Come on, really, what’s with the ‘my aunt’s left nipple once took a vacation in Cork so I’m 1/100th Irish’ chest beating?
Have you ever been to the Emerald Isle?
If so, you wouldn’t bother with this ancestral fakery, for you’d know that the weather’s shit, places like Dublin are nothing more than backward holes and 99% of the piss-arsed residents drink like thirsty fish simply to forget about their lives.
The sermon endeth.
[quote]matwade76 wrote:
Come on, really, what’s with the ‘my aunt’s left nipple once took a vacation in Cork so I’m 1/100th Irish’ chest beating?
Have you ever been to the Emerald Isle?
If so, you wouldn’t bother with this ancestral fakery, for you’d know that the weather’s shit, places like Dublin are nothing more than backward holes and 99% of the piss-arsed residents drink like thirsty fish simply to forget about their lives.
The sermon endeth.[/quote]
I am not claiming to be Irish. I did however go to Cork Ireland, where I ended up meeting my fiance of 3 years. I cant speak for Dublin, but I sure as hell didn’t find Cork to be such a dismal place. Sure there were a few drunks in the square, but nowhere near what I see on the streets of San Francisco.
An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in
Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest’s breath and
then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.
He says, “Sir, have you been drinking?”
“Just water,” says the priest.
The trooper says, “Then why do I smell wine?”
The priest looks at the bottle and says, “Good Lord! He’s done it again!”
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
1/4 Irish
1/4 French
1/4 Italian
1/4 Polish
Let the flames begin.[/quote]
You have 4 parents?
I’m just kidding.
I was born in america, but have irish blood.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
This may be just my drunken thinking side taking over, but deal with it…
We don’t feel American because we aren’t “American”. the men who founded this country hated my kind all around. I’m Italian and Irish, and Catholic. There isn’t much more that the founding fathers disliked than a loyal Catholic.
My girlfriend, for instance, has a direct relative that signed the Declaration of Independence. He was English and protestant, and held land in Pennsylvania since this country was made. When you compare that with my family, it’s no wonder that I think of myself as “different from her”.
To me, you can’t compare a WASP signer of the DOI with someone who’s grandparents came over from Italy forty years ago. We aren’t the same people, we don’t have the same customs, and we don’t identify with the same things. Hell, the religion alone is enough to cause a stir in my family.
Americans are different. No one even believes I have any Irish in me because I look so Italian. When people think of “American” they might think of the tall blond kids, or, for all I know, Kentuckians with ten foot rifles. What I do know is that if I went to Italy, they’d speak Italian to me, even though I’m a mix of several different nationalities.
Yet, we are all “Americans”. That is the wonderful part about this country, that we have literally inherited the huddled masses yearning to breath free. I guess its one of those things that you have to be here to experience.[/quote]
Very true, mot of the slash americans I know including me are proud of their heritage and also proud of their country. I don’t see why it’s so hard to understand. Of course, if you want to, you can keep going back and saying you’re not French, you’re descended from this tribes of whatevers. The same would go for any European country.
I’m, 1/2 German, 1/4 Polish, and 1/8 Russian and english. I have friends that are of Irish descent, Italian descent, and so on. The area I live in, northeast Pa. has a wide variety of traditions from many cultures available. Of course for me, most of the culture revolves around food.
Rocskcar wrote:
1/4 French - too pussy
1/4 Irish - to drink
1/4 Italian - too lazy
1/4 Polish - to steal
Let the flames begin. - You asked for it!
[quote]El_Animal wrote:
I’m American but, my dad was pure Irish and my mom was like half. So, I’m very Irish (hence the avatar).
I can’t help but notice the high number of Irish folks here at T-Nation.
If you’re Irish post here.
I’m curious as to how many there are.[/quote]
I’m 100% Irish… Was actually born there and moved to the states when I was 4.
[quote]melvis66 wrote:
An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in
Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest’s breath and
then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.
He says, “Sir, have you been drinking?”
“Just water,” says the priest.
The trooper says, “Then why do I smell wine?”
The priest looks at the bottle and says, “Good Lord! He’s done it again!”[/quote]
Heh… That reminds me of another Irish joke (probably my favorite):
What’s the difference between an Irish Wedding and an Irish Funeral?
One less drunk.
My personal favourite recipe for Irish stew passed down to me through many generations: Get some meat, some potatoes and a lot of Guinness. Drink all of the Guinness. Forget about the stew.
About 1/2 half Scotch-Irish. Othr half is made up of German, Englsih and American Indian.
[quote]jimg21 wrote:
About 1/2 half Scotch-Irish. Othr half is made up of German, Englsih and American Indian.[/quote]
What’s Scotch-Irish? Scotland and Ireland are two quite distinct countries. We’re small, granted, but very different!!
Born in dublin, mother from cork, father from dublin, grandparents from tiperrary, cork, cork and wicklow. After that I’m not so sure!
my moms parents were both from Ireland and my dads German, Austrian, and Scottish
3/4 Irish, 1/4 German
Irish jokes, is it? Okay.
Mick and Seamus are sitting on the steps, passing a bottle of Irish whiskey back and forth. Mick suddenly becomes serious and says to his friend, “Seamus, after I’m dead and gone, will ye do me a favor?”
“Anything, Mick me old friend.”
"After they’ve put me in the ground, will ye come and pour a bottle of this good Irish whiskey over me grave?
Seamus thinks about it for a bit, then cheerfully answers, “Of course I will… If ye don’t mind if I pass it through me kidneys first!”
As we divide ourselves, we become dependent on those divisions.
I dont understand this???
you are from the country u are born in.
some1 der just wrote they were 3/4 irish 1/4 german??? how does that work.
im 100% rish because i have bin born and raised here by my irish family!!!
[quote]YoungIrishMuscle wrote:
I dont understand this???
you are from the country u are born in.
some1 der just wrote they were 3/4 irish 1/4 german??? how does that work.
im 100% rish because i have bin born and raised here by my irish family!!![/quote]
And cunt spel.
Irish but carry british passport.
born in Craigavon, Live in Armagh. Parents from Dungannon.
Where ur born is where ur from, none of this heritgae shit, fuck that.
Nobody seems to understand that Americans tend to identify themselves with the birthplace of their parents or ancestors. I think everybody understands citizenship, but many people from other countries were born and bred there and don’t ‘get’ that anybody would identify themselves as anything other than where they were born.
Do I have to explain that America is particularly unique in this way? Perhaps not, but I will anyway. I’ve seen this argument on T-Nation many times. But repetition is what it is. So, listen Euro bitches. We are from a place where Europeans came, the best of them I believe, and made a great country. We still identify with those places we are from, even though they may have oppressed us out and got their asses beat as a result. We have European roots, but we are something different. This I think we can agree.
We are American by birth, and not one of us would forsake or deny that. Or, not one of us should. However, we still respect from whence we came, regardless of the series of events that landed us here. Grit your teeth at it as you will, but were proud of our country and our past. Even if you think it merits none. We do not care. The United States is prideworthy. You can throw up war, you can say whatever you want. All eyes are always on America. Slide left, you complain…Slide right… you complain. We put men on the moon time after time and you doubt it. You shouldn’t. Because you KNOW…it was possible, and we took advantage of the possibility like no other. We planted our flag and you were jealous. Awestricken… and jealous.
So I could end with an America… fuck yeah! But I won’t. I know all you socialist wanting mofos will hate …but you’re all a disappointment anyway. I hate that my well traveled ancestors did what they did, for you to shit all over everything. Bunch of pussies. Have some respect for your forefathers that died for you to spew cunt bullshit on the forums of the future. Talk about in vein.
In closing…
Go USA … olympic pride <3