Are we British or English?

Le_Petit_Lapin · 10 Feb 2006 at 12:58

Piggymon said:
Football IS silly and I hate shoe shopping

Female......Hates shoe shopping.... :confused:

[poke] Are you real?

taliesyn · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:00

Nathan said:
Im english. Pure and bread. We are the biggest and better at everything, rugby & football included.

I hope you mean bred, otherwise don't go out in any rainstorms

Piggymon · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:01

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Female......Hates shoe shopping....

[poke] Are you real?

Hate shoe shopping , not fussed on clothes shopping , like motorsports and mud and stuff

I am real ... ask Desmo

Metalface Mark · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:02

Piggymon said:
And people wonder where the Welsh & Scottish vs English stuff comes from ...

There's nothing I detest more than people describing the UK as " England " Drives me bloody potty !!

When you go away on holiday as an english person you are instantly treated with an attitude, however going away with a couple of scottish guys on holiday was an eye opener, everyone started out grumpy "english?" till they got "naw, scottish, he's english" and you can see how differently they are treated.

The arrogance of some people from England is amazing, like the one about football and rugby, it was obviously tongue in cheek, but we seem to think we have a god given right to win everything, we claim we invented the game which gets the scotts backs up because they invented it.

taliesyn · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:05

InwardSinging said:
The arrogance of some people from England is amazing, like the one about football and rugby, it was obviously tongue in cheek, but we seem to think we have a god given right to win everything, we claim we invented the game which gets the scotts backs up because they invented it.

We invented the Scots though

rG-tom · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:07

i'm bloody english! if I wasn't, when i play international basketball would i not being playing for britain?

nope, i play for england, and one of the main pleasures is beating the scottish

Welsh and scottish people get annoyed by us using English as they are just jealous

Tom.

</tongue in cheek>

dod · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:08

Nathan said:
Im english. Pure and bread. We are the biggest and better at everything, rugby & football included.

You won't be including spelling and grammar in "everything" then?

4T5 · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:09

I am English.
Nothing else but English. My neighbour is Welsh people from Scotland are Scottish. Rocket science its not.

All forms that require it get English or England put in it Not British or UK.
I was born here this is my country i am English. :cool:

Others are allowed to state there nationality and i state mine Proudly.
I am English and from England and WOOT to that.

Piggymon is definetely real by the way but unfortunetly besotted by Desmo dude.

Metalface Mark · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:09

rG-tom said:
i'm bloody english! if I wasn't, when i play international basketball would i not being playing for britain? nope, i play for england, and one of the main pleasures is beating the scottish

Welsh and scottish people get annoyed by us using English as they are just jealous

Tom.

</tongue in cheek>

If you were good enough you would be playing for United Kingdom in the olympics, so your only english because your rubbish

Pudney · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:09

InwardSinging said:
we claim we invented the game which gets the scotts backs up because they invented it.

Which is patently wrong as there is evidence the game was played in some form in ancient China, Rome and South America.

On topic, I'm English, and will always say that if asked my nationality

taliesyn · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:10

rG-tom said:
Welsh and scottish people get annoyed by us using English as they are just jealous

Tom.

</tongue in cheek>

Is basketball a real sport? I though it was just a bunch of tall people playing catch

Metalface Mark · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:12

malc30 said:
I am English.
Nothing else but English. My neighbour is Welsh people from Scotland are Scottish. Rocket science its not.
All forms that require it get English or England put in it Not British or UK.
I was born here this is my country i am English.
Others are allowed to state there nationality and i state mine Proudly.
I am English and from England and WOOT to that.

Piggymon is definetely real by the way but unfortunetly besotted by Desmo dude.

You might write that on your forms, but if you have a passport, your British, the country you live in is the United Kingdom, and England is a province of that, until Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are absolved from the kingdom, each country is nothing more than a province. You were born in the province of England but you are regardless of how you feel, British and not English.

Im just playing devils advocate btw, im not personally having a go at you

Murf · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:14

I consider myself and describe myself as English, proudly. Legally however, I'm British.

Piggymon said:
Football IS silly

What a stupid thing to say.

tenchi-fan · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:15

I'm neither!

But if I was referring to some one from England, I'd always call them English (not British). "British" just isn't a specific enough description. It's like saying some one from Iceland is "European".
It's also less controversial to refer to some one by the part of GB they're from.

Thesnipergecko · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:16

Some very different opinions on the matter. I personally see myself as British, (thats whats on my passport anyway). I live in England and i see the word English as a Language

Therefore I am British and speak the English language in England

Thanks for all the replies.

Paul ...

Takhisis · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:17

Piggymon said:
Hate shoe shopping , not fussed on clothes shopping , like motorsports and mud and stuff

Sounds good to me

And footie is stupid

taliesyn · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:19

Murf said:
What a stupid thing to say.

Professional football is a bunch of overpaid ponces dancing about on a field kicking a ball around and rolling around and crying when they get a tap on the shin.

That better?

Murf · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:23

Takhisis said:
Sounds good to me And footie is stupid

taliesyin said:
Professional football is a bunch of overpaid ponces dancing about on a field kicking a ball around and rolling around and crying when they get a tap on the shin.

That better?

God, you lot are gonna have a riot this summer.

Piggymon · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:23

Takhisis said:
Sounds good to me And footie is stupid

RAAAAH !!!

Take that Murf

Piggymon · 10 Feb 2006 at 13:23

taliesyn said:
Professional football is a bunch of overpaid ponces dancing about on a field kicking a ball around and rolling around and crying when they get a tap on the shin.

That better?

*sniggers*