WDT 8/16/13. As always the entire WDT is NSFW. Wah.

I heard something similar from a friend, except instead of a dog he missed his roommate's mint-as-a-coin girlfriend always walking around in her undies.

 

Depends on a couple things, like the size of the company, whether or not you went through a recruiter, if/when you sent the "thanks for meeting with me" note, but shooting from the hip I agree with Crown to wait at least a week.

 

I think I get what you're saying, but I have never heard that expression ever in my life. Almost sounds like something people would say during the Depression.

 

It's been so long since I had a job interview, I have nothing to add. The masturbate furiously advice seems solid, though.

Here is a WDT thematic contribution.

 

I think they mostly just said awful things about Irish people during the Depression. It was all "Fuck potatoes, Eugene O'Neill and Bram Stoker!!!" or something like that.

 

Its kind of funny, a century ago the immigrant group people were the most concerned about were the Mick's, WOPs, and all the other Papists. Now the focus has shifted to the Southern border, but the dam Papists are still crossing our borders!

 

Oh, relax. It's not like altar boys can even get pregnant in the first place.

 

Heh. My family left Ireland to get away from the Catholics. A few of them then left the US to go back to Canada when Kennedy was elected because...Catholic.

 

Lol, I take it your family thats in Ireland probably like to march and wear orange.

 

The funny thing is that in researching the family history it was discovered that they were good little Catholics until the famine. Apparently my great, great Grandfather had extra food and he was feeding folks. The parish priest told him he couldn't feed just anyone when good Catholics were starving, he could only feed Catholics.

I guess Granddad told the Priest to "Go fuck ye self," and hopefully rap him in the head with his shillelagh, adjust his bowler, and spit 3 times as a rooster crowed.

Whatever transpired, Granddad was excommunicated.

 

Yea, I don't get the whole anti-catholic thing. Did they go full out protestant afterwards or just not religious? Cause in Ireland you can't really change teams. I get if they hate catholics and aren't protestant, but if they converted to being protestant then well I'm really fucking confused.
In my mind, if they tried to become protestant they'd get their asses kicked from both sides. First from the protestants for being a Catholic, secondly for not knowing their place in trying to become a protestant (who were the upper class at that time) and thirdly for being traitor bastards.
Its almost like a Jew converting to Islam.

 

They went full on militant Protestant, producing a long line of ministers. Hell, my grandparents were grooming me to become a minister, if you could imagine that. Perhaps the Protestants took him in as a martyr for feeding their hungry as well as his fellow Catholics and being excommunicated. I know he went from being a farmer to having a nice job as paymaster for the Irish railroad.

 

Fun Funeral Fact:

While laying to rest a relative last week, I was informed that the Irish side of the family was, in fact, primarily Dutch. Not to mention Irish and German.


How I learned this at age 46, I explain by the fact that my grandmother was fucked in the head. And she looked like Leo Gorsey from the Bowery Boys in a dress (shown below, Gorsey second from left).

 

My mom's side of the family is Irish-Dutch. I am thankful I don't have Irish relatives. You ever tried to get them out of your house when they "Stop in for a visit"? You'll have an easier time finding a clock in a casino.

They. Never. LEAVE.

 

I do vaguely remember my Irish great grandmother. Had a fresh off the boat brogue and was completely fucking insane. She stomped the shit out of one her son's wedding cakes because he had the audacity to marry a Scottish woman. Apparently besides Catholics, she hated Scots too.

 

I am an American. I feel like unless you're off the boat, or first generation American, trying to call yourself somesortofhyphen-American is stupid. You have non American ancestors, you however are a purebred American for all practical purposes.

It seems the Italians are the worst for this, the Italians or the Irish, whichever Papists you prefer. Just because your grandad is from Italy,that doesn't make you Italian, it makes you a bit of a WOP. I wish sometimes these people would go to Italy and try to convince them they're Italian, it'd be funny as hell when they got spat on. Same with the people in Boston claiming to be Irish, you're not Irish, you're just trash who has 8 children, which makes you Irish in spirit, but in no way can you claim it.

 

Toddamus you may be right but my dad is 3/4 Irish and my mom is 1/2 Irish and the rest is German, English, and French so that, uhhh, makes me pretty white and Catholic.

 

Well, my Dad's from Italy and I still have family over there. When I visited I was treated like one of the family and no one questioned my heritage or authenticity, so there you go. Probably helps that I have a really damn ethnic Italian name.

On the other hand, I never identify myself as anything other than an American, despite having a pretty good knowledge of my ancestry, so I guess I have no point.

Also, Italians from the east coast are their own special breed. You have to remember they were the Italians who weren't smart enough to get any further inland than New York or New Jersey.

 

Don't get me fucking started. Up here, if you're 1/16th Iroquois then you consider yourself an "Indian". No you're not, fuckstick. You're just taking advantage of the Status Card so you can live in a tax-free world.

Then, you have Those People. You described two countries perfectly, but to see them in full-Poseur Mode, wait until the next World Cup starts. Then, you see these asshole born IN YOUR OR MY COUNTRY driving around with their fucking cars draped in Italian or Dutch flags or whatever country your grandmother's grandmother fucked an enemy soldier in. FUCK. YOU. You root for your home that you were born in, or (since I live in Canada and hockey isn't involved) the team that's playing against a country that you hate. For me it's Switzerland, fuck those chocolate watch-making knife hippies and their secret bank accounts. Up Yours.

So does ghettoastronaut, and he looks like the lost Winklevoss brother.

 

I like to imagine that most of the NY/NJ Italians aren't completely sure if they're in the mafia or not.