If a rock chopper went to Ireland, would he be classed as a left footer or a right footer?

A left footer, I think.

[Nov 29 04 5:35 PM] Stew54 writes:

Slang for Roman Catholics. The Rock Chopper is presumably on holiday from Australia.

[Nov 29 04 5:59 PM] Stew54 writes:

I remember when I started work in the capital of Ireland (Liverpool) and always the first question anyone asked was which school you'd been to, so as to establish which foot you kick with.

[Nov 30 04 2:56 AM] Stew54 writes:

Not football. That was usually the second question!

I've read in the past that the curious expression "left footer" for a Roman Catholic derives from peat digging in Ulster, when (for unexplained reasons) Catholic diggers would traditionally use a type of spade that needed the user to press down with the left foot whereas Protestants would tend to use a design that needed pressure from the right foot. It seems quite unlikely to be honest. Why would communities living right alongside each other use a different design? But I haven't come across any other origin. Any ideas? This is the sort of thing Baloo might know.

Why would you need to know...oh, football, sorry.
(dumb girl from central america).

No idea - unless the Protestants used it as an insult as in cackhanded for left-handed. Both rock chopper and left footer are terms used more by the Protestand side. In Liverpool, I've also heard redneck applied to Roman Catholics. Incidentally, did you hear the one about Ian Paisley refusing to go into a meeting because there was a little container of dried petals on the table? He wouldn't go in until all traces of pot pourri were removed.....

[Nov 30 04 11:05 AM] Baloo55th writes:

Any non-Brits might find the Ian Paisley joke hard to understand. Please ask if you don't get it.

I learned something new today, thanks.

Okay, I don't get it.
Thanks in advance.

Reverend Paisley is a Northern Ireland politician of the Protestant variety. He's an interesting character and you can find out a little about him here if you like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Paisley

He is famously hostile to anything to do with what he would call popery.

Baloo is a master of the pun.

No, the real master of the pun was Frank Muir. The man who declared that the bun was the lowest form of wheat.

Cheers, Stew and Baloo.