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Originally posted by Rasobasi420
Can a Brit please explain to me what the actual animosity is between the Welsh and the English? Is there a history of violence between the two? I'm going to London next month and don't want to upset anyone with an offhand comment without knowing the history behind it.
Thanks
Originally posted by bobafett
I think this was racist (well we could have a big argument about country not equalling race but that's another thing), because he chose to use the word 'english' as part of the insult. If he hadn't intended to insult her race he would have just called her a 'bitch', not an 'english bitch'. To me it appears he chose the word 'english' as part of the insult because he sees being english as a bad thing, which is racist.
if you call someone a 'white bitch' or 'black bitch', you are adding the term 'white' or 'black' because you think that is more insulting that just 'bitch' alone, therefore you have made a judgement that black or white is a bad thing, that can be used as an insult.
My two shillings...
Originally posted by CX
Thats almost laughable.
I'll never understand the justice system here in the UK, it's embarrasing at times.
You could mug a granny and get less than that here.
My dad will be pleased about this though......he's a very patriotic Scot and when he gets any official forms to fill in, where it asks, "British or other", he always writes "Scottish" in big letters!
I'm not sure anyone would get as far as a court if they called him English!
CX.
Originally posted by Jim_Kraken
I support this man's punishment...
"The former lorry driver, who is originally from Northern Ireland, but lives in Powys, Mid Wales, called Lorna Steele an "English bitch" during an argument after he collided with her parked vehicle in the Welsh market town of Newport in February."
He sounds like a world-class jerk to me.
Originally posted by Niall197
So if the Scots are merely a nation, how come the Welsh & English are both nations and races ? A very weird court decision ...
Originally posted by melatonin
Originally posted by Rasobasi420
Can a Brit please explain to me what the actual animosity is between the Welsh and the English? Is there a history of violence between the two? I'm going to London next month and don't want to upset anyone with an offhand comment without knowing the history behind it.
Thanks
Lots of history involved in this, hundreds of years of it actually.
Wales still retains its own identity, culture, and language. And...there is still lots of graffiti of the likes of 'colonists out' etc.
Lieutenant John Chard: The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day.
Bromhead: Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.
Originally posted by punkinworks
By the way what is a chav?
Derived from Chatham in Kent, this term can be applied loosely to every culture with a nasty, thieving element. There are many variants of this creature but all are subject to the following commonalities:
Chavs are completely Amoral, having never been subjected to right and wrong by their inattentive, uncaring and often absent parents.
Chavs are part Magpie, evidentially supported by their love of all things shiny, or as vaccuous, illiterate street-slang would say 'Bling'. They can be seen twokking from the Jewelry counter in Argos/Index.
Originally posted by Flyer
Because they are insignificant compared to England. Probably a bit like Quebec hating the rest of Canada.
Originally posted by Beachcoma
But why do they hate the English?
I dont know if thats correct but thats the situation here.