Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts

26 August, 2015

Irish Women on 'Ginger' Jokes

And then most of the news-stories seem too obvious, too old, too boring, too depressing, too Trump-centric even in the case of one country's politics, for anything other than a link-dump. Wait, women-only train-carriages ?  Is Corbyn advocating Sharia ?! Scandal ! Scandal !  Scandal !

Always cartoons, and Bell's latest is a beaut., if only for what he did to Harman, but I just ran Bell, and I have to have some kind of standards.  And for some of the other dailies...

But I do feel I should post something more than a half-century-old song, so*...


I do feel like the specific sport of Ginger-baiting is more a phenomenon of the British Isles than elsewhere, but no doubt some degree of discrimination is present in any country where redheads are a minority (ie, er...well, practically everywhere).  I'll never understand it.


* If only out of laziness in continuing to avoid a couple of other subjects on which I meant to write.

17 March, 2015

Israelis: What do you think of Ireland and the Irish?


...from an interesting series w/Israelis & Palestinians.  Watched one video too many in the series to recommend it overall, but girls at 1.58 must not be missed.  And so Israelis (and the world) basically see the Irish as friendly red-headed likeable drunks.  Huh.