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My dad bought Prince Charles a pint once... true story!
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My dad bought Prince Charles a pint once... true story!
Wow, I drank a pint in the Prince of Wales once. Is that the same  Also smoked a spliff in the Queens Head but we wont go into that 
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My dad bought Prince Charles a pint once... true story!
Wow, I drank a pint in the Prince of Wales once. Is that the same Also smoked a spliff in the Queens Head but we wont go into that
It was at a Wildfowlers Meeting back when the Prince was 18 or so... he doesn't carry money, so my dad bought him a pint. The wildfowlers used to shoot on his mums land, so I supposed he had to show some interest 
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I can see why you are hiding behind the sofa - look out here I come!
We 'Cousin Jacks', along with the Welsh, are the only true BRITONS left! Britons aren't English.  FFS 'Gul Sen Jory pur Lowen' - doesn't look or sound English to me!
And touchy too!  Just having a bit of fun. The point I was trying to make, very badly apparently, is that None of us really has the right to claim we were here first, appart from our welsh and Cornish friends. England has always been a land continually refreshed by migrations from around the world and cos of this, we are in my humble opinion, better off for it. Thats what makes us in Britain so diverse.
By the way, to all Non UK residents out there, it may seem that we are always taking the P*ss out of each other between our respective countries, mainly in good fun but we have always been united when it counts.
When did we stop being called Great Britain and officially become the UK. When filling in web orders for example, it seems over the last few years we have been standardised as UK resident. Seems a shame. 
Anyway, I'll just shut me trap before I offend anyone. I usually try to at least meet someone before I open my gob without engaging brain and insult them. At this rate, I'll be the one camping on my own in the corner by the Time Dent comes around. LOL one and all. 
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No you didn't offend me, Simon. I was trying to be a bit too clever and my attempt at tongue in cheek didn't work too well. If anything, I should be apologising to you!  Your posting raises some very interesting issues about the UK. As you can see, I identify myself as Cornish. That does not make me better than anybody else and I respect totally anyone's right to be what they are. However, in a UK context, there seems to be an official move by Gordon Brown to construct and introduce an artificial 'British' identity, together with a British ethnicity (as in 'White British', 'Black British' etc). Ethnicity has nothing whatsoever to do with skin colour and is more to do with language and culture. There is no singular 'white' language and there are no singular 'Black' , 'Indian', Chinese or 'Asian' languages. Yet the UK administration insists on using such terms in its ethnic classifications. It is quite bizarre, therefore, that Brown seems hellbent on creating this new identity for us all. It won't work for the simple reason that the British population consists of a number of indigenous ethnic groups (i.e. Eng, Scot, Welsh, Cornish, Manx and Irish) together with a complete multitude of new minorities which, as far as government is concerned, are classified in racial (not ethnic) terms. With such a mixed background, it is impossible for Brown to define what constitutes a 'British' identity. This you have touched on in your comments and you are quite right in saying that Britain, as a territory of the UK, is so much better off for having such a diversity of ethnic/cultural backgrounds. Who on earth would want to be part of Brown's homogenety in which there are no cultural differences anyway? What a boring place it would be. As to when it started being the UK, I don't really know. The UK has been in existence officially since 1707 with the Act of Union between England and Scotland when, interestingly, England and Scotland ceased to exist. That is never mentioned these days but it is still officially, anyway, the case. Wales was joined to England in 1536 (although the Welsh had little say in the matter) and was considered part of England for the purposes of the 1707 Act. However, these days, and the advent of devolution, the old treaties seem to have been dispensed with. How that has been allowed to happen, I am not at all sure. However, even though there has never been an act of union between Cornwall and England (the mere existence of a Duke of Cornwall with prerogative powers confirms this to be the case), Cornwall is always (and illegally) considered to be part of England. So, the advent of devolution for the peripheral regions of the UK has not brought the same for Cornwall, even though it has the best claim out for it, when compared to any of any of the others, including Scotland. Phew! That's got that off my chest! Sorry to have bored anyone. 
Yehes ha sowena whath dheugh why a'gas henath!
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A pub had a sign up yesterday that read "NO ENGLISH"... The cheek of it!!! Mind you I did read it in The Star 
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A pub had a sign up yesterday that read "NO ENGLISH"...
The cheek of it!!!
Mind you I did read it in The Star
If it was in the Star, it must be true!!! 
However, it wasn't all that long ago that three Irish Travellers walked into a bar and were refused a drink. Immediately the Commission for Racial Equality barged in and funded (and indemnified the plainants against losses) a Race Relations Act discrimination case. The judge perversely found in favour of the plainants and was so outraged that three men couldn't get ****** on account of their irish traveller heritage, even though this sector has no language of its own, it does not come from a defined area, it has no history (only be around for a few years) and no distinct cultural identity.
Now.....to my personal gripe......
Cornish schoolchildren, with their language, distinct geographical locality, their non-English culture, their seperate history and traditions etc. are deliberately refused an education by the state that reflects their cultural identity (to preserve the feudally derived income of Charles, Duke of Cornwall) - that's REAL discrimination because the Irish Travellers are now an officially recognised group and receive state funding and benefits whilst the Cornish, an indigenous minority with a vast cultural wealth, language and history, especially in regard to engineering prowess, get sod all, zilch, diddly squat! 
Yehes ha sowena whath dheugh why a'gas henath!
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