A shit, I forgot to add French Indochina for the 1950s.
Biafra always felt fake for me,
Actually the latest is “you’re lucky you don’t live in Dublin”.
They were right every time
The only jokes I can ever remember are Ethiopian jokes … does that make me bad ?
90s I’d say Somalia rather than Bosnia.
Everybody had to Google Biafra, right?
And Somalia was a valid response in the 90s as well. It got big publicity when Mary Robinson was over there crying.
Was usually Beirut for me
Poor Myanmar. Never makes the cut.
At least the rent would be cheaper.
This is why we can’t have nice things, extreme complacency is ingrained in our culture. Irish people are pathetic
Even Chinese parents or old people like to use those words: you’re so lucky that you are not born in countryside, India (Chinese think India is a not safe country especially for women), North Korean, Africa…
They just do not want to face the real problem in my country.
Ah…
My nana use to talk about Biafra, I thought she was just saying Africa wrong
I’m from the stuffing bread crusts inside an envelope for the starving children of Ethiopia generation
Yes?
What did they say in the 1840s?
Well they’re not wrong.
My ma used to always tell us she would send our food to the starving children in Africa. Every day over the dinner table there was talks of starving children in Africa. One day my brother had heard enough and says ‘I don’t want it, send it to the starving children in Afrjca if they are so hungry’ my ma got some fucking shock that she was actually called out on her bluff.
My Ma used to love this so much she’d take it to a whole other level.
Me (1st Sep): ‘I don’t want to go back to school’
Her: ‘Sure what about that child that drowned at the start of the summer? I’m sure he’d love to be putting his uniform on and going back to school! I’m sure his mother would love to be making his breakfast this morning but she’s not, because he’s dead. And now her marriage is failing and she’s falling behind on the rent payments and she’s going to be kicked out of the house. I’m sure that little boy would swap places with you in a heartbeat but here you are crying into your coco pops, sure you don’t know you’re living!’
1969-1998:
Sure aren’t ye lucky your not Living in the North?
I don’t think my parents are that well up on world affairs or geography. I doubt my Ma could even find Germany on a map never mind the countries mentioned here. I think Africa was always the default ‘You’re lucky you’re not living in’ for us.
Still lucky not to live in any of them.
Well they were right. Objectively, we have it pretty good in this country, especially since the 90s.
As I’ll say to my children
“Sure aren’t ye lucky you’re not living in Leitrim”.
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A shit, I forgot to add French Indochina for the 1950s.
Biafra always felt fake for me,
Actually the latest is “you’re lucky you don’t live in Dublin”.
They were right every time
The only jokes I can ever remember are Ethiopian jokes … does that make me bad ?
90s I’d say Somalia rather than Bosnia.
Everybody had to Google Biafra, right?
And Somalia was a valid response in the 90s as well. It got big publicity when Mary Robinson was over there crying.
Was usually Beirut for me
Poor Myanmar. Never makes the cut.
At least the rent would be cheaper.
This is why we can’t have nice things, extreme complacency is ingrained in our culture. Irish people are pathetic
Even Chinese parents or old people like to use those words: you’re so lucky that you are not born in countryside, India (Chinese think India is a not safe country especially for women), North Korean, Africa…
They just do not want to face the real problem in my country.
Ah…
My nana use to talk about Biafra, I thought she was just saying Africa wrong
I’m from the stuffing bread crusts inside an envelope for the starving children of Ethiopia generation
Yes?
What did they say in the 1840s?
Well they’re not wrong.
My ma used to always tell us she would send our food to the starving children in Africa. Every day over the dinner table there was talks of starving children in Africa. One day my brother had heard enough and says ‘I don’t want it, send it to the starving children in Afrjca if they are so hungry’ my ma got some fucking shock that she was actually called out on her bluff.
My Ma used to love this so much she’d take it to a whole other level.
Me (1st Sep): ‘I don’t want to go back to school’
Her: ‘Sure what about that child that drowned at the start of the summer? I’m sure he’d love to be putting his uniform on and going back to school! I’m sure his mother would love to be making his breakfast this morning but she’s not, because he’s dead. And now her marriage is failing and she’s falling behind on the rent payments and she’s going to be kicked out of the house. I’m sure that little boy would swap places with you in a heartbeat but here you are crying into your coco pops, sure you don’t know you’re living!’
1969-1998:
Sure aren’t ye lucky your not Living in the North?
I don’t think my parents are that well up on world affairs or geography. I doubt my Ma could even find Germany on a map never mind the countries mentioned here. I think Africa was always the default ‘You’re lucky you’re not living in’ for us.
Still lucky not to live in any of them.
Well they were right. Objectively, we have it pretty good in this country, especially since the 90s.
As I’ll say to my children
“Sure aren’t ye lucky you’re not living in Leitrim”.