Controversial Thread

[-Talbot-]

A tweet I have just read prompted this thread.

''I'm not African because I was born in Africa, I'm African because Africa was born in me''


We often here cries of (I can only assume as some sort of misguided defence)

'He was born here in Britain'

But does being born here make you British?

[Bazile]

Phew - I thought Islay was going to say she was from some where like Uttar Pradesh

[Islay]

I know annea - ok it was 30 years ago but it still hurts!

[jno]

if British law says you're British, you're British.

[-Talbot-]

Talbot - it must be all the granite faces?!


You need a granite face if you're English in Aberdeen.
The lasses are ok but the p iss-poor Jim Watt wannbe's are a bloody nuisance.

[mikey4444]

Islay...what does this "Scottish" passport look like ?

I am looking at my British one, a fetching shade of maroon, and its says on the front ::

"European Union UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND"

What does yours say ( tic ! )

[Islay]

Mikey, it will be a lovely shade of thistle purple.
It will have the flag showing proudlyn each page.
It will have the words 'Independent' stamped on it too!

[-Talbot-]

I'm glad you have finally found a country you are happy with, Islay.

Although your dream of independence is just that ... a dream.

[mikey4444]

That sounds nice Islay !

With a picture of St Nicola, it would be complete

[Islay]

Talbot, i never said I was unhappy anywhere just that I don't consider myself British. Not a crime surely?

[mikey4444]

Islay....you should know by now, that its not acceptable to be anything other than one million percent British here on AB....

if there even a tiniest of doubts, you are immediately classed as
"anti-British"

[-Talbot-]

mikey, if Islay is British and doesn't want to be British then surely she is anti-British?

Although she hasn't explained why.

[Islay]

Because Talbot, my mother was Scots my father is English, I have always considered myself Scots and that is where I will go when I retire. Therefore I don't wish to be British - all my siblings were born in Scotland I was the unlucky one! - it has caused me nothing but trouble since I came to live in the UK!!

[Peter Pedant]

// No, not in my opinion. I know many many Irish people born in England who consider themselves to be Irish.//

Now if you wander around Merrion Square near de Tea-shack's house - you will see a green plaque on a nice three storey tenement saying de Duke of Wellington had been born there ( ter daah)

I mentioned that to an oirish prof of something and he commented
"If you are born in a stable - that doesnt make you a horse"

and then he said - apparently said ABOUT the Duke of W but so much better ( being oirish ) if you put it in his own mouth .....

and anyway isnt there a white girl in Amerikee who goes around sayin dat de blark ting n street talk in de 'hood is a cultural norm and not anything to do with her skin ( which is kinda aryan) ?

[-Talbot-]

?
No sure what I am supposed to take from that, it doesn't really say anything.

[Peter Pedant]

and no before anyone asks

I do NOT feel like a Dutch republican from Sarth Efrica......
and neither did my father ( but my gt uncles Joe and Jack did - and fought for the Boere )

[Peter Pedant]

// No sure what I am supposed to take from that, it doesn't really say anything.//

oh dear - um there was this famous fella called the Duke of Wellington ( no not Duke Ellington he was someone else but you might have been a teentsy bit confused by that)
and HE ( the dook) was english and won a big battle sometime - er somewhere
and when someone pointed out his Irish heritage - so he (Dook) would say yes he was irish - he said no he was not Irish even tho he was born there but instead he was English.

and Oh look ! "He was born here in Britain' But does being born here make you British?" someone has posted that at the top. I wonder who that was

oh look again - Talbot - it was you

(ok it is confusing - the Duke of wellington famously born in Ireland but saying that didnt make him irish - has nothing to do with a question - "does being born in Britain make you British."
off piste and disconnected.
Apolz and sozza. I will try to stick to the subject of the post.
I didnt realise this was a normal crazy day on AB)


altho as a crazy post on a crazy thread I dont think it does too badly