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Define an English person

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  • #32
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Gnobe wrote: »
    I was born in England to Irish parents. Lived there till I was 14.

    I've been living here now for nearly 12 years and I still speak with an English accent.

    I don't consider myself English in the slightest, never have done. I grew up being a plastic paddy and supporting Ireland. I don't so much now because I recognise I can't be Irish (at least properly) with an English accent, but I was never English in England and often called an "Irish c*nt" and all the rest of it with all the Ireland tops at school etc.

    I sort of cheered on Sweden yesturday if I'm being honest, knewing they were going to lose.

    I dont really consider myself anything in all honesty I'm a bit messed up.

    Marwood: [voiceover] If The Crow and Crown had ever had life it was dead now. It was like walking into a lung. A self-sustained nicotine-yellow and fly-blown lung. Its landlord was a retired alcoholic with military pretensions and a complexion like the inside of a teapot. By the time the doors opened he was arseholed on rum and got progressively more arseholed until he could take no more and fell over at about 12 o'clock.
    [the drunken pub landlord opens the till and it hits it him the chest and he almost falls down]
    General: Thought I was going for a minute. But no man's put me down yet. Have you had any training in the martial arts?
    Withnail: Yes, as a matter of fact I have. Before I became a journalist I was in the Territorials.
    General: Do you know, when you first came in here I knew you were a services man. You can never, never disguise it.
    Withnail: What were you in?
    General: Tanks. Afrika Korps. A little before your time. Don't suppose you've engaged, have you?
    Withnail: Ireland.
    General: Oooh, a crack at the Mick?
    Withnail: We'll have another pair of large scotches.
    General: These shall be my pleasure.
    [he pours their drinks]
    General: What are you doing up here, then?
    Withnail: We're doing a feature for Country Life. Survey of rural types, you know, farmers, travelling tinkers, milkmen, that sort of thing.
    General: Have you met Jake? Poacher. Works the lake, but keep it under your hat, hmm?
    [they go and sit down with their drinks]
    Marwood: What's all this Army bollocks?
    Withnail: We got a drink, didn't we?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #33
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    It still works, people are doing it wrong.
    It's not "define an english person", it's "what defines an English person" (without quotes)


  • #34
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    I used to know an English person once. He was very pompous. We used to call him Mr. Pompous. Needless to say, we didn't like him. All English people seem to be like that; pompous, full of themselves, etc...


  • #35
    MeteoritesEire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    It still works, people are doing it wrong.
    It's not "define an english person", it's "what defines an English person" (without quotes)

    ahh now that starts to make sense of this whole debacle
    third result is this imgur image http://imgur.com/gxVtx with 120,000 views
    from Reddit no doubt so this C.U.N.T. thing has been reddit bombed I'd wager


  • #36
    BIG BAD JOHN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭BIG BAD JOHN


    Pedant wrote: »
    I used to know an English person once. He was very pompous. We used to call him Mr. Pompous. Needless to say, we didn't like him. All English people seem to be like that; pompous, full of themselves, etc...

    You don't seem to have met all that many English people.


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  • #37
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    BIG BAD JOHN wrote: »
    You don't seem to have met all that many English people.

    If you've met one, you've met them all.


  • #38
    diabloro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭diabloro


    Someone who was born in England I suppose.


  • #39
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    coronation street,eastenders,emmerdale,umm high tea and scones,biscuits and or crumpet,ginger ale,and the union jack..dry wit and dry smiles thats all that comes to mind for now..


  • #40
    NinjaK
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    Bloodthirsty invaders


  • #41
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,963 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    The English have a huge amount in common with the Irish - much more than we would care to admit.

    The anti-Irish thing is largely gone now. Look at the amount of English when you get talking to them who bring up their Irish relatives/ancestors.

    The "stiff upper lip" thing is also largely gone - I think people outside of England have an image of the English circa 1931 or thereabouts. They are a much more open, tolerant, relaxed and chilled out people now.

    One of the most chilled, easygoing and least pretentious person among my friends is English (mind you she does live in Cork).:pac:

    Also English humour is probably the finest in the world and they gave us the wonderful snack that are Twiglets so I say yay to our brethren across the sea.:D


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  • #42
    Glassheart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭Glassheart


    Gnobe wrote: »
    I say this because I grew up in England as a plastic paddy/Ireland supporter and I remember a lot of bad stuff being said about them at the time of the riots at Lansdowne in 95' at school etc.

    Hold on a second,the Engerlish were bad mouthing us after they came here,trashed our stadium and started giving nazi salutes?
    They've got no shame,everything is somebody else's fault.


  • #43
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    there is a hooliganism element in england,but obviously not every english person is like that,some people over there dont care about football or anything or any behaviour affiliated with it..


  • #44
    Prometheus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭Prometheus


    Definition of an English person is, someone who, when left alone in a room, cannot resist the temptation to put a tea cosy on their head.


  • #45
    validusername1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭validusername1


    Someone born/raised in England.


  • #46
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    The sign of a true Englishman, is one who can't walk past a game of cricket without pausing for a few minutes to watch.


  • #47
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    And stealing players like Ed Joyce from the fine English county of Wicklow


  • #48
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    later12 wrote: »
    OMG I'm having deja vu


    lol

    Again? :confused:


  • #49
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Pedant wrote: »
    If you've met one, you've met them all.
    Says more about you tbh.


  • #50
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Says more about you tbh.

    Loike, OMG, how dare you!! :mad: Didn't you the memo?! Everybody loves me!! :D


  • #51
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Pedant wrote: »
    Loike, OMG, how dare you!! :mad: Didn't you the memo?! Everybody loves me!! :D

    Uh...ok.


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  • #52
    BIG BAD JOHN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭BIG BAD JOHN


    Pedant wrote: »
    If you've met one, you've met them all.


    lol
    Plainly untrue and just a bit absurd.


  • #53
    RichT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭RichT


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    And stealing players like Ed Joyce from the fine English county of Wicklow

    .......and then giving him back to Ireland when they realized he was ****e.


  • #54
    BQQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭BQQ


    This sums it up fairly well :p

    598624_424816204207690_1364093632_n.jpg


  • #55
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    BIG BAD JOHN wrote: »
    lol
    Plainly untrue and just a bit absurd.

    Not really, it's a cultural thing. Like the way all Chinese people look the same, except it's cultural.


  • #56
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I like English people, actually I cant think of a people I dont like.


  • #57
    BIG BAD JOHN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭BIG BAD JOHN


    Pedant wrote: »
    Not really, it's a cultural thing. Like the way all Chinese people look the same, except it's cultural.

    All Chinese people don't look the same!
    Anyway, I'm not sure there is a blanket "English culture". There are an awful lot of them. (Not as many as the Chinese, obviously....)


  • #58
    H2UMrsRobinson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭H2UMrsRobinson


    Pedant wrote: »
    Not really, it's a cultural thing. Like the way all Chinese people look the same, except it's cultural.

    A bit like the way all Irish people are superstitious begrudging whingebags with a fondness for drink...to coin a phrase - cop the f**k on !


  • #59
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    BQQ wrote: »
    This sums it up fairly well :p

    598624_424816204207690_1364093632_n.jpg

    You'd think that whoever transferred the fictional story of a US aircraft carrier and a Canadian lighthouse, to the Royal Navy and an Irish lighthouse, they would at least come up with the name of an aircraft carrier that actually exists.


  • #60
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    Oh Goggle you so crazy


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  • #61
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Pedant wrote: »
    Not really, it's a cultural thing. Like the way all Chinese people look the same, except it's cultural.
    You know that irony with no satire or context just doesn't work on a forum composed of random people?


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