# Bridget Burke

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 19, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448 "2007-07-19T21:36:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 7

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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/121 "2007-07-23T15:20:30Z")

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[QUOTE=yojimbo]  
Can someone please explain to me why the phrase “beyond the pale” would be offensive to the Irish? It isn’t to me and in all my 36 years have never heard anyone take offense because of it. It’s used over here as well.

We can be a very grumpy group of feckers and are quick to take offense sometimes but that phrase doesn’t do it.

As to the rest of this bollocks? Well, IMO the OP is a very obvious troll.  
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As an Irish-American, I don’t consider “beyond the Pale” an insult, either.

In fact, coming from the OP, it was a compliment!

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridget-burke/412448/122 "2007-07-23T16:36:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner]  
**That** idea is utterly ridiculous. If we say five minutes to write a post, that’s almost four entire days of non-stop posting, no stopping for food, drinks, having a life, letting real people “get to know me”, etc. Nuts.  
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Okay, the penny drops. You’re a troll. Feel free to continue posting from under your bridge, but I’m not going to play with you anymore. Toodles.

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