BRITISH drinking habit

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  • November 1, 2004 at 4:06 am #7410
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    Regarding the Irish… I think Dave said it best in the St. Paddy’s Day article:<br />
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    "During the Great Potato Famine in the mid 1800?s millions of poor Irish immigrants came to the United States hoping that we had potatoes. And like most immigrants they were the victims of stereotypes (see potato stereotype above). They were portrayed as drunk and violent monkeys in newspaper cartoons. Yet every year, Irish Americans would get up off their drunk, violent, monkey-asses and pour themselves into the streets of New York to celebrate Ireland?s patron Saint."

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