Only because Squag1 didn’t put ‘Fact’ at the end of his post.
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Roman Catholics are/were known as left footers because they dug their spud patches using their left foot on their one-sided spade. The Proddys used their right foot on a two-sided spade. Fact.
'Left Footer' is a derogatory term, applied to Roman Catholics, which has military, rather than argricultural, origins. The phrase evolved during the time when the protestant militia, the Ulster Volunteer Force, was in the process of being absobed into the regular British Army in readiness for the first war.
OK, you have a Protestant in the family, I can understand that, Ireland being in the EU and all that.
But the other you refer to in "both", is that a pregnant priest, a left footed football player , a molesting nun or Derek's other opinion
I got two left feet cant dance with a pregnant priest, not sure how to get a footballer out of a chior boy either but I can kick a nun and disagree with both opinionsOK, you have a Protestant in the family, I can understand that, Ireland being in the EU and all that.
But the other you refer to in "both", is that a pregnant priest, a left footed football player , a molesting nun or Derek's other opinion
A whole load of them. And a few Scots, dammit and a few NI.
And in the past RIC and RUC and the British army WW1. Died in battle, I said before.
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Oh My God!!!
When I use a spade I always use the right side to dig down with
When I use a spade I always use the right side to dig down with
My father had one of these. A right footed spade.
I think he used it particularly for opening up a very old garden where it was really a field.
He turned over the sod from both sides to make a ridge, planted the potatoes and dug a trench either side to cover them.
Lazy beds I believe.
He then made a pit in the garden and piled in the spuds and covered them with straw, I think, and clay on top.
Thinking of it now it must have been really hard work, because the garden in question he was allowed use was a good bit away from the house.
Are you short of an athiest?
I'd say we have one, maybe an agnostic as well.