What Most Accurately Describes You?

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Originally posted by Ardross+Jan 22 2007, 02:45 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Ardross @ Jan 22 2007, 02:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Stav@Jan 21 2007, 01:27 PM
White, British and proud.
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Like Nick Griffin ? [/b][/quote]
No, not like Nick Griffin.

Does being proud to be white automatically make you racist?

I would imagine Shipa is proud to be an Indian, Jermaine Jackson proud to be black, are they 'like Nick Griffin' too?
 
Stav you brought skin colour into a topic where the question wasn't asked .

Put together white , British and proud and you have a BNP slogan .

That doesn't of course mean that you are racist or a supporter of the BNP but the words you used are evocative of their campaigning.
 
Originally posted by jft2005@Jan 21 2007, 12:28 PM
I am Welsh, but believe to be British as I live in the British Isle's.
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I was born in the British Isles, but I am not British.

The British Isles is a geographical term that includes Ireland. Britain is England and Wales (and for some people, Scotland).
 
ive never really understood why anyone can be "proud" of where they come from. Simply an accident of birth isnt it? Wheres the achievement?

Fortunate would be a better description. Im very very happy to have been brought up in London

Not knocking Stav though and the Nick Griffin jibe was unnecessary
 
Originally posted by Bar the Bull@Jan 22 2007, 11:26 AM
The British Isles is a geographical term that includes Ireland. Britain is England and Wales (and for some people, Scotland).
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Pedant alert.

Great Britain is England, Wales and Scotland. Whether people like it or not.
 
Well done, simmo! We hereby appoint you Pedant-in-Chief (Acting) while Brian's in the Antipodes. Keep up that sort of form, and you'll be knocking him off his throne in no time. :)

I don't understand 'pride' in belonging to a certain race, either. I'm not 'proud' of having white skin or 'proud' of being born in north London, or even 'proud' of being 3/4 English and 1/4 Irish. As Clivex says, those are all mere accidents of birth. I feel very fortunate, though, not to have been born to an Untouchable prostitute in the gutters of Mumbai, married off at 12 to whoever bid the highest for me in too many countries to mention, or sold to a sex gang by a desperate Romanian family as one girl child too many. There are a lot of things I'm GLAD not to be, but pride wouldn't be a word I'd apply to my good fortune.
 
All this talk of fractions has reminded me that I am actually 7/8ths Scottish, 1/16th Irish and 1/16th English (Sorry clivex, old boy. But I understand that he was from the People's Republic Of Geordie Man, so it doesn't really count).

There is probably some fucking French back there somewhere as well.
 
Originally posted by simmo+Jan 22 2007, 12:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (simmo @ Jan 22 2007, 12:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Bar the Bull@Jan 22 2007, 11:26 AM
The British Isles is a geographical term that includes Ireland. Britain is England and Wales (and for some people, Scotland).
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Pedant alert.

Great Britain is England, Wales and Scotland. Whether people like it or not. [/b][/quote]
But I said Britain, not Great Britain.

You are right about Great Britain. But sometimes Britain excludes Scotland. Like the old Roman province, for example. To be sure that Scotland is included, you need to refer to Great Britain.

I shall not be out pedanted by a Scot.
 
At risk of being shouted at - does Great Britain not consist of England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland? :ph34r:
 
Originally posted by Bar the Bull@Jan 22 2007, 02:23 PM
But I said Britain, not Great Britain.
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But Britain doesn't exist, except as an abbreviation of Great Britain...... ;)

And the old Roman province includes part of what is now known as Scotland.

:P
 
:lol:

Now, let me tell you about Ireland, Ireland and Ireland, all of which mean different things depending on who's talking and in what context!
 
Ah, I know that much at least!!! (that it means different things depending on who you talk to!) I went out with a guy from Belfast quite a few years back - he was staunchly Republican.
 
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