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Old 09-12-2017, 04:44 PM   #1996
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They're hanging men and women for wearin' o' the green.

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Huh. Sebby thinks my Irish family are all bigots. Somehow, though, we didn't all help elect Trump like him.
Enh, he's just using hyperbole to make a semi-valid point about the potato eaters. My extended family in The Ancestral Homeland are about 60% bigoted and 40% some level of woke.*

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*Term used to annoy Sebby.
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Re: They're hanging men and women for wearin' o' the green.

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Enh, he's just using hyperbole to make a semi-valid point about the potato eaters. My extended family in The Ancestral Homeland are about 60% bigoted and 40% some level of woke.*

Green Beer and Rank Hypocrisy.

*Term used to annoy Sebby.
I'm going to need a Venn diagram to understand that one better.
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Old 09-12-2017, 04:51 PM   #1998
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Re: They're hanging men and women for wearin' o' the green.

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Enh, he's just using hyperbole to make a semi-valid point about the potato eaters. My extended family in The Ancestral Homeland are about 60% bigoted and 40% some level of woke.*

Green Beer and Rank Hypocrisy.

*Term used to annoy Sebby.
Percentage woke is highest in the cities and lowest in the 'burbs these days.

Poor Irish more woke than rich ones.

All Irish more woke than Brahmins, though.
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Old 09-12-2017, 04:56 PM   #1999
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Down by the river, down by the banks of the River Charles.

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When did you last visit Boston, the 80s?
Haven't been to Fenway lately, eh?

See also the number of tributes to Bill Russell in Boston as compared to Ted Williams et al. (not that the Kid doesn't deserves them, just sayin').
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Old 09-12-2017, 05:08 PM   #2000
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Haven't been to Fenway lately, eh?

See also the number of tributes to Bill Russell in Boston as compared to Ted Williams et al. (not that the Kid doesn't deserves them, just sayin').
Actually, I had a bad incident with a group from out of town I was entertaining last summer, where one of them was called the N word by some drunks on the street in Boston. From where we were at the time, though, I'd bet the assholes were most likely BU students rather than townies, but you don't know.

There are virulent new strains of racism out there today; some of those are closely related to the nasty strains of the past. I can say though that over the last couple decades in Boston, though, I think the Irish communities are way way way better than in the days of bussing and housing fights (or even the days when Massachusetts voted for Reagan, which is when I showed up in Boston) while, for example, the law firms have made exactly zero progress and may even be backsliding. Polite elite racism in my mind is worse in Boston, old ethnic racism has been cooled, in part just because the city is way more physically integrated today.

But how are you on the Russell versus Bird debate? (And we get to rename Yawkey Way to Big Papi Drive soon!)
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Old 09-12-2017, 05:22 PM   #2001
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I'm going to need a Venn diagram to understand that one better.
I'm not sure if you are kidding or not, but here's a recent example.

Not Bob is having dinner with a group of his cousins and their spouses. Several of the cousins are police officers (most local, one is state police) one is a member of a trade union, one is a bank VP, and one is a medical professional. A few older one are retired.

Spouse of one local cop (who's father is a retired cop) says that their kid will not be going to the Catholic middle and high school with the rest of her Catholic elementary school classmates. She says that the local suburban school district is better. A few of us roll our eyes. Her brother notes that the local Catholic high school had been recruiting basketball players "from the projects" and that there are discipline problems - "these kids act like they own the place, walking in and out of classrooms whenever they want."

Trade union cousin: "oh, man, I remember when I played baseball there that we had the run of the joint. Never took an exam my senior year. I was awesome."

Older retired cousin: "it's terrible. No respect."

Me: "What?"

Older retired cousin: "they don't want to learn."

Medical professional cousin, to spouse of cousin: "are you kidding me? You're pulling Seamus out of Bishop O'Malley's because there's a few black kids?"

Cousin spouse: "we just think she'd do better at [lily white suburban school]."

State policemen, uncomfortably: "uh, that's kind of the point that medical professional cousin was making.

Trade union cousin to older required cousin: "no respect? They're varsity lettermen. That's how we act, black, white, yellow. Jesus, don't be such a dick."

Not Bob to older cousin: "he just made a good point. Did it bother you when local polis cousin got trade union cousin out of a DUI and underage possession before the districts?"

Other local police cousin: "that's different. He was family."

Medical professional cousin: "and was the knucklehead Italian kid he was with family?"

State police cousin: "hey, here's the waitress -- let's order,"
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There are more yoga pants per square foot inside.

(Have you seen an Athleta catalog lately?)
This is untrue. I walk my kids to (elementary) school every day - I think I'm the only parent NOT wearing yoga pants.
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I'm not sure if you are kidding or not, but here's a recent example.

Not Bob is having dinner with a group of his cousins and their spouses. Several of the cousins are police officers (most local, one is state police) one is a member of a trade union, one is a bank VP, and one is a medical professional. A few older one are retired.

Spouse of one local cop (who's father is a retired cop) says that their kid will not be going to the Catholic middle and high school with the rest of her Catholic elementary school classmates. She says that the local suburban school district is better. A few of us roll our eyes. Her brother notes that the local Catholic high school had been recruiting basketball players "from the projects" and that there are discipline problems - "these kids act like they own the place, walking in and out of classrooms whenever they want."

Trade union cousin: "oh, man, I remember when I played baseball there that we had the run of the joint. Never took an exam my senior year. I was awesome."

Older retired cousin: "it's terrible. No respect."

Me: "What?"

Older retired cousin: "they don't want to learn."

Medical professional cousin, to spouse of cousin: "are you kidding me? You're pulling Seamus out of Bishop O'Malley's because there's a few black kids?"

Cousin spouse: "we just think she'd do better at [lily white suburban school]."

State policemen, uncomfortably: "uh, that's kind of the point that medical professional cousin was making.

Trade union cousin to older required cousin: "no respect? They're varsity lettermen. That's how we act, black, white, yellow. Jesus, don't be such a dick."

Not Bob to older cousin: "he just made a good point. Did it bother you when local polis cousin got trade union cousin out of a DUI and underage possession before the districts?"

Other local police cousin: "that's different. He was family."

Medical professional cousin: "and was the knucklehead Italian kid he was with family?"

State police cousin: "hey, here's the waitress -- let's order,"
That's one quiet Bank VP.

By the way, I'm pretty you're related to my wife's family, just based on the number of cops involved. But why such a small gathering? Most of the family couldn't make it?
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It's wholesome. You could meet those models in the everyday.

I'm grounded like that.
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I'm in mid life crisis mode. I want to try every bit of hot strange I see. Feels like 18. Okay... maybe more like 25.

I think it's a new aggressive workout schedule and high protein diet.

You'll get there soon enough.

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Bankers = Switzerland
Bullshit. Bankers are among the most racist group out there. Nothing like a lower level lending officer who barely made it through some 4th rate college to seethe with resentment every time he lends to someone whose done better than him. There are zero people who grow up wanting to be a loan officer, it's a cesspool of malcontents disappointed with their lot in life.
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Bullshit. Bankers are among the most racist group out there. Nothing like a lower level lending officer who barely made it through some 4th rate college to seethe with resentment every time he lends to someone whose done better than him. There are zero people who grow up wanting to be a loan officer, it's a cesspool of malcontents disappointed with their lot in life.
There are lots of bigoted Swiss. The point is, they tend to keep things to themselves.

YMMV, of course. And yes -- a low rung loan officer lives in a special hell. But in some parts, they're so happy to find any good risk to loan against, they haven't the luxury of overt hate which might alienate.
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I'm in mid life crisis mode. I want to try every bit of hot strange I see. Feels like 18. Okay... maybe more like 25.

I think it's a new aggressive workout schedule and high protein diet.

You'll get there soon enough.

Thank god I don't need hair plugs.
Yeah me too but the response I mostly get is "eeeeew".
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