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Old 01-16-2006, 09:05 PM
behemoth2006 behemoth2006 is offline
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Im such a mutt that when people ask me where Im from, I just grab ahold of an accent and run with it... I can do everything white, Im part mexican so I got that, pretty much whatever.

I kinda wish it was cleaner, my heritage, I'd like to have more than a 200 year history, but it's all good:

German, Dutch, Native American, Mexican, and pacific islander.

bleh.

Im goin wiv cockney now mate... la'as!

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Yah, la'as me auld China. Be lucky.

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I'll see you that, and raise you:

Wot say we pop round the Jack?
I'll stand you a pig and you can rabbit on about your teapots.
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Old 01-16-2006, 09:06 PM
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Default Re: Are you \'American\' or \'Irish\'?

what do people consider Jewish?
a religion, nationality or both
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Old 01-16-2006, 09:07 PM
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50% German, 25% Irish, and 25% English
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Old 01-16-2006, 09:08 PM
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what do people consider Jewish?
a religion, nationality or both

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It's obviously a religion. In common use it is used as an ethnicity.
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Old 01-16-2006, 09:09 PM
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what do people consider Jewish?
a religion, nationality or both

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It's obviously a religion. In common use it is used as an ethnicity.

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Or as a descriptor of a business transaction.

but that's where it gets derrogatory.
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Old 01-16-2006, 09:18 PM
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Default Re: Are you \'American\' or \'Irish\'?

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Im such a mutt that when people ask me where Im from, I just grab ahold of an accent and run with it... I can do everything white, Im part mexican so I got that, pretty much whatever.

I kinda wish it was cleaner, my heritage, I'd like to have more than a 200 year history, but it's all good:

German, Dutch, Native American, Mexican, and pacific islander.

bleh.

Im goin wiv cockney now mate... la'as!

[/ QUOTE ]
Yah, la'as me auld China. Be lucky.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'll see you that, and raise you:

Wot say we pop round the Jack?
I'll stand you a pig and you can rabbit on about your teapots.

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Oi! Shuuut it, you slaaaaag. We doan [censored]' tawk like lat, right! Lat's a media stereotype of a specifik urban group that doan' aktually exist, right, lat's wot lat is. Do me a tortoise! An I love Lundun tahn!
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Old 01-16-2006, 09:21 PM
behemoth2006 behemoth2006 is offline
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Default Re: Are you \'American\' or \'Irish\'?

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Im such a mutt that when people ask me where Im from, I just grab ahold of an accent and run with it... I can do everything white, Im part mexican so I got that, pretty much whatever.

I kinda wish it was cleaner, my heritage, I'd like to have more than a 200 year history, but it's all good:

German, Dutch, Native American, Mexican, and pacific islander.

bleh.

Im goin wiv cockney now mate... la'as!

[/ QUOTE ]
Yah, la'as me auld China. Be lucky.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'll see you that, and raise you:

Wot say we pop round the Jack?
I'll stand you a pig and you can rabbit on about your teapots.

[/ QUOTE ]
Oi! Shuuut it, you slaaaaag. We doan [censored]' tawk like lat, right! Lat's a media stereotype of a specifik urban group that doan' aktually exist, right, lat's wot lat is. Do me a tortoise! An I love Lundun tahn!

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oi noes a peela when oi sayees one.. or you been on a gary playa?

get ovva it mate!
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Old 01-16-2006, 09:47 PM
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I used to have a good friend who bartended at an Irish pub. He was "persona non grata" in Ireland. He used to love getting drunk and singing and yelling "oop the rah". Drunken former IRA gunmen are scary friend to have.
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Old 01-16-2006, 10:11 PM
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im in the US and my ancestry in irish. my brother is living other there now temporarily and loves it. im going to visit him in march which will be my first trip over there.

im looking forward to the trip itself but am also interested because that's where my family roots, ethnic identity, and family name are from.

bwana
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Old 01-16-2006, 10:18 PM
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im in the US and my ancestry in irish. my brother is living other there now temporarily and loves it. im going to visit him in march which will be my first trip over there.

im looking forward to the trip itself but am also interested because that's where my family roots, ethnic identity, and family name are from.

bwana

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Sorta like Calvin Murphy?
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