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"A pathetic attempt at mugging"

I saw a mugging today that made myself and quite a few other people smirk with satisfaction. A bloke came up behind an old woman in a packed street (O'Connell St for those of you that know it), nabbed her bag and went to run for it, only to run straight into two Gardai 10 feet away! They grabbed him, areested him and hauled him off down the street to their car. Most satisfying seeing gardai do something useful for a change.

No, but we are going down this Thursday I think. Should be a bit of craic, it was last year.

RoJ wrote:
> Ha, what a pratt.

Hey RoJ! Havent seen you round for a little while. Have you been down here shopping yet?

Ha, what a pratt.

Anything to classify themselves as a mixed race, and therefore more unique.

Azul wrote:
> Lindgren wrote:
> oddly a lot of Americans are keen to learn "Oirish"
> phrases!
>
> That's because they're Irish Americans. There are loads of
> towns/cities in America that are Irish based, and speak Irish etc.
> It's like with Quebec in Canada, speaking French.

I personally cant stand that Irish American/ African American/ Martian American stuff.

You're one or the other. I dont go around calling myself Irish Swedish!

I was going to say as there was a TV show the other day and they were talking to Americans in the streets and one guy said in a kind of semi-redneck accent "I'm actually Irish" and his wife went "and I'm English"

I mean seriously come on!

As if being American isn't bad enough...

So, if half of them are Irish, does that make the rest English and Dutch?

Lindgren wrote:
> oddly a lot of Americans are keen to learn "Oirish"
> phrases!

That's because they're Irish Americans. There are loads of towns/cities in America that are Irish based, and speak Irish etc.
It's like with Quebec in Canada, speaking French.

They do that in Broken Sword too? Jeez, they want a bit of everything they do.

Decoy Octopus wrote:
> Does that have anything to do with the Americans who walk around
> going "I'm actually Irish" when they most certainly are
> not?

It most certainly does.