Very little of my family was in this country in 1776, why would someone expect m

[dandi]

Remember this guy? He's the one who accompanied his wife to her office party (or something like that) and when the host offered him a drink, instead of responding with a polite "No, thanks", stated, "I don't drink with you", then for the life of him couldn't understand why the other DUmmies thought he was rude. Well, he's back at his socially retarded best:

RB TexLa  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 09:55 PM
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Very little of my family was in this country in 1776, why would someone expect me to celebrate this
   
holiday?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8667190

HipChick  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 09:56 PM
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2. Dunno...mate...I'm British..
   

Not sure why I'd celebrate either...

RB TexLa  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 09:58 PM
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5. If you're british, you can leave the term "mate" off when speaking with me.

Oh, this guy's a charmer.

jody  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 10:00 PM
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8. No one will notice or care if you don't celebrate. n/t

   
 

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 10:00 PM
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11. Very true, just makes no sense that they would think it's expected.

thetonka  (12 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 10:02 PM
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12. If this is your deciding factor
   
Then are there any holidays you would celebrate? All holidays celebrate something that happened in the past, and even for those that were alive at the time it's not like everyone could or was at that place at that time.

 

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 10:10 PM
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19. Most holidays are celebrated by people with a relation to the event.

thetonka (12 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 10:14 PM
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20. And obviously you can not relate to anything about this country or its history
   
Not knocking you, just pointing out the obvious

 

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 10:15 PM
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21. It's a celebration of one event in the country's history

Do you think this dude is really this dense?

smalll  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 10:04 PM
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13. I don't celebrate the 4th of July -- with YOU!
   
/nt

JTFrog  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 10:41 PM
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35. I don't drink with you.
   
I expect nothing.

 

hlthe2b  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 10:07 PM
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14. Is there anything you don't take umbrage with?
   
For what it is worth, I can't imagine anyone caring one iota whether or not you celebrate July 4th Independence day.

cherokeeprogressive  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jun-30-10 11:12 PM
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50. Whew. And there I was feeling shitty for not inviting you to the party...   Updated at 1:57 AM
   
NOW I feel better. Actually, I don't give a damn what you choose to celebrate. No one I know does either. You're completely inconsequential.

I see it as another reason to get together with family and lifelong friends, go boating on my private lake, cook hot dogs and hamburgers, drink mass quantities of alcohol, smoke tons of weed, play lots of 8-Ball, and finish a perfect day off by watching one of the coolest fireworks shows in all of Southern California. My party will be starting Friday night, and continuing until Monday morning. Just me, my wife, and 16 of the coolest people I've ever known. And don't you worry, every toast that's raised over the weekend will be raised without you in mind.

Practice a little tolerance and don't shit on anyone else's celebration of whatever the **** they want to celebrate.

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 11:19 PM
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51. I've done nothing to anyone's celebrations.

SunnySong (591 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 11:28 PM
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54. So celebrate share the potato or what ever half assed holiday your country of origin has.   Updated at 11:51 PM
   
If I was living in Haiti I would certainly help them celebrate their hard fought independence. Most countries have some sort of patriotic holiday. Admittedly some of them involve burning catholics in effigy but still it is only polite if you live in the country to join in the fun.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 11:31 PM
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55. I would consider it insulting to celebrate someone else's holiday. It's theirs.

handmade34 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 11:35 PM
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56. It is gracious and
   
civil and very humane to share in another's celebration and be happy for them. Very few people see it as insulting.

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-30-10 11:36 PM
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57. I would feel that I would be insulting them by doing it. Not judging what anyone else does.

It must be a blast to be around this fellow.
   

[Chris_]

He sounds like every other self-proclaimed liberal at the DUmp.  They hate children, they hate holidays, they hate cops and love criminals.

I wouldn't want to live in their world for a day.  Something tells me it won't be as wonderful as they imagine.

[thundley4]

I read most of that thread earlier and was surprised by many of the DUmmies responses. Some of them almost sound like they know what July 4th means.  

[PatriotGame]

He sounds like every other self-proclaimed liberal at the DUmp.  They hate children, they hate holidays, they hate cops and love criminals.

I wouldn't want to live in their world for a day.  Something tells me it won't be as wonderful as they imagine.

Liberals especially the DUmp variety, are terminally miserable. Democrats own both houses of Congress, they have their point man in the Oval Office, and as was predicted here and at CU, the primitives are as miserable and full of intolerance and hate as they have ever been. Like an old friend always said "you can't polish a turd".

[blitzkrieg_17]

What an F-tard.

[JohnnyReb]

Good...he can work the forth sans the overtime pay.

[miskie]

At least he is consistent..

4th of July -2008  http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4226174

And here is a holiday he would like to celebrate -- United Nations Day - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6814256

but then again, he claims to be Irish American, and flies the Irish flag..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=866650

RB TexLa  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-06-06 09:30 PM
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35. No the bullshit that we are all simply "Americans" is bullshit
   
I am not an "American," I am an Irish-American, and yes I fly the Irish flag. And of course I have loyalty to my heritage that is on par with my loyalty to my country.

[JohnnyReb]

I am not an "American," I am an Irish-American, and yes I fly the Irish flag. And of course I have loyalty to my heritage that is on par with my loyalty to my country.

He has no loyalty.

[Carl]

Dear DUmmy,

Thanks for once again showing the world what miserable idiots you are and noe please eff off.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Man, even the other DUmmies are calling him out on his anti-social BS. 

[Karin]

No. 13 and 35 up there....now that's some funny stuff!  What a miserable sonofabitch.  I find it hard to believe he even has a wife.  I'll have to row over and check it out sometime today.  I loved Cherokee's response. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Wed Jun-30-10 10:15 PM
Response to Reply #20
21. It's a celebration of one event in the country's history

One rather significant one event DUmb-ass.

[Celtic Rose]

One rather significant one event DUmb-ass.

Exactly.  It is the event that officially started the process of making us an independent country rather than a colony. Guess what DUmmy, if you want to be exact, nobody's ancestors were in THIS country when the declaration of independence was signed, because guess what, it didn't exist yet. 

[lastparker]

SunnySong (591 posts)  Wed Jun-30-10 11:28 PM
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54. So celebrate share the potato or what ever half assed holiday your country of origin has.   Updated at 11:51 PM
   
If I was living in Haiti I would certainly help them celebrate their hard fought independence. Most countries have some sort of patriotic holiday. Admittedly some of them involve burning catholics in effigy but still it is only polite if you live in the country to join in the fun.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

 


Why?  Why do I even let them surprise me anymore?

[JohnnyReb]

I bet he'd celebrate "National Free Weed Day".....since he has to pay the other days.

[AllosaursRus]

Remember this guy? He's the one who accompanied his wife to her office party (or something like that) and when the host offered him a drink, instead of responding with a polite "No, thanks", stated, "I don't drink with you", then for the life of him couldn't understand why the other DUmmies thought he was rude. Well, he's back at his socially retarded best:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8667190

Oh, this guy's a charmer.
   
 
 
 
Do you think this dude is really this dense?

 
     
It must be a blast to be around this fellow.
   

Yep, regular life of the party!

I doubt any of your kin were around in 1776! If they were, they were more than likely collaborators with the British! I think ya ought to call the guy "Matey"!

Frikkin' un-American butt nugget!

[bkg]

I welcome them to leave.

My family was grateful and proud to move here.

[debk]

He can't be of Irish descent....no way...

I've never known anybody of Irish descent to turn down a reason to party....

[njpines]

I don't know -- it's probably just me but I refuse to believe this guy is on the level when he writes this stuff. It's just so off-the-wall goofy that I see him laughing his butt off as he's responding and twisting the DUmmies into knots!    Does anyone else see it this way?

[AllosaursRus]

I don't know -- it's probably just me but I refuse to believe this guy is on the level when he writes this stuff. It's just so off-the-wall goofy that I see him laughing his butt off as he's responding and twisting the DUmmies into knots!    Does anyone else see it this way?

Naw, it's typical DUmmie speak from the anti-American crowd from the DUmp.

[thundley4]

I don't know -- it's probably just me but I refuse to believe this guy is on the level when he writes this stuff. It's just so off-the-wall goofy that I see him laughing his butt off as he's responding and twisting the DUmmies into knots!    Does anyone else see it this way?

I was thinking about the possibility of it being a mole.

[AllosaursRus]

I was thinking about the possibility of it being a mole.

If he's deep cover, as he's been around a while, he's doin' a damn good job of it!

ETA:

Oh BTW DUmbass, my family's name was on the roster of the Mayflower, so I have a license to tell ya to take a flyin' leap off the continent! The sooner, the better!

[soleil]

This guy has had a few duzys. I can't imagine how lovely of a person he is.

[IassaFTots]

No. 13 and 35 up there....now that's some funny stuff!  What a miserable sonofabitch.  I find it hard to believe he even has a wife.  I'll have to row over and check it out sometime today.  I loved Cherokee's response. 

I did as well.  10 points for that one.  Spot on!

[AprilRazz]

If he's deep cover, as he's been around a while, he's doin' a damn good job of it!

ETA:

Oh BTW DUmbass, my family's name was on the roster of the Mayflower, so I have a license to tell ya to take a flyin' leap off the continent! The sooner, the better!

As a descendant of an original Jamestown resident as well as a part Native American I will take your flying leap and raise it to a drink bleach then a long walk off a short pier.