Who's the British of the British in this British forum?

[Tsuyu]

Isn't British technically used the same way as Scandinavian? I can understand the resentment of being called English, but British?

 

[queenofdisco]

I prefer being called English, I hate being referred to as british.

 

[Hermit]

I prefer being called English, I hate being referred to as british.

You merely adopted the British
Hobbe was born into it
Molded by it

 

[Dark Drakan]

Isn't British technically used the same way as Scandinavian? I can understand the resentment of being called English, but British?

Think its more that people dont like being associated with England & the Scottish, Irish & Welsh would all prefer to be known by their own individual nationalities (as well as some English of course). As a general term British is more tied to the English from an outsiders point of view than any of the other 3 countries associated with it.

 

[Tsuyu]

Considering the way you bullied them around I guess I can understand that.

 

[Tyloric]

I was scorned by someone of Native American descent when I started talking about the state of the country with a friend once. She wasn't even a part of the conversation. She just walked up and said, "You don't even belong here! This is OUR country!"

And, honestly, how do you respond to that?

We both just stared at her and then walked away from the crazy lady.

 

[Tsuyu]

"Hey, we paid good glass beads for this here country, lady!"

 

[Tyloric]

I can't even being to imagine her frustration. My ancestors did indeed **** them all over.

But... not a lot I can do about it now. I'm here, I'm quee-
Wait, that's the wrong chant.

 

[Angel]

Tensions of that nature run so deep...you can have a room of UK residents and it wouldn't take much to polarize the lot of them into "we hate the English" and "we don't mind the English"

Then there's Cornwall...what is this I don't even

 

[HobbeBrain]

What Drakan said. And then I said "I don't give a s***, you're still British" and the conversation went downhill from there.

This is the equivalent of me saying, "Hah! Creationist Christian sister-shagger" and you'd go "Well, actually that's the Texans, and I am actually famously from Maryland" and me saying "I don't give a ****, you're still American."

 

[Dark Drakan]

Considering the way you bullied them around I guess I can understand that.

We're not hated by half the world for no reason I guess.

 

[Walker]

This is the equivalent of me saying, "Hah! Creationist Christian sister-shagging" and you'd go "Well, actually that's the Texans, and I am actually famously from Maryland" and me saying "I don't give a s***, you're still American."

Yes, exactly. I'm glad you understand. Though to be precise, it's West Virginians who **** their sisters. Texans **** their brothers*.

But no, it isn't. I wasn't stereotyping anyone when I got into this ****fest I'm referring to. I just said "you're British."

*Not actually a stereotype, unless you count "only steers and queers come from Texas."

EDIT:

I was scorned by someone of Native American descent when I started talking about the state of the country with a friend once. She wasn't even a part of the conversation. She just walked up and said, "You don't even belong here! This is OUR country!"

And, honestly, how do you respond to that?

We both just stared at her and then walked away from the crazy lady.

This is why I luuuuurve illegal immigration debates. Illegal immigration rocks!

Though I'm actually not sure how many of my ancestors immigrated that way. At least two of eight great-grandparents immigrated legally.

Also, that woman was kinda bitchy, too. Sure, European immigrants did ****ty things. But I think immigration is great, and while some of the land that became the US was conquered or taken by deception-- some was bought. And I mean... what's wrong with more people moving in? Sure, they were kinda ****ty neighbors sometimes, but... bleck. I hate this argument, I go round and round in circles.

 

[Tsuyu]

 

[Walker]

Could be worse. The British version is "steal continent(s), give continent(s) independence and/or lose to revolution, bitch when people from continent immigrate to Britain."

And then there's the Swedish version. "Try to steal continent, end up with one little colony, lose colony to the mighty Dutch military machine, watch Dutch lose colony to British, send immigrants to Minnesota (send all the lutfisk with them.)"

 

[queenofdisco]

Sometimes I wish the French beat us in the fight for America so we didn't have to admit that land is our self forgotten orphan.

 

[Walker]

Sometimes I wish the French beat us in the fight for America so we didn't have to admit that land is our self forgotten orphan.

Sometimes, I wish that, too. Dunno if 1776 would have happened, but it would have been really WEIRD. I mean, would it have happened similar? Would it have been parallel with the French Revolution? Would the French Revolution have happened at all? How would the revolution-- either of them-- have worked out if the British got involved? I mean, I can imagine some kinda weird-ass trans-Atlantic Franco-American Republic being torn apart in an epic civil war, too.

Plus, we'd get to make some really funny jokes about the cowardly Brits when the world wars rolled around.

 

[Tsuyu]

And then there's the Swedish version. "Try to steal continent, end up with one little colony, lose colony to the mighty Dutch military machine, watch Dutch lose colony to British, send immigrants to Minnesota (send all the lutfisk with them.)"

Lutfisk can suck a big one.

Eeeeew.

One of those foodstuffs we never eat ourselves, but like to keep up the charade that we do. Just to see people over there eat it when they're trying to celebrate their roots.

 

[Walker]

Lutfisk can suck a big one.

Eeeeew.

One of those foodstuffs we never eat ourselves, but like to keep up the charade that we do. Just to see people over there eat it when they're trying to celebrate their roots.

Exactly. Though I wouldn't be too proud. Pretty sure the Minnesotans know you guys don't eat it, but it's a family tradition for them. Because why? Because Americans make better hard-core badass Vikings than the people actually living in Viking-land. BOO-YAH.

 

[Tsuyu]

Silly boy. The measure of being a Viking has nothing to do with your ability to eat horrible crap; it is about preparing it.



And live to tell the tale!

 

[Hermit]

Texans f*** their brothers*.

HEY
I'M FROM TEXAS AND I DON'T APPRECIATE THOSE LIES

We f*** the cattle obviously