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(Potato News Today)   Potato harvesting conditions in Ireland called 'very difficult.' Oliver Cromwell on standby   (potatonewstoday.com) divider line
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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 3:27:58 PM  
This Irish guy digs up a potato, and being drunk, doesn't realize its only a rock.
His family says nothing. You don't point out daddy's failures.
Damned thing lasted all winter in the stew pot.
 
KarmicDisaster [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-17 3:29:22 PM  
"eating quality is very good. "
Good. Good.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 3:48:11 PM  
Not sure I understand the reference. Wasn't the famine 200 years after Cromwell?
 
whither_apophis [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 4:02:27 PM  

FlashHarry: Not sure I understand the reference. Wasn't the famine 200 years after Cromwell?


Yes, but Cromwell on his own managed to start a famine in Ireland. Maybe that's what subby was going for

/not subbraig
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 4:03:02 PM  

FlashHarry: Not sure I understand the reference. Wasn't the famine 200 years after Cromwell?


Hush dear, it's hard enough to get Americans to read British history at all.
 
HighlanderRPI
2022-11-17 4:05:54 PM  
Pfft, you should see how difficult it is once you get them out of the ground and the next phase of their lives begins

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whatsupchuck [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 4:08:42 PM  
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Walker [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 4:11:20 PM  
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maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-17 4:12:25 PM  
Don't they go to the potato store like the rest of us?


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/blither!
 
UndeadPoetsSociety
2022-11-17 4:18:53 PM  
That's John Russell you want, Subby. Cromwell shot, stabbed, and hanged people, he didn't starve anyone.
 
Rene ala Carte [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-17 4:19:45 PM  
I didn't know much about Irish history until we visited a few years ago. I started reading a bit and I learned why so many Irish hate the British.

There was plenty of food in Ireland during the "famine", just not for the poor Irish. Lots of food was exported to England while the Irish were taught a moral lesson by their betters in London.

Learn about what happened if you are interested. A good place to start is:

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And Oliver Cromwell really was a SOB.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 4:23:44 PM  

Rene ala Carte: I didn't know much about Irish history until we visited a few years ago. I started reading a bit and I learned why so many Irish hate the British.

There was plenty of food in Ireland during the "famine", just not for the poor Irish. Lots of food was exported to England while the Irish were taught a moral lesson by their betters in London.

Learn about what happened if you are interested. A good place to start is:

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And Oliver Cromwell really was a SOB.


It happened in India too. Several times during the 1800s. And ditto why the Indians hated the British so much.

The British were big on Adam Smith capitalism and John Calvin work ethic. Bad combination for a government when crisis hiats.
 
Loucifer
2022-11-17 4:36:49 PM  

KarmicDisaster: "eating quality is very good. "
Good. Good.


magically delicious!
 
Sofakinbd [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-17 4:39:22 PM  
I just finished Clarkson's Farm on Amazon Prime. It doesn't seem too hard.

- Sofa

/please sign my petition to reboot Battle of the Network Stars
 
biscuitsngravy
2022-11-17 5:08:52 PM  
"There grew an old apple tree over his head"
 
Mycroft_Holmes_IV
2022-11-17 5:13:19 PM  
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Maybe they'd be easier to harvest if they used something other that a giant fork.
 
MythDragon
2022-11-17 5:23:16 PM  
How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?

Zero.
 
Ken VeryBigLiar
2022-11-17 5:23:48 PM  

FlashHarry: Not sure I understand the reference. Wasn't the famine 200 years after Cromwell?


People like Charles Trevelyan don't get the same reaction as Cromwell.

/Or greenlights
 
face90
2022-11-17 5:25:44 PM  
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Nick Nostril
2022-11-17 5:30:14 PM  
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UndeadPoetsSociety
2022-11-17 5:30:33 PM  

Ken VeryBigLiar: FlashHarry: Not sure I understand the reference. Wasn't the famine 200 years after Cromwell?

People like Charles Trevelyan don't get the same reaction as Cromwell.

/Or greenlights


Although I've never understood why; they killed a lot more Irish people than Cromwell could've shot if he'd stayed there twenty years.
 
frankb00th
2022-11-17 5:38:15 PM  

HighlanderRPI: Pfft, you should see how difficult it is once you get them out of the ground and the next phase of their lives begins

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Odd bottle color for vodka.
Not appetizing in the least.
 
frankb00th
2022-11-17 5:38:43 PM  

Walker: [media.tenor.com image 220x220]


For the elevensies
 
I should be in the kitchen [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 5:42:30 PM  

Gyrfalcon: FlashHarry: Not sure I understand the reference. Wasn't the famine 200 years after Cromwell?

Hush dear, it's hard enough to get Americans to read British history at all.


Behind the Bastards did a good series on it
 
Ken VeryBigLiar
2022-11-17 5:50:34 PM  

UndeadPoetsSociety: Ken VeryBigLiar: FlashHarry: Not sure I understand the reference. Wasn't the famine 200 years after Cromwell?

People like Charles Trevelyan don't get the same reaction as Cromwell.

/Or greenlights

Although I've never understood why; they killed a lot more Irish people than Cromwell could've shot if he'd stayed there twenty years.


I don't think there's a corner of Britain or Ireland who still supported him at the end  when he tried to name his son as successor. He'd pissed off the Scots, suppressed the Catholic North maybe worse than the Stuarts, and alienated rank and file Protestants in the South.
 
ProfessorTerguson [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 5:57:31 PM  

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Fark that...


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ProfessorTerguson [TotalFark]
2022-11-17 5:59:39 PM  

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Roller Bob
2022-11-17 7:27:30 PM  
Irish babies for dinner!
 
zeaper12
2022-11-17 9:54:31 PM  
They finished the spud harvest here in Idaho in mid October, what's up with the Irish?
 
cynicalbastard
2022-11-18 5:56:09 AM  
Cromwell was an absolute bastard and one of the bravest SOB's to get into a fight. Moral is- it's not the cowards you need to watch out for- it's the bloody heroic types who've never given a thought to the possibility they might be wrong. Ironic, considering his words to the Scottish protestants.
 
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