Further to being British.

[lindylou16]

Being British is about

Driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home,
grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way,
to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

[jake-the-peg]

We're all European now Lindy!

American shows? really!

[chakka35]

Brilliant, lindylou!

jake-t-p, speak for yourself. I am a Scouser first, English second, British third and a UK member fourth. I am also a democrat and have never been asked whether I want to be 'European' in the undemocratic political sense. Therefore I am not. You, of course, are fully entitled to choose your allegiance as you wish. Cheers, old chap.

[jake-the-peg]

Anybody ask you if you wanted to be British?
right or left handed?
ask you what colour eyes you wanted?

Come on chakka - embrace your inner European - whistle "ode to joy"

You know you want to

[lindylou16]

When ever asked i am BRITISH and proud to be, Whatever happened to the Euro
replacing the Pound and more so i sometimes miss feet and inches and l.s.d.

[boxtops]

Lindylou, it was good but did you get this off a t-shirt on an email? I had one similar the other day about the French.

[lindylou16]

ellieee Not even Richard 111 ?

[jake-the-peg]

There's a proper system!

16 oz in a pound (unless it's Gold) 28 pounds to a tod, 112 lbs to a hundred weight, 20 hundredweight to a ton (long)

and 15 Ton to a shilling

Yep I know where the LSD comes into the equation all right!

[Bbbananas]

I still think in feet & inches, pounds & ounzes, miles rather than kilometres.

Errr... forgot now why I said that.

[jake-the-peg]

I tend to find that those who still profess to be comfortable with pounds shillings and pence stumble when you ask them things like

What's 2 pounds one and threepence less half a crown ?

I guess you lose it when you get out of practice - which kind of shows why it was such a mad system if you have stay in practice just to work out simple change

[lindylou16]

My local builders merchants still sell timber 150 wide by 20mm thick at 23pence per foot.

[MrJabezClegg]

Is the answer £1 18s 9d

[lindylou16]

And good old British Summer Time

Yesss, now begins the 6months of the year that my car clock reads the right time!

[chakka35]

jake-t-p, gosh I never realised what inner yearnings I had to be governed by an EU Parliament of which we have voted for only about a tenth, for a EU Commission which was not elected by anybody and now an unelected President and Foreign Minister. And there was my outer self tryingto tell me I was a democrat! Ho I've been fooled.

I was born British, right-handed and with grey eyes; they were not imposed on me by politicians.

Anyway, don't forget my predictions about the EU, the first of which came true eight months early. A reminder: the first nation(s) will leave the euro by 2015, the euro will collapse by 2020 and the EU by 2025. Watch this space.

[chakka35]

For 'Ho' read 'How'. I don''t know though...

[jake-the-peg]

Greenland left the EU 25 years ago

They're still begging money from us now!
http://www.icenews.is...-greenland-education/

[lindylou16]

We got the makings of a protest march here. Not too far tho my feet are killing me.

[chakka35]

That last one irrelevant, jake. We won't need to leave the EU.