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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:my background is anglo as gently caress and its kinda depressing
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Avshalom posted:...who you're meant to be hating today
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Jan 15, 2014 11:37
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:my background is anglo as gently caress and its kinda depressing It's okay, Sexman. It's not your fault. When my kids ask their heritage, we tell them "Murican." We're mutts, both of us, except that Mr.Kitty is MUCH closer to his origins than I, but we're still just a big brew of awesomeness. My kids are always hispanic on forms though, just in case. Mr. looks it, and so does little Mr. Kitty. But Little Miss Kitty is as anglo as momma.
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Jan 15, 2014 11:40
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my italian-australian friend was talking about going to a wedding in bali, and said she couldn't have a wedding in bali because her grandmother wouldn't want to travel i jokingly said "just have the wedding without her then" i've never seen someone look so aghast
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Jan 15, 2014 11:40
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Avshalom posted:don't feel bad - to be continental european is to never be sure who you're meant to be hating today but its so drat boring there's some Irish in there but I'm pretty sure its not even the cool oppressed peasant Irish
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Jan 15, 2014 11:40
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given my luck online, said friend will probably turn out to have been fruity gordo all along
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Jan 15, 2014 11:41
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when my kids ask about their heritage i'm just going to cackle and wave my hands drunkenly
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Jan 15, 2014 11:47
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i'm trying to imagine either of my grandmothers at my wedding and it's hilarious since my entire dating history consists of women, african men and queer punks. one grannie would be yelling 'white power' and the other would be screeching rosaries to pray the gay away
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Jan 15, 2014 11:48
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Avshalom posted:when my kids ask about their heritage i'm just going to cackle and wave my hands drunkenly russian food is loving delicious as hell
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Jan 15, 2014 11:49
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throw beets at them and tell them to guess
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Jan 15, 2014 11:50
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ROOT VEGETABLES AND DILL
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a travelling HEGEL posted:ROOT VEGETABLES AND DILL And vodka.
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Jan 15, 2014 11:51
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a travelling HEGEL posted:but seriously  Fruity Gordo posted:i'm trying to imagine either of my grandmothers at my wedding and it's hilarious since my entire dating history consists of women, african men and queer punks. one grannie would be yelling 'white power' and the other would be screeching rosaries to pray the gay away
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Jan 15, 2014 11:52
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thought ladythread would like to know about a thing that exists, the first-person cat simulator - 'a first-person game about being a cat and destroying everything' catlateral damage
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Jan 15, 2014 11:52
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I love you, you fabulous spider, you.
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Jan 15, 2014 11:53
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i've already told my grandmother that my wedding dress will be a wearable croquembouche made entirely out of profiteroles moulded around my body the wedding cake will also be a croquembouche the main course will also be a croquembouche, but made of chinese dumplings i'm going for a theme here
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Jan 15, 2014 11:53
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Avshalom posted:it loses something when you're not allowed to add sour cream to meat dishes you could use chicken fat though, that's p good holy hell, you'll never eat schmaltz brot, which is god's own food dish sorry bro
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Jan 15, 2014 11:53
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:but its so drat boring You don't get to say you're Irish unless you've suffered actually living here. I'm talking to you, Boston on St. Paddys.
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Jan 15, 2014 11:56
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Shannonmcn posted:You don't get to say you're Irish unless you've suffered actually living here. I'm talking to you, Boston on St. Paddys. My Jenny did (grandmother.) She was freaking awesome. And lived in Boston after her folks left Ireland starving. She was so fun to get mad. Brogues are barely understandable when angry yelling. E; I don't generally claim Ireland. But I am named for her.
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Jan 15, 2014 11:58
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Avshalom posted:i've already told my grandmother that my wedding dress will be a wearable croquembouche made entirely out of profiteroles moulded around my body
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Shannonmcn posted:You don't get to say you're Irish unless you've suffered actually living here. I'm talking to you, Boston on St. Paddys.
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Jan 15, 2014 11:58
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when i get married i will have two wedding cakes and one of them will be full of weed
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Jan 15, 2014 11:59
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Shannonmcn posted:You don't get to say you're Irish unless you've suffered actually living here. I'm talking to you, Boston on St. Paddys. you can see why things didn't work out
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Jan 15, 2014 11:59
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I'm basically white as gently caress should be hearing back from the 23andMe people in a month or so, looking forward to seeing precisely what types of white-as-gently caress I am
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Jan 15, 2014 12:10
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Portals posted:I'm basically white as gently caress Ooh. Cool. I'm really thinking about doing this. Really I'm hoping that I'm a long lost princess and they'll find me this way and I'll get to see the floating lanterns finally.
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Jan 15, 2014 12:17
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Shannonmcn posted:You don't get to say you're Irish unless you've suffered actually living here. I'm talking to you, Boston on St. Paddys. yeah I meant I had ancestors who at some point were from Ireland, I don't pretend to be Irish because that's just awful
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Portals posted:I'm basically white as gently caress that looks cool as heck
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a travelling HEGEL posted:(anything)-americans who are really into that identity are weeaboos, but for themselves I'm like 1/256th Norman-invader, this is me, respect my culture:  Haro
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Jan 15, 2014 12:27
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Shannonmcn posted:I'm like 1/256th Norman-invader, this is me, respect my culture: i see you've met forums poster Rodrigo Diaz
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Jan 15, 2014 12:34
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I just found a new NK documentary. Pick it's frontline, PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-state-of-north-korea/ I will be in my chambers with my Strongbow and Juche. Y'all have a good night! (or day, morning, afternoon, whatever.)
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Jan 15, 2014 12:38
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Family on my dad's side is German in origin but they've been in Canada since the 1780s, so any trace of German ethnicity was stamped out long ago. Canadian maritimer with a splash of Acadian now, I guess. On my mom's side, my nana & grandpa came from Northern Ireland after WW2 and maintained pretty strong expat relations with friends and family from the homeland. My nana also lived with us since I was maybe three, so loyalist Irishness-ness was a huge influence growing up. Also, I can't say "nana" to people outside the family without feeling like a dingus.
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Jan 15, 2014 15:48
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Spanish American. poo poo ain't easier than that
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One of the most American things you can do is to tenuously grasp onto the cultural identity of your immigrant great grandparents and scream an shout how you're Irish or something but the only person in your family who's ever stepped foot in Ireland died before hitler killed a Buncha Polska
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Jan 15, 2014 15:58
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I'd like to know why it's always Ireland? North and south are both broken crappy places to live in comparison to most other places in the world. Belfast got a Hollister there a few years ago and there are still 30 minute queues outside it some Saturdays because we have so loving little to get excited about. Why do people never rave about their great French ancestors, paint themselves with the original Tricolore and drink wine and eat brie to excess on Bastille day?
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Jan 15, 2014 16:14
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Shannonmcn posted:I'd like to know why it's always Ireland? North and south are both broken crappy places to live in comparison to most other places in the world. Belfast got a Hollister there a few years ago and there are still 30 minute queues outside it some Saturdays because we have so loving little to get excited about. I don't know either but that's the largest stereotype aside from Italians. The polish are usually low key about it though. And it's really funny how American some Irish girls try to be. I knew one when I lived in Spain that was straight from Dublin who spray tanned and even watched American football.
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Shannonmcn posted:I'd like to know why it's always Ireland? North and south are both broken crappy places to live in comparison to most other places in the world. Belfast got a Hollister there a few years ago and there are still 30 minute queues outside it some Saturdays because we have so loving little to get excited about. i have no illustrious ancestry
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I think it was a result of the unprecedented influx of Irish immigrants resulting from the potato famine that put a ton of Irish in the same place at the same time, so you had these huge Irish immigrant communities that were first forced into ghettos and then slowly integrated without ever losing their ethnic identity. Now "Irish" is completely white and mainstream but it hasn't shed its legacy quite yet. Almost 1,000,000 arrived in the 1850s alone. Wikipedia says 4.7 million total, with the bulk in a 70 year period between 1840 and 1910. And it must be really loving traumatic to be forced to flee to a foreign country in such huge numbers because your homeland is simultaneously starving to death and being raped by the British, so I'm guessing some sense of nostalgia for the homeland was passed along to the first and second generation and then just became a part of the family culture. I'm guessing a lot of the immigrants were more like exiles than opportunists. Contrast that with say the Acadians/Cajuns and Quebecois where their roots stretch back long enough that they weren't originally defined by their Other-ness and so were free to reinvent their culture rather than have it defined for them. I mean Newfoundland has a huge Irish immigrant history but I think Newfies are happy to be Newfies. unlimited shrimp fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jan 15, 2014 |
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I knew a girl who told everyone she was French but she was actually Belgian because she thought (correctly) that most Americans wouldn't know what the gently caress Belgium was and why she spoke French.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I don't know either but that's the largest stereotype aside from Italians. The polish are usually low key about it though. Spray tanning is not exclusively an American thing. I'd say at least 70% of girls who go out on the weekends here are using fake tan. My friend went to an all-girls school in Derry and has so many stories of girls topping up their tan between classes or skipping Friday to do their tan for that night or getting rained on and their sunshimmer runs down their legs and stains their white socks orange. It's a weird epidemic, probably caused by seeing everyone on TV with the Californian tan, whether from the US or not. Or watching Neighbours where everyone is orange. I was usually too lazy, now I embrace my paleness. American football has kicked off here too. I don't get why, we have Rugby which is objectively better. (shots fired) bathroom sounds posted:I think it was a result of the unprecedented influx of Irish immigrants resulting from the potato famine that put a ton of Irish in the same place at the same time, so you had these huge Irish immigrant communities that were first forced into ghettos and then slowly integrated without ever losing their ethnic identity. Now "Irish" is completely white and mainstream but it hasn't shed its legacy quite yet. Almost 1,000,000 arrived in the 1850s alone. Wikipedia says 4.7 million total, with the bulk in a 70 year period between 1840 and 1910. This excuse may have been valid like 50 years ago, now it's just weird. Also the Irish population still hasn't recovered to pre-Famine levels, think about that next time you make a joke about potatoes 
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