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Are British people foreigners?

  • 26-12-2009 10:10pm
    #1
    Adam Selene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭


    Would you consider people from the UK to be foreigners?

    So, are they? 922 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    71% 657 votes
    Dont care
    17% 164 votes
    Atari Jaguar
    10% 101 votes


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  • #2
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,071 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Yes


  • #3
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    They are from a foreign country, so yes.


  • #4
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    ah, the crap thread for AH tonight has arrived.


  • #5
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Duh


  • #6
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    nuxxx wrote: »
    ah, the crap thread for AH tonight has arrived.

    I beg your pudding, this thread is far worse:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63660236


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  • #7
    Adam Selene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Adam Selene


    But we are so similar. Foreign implies there is a huge difference.

    I mean, we speak the same language, follow the same sports etc.

    Its a philosophical question, not a literal one


  • #8
    abelard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭abelard


    Everyone is a foreigner to most of the rest of the world


  • #9
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Foreign in the sense that they are from another country? Yes.

    But in terms of similarities - we've alot in common. I wouldn't consider someone from England a foreigner in the same sense as let's say, an American tourist. Some of us live there, some of them live here. We get on and tend to blend into each other. In social circumstances - they aren't that foreign.


  • #10
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Is this what AH is being reduced to?

    It seems to be getting dumber by the day. The are from a different country, so yes, they are "foreigners."

    I worry about AH, there used to be genuinely entertaining things here, now...


  • #11
    wtgorilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭wtgorilla


    Adam Selene wrote: »
    Would you consider people from the UK to be foreigners?

    What a brilliant question. Well thought through etc. Ashamed you won't get brilliant replies.


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  • #12
    thee glitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    Only when they're not in Britain.

    They're foreign but not particularly alien.


  • #13
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Too many people place negative connotation on the word "foreigner". Its not a dirty word, its a geographical fact.


  • #14
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    I always found it ironic that many British people living in Ireland feel secure referring to Poles as foreigners.


  • #15
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    I worry about AH, there used to be genuinely entertaining things here, now...

    Start a more 'entertaining' thread yourself then.


  • #16
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    In a way yes but they blend in pretty well. They're only foreign in a geographical sense.


  • #17
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Pushtrak wrote: »
    Too many people place negative connotation on the word "foreigner".
    You can blame this lot for that:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2cUX0CNA8


  • #18
    Joycey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭Joycey


    Well we live in different countries, so if you take that to be your definition of a foreigner then yes they are obviously foreigners.

    On the other hand ive been living there for the last 3 months and id have to say that the two countries are basically identical, cant see any difference really between the two cultures bar the accent


  • #19
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Having both an "I don't care" and an "Atari Jaguar" option is redundant


  • #20
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Well Ireland is part of the British Isles

    So I don't tend to use the word British as it just gets confusing


  • #21
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    wtgorilla wrote: »
    What a brilliant question. Well thought through etc. Ashamed you won't get brilliant replies.
    *Cough.


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  • #22
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    phasers wrote: »
    Having both an "I don't care" and an "Atari Jaguar" option is redundant

    After 5 years on boards I still don't know the point of Atari Jaguar :o

    And I don't particularly want to know!


  • #23
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Yes, they are foreign and different to us. I know several British people, mostly English and the differences are mainly subtle but they are there.


  • #24
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    mikemac wrote: »
    Well Ireland is part of the British Isles

    So I don't tend to use the word British as it just gets confusing

    Someone said a bad word :D


  • #25
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Bad word? It's true!

    There was Great Britain which we all know and they was Minor Britain which was Normandy, possibly Brittany too. Goes back to the days of William the Conqueror.

    Great Britain is a geographical term, great doesn't mean brilliant or fantastic or anything like that.
    And Ireland is part of the British Isles


  • #26
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    Yes, they are foreign and different to us. I know several British people, mostly English and the differences are mainly subtle but they are there.

    More or less subtle than someone from Donegal and someone from Cork, for example?


  • #27
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    mikemac wrote: »
    Bad word? It's true!

    There was Great Britain which we all know and they was Minor Britain which was Normandy. Goes back to the days of William the Conqueror.

    Great Britain is a geographical term, great doesn't mean brilliant or fantastic or anything like that.
    And Ireland is part of the British Isles
    I know that, some people however... :pac:


  • #28
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    If you answered yes do you consider the Northern Irish to be foreign ?


  • #29
    Adam Selene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Adam Selene


    greendom wrote: »
    If you answered yes do you consider the Northern Irish to be foreign ?

    Wish id added an option for that


  • #30
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    mikemac wrote: »
    And Ireland is part of the British Isles


    Ahhh... I knew it had been at least 3 weeks since this chestnut came up again and was wondering when it would appear !


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  • #31
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Ponster wrote: »
    Ahhh... I knew it had been at least 3 weeks since this chestnut came up again and was wondering when it would appear !

    I don't frequent AH that often.
    If this "chesnut" is incorrect can you please correct me?


  • #32
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    mikemac wrote: »
    I don't frequent AH that often.
    If this "chesnut" is incorrect can you please correct me?

    Try a search.


  • #33
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I saw a thread and contributed to it

    If this thread was a duplicate then that's on the OP, not me


  • #34
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    It's kinda about language isn't it? Foreigners are folk who don't speak English as a first language.


  • #35
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    lugha wrote: »
    It's kinda about language isn't it? Foreigners are folk who don't speak English as a first language.
    Not according to any definition I have ever come across.


  • #36
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    lugha wrote: »
    It's kinda about language isn't it? Foreigners are folk who don't speak English as a first language.

    Well that's not right I can think of many countries where they speak more than one language and even in Ireland you will find people who consider gaeilge is their first language


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  • #37
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Adam Selene wrote: »
    Would you consider people from the UK to be foreigners?

    They are foreign to me till they cross our borders.
    Then they are only strangers till I get to know them.


  • #38
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Adam Selene wrote: »
    But we are so similar. Foreign implies there is a huge difference.

    I mean, we speak the same language, follow the same sports etc.

    Its a philosophical question, not a literal one

    We're not that similar.

    If you remove the shared language and the few sports we both like, we're quite different.

    If you don't believe me go spend a night in an English pub.

    We have more in common with the Spaniards than the Brits.


  • #39
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Biggins wrote: »
    They are foreign to me till they cross our borders.
    Then they are only strangers till I get to know them.

    *Pukes*


  • #40
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    Pushtrak wrote: »
    Not according to any definition I have ever come across.
    No, not by definition but by popular usage. If you hear folk praising the cultural diversity brought about by our foreign guests, or something, the typically will never be talking about visitors from the US, UK or even Aus land.


  • #41
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    *Pukes*
    ....and my job is done. :D


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  • #42
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    If you don't believe me go spend a night in an English pub.

    What is the difference?


  • #43
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    We have more in common with the Spaniards than the Brits.

    Loud and excitable?
    Can you expand on this? I'm interested to learn more


  • #44
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    greendom wrote: »
    Well that's not right I can think of many countries where they speak more than one language ....
    but not many where English is the first.
    greendom wrote: »
    ... and even in Ireland you will find people who consider gaeilge is their first language
    Yeah, well that lot are always causing bother.


  • #45
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Well every lawyer or anyone had to sit an exam on the Constitution will be part of "that lot"
    And up to recently, every garda too


  • #46
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    lugha wrote: »
    but not many where English is the first.


    .

    Canada, South Africa and Australia are 3 pretty big ones I can think of


  • #47
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    We're not that similar.
    If you remove the shared language and the few sports we both like, we're quite different.
    You're kidding! :eek: Language and sport only? How about music, food, celebrities, TV programs, pretty much any aspect of popular culture you can think of. We're like chalk and more chalk.


  • #48
    c4cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭c4cat


    Adam Selene wrote: »
    Would you consider people from the UK to be foreigners?

    Yep, they don't know what a hot press is and if you ask them what yoke do they drive they have'nt a clue


  • #49
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    greendom wrote: »
    Canada, South Africa and Australia are 3 pretty big ones I can think of
    Yeah but you wouldn't tend to refer to them as foreigners. You would say stuff like "bloody Canadians coming over here taking our women" and so on. If I hear someone talking/ranting about foreigners, I immediately think mainland Europe, Africa or Asia, and I usually think right.


  • #50
    Shacklebolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Shacklebolt


    greendom wrote: »
    Canada, South Africa and Australia are 3 pretty big ones I can think of

    No to mention large numbers of people in Hong Kong, Singapore, India, and several areas of East Africa.


  • #51
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    lugha wrote: »
    Yeah but you wouldn't tend to refer to them as foreigners. You would say stuff like "bloody Canadians coming over here taking our women" and so on. If I hear someone talking/ranting about foreigners, I immediately think mainland Europe, Africa or Asia, and I usually think right.

    Well you're partially right


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