do YOU, Yes YOU lie about your nationality?

[Christobal]

I was born in England but perilously close to Wales. My mother obviously liked sex, but she disliked small children so she employed a Welsh speaking Nanny so that we could be ignored as much as possible. The result was that I couldn't speak a word of English until I went to school but was fluent in Kindergarten Welsh.

It's taken me almost 50 years to get over this Celtic atrocity, during which time I grew up and was educated in England - apart from 1 year in Germany, then lived 8 years in the USA with the remainder in Oz except for a 2 year sojourn back in London.

I'm essentially English - still check Bristol City's result every Sunday morning. But I support Australia in Rugby and Cricket. Got two Passports UK and Oz.

So much pain in one post. I hope you feel better.

 

[ishtat]

So much pain in one post. I hope you feel better.

Absolutely fine. Studied neglect is the traditional and proper English way of bringing up small children. Supposed to toughen you up in preparation to go out and rule the Empire!

The parents probably felt cheated that the Empire had ceased to be by the time we were ready - but we did our best.

 

[Lancecastor]

uk-er, english-born, of continental heritage, and coming to america
if it weren't for love, i'd choose to live in devon or cornwall in southern england

never felt any desire or need to lie about any of the above

Forgetting for the moment the depth of our mutual play-disdain, this is a fun post.

My roots on both sides of my family are devon cornwall.

This perhaps explains things in terms of our dynamic?



And never stop lying about how you never lie...it's a guaranteed laugh, every time!

 

[oggbashan]

Absolutely fine. Studied neglect is the traditional and proper English way of bringing up small children. Supposed to toughen you up in preparation to go out and rule the Empire!

The parents probably felt cheated that the Empire had ceased to be by the time we were ready - but we did our best.

The traditional method was a strict nanny followed by a boarding school from age 7 onwards, and lessons in Latin and Greek.

I managed to avoid the boarding school until I was 10, but didn't avoid the Latin.

 

[Lancecastor]

My Latin teacher was a racist.

"I Arum is as i is" was, for example, the saucy retort of a negro who didn't know his place.

The boys all had to sit up front.

She would always sit on the desk and would frequently spread her legs for upskirt viewing.

 

[toubab]

You can never have too many potatoes.

This kind of wisdom is why I come here.

 

[GimpyIntellect]

I've pretended to be black in a chatroom before.

It was rather exhausting.

Women, and men, were throwing themselves at my BBC.

 

[removed9556]

 

[butters]

HL Mencken obviously never read The Battle of Maldon.

he didn't like people much, and wasn't well liked. he was so full of his self-generated supercilious hot air i don't know how he didn't explode or float away.

 

[pensivepoet]

I've pretended to be black in a chatroom before.

It was rather exhausting.

Women, and men, were throwing themselves at my BBC.

I assume you used a different username.

 

[Darbhinder]

Do you have to make everything about sex?

It's what retarded creeps do best.

 

[thør]

Nationality is not a game, it is a birthright, we English are Gods master race of choice.

Thank your God for the Nordic pillagers who killed the men and inseminated the women of the land in order to make you what you are today.

 

[barefootgirl69]

I don't hesitate to say I'm American - and I'm proud that I am and hope that each of you are proud of your nationality - but, I don't hesitate to say I probably was born on the wrong continent.

 

[thør]

I don't hesitate to say I'm American - and I'm proud that I am and hope that each of you are proud of your nationality - but, I don't hesitate to say I probably was born on the wrong continent.

When asked where I am from, I always say, "Alaska". It's a great conversation starter, usually.

 

[renard_ruse]

One time coming across the border for Tijuana, many years ago, I said I was from Honduras. I was pretty drunk at the time. They just looked at me strange and I fessed up.

 

[barefootgirl69]

When asked where I am from, I always say, "Alaska". It's a great conversation starter, usually.

I can see why. I have to think about it, because my dad was military. I wonder, do they mean when I was little, or a teenager, or now? Then, I figure 'they don't really care'...so I'm from all over.

One time coming across the border for Tijuana, many years ago, I said I was from Honduras. I was pretty drunk at the time. They just looked at me strange and I fessed up.

That made me laugh!

 

[butters]

I don't hesitate to say I'm American - and I'm proud that I am and hope that each of you are proud of your nationality - but, I don't hesitate to say I probably was born on the wrong continent.

maybe i'm a bit odd, but i don't see how someone can be proud of their nationality - after all, it's not something you've achieved or worked towards. that's not to say you can't feel a deep and abiding love (or hatred) for your country, but if i am to feel pride in it then it has to be based on what i feel that country has contributed to the benefit of mankind. i DO feel proud of britain for birthing our national health service (despite how it's being shredded) and some of the things it has achieved in progressing the rights of individuals. that's not the same, though, as being proud i just happened to be born in england.

 

[Noor]

I was born in the USA. One side of family came in 1905, the side in the 1700's. I went to local schools through 8th grade sand then a private ( public for UK types) for high school.
I did not escape French in primary school or Latin in high school.
Depending on the situation, I will be whatever nationality I need to be.
My strangest one was successfully pulling off being a deaf mute German dock worker.

 

[trysail]

he didn't like people much, and wasn't well liked. he was so full of his self-generated supercilious hot air i don't know how he didn't explode or float away.

Mencken enjoyed a wide circle of lifelong, loyal friends. See "The Saturday Night Club."

Alistair Cooke compared Mencken to George Bernard Shaw.


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[Lancecastor]

maybe i'm a bit odd, but i don't see how someone can be proud of their nationality - after all, it's not something you've achieved or worked towards. that's not to say you can't feel a deep and abiding love (or hatred) for your country, but if i am to feel pride in it then it has to be based on what i feel that country has contributed to the benefit of mankind. i DO feel proud of britain for birthing our national health service (despite how it's being shredded) and some of the things it has achieved in progressing the rights of individuals. that's not the same, though, as being proud i just happened to be born in england.

So confirmed; you have no pride.

Quelle surprise.

 

[doowdniw]

I was born in the USA to British parents. Spent several years of my youth in England. Have a US passport and could have a British passport if so inclined. I'm not.

 

[thør]

I'm not ashamed of my Canadian ancestors, but I conveniently keep them out of the conversation.

 

[hobbit.]

Thank your God for the Nordic pillagers who killed the men and inseminated the women of the land in order to make you what you are today.

Saab driving half wits.

 

[thør]

Saab driving half wits.

That's what you've become?

 

[TwinkleStars]

No, why the hell would I??