Stan Collymore CSC

Do they go around telling people they are Irish and not at all English? I doubt it.

 

Sorry didn't mean to quote you jinky

 

If they were asked they would say yes they feel Irish. They wouldn't go around telling people.

 

The things the CIA did during the cold war to fight Russian influence and the culture and indeed the political nature of the United States are two totally different things. Americans never had a vote on whether or not to put he Shah in Iran, or arm the Jihadists in Afghanistan during the Soviet Invasion of the 1980s, or any of that. Anyway, I don't think any of that is why there is a lot of Anti-American sentiment in Europe, anyway. Europe is once again swinging to the left, towards Socialism, and red politics. And here in the United States we have a very hardcore, classical liberal, libertarian, and right-wing conservative populist movement that is on the upswing (Tea Party etc). Its basically the polar opposite of everything that is left wing politics. I think its the current political division, and not so much the history of our interventions in the cold war, that causes a lot of the animosity.

 

I was a 14 or 15 year old boy who thought I was the most Irish guy around. I was more Irish than people who lived there their entire lives. I thought that because I believed 26+6=1 and I drink Guinness and like the Clancy Brothers and Celtic and the Ireland soccer team I was THE quintessential Irishman. The fact was, I grew up in the United States, spoke with an American accent, and probably couldnt even tell you who the current Taoiseach was. In fact, I was the quintessential plastic paddy. I deserved what I got. Those fellows weren't being mean to me, in fact they were laughing, it was a joke to them. But they opened my eyes to the fact that my links to the United States where I grew up are far stronger than they are to an Island I've only had a few holidays to during the summers. I love Ireland. I have Irish links. But I'm not Irish.

 

There's the difference. You were superficial, davey's family doesn't appear to be. You got made fun of because of what you thought "Irish" was, not because you thought you were Irish in the first place.

 

They didn't know all of that that though. They just saw some American guy always wearing an Ireland top stomping around singing Fields of Athenry and decided to have a go at him. They didn't really know me. Anyways, I still stand by what I said, I don't think that most Irish people consider foreign-born people of Irish blood to be Irish. I think they consider them whatever the nationality is of the country they were born into. And not Irish. In Ireland they often call it the "Irish connection". Guys like this are said to have an "Irish connection", but they don't call them "Irish".

 

This thread

 

could some one PLEASE tell me what the * is goin on in this thread ma heeds burstin noo

 

Stan Collymore, Republicanism, white pride, boxing, and Mike Tyson. How do you not see the common thread?

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WHO THE * ARE YOU?

 

Please no one start on Jim "The Tyrone Ironman" Lynagh.... he'll rip your head off.... and not in a good way.

 

That's * impressove from Collymore

 

A started it ye *...........

 

He is just pandering. Can't believe some on here are buying it. Hes still a scumbag.

 

Pandering to whom exactly?