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Originally Posted by jwb
I know you hate eachother but that's a cain/able deal. Brits and Irish are pasty cousins with a blood feud.
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No it's not. We're Celts and they're not. We're more cousins to the Scots and the Welsh. even a little to the Vikings as so many settled here. But not the English. As distinct from the Brits. Of course, we all come essentially from the same gene pool stock, but then, so do you.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Wasn't there also a thing where the economic trend at the time for English landowners was to deem potatoes as not lucrative enough so they'd evict all the Irish, raze the plots, and turn it into sheep pastures? So a not insignificant percentage didn't even starve to death but died of exposure cause they were homeless desperately sheltering in ditches?
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Quite possibly. Like all events of this nature, there wasn't just the one cause for the famine or our overdependence on spuds.
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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
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Again, English word, not used here.