Irish vs Dutch Ancestry.ca: [Split from] The Truth About Army.ca

[Kat Stevens]

Pretty incredible amount of personal work done by the mods here. I’m sorry he’s gone despite one thread where it couldn’t move along

I won't. I've been told by staff that my posting "style" is not appreciated here. I can tell you, he is far more confrontational, abrasive, insulting, condescending, and more na-na-na-boo-boo than me on my worst day. I've been to the Penalty Box. He's not immune, he's not Austin Mathews. Hopefully he learns, but hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

na-na-na-boo-boo

Considering some kind of penalty just for using that word,....thing...

 

[Kat Stevens]

Considering some kind of penalty just for using that word,....thing...

I'm back, baby!!

 

[OldSolduer]

I won't. I've been told by staff that my posting "style" is not appreciated here. I can tell you, he is far more confrontational, abrasive, insulting, condescending, and more na-na-na-boo-boo than me on my worst day. I've been to the Penalty Box. He's not immune, he's not Austin Mathews. Hopefully he learns, but hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first.

Even Austin got two games.

 

[Brad Sallows]

What about the Dutch?

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

What about the Dutch?

Nobody likes cheapskates LOL

 

[tomydoom]

Nobody likes cheapskates LOL

Hey, we're in the room...

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Hey, we're in the room...

I know more than anyone, I'm part Dutch

 

[tomydoom]

I know more than anyone, I'm part Dutch

Dad's from Amersfoort.

 

[Good2Golf]

I know more than anyone, I'm part Dutch

My wife’s half Dutch (family in Utrecht, Enschede and Groningen) and I’m half Scottish…we can fight over a penny and pull it into a long thin copper wire…

 

[KevinB]

Seriously you guys can derail any thread, even without my help.

 

[tomydoom]

Seriously you guys can derail any thread, even without my help.

You're just jealous that you're not Dutch...

 

[KevinB]

You're just jealous that you're not Dutch...

Irish, English, German - which may explain why I fight myself when drinking

 

[daftandbarmy]

Irish, English, German - which may explain why I fight myself when drinking

I'll watch the news tomorrow... on St Patrick's Day

 

[Kat Stevens]

To my never ending delight, I love to point out to people that St Fatprick Patrick was English.

 

[Brad Sallows]

The Dutch.

 

[Remius]

To my never ending delight, I love to point out to people that St Fatprick Patrick was English.

Not quite. Despite being born somewhere in Britannia he was by all historical accounts a Roman.

7 St. Patrick’s Day Legends and Myths Debunked | HISTORY

Ireland’s patron saint was not actually Irish, nor did he rid the nation of snakes—plus other misconceptions about the annual holiday.

www.history.com

But he was definitely not Irish.

 

[tomydoom]

I'll watch the news tomorrow... on St Patrick's Day

 

[MarkOttawa]

Written 1918:

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
W. B. Yeats – 1865-1939
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public man, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.

Mark
Ottawa

 

[Jarnhamar]