British Month? Hummm?
#1
British Month? Hummm?
Ok, I have touched this subject before. Why do we not have a British history month?
I am not a prejudice person at all but i still consider it to be strange. We celebrate every nationality here in Toronto but British.
Wouldn't you love to be proud of your heritage and show the country?
I would love to see this..
I was listening to city TV this morning and someone actually emailed in about this, so i know i am not alone with my thoughts.
We have Caribbana, Greek festival etc why can't we have one?
I would love to see our marching bands and soccer supporters in the streets!
what would you include in a festival if we could have one?
I am not a prejudice person at all but i still consider it to be strange. We celebrate every nationality here in Toronto but British.
Wouldn't you love to be proud of your heritage and show the country?
I would love to see this..
I was listening to city TV this morning and someone actually emailed in about this, so i know i am not alone with my thoughts.
We have Caribbana, Greek festival etc why can't we have one?
I would love to see our marching bands and soccer supporters in the streets!
what would you include in a festival if we could have one?
#2
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by babyblue
what would you include in a festival if we could have one?
Pissing in the streets
Projectile Vomiting
Unprovoked assaults?
Too negative?
#3
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by iaink
Binge Drinking
Pissing in the streets
Projectile Vomiting
Unprovoked assaults?
Too negative?
Pissing in the streets
Projectile Vomiting
Unprovoked assaults?
Too negative?
And Morris dancing.
#4
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by iaink
Binge Drinking
Pissing in the streets
Projectile Vomiting
Unprovoked assaults?
Too negative?
Pissing in the streets
Projectile Vomiting
Unprovoked assaults?
Too negative?
#5
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by babyblue
is that all us british are good for?
and lets not forget bagpiping too
Oh, and whinging, nearly forgot that one!
Last edited by iaink; Feb 23rd 2006 at 8:54 pm.
#6
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by iaink
No , there is morris dancing
and lets not forget bagpiping too
Oh, and whinging, nearly forgot that one!
and lets not forget bagpiping too
Oh, and whinging, nearly forgot that one!
come on what about the soccer songs?
chas n dave!
carnivals!
glastonbury festival!
oh!.. What about food!
I can taste it now!
english fish and chips from a newspaper soaked in vinigar!
Last edited by babyblue; Feb 23rd 2006 at 9:09 pm.
#7
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Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by babyblue
you are such a jolly old chap
come on what about the soccer songs?
chas n dave!
carnivals!
glastonbury festival!
come on what about the soccer songs?
chas n dave!
carnivals!
glastonbury festival!
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Re: British Month? Hummm?
Lots of negatives I see....
As usual, I blame it all on the Romans...
As usual, I blame it all on the Romans...
#9
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by babyblue
Ok, I have touched this subject before. Why do we not have a British history month?
I am not a prejudice person at all but i still consider it to be strange. We celebrate every nationality here in Toronto but British.
Wouldn't you love to be proud of your heritage and show the country?
I would love to see this..
I was listening to city TV this morning and someone actually emailed in about this, so i know i am not alone with my thoughts.
We have Caribbana, Greek festival etc why can't we have one?
I would love to see our marching bands and soccer supporters in the streets!
what would you include in a festival if we could have one?
I am not a prejudice person at all but i still consider it to be strange. We celebrate every nationality here in Toronto but British.
Wouldn't you love to be proud of your heritage and show the country?
I would love to see this..
I was listening to city TV this morning and someone actually emailed in about this, so i know i am not alone with my thoughts.
We have Caribbana, Greek festival etc why can't we have one?
I would love to see our marching bands and soccer supporters in the streets!
what would you include in a festival if we could have one?
But there is a "British Isles" event in March, at the CNE in Toronto -does that count!?
#10
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by iaink
Binge Drinking
Pissing in the streets
Projectile Vomiting
Unprovoked assaults?
Too negative?
Pissing in the streets
Projectile Vomiting
Unprovoked assaults?
Too negative?
Maybe you could do the above while morris dancing..........
#11
Re: British Month? Hummm?
Too negative?
Britain and the Anglo nations it spawned created most things of importance in the world today: some of them, admittedly, we would have been better off without. But anyone who concentrates on 'binge drinking' rather than that history is clearly trying to run the place down.
Now, I'd agree that Britain _today_ is a dump, but that's largely because the post-WWI generations have deliberately worked to destroy everything that made the country what it was. Britain appears to be the only developed nation where the 'intelligentsia' despise their own history and culture... not because it was a failure, but precisely because it was so successful.
#12
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Originally Posted by Indigo
But there is a "British Isles" event in March, at the CNE in Toronto -does that count!?
While my ancestry is British (way back, but one ancestor's papers are in the British Museum), I am from the Southern US. There isn't even a decent restaurant up here that serves my regional cuisine, so feel fortunate that there is so much British stuff here as it could be much, much worse.
#13
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Originally Posted by sysclp
I prefer the renaissance festival which actually does have Morris Dancers every year.
#14
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I am shocked at how negative some of these post seem to be. Is nobody proud of the British heritage?
The British isles show is on for 3 days and not many people really know about it. I always try and spread the word.
Is Britain not good for anything?
Well i am still proud to be British. Even if nobody else shares my enthusiasm.
The British isles show is on for 3 days and not many people really know about it. I always try and spread the word.
Is Britain not good for anything?
Well i am still proud to be British. Even if nobody else shares my enthusiasm.
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Re: British Month? Hummm?
Originally Posted by babyblue
I am shocked at how negative some of these post seem to be. Is nobody proud of the British heritage?
The British isles show is on for 3 days and not many people really know about it. I always try and spread the word.
Is Britain not good for anything?
Well i am still proud to be British. Even if nobody else shares my enthusiasm.
The British isles show is on for 3 days and not many people really know about it. I always try and spread the word.
Is Britain not good for anything?
Well i am still proud to be British. Even if nobody else shares my enthusiasm.
Nonetheless we'll go to the British Isles Show and wallow in the tackiness of it all.