When are you British?

[Dirk]

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Yorkshire born n'bred!

British doesn't get a look in.

I'm with you here

I know loads of English people who are happy to call themselves English, as they should be.

One problem though is the way the English flag unfortunately seems to have come to be seen by many as signifying the worst sorts of nationalists. Sadly it puts many perfectly ordinary people off displaying their nationality, whether with the flag or the their name.

Too true, too many f**tball hooligans, etc.... have destroyed it in that sense over the years

 

[pawl]

I am an Englishman living on a lump of rock called Britain I always find it strange that in the Olympia’s irrespective of if we are born in Scotland Wales Ireland or England we are team GB

Come the World Cup all the various European championships we revert to are nationality’s

Ask the Scots,Welsh or Irish how they would identify with the country of birth and in my opinion quite rightly so.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

How's that chip on your shoulder?

Covered by lots of random sports shirts

 

[NorthernDave]

English by birth, Yorkshire by grace of God

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm both British and English simultaneously, plus in a marvel of multitasking I'm also European. I'm increasingly ashamed to be English though.

 

[Julia9054]

European here.
Definitely not Yorkshire even though I've lived here 35 years. They are too insecure to accept incomers.

 

[Levo-Lon]

White British..

 

[Rusty Nails]

How's that chip on your shoulder?

I am perfectly balanced with a chip on both shoulders.

I won't support England at a sport in which we are neighbours and rivals, and I won't support our neighbours and rivals, the Jacks, at football.

 

[tom73]

One third, possibly half. Wales isn't represented on it, Northern Ireland is represented by St. Georges Cross. The Red Hand of Ulster is absent.

You can argue it’s actually the cross from the flag of the west riding that’s been adapted

 

[Gunk]

Saying that your are “English” makes you sound like a football hooligan, saying that your “British” just sounds more appropriate

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How's that chip on your shoulder?

The Scots don’t have any chips on their shoulders as they eat them as soon as they notice

 

[Drago]

Who cares? I'm a Breton, English only by an accident of birth.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Saying that your are “English” makes you sound like a football hooligan, saying that your “British” just sounds more appropriate

That's so sad.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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