[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Colin writes: > > << As for allegedly saying 'the Irish are pigs', well we were all brought up > to think that so it is hardly earthshattering even if she did say it. >> > > I don't know if you're serious, kidding, exaggerating, or just being > provocative, Colin!
I was being serious. I don't know why you'd be surprised about that considering the emnity between the two countries for hundreds of years! > > > I first visited Great Britain when was a teenager in 1971, during the height > of The Troubles with Northern Ireland and the IRA. With my quintessentially > Irish surname, I expected to be badly treated. That never happened. The > British people I met couldn't have been nicer, and that has been my > experience ever since. In fact, I can't remember any British person I've ever > met even bringing up the fact that I am Irish American. (Maybe they were all > calling me a Harp Yank bastard behind my back, but I doubt it.) You would have been a yank in their eyes and to their ears so the Irish surname wouldn't have come into it. Juts in case you get the wrong idea, i don't think the Irish are pigs! However, many English do and many Irish think the same about the English. Stupid but true. Actually the English are not popular. the Scots dislike them and so do the Welsh. the English dislike everybody because anyone who is not English is beneath them-especially Americans! Common, loud, and uncouth. I woncer what it means to have couth? > > > . > It caused a little bit of an uproar on the list, someone contacted Judy to > find out if it was true and she sent this person (I don't remember who it > was) a denial which he or she then posted to the list. It was me.
