Thread: Attacked For Being English

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by spiff

Originally Posted by Begbie

The Maori warriors went on to murder and consume thousands of their own folk, sometimes even kinfolk! and often any Europeans caught up in their way as well. You can be assured this is no exaggeration.

I think I'd change my name, too, with ancestors like this!

Why do you think it's refered to as 'Land of the Great White Cloud'?

Haven't you heard RS? It's been renamed to "The Land of the Wrong White Crowd".

Originally Posted by mikehunt

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by spiff

Originally Posted by Begbie

The Maori warriors went on to murder and consume thousands of their own folk, sometimes even kinfolk! and often any Europeans caught up in their way as well. You can be assured this is no exaggeration.

I think I'd change my name, too, with ancestors like this!

Why do you think it's refered to as 'Land of the Great White Cloud'?

Haven't you heard RS? It's been renamed to "The Land of the Wrong White Crowd".

You can be assured it's complete and utter shite, actually.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Marmalade, another great Scottish invention

sorry I think it is roman

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Marmalade, another great Scottish invention

sorry I think it is roman

Didn't they own Scotland at some time or other? Seems like everyone else did.

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

sorry I think it is roman

Romans had a version of fruit reserve but the recipe as we know it today as marmalade is a Scottish invention.

From Dundee in fact.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Didn't they own Scotland at some time or other? Seems like everyone else did.

No, the Romans never conquered Scotland. In fact they had to build two walls to keep us out.

Not very good at this history lark are you?

1780?
the word appeared in english in the late 15th century!

1797^^

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

1780? the word appeared in english in the late 15th century!

In fact the word is originally Greek.

It was called Dundee Marmelade
Roses make a lovely lime marmelade!
not all marmelade is made from seville oranges

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Didn't they own Scotland at some time or other? Seems like everyone else did.

No, the Romans never conquered Scotland. In fact they had to build two walls to keep us out.

Not very good at this history lark are you?

Have you ever met an obvious joke you didn't completely miss the point of in your rush to be a know-it-all pedant?

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

No, the Romans never conquered Scotland. In fact they had to build two walls to keep us out.

You must have smelt really bad

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

In fact the word is originally Greek.

could you tell us the ancient greek word for marmelade

melimēlon

The extension of "marmalade" in the English language to refer to citrus fruits was made in the 17th century, when citrus first began to be plentiful enough in England for the usage to become common

Isn't it called "marmelade" when made from citrus fruits, otherwise "jam"?

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

Roses make a lovely lime marmelade!

Yummy!

^^^
Excellent stuff. Makes me proud to be British.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

The typical Englishman finishes his breakfast of toast and marmalade invented by Mrs Keller of Dundee, Scotland, and slipsinto his raincoat, patented by Charles Mackintosh from Glasgow, Scotland. He then walks to his office along an Enlgish - tarmac surfaced - lane, invented by John Loudon MacAdam of Ayr, Scotland. Or he arrives in his car, which is fitted with pneumatic tyres patnented by John Boyd Dunlop, of Dreghorn, Scotland.
Before he had a car he used to travel by train, which was powered by a steam engine, invested by James Watt of Greenock, Scotland.
In his office he deals with the mail bearing adhesice stamps invented by John Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland, and makes frequent use of the telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At home in the evening, he dines on his favourite Roast beef from Aberdeen Angus, raised in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He then watches some television - an invention of Scotsman John Logie Baird, of Helensbourgh, Scotland - about John Paul Jones, father of the United States navy, born in Kirkbean, Scotland. The Englishman's son prefers to read Treasure Island, written by famous Scottish author, Robert Louis Stevenson, from Edinburgh, Scotland. Whilst his daughter prefers to play in the garden with her bicycle, invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, of Thornhill, Scotland.

It is impossible for an Englishman to escape the ingenuity of the Scots!

In desperation he turns to the bible only to find that the first person metioned is a Scotsman king James V1, who authorized the translation.
He could - of course - turn to drink, but Scotland makes the finest whiskey in the world.
At the end of his tether he uplifts a rifle to end it all, but Captain Patrick Feguson, of Pitfours, Scotland invented the Breech-loading-rifle!
If the Englishman escapes death by the rifle, he would find himself being injected with penicillin - discovered by Scottish Bacteriologist, Sir Alexander Fleming, of Darvel, Scotland - or he might be given Chloroform, am anaesthetic first used by Sir James Young Simpson, of Bathgate, Scotland.
Out of the anaesthetic, the Englishman's mood would not be improved if the doctor told him that his condition was as safe as the bank of England, which was founded by William Paterson, of Dumfries, Scotland.

That's cool. Have you got a Welsh one?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by mikehunt

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by spiff

Originally Posted by Begbie

The Maori warriors went on to murder and consume thousands of their own folk, sometimes even kinfolk! and often any Europeans caught up in their way as well. You can be assured this is no exaggeration.

I think I'd change my name, too, with ancestors like this!

Why do you think it's refered to as 'Land of the Great White Cloud'?

Haven't you heard RS? It's been renamed to "The Land of the Wrong White Crowd".

You can be assured it's complete and utter shite, actually.

All humour aside Ant, I realize that extreme description of Maori civilization is OTT. Sure they weren't saints {by human standards}, but I've never ever heard of such historic items as that towards them....even in our PC anti-eurocentric world. Someone needs a victim.

Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by Texpat

Sour, angry, disappointed people.

Ok, enough about the Scottish, tell us what you think of the English

I like those "Germanic" tribes people.