so i learned a new slur on twitter.

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4. Bad news to give you.

In the nineties I spent several years on the Irish and British social groups. I participated and lurked to learn about cultures that always fascinated me. Every now and then an American right-winger would come along to break the fun banter in the groups, sounding like a crazy person. It was embarrassing.

Anyway, one of the things I did learn was that many of the Irish were confused about Irish Americans.The Irish were so protective of their culture that there were self-appointed mods who began to remove Irish-Americans from their group. It drove them insane when the IAs would come in with "Top of the mornin to you." And talk about corn beef, and anything that was born from Hollywood. It was not pretty. I eventually left. They kept me around because I was very good at puns and had a wicked retort. When they started a hall of fame, they included me, or my nom de plume. And they put a drag queen as my picture. Until then, I didn't realize that my assertiveness was coming across as masculine. I was okay with it.