NON PC - Homophobic/Irish joke...

[Cycling Naturalist]

Wasn't Patrick going to try this ruse with Arch a bit back?

I was a cheapskate - I didn't buy a sausage.

 

[LLB]

I'm Irish.

I don't mind English people telling 'Irish' jokes as I see them for what they are - inferior people trying to feel good by making their betters the butt of their low-brow humour!!

Meeooow

 

[Blue]

Meeooow

More of a G'rrr.

I've got a tiger in my tank

 

[summerdays]

Mixed Irish-English.

Over here, the Irish AND the English call me a "plastic Paddy", over there the Irish call me a "west Brit" (mildly abusive term reserved for Protestants in the Republic).

I understand where that is coming from .. as a kid growing up in England but with a strange accent ... that didn't belong in either camp ... using the wrong collocialisms (sorry about the spelling on that), and actually I blame my poor spelling on the way townland names are spelt.

But I don't mind Irish jokes at all, though my mum did go in and complain to the school when I was called a "wild irish hussy" by a teacher. My friends tried to make up for it by finding out where the teacher was from ... Boston .. and then calling him a mad Boston teacher.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Perhaps he thought your surname was "Hussey"...

 

[zimzum42]

When i first came to the UK from Africa to go to school, I was generally referred to as 'the nigger lover'

What fun....

 

[LLB]

When i first came to the UK from Africa to go to school, I was generally referred to as 'the nigger lover'

What fun....

When I came back from HK, I was called 'Chinky'

 

[Rhythm Thief]

My nickname at school was "Scruffy Git". Nothing to do with my nationality, I just was (and still am) a scruffy git.

 

[Twenty Inch]

My nickname at school was "Scruffy Git". Nothing to do with my nationality, I just was (and still am) a scruffy git.

Missing the point Rhythm Thief, let's get back to the politics of victimisation.