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« Reply #60 on: March 18, 2025, 13:25:43 pm » |
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I once asked my dad why we didn't celebrate St Patricks Day, his response was "We're not that sort of Irish"! The truth will set you free  |
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« Reply #61 on: March 18, 2025, 14:09:06 pm » |
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Never Never Never.
Come on Manny, it is St Paddy's Day every one can join in, nobody would think any less of you. |
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« Reply #62 on: March 18, 2025, 15:29:45 pm » |
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Come on Manny, it is St Paddy's Day every one can join in, nobody would think any less of you.
Not for me comrade, it’s when it all starts getting republican, it never ends well. |
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« Reply #63 on: March 18, 2025, 17:10:47 pm » |
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Why would anybody. Just out of pure logic. Celebrate the day of an another country’s patron state… What about July 4th, or Bastille day. Doesn't make sense at all.
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« Reply #64 on: March 18, 2025, 17:32:47 pm » |
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St George is the Patron Saint of Catalunya and Georgia, the English don’t have exclusive rights to his patronage 😉
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« Reply #65 on: March 18, 2025, 18:24:40 pm » |
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Why would anybody. Just out of pure logic. Celebrate the day of an another country’s patron state… What about July 4th, or Bastille day. Doesn't make sense at all.
No names mentioned, but I watched a retired british army officer, who I know for a fact, served in Operation Banner, walking around apub with a Guinness top hat on for most of the afternoon. Very strange. |
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« Reply #66 on: March 18, 2025, 21:09:07 pm » |
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Why would anybody. Just out of pure logic. Celebrate the day of an another country’s patron state… What about July 4th, or Bastille day. Doesn't make sense at all.
But why not? Every day is party day in the Bingers household. You are just a killjoy Fenners. Go on, lighten up and enjoy yourself, whatever the excuse? |
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« Reply #67 on: March 18, 2025, 21:12:08 pm » |
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No names mentioned, but I watched a retired british army officer, who I know for a fact, served in Operation Banner, walking around apub with a Guinness top hat on for most of the afternoon. Very strange.
Sorry, don't see the problem. There is a good chance that if he served on the island of Ireland that he would have picked up the taste for a certain style of beer, he can celebrate that beer if he wishes. On the political side of things, some people have managed to move on and forgive, which is a bigger thing to do than continue a drudge. |
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« Reply #68 on: March 18, 2025, 21:15:30 pm » |
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Why would anybody. Just out of pure logic. Celebrate the day of an another country’s patron state… What about July 4th, or Bastille day. Doesn't make sense at all.
Exactly. Well said. |
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« Reply #69 on: March 18, 2025, 21:41:07 pm » |
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Sorry, don't see the problem. There is a good chance that if he served on the island of Ireland that he would have picked up the taste for a certain style of beer, he can celebrate that beer if he wishes.
On the political side of things, some people have managed to move on and forgive, which is a bigger thing to do than continue a drudge.
Are you seriously suggesting that during a military deployment to Northern Ireland at that very difficult period in time, a British officer visits the local pub frequently enough to acquire a taste for Guinness? WOW. you are so naive at times. If they were lucky there might have been a can of Watneys red barrel, back at the barracks, behind the gates, the barbed wire, and the armed guards and the watch tower.  |
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« Reply #70 on: March 18, 2025, 22:12:53 pm » |
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Are you seriously suggesting that during a military deployment to Northern Ireland at that very difficult period in time, a British officer visits the local pub frequently enough to acquire a taste for Guinness? WOW. you are so naive at times. If they were lucky there might have been a can of Watneys red barrel, back at the barracks, behind the gates, the barbed wire, and the armed guards and the watch tower. He didn't have to have acquired a taste for it in while he was in Northern Ireland. It was available in the rest of Britain during the lengthy periods he wasn't deployed over there. I love it and have never even been in the army. |
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« Reply #71 on: March 18, 2025, 23:58:29 pm » |
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He didn't have to have acquired a taste for it in while he was in Northern Ireland. It was available in the rest of Britain during the lengthy periods he wasn't deployed over there. I love it and have never even been in the army.
That wasnt what Bangers said though was it? |
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Manwork04
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« Reply #72 on: March 19, 2025, 13:31:07 pm » |
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Guinness the biggest Protestant family business in Ireland 😎
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