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• #101002
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• #101003
Used to work with someone who thought it was funny to do that. Seems to say a lot about the sort of fans Leigh Francis attracts.
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• #101004
If anyone wants to read an interesting and unsparing analysis of the Irish famine, try and find Cecil Woodham-Smith's 'The Great Hunger'. And if you prefer a literary rather than instant-rabbit hole adventure, her book on the Charge of the Light Brigade, 'The Reason Why' is another masterpiece.
World of Books will no doubt source them at minimal cost. These are old books now ('50s and '60s) but are works of impeccable scholalrship.
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• #101005
Sort of famines that aren’t cracking you up at the moment
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• #101006
Overheard in the lfgss meme bar:
If anyone wants to read an interesting and unsparing analysis of the Irish famine,
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• #101007
incognito
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• #101008
Much better articulated than I could manage. Thank you.
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• #101009
One of my best friends is Afro Irish. Beat that.
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• #101010
This has been in my head for years and just pops up every once in a while.
I hate/love it
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• #101011
I love it. A reminder of the days when there was fuck all apart from a few TV channels, hence men with ponytails were paid millions to write the ads.
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• #101012
My mate's dad ran a film/video production company in the 80s, their top director was the archetypal ponytail/mullet headed/pink blazer with massive shoulder pads/huge sunglasses media type, totally Peter Stringfellow, hilarious and terrifying in equal measure. I wonder where he is now?
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• #101013
I inadvertently started this.
I intended the tomato/tomayto analog. I was intending to suggest that most likely, to an English person, an Irish accented London Dock worker using English language rhyming slang would probably have been hard to distinguish from Irish. It wasn’t a particularly funny joke, but it didn’t cross my mind that it could be offensive, and I was surprised it caused so much upset. However, you learn, and it certainly did cause upset, and I was told it was racist so I apologised immediately and won’t say the same in future. And apologies again.
Now I wish I had a meme to share but I don’t
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• #101014
I love it when the Meme theread is more derail than Meme!
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• #101015
What if the derail was the meme all along
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• #101016
Mate. I’m fairly certain anti Irish sentiment and prejudice existed before you hit “Post reply”. On a lighter note, my lovely Irish girlfriend once asked my (mixed race) kids whether they wanted a sambo. Irish slang for a sandwich apparently.
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• #101017
Sambo - I’m going to start using that
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• #101018
Sando wasn't bad enough eh
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• #101019
For better or worse you shall forever be remembered in my head as user pot@t.o.
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• #101020
0.26 for the sambo content
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• #101021
You realise it's a racial slur?
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• #101022
He said sandwich “Irish slang for sandwich apparently” 🤔
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• #101024
This is the first I've heard of that word. As a sandwich or racial slur. Could be more of an American thing?
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Could be more of an American thing?
The book Little Black Sambo was a standard in most kids' bookshelves over here when I was a kid. He was probably the first Black character I was aware of in anything, and he was a very sympathetic, smart heroic character. But the use of the term, which is a racist slur, and the artwork, have not aged at all well.
In another area of my life I know an Irish guy who was greeted with shouts of "potatoes" when ever he talked. Really not cool...