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Re: AmeriPol: cabinet reshuffle shuffle shuffle
« Reply #18675 on: April 01, 2018, 05:18:26 pm »

I had a problem with Soylent until I learned it was mostly made from the English (read "ayng-lish") and as a Scot I think there is one thing the Irish will always agree with us on: fook the aynglish!
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« Reply #18676 on: April 01, 2018, 05:55:18 pm »

I mean. You can do that to soylent, too, I guess. Some of us wouldn't judge. Sounds messy, though...
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« Reply #18677 on: April 01, 2018, 05:57:41 pm »

Better than what Scots are usually known for...
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« Reply #18678 on: April 01, 2018, 06:04:39 pm »

The Welsh sing, too.

Only folk from Aberdeen in Scotland do the sheep thing. Evidently all that oil money doesn’t weed out the perversions...

We are also tight-fisted and racist in the rest of the land, byraway.
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Re: AmeriPol: cabinet reshuffle shuffle shuffle
« Reply #18679 on: April 01, 2018, 06:08:02 pm »

That's the Welsh, mate.

Scots just get pissed, wear kilts, and hate England. The Welsh fuck sheep and sit around in idyllic villages feeling depressed because the mines/factories have all closed.
Things are a lot more depressing now that you can't put your kids in a coal mine. No fun allowed I say

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« Reply #18680 on: April 01, 2018, 06:10:49 pm »

That’s Thatcher for you. Taking away a parent’s responsibility to teach their child a dangerous trade.
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« Reply #18681 on: April 01, 2018, 06:20:19 pm »

Also also also, American’s are weird with their patriotism  while simultaneously having the  ability to claim being from someplace else. What’s up with that.

They discarded actual nationalism for a pan-nationalism based on race.
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« Reply #18682 on: April 01, 2018, 06:35:12 pm »

Also also also, American’s are weird with their patriotism  while simultaneously having the  ability to claim being from someplace else. What’s up with that.

They discarded actual nationalism for a pan-nationalism based on race.
Apparently they cant even come to a consensus on who is white. It would be hilarious to see what would happen if they all became aware of this.

As for non insane people their heritage just becomes a sort of background identity. They often have no direct connection culturally but a want for it manifests in various celebrations and such. you also get a weird patriotism for the places your ancestors came from sometimes. Mostly that is just a increased interest in the place and wanting to know more about it though.
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« Reply #18683 on: April 01, 2018, 07:14:18 pm »

Also also also, American’s are weird with their patriotism  while simultaneously having the  ability to claim being from someplace else. What’s up with that.

They discarded actual nationalism for a pan-nationalism based on race.
Apparently they cant even come to a consensus on who is white. It would be hilarious to see what would happen if they all became aware of this.

As for non insane people their heritage just becomes a sort of background identity. They often have no direct connection culturally but a want for it manifests in various celebrations and such. you also get a weird patriotism for the places your ancestors came from sometimes. Mostly that is just a increased interest in the place and wanting to know more about it though.

I think this mostly depends on what generation of immigrant you come from. As you get more removed from the family that actually made the trek to the US, you start to lose that connection with the older culture even if you might recognize that's where you were from. I come from several different backgrounds, but I connect more with the ancestry that's only a couple of generations separated from the original immigrants compared to the ~200 years of another part of the family.
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« Reply #18684 on: April 01, 2018, 08:23:03 pm »

China responded to the tariffs with tariffs on 128 US products.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43614400
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« Reply #18685 on: April 01, 2018, 08:31:09 pm »

Also also also, American’s are weird with their patriotism  while simultaneously having the  ability to claim being from someplace else. What’s up with that.

They discarded actual nationalism for a pan-nationalism based on race.
Apparently they cant even come to a consensus on who is white. It would be hilarious to see what would happen if they all became aware of this.

As for non insane people their heritage just becomes a sort of background identity. They often have no direct connection culturally but a want for it manifests in various celebrations and such. you also get a weird patriotism for the places your ancestors came from sometimes. Mostly that is just a increased interest in the place and wanting to know more about it though.

I think this mostly depends on what generation of immigrant you come from. As you get more removed from the family that actually made the trek to the US, you start to lose that connection with the older culture even if you might recognize that's where you were from. I come from several different backgrounds, but I connect more with the ancestry that's only a couple of generations separated from the original immigrants compared to the ~200 years of another part of the family.
Likely, doesn't make the plastic pattys and less so however. I literally knew my Dutch grandparents and I'm still super American. Yet their are people with less connection then that in the city of Holland(Michigan) that have tulip festivals. It seems to me like its really person dependent. We like to pick and choose.
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Re: AmeriPol: cabinet reshuffle shuffle shuffle
« Reply #18686 on: April 01, 2018, 08:41:38 pm »

Haggis is definately Scottish.
It is now, but apparently the term itself originated in england :P
It's interesting, since it feels to me sometimes like half of the Scottish Romanticism that turned the Highlanders from Jacobin yokels into true Scots was as much a creation of London as it was Edinburgh: to wit, the obsession with all sorts of kitschy tartanry as fed by royal courts of the UK and beyond.  I look at it the same way as Irish potatoes, Italian tomatoes, or Swiss chocolate. ^_^
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T’be fair, had the English not tried to stamp out rebellious sentiment by crushing the clan system and banning “highland wear” outside of the army, it probably wouldn’t have turned out that way.
Would that be the possibility that the lowlander Scots would have kept on repressing the highlanders on their own and wouldn't have entertained such romanticist notions?  I'm not sure I entirely agree with that, either.  Even if Scotland had maintained complete independence, I feel there would have been some revival of highlander culture around the Romantic era; it simply fits a bit too well with broader historical trends in Europe (outside of France, where it instead accompanied the rise of Francization).  The question wasn't if it would exist, but if it would exist in opposition to or in tandem with whatever sentiment arose in Edinburgh and Glasgow.  The mid-18th century Jacobite rising was probably the big push in that regard; contrary to most modern romanticism of the uprising, it did include some significant support in the Lowlands as well, which marks a tremendous difference in politics since the Scottish Civil War a mere century before which in their simplest sense boiled down to the powerful pro-Parliament Covenenters (Lowlanders and two of the largest Highlander clans) against other Highland clans and anyone opposed to the Presbyterian Church. 
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« Reply #18689 on: April 01, 2018, 09:48:47 pm »

The police claim that they left because the angry crowd was pounding and pushing on the cars, and the cops wanted to de-escalate the situation. If (and I stress IF) this is accurate, and IF they properly arranged for a medical unit to be dispatched, this is not an unreasonable explanation. Since the only video I've seen cuts off right after the impact, we have no way of verifying this claim.
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