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 Wisbech Eagle  Truro Cornwall 19 Jun 24 5.19pm |
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
you are correct. I have been accepted as English many times. Yet am steadfastly Irish. Similar to many Scots & Welsh......you do not need to be wearing a kilt or swinging a club to be a Celt. my 3 requirements to being English : a. the locals recognise you as such, b. you want to identify as such.....and c. its nice to have a bit of a DNA match too. Although, like the Dutch Val Tulleken brothers, or the French DNA of Jean Jacques Burnel, you can look the part and get away with it, very often. When you look & talk like a Nigel, people will accept you as the same.
Edited by PalazioVecchio (19 Jun 2024 1.07pm) But if you chose to identify as English no one would either know or question it. You have decided not to. Your choice. We English are a very diverse people nowadays, coming from a large number of genetic origins. Culture is what binds us. Not genetics. Just look at the England football team. Does anyone want to try to point out to Southgate that some of his best players aren't actually English because of their genecity?
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Ouzo Dan  Behind you 19 Jun 24 8.02pm |
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Just watched thousands of Scotland fans sing their hearts out, according to our quarter French troll it amounts to nothing as they're British & anything deeper than feelings doesn't exist. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.03pm)
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The groover  Danbury 19 Jun 24 8.09pm |
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
Just watched thousands of Scotland fans sing their hearts out, according to our quarter French troll it amounts to nothing as they're British & anything deeper than feelings doesn't exist. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.03pm) It was impressive.
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| Ouzo Dan Behind you 19 Jun 24 8.28pm |
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Originally posted by The groover
It was impressive. Scottish fans are a credit to this tournament. Sadly according to one sole person on this forum the Celt in them has been bred out of them to such a point that it's no longer relevant. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.30pm)
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 19 Jun 24 8.52pm |
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
Just watched thousands of Scotland fans sing their hearts out, according to our quarter French troll it amounts to nothing as they're British & anything deeper than feelings doesn't exist. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.03pm) Don’t be silly. They all identify as Scottish. Whether they would all qualify genetically or not, who knows or cares?
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 19 Jun 24 9.07pm |
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
Scottish fans are a credit to this tournament. Sadly according to one sole person on this forum the Celt in them has been bred out of them to such a point that it's no longer relevant. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.30pm) I have read posts here before that spectacularly miss the point, but this one goes top of the list. The “Celt in them” will vary person to person but plays no role about how they feel. That’s down to their upbringing and exposure to the culture. It’s acquired and not inbred. Swap a baby born to English parents with one born to Scots and they would both acquire the culture and identity of those they live with.
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PalazioVecchio  south pole 19 Jun 24 9.21pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Swap a baby born to English parents with one born to Scots and they would both acquire the culture and identity of those they live with. one of those babies will never offer to buy a round of drinks.
absent so far , on this thread, are all the foreign eejits who claim to be english, irish, or whatever........and they patently are not. we have all met many of these, often living tens of thousands of miles away. Deluded looneys. you get them in the USA, India, Japan and loads of places.
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| Ouzo Dan Behind you 19 Jun 24 9.25pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
I have read posts here before that spectacularly miss the point, but this one goes top of the list. The “Celt in them” will vary person to person but plays no role about how they feel. That’s down to their upbringing and exposure to the culture. It’s acquired and not inbred. Swap a baby born to English parents with one born to Scots and they would both acquire the culture and identity of those they live with. A donkey raised with horses is still a donkey.
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| PalazioVecchio south pole 19 Jun 24 9.50pm |
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''when a man is born in a stable, that does not make him a horse'' Duke of Wellington, on his irish origins. ----------------------------------------
Josef Stalin speaking to Nadezhda Krupskaia. "you behave yourself. Otherwise we will appoint another woman to be VI Lenin's widow" ....... .....and he fv.ckin meant it.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 19 Jun 24 10.24pm |
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
A donkey raised with horses is still a donkey. That one now goes top of the list! An ape raised with humans would still be an ape. A human baby raised with humans is a human.
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 Hrolf The Ganger 20 Jun 24 9.17am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
That one now goes top of the list! An ape raised with humans would still be an ape. A human baby raised with humans is a human. You claim to hate religion, and yet you live in this delusion of quasi religious ideology. You argue around in circles because you want to stop others being 'wrong'.
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ASCPFC  Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 20 Jun 24 12.32pm |
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
one of those babies will never offer to buy a round of drinks.
absent so far , on this thread, are all the foreign eejits who claim to be english, irish, or whatever........and they patently are not. we have all met many of these, often living tens of thousands of miles away. Deluded looneys. you get them in the USA, India, Japan and loads of places. St Patrick's day and every US President just before the elections.
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