Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > What is Englishness

[Steve M]

I'm still missing the one from Murraymint!

[dickieducati]

can we get back to this rollercoaster please

meant to say a while back how good i thought it was.

got an avatar of when it finishes ?

sorry back to the thread.

[brownrigby]

ENGLISHNESS................................... DISTRACTION by the looks of it!

[kwikbitch]

ENGLISHNESS? No such thing!

If you were really to define it in one word since the Romans it would be ...HOOLIGANISM!

All great nations wouldn't have got anywhere without it!

:P

[Ian]

Englishness?

Island mentality, territorial; get a tiny back garden and first thing we do is slap up a 6' fence around it. This is my land and your not coming in.

And a unique view of forgetting what a mixed race of people we are and claiming that others can't join the party as thre as been some sort of un-written cut off date. Oh and with the Germanic Saxe-Coburgs as our Royal family.

[kwikbitch]

Ian...!
So funny...What about the "Keep our pound" campaign?
The one that originates as the Roman "Libre pounde"...

[phillc]

I'd say Englishness is getting your shirt off at the merest hint of sunshine, even if it is still only 20 Deg. C. !! And then of course burning yourself to a crisp (although that can also be easily done on Corfu, Minorca, Rhodes etc etc).



[Edited on 25-6-2004 by phillc]

[Athelstan]

Guys n Gals - love the latter postings - but if you want a real take on the subject and a sarcastic smile throw in, then go on - read the book I mentioned in my earlier post. You will really enjoy it, and afterwards you will be forever looking in the mirror wondering "am I really like that"