Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Which veg place is that? Semi-veg here.

http://www.vanillablack.co.uk/

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have quite a hankering to be a Quaker, actually.

yep, me too.


Part of me would like to be Amish too.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have quite a hankering to be a Quaker.

lostinrates wrote: »

yep, me too.


Part of me would like to be Amish too.

If I was going to change religion, I fancy the roman catholics.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

http://www.vanillablack.co.uk/

There was a nice veggie on the Finchley Road, vaguely near where the O2 is now, called Green Cottage or something similar. Don't know if it is still there.

zagubov

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GDB2222 wrote: »

LIR, as far as I can see, roughly 30-50% of the people on the nice people thread are either Jewish or married to someone Jewish. I'll come out of the closet on that one - both apply to me. .

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[FONT=&quot]That seems a high percentage. - although I don't dip in here as regularly as most, and certainly wasn’t around when the thread started, so I don't know the backgrounds of most of the posters as well as you probably do. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I've lived in England for decades and there came a time when Tony Blair was leading Labour, while Ian Duncan Smith was leading the Conservatives and Charlie Kennedy was leading the LibDems; most people would have noticed their ideological differences (er…hold on, might have to think about that!) but all I wondered was whether I might be the only Catholic from Scotland who wasn't running a political party currently trying to take over the country. .:D[/FONT]

Aberdeenangarse

lostinrates wrote: »

yep, me too.


Part of me would like to be HAmish too.

I've corrected that for you

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

In her later years, my grandmother would tell me stories of her younger days, previous generations etc. After she past on, I was discussing some of the things she had told me with my mother. Turned out that the truth was somewhat elaborated. Any distant relatives she liked/ were good/ well known became her nearest and dearest. Any close relatives that she didn't get on with became 3rd cousins. A quite famous author she claimed was a first cousin, turned out not to be related.

We were slightly the other way around. We took some of my Granny's stories with a pinch of salt, but she was, as she said, very distantly related to the political Chamberlain family, and also to the Port Sunlight lot.

neverdespairgirl

I've entirely British, for at least 400 years. Mostly English and Welsh, with 1 northern Irish and 1 Scottish great-grandparent.

So mine and OH's last common ancestor is a long way back - his background is east European Jewish - Poland, Russia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, etc.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

One of the very sad things that I read somewhere, no idea where, was a retaliation to the submission that there are lots of rich, middle and uppermiddle class Jews and why is that? The ''retaliation'' was that it was easier for a richer and better educated person to get their family out of dangerous areas in Europe before the War. While many left behind possessions and money, they did bring aspiration and their own education with them.

I'm not entirely sure that is true. A lot of very poor Jews left Russia and Eastern Europe from the 1880s onwards, and a lot of wealthy and clever Jews were so integrated in Germany (in particular) that they didn't leave at all.

OH's grandmother grew up in a very, very wealthy Jewish home, her father was a Chief Rabbi, her family had huge industrial holdings, and were strongly anti-Zionist. Most of them died.

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

but you have to be able to prove the person still has the money in order to confiscate it. this can be pretty difficult if the person set out to commit a fraud and has deliberately hidden / laundered it.

yes, and no. They can look at you funny for years afterwards if you "unhide" your stolen assets.