"In the view of many Irish people, the English are roughly what the kids of SS officers must be when they visit Israel."
"Perhaps the appropriate response would have been to congratulate her on her fluent English. "
"many people here in Ireland are going to have to change their insular attitudes,the country is changing very fast,a need to examine ingrained prejudices is important,if Ireland is to live with many nationalities in its island."
Some of the comments on this thread are some of the most blatantly racist I have come across on this forum.
We seem to have moved from what I have no doubt whatsoever was an innocent, if somewhat flippant compliment to the Nazi death camps.
1 The lesson for me has been - never criticise certain people's singing - they don't like it.
2 If you complement somebody, make sure you do it in words they understand.
3 Before you crack a joke, make sure you are talking to somebody with a sense of humour.
I'm off for some fresh air - I'll leave you to your Rally
Jim Carroll