I’ve never seen an Ulster Unionist larping American before. Being a nationalist Plastic Paddy must have been too mainstream for him.

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1. I remember watching the parades on BBC NI once. It was so weird them describing it like it was a legit event. Anyway I remember the announcer calling out the Boston Unionist lads that had come from the States. Now that’s a niche

2. Once he used the Scots-Irish moniker I just knew he was gobshite.

3. America was never in the Commonwealth. It only came into existence in 1931, and only two nations have ever left it it: Zimbabwe (who later rejoined) and Ireland.

4. I would put a tenner on that lad being a DUP bot, located nowhere near the USA. The language used doesn’t sound American at all.

   “when you left the Commonwealth”….. “American policy out of British and Irish affairs”….

   This is a 60 year old lad from Portadown with a fake twitter profile.

5. Oh no, they definitely exist. Taking your ‘heritage’ way too seriously is not just a Catholic Irish-American thing, after all. There are plenty of them in central Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas. The Appalachian mountains were prime ground for Ulster-Scots settlers and some of their descendants LARP as them still.

6. Who’s this fool talking for, he’s obviously pish with Irish history. I’d suggest he changes his study path now as he’s well off

7. He’s a Unionist, in much the same way as you get grown adults who are “Hufflepuffs”.

   It’s cosplaying a role in a milieu they find interesting.