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On 03/06/2016 02:53, Smiler wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 06:37:10 -0700, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:30:13 UTC+1, Smiler  wrote:
>>> On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 03:07:18 -0700, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 23:54:43 UTC+1, Smiler  wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:58:05 -0700, Hypatiab69 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 1:49:05 PM UTC-4, Smiler wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 04:53:24 -0700, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 11:40:14 UTC+1, Alex W.  wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 01/06/2016 19:45, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm presuming a thorough "ethnic cleansing".
>>>>>>>>>> No more Northern Ireland Protestants.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> How would that be accomplished?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That would be Trump's problem.  But maybe solar powered robot
>>>>>>>> drones that fly down to pick up Ulstermen by their sash and fly
>>>>>>>> them across to dear old Alba.  It's not ideal territory for
>>>>>>>> solar power but it is an option.  Imagine an Orange Lodge March
>>>>>>>> being evicted in formation.
>>>>>>>> Like "Apocalypse Now" with flutes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Send them back to Scotland, as that's where they came from.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are NOT a Brit, are you?
>>>>>
>>>>> Fuck off, forger.
>>>>
>>>> She's sort of right.  (Ultimately everyone is from Africa.) The
>>>> "Ulster Scots" are the product of deliberate "Plantation".
>>>
>>> Indeed, but I was showing the folly of your idea.
>>> Be careful what you wish for. :-)
>>
>> I'm not exactly wishing for it, but it seems to me - without much
>> investigation - that the world would be a better place if that
>> "Plantation" had not happened.
>
> I agree.

Wholesale migration, whether involuntary or not, are part of human 
behaviour and history.  Sometimes the effects have been beneficial, 
sometimes not so much.  I suspect that in the case of Ireland, much 
tragedy could have been avoided....


>
>> But apparently the "Scoti" tribe had previously come from Ireland
>> anyway.  I don't know why, maybe they played bagpipes too loud and were
>> emphatically asked to leave.
>
> The Irish also play bagpipes, but they are slightly more tuneful.

"Slightly more tuneful"?

That's like saying Hitler was slightly more humane than Stalin.

Either sounds like a cat being drowned in a blender with misaligned 
bearings....

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hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-05-30 16:06 -0700
  Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-05-31 12:49 +1000
    Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-05-30 20:28 -0700
  Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-05-31 04:52 -0700
    Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-01 10:22 +1000
      Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 02:45 -0700
        Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-01 20:40 +1000
          Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 04:53 -0700
            Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-01 17:48 +0000
              Re: hey Brits! Hypatiab69 <opuzayo@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 10:58 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-01 22:54 +0000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 03:07 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-02 12:30 +0000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 06:37 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-02 16:53 +0000
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-03 10:42 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-03 05:09 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 00:02 -0400
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-04 16:06 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 02:17 -0400
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-04 04:19 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> - 2016-06-04 11:02 -0400
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-04 15:06 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 11:29 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-04 20:55 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 18:38 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-03 10:45 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 04:02 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-04 11:00 +1000
                Re: hey Brits! Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 04:43 -0700
                Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 11:33 +1000
            Re: hey Brits! "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-06-02 11:08 +1000
              Re: hey Brits! Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-06-02 12:33 +0000
  Re: hey Brits! Malcolm McMahon <malcolm.mc74@googlemail.com> - 2016-05-31 05:37 -0700
    Re: hey Brits! John Ritson <j.ritson@hotmail.co.uk> - 2016-05-31 16:10 +0100
      Re: hey Brits! Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-05-31 16:33 -0700

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