its like that here, well apart from the English wanting to do the jobs at the lower end, they dont like them.
Did you know all English are mongrels . English people are made from Celts, then Anglo Saxons then Norman- French
Not to mention Romans and Vikings. Not all the Romans went back to Italy and Vikings settled here as can be told by many of our place names.
I think its Roman for me, I have a big nose. Wold rather have been Viking with a big, well never mind.
Already said this earlier on "We are a bastardised nation with a bastardised language" also there were people here before the Celts, for example the Picts who where pushed north into what is now Scotland. Lever Malone if you want to include the Romans then you have to include all the people of the Roman empire as Auxilaries very rarely served near or in their own countries. To me what is great about being English is the ability to accept and take the best from all cultures and people that have stayed here or we have contact with.
I know Kirk Douglas was here, I saw the film [video=youtube;nvB1jLld1W0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvB1jLld1W0[/video]
I spent a fortnight travelling in Scandanavia this summer, with my 11-year-old son. After a while I started to recognise some of the more common words. Obviously I had to buy public transport tickets, museum tickets, etc. The word for "adult" in those languages didn't ring a bell, but the word for "child" did, and made me laugh given how we north-easterners talk. It's ... BARN So, yes, we're all mongrels with some Viking blood, some blood from soldiers of the Roman Empire, and personally I'm proud to be a mongrel!
One thing I have noticed is that unlike most countrys in the world we dont seem to keen on flying the flag, you go to the likes of Norway Spain or Turkey and there national flag is flying on most buildings and even houses. Mind you I am still proud to be English most of the time
I would say its even worse than that gary, fly the flag in your garden and people think you are loopy, very strange.
In America Syd (i'm half American by the way...not that that matters like...) alot of the locals fly the stars and stripes in their gardens etc or if not the stars and stripes the rebel flag but my point is they are very patriotic but like someone mentioned it's deemed strange if we do it. Imagine any of you (or me) flying a gid big St George cross flag in your back garden for everyone to see...you'd be the talk of the village man...
It's took is since January for me to finally come to the conclusive conclusion that you are all friggin nuts on here like...
