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 Posted: 24 January 2012 at 12:26pm |
There's a short account of the St Patrick's Batallion and what the Mexican people think of them at the oddly named Mexico Trucker Online website see- Mexico Honours Irish American St Patrick's Batallion/ . I'm sorry I don't know how to include the link - I'll have to wait till my son returns!!
Wil I'm surprised that you think they did this for self interest. It's not the way that the Mexicans or the Irish view it. Can you not imagine how the Irish, (who had recently fled a totally avoidable famine which cost over a million lives and changed Ireland for ever) would have sympathised with the Mexican cause against an imperial power which was invading and annexing large chunks of territory and treating the locals ......well like they treat Iraqis and Afghans and even Mexicans now.
To commemorate the 150 anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the battalion Ry Cooder, The Chieftains and a number of Mexican artists brought out the CD "San Patricio" which is an unusual fusion of the music of the two countries. Of course you won't have heard much about it in the Anglo-American Media.
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 12:30pm |
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Are you suggesting that they did this for the Catholic faith only?
If you are then I'm suggesting they did it for self interest only!
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 1:23pm |
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I blame the Yanks mun.
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You lied to me Edward. You lied to me. There is a Swansea... and other places.
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 1:39pm |
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I blame the Yanks mun. |
Who are as bad as the French. The rugby clubs are paying million pound contracts and the country is actually bankrupted and going to pot....
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In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 1:41pm |
omri jones wrote:
There's a short account of the St Patrick's Batallion and what the Mexican people think of them at the oddly named Mexico Trucker Online website see- Mexico Honours Irish American St Patrick's Batallion/ . I'm sorry I don't know how to include the link - I'll have to wait till my son returns!!
Wil I'm surprised that you think they did this for self interest. It's not the way that the Mexicans or the Irish view it. Can you not imagine how the Irish, (who had recently fled a totally avoidable famine which cost over a million lives and changed Ireland for ever) would have sympathised with the Mexican cause against an imperial power which was invading and annexing large chunks of territory and treating the locals ......well like they treat Iraqis and Afghans and even Mexicans now.
To commemorate the 150 anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the battalion Ry Cooder, The Chieftains and a number of Mexican artists brought out the CD "San Patricio" which is an unusual fusion of the music of the two countries. Of course you won't have heard much about it in the Anglo-American Media. |
i tell you what,i learn more on here in a morning than i did in 15 years at school. 
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30th june 1986- 30th june 2011.25 years roofing,i wouldn't call that dodgy.
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 1:55pm |
ladram wrote:
omri jones wrote:
There's a short account of the St Patrick's Batallion and what the Mexican people think of them at the oddly named Mexico Trucker Online website see- Mexico Honours Irish American St Patrick's Batallion/ . I'm sorry I don't know how to include the link - I'll have to wait till my son returns!!
Wil I'm surprised that you think they did this for self interest. It's not the way that the Mexicans or the Irish view it. Can you not imagine how the Irish, (who had recently fled a totally avoidable famine which cost over a million lives and changed Ireland for ever) would have sympathised with the Mexican cause against an imperial power which was invading and annexing large chunks of territory and treating the locals ......well like they treat Iraqis and Afghans and even Mexicans now.
To commemorate the 150 anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the battalion Ry Cooder, The Chieftains and a number of Mexican artists brought out the CD "San Patricio" which is an unusual fusion of the music of the two countries. Of course you won't have heard much about it in the Anglo-American Media. |
i tell you what,i learn more on here in a morning than i did in 15 years at school. |
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'' Know your three R's, son..... Rugby, Rock and Ridin'!! ''
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 1:58pm |
RedZep wrote:
ladram wrote:
omri jones wrote:
There's a short account of the St Patrick's Batallion and what the Mexican people think of them at the oddly named Mexico Trucker Online website see- Mexico Honours Irish American St Patrick's Batallion/ . I'm sorry I don't know how to include the link - I'll have to wait till my son returns!!
Wil I'm surprised that you think they did this for self interest. It's not the way that the Mexicans or the Irish view it. Can you not imagine how the Irish, (who had recently fled a totally avoidable famine which cost over a million lives and changed Ireland for ever) would have sympathised with the Mexican cause against an imperial power which was invading and annexing large chunks of territory and treating the locals ......well like they treat Iraqis and Afghans and even Mexicans now.
To commemorate the 150 anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the battalion Ry Cooder, The Chieftains and a number of Mexican artists brought out the CD "San Patricio" which is an unusual fusion of the music of the two countries. Of course you won't have heard much about it in the Anglo-American Media. |
i tell you what,i learn more on here in a morning than i did in 15 years at school. |
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yes,ammanford comprehensive,which one did you used to mitch from? 
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30th june 1986- 30th june 2011.25 years roofing,i wouldn't call that dodgy.
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 2:03pm |
ladram wrote:
RedZep wrote:
ladram wrote:
omri jones wrote:
There's a short account of the St Patrick's Batallion and what the Mexican people think of them at the oddly named Mexico Trucker Online website see- Mexico Honours Irish American St Patrick's Batallion/ . I'm sorry I don't know how to include the link - I'll have to wait till my son returns!!
Wil I'm surprised that you think they did this for self interest. It's not the way that the Mexicans or the Irish view it. Can you not imagine how the Irish, (who had recently fled a totally avoidable famine which cost over a million lives and changed Ireland for ever) would have sympathised with the Mexican cause against an imperial power which was invading and annexing large chunks of territory and treating the locals ......well like they treat Iraqis and Afghans and even Mexicans now.
To commemorate the 150 anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the battalion Ry Cooder, The Chieftains and a number of Mexican artists brought out the CD "San Patricio" which is an unusual fusion of the music of the two countries. Of course you won't have heard much about it in the Anglo-American Media. |
i tell you what,i learn more on here in a morning than i did in 15 years at school. |
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yes,ammanford comprehensive,which one did you used to mitch from? |
Actually, I was expelled from my school - me and a mate caught having a lunchtime pint in the local boozer !!
(we were 11, mind !!)
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'' Know your three R's, son..... Rugby, Rock and Ridin'!! ''
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roy munster
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 5:13pm |
ladram wrote:
RedZep wrote:
ladram wrote:
omri jones wrote:
There's a short account of the St Patrick's Batallion and what the Mexican people think of them at the oddly named Mexico Trucker Online website see- Mexico Honours Irish American St Patrick's Batallion/ . I'm sorry I don't know how to include the link - I'll have to wait till my son returns!!
Wil I'm surprised that you think they did this for self interest. It's not the way that the Mexicans or the Irish view it. Can you not imagine how the Irish, (who had recently fled a totally avoidable famine which cost over a million lives and changed Ireland for ever) would have sympathised with the Mexican cause against an imperial power which was invading and annexing large chunks of territory and treating the locals ......well like they treat Iraqis and Afghans and even Mexicans now.
To commemorate the 150 anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the battalion Ry Cooder, The Chieftains and a number of Mexican artists brought out the CD "San Patricio" which is an unusual fusion of the music of the two countries. Of course you won't have heard much about it in the Anglo-American Media. |
i tell you what,i learn more on here in a morning than i did in 15 years at school. |
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yes,ammanford comprehensive,which one did you used to mitch from? |
mitch  it was worth the admission price just to hear that welshified word...
heres a few interpretations
mitching - playing truant from school
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Verb.
1) The ensuing behavior following more than three shots of alcohol when one is both a lightweight and a small person named mitch, which includes, but is not limited to: refusal to go to bed quietly, making an ass of one's self, yelling "hey girl, take off that polka dot bikini," or any general act of combing both "bitching out" and being named mitch.
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Mitching Out |
12 up, 2 down |
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Verb.
1) The ensuing behavior following more than three shots of alcohol when one is both a lightweight and a small person named mitch, which includes, but is not limited to: refusal to go to bed quietly, making an ass of one's self, yelling "hey girl, take off that polka dot bikini," or any general act of combing both "bitching out" and being named mitch.
| Verb. To loiter, lollygag, procrastinate, or behaving in a lackadaisical fashion in an attempt to avoid a previously set obligation, especially under the pretense of dealing with a ‘technical issue’(computer meltdown, glitch, virus, etc.) that would hinder participation in the aforementioned activity
mitching out
Verb.
1) The ensuing behavior following more than three shots of alcohol when one is both a lightweight and a small person named mitch, which includes, but is not limited to: refusal to go to bed quietly, making an ass of one's self, yelling "hey girl, take off that polka dot bikini," or any general act of combing both "bitching out" and being named mitch.
aye and it all happened up stradey woods or pwll clinky 
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 5:15pm |
RedZep wrote:
ladram wrote:
RedZep wrote:
ladram wrote:
omri jones wrote:
There's a short account of the St Patrick's Batallion and what the Mexican people think of them at the oddly named Mexico Trucker Online website see- Mexico Honours Irish American St Patrick's Batallion/ . I'm sorry I don't know how to include the link - I'll have to wait till my son returns!!
Wil I'm surprised that you think they did this for self interest. It's not the way that the Mexicans or the Irish view it. Can you not imagine how the Irish, (who had recently fled a totally avoidable famine which cost over a million lives and changed Ireland for ever) would have sympathised with the Mexican cause against an imperial power which was invading and annexing large chunks of territory and treating the locals ......well like they treat Iraqis and Afghans and even Mexicans now.
To commemorate the 150 anniversary of the execution of the leaders of the battalion Ry Cooder, The Chieftains and a number of Mexican artists brought out the CD "San Patricio" which is an unusual fusion of the music of the two countries. Of course you won't have heard much about it in the Anglo-American Media. |
i tell you what,i learn more on here in a morning than i did in 15 years at school. |
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yes,ammanford comprehensive,which one did you used to mitch from? |
Actually, I was expelled from my school - me and a mate caught having a lunchtime pint in the local boozer !!
(we were 11, mind !!) |
wow , really? well at least you went down in flames 
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Posted: 24 January 2012 at 7:51pm |
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