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Originally Posted by Qtx
You still don't get it. It's not just skin colour and language. You are using your OH to try and argue that the OP could not tell that someone else was a foreigner, which is a false argument.
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No, it's an apt argument. Neither you or gary would be able to tell with any certainty how long the people he saw at the hospital or my OH had been in the country for. Clothing might give someone an
indication but nothing that would guarantee any certainty.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
It would be easy to tell that your OH had not recently entered the country even if speaking another language. How she looks (such as clothes and hair) and the younger age would be part of how someone would know but again, it's experience and you will know.
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So those new to the country only dress a certain way, speaking a certain way and are of a certain age bracket? You're making this up as you go along aren't you?
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Let me say that there are probably many in London who notice things about people less, or are less intelligent, and thus are not able to tell the difference between people. It sounds like you have encountered someone like this and assumed everyone in the same, in a kind of bigoted way....kinda ironic.
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And I'm equally sure there are many people in London capable of a lucky guess as to whether or not someone is entitled to free NHS treatment but quietly ignores the times they may have got it wrong (which of course never happens because of this mystical 6th sense).