What a nonsense of an article. Most people know what you mean when you talk of the Union Jack, but in reality the "jack" is the post on the ship the Union Flag flies from.
Having been married to a Hull lad for 43 years I have to quote the old hackneyed saying. " You can take take a man out of Yorkshire but you can never take Yorkshire out of the man."
40% Australian? Unless you're 2/5 Aborigine, that doesn't count! Most people from the Land Down Under are descended from Europeans or South-East Asians.
For me the concept of being English is a phallacy. We are such a mix of cultures due to being invaded so many times that mongrels would be a better word. The whole idea of being English is just nationalist/facist claptrap.
Yep, you can't really be 40% Australian. It's very rare you find an Aussie that's 5th/6th generation, as most people in Australia have Grandparents/Great Grandparents who are European (mostly British though) For that reason I'm surprised Australia is so high up in the 'patriotism' list. Still, they all love their cricket, and seeing England tonking them at the MCG was pretty decent As for being English, I am a very proud Englishman and consider myself priveleged to be a citizen (wrong term really) of this great country
I'm not sure how I should count... Dad-Aussie Mom-Swedish Mom´s dad and mom-Swedish, and as far back as I know...... Dad´s mom and dad- Dad-Aussie and mom-Aussie, but one of their parents are from Scotland.....
One word NO !!! Proud and patriotic to be from Hull as so many people want to throw **** at the fine people of Hull but proud to be English never, were too arrogant about being english and supposedly being the best at nearly everything and then failing at nearly all of those things.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
A scathing attack on your homeland there CT. It saddens me that England is the home of Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Cricket, Squash, Tennis, Table Tennis (that's Wiff-Waff to you, Boris), Rounders, Snooker, Billiards, Darts, Boxing, Hockey, Badminton, Netball and Bowls. Yet we're crap at most of them.
Haha, aquaducts and the A1! On the subject of invasions, we were invaded in 1688 by the Dutch, Hull has a good reminder of this with King Billy peering out over the Old Town. Interesting comments re. the flag, I didn't know it was the union flag on land and the jack at sea. Some interesting comments here, goes to show Hull folk are nobodies fools!
Ok ok I'll give you the aquaduct and the roads, but apart from that what did the romans ever do for us!
You don't support England any more because their performance displeases you? What's that known as at club level... Oh yeah, glory supporter, armchair fan, bandwagon jumper, plastic, etc...
A phallacy? Is that something to do with penises? Is facist claptrap something to do with ot liking the way someone looks? You certainly write some claptrap as far as your level of English is concerned. Every other country has been invaded countless times, most of then more recently than ourselves where the last successful invasion was over 1,000 years. Yet I've no doubt you are on of those idiots who comes up with this crap about England and no such thing as being English whilst prattling on about how other cultures should be proud of their heritage and defending them. I'll bet you don't tell Indians, Argentinians, Spanish, French etc that they are mongrels and if proud of their country guilty of nationalistic/fascist claptrap and that there is no such thing as being Indian, Argentinaian, Spanish, French etc.
