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Originally Posted by Trollheart
I do admit potato monkey is good. It just doesn't sound, I don't know, insulting enough? I think I prefer potato muncher - has that sort of double entendre going for it.
Also, check your history. The British didn't force us to eat only potatoes: they were the only thing we knew how to grow or could afford to grow. Corn laws, dude, corn laws.
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I think it's insulting in a dismissive way which feels appropriate for the Irish as a people. Even the negative stereotypes for your people is stuff like being sloppy drunks or leprechauns. Any true vitriol directed at the Irish would be taking them too seriously as a people. Really the most insulting thing to call them is brits, which to my eye they are basically just a more backwater region of the same pasty breed of imbred island folk, just with more gingers sprinkled in and a touch of catholicism.