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FETCHER. · 12-07-2012, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo

Its true.

How old is he? That wil probably explain why he is so sensitive to those remarks. He probably grow up around the time there was a lot of anti-irishness in Britain.

I'd say he was between 40-50 not really sure. I can understand that but it still doesn't explain or excuse his behaviour because it wasn't in a nasty context in any way, in fact we were having fun with the bastard.

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Originally Posted by mojopinuk

It's probably the same with any kind of sensitive issue. it depends what you say and in what tone or context. Most of the Irish people I know make jokes about it around each other and welcome jokes from others too, but I can imagine its easy to make one particularly bad joke in bad taste to change the mood a little.

Yeah I can understand that, which is why we would never have even went near the subject because you just don't know. It never crossed our minds for a minute and were quite confused by almost a change of subject. Yeah I know a lot of people who find it easy to joke about 'taboo' subjects not because they don't care, they're just laid back about it. It was just weird cos if someone asked me to say words because of my accent I wouldn't randomly flip out especially in the context it was in, it is a stupid meaningless joke made by a stupid guy. Guy needs to chill the **** out.

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Originally Posted by Zer0

I think he went overboard, but older folks seem to be a bit more sensitive about these things. If a person was just joking with me light-heartedly about it then it wouldn't bother me at all, although I'd probably underwhelm people saying with my boring flat midlands accent. If a person made a joke about it in more serious tones then we've got issues.

Yeah I could imagine older Irish people would be more sensitive to a subject like that, it just sort of annoyed me as if he was being defensive when he really had no reason. It is the same with today, it was as if he wanted to make an example of me in front of the whole class when it really wasn't needed. I never said he made me cry cause there really was no need really, but I'm not the kind of person to get mad/upset easily and it just pisses me off to no end that it is as if he is on a constant power trip. WELL HE CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF.