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"Americans posing as Canadians in Europe"
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Sekhmet



Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Location: Alexandria, Egypt

PostPosted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Germany????!!!!!

But I chose the furry (non stuffed) creature option!!!!

This test is rigged.....
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Seth



Joined: 05 Feb 2003
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Location: in exile

PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmb wrote:


A bit of a coincidence, I'm a Brit


i thought you were scottish? most scots where i lived in the highlands absolutely hated being called british.
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dmb



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seth wrote:
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i thought you were scottish? most scots where i lived in the highlands absolutely hated being called british.

I'm a Scot and a Brit. I can be both, can't I?
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Cardinal Synn



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We Scots HATE being called English, not British. A huge number of the world's population(including most English people, I'm afraid to say)are under the wrong impression that England and Britain are the same thing. England and Scotland are two members of the same union in a sort of similar way to, say, the EU (OK not, really but it'll do as an example).Calling Britain England, is the same as calling Europe France. Calling Scotland England, is the same as calling Germany France.
Anyway that's enough of that!
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thelmadatter



Joined: 31 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:08 pm    Post subject: me Reply with quote

Im American... can't say Im surprised
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Will.



Joined: 02 May 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have to admit to doing it.
Another Japan
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Spinoza



Joined: 17 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing

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GeorgeD



Joined: 29 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm apparenty switzerland, also.
not that anyone knows me or particularly cares but i can also pass on my star sign and favourite colour.

all of this 'which country are you' does, though, give me a new found sense of solidarity with m. de Bloc. for a moment. are the swiss really like that? the swiss seem to avoid conflict, m. de bloc seems to encourage it. the swiss really do live in high places, whereas the old de bloc just seems to imagine he does.
is there a forum where i can bait de bloc in private?? i'm bored and it would help pass the time..
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GeorgeD



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sorry, m. de bloc, just having a laugh.

but away from you.
it does seem such a little known fact out there amongst the non-british english speaking world that we don't call ourselves british.
britain was an archaic term dragged back into use after the ' union' of england and scotland. previously, i believe, it was the name of one of the many tribes of celts on the islands, some of them went off to france and hence the area brittany.
please spead the word to the ex-colonies - the english are english, the scottish are scottish, the welsh are welsh and the northern irish are a bunch of scottish presbyterians thrown over there around the same time that europeans first started shooting/ enslaving '*beep*, darkies and abo's '
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GeorgeD



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the *beep* at the end of that was n i g g e r s . i was using it in quotes.

i guess you don't have the sowftware.
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Seth



Joined: 05 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmb wrote:

I'm a Scot and a Brit. I can be both, can't I?


when i first arrived in london i met a scottish women who proudly proclaimed 'i'm scottish, not british'. i lived in scotland for a good 4 months, i met a tonne of scots who refused to be known as british. i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. don't be coy, ya numpky.
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Cardinal Synn



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seth, the word is numpty not numky you numpty. Laughing
Nah I don't agree with that stuff about Scots hating being referred to as British. Some yeah, but judging by the huge numbers of talented Scots who have exported themselves and their talents south of the border, not the clever ones. Tony Blair is a Scot after all, though you wouldn't know it by his accent.
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garbotara



Joined: 15 Sep 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My result was Canadian. That is a good country to be.
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Sinobear



Joined: 24 Aug 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Once again, a proud Canadian gets pegged as an American. I want to declare war on that website (for it's own protection)!


Cheers, eh!
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Cardinal Synn



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sino bear and Bluejay - your avatars give a mildly disturbed feeling - I think they are creepy. I suppose it's the blueness and the expression on the unicorn's face that does it. Sinobear's doesn't need explaining.
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