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In reply to the discussion: Do the English think of themselves as God's blessing to mankind? I ask this question because [View all]Cal33
(7,018 posts)48. I just love comedy. Don't we all?
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Cal33
Aug 2013
OP
That's quite a lot you've tried to infer from one sentence, with little context
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#2
From what I've read, the American congratulated "You Brits finally ... " It's in the first line of
Cal33
Aug 2013
#10
If you read this somewhere, it would have been better to give us a link
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#11
I read this a month and a half ago. Can't remember the link. Sorry. But the implication of the
Cal33
Aug 2013
#15
I think they are talking about the "British Isles." I, too, am a product of those British Isles,
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#17
well, OK, whatever...my entire family line comes from the general area of the British Isles.
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#20
I'm sorry if you thought I was saying people ought not to use 'British'
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#22
I don't really want to be argumentative here...I just consider myself an American with
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#23
Naw, I wasn't really being sarcastic with you...I think I'm just a little bored with this
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#36
Of course, it's my nationality! I meant to say my forebears are all from the British Isles...
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#39
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (Mine is from the 1976 Edit.): Scotch adj. (contr. of
Cal33
Aug 2013
#41
Webster's is an American Dictionary. How about looking up your Oxford English Dictionary?
Cal33
Aug 2013
#44
When one of my friends has a few drinks, he becomes an insufferable WASP chauvanist ass
Populist_Prole
Aug 2013
#14
Yes, a separate entity, and that in spite of the fact that the English have been trying
Cal33
Aug 2013
#21
I really don't think you know enough about this to throw generalisations around like that
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#24
Even by the standards of blinkered exceptionalists this thread is comedy gold.
Posteritatis
Aug 2013
#47