Gregory's Serverwhen an american man walks into a quaint wee pub in Scotland and announces he is 1/8th Scottish, we all leap up with tears in our eyes & cry out "a lost son of Alba is returned to us!" and everyone busies round him and gets him a whisky and an old lady called Morag tearfully hugs him and calls him a bonny lad, and we all ask him to marry our bonny daughters, and the auld men start up a ceilidh tune and we teach him to dance like a Scot and when he's all tired out we cut off his head and eat him
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     @alex @uastronomer I love to wind my fellow born&bred Americans up when they say things like “I'm Irish” or “I'm German” (or Ukranian, or Argentinian -- all 4 examples of which I have close-ish friends who have said that). I then say “No, you're American. You were born here, right? You parents were likely born here, right? Possibly even your grandparents. You're American, not xxxxxx!”. Most of them can't even speak the language of the nationality they claim to ‘be’. @leoncowle @alex @uastronomer I’m sure your friends are aware they’re American. Surely there’s no harm in them being proud of their ancestry? @TisTree @alex @uastronomer “wind them up”. I.e. in a joking way. It’s received in that way, too. 😉  @leoncowle @alex @uastronomer I remember one university student in Cologne in the late 1990s. He had a German surname, and he spoke fluent German (although with a strong American accent), but he was 100% U.S.American, and despite speaking German, he didn't understand very much about contemporary German culture.  @alex Perfect. As Mark Steele puts it... https://mega.nz/file/eIt1UTxQ#IwT6PXBCFXgMPA24tS76tiDgBMoLeM9jQqScOGj1PPI   "Hi, I am Scarrrrrrrtch, 1/3487th on my grandpaw's side as he once got bit by a midge whose cousin knew a feller whose brother got a flat tyre in Pitlochry."    Kings killed when the crops fail, kings killed when their strength fails, kings killed when they walk into the wrong bar in Scotland…  @alex deep fried like all good scottish dishes. I hope you do not waste the good malts, just the export blendeds.  @alex My grandpa was Scottish, so I am 1/4th. Do I escape w/o a decapitation, or am I just minced meat? Edit: at least I'm not 'American'. |
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