this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
180 points (99.5% liked)

Ask

450 readers
101 users here now

Rules

  1. Be nice
  2. Posts must be legitimate questions (no rage bait or sea lioning)
  3. No spam
  4. NSFW allowed if tagged
  5. No politics
  6. For support questions, please go to [email protected]

Icon by Hilmy Abiyyu A.

founded 1 month ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
180
What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
261 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That South Africa is a country. And Northern Ireland is not. To be fair, she was always up front about her knowledge of geography being abysmal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Also to be fair... Southern Africa is a thing and not a country.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...I thought Northern Ireland was a country.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Well, it's a country in the same way Scotland isn't. I think it'd be better referred to as Ulster so as not to confuse it with the Nation of Ireland or the island named Ireland.

On that note:

  1. Fuck the (modern day) IRA. They're terrorists, stop pretending they're freedom fighters. Even though I've met a couple of former IRA members, who were nice people, I do not condone intentionally hurting civilians. Mountbatten, on the other hand, can get fucked with an explosive chainsaw... and he did.
  2. Ulster belongs to Ireland (the nation)
  3. I have no skin in the game as I am not Irish. I'll defer to actual Irish people whether this is the "correct" stance to take.
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Just a note, there are 9 counties in Ulster. Only 6 are in Northern Ireland, so you can't use Ulster as a stand in for NI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck the (modern day) IRA. They're terrorists, stop pretending they're freedom fighters. Even though I've met a couple of former IRA members, who were nice people, I do not condone intentionally hurting civilians.

I don't think anyone thinks the modern IRAs (there are many of them) are anything resembling freedom fighters. The argument is about whether they were that during the Troubles, after which the Provisional IRA (the Irish side of the Troubles) pretty much stopped existing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You would be shocked at the number of "Irish"-Americans who believe the IRA are good guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I think countries are going to be a matter of pride and interpretation. There are a number of territories I'd defend their assertion of that they're their own countries.

Long live Pitcairn!