[Scotch?-Ed]
In America the term is accepted vernacular for Scots who left Ireland and came to America; Scotch-Irish.
Anyhoo we fought with Orange Billy and the Duke of Shombourg at the Battle of the Boyne and received a land-grant from the great William III as a reward. The Thompsons of Ireland left that blighted land in the 1750s and settled in orange county New York in the Hudson River Valley. We were good Tories during the American Insurrection.
Your Friday Flag on Sunday
Our maternal grandfather, George Hunter Thompson, Thompson is our middle name BTW, was descended from a long line of Scot-Presbyterian ministers, and he always told our mother to don orange on St. Patrick's Day. We do.
But that's not why we hate the Irish.
Ohhhh the troubles....ohhhh Bloody Sunday....ohhhh the English hung me grandfather they did, now let me bore the hell out of you over a pint or 12....Ohhh that poor Bobby Sands...
Good lord the way these people wallow in The Troubles, the way it just consumed the whole damn island. You get a lot of this with the breakaway IRA terrorists in Patriot Games. PJ O'Rourke mocked the hell out of the Irish Wallow in his tour of Belfast chronicled in Give War a Chance, an important book in our own life. At one point O'Rourke refers to the 'Kill Happy Irish' walking out of funerals becuase the clergy denounce para-military violence.
You get a whiff of Irish-despair over here in America, where all Irish songs have three themes:
-Let's get drunk and kill the limeys.
-Let's get drunk and talk about how bad Ireland was.
-Let's get drunk and talk about how much we miss Ireland.
Oh, also mother.
We happened to be in Ireland a few weeks before their referendum on joining the EU in 2008. We saw all the sites. For the record the Guinness at the Dublin brewery is only slightly better than the Guinness over here, and the bar on top of the brewery serves Budweiser. Bud? What the fuck is wrong with these people? When we saw Sinn Feinn signs urging 'No' we knew to support Irish entry full throttle. Anything those Marxist bastards oppose has to be a good idea.
Oh, also mother.
We happened to be in Ireland a few weeks before their referendum on joining the EU in 2008. We saw all the sites. For the record the Guinness at the Dublin brewery is only slightly better than the Guinness over here, and the bar on top of the brewery serves Budweiser. Bud? What the fuck is wrong with these people? When we saw Sinn Feinn signs urging 'No' we knew to support Irish entry full throttle. Anything those Marxist bastards oppose has to be a good idea.
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