I feel hostile towards french looking people today

[Brendan]

You would be correct in your assumption Declan. As I?m sure everybody knows Brendan is indeed the Anglicised version of a Zulu name which means water carrier or more correctly translated, piss taker.

[Narnia]

Actually the French appreciate people trying to use their language even if they can speak English. Who said one story is a reflection of the English race? The more you write and the less you read seems to actually to reflect on you being arrogant.

Who said your thuggish football fans are a reflection of the race as a whole? The fact is that even if they are not, they are preceived as such.

You specialise is two expressions: 'can't accept' and lazy pop'. Perhaps you could try being witty or original. One will do.

[Michael Palaeologus]

"Perhaps you could try being witty or original. One will do."

No, no, please, you first, I insist ...

[????]

of course the other great stereotype is that only the english do irony......oh hang on a minute......

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Bajesus! Its kicked off on here today,to be sure!(?)

Perhaps tomorrow we will all adjourn to Sauchiehall Street and take up residence and have a pop at the natives...I have the distinct belief that they might be a little,er,restlessB)

Don't get me wrong there ARE some English folk(misguided arrogant fools say I) who might think it a little rich being castigated(poetic licenceB)) by a group of people who are guests in their house but not I.I think its all part of lifes rich tapestry myself:)-D

[Huguenot]

I love this kind of petty nonsense Declan, it's kind of housing estate yob isn't it?

'English race'? I wasn't aware that there was one.

*Makes note to self, must pursue racial purity as social strategy*

'Perception is reality'? Oooooh, goodie.

*Makes note to self, use stereotyping as a weapon*

'History as justification'? Plenty of giggles with this one.

*Makes note to self, visit sins of fathers upon the sons*

Mix those little jugs of glee together and waddaya get.... ooh, I don't know Declan, use your imagination ;-)

[Narnia]

My imagination has run out. Tell me!

[SeanMacGabhann]

I will say this however:

Irish television coverage of football is miles ahead of the sycophantic drivel on UK TV. That isn't anything to do with anything - it just is a current fact. It could all swap over in a few years. Except I've been waiting decades

Oh and it does bug me when successful athletes are British and unsuccesful ones are Welsh/Scottish etc..

[mockney piers]

You jest of course, haven't you seen John Barnes, a natural I tell you.....err...or not.

[SeanMacGabhann]

There are loads of these - one to be getting on with

[blinder999]

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:

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> Perhaps tomorrow we will all adjourn to

> Sauchiehall Street and take up residence and have

> a pop at the natives...

EDF is hardly Sauchiehall Street... though I was in Piccadilly Circus waiting for a friend a few years ago, minding my own business, when a young man swaggered up to me and started banging on about how he hated the English because he was Welsh blah blah.

Before I had a chance to respond, an enormous shaven-headed Ingerlaaand caricature of a bloke tapped him on the shoulder (obviously having overheard the Welsh nationalist ranting) and said to him, "Yeah, but you are BRITISH, aren't you?"

It was a joy to watch the piss and vinegar evaporate from my new Welsh friend. I left them to discuss the matter.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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Eamonn Dunphy on a rant

DO NOT EVER,EVER mention that No-Good,useless,pussyfaced,gutless Bustard...filthy,evil piece of human excrement...

He missed a Penalty for Millwall against Bury in 1968 and I still haven't forgiven the horrible...(6)(6)(6)

....Not that I'm one to bear a grudge...lifes far too short...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Actually, I think the tie alone deserves that rant.

[Azul]

I think this thread is just a big bunch of cheesy pork fat bollocks.

[Narnia]

Oh there you are you slimey greasy Portugese good for nothing pric*! That's what I would say if I was to belittle myself. Obviously I wouldn't want to do that. However it is about time you showed your face. You started the thread or don't you remember?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

What has happened to the Portugeezer and what is thread about...?

[Michael Palaeologus]

He does travel to foreign parts alot; and is probably somewhat bemused by some of the more hysterical posts.

[Brendan]

Just thinking about what you said earlier Declan. You said that the title of this thread is blatantly offensive (or some thing similar). I have to disagree with you there. If you look at the phraseology used it is quite blatantly tongue in cheek. Especially the use of the words hostile (over the top) and looking (a little silly in this context).

Now if the title was something like, I hate the French who?s with me or What?s the difference between a Frenchman and a Belgian I would agree with you. But I can?t see anything serious in, I feel hostile towards French looking people today, followed by And normally I only feel this way about pigeons.

[*Bob*]

What is the difference between a Frenchman and a Belgian?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

*Bob* Wrote:

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What is the difference between a Frenchman and a

Belgian?

I don't know Bob What IS the difference between a Frenchman and a

Belgian?

[*Bob*]

They went to Jamaica of their own accord.

[HonaloochieB]

Both have a chip on their shoulder but the Belgian has mayonaisse on his.

[mockney piers]

Oh and the whole the Irish have the right to hate the British thing, I've been saying in Ireland that this is just daft, British rulers were every bit as cruel to their own subjects (should we hate the French because those damn Plantaganets massacred Wat Tyler and his troop of good English men? - don't be silly).

Those with power just happen to be bastards to those without, not just to foreigners, and then I read this wonderful article in the Irish independent.

"more perverse was the general attitude that saw Ireland as being oppressed for centuries by the British, and especially by the English.

In this context we see how language is abused: for "Britain" you should read "Britain's power elite". Innocent people grew up with the concept of one nation persecuting the other. Of course this is absurd.

The seas between our two islands are not boundaries -- they are roads. For centuries there has been great coming and going between the two islands. The sweet music of the Gaelic language was heard in London in Shakespeare's time. Most of Wellington's army at the Battle of Waterloo were Southern Irish. It is said that after Gallipoli there was a crepe in every second house in the Coombe. I'm merely trying to say that these two islands have long been bound together. The British power elite abused their own common people just as much as they abused us. The eviction of the Highland Scots was an example of a people being cruel to their own.

We will come nearer home: even in the worst times of the bombing in England by our "Freedom Fighters", there was no significant backlash. This proved, if proof were needed, that George Orwell was right when he always claimed that the English were essentially a decent people."

[SeanMacGabhann]

Mostly good stuff Piers - but again, I don't think it was Britain's in-power elite who posted the

"No blacks No dogs No Irish" signs in B&B's across the land in teh 50's 60's and 70's

Not that the Irish are behaving any better now they have a few coppers mind you....

[*Bob*]

I hope you've got a receipt for that copper, Sean?