Posted by Nickengland on September 17, 2005, at 6:10:20
In reply to Re: Revolutioncockeyed, posted by cockeyed on September 16, 2005, at 22:14:23
Hello Cockeyed
>Nick, you are one ornery bastard.
Thats very kind of you, someone once said to me something about the pot calling the kettle black, but people always call each other names, if you call someone a bastard in Australia its quite often seen a compliment.
>She'd give me a dime everytime I told her I'd spit on a map of England.
So you don't have a great love for the English then? you're more similar to me than you probably know, even though I was born in England, I really do not like it here very much.
>Her brothers were IRA gun-runners.
Ahhh I see..
Well growing up in England, one thing i was not taught about in school and that was, nothing about the famous 6 counties "taken" by the English from the Irish that cause all the troubles to day with the Northern Irish and Republics etc..
When I moved abroad though a couple of years ago I spent alot of time with Irish people, mostly Republic and learnt alot about what really goes on from them over there on the boaders.
Back in the 70's over here the IRA did quite a job terrorising London with bombings for quite a while, that was dreadful.
But that said, I also know the other side to that of what goes on in Ireland, with the British soildiers and one word descibed to me by an Irish man was that they do indeed terrorise them, so theres two sides to every story without giving too much detail, but the "but" of a gun digged into a childs a face for crosssing over a line isn't exactly keeping the peace, no more than setting off a nail bomb in a crowded restaurant in London killing people.
Thats modern day IRA "troubles" thats not even going into the root cause of it with Cromwell etc.
>But maybe the Irish can get along.
One can only hope. There is still alot of hatred though, there are some streets where by if you are English and was to go to Ireland, lets just say it wouldn't be healthy so to speak to walk down certain steets so i'm told, no more than it would if you was an American walking down certain streets in Iraq in a similar way.
Like I say though i'm English or a British Citizen, but then part of my heritage is from the Republic of Ireland..
Some people say of here what is it to be British these days ~ the most popular food we eat apprently are mostly indian foods influenced by the indian immigration. I saw one news report alittle while ago with a reporter asking people if they thought, what it means to be British and if they considered themselves British, one person didn't speak English and need an Interpreter and the answer was they didn't know.
Even the Queen has German roots..
Kind regards
Nick
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