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Culprit 
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| think positive wrote: | | But it was funny! The other two not so much! |
It's like that Joke when Saddam talked to Dubya about Star Trek. He told Dubya that he loved the show as it had Asians, Blacks and various races and they all got on well. He was just upset by one thing though and he asked Dubya Bush at the time about this. "George, why are there no Muslims in Star Trek?" Dubya replied, "Saddam, that's because it's set in the future". |
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think positive 
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/\ Hehehehe
Paddy died in a fire and was burnt pretty badly. So the morgue needed someone to identify the body. His two best friends, Seamus and Sean, were sent for. Seamus went in and the mortician pulled back the sheet.
Seamus said, “Yup, he’s burnt pretty bad. Roll him over.”
So the mortician rolled him over. Seamus looked and said, “Nope, it ain’t Paddy.”
The mortician thought that was rather strange and then he brought Sean in to identify the body.
Sean took a look at him and said, “Yup, he’s burnt real bad, roll him over.”
The mortician rolled him over and Sean looked down and said, “No, it ain’t Paddy.”
The mortician asked, “How can you tell?”
Sean said, “Well, Paddy had two arseholes.”
“What? He had two arseholes?” said the mortician.
“Yup, everyone knew he had two arseholes. Every time we went into town, folks would say, ‘Here comes Paddy with them two arseholes’.”
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stui magpie 
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Hah, Irish jokes. Never get old. 
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Bruce Gonsalves
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| Interesting, Irish jokes. My late Irish father use to get quite upset over incessant Irish jokes, particularly coming from English people, I never understood why, but now I do. |
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stui magpie
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Would you prefer some English jokes?
Here's a few.
brexit
the Royal Family
Where does an Englishman hide his valuables? Under the soap
Why does bear grylls drink his own urine? It tastes like English beer
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Bruce Gonsalves
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| Stui, when a race of people have been persecuted for centuries and it is continued on by making them look stupid with 'jokes', I don't find them funny. |
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stui magpie
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Fair call, except the Irish aren't a race, they're a nationality.
I'm of mainly british ancestory and I'll take the p155 out of them at any given opportunity, but apologies for any offence.
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| Are we still talking about [quote]
Saul Goodman ? |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
Fair call, except the Irish aren't a race, they're a nationality.
I'm of mainly british ancestory and I'll take the p155 out of them at any given opportunity, but apologies for any offence. |
Being 50% Irish and 50% English ancestry myself, I'd say that if the modern Irish have moved on from the historic grievances, it's debatable whether there is a good reason for an Australian resident to get too upset about it. Most people have suffered historic injustices, and most forgive and forget after a few generations.
Irish jokes did start as a British jeer at the ill-educated poor Irish who moved to England in the 19th century in search of work. But a lot of the British themselves, in that time, were nearly as oppressed by a pretty heartless ruling class. So the idea that this is one lot of oppressors and another oppressed is way too simple. I suspect the modern Irish jokes survives because the accent, perhaps the most beautiful spoken accent in the world, nevertheless has an essentially comic sound because of its lilting character
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HAL
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| Humans are not always infallible. |
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Morrigu 
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| stui magpie wrote: | Fair call, except the Irish aren't a race, they're a nationality.
I'm of mainly british ancestory and I'll take the p155 out of them at any given opportunity, but apologies for any offence. |
As the child of an Irish mother I never get upset about pommy gits telling Irish jokes - they have to tell jokes about others to make themselves feel better - understandably
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think positive
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| HAL wrote: | | Humans are not always infallible. |
Or always offended!
Gees I'm a deaf British female colliwobble supporter! living in a laid back country that takes delight in offending everyone! I've heard them all, bring it!
Yeah there is things I get offended about, but I'm more than happy to pay it back with interest!
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HAL
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| Morrigu wrote: | [quote="stui magpie"] Fair call, except the Irish aren't a race, they're a nationality.
I'm of mainly british ancestory and I'll take the p155 out of them at any given opportunity, but apologies for any offence.[/quote]
As the child of an Irish mother I never get upset about pommy gits telling Irish jokes - they have to tell jokes about others to make themselves feel better - understandably |
Can you remember any time that [quote]
As the child of an Irish mother he or she did it? |
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David
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Joined: 27 Jul 2003
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| Mugwump wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
Fair call, except the Irish aren't a race, they're a nationality.
I'm of mainly british ancestory and I'll take the p155 out of them at any given opportunity, but apologies for any offence. |
Being 50% Irish and 50% English ancestry myself, I'd say that if the modern Irish have moved on from the historic grievances, it's debatable whether there is a good reason for an Australian resident to get too upset about it. Most people have suffered historic injustices, and most forgive and forget after a few generations.
Irish jokes did start as a British jeer at the ill-educated poor Irish who moved to England in the 19th century in search of work. But a lot of the British themselves, in that time, were nearly as oppressed by a pretty heartless ruling class. So the idea that this is one lot of oppressors and another oppressed is way too simple. I suspect the modern Irish jokes survives because the accent, perhaps the most beautiful spoken accent in the world, nevertheless has an essentially comic sound because of its lilting character |
I wonder if it's also considered to be less politically incorrect to make fun of Irish people – being white and all – than it is most other nationalities.
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Bruce Gonsalves
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
Fair call, except the Irish aren't a race, they're a nationality.
I'm of mainly british ancestory and I'll take the p155 out of them at any given opportunity, but apologies for any offence. |
No offence taken as they don't offend me, but I do understand nowadays how they can offend.
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