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    #62
    Lirange
    Registered Users Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭Lirange


    But Cisco Kid was a friend of mine.


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    #63
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    SoWatchaWant wrote: »
    In fairness to the guy. I think he meant that you guys see it as more of a novelty than we do. He means, where we would drink six or eight cans, you guys would drink three or four and boast.

    But that's understandable because of the drinking laws over there. Also I'm sure that many Americans over 21 could drink me under the table.

    Trust me I understand.

    I have been coming to Ireland since my father brought me back to meet the family in 1982. I worked as a barman for eight years in three different Irish owned bars/pubs/restaurants back in the 90s and have lived here for a while.

    I have a greater understanding of alcohol and culture than most people lol

    You have to look at the fact that these kids are getting alcohol for the first time (legally) due to the restrictions in place in the States. I have seen plenty of kids over here that when they turn legal are quite similar.

    Like I said. It's very easy to paint everyone withthe same brush. It's just not fair nor is it valid.


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    #64
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Lirange wrote: »
    But Cisco Kid was a friend of mine.

    I think that makes you Poncho.


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    #65
    IzzyWizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭IzzyWizzy


    My Brazilian friends call them US Americans, and their country USA. "Yanks" might work on the east coast, but I doubt those in the Deep South, Mid-West, Inter-Mountain North West, or West would identify with the label.

    There is a word which is basically 'United Statesish' (estadounidense in Spanish) in a lot of the Romance languages. We don't have a word like that in English - 'American' is the correct and accepted term to describe a citizen of the USA. If the Brazilians don't like that, tough sh*t, to be honest. I taught classes full of them in my last job and I got really tired of being 'corrected'. In English, citizens of the United States are Americans, full stop (or period? :rolleyes:)


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    #66
    Black Swan
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    IzzyWizzy wrote: »
    'American' is the correct and accepted term to describe a citizen of the USA. If the Brazilians don't like that, tough sh*t, to be honest. I taught classes full of them in my last job and I got really tired of being 'corrected'.
    Your cultural sensitively for "them" will endear you to many of "them?" But why should you care, because you are an authority of the English language and know in your own mind that you are absolutely "correct?"
    Rented Mule wrote: »
    Like I said. It's very easy to paint everyone withthe same brush. It's just not fair nor is it valid.
    Spot on!


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    #67
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Spot on!

    Thanks.....my mother was a Presidential Delegate for Bill Clinton.

    Some of us turned out alright. lol


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    #68
    Pal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    SoWatchaWant wrote: »
    I don't know which countries Minsk, Oslo, or Budapest are in. Am I thicker that an American:

    That's a leading question.


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    #69
    steo87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭steo87


    NADA wrote: »
    Now this thread isn't racists but

    You just started your thread with a variation of "..I'm not a racist but..." so therefore you are, in fact, a racist


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    #70
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    End troll.


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