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Originally Posted by iadom
You forgot 2 Jags Prescott, but thats an easy thing to do.  |
I think "Northern Irish" meant those from Northern Ireland.
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Originally Posted by orangebird
How about all the cabbies in London being told they couldn't wave have their little st george cross car flags on display from their cabs during euro2004?
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Ahh yes, the car flags which the authorites considered 'dangerous' - yep, daft idea indeed but certainly nothing to do with the flags being English, it was because some beaurocrat decided they were potentially 'hazardous' to other road users...
I understand that for many English people (present company excepted of course!) there is a huge catering pack of McCain's oven chips on their shoulders over their nationality, as if there is an underground campaign to allow "the taffs, paddies and scots" to celebrate their nations whilst stiffling England from doing the same.
Not so.
We don't get St David celebrated in any noteworthy way, I'm sure it's the same for Sts Andrew and Patrick. We don't get days off for them either.
The media is controlled by England (and to some extent Scotland). How many Welsh and N Ireland presenters do you know of?
We have nothing against the English being proud to be English - all the power to you for doing so, we should be free in our patriotic celebrations. However when you refer to England as Britain and vice versa and subsequently think nothing of it,
then it creates friction. There are very clear differences between the two, so why is it done? Ignorance (towards the other home nations) or forgetfulness?