m williamson Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 hours ago, hackey lad said: Even the Irish? https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2022-0055/CDP-2022-0055.pdf  Have a read, I doubt that it will alter your apparent bigotry, but it may slightly ameliorate your evident ignorance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 7 minutes ago, m williamson said: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2022-0055/CDP-2022-0055.pdf  Have a read, I doubt that it will alter your apparent bigotry, but it may slightly ameliorate your evident ignorance. I was joking for Gods sake . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m williamson Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 27 minutes ago, hackey lad said: I was joking for Gods sake . As someone who is half English and half Irish it has been my experience that the English are the absolute worst at taking umbrage at any slightly offensive joke. Good at dishing it out, but not so good at taking it back. That being the case I tend to react to any smartárse comments from English people which concern the Irish.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 4 minutes ago, m williamson said: As someone who is half English and half Irish it has been my experience that the English are the absolute worst at taking umbrage at any slightly offensive joke. Good at dishing it out, but not so good at taking it back. That being the case I tend to react to any smartárse comments from English people which concern the Irish.  This subject always baffles me , if one is born in England then they are English If in Ireland they are Irish. I hear it all the time , The Americans who think they are Irish , Then we get Pakistanis and Indian people born here but sticking up for a. Country they hav never visited when it comes to sport ,  I have German relatives but would never consider my self to be German , Born in England and proud to British , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 Just now, cuttsie said: This subject always baffles me , if one is born in England then they are English If in Ireland they are Irish. I hear it all the time , The Americans who think they are Irish , Then we get Pakistanis and Indian people born here but sticking up for a. Country they hav never visited when it comes to sport ,  I have German relatives but would never consider my self to be German , Born in England and proud to British , Be British Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 11 minutes ago, m williamson said: As someone who is half English and half Irish it has been my experience that the English are the absolute worst at taking umbrage at any slightly offensive joke. Good at dishing it out, but not so good at taking it back. That being the case I tend to react to any smartárse comments from English people which concern the Irish.  Ok Mick . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Apparently I'm I have French blood in my ancestry . They left France in a bit of a rush a few hundred years ago . Could I say I'm half French ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJRB Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, cuttsie said: This subject always baffles me , if one is born in England then they are English If in Ireland they are Irish. I hear it all the time , The Americans who think they are Irish , Then we get Pakistanis and Indian people born here but sticking up for a. Country they hav never visited when it comes to sport ,  I have German relatives but would never consider my self to be German , Born in England and proud to British , I am sure that the British who populated the Empire and their offspring had similar leanings towards their ancestral origins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m williamson Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, cuttsie said: This subject always baffles me , if one is born in England then they are English If in Ireland they are Irish. I hear it all the time , The Americans who think they are Irish , Then we get Pakistanis and Indian people born here but sticking up for a. Country they hav never visited when it comes to sport ,  I have German relatives but would never consider my self to be German , Born in England and proud to British , You are easily baffled then. So you believe that Boris Johnson is an American, John McEnroe is German, Johanna Lumley is Indian, Terry Butcher is Singaporean, Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell are Indian and Winston Churchill had an Irish brother?  Is that what you believe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m williamson Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, hackey lad said: Apparently I'm I have French blood in my ancestry . They left France in a bit of a rush a few hundred years ago . Could I say I'm half French ? That would depend on how much logic and reasoning you are capable of. A few means three or more, which means that your ancestors who  left France were about nine generations ago, which means they constituted approximately one of a thousand of your ancestors at that time.  https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~pamonval/genealogy/howbig.html  Going on your previous contributions to the forum it wouldn't surprise me if you came to the conclusion that you are half French. On the other hand, being somewhat more down to earth I base my claim to be half English and half Irish on the fact that one of my parents was English and the other one was Irish. As each of them provided me with 50% of my DNA it seems logical to me.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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