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How many times in the last year or so have Australian officials come out with anti-Irish vitriol? What’s it like for our troops on the ground over there, @Fitzy[/USER] and [USER=2812]@Chucks Nwoko ?

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Next they’ll be saying it’s not right for two irish lads to beat each other into comas on the streets.

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Abbott had a good one a couple years back. In describing the Gillard government, he said (or said something like) it resembled an Irishman who lost $10 on the Grand National. And then lost another twenty watching the replay.

Anyway, I’m Australian. This doesn’t concern me.However…although* the recent slurs are historically sourced, the current breed of roaster, here and in Ireland, does nothing to instill confidence in ever casting these aspersions aside.

  • Am I allowed to start a sentence with “However, although”?
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[QUOTE=“Chucks Nwoko, post: 1152539, member: 2812”]

  • Am I allowed to start a sentence with “However, although”?[/QUOTE]
    No. The however is redundant
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Thank you potato head.

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[QUOTE=“Chucks Nwoko, post: 1152539, member: 2812”]

Anyway, I’m Australian. [/QUOTE]

Shut the door on your way out

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I’ll have your head in it when I do.

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Banty would be proud

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Who the fuck is this Grahame Morris cunt?

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He has mugged the tans and Ozzies off.

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He’s an absolute cunt, making jokes about the famine. I hope some mad exile batters his head in.

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“Exile”? What century are you from?

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What one do you think? You stupid cunt.

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Fair point.

But yes Tony, hopefully Grahame makes it down here to Van Diemen’s Land, where one of us mad exiles can batter his head in.

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[QUOTE=“Chucks Nwoko, post: 1153357, member: 2812”]Fair point.

But yes Tony, hopefully Grahame makes it down here to Van Diemen’s Land, where one of us mad exiles can batter his head in.[/QUOTE]
Are you in Tazmania bud

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No, I was speaking in jest. Tony’s use of the word exile is more relevant to the 1800’s than the WHV flashpackers of today.

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Exile is the word in any century.

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And how many Irish people are currently “exiled” in Australia? Have the English taken control of the island and reopened penal colonies for the thieves and murderers? Or is there a famine back home I’ve missed? Has the nation’s Nutri-Bullets burst into a ball of flames en masse, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee the country?

I’m aware of the word’s existence pal. But it’s use in this context is ignorant and archaic.

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“I can hear the bells of Dublin, in this lonely waiting room…”