Mo Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 I hear EI is coming to the Arena in December. I shall have to start saving up as I think he is gorgeous and very talented. My hubby can't understand how I could possible fancy a guy who cross dresses and wears make up but he is just sooooo sexy. Anybody else (male or female) think EI is the bees knees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Maiden Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 I have a problem with the guy since he did a documentry slagging of my homeland . Whatever floats your boat Mo!!! Moon Maiden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 Originally posted by Moon Maiden I have a problem with the guy since he did a documentry slagging of my homeland . Whatever floats your boat Mo!!! Moon Maiden Tell me more Moon. Do you mean Barnsley and the sort of thing that Jeremy Clarkson did to Rotherham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss_60 Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 .....I'm going to see Eddie Izzard.....in Nottingham in December......in Nottingham...........didn't manage to get seats in Sheffield...........but I'm near the front:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Maiden Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 No - He did an documentry for the Discovery Channel or something like that - that sited everything that the British hold sacred as forgien. I personally have a pet hate for anyone or anything that immediately tries to take everything away from the British Nation and refuses to acknowledge what we have actually done for our country and the world at large. Like National Debt Moon Maiden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waxy chuff Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 He wasn't slagging off your homeland, merely pointing out the irony in our treatment of immigrants when you consider the impact that they've had on our society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Maiden Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 oh of course - i forget the British Isles was impotent before the immigrants came - my mistake. You do realise that ignorance is not a virtue. Moon Maiden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 We're all descended from immigrants. My lot came over in 1066. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Maiden Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Immigration was part of the world order since humans first walked the earth - the first humans were wandering tribes people. After the Ice age we had the first peoples that settled on these isles after being cut off from the European continent. A body found in the Cheddar gorge dated from the retreat of the last Ice Sheets was found to have a 'direct' descendant living less than four miles from where the body was discovered. Example of a true British person?? The British Isles had developed independantly of all surrounding cultures and nations, farming and agricultural techniques, trade, crafts and of course my personal favourite - religious beliefs and practises. So just what was it you were talking about again? No such thing as the British Isles before immigration?? I guess it depends on how you take the scientific and historical information available. Moon Maiden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waxy chuff Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Read what I said again. Then read what you did. Then feel silly. All the series was saying is that attitudes like yours (blinkered nationalism tinged with xenophobia) were precisely what Izzard was showing to be illogical considering the fact that, especially since the renaissance, we've been highly influenced by our non-native population. "The British Isles had developed independantly of all surrounding cultures and nations, farming and agricultural techniques, trade, crafts and of course my personal favourite - religious beliefs and practises." This is just not true. The British Isles was at the forefront of exploration and trade, and was highly influenced by a number of factors - the French invasion, for example, or the discovery of the spice routes, or the appreciation of the arts brought about by the renaissance, or the teachings of Marx and Engels, or ... One can go on and on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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