Mmmm. I’m not sure tbh but I don’t think so. If your grandmother had an Irish passport though that might work. Worth checking if you’re considering it.

My sister lives in the UK a long time now and all her kids have an Irish passport. It’s actually a great passport to have for travel. EU is obviously wide open but most places accept it without much (or zero) effort.

Yeah he knew about ten words of Danish after over three years there before he moved to Germany. Even his lectures were in English which I was surprised at.

He has had to learn a little German but not that much and he’s there about 18 months now. The office he works in has folks from all over so they just use English.

Netherlands also in my experience basically everyone can speak perfect English.

I prefer to try to use a bit of the local language when I’m travelling myself as I find folks react well to the effort.

I’m terms of offence, it’s unlikely. I’d imagine tourists are common enough everywhere. I have reasonable French myself so I do try to use it when there so I can’t say for France specifically.

If you’ve any other questions I can pass them on to the young lad.

Almost anywhere in Europe is the answer. My son did his masters in Denmark and never learned Danish. He lives in Germany now and speaks fuck all German.

Once in the Netherlands, after losing my glasses I asked an optician if he could speak English and he was thoroughly insulted.

Britain and Ireland are both native English.

If you have an Irish grandparent you can get a passport. Lots of work here and Americans are welcome.

Otherwise work visas that turn into residency aren’t difficult to come by with sponsorship and it’s not the kind of sponsorship that makes you a slave.

Welcome to Europe, researchers!

Lots of great choices and don’t worry, you can move to France without knowing French or Denmark without knowing Danish!

I have to say, massive props to the Grad for those amazing cook off videos. 🫡

Haha. I’m sure there’s an open window somewhere with his or her name on it.

Always appreciate your sunflowers but I think I see a parachute towards the end. One sec I’ll grab a screen and circle it…

Yeah, they were firing at a far away target, but the further back of the two fired it’s rockets too close to the lead either causing direct damage or enough indirect damage from the jet blast of the passing rocket that the pilot panicked then overstressed the frame, causing the wing to fall off.

God tier muppetry.

No worries :) I appreciate the back and forth.

100% friendly fire. Suchomimus does a slow-mo on it. It’s hard to tell if the rocket actually hits but it’s either sufficient damage from the jet blast of it going past or the pilot having a panic.

Either way, absolutely top tier fuck up and gives me a chance to post my favourite meme of the war so far yet again…

It’s not though.

The British didn’t cause the famine, they “just” made it worse.

It’s a common misconception but there are a few issues with “didn’t cause the famine” for me:

1. Potato blight != famine. There was a potato blight across all of Europe at the time. Ireland still produced more than enough food to feed itself even in 1847, the worst year of the blight. It wasn’t a case of making it worse, they literally wouldn’t have gone hungry at all.
2. The only reason Irish peasants were so dependent on a single food crop to feed themselves was because it was what produced the most calories for a given area of land. The British stole the land from the Irish then forced payment at such a high rate from the people they stole it from that it left no choice but to use that single crop to feed themselves. They had to use their remaining non-potato land for higher value cash crops to pay rent on the land that was stolen from them.
3. An enormous number of people died from exposure after being fucked off their land and having their homes burned to the ground because they couldn’t afford to pay rent to those landlords.

So the British did cause the actual famine in it’s entirety and the deliberate lack of relief was seen as an act of God / retribution to reduce the population here (which they 100% left to starve, with some kind landlord exceptions).

It’s why the Irish don’t call it “The Famine” any more. It’s “the great hunger” here because there wouldn’t have been a famine at all if we’d just been left the fuck alone to grow a variety of crops instead of being raped and pillaged for hundreds of years.

Ah yeah. I’m Irish and I don’t blame modern folks over there for it. I know it was the ruling class but damn were they cold AF. To be fair though there were lots of acts of brutality from British soldiers over the centuries who I have to guess were working class. Well beyond just “following orders”.

We do remember the acts of kindness at the time, especially the Choctaw as I mentioned in another comment. Just goes to show it’s nice to be nice. You will be eventually be forgiven the sins of your ancestors they you do bad things, but you will forever be remembered as kind if your ancestors do nice things.

The British didn’t cause the famine, they “just” made it worse.

This is absolutely false. They didn’t cause the potato blight but they absolutely caused the famine by forcing the export of the remaining food stock which was more than enough to feed the population.

We still have not reached pre-famine population levels after 180 years.

Hats off to the historical accuracy of this comment chain. Not sure how many of you are Irish but honestly it’s heartening. ❤️

We’ve stopped calling it the famine here and now it’s “the great hunger”.

Ireland was producing more than enough to feed itself but the British landlords were forcing the export of non-potatoes and leaving us to die.

The queen at the time politically shamed the Turks into reducing their aid to us because it was higher than hers.

What’s up, Turkey? We haven’t forgotten your generosity.

Massive, massive shout out to our Choctaw brothers and sisters in America who gave what they didn’t have after the trail of tears.

For those not familiar, we have never, ever forgotten that one.

Sculpture in Cork called “kindred spirits”:

Don’t start your car tomorrow

(I jest of course).

a week after the latter unveiled a brand new statue of another Soviet figurehead, Josef Stalin, in Moscow.

Yikes. They’re still celebrating Stalin with new statues. Bizarre.

Unfortunately both are missing engines so they’re for spares but they nailed the radars which is good.