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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Well, lets face facts, brits as a species are not the most diplomatic of creatures. I rather like the Brits.. they are straight-forward and have a (biting) sense of humor I adore.. But I dont watch talk shows so have never seen his.. He must be happy to have created such a stir.. Did you notice my ancestry, I am genetically programed not to like the brits to much, or should I say angles, saxons, jutes, normans, britons. I mean lets face it, with the exception of the welsh and scots, there aint any true brits on the island. The Scots are Picts, and there's a suspicion in some quarters that the Welsh aren't Celts either, but weird unclassified sorts who were driven into Wales by the first influx of Celts who weren't the original natives. Possibly some of the odder and more insular types in the west country might be directly descended from bronze age celtic stock, but I wouldn't bank on it. (It's also worth remembering, in this context, that the angles, saxons and jutes were here long before there was a Britain, which only came into existence with the Act Of Union (with Scotland) in the early eighteenth century.
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