Well Halloween is actually a thing that originated in Ireland...so you can blame that one on us...Samhain etc! Hot dogs are mega... Blah blah blah yourself I still dont know how to Multi/double quote... So to the Staten Island poster...Yikes, I remember working there..I had to take the subway from Queens...get the ferry to Staten Island and then get a bus to my destination....Train, boat and bus just to get to work. I put this thread up on the Irish Forums also and got what I thought was an overall negative response...It was even suggested that I go back to the US if I liked it so much..
Well sometimes I think that we other nations should have a National American appreciation day... Can you ...not just you..but anyone of us...think of a Country that has not been helped out by America. Again this is not a political thread. When all else had failed..we went to America and were welcomed...just stand in Ellis Island and you will see that. The Statue of Liberty..
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
The Irish left on famine ships...some did not make it but leaving Ireland was still a better option. During the second world war... so many people left and were welcomed in America. I lived in New York in the 80's and 90's and had the same welcome. God Bless America!
I am going to defend the Irish now, as a Nation we have the height of respect for America, we are for the most part appreciative for what they have done for us as immigrants and also for input into our political struggle and achieving and working towards a peace process. The people who bash Americans and make fun of them are the ignorant classes that exist in any society in any country.
Sometimes I think that we are very quick to make Negative comments about America and the American people. We make assumptions about them based on some stupid American tv shows that even the Americans think are stupid. Bashing the Yanks gets on my nerves. Possibly I am a bit biased because I lived there for 14 years. While I lived there I was lucky enough to meet the most amazing people. I got to know the regular Joe Soaps who were just trying to earn a few bob and do the best for their families. All Americans are not fat and stupid! I found the people that I met to be really caring and genuine. Please let us not forget that America was a refuge for the Irish after the famine...for Europeans after World war 2. I took care of elderly people in New York who had lost all of their family members in concentration camps.They were very grateful to have been able to come to America. I found the American people to be really welcoming when I lived there. I base my experience on having lived in New York but I did visit some other American cities and felt the same welcome. This thread was prompted after seeing comments on another thread. When I went to America first I did not understand why Americans said they were Irish or Italian etc. I finally understood that they were respecting their parents heritage etc. One of my friends once said to me...oh Yanks saying they are Irish! His daughter was born in New York years later...me being me...took the piss out of him and said..oh you have an American kid! He said..No she is Irish...I said..oh really..then so are all the other people that you are saying are not Irish just cos they were born in America. Anyway....just saying..please stop and think before bashing a country that in my opinion has been pretty good to the Irish through the years. This thread is not about American Politics...it is about the American people, so please address political issues somewhere else :)
My last couple of years in NY I waitressed in a right dive in the middle of Manhattan. One customer described it as Stephen King's version of Cheers lol. The customers were mighty craic...great sense of humour and I took the piss out of them and they did the same. I am talking really unpolitically correct stuff cos they were from all backgrounds..jewish, african american, hells kitchen mafia etc...nothing or nobody was above being slagged. When I was leaving to come home to Ireland the customers had a collection and gave me 2000 dollars...Mega people altogether.
Well I suppose that I was lucky enough to have had time to get to know them as opposed to a holiday experience. I remember people from Minnesota( they had the real accent out of the movie Fargo which is in NC I think!) coming in to where I worked in Manhattan and they were terrified of the New Yorkers lol.... New Yorkers can be really in your face type of people but I found them to be the salt of the earth.
Sometimes I think that we are very quick to make Negative comments about America and the American people. We make assumptions about them based on some stupid American tv shows that even the Americans think are stupid. Bashing the Yanks gets on my nerves. Possibly I am a bit biased because I lived there for 14 years. While I lived there I was lucky enough to meet the most amazing people. I got to know the regular Joe Soaps who were just trying to earn a few bob and do the best for their families. All Americans are not fat and stupid! I found the people that I met to be really caring and genuine. Please let us not forget that America was a refuge for the Irish after the famine...for Europeans after World war 2. I took care of elderly people in New York who had lost all of their family members in concentration camps.They were very grateful to have been able to come to America. I found the American people to be really welcoming when I lived there. I base my experience on having lived in New York but I did visit some other American cities and felt the same welcome. This thread was prompted after seeing comments on another thread. When I went to America first I did not understand why Americans said they were Irish or Italian etc. I finally understood that they were respecting their parents heritage etc. One of my friends once said to me...oh Yanks saying they are Irish! His daughter was born in New York years later...me being me...took the piss out of him and said..oh you have an American kid! He said..No she is Irish...I said..oh really..then so are all the other people that you are saying are not Irish just cos they were born in America. Anyway....just saying..please stop and think before bashing a country that in my opinion has been pretty good to the Irish through the years. This thread is not about American Politics...it is about the American people, so please address political issues somewhere else :)
OMG....Bad flashback...you were wearing a headscarf like the one that PJ Gallagher wears when he is the auld wan...Yikes...I thought you were much older!!
Not a hope of swappies...my work crap is written in stone... Ah will meet you some other time...The pleasure will be all yours!!! Ah no...it will be all mine cos I am a right PITA!!!
Hell No!!! I am hitting 50...who want's to live forever? I think we have a life span and that is grand..unfortunately some people die young and then others live to be quite old. I have someone close to me who is almost 95 (not a parent). She really enjoys life and is totally with it...bit of devilment yet in her..she still puts on a bet on the horses now and again. She has said to me that the worst thing about being this age is that most of her friends and family are gone. Anyway, regarding living forever...well we kinda know what life is offering to us now...right? So why would we want to recyle that over and over again? Don't get me wrong I love life. I don't even have much of a belief in an afterlife...so if we could live forever...what would be the upside??? If we lived forever would it make us better people? Would we feel that we never had to right any wrongs cos we had eternity to do it? Would we never bother stopping to think about our relationship with family and friends and make amends if we had hurt people? Would we never make up with people that we had fallen out with?? I think that knowing that we will all die some day makes us kinda think about our own lives and personalities. We all use the Cliché that life is too short...yes it is....Maybe it just makes us appreciate what we have on a daily basis...even a person who knows they are dying appreciates the last days more than we appreciate our every day. I think that if we could live forever, we would never appreciate those days.. I think that we are given a life span to use it...we do what we do... Anyway...that is just me...
Listen Vinnie...it sounds like you are into interior design...far be it from me to cast aspersions on a possible alternative livesyle that you may have chosen...I wish you the very best with it .
..But damn...I can't remember what it was...I hate being old...well I don't really It was something uplifting though....always a good thing. Anybody have something uplifting to share seeing as I forgot mine?? Oh yeah...Did anyone hear Enda Kenny in the Dail today giving out about advisors under his breath when Micheal Martin was about to speak??? Effin Priceless...
Wow.... Have to say...I love America..and even the Yanks!! I was lucky enough to live in New York for ten years and in New Jersey for four years...so a total of fourteen years Stateside. I met the most amazing people. Yes, I did find that most of the Americans that I met were very self confident...I thought that was great. The "Scary New Yorkers" were some of the best people that I have ever had the privelige of meeting. I have visited, Boston, Florida, Alabama and New Orleans....again..I met amazing people. I think that Americans believe..yes we can do it...we are great...let's get on with it... I mean that in a good way. I love their enthusiam and get up and go attitude. My friends baby was very ill at one stage and had to be airlifted from New Jersey to CHOP (Childrens Hospital Philadelphia). Luckily we had really good American friends in the area. We were all a crowd of Irish people who were not familiar with the City. The people of Philadelphia were amazing, I mean the strangers that we met...they were just so helpful and friendly. I worked in a bar in the middle of Manhattan... I met people from all over the States. I could not even begin to describe what great personalities they had. They were generous, polite and for the most part had a great sense of humour. This is just my experience of having lived in the USA for fourteen years. I dont know if the OP has ever spent any time there on which to base her opinion but I would recommend spending time there. Anyway, God Bless America! It has given a better life to many people and has accepted people from all parts of the world. During my time there, I took care of people who had fled their own countries and sought refuge in America, people who had lost family members in Concentration camps etc. So I think that if any of us can say that about our own native countries then we can try and bash America...in the meantime...like I said before...God Bless America..land that I love..stand beside her.. I moved to America just to experience it but like I said, so many people fled there after the War...America took them in and it took me in.... I would love to think that my country (Ireland) would be so giving. So please...for the people who like to jump on the USA Bashing bandwagon...please know that they are amazing people My teddybear is for the "Yanks"...oh yeah..we Irish call all Americans Yanks...sorry..dont mean to cause any North/South conflict...last note....Yay...Giants Won!!!!
Are you for real???? He was/is a bigot...I will never know why the man did not have a bullet in his bigoted forehead!!!!...yeah...let him die in peace now with blood and prejudice on his hands.. How many of his victims did not get the chance to be at a family members bedside.. He is not an Irishman!!! We can be proud of Padraig Pearse or James Connolly or people who died at the hands of the likes of Ian Paisley!!
Well I have never been a fan of the man. I think he is a bigot that has done nothing to encourage good relations among people from different religious backgrounds. In the past he has made extrememly derogatory remarks about Catholics that would not be tolerated now. I was however surprised when I saw him interviewed once and I have to say that I thought that he had a good sense of humour. However I appreciate the fact that he is an elderly man with a family that cares about him so I wish him no ill will.
I would love to see a list of those demands....do they want a Helicopter? Funds transferred to an offshore account? Galaxy Bars??? Most of the women that I have met on here are pretty non demanding and not especially high maintenance... Ah sure,best of luck anyway.
saoirse65 Forum Posts (3,338)
Let's Bash The Yanks!
Well Halloween is actually a thing that originated in Ireland...so you can blame that one on us...Samhain etc!Hot dogs are mega...
Blah blah blah yourself
I still dont know how to Multi/double quote...
So to the Staten Island poster...Yikes, I remember working there..I had to take the subway from Queens...get the ferry to Staten Island and then get a bus to my destination....Train, boat and bus just to get to work.
I put this thread up on the Irish Forums also and got what I thought was an overall negative response...It was even suggested that I go back to the US if I liked it so much..