Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:I thought the Irish contributions only amounted to Policemen, Firemen and crooked politicians.
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:I will be happy if we beat Boise State because I hate the Basques. Why do I hate the Basques? Because, historically speaking, everyone hates the Basques. The pre-Carthaginian indigenous Iberian tribes hated these Asiatic interlopers. The Carthaginians hated them and fought repeated wars against them. The Romans hated them and fought wars against them for the better part of 400 years. The Franks, Vandals and Bisigoths hated them and fought wars against them. Ditto the Arabs and Moors, Castillians and Catalonians and finally the combined Spanish nation. The Portuguese also.
Now being hated by everyone does not necessarily make a group bad. The world has been trying to exterminate the Jews since the days of Hammurabi or Ramses, but the Jews created the conceptual moral framework that made Western Civikization possible and have made countless cultural contributions to Western Civilization. The Irish are not nearly as widely despised as the Jews, but they have been fending off or attempting to fend off the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Angles, Norman’s, English, Scottish, Welsh for the better part of 2500 years. But the Irish have also made enormous contributions to the cultural tapestry of Western Civilization. What have the Basques given us? Fried sheep balls and racist comments about the King of Africa. Fuck those guys. Fuck them right in the ear.
gallopingghost {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:I will be happy if we beat Boise State because I hate the Basques. Why do I hate the Basques? Because, historically speaking, everyone hates the Basques. The pre-Carthaginian indigenous Iberian tribes hated these Asiatic interlopers. The Carthaginians hated them and fought repeated wars against them. The Romans hated them and fought wars against them for the better part of 400 years. The Franks, Vandals and Bisigoths hated them and fought wars against them. Ditto the Arabs and Moors, Castillians and Catalonians and finally the combined Spanish nation. The Portuguese also.
Now being hated by everyone does not necessarily make a group bad. The world has been trying to exterminate the Jews since the days of Hammurabi or Ramses, but the Jews created the conceptual moral framework that made Western Civikization possible and have made countless cultural contributions to Western Civilization. The Irish are not nearly as widely despised as the Jews, but they have been fending off or attempting to fend off the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Angles, Norman’s, English, Scottish, Welsh for the better part of 2500 years. But the Irish have also made enormous contributions to the cultural tapestry of Western Civilization. What have the Basques given us? Fried sheep balls and racist comments about the King of Africa. Fuck those guys. Fuck them right in the ear.
You have left out the Nazis and the Italians, who along with Franco leveled Guernica in a coordinated warplane attack. But let's be honest, the Basques had it coming to them. https://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp
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