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Originally Posted by Trollheart
No it's not. We're Celts and they're not. We're more cousins to the Scots and the Welsh. even a little to the Vikings as so many settled here. But not the English. As distinct from the Brits. Of course, we all come essentially from the same gene pool stock, but then, so do you.
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^ Trollheart, of course, knows of what he speaks. There's been a huge historical divide between Celts and English, going back to the Roman conquest approx two thousand years ago. ( Celts fought the Romans, until forced into the hills to the West and North. English bent the knee and huddled in servitude south of Hadrian's Wall.)
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Originally Posted by jwb
Really the most insulting thing to call them is brits, which to my eye they are basically just a more backwater region of the same pasty breed of imbred island folk, just with more gingers sprinkled in and a touch of catholicism.
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^ Not so sure about the accuracy of your description, jwb: "pasty", yes, but "inbred island folk" ? With, at one time, the biggest merchant fleet and biggest empire in the world, Britain was and is more international than you seem to be imagining:-
