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February 11, 2010 at 6:55 pm

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General Lighting

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I definitely feel that more progressive people should not be ashamed of being English, nor is being English only available to those of white skin.. but at the same time it should not be an excuse for intolerance against other nations in the UK or their cultures..

First, we found that the belief that government and polite society disapprove of Englishness is a key ingredient in the soil in which populist nationalism has flourished. A concerted progressive engagement with English identity and culture would help starve this unpleasant plant of much of its oxygen.

Englishness: the forbidden identity | Michael Kenny | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
February 11, 2010 at 8:02 pm

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I love being English. I consider anyone born in England even those from different ethnic backgrounds to be English as well.

That’s why i got enough respect for people from Scotland and Wales who shout up and say they’re proud to be what they are.

I blame this government for the lack of English pride in this country. Specially when you have muppets like Jack Straw who have a very dim view of all things English.

I hate people who are ashamed to be English, If they hate it so much then fuck off out the country and let someone in who won’t be.

I’m proud of being English and always will be.
February 11, 2010 at 8:05 pm

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I have always identified with being English, but then for me English is Jeeves and Wooster not Eastenders.
February 11, 2010 at 8:11 pm

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@1984 372139 wrote:

I have always identified with being English, but then for me English is Jeeves and Wooster not Eastenders.

Yeah you know that. The old school English gentleman.
February 11, 2010 at 8:14 pm

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@DJCliffy 372142 wrote:

Yeah you know that. The old school English gentleman.

Pocket watch and all.
February 11, 2010 at 8:18 pm

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@1984 372139 wrote:

I have always identified with being English, but then for me English is Jeeves and Wooster not Eastenders.

I’m a Londoner and I fucking detest Eastenders and I detest having to pay license fee to fund that shite. It is as accurate a depiction of people from the capital as minstrel shows are of black people.
February 11, 2010 at 8:20 pm

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@General Lighting 372145 wrote:

I’m a Londoner and I fucking detest Eastenders and I detest having to pay license fee to fund that shite. It is as accurate a depiction of people from the capital as minstrel shows are of black people.

God I hope people don’t think its realistic, that would be scary.
February 11, 2010 at 8:28 pm

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@1984 372146 wrote:

God I hope people don’t think its realistic, that would be scary.

Martin from eastenders lives round my way and came into the resterant i was chef at once a few years back … got talknig to him and he was telling me that some woman once hit him and had a go at him for being so nasty to sonia :laugh_at: … some people think it’s real .. there are alot of nutters out there … :you_crazy:laugh_at:
February 11, 2010 at 8:35 pm

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@1984 372146 wrote:

God I hope people don’t think its realistic, that would be scary.

in the area where I live now (particularly when I go to the rural villages) I’ve met people who have never been to London in their lives, nor got on the electric train (out of fear!) and I don’t mean OAPs living in cottages, these are people our age, but they watch telly and think Eastenders is what London is like, with everyone doing crime and beating up their partners :hopeless:
February 11, 2010 at 9:20 pm

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GiantMidget

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@DaftFader 372149 wrote:

Martin from eastenders lives round my way and came into the resterant i was chef at once a few years back … got talknig to him and he was telling me that some woman once hit him and had a go at him for being so nasty to sonia :laugh_at: … some people think it’s real .. there are alot of nutters out there … :you_crazy:laugh_at:

They’re the sort of people I laugh at when they get run over.
February 11, 2010 at 9:24 pm

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@DJCliffy 372169 wrote:

They’re the sort of people I laugh at when they get run over.

put them in the cast of eastenders over christmass and there is a high probabilty they will get run over :laugh_at:
February 11, 2010 at 9:27 pm

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GiantMidget

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@DaftFader 372171 wrote:

put them in the cast of eastenders over christmass and there is a high probabilty they will get run over :laugh_at:

They should kill off the entire cast of eastenders and replace them with slightly out of date tangerines. You wouldn’t even notice a difference in acting and it would probably be much more enjoyable.
February 11, 2010 at 9:34 pm

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DaftFader

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@DJCliffy 372172 wrote:

They should kill off the entire cast of eastenders and replace them with slightly out of date tangerines. You wouldn’t even notice a difference in acting and it would probably be much more enjoyable.

with the curent climate across europe and the change of the seasons for citrus fruits alot of the tangerines we sent out have come back from customers all over the eastend due to them being “slightly out of date” :laugh_at:
February 11, 2010 at 9:39 pm

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GiantMidget

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@DaftFader 372176 wrote:

with the curent climate across europe and the change of the seasons for citrus fruits alot of the tangerines we sent out have come back from customers all over the eastend due to them being “slightly out of date” :laugh_at:

Ok what i’ll do is send an email to the BBC and request they change the cast of eastenders with these tangerines.
February 12, 2010 at 5:12 pm

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joshd96320

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is there a stretch of land that caters for libertarian socialists?
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