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[sophistry]

Dear Internet,

We are now within spitting distance of three weeks to St. Patrick's Day. As such, please be aware of the potential for outbursts of extreme Irish Rage, and carry your hard-hats and wank-brollies with you at all times.

Love and kisses,
Sophie

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[sophistry]

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Wow, I... I don't even have any words for that. I mean, I'm not actually surprised, and yet it just - robs me of the capacity of speech.

I want to go to that woman's house and then burst into tears because she isn't morbidly obese and serving me fast food.

[angryhamster.livejournal.com]

that's basically the exact reaction mum had. and her staff (most of which are not irish at all, actually). and me, when she first told me. honestly, i blame the tv stations, they're the ones that keep playing... i don't know, 'the field' and that film about darby o'fecking'gill or whatever. how are people meant to actually know it's not like that if that's all they're seeing? and james joyce, we can blame him too.

i think there should be a new law. everyone who even thinks for two seconds about claiming to be "irish" should be made watch the commitments and read the entire ross o'carroll kelly series before they're allowed to do so. see if they want to be irish then!

...i know it's wrong but i laughed at that anyway.

[sophistry]

lskjdflas;a yes. The... the Ireland fandom, for lack of a better term, can throw up some real eejits, so there does need to be some sort of system for weeding them out.

(I wonder if how we feel when people do shit like that is how writers feel when people - I don't know, write Wincest or something.)

[angryhamster.livejournal.com]

we're like the mary sues of ireland fandom-- how dare we be actually irish and spoiling everyone's fun and we don't even appreciate it anyway!

i suppose maybe it is, really. it's a bit like rpf? this is kind of why i avoid rpf, because there are real people involved and we don't know what we're talking about with our random assumptions...