To be honest, the second paragraph about the url to this blog entry was truly just a devil’s advocate response to an assumption that wasn’t true. The hippocracy of complaining against Irish discrimination using a blog url entry that was also discriminatory was amusing to me. Turns out that it’s completely invalid because you weren’t talking about discrimination at all.

My personal take on your posed question is that it’s the standard Irish American stereotyping that the creators of the website feel would help in their marketing…as it the stereotype is welcomed by the masses. I don’t see that same strategy working with other ethnicities though.

Have you tried asking for a Rock Shandy?

Who said I was bitching about anything, even the URL? I simply asked the question as to why the difference in the naming conventions.

If I had written this it would have read “Boulevards’ my space account on thier Irish Ale has a discriminatory url. I’m offended.”

There is nothing to stop you creating your own site and writing that there, or indeed writing it here as you have. But if you were writing this and wrote it as something else, then you wouldn’t be writing this - by definition.

Be offended if that floats your boat, but I haven’t expressed the opinion that you should be offended by anyone at all, even by the creator of that MySpace account, so I don’t have a need to convince you that you should be offended by even more people.

You’re right that my title is discriminatory. And deliberately so. I talk about Irish Beer, not American or German. I talk about America, not England or the Czech Republic. And I talk about marketing, not drinking or bottling.

“The Marketing of Irish Beer in America” is the subject. Are you seriously suggesting that it should read “Some Marketing of Some Beer as Irish Beer in Some Parts of Some of the United States of America”? The assumption of “All” is yours.

Whether the answer to the question, that is the point of my post, is ‘Funny’ or ‘Irish’ or something else, I believe there are more circumstances of it, evident especially at this time of year. But I don’t need to prove it.

Please use a genuine e-mail address to post comments.

This particular entry is the-marketing-of-irish-beer-in-america and I find the url discriminatory, assuming that all marketing of Irish beer in American is discriminatory. I’m not saying you are wrong, yet, but would like more evidence before you can convince me that I should be offende by anyone other than the creator of that myspace account.