[ShankS]

I'm not having a dig at anyone....

but why is it yanks love to list an Irish connection , that probably goes so far back in family or distant family history all the way to great uncle's second cousin's twice removed great grandad brother's mother-in-law.... that the likelyhood of any Irish blood being passed is so miniscule, and my sperm has more chance of passing on a martian gene, than any of that herritage meaning anything. I see and read it all the time. What is it with the american/irish connection that yanks love so much? I can't stand the Irish, I hate their friggin accent and all I think about when someone mentions Ireland is friggin Pikeys.

It's like me saying I'm Australian since I had a great great great grandad who came from the outback somewhere two hundred years ago :rolleyes:

it just gets my goat, guess it's because I'm English.