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[STMO123]

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer.Then on your way home grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab, sitting on a Swedish sofa watching American programmes on a Japanese tv. Only in Britain can you get an Italian pizza to your house faster than an ambulance. We are suspicious of anything foreign.
 In Britain banks leave both doors open but chain the pens to the counter. Supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the shop for their prescriptions whilst healthy people get their fags at the front.
What a funny lot we are. NOT.

[Golfbuddy]

Cheer up Steve. Shows what a cosmopolitan, multicultural, tolerant lot we are really doesn't it?  

[HolyCount]

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer.Then on your way home grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab, sitting on a Swedish sofa watching American programmes on a Japanese tv. Only in Britain can you get an Italian pizza to your house faster than an ambulance. We are suspicious of anything foreign.
 In Britain banks leave both doors open but chain the pens to the counter. Supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the shop for their prescriptions whilst healthy people get their fags at the front.
What a funny lot we are. NOT.

Let's not forget that at most hospitals the patients have to drag themselve right across the hospital from the expensive car park whilst the consultants park free right outside the doors  

[FRE07962128]

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer.Then on your way home grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab, sitting on a Swedish sofa watching American programmes on a Japanese tv. Only in Britain can you get an Italian pizza to your house faster than an ambulance. We are suspicious of anything foreign.
 In Britain banks leave both doors open but chain the pens to the counter. Supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the shop for their prescriptions whilst healthy people get their fags at the front.
What a funny lot we are. NOT.

Not in Barclay's!  You can have plenty of free pens there from dispensers filled with cheap biro's on every counter surface.  Mind you with bank charges as they are, so they should!

As for everything else you state Steve it is true, and applicable to almost every 1st world country!  Elsewhere though they can have British pubs / resturants / tv shows / films, etc, and to get to them you will fly in aircraft consisting of British parts, along with American, French, German, Italian................!

[Richie London]

i am english, not british, any forms ask if im british they get scrubbed out and replaced with english.  

[theolodian]

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer.Then on your way home grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab, sitting on a Swedish sofa watching American programmes on a Japanese tv. Only in Britain can you get an Italian pizza to your house faster than an ambulance. We are suspicious of anything foreign.
 In Britain banks leave both doors open but chain the pens to the counter. Supermarkets make sick people walk to the back of the shop for their prescriptions whilst healthy people get their fags at the front.
What a funny lot we are. NOT.

Let's not forget that at most hospitals the patients have to drag themselve right across the hospital from the expensive car park whilst the consultants park free right outside the doors  

Yeah, then the ticket machine only takes coins and you have to walk to the other side to the security office to pay!

[theolodian]

i am english, not british, any forms ask if im british they get scrubbed out and replaced with english.  

If it makes you feel better.  

[HolyCount]

i am english, not british, any forms ask if im british they get scrubbed out and replaced with english.  

Out of interest -- what make a person "english"  ( or any other nationality for that matter) ?

Is it their parentage, heritage, genetics or merely the spot on which they were born ??

I was born in england, my father is welsh, the family spent the last 150 years in Wales, the 600 years before that in Cornwall and prior to that france. Can I just put "Confused" on the forms

[FRE07962128]

i am english, not british, any forms ask if im british they get scrubbed out and replaced with english.  

Out of interest -- what make a person "english"  ( or any other nationality for that matter) ?

Is it their parentage, heritage, genetics or merely the spot on which they were born ??

I was born in england, my father is welsh, the family spent the last 150 years in Wales, the 600 years before that in Cornwall and prior to that france. Can I just put "Confused" on the forms

That actually applies to most "English" and "British" Holy Count
   A large number of us are related to Roman's, the 'Barbarian's; Huns, Franks, Vandals, Visigoths, etc, then Vikings, "modern" French, Germans, Italians, etc, etc.  With my family it is Roman, Norman / French, English, and of course, I am proud to say, was born in Malta GC. My daughter's children, my two grandchildren, will add Italian to their list as she married a (gorgous!) Italian, and one was born in the Republic Of Ireland!  "Confused" could be a good definition for many of us!

[Elite Pete]

i am english, not british, any forms ask if im british they get scrubbed out and replaced with english.  

Same here

[STMO123]

i am english, not british, any forms ask if im british they get scrubbed out and replaced with english.  

Same here

 

Made in Taiwan

[LJay]

i am english, not british, any forms ask if im british they get scrubbed out and replaced with english.  

Same here

 

Made in Taiwan

I always state on forms that i am english!
I  think the place you were born decides your nationality, therefore i am english and my boys are welsh!

[amigov6]

Excuse my ignorance but what's the difference between English & British? Not sure what to be proud of now. :-?

[Martin_1962]

I am British, ancestors from various parts of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Wiltshire

Oldest is in Chitterne

[STMO123]

I am British, ancestors from various parts of Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Wiltshire

Oldest is in Chitterne

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