VC: Why TG-16 and not PCE in Europe?

[termis]

People seem to go through stages when they live somewhere else.  (Basically, culture shock.)
1.  Everything is new and exotic, wow!
2.  The novelty wears off, and all the little different things that used to be exotic is now an annoyance.
3.  After awhile, you sorta settle in, realize things are just the way they are, and don't really need an explanation WHY everything is works the way they do.

It's in your best interest to get to #3 as quickly as possible, but a lotta people never seem to get out of #2, and get the hell out of Dodge ASAP -- I've seen it happen soooo many times...

[Golgo13]

People seem to go through stages when they live somewhere else.  (Basically, culture shock.)
1.  Everything is new and exotic, wow!
2.  The novelty wears off, and all the little different things that used to be exotic is now an annoyance.
3.  After awhile, you sorta settle in, realize things are just the way they are, and don't really need an explanation WHY everything is works the way they do.

It's in your best interest to get to #3 as quickly as possible, but a lotta people never seem to get out of #2, and get the hell out of Dodge ASAP -- I've seen it happen soooo many times...

Absolutely, for me growing up in an Italian neighborhood for most of my young life, made me really appreciate food and be very critical of it, my whole family is like this and we weren't exactly the wonderbread and kool-aid type of americans, so pretty much anywhere I go, im very observant of the food, and just to give you an example of my culinary critique take a look at this:




now the dutch word for this is a food item called "Frikandel".  The tri-state area's word for this would be "A piece of dog shit in a mailbox"

[Golgo13]

YES.. im afraid its....

[termis]

Yeah...    I myself am at #2 right now (I'm in Calgary).  Slowly crossing over to #3, but the terrible thing is that I completely skipped #1 and went right to #2 -- as in, nothing here was new or interesting!

Wait... In that case, maybe it's not so much culture shock - Calgary just sucks! 

[FM-77]

On the food front, the country I'm from is pretty grim.

What country might that be then?

[Monster Bonce]

Tír na nÓg Ireland

[Golgo13]

You know I went to a Catholic school that was run by Irish nuns, not Irish-American ones, but real ones right from ireland.  The mother superior was named "Ursula Doherty".   They were very strict but actualy very nice old ladies.

Actually there is alot of Irish people where im from, staten island is about 15% Irish, they own alot of bars along one of the main streets in staten island, alot of them sit and get piss drunk and stagger out the bars later at around 2 am.  Most of them are very happy drunks though.

[nat]

Most of them are very happy drunks though.

Those are the ones that are gettin' da ass...

[Keranu]

God bless the Irish. I have Irish blood and so damn proud, I could care less about what other ethnicities are in me.

[nat]

You damn Irish are all the same. I bet you're extremely pale, too.

[Keranu]

I am extremely pale! Most people say I'm the whitest person they know. Please don't say I'm a drunk though because that stereotype sucks.

[nat]

Naw, you're too young. Give it another year or two. 

[Keranu]

I used to drink hard liquor for a year straight from 16-17, but I quit that shit. Drinking is a waste of life.

[Golgo13]

Many, but not all of the Irish I knew liked to drink. Its not just a stereotype though, recently I read a study that Ireland has the highest rate of binge drinking in europe, around 22% of young people, If I recall england and other  countries up there also rank high.  The lowest was Italy and Greece with around 2%.  I worked in a nightclub in Athens and I indeed saw very few people get really drunk.  The Irish nun I had in school used to get really pissed about this Irish like to drink stereotype, but she was a nun and did not drink a single drop of alcohol.

[Keranu]

Here's a great page dealing with Irish discrimination.

I don't mean to turn this thread around, but I really do think Irish stereotypes are junk. People may not see any harm in calling an Irish a drunk, but it can. Just imagine my brother, who has recovered from strong alcoholism over the past couple of years, if he was talking to someone and he found out my brother was Irish and started ragging him on about drinking, which is probably the last thing my brother would want to hear. I just really hate to see how it seems so acceptable to say Irish stereotypes on TV and such. Don't even get me started on Muslim stereotypes.