On Sat, 7 May 2005 08:49:43 -0400, "James"
wrote:

Anyone able to tell me what these discussions have to do with the subject
threat about bookshelf speakers???


Threat? Is there a conspiracy?

And this is Usenet - no subject survives beyond the third post.

d

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"Rob" wrote in message
...
Tim Martin wrote:
"Rob" wrote in message
...

Direct and indirect discrimination of Irish communities ... *remains* an

institutionalised aspect of

British society.


Please feel free to explain. If I understand that's going on, I'll
write to
my MP and instruct him to put a stop to it.

Tim



Fair enough :-).

Take a quick look at http://www.cre.gov.uk/downloads/irinbrit.pdf -
plenty of documented evidence, although rather sketchy. Examples of
stereotypes - and that is what they are - can be found much closer to
home. In this very thread in fact.

Ah. OK; what that document contains is examples of individual racism, and
I'm sure the authors could have cited many, many more.

When you referred to anti-Irish racism being an "institionalized aspect of
British society", I mistook your meaning to refer to some kind of official
policies (which is why I thought I could instruct my MP to put a stop to
it.). I now realise that's not what you meant.

Incidentally, the document made one point I hadn't considered: that the
Irish in Britain can be divided into two groups, those who've been here a
long time and those who've arrived since the 1980s, with the latter group
being highly qualified. I assume the latter group are less likely to suffer
discrimination, but members of lists such as this may be more likely to
encounter Irishmen in this group than the other.

I'm not sure that the reaction to "travellers" in Britain is any different
to the reaction to "travellers" in Ireland ...

Tim

On Sat, 7 May 2005 10:53:40 +0000 (UTC), Rob
wrote:

Tim Martin wrote:
"Patric" wrote in message
...

"It might also help a reasonable person to understand why many people of
Irish extraction don't exactly hald the English is very high regard"

It's worth noting that that attitude is mainly displayed by non-Irish people
"of Irish extraction"; the Irish and English themselves get on fine ...
Lots of us have dual citizenship, being Irish Citizens and British Citizens.

Tim


Direct and indirect discrimination of Irish communities and individuals
is a well-documented issue, and *remains* an institutionalised aspect of
British society. I - and I'm sure may who read this NG - have first hand
experience of the process.

Those of us with first-hand experience of Irish 'travellers' may note
that such discimination is not based on prejudice, but on accurate
observation............
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Pukey said:

Those of us with first-hand experience of Irish 'travellers' may note
that such discimination is not based on prejudice, but on accurate
observation............

And yet they say not all Scots are drunks. Have you no pride, Pinkie?

On Sun, 08 May 2005 07:12:07 -0400, George M. Middius
wrote:



Pukey said:

Those of us with first-hand experience of Irish 'travellers' may note
that such discimination is not based on prejudice, but on accurate
observation............

And yet they say not all Scots are drunks. Have you no pride, Pinkie?

Hell. I thought I'd just flashed back to RAO. Hell again.

On Sun, 08 May 2005 11:50:19 GMT, (paul packer)
wrote:

On Sun, 08 May 2005 07:12:07 -0400, George M. Middius
wrote:



Pukey said:

Those of us with first-hand experience of Irish 'travellers' may note
that such discimination is not based on prejudice, but on accurate
observation............

And yet they say not all Scots are drunks. Have you no pride, Pinkie?

Hell. I thought I'd just flashed back to RAO. Hell again.

You have. This thread is cross-posted there :-(

d

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Don Pearce said:

You have. This thread is cross-posted there :-(

Paulie rolls over and plays dead on command. Last time he surfaced, the
command was "God wants NATO to perish in a cauldron of flames in Iraq." We
haven't learned what the new command is. I'm thinking of trying out
something related to rogue icebergs.

On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:15:49 -0400, George M. Middius
wrote:



Don Pearce said:

You have. This thread is cross-posted there :-(

Paulie rolls over and plays dead on command. Last time he surfaced, the
command was "God wants NATO to perish in a cauldron of flames in Iraq." We
haven't learned what the new command is. I'm thinking of trying out
something related to rogue icebergs.

Well, you haven't lost your talent for gobbledegook, George, nor for
willfully mis-interpreting everything anyone of a different mind-set
to your own utters. But hell, you're good value most of the time, and
I guess there's room in the world for all types.

Now could you tell us what icebergs have to do with anything.

On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:15:49 -0400, George M. Middius
wrote:



Don Pearce said:

You have. This thread is cross-posted there :-(

Paulie rolls over and plays dead on command. Last time he surfaced, the
command was "God wants NATO to perish in a cauldron of flames in Iraq." We
haven't learned what the new command is. I'm thinking of trying out
something related to rogue icebergs.




And their impact on Kansas?

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

George M. Middius wrote:

Don Pearce said:


You have. This thread is cross-posted there :-(


Paulie rolls over and plays dead on command. Last time he surfaced, the
command was "God wants NATO to perish in a cauldron of flames in Iraq." We
haven't learned what the new command is. I'm thinking of trying out
something related to rogue icebergs.





AH Georgie , your a dickhead.