Get youown back on spammers.....

Oh the drama.. how will I cope?

Really? Are *you* French?

 

ROFL !! It still hasn't sunk into your thick cranium that no one on UKRM
would bother his arse with you, if you didn't have a house in a relatively
desirable area of France, has it ? Nor do you appear to have got over your
humungous superiority complex, believing as you apparently do, that being
killfiled by you, is sure to ruin any poster's day.

 

Heh. How I laugh when I see Ace boast that he's 'plonked' another poster,
apparently convinced that such information will have the 'plonkee' reaching
for the bottle of paracetamol, or sticking his head in the gas oven, or
preparing a rope and looping it around the ceiling light cord.

I hope not, if for no other reason than that every time he's posted
_anything_ on France, he's been wrong on practically every occasion.

 

It's been German before, it'll be German again.

 

So if I can't correctly answer some questions about England, does that
mean I'm not English?

 

Christ! If there's a general knowledge test for nationality that means
I'm probably not English.

 

That depends. If the question is, 'What is the capital of England?', and
you get it wrong, then your knowledge of England and its culture must be
considered suspect.

Note that I didn't say that Ace could never be French, but as I've made
clear on many, _many_ occasions, nationality is not just a piece of
plastic, but is a whole gamut of culture, language, integration, and
knowledge. If Cab has his nationality, then more power to his elbow, but
he speaks very basic French, he's hardly been in the country peeing time,
and if his posts to UKRM are anything to go by, his knowledge of French
history and culture is between zero and 0.10. The same goes for Ace. Only
more so.

 

Q. What is the capital of England ?

 

Heh. I'm not holding my breath...

 

Please do. No, really.

 

genuine_froggie says...

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No, sometimes you get a piece of paper too.

 

Nationality is simply a mechanism for granting common rights, privileges
and protections to a citizen after they meet a set criteria. It's not
about plastic, paper, language or customs.

 

This is why wearing a blanket over your head, not talking English and
seeing everyone as infidels is as British as top hats and black pudding'
these days.

 

genuine_froggie secured a place in history by writing:

Is *a gamut*. And it's the wrong word anyway. You must be getting more
French Des, your command of English is diminishing.

 

Oh là là and all that.

 

The 'set criteria' in many countries include the requirement that the
immigrant be 'sufficiently integrated' into the target society.

 

Andy Bonwick says...

I have dual nationality but I can't hold a conversation in Maltese, nor
do I know the first thing about the history of the place. I think there
are people who subscribe to this ng who know more about the place, and
some of those have never even been there.

Having nationality means **** all.

 

Lozzo bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

Ah, you're more spiccy than me.

 

Andy Bonwick says...

I wasn't born there and had to apply for my Maltese passport based on my
parent's entitlement. I could only apply for one after the Maltese govt
changed the rules in the early 80s. Malta has been independent since
1964 and as such Maltese nationals haven't automatically been entitled
to a British passport since then.