british citizenship...
Mar 11th 2008, 11:39 am
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Re: british citizenship...
LOL, no... there needs to be some serious consideration of wheat and chaff in deciding what to try and retain and what to let quietly slide into history....
And, hey, it ain't all bad - think how much richer the English restaurant scene has become since they started to let other culinary traditions into the picture!
And, hey, it ain't all bad - think how much richer the English restaurant scene has become since they started to let other culinary traditions into the picture!
Mar 11th 2008, 12:30 pm
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Re: british citizenship...
LOL, no... there needs to be some serious consideration of wheat and chaff in deciding what to try and retain and what to let quietly slide into history....
And, hey, it ain't all bad - think how much richer the English restaurant scene has become since they started to let other culinary traditions into the picture!
And, hey, it ain't all bad - think how much richer the English restaurant scene has become since they started to let other culinary traditions into the picture!
Mar 12th 2008, 6:49 am
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Re: british citizenship...
Hilarious satirical column in the Indie about this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...hy-794428.html
Some choice quotes:
"....you'll have citizenship lessons in which an instructor shows an England football match to a group of Somalians and says slowly "Now all together – 'Lam-pard and Gerr-ard, they can't play together - it's OBVIOUS.' Follow that with a deep sigh, then a muttered 'hopeless'. Well done, you'll soon be ready to go to a packed pub on the night of a qualifying match for your field work." Or you could have a question that asks: "Name five situations in which it would be suitable to stare blankly and mutter the phrase '****ing Ada'.""!!!!
"Loyal British citizenship will be enhanced by dismantling the system of local government, and replacing it with a network of barons. A sense of modern national unity will be advanced if citizens, who shall also be known as 'serfs', kneel before them on the third Sunday of each month and offer them their wives as chattel. This measure, I feel, should bring about a rapid decrease in the practice of city centre binge-drinking."
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...hy-794428.html
Some choice quotes:
"....you'll have citizenship lessons in which an instructor shows an England football match to a group of Somalians and says slowly "Now all together – 'Lam-pard and Gerr-ard, they can't play together - it's OBVIOUS.' Follow that with a deep sigh, then a muttered 'hopeless'. Well done, you'll soon be ready to go to a packed pub on the night of a qualifying match for your field work." Or you could have a question that asks: "Name five situations in which it would be suitable to stare blankly and mutter the phrase '****ing Ada'.""!!!!
"Loyal British citizenship will be enhanced by dismantling the system of local government, and replacing it with a network of barons. A sense of modern national unity will be advanced if citizens, who shall also be known as 'serfs', kneel before them on the third Sunday of each month and offer them their wives as chattel. This measure, I feel, should bring about a rapid decrease in the practice of city centre binge-drinking."
Mar 12th 2008, 7:18 am
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Re: british citizenship...
i've just been reading that!
there's loads in the Times as well, including a 'write your own oath of allegiance' - some of them are quite witty.
there's loads in the Times as well, including a 'write your own oath of allegiance' - some of them are quite witty.
Mar 12th 2008, 12:32 pm
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