Random, I know, but... a fun little map showing areas closer to a neighbouring country than the UK's capital.
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[Misc] "You're French, and you know you are..."
- Thread starter Wozza
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I just checked on google maps. Dublin 120 miles, London 184 both as the crow flies.
GREASED WEASEL
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My mum lives closer to Paris than me
And I live in France
And I live in France
Living where we do I feel I have more in common with the French , Belgians, Dutch and Irish than I do most of England.
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I've always suspected I might be part French. It's when I realised I could cook I first started wondering, the wine just confirmed it 
Quoi?
Wellesley
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B.O. and garlic breath?
Thunder Bolt
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One of the best chants, I’ve heard away.
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Hampster Gull
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Green Cross Code Man
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Why? No historic shared language and most of our history have been fighting one or other of them. They certainly didn't feel a great affinity with us either. And Ireland for instance is very much further than most of England is.
Pavilionaire
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I know what Zefarelly is talking about, and would certainly feel more at home living in Scotland or Ireland than most of the North or Midlands.
That, IMO is an archaic view, certainly since the second world war things have changed, a lot, at least in reality if not in peoples heads. I guess it's where I've travelled and who I've worked with over the years, as well as the influence of what's on my door step.
Biscuit Barrel
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Are you still waiting for your vaccine as well?
Yes, yes I am, fortunately a good diet and the appropriate breath has kept me safe from toxic riff-raff.
jessiejames
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Hull city in the FA cup. Brighton reply bonjour, bonjour we are the Brighton boys.
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HellBilly
Meh
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Fair enough. I like all of those countries and have had and have friends from them as well. However being married to a northerner and having lived up there for a long time, my experience is that although there are differences, there are far more similarities than differences, especially when compared to continental Europeans.
Ireland I found different, whilst I loved the place and people, in some parts I certainly felt hostility towards the English. Understandable but still a sad thing.
Btw the view was archaic as it referred to our and their history. That's why I said the word history. I think history still has a role to play and if you think the south of England has more in common with those countries then I belong you are mistaken.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Why? I would love to live in the Highlands but suspect it may be tiresome for an Englishman living in a city in Scotland given the rise in racism towards the English up there.