It's not a racial/ethnic disposition towards alcohol - although such a thing can indeed exist - or anything to do with the weather or the Church. There are complex cultural and historical factors behind Ireland's drink problem.
I would also argue that drinking along with all social problems in Ireland are exacerbated by brain drain. Many of the more aspirational and arguably functional Irish left and more of the idiots and jokesters will have stayed. It is a case where mass emigration leaves a country imbalanced and disturbed.
This happens both within and between nations. Where I was born is a lovable dump like Ireland as the smarter ones past and present moved to London or America. Towns get disembowled with masses torn from their communities as the old world burns in the fires of industry. Doing this to an entire country with the mass moving of peoples at global scale is the pinnacle of a material world that cares about nothing but economics and material self-interest. What happened to my hometown in more recent years is what's happened in Ireland for donkeys years and that's why we have so many stereotypes in common.
It's not a racial/ethnic disposition towards alcohol - although such a thing can indeed exist - or anything to do with the weather or the Church. There are complex cultural and historical factors behind Ireland's drink problem.
I would also argue that drinking along with all social problems in Ireland are exacerbated by brain drain. Many of the more aspirational and arguably functional Irish left and more of the idiots and jokesters will have stayed. It is a case where mass emigration leaves a country imbalanced and disturbed.
It's Anglicized Ireland which drinks more anyway. Where we made the biggest in-roads hundreds of years ago is where people drink the most today, and wherever remained solidly Celt drinks the least. The less Irish drink more than the more Irish.
Another reason why stereotypes are important when dealing with women is because you're supposed to know things without having to ask. Allow your general assumptions to align with your experienced intuition so you can know something of a person without having to ask. I cannot overstate how important this is.
Anyway, when done correctly women will often say that it's like you've known them all their life. Of course you haven't known them all their life, but you do understand the lives they've come from. This is key.
Appreciate the person in front of you as the collection of stereotypes they are. Every single human being is between 30 and 80% stereotype and there's nothing more stereotypical than denying that you are a stereotype.
Where does she come from? How did you meet? What's her age/generation? What does she do with her free time? What's her job?
All these general indications reveal an incredibly large amount about an individual yet the trick with women is to always maintain the snowflake's illusion. A gentleman allows a woman to maintain her fiction especially when he knows better.
But do allow room to be pleasantly surprised when a person is unique. One purpose of generalisation is setting the bar high for originality and a stereotype is a probability and not a certainty, people generalise as the socially intelligent response to not being able to know every person on the planet inside out. But you have to be careful because stereotypes offend an insecure person's vanity and you're dealing with vain creatures out there.
Appreciate the person in front of you as the collection of stereotypes they are. Every single human being is between 30 and 80% stereotype and there's nothing more stereotypical than denying that you are a stereotype.
Where does she come from? How did you meet? What's her age/generation? What does she do with her free time? What's her job?
All these general indications reveal an incredibly large amount about an individual yet the trick with women is to always maintain the snowflake's illusion. A gentleman allows a woman to maintain her fiction especially when he knows better.
No one can say for sure whether Trump will make America great again or if he will, in partnership with the worst men in the world, salt the earth for all posterity. All we've seen so far is the cheapening of culture.
Of course there will be those who can perform highly-skilled work whilst having a seriously primitive mind and wolrdview - Ben Carson for example. Ben Carson is a surgeon who would have us live by what autistic people said thousands of years ago(e.g. we must only eat fish on a friday), but in the whole these worldviews will destroy science and our technical ability to do anything.
The new religiousness of the post-truth world is a terrible thing for anyone living in the real world. You can hide online and you can wallow in the gutter, you can vote Trump, but sooner or later you will feel the results of what you believe. Actions and consequences are being re-coupled under the stress of necessity and this will have a revolutionary effect on the way people think. I keep referring to a maturing event in my writings and this cannot be far in the future.
Long story short if Trump and Trumpsters carry on the way they are we don't be sending kids to America to see specialist doctors and have life-saving operations you can't get anywhere else. Talent and technology is not going to concentrate in the company of them.
Although we're heading that way. Through Trump we may see the beginning of the end for professional teaching and accredited curriculum and we'll see many charter schools run by the same people who run Fake News. Post-truth will inevtiably lead to post-education and perhaps youtube will become the chief educator in this post-intellect world.
Or the public school system. It's socialist to send all children to public schools although we tend not to call socialism socialism where socialism works due to low integrity reasons. Anyway universal education - the socialism we have everywhere - is another one of these socialisms where the 80% gain. The far-right hasn't become so right-wing that it seeks to ban public education as socialist - at least not yet!
The NHS is designed to perform at a high average and never being the best is the price you pay for universal coverage. If you have or can get a hell of a lot of money from somewhere then of course the American system is better. The top 20% lose under the NHS and they gain from the American system and the 80% gain under the NHS and would lose in the American system.
Where socialism works at its best - like in the NHS - the bottom 80% gain and where it works terribly - like the USSR from the 1960s onwards - only the bottom 20% gain and the 80% lose.
People can expect to see 80 these days in a life of relative comfort and yet there's never been so many people finding it so hard to live and face the days without medication. The easier and longer your life is the less value it contains therein. What's gained in time and fortune is lost in gratitude and zest until only a state of living death remains. Good morning.
Given enough time even heaven would feel like hell and If there is any meaning in life then this derives from the fact that life is limited. Our time has value because it is scarce.
I'd care a lot less about this life and world knowing there's something better right after it.
Eventually knowing I'd live forever would kill all feelings whether good or bad and life would be like staring into a room without doors and windows for the rest of eternity. If I lived forever would I beg for death? Probably yes.
Look at the bigger picture and be grateful that the marbles remain in glorious Europe. The genius of Europe springs from ancient antiquity and the greatest civilisation since Greece is Britain. We're all part of the same civilised family and that's nothing to do with the EU.
I'm telling you because it's true and for your own good. I really don't care who has the marbles, but I would want them to go to a good home. Greece can barely take care of itself let alone precious things and the sculptures might get sold to a rich Arab if they're not vandalised first. I respect how patriotic the Greeks can be, but don't you think you need to reconsider your patriotic priorities?
The American School, also known as the "National System", represents three different yet related constructs in politics, policy and philosophy. It was the American policy from the 1860s to the 1970s, waxing and waning in actual degrees and details of implementation. Historian Michael Lind describes it as a coherent applied economic philosophy with logical and conceptual relationships with other economic ideas.
It is the macroeconomic philosophy that dominated United States national policies from the time of the American Civil War until the mid-twentieth century. Closely related to mercantilism, it can be seen as contrary to classical economics. It consisted of these three core policies:
protecting industry through selective high tariffs (especially 1861–1932) and through subsidies (especially 1932–70) government investments in infrastructure creating targeted internal improvements (especially in transportation) a national bank with policies that promote the growth of productive enterprises rather than speculation.
It is a capitalist economic school based on the Hamiltonian economic program. The American School of capitalism was intended to allow the United States to become economically independent and nationally self-sufficient.
The American School's key elements were promoted by John Q. Adams and his National Republican Party, Henry Clay and the Whig Party, and Abraham Lincoln through the early Republican Party which embraced, implemented, and maintained this economic system. During its American System period the United States grew into the largest economy in the world with the highest standard of living, surpassing the British Empire by the 1880s
If there's any chance of Trump returning America to its former greatness then the American must be rehabilitated and be ridden of all addictions and attitudes created by his dependency on globalism. Most people who hate globalism are not even conscious of the extent to which they themselves are tainted.
Basically Trump represents resolve and it's resolve which endures hardship, not brains. Trump is basically trying to make America go to rehab to make America great again, but even those who want to make America again don't actually wanna go to rehab.
This is why Trump fooling people may not be so bad in some respects. Given the current state of western culture people will not live rightly of their own accord, so what is an autocrat to do?
I'm under no illusions that breaking from China would feel like the comedown from crack. But we don't need crack or any of the glorified crack dealers living over there in China.
Standing up to China is one part of Trump that isn't backward-looking. The sooner we break or at least diminish trade and relations with them, the better. Any privation this causes to us is worth the reward and to beat China we must be broad-shouldered and deferring of gratification for the first time since the 1940s. Do you think we can make it?
What's odd is how it is easier to die for someone else than it is to live for them. The moment of supreme sacrifice comes easier than the hard daily tasks of endless giving Throwing yourself on the grenade is easier than being someone's Mother Teresa.
In a sense we are to blame. Islam is a long civil war and the main reason for that is because white people invented modernity and only half of Islam wants to know.
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RE: what you having for dinner christmas day?
Whatever Mr Patel comes up with, that's the breed we're eating. Ok? It will be delicious.