brown nosing yanks

clintondaly wrote: »

• Limerick, Georgia
• Limerick, Illinois
• Limerick, Louisville
• Limerick, Maine
• Limerick, Mississippi
• Limerick, New York
• Limerick, Ohio
• Limerick, South Carolina
• Limerick Township, Pennsylvania
• New Limerick, Maine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_place_names_in_other_countries

Maybe they should rename all these places in the states

There's Pragues, and Ottawas and Delhis and Londons and all kinds of other placenames from all over the world given to towns in the US. What's your point?


It's mortifying when people make a fuss over the fact that some American is one eighth Irish or whatever. A great many Americans have hugely mixed ancestry. The Irish bit is just one little part.

pundy wrote: »

as we all are aware, it goes deeper than that - People walking around with pseudo american accents, carrying on like they're carrie from Sex and city and all these americanisms basically degrading our true culture from what it was and what it should be.

the naming of city spaces/bridges/buildings etc SHOULD be named after Irish people of note, in this country and not American Heroes

'Our true culture' ?
Pray tell what 'culture' would that be?

Drinking, vomiting, violent street-crime, yobbish behaviour, drug taking, hand-bag snatching, thieving, constant whinging to Joe Duffy about being 'victims' of this or that, robbing Taxis and driving them into bridges, begging, murdering & robbing old folks in their homes, wearing balaclavas, inventing cool stuff like the car- bomb, the bicycle bomb, the nail-bomb, the proxy-bomb, 'fighting' a Civil War that ended yonks ago before any of us were born, Institutional child abuse, hating the Gardai, 'The Brits,' The Yanks, The French, the Egyptian Arabs, The Iranian Arabs, (but we just love those Arabs in Gaza) hating the Israelis, & these days, loathing The Peruvian Authorities and anyone else when the notion strikes us, hating The Yanks in public, (but quietly trying every trick in the book to get a J1 Visa)

(Sorry if the above sounds nasty or flippant but I'm a confused & cantankeous ole geezer)

Or would our Culture be;
Riverdance, Sean Nos singing, the GAA, The Late Late Show, The Rose of Tralee and Wee Daniel, Uncle Gaybo, Jaooo Duffy, Fionn Mc Cool, the Little People, Darby O' Gill, Paul Mac Grath, Jack(ie) Charlton, Wee Leprachauns, The Quiet Man, atin' spuds, slurping Guinness 'til it comes out our ears (and other orfices) Italia 90, singing Ole Ole Ole while waving the National Flag with the name of a Pub scrawled thereon. Going to Mass just to criticise our neighbours outside the Church Gates, Faction Fighting, Gossiping, Confession once a month, voting for the same Political Party as our Great Granpappy did, using 19th Century terms that most don't know the meaning of... i/e blue-shirts, stickies, etc, giving up sweets for Lent, going on 'Retreat 'to Lough Derg, climbing the Reek in our bare tabs & getting arseified drunk on St. Patricks Day?

Is that our 'real' culture?

But if it isn't, wtf is our culture, at all, at all?

By the way, I'm in my 60s, Irish, and I tend to get confused lately when the words Irish & Culture are used in the same sentence

maybe the Yank brown nosers just don't want to be droned ?

I live near Intercourse, PA (USA). Never crossed my mind it was named after ya’ll… being so fuk’d up and all. [/kidding]

But seriously, perhaps being over here and not in tune with many Irish attitudes towards the US, we in the states don’t see it the way its view in the thread. We simply think there is great pride when one of Ireland’s own, or of decent, make good over in the US. We don’t see it at all as having your nose stuck up the US ass, but rather simply as cultural pride. Do you know how many St. Patty's day parades, celebrations, and parties we have over here? It's a national epedemic... and quite fun!

Czarcasm wrote: »

You did that on purpose, didn't you?

guilty as charged (but many call it that over here)

Come visit Jim Thrope, Pennsylvania if you want to see a prime example of us here in America brown nosing up to the Irish in the extreme. And we see no problem with it.