Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 19/12/2024 17:24, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:35:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 19/12/2024 15:01, D wrote:

Manchester was nice, but it was raining all the time.

 "Canada is all right, just not for the *whole* weekend" :-)
 Stuff Manchester, It always rains.
Do do Ireland and Wales, but at leasts they have nice greenery to look
at.

 People in the US of Irish descent have some compulsion to return to the
'Auld Sod'. After a friend returned I asked him how it was. 'Green! It
should be green. It rains all the fucking time!'
 I can only speculate why my people left Germany. There was no family lore
about the old country and no one had an interest in returning. That's not
to say they weren't proud of their ethnicity.

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Irish left because it was better than dying of starvation in a massively overpopulated country.
Many N Europeans left because they were simply too pious to be tolerated. As where the original pilgrim fathers.
English left because they were second sons and had no estates, but they had enough to buy them in the Americas.
Italians probably left to escape poverty, like the Irish.

Many swedes left due to either being the second+ sons, or because the nobility owned all the good farm land in the area and they had to work under slave like conditions.
Then there ofcourse where the religiious people as well, but those were not the main swedish emigrants.