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Why wouldn’t you find pride in your own history, different times mate….if everyone was going about putting each other to the sword and stealing cattle then I’d be pretty proud of my ancestors if they were some of the best at it.
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I think, for good and bad as history proves, the British empire was surprisingly light touch in all its dealing wherever it was in the world…..so no, I wouldn’t argue that the British empire improved the things that you describe which is in fact how the famine happened. Wherever it went in the world it built and controlled the infrastructure and means of production, it created a system of law and order but it left well alone anything that it didn’t pay to meddle with….hence the famine, but also hence peoples ability to just live and prosper if they were lucky enough. A far cry f
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So my younger daughters boyfriend is almost uniquely a Protestant in his area, which is Sligo, and his name is Armstrong. Sligo is an hour from Fermanagh and Fermanagh is where lots of the Armstrong’s from Scotland were settled…..he has another family place between his house and Fermanagh. Stiffmeister has a great knowledge of the names from the border areas of England and Scotland, the history of the border reivers and it was he who gave me some history and pointed me in the right direction to find out more….. If you put aside the bad blood about various things, our histor
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I’m not talking about sectarianism, I’m talking the effect of Ulster Scots and British settlers on the infrastructure of ireland…..prejudice aside, modern Ireland doesn’t happen without them. As I said, I don’t know enough about the other stuff to give an accurate response.
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It was……to be more accurate anything advanced was. Upto partition, other than a scattered few castles and fortified houses, you can link almost all modernisation directly back to the arrival of Scottish and English settlers. Ireland was a clan system based on small communities of subsistence agriculture. All the historic industry, all the great houses, all the old railway stations, docks, crafted stone buildings, harbours like Newport, Westport have their roots in “Empire” for want of a better word…..all of that was imported from mainland Britain. It why they burned so man
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What did who build mate ?
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On the subject of history I heard an amazing stat the other day, it’s pretty hard to check the validity because the interweb is a mine field of garbage so it’s a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. But anyway, it was an academic type lad that was explaining this particular morsel so here it is: Upto 1930, something like 99% of all British people in Britain could have traced their linage/dna/ethnicity back directly to every British person in 930…..they were almost uniquely genetically unchanged ! I think that’s an amazing thing…..
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Stiffmeister has a massive knowledge of the history of the borders and Scotland, it’s one of his “go to” subjects and my comment was more from the point of it should be interesting to read two people chat about the subject mate.
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Oh I’m looking forward to this conversation !……..
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Travelling thousands of years before that brother, the burial cairns change distinctly as you come down the country from north to south…..the cairns in the north are the same as are to be found in Scotland and so they start to differ as you drop down because different British tribes travelled from the mainland to this island.
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Same as that, one I never forgot.
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Sounds like the career I’ve been looking for !
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The electorate ARE brain dead imbeciles !……is that even in doubt ?
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I’d say that’s a fair point, part of the wider social decline mate
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It’s lambs to the slaughter !……putting people who are obviously not capable on the front line of dealing with the sewer that is modern Britain is at best stupid and at worst totally negligent ! And let’s be fair, what f***ing plums are advising these women to join ?……I know it’s all fast track promotion pathways and all that caper but come on, seriously ? Those birds will get wasted in 3 seconds flat, as the video proves !
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Nobody is drawing those cartoon now…..guess why ?
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Not at all mate, but it’s nonsense I’ve heard various people trundle out over here….”Well we were welcomed with open arms when we emigrated” like it’s the same thing…..it’s absolutely not the same thing. One group of people make and do and build and create and thrive and behave with values……the other group just break stuff and behave like beasts……it’s not similar, it’s not even in the same ball park. Its a completely illogical argument or comparison…..
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I’d go as far as to say that the 12th is the single biggest celebration of British culture in the whole land……zero fucks given !
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Loyalist band filmed singing ‘The Sash’ outside office of Sinn Féin MLA M.BELFASTTELEGRAPH.CO.UK Members of a loyalist band have been filmed breaking into a rendition of The Sash just yards...
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My wife is just reading that a few lads sang “The Sash” outside the shinners office……lol
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Let’s have it right, the reason the European diaspora has managed to thrive and settle and build and nobody hates them is because they ain’t a load of backwards wogs who f**k everything up……there’s absolutely no mystery about it !
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It’s an every year event
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We was waiting for you to start and then we’d join in ! lol
