Conquer Club

I for one consider myself an assimilated American. I don't have any interest in Ireland. Not the food, beer, music or dancing. Could care less about the landmarks or finding the family farm if there ever was one. If I landed there today they wouldn't know me or me know them. Not sure if that makes me normal or weird but I killed the -ish American a long time ago.

HitRed

HitRed wrote:I for one consider myself an assimilated American. I don't have any interest in Ireland. Not the food, beer, music or dancing. Could care less about the landmarks or finding the family farm if there ever was one. If I landed there today they wouldn't know me or me know them. Not sure if that makes me normal or weird but I killed the -ish American a long time ago.

HitRed

Interesting question. I can speak very little Greek and I'm not Greek Orthodox; but I enjoy the food, music and dancing, alcoholic beverages and in the past my friends have referred to me as The Greek.

There's an awesome essay by Salman Rushdie- "Imaginary Homelands". It's about how immigrants re-imagine their country of origin.

http://discuss.forumias.com/uploads/FileUpload/d7/db92f97cef8028225eb3818744f2fa.pdf

There are probably better links to it out there, but it is a short read, and well worth the time.

I also really enjoy other cultures and do or enjoy things that are not necessarily American (or Greek). Perhaps that's one of the best parts of the United States although I honestly have no idea whether there are hundreds of other cultural variations in other countries.

thegreekdog wrote:I also really enjoy other cultures and do or enjoy things that are not necessarily American (or Greek). Perhaps that's one of the best parts of the United States although I honestly have no idea whether there are hundreds of other cultural variations in other countries.

Aye, well said. Personally, whenever I hear the word "un-American", it makes my skin crawl. Except when it's describing people who use the word "un-American". Then it's ok.

thegreekdog wrote:

HitRed wrote:I for one consider myself an assimilated American. I don't have any interest in Ireland. Not the food, beer, music or dancing. Could care less about the landmarks or finding the family farm if there ever was one. If I landed there today they wouldn't know me or me know them. Not sure if that makes me normal or weird but I killed the -ish American a long time ago.

HitRed

Interesting question. I can speak very little Greek and I'm not Greek Orthodox; but I enjoy the food, music and dancing, alcoholic beverages and in the past my friends have referred to me as The Greek.

I spent a fir amount of time in Greece, and actually spoke it better than most outsiders for a while (completely rusty now, and can't even sound the letters out for the most part) - big fan of the food and often cook Greek.

I probably said before, my favourite thing about Greece was the smell - everywhere outside the enclaves of English pubs/fish and ship shops smells of good olive oil and fresh garlic.

jonesthecurl wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

HitRed wrote:I for one consider myself an assimilated American. I don't have any interest in Ireland. Not the food, beer, music or dancing. Could care less about the landmarks or finding the family farm if there ever was one. If I landed there today they wouldn't know me or me know them. Not sure if that makes me normal or weird but I killed the -ish American a long time ago.

HitRed

Interesting question. I can speak very little Greek and I'm not Greek Orthodox; but I enjoy the food, music and dancing, alcoholic beverages and in the past my friends have referred to me as The Greek.

I spent a fir amount of time in Greece, and actually spoke it better than most outsiders for a while (completely rusty now, and can't even sound the letters out for the most part) - big fan of the food and often cook Greek.

I probably said before, my favourite thing about Greece was the smell - everywhere outside the enclaves of English pubs/fish and ship shops smells of good olive oil and fresh garlic.

Jones! Great to see you back.

Greek's not a particularly difficult language to read, in fact it's easy as...

... sorry, I can't do it.

jonesthecurl wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

HitRed wrote:I for one consider myself an assimilated American. I don't have any interest in Ireland. Not the food, beer, music or dancing. Could care less about the landmarks or finding the family farm if there ever was one. If I landed there today they wouldn't know me or me know them. Not sure if that makes me normal or weird but I killed the -ish American a long time ago.

HitRed

Interesting question. I can speak very little Greek and I'm not Greek Orthodox; but I enjoy the food, music and dancing, alcoholic beverages and in the past my friends have referred to me as The Greek.

I probably said before, my favourite thing about Greece was the smell

In my experience after I pay the ladies extra and we take a trip to the greek isles, the smell is certainly not the part I enjoy most. (poop emoji - use imagination)

Some of those who drink Guiness, are the same that run business.

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses.

Something about 2dimes post got this ratm song stuck in my head.

They played it at the Astros game and a guy in front of us was bobbing to it. They obviously cut it off before it got into the part about not doing what you tell me.

Yes, that was a parody of the song.

I was going to say I'm not -ish and my wife's family does not seem interested in keeping their -ish identity. Though she does wear green on snake chaser day. Sometimes she grabs a corned beef, those went up in price.

I certainly like their booze though.

Then the title of the thread helped me think of doing the post I ended up with. I'm not super happy with the second line but it had to rhyme.

2dimes wrote:They played it at the Astros game and a guy in front of us was bobbing to it. They obviously cut it off before it got into the part about not doing what you tell me.

Yes, that was a parody of the song.

I was going to say I'm not -ish and my wife's family does not seem interested in keeping their -ish identity. Though she does wear green on snake chaser day. Sometimes she grabs a corned beef, those went up in price.

I certainly like their booze though.

Then the title of the thread helped me think of doing the post I ended up with. I'm not super happy with the second line but it had to rhyme.

You also misspelled Guinness. If you feel guilty about that, blame the Irish Catholicism in your life. If you don't, blame your education system.

You're surprised I misspelled something?

2dimes wrote:You're surprised I misspelled something?

Sadly, no I am not. Tbh, if there was a list of things that annoy in me in this thread, you misspelling Guinness and me feeling the need to point out that you misspelled Guinness would rank about equal for first place.

If you feel guilty about that blame the Irish Catholisism in your life.

2dimes wrote:If you feel guilty about that blame the Irish Catholisism in your life.

I am writing a strongly worded letter to Pope Francis as we speak.

Is he the current one?

2dimes wrote:Is he the current one?

I hope so. I'll have to re-write the whole thing if he's not. A solid 30-40 percent is me making fun of him for being called Francis.

You'd be vastly better off having a pint of Guiness. So if tha's the wrong spelling I wonder why iPad lets it through? Does it feel guilty? Who is to blame for that?

We used to call Guinness "Black and Suds".

What would you call other brands of porter?

*catholicism

I hope that's for me. I did that intentionally. I wish my spelling was much worse. The iPad's spell chewue helps some weird stuff happen. Case in point chewue. You know because I was going for the wrong form of check and then the w is too close to the q, clumsy fat finger and viola!

2dimes wrote:I hope that's for me. I did that intentionally. I wish my spelling was much worse. The iPad's spell chewue helps some weird stuff happen. Case in point chewue. You know because I was going for the wrong form of check and then the w is too close to the q, clumsy fat finger and viola!

Or you could just spell it "check" like a real English speaker...

Pfft. The joke is cheque as in the Canadian word would go in-noticed by most spell cheque programs. But not apple products. They don't recognize cheque so sometimes this one ?I am using will auto fill "cheque" ha it just did it in reverse. I tried to write c h e w u e. The next level of the joke is sheet stain told me to blame my education, the precursor of the current one where they don't teach spelling because you will just pick it up using spell check.

As the teacher who informed us of that ten years ago said, "Welcome to the finial age." Finial should be d I g I t a l but I probably spelled it wrong so that was what got put in there.

I really shouldn't even look at things. I should just fire them out there to make my posts even funnier.