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@wordsworth60 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
When said sandals and socks are accompanied by the knotted handkerchief sunhat. string vest and union jack shorts….. now thats a look worth perfecting :shock: :D :shock:
British to the core, me!
As it says in verse 4:
Thee haughty Tyyyyyrants ne’er shall tame:
All theeeeeeeeir attempts to beeeend thee down,
All theeir atteeeempts to bend thee down,
Will but aroouse thy geenerous flame;
But work their woooooe, and thy renown.Everybody sing!!!
Rooool Britannyer . . . . . . . !
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Did I miss something here?…..How come my post from socks and sandals ended up as a post on this thread?… it was meant as a joke….confused?
Yup! But I still comment! :lol:
@terry wrote:
I had an interesting debate the other day about being “British”. I’m not British – I’m English – and wouldn’t represent Great Britain at anything. That sort of rules me out of the Olympics then. :roll:
I’m afraid my bloodlines pre-date the English, my ancestors were the Brigantes, so I’m literally a Briton.
Whether British is the same as Briton or not is semantics, Briton pre-dates the word British and English.
@tom wrote:
@terry wrote:
I had an interesting debate the other day about being “British”. I’m not British – I’m English – and wouldn’t represent Great Britain at anything. That sort of rules me out of the Olympics then. :roll:
I’m afraid my bloodlines pre-date the English, my ancestors were the Brigantes, so I’m literally a Briton.
Whether British is the same as Briton or not is semantics, Briton pre-dates the word British and English.
hmm but if were going by blood lines they wouldnt most of us be Normans??
No, I just said, my ancestors were Brigantes, that’s about a thousand years before the Normans.
just googled and got this
Early inhabitants of Yorkshire were Celts, who formed two separate tribes, the Brigantes and the Parisii.
therefore the brigantes were a celtic tribe – you now saying your celtic?
The Brigantes were a Celtic tribe who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England, and a significant part of the Midlands. Their kingdom is sometimes called Brigantia, and it was centred in what was later known as Yorkshire. Ptolemy lists the Brigantes also as a tribe in Ireland, where they could be found around Wexford, Kilkenny and Waterford[1] while another probably Celtic tribe named Brigantii is mentioned by Strabo as a sub-tribe of the Vindelici in the region of the Alps.
Within Great Britain, the territory which the Brigantes inhabited was bordered by that of four other Celtic tribes: the Carvetii (to whom they may have been related) in the North-West, the Parisii to the East and, to the South, the Corieltauvi and the Cornovii. To the North was the territory of the Votadini, which straddled the present day border between England and Scotland.
@tom wrote:
No, I just said, my ancestors were Brigantes, that’s about a thousand years before the Normans.
It’s the devil’s own job keeping a bloodline pure when you belong to a trading nation – bloody sailors!!!
Never mind being a warring nation – bloody soldiers!!!
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(edit) Oh yeah! and the Romans! 400 bloomin years of them filling the country with odds and sods from as far away as Africa and India – Bloody Romans!
And they did get around didn’t they? – bloody roads!
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
When said sandals and socks are accompanied by the knotted handkerchief sunhat. string vest and union jack shorts….. now thats a look worth perfecting :shock: :D :shock:
British to the core, me!
As it says in verse 4:
Thee haughty Tyyyyyrants ne’er shall tame:
All theeeeeeeeir attempts to beeeend thee down,
All theeir atteeeempts to bend thee down,
Will but aroouse thy geenerous flame;
But work their woooooe, and thy renown.Everybody sing!!!
Rooool Britannyer . . . . . . . !
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Did I miss something here?…..How come my post from socks and sandals ended up as a post on this thread?… it was meant as a joke….confused?
There is something quintessentially British about the knotted handkerchief/rolled up trousers/socks and sandals look Mrs T. Sorry if I was out of turn in reproducing your post.
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
When said sandals and socks are accompanied by the knotted handkerchief sunhat. string vest and union jack shorts….. now thats a look worth perfecting :shock: :D :shock:
British to the core, me!
As it says in verse 4:
Thee haughty Tyyyyyrants ne’er shall tame:
All theeeeeeeeir attempts to beeeend thee down,
All theeir atteeeempts to bend thee down,
Will but aroouse thy geenerous flame;
But work their woooooe, and thy renown.Everybody sing!!!
Rooool Britannyer . . . . . . . !
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Did I miss something here?…..How come my post from socks and sandals ended up as a post on this thread?… it was meant as a joke….confused?
There is something quintessentially British about the knotted handkerchief/rolled up trousers/socks and sandals look Mrs T. Sorry if I was out of turn in reproducing your post.
That’s OK Words…. Im flattered you thought it was worthy of reproducing :D
I’m not British, nor am I anti-British either.
It’s a strange world when there seems to be no pride or faith in the British from the British people themselves.
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