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ButtersSuki wrote: »

I've less issue with them poking fun out of their own Nationality. I do have an issue with them doing so at our expense, particularly given the history between the two nations.

BTW, I have worked in the YOU KAY myself. I found the vast majority of the people to be quite nice, but shoyte like MBB is just fuel for the bigoted ignorant minority.

Three words, so to speak... Rab C. Nesbitt.
One of the best comedys ever to come out of Scotland. English audiences loved it (once they got their head around the accent). In fact, the only place it was hated was in the Glasgow educated classes.
It utterly ripped the p1ss out of so many people and went over the heads of many.
I grew up with Rab C - Rab C was a part of many people in one way or another.
Roddy Doyle evinced some of the same reaction amongst the Dublin intelligentsia, I seem to recall.

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