Define a 'standardised concept of Englishness.'Originally Posted by Idaho
I'm intrigued.
Re: Our Lord, J.C.
Define a 'standardised concept of Englishness.'
I'm intrigued.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re: Our Lord, J.C.
I learned from you there's no such thing.
I'm a West Saxon and you're either a Northumbrian or a Dane.
All that unites us is our oppression under the Norman yoke.
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Technically it is a Combo Norman/French/English/Scottish/Dutch/German Yoke, British for short.I learned from you there's no such thing.
I'm a West Saxon and you're either a Northumbrian or a Dane.
All that unites us is our oppression under the Norman yoke.
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Re: Our Lord, J.C.
Let's not forget about the Saxon yoke oppressing the poor Celts.
Re: Our Lord, J.C.
What about the Celtic displacement of the indigenous Beaker people?
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I heard that the "Celts" never referred to themselves in such a way and probably never thought of themselves as a homogeneous culture.
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Re: Our Lord, J.C.
Fearsome wars were fought between different Celtic tribes. Some Celts in Northumbria worshipped the blue sky, and they hated those of their neighbours who worshipped the red fires of hell. Some of the Celts in the midlands threw in their lot with the Romans, naming themselves after their luxurious Roman houses. They were constantly at war with those who preferred to live outside, who were identifiable by their frequently frostbitten faces. The fiercest inter-tribal wars though were fought between those who identified their lineage through the Celts and Germans. They called themselves the Celtics and the Gers, respectively.I heard that the "Celts" never referred to themselves in such a way and probably never thought of themselves as a homogeneous culture.
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Neither do Finns now. And?I heard that the "Celts" never referred to themselves in such a way.
Re: Our Lord, J.C.
I won't define one - as it's a nonsense. But the Tory party wage an ideological war every so often on who they determine to be culturally acceptable, and who are not.
"The republicans will draft your kids, poison the air and water, take away your social security and burn down black churches if elected." Gawain of Orkney
Re: Our Lord, J.C.
Dianne Abbot was on Today this morning, I thought I'd heard/seen some car crash interviews but this one takes the biscuit!
http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/201...rre-interview/
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Our Lord, J.C.
She's a total dingbat.
The media have been jumping on everything and anything the new Labour leadership do or say - and for the first time they actually have something moderately important to pick on. Although, personally, I don't see what the big deal is with changing policy. Things changes, strategies adapt.
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"The republicans will draft your kids, poison the air and water, take away your social security and burn down black churches if elected." Gawain of Orkney
Re: Our Lord, J.C.
"All that unites us is our oppression under the Norman yoke" That would be me.
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