(This is the pre-Linnaean meaning of the word race. You can still find it used in places, although it has been supplanted by a lot of pseudo-science in the last century or so.)
He’s not just being called a racist because of his views on the Irish.
What’s this got to do with the House of Saud?
Lust4life seems not to be able to or willing to distinguish normal Irish people in general (except the people in the abstract he professes to love) from terrorists. A couple of arseholes he encountered in a bar somewhere one time somehow represent the 100,000s of Irish who live and work in Britain. If it’s not racism, he holds a stereotypical view of Irish (Catholics in particular) that bears little resemblance to reality. He also seems to think that anyone and everyone who might like Ireland to be united is by definition a terrorist sympathiser.
For someone who claims to know and love Ireland, he has a facile understanding of its history and its people. He ruins almost any thread he posts in. His ill-parsed, “common-sense”, pig ignorant, maunderings and slander are the bane of other posters who spend time wording considered responses to political/cultural/historical topics. As then he just comes out with cryptically or maybe just drunkenly worded nonsense, threats, and gotcha yas galore almost each and every times someone asks him for a cite for his verbal excrement. This is clearly illustrated in this very thread.
And so what if he’s not racist against Irish people? He’s shown he’s intolerant of other far less enfranchised minorities in Britain, and deliberately insensitive to the different cultures and genders represented on the SDMB.
Ah right, so it’s time for that weasel defence. He’s not a racist, because the group that he dislikes so much aren’t actually a race?
Tell you what, is the definition of racism that UN member states use good enough for you?
Hint: You’re arguing with the wrong guy
Whoosh?
Actually the song is from 1971 by Tommy Thomas and Clubsound.
ETA: It’s hilarious or should I say beautiful, beautiful!
Woosh? You do know I posted before that link, right? To answer the poster’s question, I visited in April of 1982. Odd thing, it was played in every pub we visited. Thanks for the link!
I had assumed it was from the late Sixties. It’s a peculiar one. I only discovered it when looking for something else.
Where did Lusty go?
Having another chat with the beer bottle? Whisky bottle? Or with whatever he is killing his semi functioning brain cells.
My first interaction with that sod, found in this thread, included this observation from me:
I see not much at all has changed in the last six years.
… and there I thought it was just my understanding of the english language, that Lusty made no sense at all … obviously it’s not that simple… he must have come down with the last shower!
A little clarification: to “take the wrong end of the stick” is to get the wrong impression. Guy at the pub heard my accent (London) and assumed I was an Orangeman: an Ulster Unionist, Northern Irish Protestant (or a “hun”). In fact, my father’s family is about as Irish Catholic as is possible to get. He has something like 54 cousins. He threw stones from behind walls at soldiers stationed nearby and they fired back (according to him, anyway, I find it somewhat implausible). One can reveal oneself rather easily by saying “I’m from Derry” (which is where my father’s father lives) as the Unionists say “Londonderry”.
That said, a Sinn Fein member once canvassed my grandfather’s house and was promptly told to fuck off.
What’s provo? My google-fu is on vacation; apparently it has gone to a town in Utah…
Short for Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Did Lust4Life get a discount on carriage returns at Costco?
Cuz he sure uses a lot of them.
Maybe he “appropriated” them from blackdog, who uses very few of them.
Jesus man, this is just a message board. Lighten up.
Wait, or are just saying that people in general don’t enjoy meeting you?
By the way as a neutral observer I’m cool with meeting you, Lust4Life. I am in most “corners” of the UK at least once a year so can probably do it if no one is in a rush and it fits in with you. I will be totally objective and can report back on your veracity. That’s if you give a damn about everyone exposing you as a nut. You might not…
Tee He he !, got to you have I ?
I’m so boring thats why you stalk me .
And spare me the whole "Hang on a mo ", tripe
I must confess to being a little bit worried about you knowing that I’m living a fantasy life where I used to travel around the world and do interesting things, and have unusual experiences.
Promise not to tell anyone, please,please, please !
I’ll give you money if that what it takes !
Sorry but I can’t do anything about you being worried that I’m going to do something unpleasant to you in the future, but I’m desperately trying to cope with being "found out " as a serial fantasist.
Just do your best not to cry, or have nightmares.
Perhaps counselling might work for you ?
I know where you’re coming from Astral Rejection and I appreciate your sentiments.
But unfortunately we get people hanging around the Pit, who join “Pile ons”, because they’re under achievers IRL, and its their way of getting their own back , on all of the people who picked on them at school, or whos work colleagues treat them with contempt, or who know that they’ll never gain peoples respect etc.
(Or for that matter, people who get a thrill out of being abusive to complete strangers because they’d never dare do it in real life.A bit like children being able to be insulting to grown ups and get away with it )
But we also have on this thread those who’ve been pretending to be “one thing” while promoting their own agenda.
And golly gosh ! I’ve "outed "them .
But as they can’t actually own up to being caught out, wait until someone else starts a bullying campaign, and then join in when its safe.
Yes I won’t look like "mister nice guy "on this thread, but for me its fun !
And I suspect that for them its therapy !