures though

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