>>3057691The humanitarian efforts at civilizing them by the early medieval inhabitants of Britain, while commendable, amounted to little. The well-intentioned introduction of Christianity to these savages somehow ended in them just thinking that the first man who taught it to them had actually come to the island to go around kidnapping all their snakes — which, even more bizarrely, caused them to start worshiping him. There was also a well-known incident in which nearly every person in Ireland died out because they ate all their potatoes and refused to eat anything else.
The decadence of the Irishman's thinking is, of course, matched only by the weakness of his character. In their rare lucid moments, the only activities the Irish consider wholesome and worthwhile are alcoholism, which afflicts 100% of the Irish population, and bestiality. The Irishman's infamous procilivity for fucking horses dates back at least to the time of Gerard of Wales in the twelfth century, who documented this widespread custom during his visits to Ireland. There is no reason to suppose that this practice has fallen into to disuse in the centuries since.
