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    Your pointless worring about what it means to be English makes you very English, so don't worry, keep worrying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II View Post
    Your pointless worring about what it means to be English makes you very English, so don't worry, keep worrying.
    Oh dear, you mean its a permamnent feature?
    Can I just send myself into Microsoft to get it fixed?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bopa the Magyar View Post
    Oh dear, you mean its a permamnent feature?
    Can I just send myself into Microsoft to get it fixed?
    Sure, just don't exepct to be returned this century - or, indeed, 'fixed'!

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    You live here and want to stay here in the future? Great, you're now my countryman.
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    If when asked the question "what Nationality are you? you respond "English" (and truly mean it), you're English. IMO we're not defined by religion, ethnicity or where your ancestors came from.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    You live here and want to stay here in the future? Great, you're now my countryman.
    Indeed, I also consider myself an Orgah!

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    Why on Earth would you wish to be English? A man without a country, parliament, decent footy team and just about the only 'race' left on the planet that it's generally accepted to be racist to.

    Anyway, I found out my great-great grandad was a Scot. Hoots mon!
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    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
    Why on Earth would you wish to be English? A man without a country, parliament, decent footy team and just about the only 'race' left on the planet that it's generally accepted to be racist to.

    Anyway, I found out my great-great grandad was a Scot. Hoots mon!
    Oh it just sounds sooo fun!

    But being honest and very wet here (oh dear, please none of yee ol fullas puns or anything of the sort), I always get a tingly feeling when someone talks about England, oh how wet and grey it is, how depressing and oh so very rude people are. Its that great feeling of being the true bad asses of the planet, y'know, terrorists can go bugger off, we did the real bad mutha things, like Coronation street.

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    To be English is to have won the lottery of life. The English gentleman is the pinnacle of evolution.

    It's a kind of greatness that we, everybody else, can only marvel at in jealous despair.

    ~~~~~

    Let's use this thread to make an 'Are you English?' quiz! Together, we could come up with some great questions to test Englishness with.

    1) Did you strip your estate of all natural vegetation and elevation, only to then plant vegetation and artificial hills that aim to make your garden look natural?
    a) Don't be silly.
    b) Of course. The English Garden makes perfect common sense.

    2) Fags
    a) yikes!
    b) I puff them all the time.

    2) What's yellow, smooth, and deadly? Shark-infested custard!
    a) Huh?
    b)
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    Fosters or beer?

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