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The hating of the English.
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I find it doesn't really matter, i have friends older and younger who like to rip on the English for any number of reasons and always support opposing teams when it comes to football and rugby.I don't bother arguing with them anymore as i get peeved off but i cant help feel a lot is to do with that bloody braveheart film.
Me and my dad always support the English when playing against other nations outside of the UK having both served in The British army.
All this fighting happened long long ago and should be put in the past.
Some of it is banter and all that but i prefer to support the English against the likes of those scummy French People who for some reason i really do hate.
Do you honestly believe a film has had such an impact on people to move them to such notions?
What about before the film?
Why do you hate the French?
Us Cornish (those that were born here, anyway), tend to consider ourselves Cornish first and British second.
We don't dislike the English, but... well, you know, we're Celts
And we'd quite like some form of devolution/assembly, because our overlords in London know duck all about issues affecting the Cornish/south west in general.
We don't dislike the English, but... well, you know, we're Celts
And we'd quite like some form of devolution/assembly, because our overlords in London know duck all about issues affecting the Cornish/south west in general.
It's not a matter of "would have done". They did.
For example, there used to be a thriving slave market in Ireland, mainly selling British slaves. There were Irish raids on Britain throughout a lot of recorded history, which sometimes included slaving. Scotland invaded England more than once and interfered in English affairs as much as it could for its own benefit. Although the ruling classes of both countries were Normans anyway by that time, which makes it all even less simple.
Political interference and violence all the way from fistfights to outright war go back further than any of the 4 countries, so it's no surprise that they continued afterwards. As you say, they were violent and bloody centuries (although 'millenia' might be more accurate - I doubt if it was any different in the iron age, bronze age or even neolithic).
Was England worse than the others? No. Was it more powerful than the others? Yes. Is it a convenient target for people who want more conflict? Yes. The same attitudes that existed in those violent and bloody centuries still exist today. In these more civilised times raiding for murder, looting and slaving of <insert enemy tribe here> isn't possible, but the underlying attitudes remain.
The past would be an interesting place to visit, but I'm very glad I don't live there.
Us Cornish (those that were born here, anyway), tend to consider ourselves Cornish first and British second.
We don't dislike the English, but... well, you know, we're Celts
And we'd quite like some form of devolution/assembly, because our overlords in London know duck all about issues affecting the Cornish/south west in general.
I agree with your plight. We need a federal Britain, us Scots have it too good with our parliament while the English get nothing. You lot deserve your own devolution.
No. It's just people who are irrationally prejudiced making things up about the group they are irrationally prejudiced against, so they can pretend that their irrational prejudice isn't irrational.
For example, the front page headline of an English tabloid I noticed on a table at work today was "GREAT SCOT!"
That's totally inaccurate and somewhat annoying.
It's 'en masse', not 'on mass'.
The whole message you quoted was so full of grammatical errors its impossible to know where to start a counter argument without tripping over the writers inability to enter basic English.
So based on the above failure I will only respond by saying that the British did indeed conquer most of the world and irregardless of what date / year we are currently in, that happened and can never be un-happened, therefore write terribly with awful grammar all you like.
Who gives a ** Please fully star out swear words ** about 1966.
That is probably the point. You don't think Welsh nationalists want Wales to be successful and wealthy, do you? The poorer Wales is and the less hope it has of anything else, the more support there will be for nationalism. Nationalism usually thrives when the nation in question is worse off.
That's vying with OhEsEcks' post for funniest of the thread so far.
Or you have no worthwhile response to an obviously satirical post. Yet are so enraged by it, you feel compelled to complain about how it's written instead.
If you cry any harder they're going to put out more flood warnings.
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I'll correct this for you. irregardless probably should be changed to regardless as well but it seems irregardless can be used to add emphasis apparently (or so google says). What was you saying about basic English again?
I thought his posts were rather humorous personally.
It's very true. (Edit : what you have said is very true. The whole he's a Scot if he loses is rubbish) I was complaining about it to a friend yesterday. I've drunkenly vowed to slay the next person that trots out that rubbish.
I may break my vow.
Watching the news and Breakfast this morning, every time they talk about Johnathon Marray and Frederik Nielsen winning the doubles they say Marray is the first British man to win in the final since "x" years not once did they say English so I am convinced the same BS trotted out by the Scots that he's only Scottish if he loses is garbage.
You may wish to make sure your own grammar is absolutely perfect before berating someone else about theirs.
The list of nationalities that supposedly dislike the English bears a remarkable resemblance to the list of nations that have been pwned by the English in assorted conflicts up and down the ages. #coincidence? #justsaying 
The home nations eventually figured out that working together these little rainy islands off the north coast of Europe were capable of great things and went on to pwn pretty much the rest of the world at one point or another.
Unfortunately there's still some idiots around the home nations that can't let the past go and hold on to perceived old grudges as a way to try an define some kind of identity of worth. Eventually, those small minded bigots will be consigned to history as they deserve to be.
OhEssEcks wins post of the month by a country mile
The home nations eventually figured out that working together these little rainy islands off the north coast of Europe were capable of great things and went on to pwn pretty much the rest of the world at one point or another.
Unfortunately there's still some idiots around the home nations that can't let the past go and hold on to perceived old grudges as a way to try an define some kind of identity of worth. Eventually, those small minded bigots will be consigned to history as they deserve to be.
OhEssEcks wins post of the month by a country mile
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Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish, we've all got idiots who "hate" the others purely down to accent and where on these small islands they were born. I can't think of a more stupid reason to dislike someone.
The English/Scottish bashing is particularly regarded and usually based on some imagined injustice usually stirred up by knuckle dragging keyboard warrior or clearly biased newpapers spewing out the same drivel year after year.
The English/Scottish bashing is particularly regarded and usually based on some imagined injustice usually stirred up by knuckle dragging keyboard warrior or clearly biased newpapers spewing out the same drivel year after year.
The fact that England spend centuries kicking nine kinds of hell out of these places, murdering their people, raping their women, and stealing all their stuff, might have something to do with it...
Just sayin'!