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From: Adrian on 20 Aug 2006 16:16 Ivor Jones (ivor(a)despammed.invalid) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying : > The last point is where you are wrong. It is perfectly possible to > live in Europe without being a European. Indeed it is. Many Asians, Africans, Americans (north and south) and Australasians do it all the time.
From: Adrian on 20 Aug 2006 16:17 Ivor Jones (ivor(a)despammed.invalid) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying : > I'm insulted by your gratuitous use of foul language. You're insulted by quite a lot of things, Ivor.
From: Brimstone on 20 Aug 2006 16:17 Ivor Jones wrote: > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:mq6dnQFcQcnfInXZnZ2dnUVZ8tSdnZ2d(a)bt.com >> Ivor Jones wrote: >>> "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:z76dnc5GefPmKXXZRVnyjA(a)bt.com >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>>> Why do you not want to be called something that you >>>> are? >>> >>> Because I am not what you believe me to be. >> >> What do you believe I believe you to be? > > A European, of course. But then you knew that. So if you're not European, from which continent or other geographic region of the world do your forebears originate?
From: Alan Walker on 20 Aug 2006 17:23 hairydog(a)despammed.com wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:30:59 +0100, "DieSea" > <DieSea.NoSpamPlease(a)ntlworldd.ccom> wrote: > >> The situation was that a car towing a tatty old camping trailer was >> tailgating me in the middle lane of a motorway , flashing his >> lights for me to get out of the way >> >> I was solo and doing a BIT more than 70 > > Perhaps he wanted you to move over because trailers aren't allowed in > the third lane. > > If he was able to drive up on your nearside, you can't have been > overtaking, so you were breaking the law. Drive an old Land Rover. It might not get up to 70mph but people don't try to bully you on the road.
From: Anonyma on 20 Aug 2006 17:33
"Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:tNadnRQpTshcI3XZRVnyjw(a)bt.com > Mark Foster wrote: > > In article <fNydnVKWru_wMnXZnZ2dnUVZ8qqdnZ2d(a)bt.com>, > > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Ivor Jones wrote: > > > > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > > news:14mdnavQzPrDNXXZnZ2dnUVZ8tednZ2d(a)bt.com > > > > > Ivor Jones wrote: > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > > How..? Let's say that two white males are > > > > > > walking along the street in front of you. Brown > > > > > > hair, blue or brown eyes, say 6ft tall. Both > > > > > > dressed in the usual jeans/t-shirt or whatever. > > > > > > Neither speak or do anything at all. How can > > > > > > you tell their origin..? > > > > > > > > > > They're both European. > > > > > > > > Why might they not be American or Australian..? I > > > > personally know two Americans that fit that > > > > description. > > > > > > However, their lineage is European, the same as yours. > > > > Wrong! If you're going to start down that road then > > their lineage is ultimately African, the same as all of > > us. > > > > Just for the record, like Ivor, I am not European > > either. Personally, I consider myself to be English. > > I also also consider myself English, but I'm still > British and European. So you're three things at once? How clever of you. Personally I have no axe to grind either way, but as a gentleman I would do as Ivor asks. KF |