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Postby dbx » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:17 pm

faux wrote:
The use of the term "you people" is obnoxious,.


I'm sorry I hurt your poor feelings... is "you humans", "you living creatures" or "you bipedals" better for you?

Oh and referring to the people who became christian as "sheep", isn't exactly flattering either.


Why would I want to flatter them?
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Postby faux » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:23 pm

dbx wrote:
faux wrote:
The use of the term "you people" is obnoxious,.


I'm sorry I hurt your poor feelings... is "you humans", "you living creatures" or "you bipedals" better for you?


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... you+people

Did I suggest you hurt my feelings?

It's a loaded term, which implies the people you're referring to are somehow inferior to "your" people.

I'd suggest "why do Irish people celebrate this $#%^" instead, but hey English is as nuanced as any other language.

dbx wrote:
Oh and referring to the people who became christian as "sheep", isn't exactly flattering either.


Why would I want to flatter them?


I wasn't suggesting that you should.

But in the interests of reasoned debate, labelling anyone who doesn't go along with your ideals as "sheep" isn't very clever.

It invites an equally dumb response and no-one gets anywhere.

I think most/a lot of European countries have some kind of Patron Saints Day. England has St. Georges day for example.

They're really celebrations of national identity and only nominally christian.
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Postby dbx » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:28 pm

faux wrote:
dbx wrote:
faux wrote:
The use of the term "you people" is obnoxious,.


I'm sorry I hurt your poor feelings... is "you humans", "you living creatures" or "you bipedals" better for you?


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... you+people

Did I suggest you hurt my feelings?

It's a loaded term, which implies the people you're referring to are somehow inferior to "your" people.

I'd suggest "why do Irish people celebrate this $#%^" instead, but hey English is as nuanced as any other language.


Funny, not a single time I've said this in my country has been regarded as loaded or insulting to anyone...



I wasn't suggesting that you should.

But in the interests of reasoned debate, labelling anyone who doesn't go along with your ideals as "sheep" isn't very clever.

It invites an equally dumb response and no-one gets anywhere.

I think most/a lot of European countries have some kind of Patron Saints Day. England has St. Georges day for example.

They're really celebrations of national identity and only nominally christian.



I'm not interested in any debate at the moment. If I was, I know how to word my sentences
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Postby faux » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:35 pm

dbx wrote:
faux wrote:
dbx wrote:
faux wrote:
The use of the term "you people" is obnoxious,.


I'm sorry I hurt your poor feelings... is "you humans", "you living creatures" or "you bipedals" better for you?


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... you+people

Did I suggest you hurt my feelings?

It's a loaded term, which implies the people you're referring to are somehow inferior to "your" people.

I'd suggest "why do Irish people celebrate this $#%^" instead, but hey English is as nuanced as any other language.


Funny, not a single time I've said this in my country has been regarded as loaded or insulting to anyone...


Not funny, understandable - language is different in every country, and something innocuous in one country can be loaded in another.

Maybe I'm being obnoxiously PC, but I've heard the "you people" delivered at Irish people over the years by individuals with an axe to grind with us.


dbx wrote:
I wasn't suggesting that you should.

But in the interests of reasoned debate, labelling anyone who doesn't go along with your ideals as "sheep" isn't very clever.

It invites an equally dumb response and no-one gets anywhere.

I think most/a lot of European countries have some kind of Patron Saints Day. England has St. Georges day for example.

They're really celebrations of national identity and only nominally christian.



I'm not interested in any debate at the moment. If I was, I know how to word my sentences


Happy St. Patrick's day!
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Postby shutin » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:23 pm

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
It isn't a holiday I celebrate, but I do clebrate Valentine's Day, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year's. I'm an atheist, but any day seems fine to me. I look at some holidays as being days when everyone sets aside time to be with each other. It might happen anyway, but there is no reason why it matters that it happens to be when everyone else is celebrating as well.
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Postby Parador » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:26 pm

I want next Monday to be Ironman Day. We need a holiday for a superhero.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
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Postby coldhands » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:38 pm

I went to the parade it was really good and it's such a lovely sunny day also. Then I went to a pub and there was a trad session going on it was excellent. Later im going to watch The Simpsons. :D
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Postby Chucky » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:08 pm

Butterfly Faerie wrote:I'm part irish, actually me and the BF both though he wears the green and I wear the orange hahaha...

We aren't doing anything.

I didn't know that. What's your connection to here? There are tens of millions of Americans and Canadians with Irish connections. This is mostly due to the fact that 1,000,000+ of us emigrated there in the 1800s during the Great Irish Famine.

I didn't watch the Simpsons either... ...what was it about coldhands?
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Postby coldhands » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:39 pm

fell a sleep and missed The Simpsons (im such a lightweight :oops: ).

But what I do know from the news is that Homer goes to Ireland and buys a failing pub. It was written a year ago before the recession so it's meant to have emphasied how technologically driven our employment industry is.
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Postby two_roads » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:53 am

Happy St. Patrick's day :D . I'm tipsy :oops:

Here is a funny song :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imPaiELL_C8
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