I could give a rats arse about:

[Blackguard666]

1. I could give a FU*K less about kazillionaires not being "completely satisfied" about a home they were shown on that damn tv show chicks watch!!!! WHO THE HELL CARES about watching Bob and Sally the Neurosurgeons that make $9898989898 a day and buying a 5th summer home? How can you watch that! I'd rather stick my tongue in a fan! For Hell's sake, man!

 

2. I could give two sh*ts and a fu*k about kazillionaire Oprah Worthless giving $500 pairs of shoes at holiday time to rich audience women, when there are homeless people and poor people one block from her studio.

 

3. I could most defiantly care less about bloodlines, nationalities, etc. Look, I'm Irish and all....I could give a rat's ass. I'm me, a guy. I'm from New York, and look and act it. Okay? "Oh, I'm German. I'll get all Hitler on you", "Oh, I'm English, I'm a freakin %&$!", "I'm Itailian. Nobody can cook like us.". STFU. Just.....STFU with that. Same species. WTF.

 

 

 

I'm going to start a website called whatthefuc*.com.

[Timihendrix91]

^Yeah, i hate when people are like "I'm Irish" or "I'm German" because they are the descendents of someone that was.

[myrmaad]

^Yeah, i hate when people are like "I'm Irish" or "I'm German" because they are the descendents of someone that was.

 

I'm actually half Irish, because my mother was fully Irish, her grandparents came over in the 1840s with their young family, and 20 years later two of their boys fought in the civil war, one on each side. The one who fought for the union didn't make it home from the war. The one who fought for the confederacy used to take MY grandmother on his knee and tell her stories about it. My grandmother was the youngest of 9 kids and he was her uncle and lived with her parents until he passed away, her father was his much younger baby brother, and he did not fight in the war. She is about to celebrate her 100th birthday in November. Her husband, MY grandfather on my mother's side, was born here in the US but his own father only came over in 1900.

 

My dad's grandparents died when I was really little, and they never bothered to learn English, they just spoke German, their native tongue. But on my dad's mother's side it gets pretty muddy. My dad's mother was one of the youngest of 11 children. My favorite great-aunt, who never had children of her own and was like another grandmother to me, passed away when I was 15, I loved her soo much. All those girls had dark skin and hair because of their native American ancestry, and though I think were beautiful, it was not the fashion of the day to have dark skin and straight dark hair. My dad never knew his native american grandmother, but the blood flows true in his veins, and I think it's what has made him such a great farmer, his love for the land and animals, the depth of how "in tune" he is with its forces, his strong intuition and innate pragmatic outlook all attest to that.

 

He taught me to watch the sky, watch the stars, pay attention to birds and animals for clues to the weather, and little sensible things he said to me when I was a child, spoken with great earnestness: "reach for the stars, if you fall short, you've still got something", "everything you do in life comes back to you"...

 

It may seem cliche, but I believe our roots run strong; and I for one, honor my ancestors.

 

 

And since we all have a common one, I get the point that we are all brethren as well.

[dezdimona]

^Yeah, i hate when people are like "I'm Irish" or "I'm German" because they are the descendents of someone that was.

 

He taught me to watch the sky, watch the stars, pay attention to birds and animals for clues to the weather, and little sensible things he said to me when I was a child, spoken with great earnestness: "reach for the stars, if you fall short, you've still got something", "everything you do in life comes back to you"...

 

It may seem cliche, but I believe our roots run strong; and I for one, honor my ancestors.

 

 

And since we all have a common one, I get the point that we are all brethren as well.

well said. I was born in the states,that makes me an American,but I honor my heritage as well.I love my country,but that doesn't always mean I love my government or its politics and some people have a hard time seeing that as two seperate things.

[Timihendrix91]

well said. I was born in the states,that makes me an American,but I honor my heritage as well

That's what I meant. I was talking about people born in the US who claim they're "Irish" because some of their ancestors were, or people claiming that they are African because their ancestors were.

[Sarya]

Heh. That problem is quite alien to me o_O

[Chesto]

One set of grandparents were Scots, and Swedes, from Wisconsin. One set were English, from England, but lived in Canada. My father was adopted by the English ones. He was half Cree Indian, and the other, Scots. I was born in Canada. I was adopted, my blood parents Irish, and English. I have lived most of my life in the UK.

 

So...I couldnt give a rats arse about who all these people are, either.

 

But...do you know what? The gene pool does. And , whether I give a rat's arse , or not, it's working away, all of the time.

[tyreil829]

hey chesto not seen you in a while hows things

 

Col John Sheppard

[Chesto]

I couldnt give a rat's arse about everything, except definitely something. And I'm better than good, t. Thanks for asking. How you? Though... i couldn't, probably, give a rat's arse about it, as long as you're doing fine.

[Aeryn333]

I do give a rats ares about this.as we all do here in Éire ..that eh like see I am from Ireland and we disagree with this intensely ..Many people were forced to go to America and Canada the famine and all ect..WE embrace and encourage people to accept their roots..Being Irish does not mean you were born in Ireland, being Irish means its those roots that beat the loudest in your heart...and soul..it what defines you..

Being Irish says your proud of your hetitage...no matter where you were born, so many of our own in Exile because of things that happened here..

 

We look at America sometimes as a culture without roots..What is American culture, but a set of political beliefs, not cultural ones..for America was made on the backbone of many a culture for now I will deal with just the Irish..forgeting that is why there is so much predjudice there as we see it..

 

Eh like for its what I know..there are no true Americans but Native Americans..

If more people got in touch with not where they live but who they are culturally, they would not feel so lost as who am I..To simply say I am an American what does that mean , roots are important to people..it says where you come from..what intially shaped you..So many young people are losing sight of the meaning of roots and its sad..

 

To say the words I am Irish American means one has accepted the roots of their ancestors..To many poeple forgot, the ancestoral roots are lost. traditions are lost..la

 

No one actually has a aright to call themselves a true American but Native Americans, to find your roots is to find your history to find yourself, is to find where yor people came from and what culture beats the truest to what you think believe feel in the inner you, ones truest self..

 

Thats my say, and I will not get into an arguement about it, you know who...I am not in the mood..comprende vous!!!!

 

I like when people can proclaim their roots no matter where they may have been born..WE here in Éire embrace openly our Irish American family, as Irish plain and simple..if thats the drum that beats strongest in them, and thats the culture the soul feel is home..me Gran's used to say one drop of Irish blood and your Irish..WE accept people who acknowledge this in themselves and feel aye Ireland is home in my soul , and how I believe. Then they are our own, a people,in exile from their Native land..

 

Eh like it matter not the genrations that passed but how strng that culture was passed down to them, and it struck a note of truth inside, by their parents or granfolk that came from here..that is what matters..la

 

Why because many were forced to leave Ireland and did not want to..and now generations later, many of these people say, you know what I am proud I am Irish, and consider themselves Irish, and to them we warmly embrace and welcome..them as Irish..

 

Eh Like What makes a person who they are, where they live or their cultrural beliefs. la