A man walked into a Dublin bar and saw a friend sitting with an empty glass.
‘Paddy can I buy you another’, he asked, to which Paddy replied –
‘now what would I be wanting with another empty glass?’”
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paddy ,
‘Not too much (racism) -not too little (racism) -just enough (racism).’
So you have a sense of humour -Good one
‘the place where that comes from is one of historic ignorance, prejudice and intolerance about the Irish (specifically, catholic Irish immigrants)’
You left out ‘fear’. Everywhere in the world where large numbers of an ‘outgroup’ regardless of their skin colour or religion moves en masse to another country or even part of the same country you will find similar reactions and in particular if they are seen as an economic threat to indigenes .
If prejudice remains extant in Scotland at least they have not descended to the NI extreme and waged mass sectarian conflict . Not yet anyway and hopefully not ever .
A man walked into a Dublin bar and saw a friend sitting with an empty glass.
‘Paddy can I buy you another’, he asked, to which Paddy replied –
‘now what would I be wanting with another empty glass?’”
It should be, “Can I get you another. You wouldn’t offer somebody a drink with a suggestion that it had to be paid for and you couldn’t buy an empty glass anyway.
Actually you should just buy the pint without the stupid conversation. If he din’t want another one he’d be gone already.
Here is what might be called an anti-antisemitic joke.
Two jew haters in a bar. One says…
You know there are thrings i blame the jews for,
1 the crucifixion, 2 the holocaust in the second world war, and 3 the sinking of the titanic.
The other one, not to be outdone, says…
I’ll grant you the first two, but how do you make out that the jews were to blame for the titanic?
Well, said the first guy, Look at the names, Spielberg, Goldberg, Iceberg…..