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Previously on "Happy St George's Day!"

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  • BR14
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Oh its fantastic there! The locals are banjo players with six toes on each hand. I can see why they hate London. And Cardiff come to that....
    FTFY

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    Glad to see you're integrating in Llandudno.
    Oh its fantastic there! The locals are brilliant. I can see why they hate London. And Cardiff come to that....

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    Every bloody year some cretin wheels that one out, and it's usually a bigoted Scot.

    Glad to see we're maintaining the old traditions.
    I suspect the dragon didn't give a tulip where he was from.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    But there are advantages! You can make yourself understood by any foreigner by raising your voice and gesticulating wildly.
    Glad to see you're integrating in Llandudno.

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  • Yorkie62
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    But there are advantages! You can make yourself understood by any foreigner by raising your voice and gesticulating wildly.
    Isn't that the universal American into any language translator.

    Sent from my SM-G955F using Contractor UK Forum mobile app

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Batcher View Post
    I think that's the same thing. Insular, parochial, inward-looking, hates foreigners.
    But there are advantages! You can make yourself understood by any foreigner by raising your voice and gesticulating wildly.

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  • Batcher
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    try this

    Little Englander definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary



    hardly the barbed insult you imagine it is.
    I think that's the same thing. Insular, parochial, inward-looking, hates foreigners.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    try this

    Little Englander definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary



    hardly the barbed insult you imagine it is.
    Do you really think that is the typical contemporary usage? Or is it more:

    2. British informal
    a person who perceives most foreign influences on Britain's culture and institutions as damaging or insidious
    ?

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Batcher View Post
    some made up tulip on wrongopedia.
    try this

    Little Englander definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary


    (esp in the 19th century) a person opposed to the extension of the British Empire
    hardly the barbed insult you imagine it is.

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  • Lance
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    Happy St George's Day!

    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    ******* snowflake, on whose behalf are you "offended" today?
    I’m not offended at all. I fully support your right to write stupid comments, whilst you fail to spot your own contradictions.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    I'd swap him for Scooter any day of the week.
    He could be gainfully employed in the kebab shop below Alexei's bedsit.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by Batcher View Post
    Just pointing out "the old traditions" of xenophobic Little England that delivered Brexit would have him drown in the English Channel rather than give him refuge.
    I'd swap him for Scooter any day of the week.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by Lance View Post
    "USUALLY a BIGOTED SCOT."
    Not sweeping or bigoted at all that statement. Is it?
    ******* snowflake, on whose behalf are you "offended" today?

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  • darmstadt
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    Brilliant: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/far-right-nationalists-schooled-in-ethnic-origins-of-st-george-in-genius-prank_uk_5cbed869e4b00b3e70cebac9

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  • darmstadt
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    Well I celebrated it by drinking and then going through the town center shouting "Two world wars, one world cup", is that okay?

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