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NorthernGent -> RE: PoliteSub (5/22/2008 8:50:47 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

we in the UK are a nation united by our differences.



An interesting notion.

'Not one I agree with. In order to be united, there has to be a common goal - can you think of one? There's no Patrie, Fatherland, Motherland, American Dream etc. All I see is people loyal to their town/city.



RealityLicks -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 1:47:50 AM)

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent
How many Southern lads do you see at Northern universities with a shirt of some description stating, "born in the South, live in the North, die in the North". You will never see the reverse.



That's because down here we communicate with speech, not t-shirt slogans.  Mind you, I do have cloven hooves.



Emperor1956 -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 4:01:30 AM)

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And you all know that the only really good soccer players in the world (in this country, we call it "soccer") are from Spain.  And South America.

E. 

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ironitulstahp:   if i weren't a little intimidated by You...being Emperor and all...i'd have a few things to say about that misbegotten statement....{{backs out of room bowing and kow-towing}}


What, you don't call it soccer? *GRIN*  Nothing to be intimidated about here, darling...just friends you haven't met *WINK*

E.



meatcleaver -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 4:06:51 AM)

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

we in the UK are a nation united by our differences.



All I see is people loyal to their town/city.


But this is true of most of Europe. The point of the German fatherland was to impose a state from the top down, rather like Britain is imposed from the top down. The reason France is centralised was to impose power and quieten descent from such areas as Brittany, Basque, Corsica and Alsace or any other province that might get ideas of self determination. Historically, its been the same with Spain but they are loosening their grip now and provincial cities are imposing themselves. The idea is to give politicians power rather than people, rights. It is not for nothing many an ambitious political Scotsman still wants to be part of the UK, it is a bigger arena for their ambitions. Of course with the advent of the EU and the promise of an even bigger arena, they are beginning to look more towards Brussel than London now. Britain is still the most centralised country in Europe so people's aspirations for governing their own city are not yet being met. The modern state has far more grip in Britain than most other European countries which is why Brits have a problem with the EU. Many north European cities see their true heritage as part of the Hanseatic League http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League rather than the modern states that have been imposed on them. This is what they want from the EU, an alliance of self governing peoples joined through trade where dogma, religion and patriotism play no part.



NorthernGent -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 4:09:44 AM)

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ORIGINAL: RealityLicks

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent
How many Southern lads do you see at Northern universities with a shirt of some description stating, "born in the South, live in the North, die in the North". You will never see the reverse.



That's because down here we communicate with speech, not t-shirt slogans. 



'Pretty impressive....tips hat to RL.

We're in the process of getting to grips with elementary grunting; speech is an aspiration far beyond the horizon.



RealityLicks -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 4:16:00 AM)

Aye, its grim oop north.  Is it hard to type and pedal that dynamo at the same time?



NorthernGent -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 4:32:51 AM)

A few of our 17th century weavers have bestowed job specialisation upon us - I type, my grandma pedals, my nephew reads - we're an efficient lot.

Shouldn't you Londoners be on homage duties for your queen?



Politesub53 -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 5:31:31 AM)

The common goal is that there is no common goal. Everyone thinks of the north south divide, and forgets London has always had slums and the poor. The north has always head its wealthy merchant classes, mill and mine owners ect. Deep down there isnt much difference between you and i NG. We love our beer, our football, fish and chips and mostly, our heritage.

Maybe its not changed up north as much as down here, yet i still recall a time when working class people left the door key hanging on string, so friends and family could come in and wait. London was a hive of industry including the docks, railways, post office, construction and manufacturing. We even made the worlds best beer at Youngs Brewery in Wandsworth.

Much of that has gone, yet the other major cities have suffered the same fates, mores the pity.



LadyEllen -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 5:39:19 AM)

ah but you lot forget - leisure time is up! Over two million people of working age no longer work at all, which is a huge increase in leisure time in just a few decades, an achievement with which I am sure we will be making more progress in the very near future.

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meatcleaver -> RE: PoliteSub (5/23/2008 12:22:58 PM)

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

ah but you lot forget - leisure time is up! Over two million people of working age no longer work at all, which is a huge increase in leisure time in just a few decades, an achievement with which I am sure we will be making more progress in the very near future.

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There is about 6 million on invalid benefit with plenty of leisure time thanks to Maggie Thatcher cooking the unemployment register. She sis anything to get people off inemployment, even if it would cost more. Such was her cynism and hypocrisy.



Emperor1956 -> RE: PoliteSub (5/24/2008 7:12:51 AM)

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 Politesub:  We love our beer, our football, fish and chips and mostly, our heritage.



Isn't that rum, sodomy and the lash?

E.



lronitulstahp -> RE: PoliteSub (5/24/2008 7:33:10 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Emperor1956

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 Politesub:  We love our beer, our football, fish and chips and mostly, our heritage.



Isn't that rum, sodomy and the lash?

E.
so besides the rum...my utopia...



RealityLicks -> RE: PoliteSub (5/24/2008 7:48:29 AM)

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Many north European cities see their true heritage as part of the Hanseatic League http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League rather than the modern states that have been imposed on them. This is what they want from the EU, an alliance of self governing peoples joined through trade where dogma, religion and patriotism play no part.


Meat, this is actually a bit bonkers when you analyse it.  The nostalgia for the Hanseatic League is nothing more than an attempt to exclude eastern and southern nations and it stems partly from monetary issues and partly from a sense of cultural superiority.  I'd put it on a par with the broad-based support to bring back hanging - the dumb majority would have it in a flash... but purely for emotional reasons.

We've seen where the narrow reductionist politics of nationalism lead to with Yugoslavia, must we really entertain it again?  The last thing that is needed to counter growing nationalism in the east is handlebar moustache brigade getting a platform in the west.  What's wrong with moving forward and not backward?



meatcleaver -> RE: PoliteSub (5/24/2008 12:11:22 PM)

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ORIGINAL: RealityLicks

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Many north European cities see their true heritage as part of the Hanseatic League http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League rather than the modern states that have been imposed on them. This is what they want from the EU, an alliance of self governing peoples joined through trade where dogma, religion and patriotism play no part.


Meat, this is actually a bit bonkers when you analyse it.  The nostalgia for the Hanseatic League is nothing more than an attempt to exclude eastern and southern nations and it stems partly from monetary issues and partly from a sense of cultural superiority.  I'd put it on a par with the broad-based support to bring back hanging - the dumb majority would have it in a flash... but purely for emotional reasons.

We've seen where the narrow reductionist politics of nationalism lead to with Yugoslavia, must we really entertain it again?  The last thing that is needed to counter growing nationalism in the east is handlebar moustache brigade getting a platform in the west.  What's wrong with moving forward and not backward?


No it isn't. The Hanseatic League was a merchantile alliance, a model on which many people in Europe want the EU to be, north south east and west. The only country that has a problem with that appears to be little Britain which can't make up its mind if it wants in or aout. One thing the Hanseatic League wasn't and that is it wasn't nationalistic and it had absolutely nothing in common with Yugoslavia, I'm not sure where you get that from. The Hanseatic League was a bottom up loose alliance, not a top down imposed contralist unitary state like Britain or France. It was multi-national, multi-lingual organisation where nationality, religion or ideology had no part to play.



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