Britain Day

[Trufflehound]

Sadly not. You're a subject.

Indeed. I have an O-Level in Monkster.

 

[Hampden Park]

I agree, but it won't happen as it is a Christian celebration, and the point of this new holiday is for minorities to feel more included.

Christians are now in the minority, since the arrival of the Muslims

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Is that your birthday, perchance?

No.

I share my birthday with the anniversary of the independence of Ghana.

But that would do just as well.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Does anybody consider themselves more British than English? I wouldn't have thought too many people consider themselves British first and foremost.

 

[Dave the OAP]

blimey another one of these....where do you come from?

I regard myself as English if asked specifically, British if asked at passport control

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

 

[Trufflehound]

No.

I share my birthday with the anniversary of the independence of Ghana.

But that would do just as well.

I always have a holiday on that day anyway...

 

[Lokki 7]

Christians are now in the minority, since the arrival of the Muslims

That would be true, if it wasn't for all those eastern european invaders.

 

[Monkster]

Indeed. I have an O-Level in Monkster.

You do?

Hope it involved an ORAL

 

[captainmorganrum]

You do?

Hope it involved an ORAL

Surely you'd remember?

 

[Monkster]

Surely you'd remember?

Arhhhh YES

3.2

 

[Meade's Ball]

Humankinds thousands of years of global roaming, nesting, warring, contesting, self-indulging, haunting, hounding and devolving in the name of individual betterment means that landmass has little to do with our identity. More just that we are somewhere, and the personal events that unfold there are what make us the clownish clones we are. Maybe.
I am not sure i was openly raised as a race, but i suppose i was and am English, or just Brightonian, or Lewes Roadian with a modernised London influence. Then my mum found out her long-dead mother was Jewish and our ancestry in that thread is Lithuanian jewish. The village our namesakes likely lived in was destroyed and burnt in the late 19th century as anti-semetism swamped certain areas (although my definites are also long-dead now, so i am just summarising what i was told). I tell people now
i am Lithuanian Jewish, but only to be a silly bugger about things. Does anyone think there may be another Meadesballian out
there somewhere?

 

[cannedheat]

English racist bastard.

 

[Braders]

Sussex and Proud

to any foreign visitors i'm English

anyone else can f**k off

 

[bhaexpress]

I consider myself English, I think that other home countries prefer to maintain their home nation's identity too.

Seems though that if a Scot for example wins a World Boxing Championship he'd be referred to as 'British' by our tabloid press but he was English he'd be reffered to as 'English'.

 

[Buzzer]

Hello, I'm English.

me too

 

[The Large One]

Interesting. Only 22% are happy to consider themselves or prefer to be known as British.

Just a thought, bearing in mind that, up until about 10-12 years ago, England supporters were always associated with the Union Flag, and, together with all the connotations that that symoblism had, I wonder what these figures would have been among football fans 10-12 years ago?

Just a though, like.

 

[Race]

And what day should be chosen for this celebration?

8th may. VE day

 

[The Large One]

8th may. VE day

We need a NEW Bank Holiday date, prefeably one not on top of the previous one.

Are there any significant historical dates between the end of August and Christmas - or, indeed, between New Year and Easter - when there are two lots of three-four months periods of no Bank Holidays?

 

[Meade's Ball]

We need a NEW Bank Holiday date, prefeably one not on top of the previous one.

Are there any significant historical dates between the end of August and Christmas - or, indeed, between New Year and Easter - when there are two lots of three-four months periods of no Bank Holidays?

July 11th. Mine and Yul Brinner's birthday.