No Time for Nationalism
0 Comments Published by Oh Wayward One on 30 January 2006 at 1/30/2006 07:00:00 pm.
To make a long story short, I have no time for overly nationalistic people.
Ireland is full of some of the most nationalistic, patriotic people in the world. And (HA!) this coming from an American.
Even the ones I have kindof a: "well-they're-my-friend-so-they've-gotta-be-pretty-levelheaded" attitude about, they always end up pulling a fast one on me and turning all psycho-patriotic on me. It boggles my mind how some of my friends can spend so much of their time bitching at me at how silly the yankees are... all hot-n-impassioned about taking over the world and spreading god's ferverent wave of freedom and liberty and americanness to all non-americans, and what what what. But then in the same breath they start spouting all republican (as in Irish, not Elephant-ish) propoganda and indoctrination shite-- like it's not the exact same damn thing.
Fi, for example. How is it that someone so smart can get it so messed up. I mean this is my buddy with the BIG FAT DEGREE IN SCIENCE. WTF?! And there he/she sits at lunch, whinging on the nationalistic soapbox about Croke Park (the holy GAA grounds in Dublin) and how english sports (soccer, rugby) shouldn't be allowed to be played there (they haven't since I dunno, the beginning of time?) . But see, the thing is, the national rugby/soccer stadium is being re-built. This is gonna take 10 years. During that time, they're gonna HAVE to let the other sports be played in Croker. Now all of nationalist republican Ireland is up in arms:
"And dere's nooooooo weeaayyy under my granny's dead body, like, dat dey'll ever sing da English nat'inal antem in da Croker, boy" ... Because god forbid when the national teams play each other, like they do every year, in soccer and rugby, etc.... should they play "God Save the Queen" (the british national anthem, duh) like they do for EVERY OTHER COUNTRY... in Croke Park. Why? Because about a hundred years ago, during the WAR, some british soldiers killed 14 Irishmen in the stadium.
So, what, they're gonna change the rules of 2 world sports and say that every national team gets their anthem played before each game EXCEPT THE ENGLISH!??!?! Dude is all like: "yeah, and if they DO end up playing that song, everyone is going to BOO. And I know *I* will be, too. Because they just shouldn't do it, like". !
Fuckin BUILD A BRIDGE, people. Get the HELL over it, JEEZ like you oughtta move to Texas or something.
UGH.
I thought the Australians were bad. Oh hell, I know I'm the one with the problem, this is what happens when you tend to wander and you don't know what nationalisim feels like, yourself, anymore. You start to think "well feck it, if *I* dont have nationalisit sentiment, then can the rest of ye clowns cut it out too, please?" But come ON. It was like, a million YEARS ago. jeeeezzzus
Ireland is full of some of the most nationalistic, patriotic people in the world. And (HA!) this coming from an American.
Even the ones I have kindof a: "well-they're-my-friend-so-they've-gotta-be-pretty-levelheaded" attitude about, they always end up pulling a fast one on me and turning all psycho-patriotic on me. It boggles my mind how some of my friends can spend so much of their time bitching at me at how silly the yankees are... all hot-n-impassioned about taking over the world and spreading god's ferverent wave of freedom and liberty and americanness to all non-americans, and what what what. But then in the same breath they start spouting all republican (as in Irish, not Elephant-ish) propoganda and indoctrination shite-- like it's not the exact same damn thing.
Fi, for example. How is it that someone so smart can get it so messed up. I mean this is my buddy with the BIG FAT DEGREE IN SCIENCE. WTF?! And there he/she sits at lunch, whinging on the nationalistic soapbox about Croke Park (the holy GAA grounds in Dublin) and how english sports (soccer, rugby) shouldn't be allowed to be played there (they haven't since I dunno, the beginning of time?) . But see, the thing is, the national rugby/soccer stadium is being re-built. This is gonna take 10 years. During that time, they're gonna HAVE to let the other sports be played in Croker. Now all of nationalist republican Ireland is up in arms:
"And dere's nooooooo weeaayyy under my granny's dead body, like, dat dey'll ever sing da English nat'inal antem in da Croker, boy" ... Because god forbid when the national teams play each other, like they do every year, in soccer and rugby, etc.... should they play "God Save the Queen" (the british national anthem, duh) like they do for EVERY OTHER COUNTRY... in Croke Park. Why? Because about a hundred years ago, during the WAR, some british soldiers killed 14 Irishmen in the stadium.
So, what, they're gonna change the rules of 2 world sports and say that every national team gets their anthem played before each game EXCEPT THE ENGLISH!??!?! Dude is all like: "yeah, and if they DO end up playing that song, everyone is going to BOO. And I know *I* will be, too. Because they just shouldn't do it, like". !
Fuckin BUILD A BRIDGE, people. Get the HELL over it, JEEZ like you oughtta move to Texas or something.
UGH.
I thought the Australians were bad. Oh hell, I know I'm the one with the problem, this is what happens when you tend to wander and you don't know what nationalisim feels like, yourself, anymore. You start to think "well feck it, if *I* dont have nationalisit sentiment, then can the rest of ye clowns cut it out too, please?" But come ON. It was like, a million YEARS ago. jeeeezzzus
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