Posted on 02/17/2022 8:50:48 PM PST by ransomnote
In the guardian. None the less. Does seem a tad bit important.
I see the sarc tag but is that really a racist term? There’s a group of people called paddies or wagons? Come to think of it, I don’t believe I’ve ever used that term before for anyone to point that out to me. Educate me, my friend, so I can clean up my act.
If it wasn’t so bleeping serious I’d guess it’s funny. So the chicoms want to hire US nuke-experienced reactor plant engineers. The guys they can hire are the ones I, and others, helped wash out of the system for any number of reasons including lazy, not good with details, careless, not fundamentally based and more.
It’s a little like buying a car built on Monday or Friday——you’re gonna get a reject. So maybe we’re watching the chicoms self destruct by trying to hire from the bottom of the genius pool. Different country but something like that happened with the big Fukushima. Not to mention Chernoble.
God rest his soul.
I see the sarc tag but is that really a racist term? There’s a group of people called paddies or wagons? Come to think of it, I don’t believe I’ve ever used that term before for anyone to point that out to me. Educate me, my friend, so I can clean up my act.
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Once President Trump was called out as a racist by the libs for using the term “paddy wagon”
“ Early police vehicles – like the one pictured here from the 1920s – were known as ‘paddy wagons. ... Around that time, nearly half of New York City’s law enforcement officers were also Irish. Therefore, a paddy wagon might have gotten its name because it was a vehicle often driven by an Irishman.”
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Or, it could be that the name paddy is an Americanized version of an Irish name (Padric, Patrick) and being famous drinkers, the van used to tote them away was called a paddy wagon.
This would be offensive to Irishmen, or libs intent upon making a big deal out of nothing.
Story about NoName and Grahamnesty war mongering with Ukraine in 2017:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4040042/posts
Prayers up for a successful surgery.
lotz O Irish coppers in the cities back when paddy wagons got their name
lotz O Irish coppers in the cities back when paddy wagons got their name
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I assumed as much, but can not discern the truth of the term “paddy wagon”
Hope all goes well bob & you have a quick & complete recovery
Book Mark
Ever wonder where all the US foreign aide ends up?
That noise means haunted fer shure-—you have to do an exorcism. If that doesn’t work you have to burn it. Take the cloths out first.
Bob, just shucks! Another back surgery! Prayers for your doctors and your recovery!
(Lifting too many solar panels.)
https://splinternews.com/a-complete-history-of-the-phrase-paddy-wagon-the-survi-1793855618
Two theories: riding in the back in the early 1800’s when it was practically illegal to be Irish in New York, or riding in the front in the 1900s when most of the cops were Irish.
How times change.
I wish you good luck and a speedy recovery. :)
But don’t fret, from everything I have seen and heard you won’t be missing anything, the Amazon show is not Tolkien and is an insult to his memory.
gisd O
Oop. ThankQ. I was skimming today and missed it.
I’m usually a more careful reader... :/
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