oNrOb@cts.com wrote in message news:<yzaVa.3502$jD5.346888@dca1-nnrp1.news.algx.net>...
> In soc.culture.british flora macdonald <msflora99@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > matthewoutland22@yahoo.com (MatthewOutland) wrote in message news:<52210046.0307252157.54a853f8@posting.google.com>...
> >> Politics aside, why do so many people view french society cynically or
> >> with contempt?  I've never been to France or met any French so I don't
> >> know whats so special here.   Just curious, that's all.
> 
> 
> > It happens everywhere. The Japanese have contempt for the Koreans, the
> > Germans for the Poles, the English for the Irish (Paddys), the
> 
> Thanks for the PC crap, flora, but actually, it is the Irish
> ('Paddy' is a racist term of abuse, btw) who are steeped in
> loathing and contempt for the British.  Irish people live 
> quite comfortably in the UK, but British people are not allowed
> to live in Northern Ireland ("Brits out").  Irishmen vent their
> hatred of the British in s.c.b. on a regular basis.  I am thinking
> of Grieg Carlin, Diarmid Lorgan, ad hoc genus.  Check the Google
> database. 
> 
> > Australians for the English (Pommies). So in England the French are
> > "frogs". The bad habits always belong to the foreigner. Back when the
> > word "condom" was unmentionable in English it was a  "french letter",
> > in France it was "un chapeau anglais".
>  
> > Flora

Hang on. I may live in Dublin, but I have Scottish parents, was born
in London and regard myself as British.

Most English people I know, do not regard Ulster Loyalists as British.
Your sectarian hatred has spread to Scotland with all the
Celtic/Rangers codology.

Who cares about the Battle of the Boyne?. King Bully was blessed by
the Pope and many of his soldiers were Catholics.

Flora