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is English national pride being beaten out of us ?
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,925
    The welsh showed great passion and pride yesterday in their victory and it got me thinking why arent we anymore.
    It seems its ok to be proud to be welsh
    its ok to be proud to be scottish
    and as today proves with sainsburys selling irish bunting and flags its ok to be proud to be welsh

    but show any pride in being english and suddenly theres a sour undertone.

    You're deemed bnp if you have st george flags on st georges day or during the world cup.

    Why ?
  • tonyd
    Posts: 3,148
    because thou country is ruined by politically correct anti patriotic_wankers
  • tonyd
    Posts: 3,148
    and I have no idea why I typed thou there but it stays it looks decent
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,925
    You went back to a time when we had pride with thou.






    When we raped and pillaged everyone
  • Snowcone
    Posts: 7,542
    There is an explanation for this with its roots deep in Englands history. Fact is I really can't be arsed writing it all on here.
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,925
    Do it like cbeebies would tell it
  • tonyd
    Posts: 3,148

    Do it like cbeebies would tell it


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    Yes get the deformed cbbc presenter to sing it for us
  • Winston Wolfe
    Posts: 4,925
    tonyd said:

    Yes get the deformed cbbc presenter to sing it for us


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    Hahaha, that's hectic.
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,925
    tonyd said:

    Yes get the deformed cbbc presenter to sing it for us


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    Not sure about her
    on one hand shes a good presenter. On the other....

  • spengler
    Posts: 2,054
    dont know why, but its almost become acceptable to not want to be english..take the england football team for example, there will be english people on this forum during the qualifiers wanting england to lose because most of the england teams english players happen to play for other clubs..what on earth is that all about???? :-?
  • MuffMantoff
    Posts: 284
    Come on eire.
  • sambo applecart
    Posts: 24,753
    i'm proud to be English, but like you say Damo, its seems to be a taboo subject, if you say you are, people look at you as if you have 4 heads or something, oooh, your not allowed to be proud of that.....its a strange one mate.......almost like, cos of our history of times gone by, that we are suppose to be embarrassed of our heritage rather that proud of who we are. 


    Whichever way you look at it we are a world super power. those around us probably dont like that so much. 
  • OldGoldenVision
    Posts: 20,149
    tonyd said:

    Yes get the deformed cbbc presenter to sing it for us


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    Googled "deformed cbbc presenter"... got this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1152466/One-armed-presenter-scaring-children-parents-tell-BBC.html
  • OldGoldenVision
    Posts: 20,149
    On the English pride thing... yer wanna come round my way... every other house has a george flag displayed all year round!
  • blue
    Posts: 40
    That CBBC bird looks like the old sailor fella of family guy
  • EvertonfcNSNO
    Posts: 1,341
    i think people should take a cue from a comedian named george carlin and have no national pride whatsoever wherever you live. as he said the reason he didn't have any pride in being american is because pride is something reserved for an accomplishment not an accident of birth. no harm in appreciating that you could have been born elsewhere but were born into a first world country but i just can't get behind pride for something you didn't earn.
  • feelingblue
    Posts: 650
    Well I'm very proud to be English and I don't give a f.uck what anybody thinks. The Aussies tear strips off us, but that just cements my passion. Pommie till I die. ;-)
  • MuffMantoff
    Posts: 284
    What sambo said....its your history of violence and atrocities against others and takin what isnt yours...i would not be proud to say my ancestors did that....i am however proud to say my ancestors faught against that type of tyranny and faught for what was theres and what they believed in...and so the same for the scots and welsh and anyone who faught against powers tryin to rule the world through violence....kinda like you did with the germans....unfortunetly yous did what the germans did long before they did.....and that will never be forgotton nor overturned
  • bluetouch
    Posts: 1,269

    The welsh showed great passion and pride yesterday in their victory and it got me thinking why arent we anymore.
    It seems its ok to be proud to be welsh
    its ok to be proud to be scottish
    and as today proves with sainsburys selling irish bunting and flags its ok to be proud to be welsh

    but show any pride in being english and suddenly theres a sour undertone.

    You're deemed bnp if you have st george flags on st georges day or during the world cup.

    Why ?


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    Nothing wrong with the English pride it's just the welsh are better that's all in rugby anyway.
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  • jasonle41
    Posts: 1,680
    Its because the english are becoming a minority in their own country, too many towel heads etc
  • king-moyes
    Posts: 3,636
    I know loads of English people and they are far better people than many effin Welsh I know... As Snowcone said, its history blah blah.....  Its what the Welsh, Irish and Scots have built against you over many years....

    Not everyone feels this way, I only hate the English when its directed at Liverpool FC...

    I love you English mugs.... But obviously the northern humor is close to us in North Wales, not much a fan of southerners to be honest.... 

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