Americans will invent anything to suit their narrative. Like how they said American English is the real accent of English and it's Britain that's changed over the decades. Sure guys.
language enclaves outside of the core territory often retain conservative features (like Rs in America, & vowels in Brazil) but it does get exaggerated & colonial dialects usually have their own innovations
Also it seems very convenient that they consider the "real" accent to be the one that was just before they left, when the English language had already been evolving for over a thousand years before that. What's so authentic about the 18th century when English has existed since the 5th century?
*This point right here*. Language is *constantly* evolving and changing. There’s no “real” or “correct” version of a language. There are rules for grammar, syntax and phonology, yes, but even that changes over time, albeit much slower than the vocabulary does.
Yes, American English retained the “r”, but no, it does not sound like 18th century British did, and no, it’s not more “authentic”. Modern British has also retained stuff that American English did not. Hell, there are even British villages using “thee” and “thou”.
Every “version” of a language is authentic to itself. That’s it.
the only place i could think of where this is even remotely the case is Iceland which has barely changed its language in the last millennium while the Norwegian language has changed massively. They almost speak old norse while modern Norwegian might actually have more in common with german than icelandic, sad as that is
The Scandinavian languages ended up with a lot of loanwords from Low German (which is closer related to English/Frisian than it is to High German). The more extreme example would be English and Frisian.
“I hear you’re a clansman now father. Should we all be clansman now? What's the Church's position? I'm so busy down on the farm I won't have much time for the ol' clansmanism”
"Good for you, Father! Good for you! Somebody finally had the guts to stand up and say it! They come over here, after our clans and our women, fecking Yanks!"
I had to Google it. Apparently it's some kind of Irish Republican organisation. They seem to have been replaced/absorbed by the IRA by the early 1900s. Not quite sure how this bloke is registered with an organisation that doesn't exist anymore but hey ho
So a Scots clansman and Irish Republican, does he know the history of Ireland and *who* were those involved in the Ulster Clearances which threw Irish people off their land and why we have a border in Ireland?
> Not seen one called "Twin Towers" yet
The [Manhattan](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/manhattan) with two shots of [fireball](https://www.fireballwhisky.com/)...?
I’m Irish, and met a New England “online progressive” style girl (you know the type) in an Irish bar in Europe who kept lecturing me about my straight, white male privilege etc. etc. for an hour.
Then she went ahead and ordered a “Black and Tan”.
Well, well, well. How the turns tabled
Because they have an oppression complex. They never got over their independence war (which honestly, half of it was fought more by the French than by them, in South America we did it ourselves), despite winning it; so everytime there's a (complex) conflict that can be idiotically reduced to "smaller country fighting for FREEDUM against bigger country", they jump in.
Except when it's real imperialism like what they did in Cuba, Philippines, and the dictatorships throughout South America. Then it's okay, because *they* know better.
(Am not a leftist btw)
Yeah I second that. That's some Wolf Creek shit. Do you think he knows we have towns and cities and all? Or does he think we still live in raths and crannogs?
I just looked up my last name (Scottish) and the second result is a bunch of Americans larping as a clan. It does however also look like there’s British AGMs which is a funny concept
The old Irish royal families are sometimes referred to as clans (back when heirs could be selected from the various family branches instead of English style primogenitor). I assume they're associating their surname with a system that's been dead for five hundred years.
On a post last year, an Irish guy told the story of how he went to an American cousin's wedding in the states. He said they sang Danny Boy, wore kilts and played the bagpipes.
I'm British, with Irish family and pretty sure I have a clan, but it doesn't have a name or any official belonging, just shows up whenever there's a party anywhere and does drunk karaoke. There's lots of swearing, but not to "the clan". Not really at anyone really, it's generally all in good fun.
OOP would hate me for my Yorkshire accent, if he could place it as English.
I've seen them get mad disappointed when they come here though.
Something to do with the lack of barefoot urchins and widespread electricity and indoor plumbing.
This is like when I visited American friends and they were like, “let’s go to the Ren Faire!” and I’m like, “the fuck is a ren faire?”
And so we went and it was like, holy shit! They do it about being English too, but stopping at 1600!
Okay but that's different. I've been to a good bunch of Germanic mediaeval markets too, which seems to be the same concept, and they just fuckin slap.
There's old-fashioned crafts, folk metal, costumes, a bunch of the fun history nerds, and a ton of mead and beer, what's not to like?
*”Irish clan tartan” woman enters the building*
[That one](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/10d5quv/deleted_by_user/) remains an eternal favourite of mine!
“Sworn an oath to a clan”- Sounds like he got scammed to me. I’ve never heard of anyone actually doing that, what is he on about…
Have I missed out on a side hustle? Lemme try…Hello friends, please PayPal me money and I will assign you a totally real clan. No refunds.
So it's not necessarily a _scam_ - if you have a clan surname then there's a good chance a clan organisation does exist that you can join up with.
The problem is, they're run by the sorts of people that would form a clan organisation and run it in their spare time.
You have to say Gerry Adams Name three times, then léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúd pháipéar.
If you hear two beeps, you're a Fenian, three bees it's the Rah, four Beeps you're swearing oaths to Clan.
>plus the security organization I'm in all our men and women call me Sgt.Irish
almost made me choke on my drink. Wow yeah your yank ass CoD larp group made up a nickname for you, what more proof could anyone need
It’s the only logical career for him as law enforcement from early last century in America is filled with Irish. As an Irish-Scottish it was his calling
Yeah, I want to believe that more actually. That he's constantly showing off his shamrock tattoos, using his heritage as an excuse for why he gets way too drunk and belligerent at every social function, going on about Irish pride and getting overly excited over "St Patty's" to the point where they're really just mocking him without him realising.
I always chuckle in Jerry Maguire when he tells the kid playing American Football that he's "global". 90% of people on the globe couldn't even explain how you score in that sport to save their own life, let alone watch a game of American Football over watching the weather report.
Reminds me of a scene in a Kevin Costner movie a few years ago where he mentions wanting to watch a game of football to a French kid and, after some confusion, the kid goes "oh, you mean *American* football". To which Costner's character's response is "no, just football."
Mate, you're in fucking *Paris*.
I find it highly offensive that you compare watching the weather forecast to watching the special PPE version of handeggball. For a whole lot of people watching the forecast is part of our national identity and without it we’d have nothing to talk to strangers about!!!
Oh, that's easy. Go to Google, type in "sign up as a registered Fenian", go to page 67 of the results and you'll find the page. It has 6,732 pop ups, a lot of Trojan viruses and dubious English grammar, as well as a link to make an unsecured payment site whose IP address hops around between Nigeria, India, Brazil, Albania, and 25 other countries. And, hey, presto, you're a registered Fenian...
As far as I know it’s only Americans who do this. You don’t hear people calling themselves Portuguese British or french Australian, and they certainly don’t claim to be fully both things at the same time. For some ridiculous reason it caught on in America and it pisses every other country off on a regular basis.
Not to the same extend as Americans but I have encountered this. A guy told me recently he's a fellow Scot. (I was born and raised in Scotland, moved to Canada in my 20s) I asked how close his connection to Scotland was, parents, grandparents? Oh no, he replied, we came to Canada just after the Battle of Culloden....
Big deal, when I came of age in Australia I had to get my pen license in grade 4 to use a Pen at school and I was then sent on walkabout by my folks to hunt 50 cane toads which were then sacrificed at the Temple of the Big Cassowary. I also needed to survive 5 mins with a drop bear and then tame and ride a wild kangaroo home for 3 days to get to my house and earn my Australian citizenship
Fuckin Australians have it easy, do you have any idea how difficult it is to find your way to mount doom when they didn't even start putting your country on maps til 2001?
And don't even get me started on how doing the whole thing barefoot is "tradition" and "part of my cultural heritage".
What a stupid fucking question.
Doing it with a harness gives you residency, not citizenship. I'm Irish and even I know that......ground harness....i mean really.....
Actual Irishman here. Nobody I have ever met has ever done any of the shit this guy has done.
I really dont get why Americans dont get this. Were you born in ireland? If so, you are Irish. If not, you are not. End of discussion.
Feom roughly the 1850s to the first decade or so of the 20th century, the members of the irish Republican brotherhood (a forerunner to the IRA) were known as fenians.
Nowadays its commonly used as a derogatory term for a Catholic.
Thank you! So this seppo is trying to claim freedom fighter status for a country he's never been to and clearly doesn't understand or know anything about(neither do I, but I'm not claiming to)? What a dickhead.
That's about the size of it aye. My guess is he's basically just grabbed what he thinks is a load of "Irish" things off the Google machine and said he does or is them. For clarity, the highland games is scottish not irish (and "teens" dont typically compete in them,) nobody I have ever known has ever taken an "oath to their clan," people dont speak "gaelic" they speak Irish or English (or both) and there hasn't been such a thing as a "registered fenian" in about 150 years. So in short, "Sgt. Irish" here is the absolute definition of a plastic paddy and he would want to go away and take his head for a shite.
So he speaks Scottish not Irish, has a clan, and says he's a Fenian?
Fuck sake I do not know where to start with that shit. I think we pay for him to go to Belfast or Derry and explain it to them there, especially the Bogside or the Shankhill.
As someone who regulars multiple east Belfast bars, we'd laugh and string him along to see if we could get anymore funny soundbites out of him. ***Especially*** with his accent.
Idk if you're implying people might get all angry, but I can guarantee that wouldn't happen 😂 even if it was a local it's such a silly thing to say it would be taken as a joke
You can join my clan for 40. Offer expires at midnight. Be one of the first 20,000 to join and you get FREE fenian registration, normal price 15 euros.
You're called a plastic paddy because that's exactly what you are,you yank dose.What do highland games have to do with Ireland? Also we speak Irish, or Gaeilge- we don't call the language "Gaelic".
A registered Fenian?!!! Is this gobshite living in the 1800's?
I’m Scottish. Recently I saw a Canadian comment how the Scottish liked them because they knew what clan they were from. NOBODY in Scotland talks about clans. We don’t fuckinf know what clan we are from. wtf smh
I’m from a Scottish family, grew up getting bathed in a burn, porridge for breakfast every morning, shortbread with my tea, highland dancing, participated in the Highland Games caber toss etc etc …and I still get called English for the way I pronounce ‘nougat’.
The fact they call Irish "Gaelic" tells me everything I need to know.
Tbf they may be talking about Scottish Gaelic as they seem to treat the two as interchangeable.
(Actual Ulster-Scot here) He does realise 'fenian' is just a slur nowadays? Right?
Also he pledged an oath to his clan? 🤣 Fuck me these yanks just do anything people tell them haha Bet he paid through the nose to do it as well 🤣
I don't understand whether he's referring to Irish culture or Scottish culture. Every time I pick one, the elements of the other culture in this comment interfere and it doesn't make sense.
The seppo probably doesn't know either. He just blended them together along with a solid dose of fantasy.
If he ever decides to visit Ireland or Scotland he better not go around telling people he's a "registered Fenian", depending on which neighborhood he's in he's likely to get stabbed. Of course he knows nothing about the sectarian issues because he's an ignorant yank. Probably thinks Fenian = Scot and Irish, and with him being a clueless American he's likely to just announce it like a badge of honour to every person he sees unaware that anyone may possibly have a problem with it
Nobody in Scotland that I have ever met has sworn an oath to a clan lmao. I’m from the highlands and literally nobody gives a shit at all about clans - apart from maybe some light ribbing about being a Campbell on a sign in the Clachaig Inn. I don’t know why this is such a thing for them.
Also I bet they don’t speak Gaelic. Five lessons in on Duo maybe…and pronounce everything in English phonetics.
What "security organisation"? Also you may be trying too hard. Were you born in Ireland? Were you born in Scotland? Then just because your parents are, I assume from Scotland and Ireland and not just descended from Irish and Scottish immigrants , doesn't make you Scottish or Irish or whatever you're trying so hard to be
No one says 'I speak Gaelic' ffs. It's Irish.
Also, wft is a registered Fenian? I didn't know you have to register. Please don't tell me I have to register to be a taig as well, do I?
I live in Ireland and nobody I know has ever sworn an oath to their clan. Or even has a clan.
Yeah that sounds like the most American shit ever.
Americans will invent anything to suit their narrative. Like how they said American English is the real accent of English and it's Britain that's changed over the decades. Sure guys.
Brazilians say the same thing about the portuguese. Probably a common rethoric in former colonies.
language enclaves outside of the core territory often retain conservative features (like Rs in America, & vowels in Brazil) but it does get exaggerated & colonial dialects usually have their own innovations
Also it seems very convenient that they consider the "real" accent to be the one that was just before they left, when the English language had already been evolving for over a thousand years before that. What's so authentic about the 18th century when English has existed since the 5th century?
*This point right here*. Language is *constantly* evolving and changing. There’s no “real” or “correct” version of a language. There are rules for grammar, syntax and phonology, yes, but even that changes over time, albeit much slower than the vocabulary does. Yes, American English retained the “r”, but no, it does not sound like 18th century British did, and no, it’s not more “authentic”. Modern British has also retained stuff that American English did not. Hell, there are even British villages using “thee” and “thou”. Every “version” of a language is authentic to itself. That’s it.
the only place i could think of where this is even remotely the case is Iceland which has barely changed its language in the last millennium while the Norwegian language has changed massively. They almost speak old norse while modern Norwegian might actually have more in common with german than icelandic, sad as that is
The Scandinavian languages ended up with a lot of loanwords from Low German (which is closer related to English/Frisian than it is to High German). The more extreme example would be English and Frisian.
I'm Brazilian-Portuguese, have dual citizenship, lived in Brazil for 10 years and Portugal for 10 years and never heard that in my life.
Smh man, haven't sworn an oath yet? Off to Craggy Island with you
“I hear you’re a clansman now father. Should we all be clansman now? What's the Church's position? I'm so busy down on the farm I won't have much time for the ol' clansmanism”
Clansman? Two pints prick.
well well, look who it isnae
...got any Midori?
Ah go on father, say your oath, go on go on go on go on
Well if you won’t be saying your oath, you’ll have just a wee spot of tea and a biscuit now won’t you? Ah you will… Ah but you will…
Alright fine Mrs Doyle I'll have one
That would be an ecumenical matter.
"Good for you, Father! Good for you! Somebody finally had the guts to stand up and say it! They come over here, after our clans and our women, fecking Yanks!"
It’s not the Americans, it’s the Chinese he’s after.
As long as I get to have a go at those Americans! They invented gayness!
Brilliant 😂
~~clansman~~ klansman FTFY ;-)
I did wonder if this so called clan was simply misspelt, understandable from what I know of the average white hood…
I hear you're a racist now Father
What’s a Fenian registry? Is it like a dog tag?
I had to Google it. Apparently it's some kind of Irish Republican organisation. They seem to have been replaced/absorbed by the IRA by the early 1900s. Not quite sure how this bloke is registered with an organisation that doesn't exist anymore but hey ho
So a Scots clansman and Irish Republican, does he know the history of Ireland and *who* were those involved in the Ulster Clearances which threw Irish people off their land and why we have a border in Ireland?
Why do Americans romanticise the IRA? Imagine their reaction if they heard someone was proudly going around saying they're a member of Al-Qaeda.
See also the cocktail named "Irish car bomb"... Not seen one called "Twin Towers" yet.
There also still isn't a cocktail called "Fall of Saigon"…
I should start working on one called "Afghanistan Pullout."
That's what she said.
It's served in two tall glasses, they pour it over you and you have to fight someone else who had nothing to do with it
It can be arranged maybe raki with rose water mixed with sparkling water with a poppy seed garnish
A twin towers : two shots of fireball rimmed with sugar set on fire to be drunk whilst screaming
> Not seen one called "Twin Towers" yet The [Manhattan](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/manhattan) with two shots of [fireball](https://www.fireballwhisky.com/)...?
I’m Irish, and met a New England “online progressive” style girl (you know the type) in an Irish bar in Europe who kept lecturing me about my straight, white male privilege etc. etc. for an hour. Then she went ahead and ordered a “Black and Tan”. Well, well, well. How the turns tabled
Because they have an oppression complex. They never got over their independence war (which honestly, half of it was fought more by the French than by them, in South America we did it ourselves), despite winning it; so everytime there's a (complex) conflict that can be idiotically reduced to "smaller country fighting for FREEDUM against bigger country", they jump in. Except when it's real imperialism like what they did in Cuba, Philippines, and the dictatorships throughout South America. Then it's okay, because *they* know better. (Am not a leftist btw)
I thought it was just a season pass for Celtic
Yeah I second that. That's some Wolf Creek shit. Do you think he knows we have towns and cities and all? Or does he think we still live in raths and crannogs?
I think he's confusing Irish and Scottish
I live in Scotland and have never heard of anyone swearing an oath to a clan either.
I heard Wee Davie saying he was "going fae a feckin' MacDonalds" maybe that was the swearing and clan he meant
The famous clan McDonald, fought during the burger wars against the King, the Burger King if you like
And those 5 Guys. It was in and Out until Wendy's stopped it.
This guy just watched Highlander too many times.
or wants to be Jamie from Outlander.
I just looked up my last name (Scottish) and the second result is a bunch of Americans larping as a clan. It does however also look like there’s British AGMs which is a funny concept
I think he's confusing Irish and Scottish with mississippi with all the Clan talk.
Tell that to the neds in the govanhill young team
Aye it's got fuck all to do with Scotland either. Just some Americans larping as people they're not. Again.
McKuKluxKlan
The old Irish royal families are sometimes referred to as clans (back when heirs could be selected from the various family branches instead of English style primogenitor). I assume they're associating their surname with a system that's been dead for five hundred years.
I live in Scotland and am part Irish too. My last name is as clans-ly as they come and no oaths have been sworn on either sides. What a melt.
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I mean, depending on where he lives in Scotland, some folk might do it for a laugh.🤷♂️.
On a post last year, an Irish guy told the story of how he went to an American cousin's wedding in the states. He said they sang Danny Boy, wore kilts and played the bagpipes.
Ah in fairness I’ve definitely heard Danny Boy at least once at a wedding, kilts and bagpipes are pure notions though.
I bet they don't know it was written by an English man though haha
I'm British, with Irish family and pretty sure I have a clan, but it doesn't have a name or any official belonging, just shows up whenever there's a party anywhere and does drunk karaoke. There's lots of swearing, but not to "the clan". Not really at anyone really, it's generally all in good fun. OOP would hate me for my Yorkshire accent, if he could place it as English.
But he's a Registered Fenian lol
Pfft you're probably not even a registered Fenian fs
Right? I don't have a clan to swear oaths to. I bet they have a badge and a complicated handshake.
They're the kind of people the tat shops on my street sell plastic coats of arms and whatnot to
I've seen them get mad disappointed when they come here though. Something to do with the lack of barefoot urchins and widespread electricity and indoor plumbing.
This is like when I visited American friends and they were like, “let’s go to the Ren Faire!” and I’m like, “the fuck is a ren faire?” And so we went and it was like, holy shit! They do it about being English too, but stopping at 1600!
> They do it about being English too, but stopping at 1600! While eating giant legs of turkey...
Okay but that's different. I've been to a good bunch of Germanic mediaeval markets too, which seems to be the same concept, and they just fuckin slap. There's old-fashioned crafts, folk metal, costumes, a bunch of the fun history nerds, and a ton of mead and beer, what's not to like?
He gets called a plastic Paddy because that's exactly what he is. A foreigner trying to masquerade as an Irishman.
B-b-but his Clan Oath. (Plot Twist: it's a Q4Arena-Clan)
Or a clan with more K's in it. Who's to say?
Worse, an Irish-Scotsman (or vice versa) cause there’s no difference.
*”Irish clan tartan” woman enters the building* [That one](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/10d5quv/deleted_by_user/) remains an eternal favourite of mine!
Damn, what a read.
Whooah whoah.. There’s no more sacred moment in an Irishman’s youth than paying a man with a San Diego-registered GoDaddy to register him as Fenian.
Surely that’d be GoPaddy?
but his laminated fenian registration card!
“Sworn an oath to a clan”- Sounds like he got scammed to me. I’ve never heard of anyone actually doing that, what is he on about… Have I missed out on a side hustle? Lemme try…Hello friends, please PayPal me money and I will assign you a totally real clan. No refunds.
So it's not necessarily a _scam_ - if you have a clan surname then there's a good chance a clan organisation does exist that you can join up with. The problem is, they're run by the sorts of people that would form a clan organisation and run it in their spare time.
Someone is taking their Irish cosplay pretty seriously
“And everybody in the clan agrees that my big green hat has the shiniest buckle.”
And Shivoan loves his she-lay-lay (Spelling mistakes purposeful)
Don’t be giving him ideas, he’ll call his daughter Shelaylay now
That's not quite r/tragedeigh enough. Shelaayleigh? Cherlaylee? Shirlaillay?
I was gonna say larp..
How on earth does one register as Fenian?
You have to say Gerry Adams Name three times, then léigh anois go cúramach, ar do scrúd pháipéar. If you hear two beeps, you're a Fenian, three bees it's the Rah, four Beeps you're swearing oaths to Clan.
Would you believe his voice is so sexy he wasn't allowed use it on telly in the 90s?
When you hear Céist a haon, you are to be sacrificed at the O'Connell tower at sundown
Bust my hole laughing at this!
If the beeps don't stop, replace your smoke alarm battery.
With great difficulty, unless youre a time traveller. The Fenian Brotherhood hasnt existed for 144 years, the IRB has been dissolved for 100 years.
Join Sinn Fein? 🤷🏻♂️
>plus the security organization I'm in all our men and women call me Sgt.Irish almost made me choke on my drink. Wow yeah your yank ass CoD larp group made up a nickname for you, what more proof could anyone need
I love that HE EVEN PRETENDS TO BE A COP!
Pól O'Blart, Cú Chulainn of the Mall
It’s the only logical career for him as law enforcement from early last century in America is filled with Irish. As an Irish-Scottish it was his calling
Probably because he constantly tells people that’s his name, or what he prefers to go by.
Yeah, I want to believe that more actually. That he's constantly showing off his shamrock tattoos, using his heritage as an excuse for why he gets way too drunk and belligerent at every social function, going on about Irish pride and getting overly excited over "St Patty's" to the point where they're really just mocking him without him realising.
And all his friends call him bigman, or ironballs.....yeah right.
Mall cop.
A caricature is not a nationality, you simpleton
dude's an irish highlander, you don't want to make him mad and remind him there can be only one.
You didn’t play American sports? How *irish* of you.
Little does he know LARP-ing as an Irish \*is\* an American sport.
I always chuckle in Jerry Maguire when he tells the kid playing American Football that he's "global". 90% of people on the globe couldn't even explain how you score in that sport to save their own life, let alone watch a game of American Football over watching the weather report.
Reminds me of a scene in a Kevin Costner movie a few years ago where he mentions wanting to watch a game of football to a French kid and, after some confusion, the kid goes "oh, you mean *American* football". To which Costner's character's response is "no, just football." Mate, you're in fucking *Paris*.
I find it highly offensive that you compare watching the weather forecast to watching the special PPE version of handeggball. For a whole lot of people watching the forecast is part of our national identity and without it we’d have nothing to talk to strangers about!!!
So, how’s Britain treating you?
It’s alright ta, gotten a bit colder and it’s raining this evening, but not as bad where I am as it is in Forth, Forties, or Fisher
How can he be registered fenian if they were dissolved over a hundred years ago?
Some lad called him feen once and said he belonged on a registry, the "Irishman" took it from there.
Oh, that's easy. Go to Google, type in "sign up as a registered Fenian", go to page 67 of the results and you'll find the page. It has 6,732 pop ups, a lot of Trojan viruses and dubious English grammar, as well as a link to make an unsecured payment site whose IP address hops around between Nigeria, India, Brazil, Albania, and 25 other countries. And, hey, presto, you're a registered Fenian...
As far as I know it’s only Americans who do this. You don’t hear people calling themselves Portuguese British or french Australian, and they certainly don’t claim to be fully both things at the same time. For some ridiculous reason it caught on in America and it pisses every other country off on a regular basis.
Some Canadians do, unfortunately (I know one).
Not to the same extend as Americans but I have encountered this. A guy told me recently he's a fellow Scot. (I was born and raised in Scotland, moved to Canada in my 20s) I asked how close his connection to Scotland was, parents, grandparents? Oh no, he replied, we came to Canada just after the Battle of Culloden....
1746 to save anyone else from googling
Thank you for your service.
That's like me saying I'm Scottish because my family came from caveman immigrants
So, Dundee?
Never met an Irish person calling the language Gaelic. We either call it Irish or Gaeilge.
We don’t even know if they’re talking about the Irish language, could be Scottish Gaelic.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if he thinks it’s the same language.
Considering the mention of the "highland Games", probably.
Big deal, when I came of age in Australia I had to get my pen license in grade 4 to use a Pen at school and I was then sent on walkabout by my folks to hunt 50 cane toads which were then sacrificed at the Temple of the Big Cassowary. I also needed to survive 5 mins with a drop bear and then tame and ride a wild kangaroo home for 3 days to get to my house and earn my Australian citizenship
I had a pint of Murphys in my local at the age of 16.
Man, you really were a late bloomer
Thought I'd try it instead of the usual cider
Fuckin Australians have it easy, do you have any idea how difficult it is to find your way to mount doom when they didn't even start putting your country on maps til 2001? And don't even get me started on how doing the whole thing barefoot is "tradition" and "part of my cultural heritage".
With or without a ground harness?
What a stupid fucking question. Doing it with a harness gives you residency, not citizenship. I'm Irish and even I know that......ground harness....i mean really.....
Sorry, I just watched Crocodile Dundee once and Crocodile Hunter as a child, so I'm only like 10% australian :(
Actual Irishman here. Nobody I have ever met has ever done any of the shit this guy has done. I really dont get why Americans dont get this. Were you born in ireland? If so, you are Irish. If not, you are not. End of discussion.
Tbf if you’ve been here long enough I’d consider ye irish. I know a fella from Estonia and he’s the biggest Cavan man I know!
Oh dont get me wrong adopted irish is a very real thing!!
Could you also be so kind as to explain wtf a "Fenian" is? And how he claims to be one?
Feom roughly the 1850s to the first decade or so of the 20th century, the members of the irish Republican brotherhood (a forerunner to the IRA) were known as fenians. Nowadays its commonly used as a derogatory term for a Catholic.
Thank you! So this seppo is trying to claim freedom fighter status for a country he's never been to and clearly doesn't understand or know anything about(neither do I, but I'm not claiming to)? What a dickhead.
That's about the size of it aye. My guess is he's basically just grabbed what he thinks is a load of "Irish" things off the Google machine and said he does or is them. For clarity, the highland games is scottish not irish (and "teens" dont typically compete in them,) nobody I have ever known has ever taken an "oath to their clan," people dont speak "gaelic" they speak Irish or English (or both) and there hasn't been such a thing as a "registered fenian" in about 150 years. So in short, "Sgt. Irish" here is the absolute definition of a plastic paddy and he would want to go away and take his head for a shite.
Ah, yeah another American LARP-ing as an Irish. He sounds pretty advanced too, like level 11 with relentless rage enabled. Or some shit.
I let my Fenian registration expire many years ago.
Oh no!! Whatever will you do?? Quick, swear an oath or two… maybe no one will notice.
A Fenian? Is it 1867?
"Hi! I just moved to this neighbourhood and I'm required by law to let you know that I'm a registered Fenian."
Swearing an oath to a clan has to be something somebody made up to fleece American tourists and its genius.
Like the Scottish lord thing they seem to keep buying.
So he speaks Scottish not Irish, has a clan, and says he's a Fenian? Fuck sake I do not know where to start with that shit. I think we pay for him to go to Belfast or Derry and explain it to them there, especially the Bogside or the Shankhill.
I would pay money to see him walk into just about any bar in east belfast and say he's a "registered fenian" 😂😂😂
As someone who regulars multiple east Belfast bars, we'd laugh and string him along to see if we could get anymore funny soundbites out of him. ***Especially*** with his accent. Idk if you're implying people might get all angry, but I can guarantee that wouldn't happen 😂 even if it was a local it's such a silly thing to say it would be taken as a joke
Accent? Ah, but as an American he'll be convinced he doesn't have an accent!
I would also pay to see him walk into a bar on the falls and try that shit 😂
Fuck me they'd have to pick him up with a vacuum cleaner 😂
Listen, if any of you lads want to join the clan I need your oath and 50 quid registration fee.
You can join my clan for 40. Offer expires at midnight. Be one of the first 20,000 to join and you get FREE fenian registration, normal price 15 euros.
You're called a plastic paddy because that's exactly what you are,you yank dose.What do highland games have to do with Ireland? Also we speak Irish, or Gaeilge- we don't call the language "Gaelic". A registered Fenian?!!! Is this gobshite living in the 1800's?
I’m Scottish. Recently I saw a Canadian comment how the Scottish liked them because they knew what clan they were from. NOBODY in Scotland talks about clans. We don’t fuckinf know what clan we are from. wtf smh
I’m from a Scottish family, grew up getting bathed in a burn, porridge for breakfast every morning, shortbread with my tea, highland dancing, participated in the Highland Games caber toss etc etc …and I still get called English for the way I pronounce ‘nougat’.
Where about in Scotland do you live? 1685?
How do you pronounce it? Is it noooogaaa?
Yes, a silent T. No, I will not pronounce it “nugget”; because I am a man of sophistication.
English.
I don't think he realises that even though the Fenians were a rebellious organisation now it's used in a derogatory way in some places
The fact they call Irish "Gaelic" tells me everything I need to know. Tbf they may be talking about Scottish Gaelic as they seem to treat the two as interchangeable.
What the fuck is a "registered Fenian"? I know what a Fenian is, I know what the Fenian Raids were, but what the hell is the registry and who runs it?
"Oath to a clan" is somewhere between cringe and cult.
"Guys call me Sgt Irish" - said Sgt Zblinski
Notice how none of them want to be Welsh!?
(Actual Ulster-Scot here) He does realise 'fenian' is just a slur nowadays? Right? Also he pledged an oath to his clan? 🤣 Fuck me these yanks just do anything people tell them haha Bet he paid through the nose to do it as well 🤣
‘Oath to my clan’ lol
I don't understand whether he's referring to Irish culture or Scottish culture. Every time I pick one, the elements of the other culture in this comment interfere and it doesn't make sense. The seppo probably doesn't know either. He just blended them together along with a solid dose of fantasy.
Just cause you eat Lucky Charms and get called ‘Irish’ doesn’t make you Irish.
Major Fantasist more like
I despise them more and more every day.
As an actual Scot. What the fuck is an oath to a clan?
If he was really Irish he certainly wouldn’t be calling it “Gaelic”.
Breaking news in: when this shit never happened
These people want to be the stereotype of an Irish person and not actually an Irish person.
It's like the "Irish" in Ireland aren't even trying anymore. Reform the clans and start doing it properly 😠🇮🇪
Ugggh, fine, time to get the boys back together and start making bombs again.
As a Northern Irishman, I respectfully decline your application
“I speak Gaelic” - which words?
Registered Fenian... what the hell
If he ever decides to visit Ireland or Scotland he better not go around telling people he's a "registered Fenian", depending on which neighborhood he's in he's likely to get stabbed. Of course he knows nothing about the sectarian issues because he's an ignorant yank. Probably thinks Fenian = Scot and Irish, and with him being a clueless American he's likely to just announce it like a badge of honour to every person he sees unaware that anyone may possibly have a problem with it
I only recognise 2 scot-americans, that lady off tiktok who plays rock songs on her bagpipes and Groundskeeper Willie
Highland games? Go home plastic , you're drunk
My first oath to my clan.... What the fuck is this fool on about?
Nobody in Scotland that I have ever met has sworn an oath to a clan lmao. I’m from the highlands and literally nobody gives a shit at all about clans - apart from maybe some light ribbing about being a Campbell on a sign in the Clachaig Inn. I don’t know why this is such a thing for them. Also I bet they don’t speak Gaelic. Five lessons in on Duo maybe…and pronounce everything in English phonetics.
Sounds about as Scottish as Christopher Lambert in the Highlander.
I was left with the idea that cosplay was about imaginative characters.This is a new level.
What "security organisation"? Also you may be trying too hard. Were you born in Ireland? Were you born in Scotland? Then just because your parents are, I assume from Scotland and Ireland and not just descended from Irish and Scottish immigrants , doesn't make you Scottish or Irish or whatever you're trying so hard to be
Parents? I'm willing to bet good money that nobody in his family line for at least 4 generations was born in either Ireland or Scotland.
Mall cop.
Ah shit i forgot tho register as a fenian this year. Ill not be on the team this season 😪
This seems like something we'd make up and then charge tourists astronomical prices to "become Irish".
Wonder does he know what a Fenian actually is?
No one says 'I speak Gaelic' ffs. It's Irish. Also, wft is a registered Fenian? I didn't know you have to register. Please don't tell me I have to register to be a taig as well, do I?
Someone please explain to him that the "Sgt Irish" nickname is ironic. I don't have enough crayons.