Why do some people have to be Irish?

And why do these "Irishman" feel the need to fill the lounge with their silly, worthless threads? :shrug::silly:

Those who are Irish and those who wish they were!

:toast: to all the Irish!

LOL

Oi'd hov t'seh yer roight aboot thot! Batt'm th'ofternoon, t'ye.

:toast:

...such huge heads? (Conan O'Brien's joke - sorry if I offended my fellow Hibernians ;))

I'd have thought that was obvious.

I'd have thought that was obvious.

On edit - Clearly I could use a little more capacity myself.

...you posted it twice! :D

:evilgrin:
You see outperforming the Germans in beer consumption is no small feat. And certainly none for small heads.

right after I opened my 2nd beer! :beer:

n/t

and we're smart and clever. Funny though, about 100 years ago the Irish were the smut of America and were discriminated against. Now the discrimated are the discriminators, i.e., No gays will march in OUR parade, no war protesters either.

So the Irish would never rule the world, of course!

(strong Irish heritage-I'm allowed to poke fun)

because the Irish had stopped drinking."

I took history of Modern Ireland last semester. My prof. (Irish as all hell...we mostly talked about Guinness) liked to point out that the British always knew when the Irish were planning something big, because they would stop drinking (or at least as much as the Irish standard calls for).

What a nasty thing to say - isn't the lounge an open forum to say what we want?
I see many things out there I don't like or care to participate in but I wouldn't post something cruel to hurt their feelings.
I guess that's the difference between this "Irishman" and you.

:shrug: :mean spirited

Finnfan is obviously joking. I'm as Irish as you (probably more so) and I got the joke...

I was hoping that the message in the body of my post would indicate that I was talking about myself. I certainly didn't mean to offend.

but I will take your word no offense intended. I guess such things are a little "close to the bone" for me as my parents were subjected to those "Irish need not apply" ads when they first emigrated. As a result, my dad had to take work that was far beneath his skill level in order to support a family. I know this isn't an unusual story for immigrants but I do tend to be a little defensive on the subject. Sometimes it seems like the Irish are the only ethnic group left that its "ok" to mock and deride with all the drunken "jokes" etc. In fact if you look up "Irish jokes" on the net -that's all you will find are stupid stereotypical "Pat and Mike" jokes. Not funny.

husband would say: "Catch yerself on, will ya". The Irish have been making jokes about themselves for centuries. It's part of the culture.

:hug:

My Irish friends are all very thick skinned and love to insult each other jokingly. I'm sure this was not posted to be seriously mean or hurtful. :)

As for the silly threads, blame the booze. ;)

And, there's no shame in being Irish, the other way around I wouldn't know.

Including me almost. Though, the family name is McCall. Couldn't even quite make it to Irish. Underachievers, the lot of us.

You can always tell an Irishman................but you can't tell him much.



All in jest. I love my Irish brothers and sisters.

Woof

that the irish stole all the vowels from the welch.

Don't we have the same right to fill the lounge with silly, worthless threads?

And not understand why the "Trail Of Tears" didn't affect your parents then?

So???

I'll try to arrange some non-Irish forebears in my next life! In this one, I'm pretty much limited to people from Galway and ... people from Galway.

*smack!* :P

And know the smell of a turf fire.

And then there's Jameson's.

on those three points.

The answer being that we need the designated drivers. God bless our designated drivers.

Americans think they know and understand the Irish. But Irish know what Canadians know: Americans are clueless.

Lesson One: Ireland is a foreign country. Americans traveling to Ireland expect the natives to conform to American expectations. The people in the tourist hotels oblige them.

Shure and begorrah.

Only in bed and breakfasts and I have been treated like a member of the family. Where else did I learn to appreciate the warmth of a turf fire? It was especially nice in the days when even Dublin had no central heating.

And on edit: Tea with the family I was staying with was a special experience. And I know of no relatives of mine there, sorry to say. That would have made my trips there even better.

I've never stayed in any hotel on my many trips to Ireland. My husband and myself are fortunate enough to own a house in his hometown in Co. Down and I never expected our family or neighbors to conform to "American expectations". BTW, what exactly are "American expectations".

Hope you and your husband can join us.

Many of us visit our relatives when we go over,rather than tourist hotels. Also a great many Irish people are well-traveled,and they know that Americans,like the Irish,come in many forms and varieties. I would agree that too many Americans traveling ANYWHERE expect the natives to conform to their expectations. This is not unique to Ireland.

Lesson Two:
In my many visits to Ireland,I've never heard anyone use the word "begorrah"....that's plastic paddy,stage-Irish stuff.
Also,since you have an American flag avatar,perhaps by "clueless Americans" you were referring to yourself? If so,you have my sympathies:)

I'm American but I'm not clueless. I have Irish citizenship because my father was a native. When I visited Ireland I was impressed at my cultural fluency. However, the new generation of Irish is strange to me. In fact I think they are strange to the old generation of Irish. That music, for instance . . .