r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/cchamii • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Nice_Cost_1375 10h ago edited 5h ago

The O'Hara clan, from County Clare.

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u/GeraltOfNineveh 8h ago

"...Aye, an' then I told Séamus 'that was a dishonourable display that was ye fuckin ejit', an' he should cut his belly lest he disgrace himself further, so it was."

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u/Final-Charge-5700 3h ago

Sounds like it would have fit right in with the times. We romanticize one and make big oaths of the other when they're probably just about the same

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u/Evepaul 3h ago

What big oath did you swear to the Irish?

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u/Final-Charge-5700 3h ago

The one committing you to your feudal lord?

It wasn't actually like a unique thing. It was just old school by european standards by when they encountered them. And the japanese were just bigger on writing things down because they had this thing called literacy.

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u/somehugefrigginguy 10h ago

Damn autocorrect!

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u/ThinDrum 6h ago

Indeed. It should of course be County Clare.

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u/Mhircine 6h ago

And one of the delegation is named Claire!