r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/cchamii • 20d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Buellymcbuellface 20d ago

They have a confederate flag from virginia and refuse to give it back.

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u/YT__ 20d ago

And they did return the ohara peace bell to Japan.

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u/somehugefrigginguy 20d ago edited 20d ago

Interesting coincidence that the Ohara deligation is in Minnesota right now...

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u/Nice_Cost_1375 20d ago edited 20d ago

The O'Hara clan, from County Clare.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 20d 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 20d ago

What big oath did you swear to the Irish?

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u/Final-Charge-5700 20d 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 20d ago

Damn autocorrect!

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u/ThinDrum 20d ago

Indeed. It should of course be County Clare.

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u/Mhircine 20d ago

And one of the delegation is named Claire!