Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Spirit_2

The Doozer link just confirmed what is obvious around here. No diversity. Almost zip faiths represented outside of Christian. The only non white people I see at home are in the local chinese takeway, indian restaurant, a thai lady who does massage and a lady from the Philippines. Workplace is pretty diverse, more so than the population it serves.

Interestingly near home there was a fraction of a % of long term unemployed. You would have to work really hard at being long time unemployed around here.

I refer to myself as Irish. Although my nationality is British. I never refer to myself as English.

PasturesNew

Gen - can you do the conversion and post in £s? We've no idea how much AUD$ are and it's a pain to go to xe and do a conversion.

PasturesNew

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I'm still sometimes surprised at how 'white' and monocultural most of Britain still is, given our history as a global trading hub.

I was brought up on the outskirts of a white town and moved (aged 10) to a small village 3 miles from that town. I've never been abroad. It's easy to remain monocultural.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I'll have to work out a way to fuel myself properly.

Pies. Lots of 'em.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

We'd have a family of 4 in there plus an au pair so no keeping a room spare. If we have a visitor we'd give up our room downstairs and sleep in the rumpus room most likely.

I'd have assumed the au pair would have the downstairs room.

Spirit_2

On the equine accident I referred to earlier this week. The accident was not on a bend but on a part of the road with good visibility.The driver is local and is partially sighted.:eek:

They have apparently now surrendered their licence. Such a selfish b*stard. I know losing the freedom of driving must be awful but driving when you cannot see . !!!!!!.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

I use British and English pretty much interchangeably. The number of British who aren't English or Scottish is so vanishingly small that it makes little difference.

English and British aren't interchangeable to me, unless I'm talking about myself, because I'm equally comfortable with both as describing me. But with a sil who's Scottish, and people in my office who are Welsh and N.Irish, I'm well aware of which word means which. For example, I would always use "British" rather than "English" in sentences like "I was the only British member of an American online forum, so they used to tease me about my 'accent' when I spelt things differently from them."

Generali wrote: »

Well we looked at 3 places today. One is out of our league for now, but it's good to know what you could get if you spent a little more, one was a dump but the third was well within budget and a very nice little place:

Thoughts.....?

I like the airy spacious feel to it, but it would be too open plan for my family.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Pies. Lots of 'em.

Too much fat: too hard to convert to usable fuel.

Pasta is good, muesli bars I find good although most don't like them. Jelly beans are excellent but they don't fill the stomach. Orange squash works well.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd have assumed the au pair would have the downstairs room.

It's good to give the au pair a room tucked away in a corner somewhere as it gives them a little more privacy and somewhere to hide away when it all gets too much.

LydiaJ wrote: »

English and British aren't interchangeable to me, unless I'm talking about myself, because I'm equally comfortable with both as describing me. But with a sil who's Scottish, and people in my office who are Welsh and N.Irish, I'm well aware of which word means which. For example, I would always use "British" rather than "English" in sentences like "I was the only British member of an American online forum, so they used to tease me about my 'accent' when I spelt things differently from them."

Living this far away, the difference between Wales and England Northern and Southern England seem petty and parochial. Wales really is part of England, Scotland retained a genuine identity whereas Wales was simply subsumed into England.

Northern Ireland is just meaningless to the rest of the world. People are vaguely aware that Ireland is split into 2 bits but that's about as far as it goes.

I'm not trying to be offensive, just realistic. I realise people are proud to come from Yorkshire or Ulster but to everyone else it's just a bit silly. For most, Britain is England and Scotland. Even the French struggle with Wales until you point out that they have a rugby team.

LydiaJ wrote: »

I like the airy spacious feel to it, but it would be too open plan for my family.

Like I say, the photos don't do it justice. It's quite an English house really after the late 60s/early 70s layout. Kinda what I grew up in.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

For most, Britain is England and Scotland.

Cheeky beggar.....:D

zagubov

I've never thought of myself as English though I've lived here for thirty years. My wife and kids are English and rightly proud of it. I've no time for people who think it's funny to support whoever's playing against Engliand in sporting events.

In Scotland the general term for people who relocate there is "New Scots" or specifically Anglo-Scots, Italian-Scots etc. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent term south of the border where the term British seems to have to serve for non Anglosaxon English people. Having said that I live in a unique part of England that some would argue isn't really like the rest of the country at all.

Like most Scots I'm baffled about why being patriotic about being English (and celebrating English achievements and symbols) is such a no-no. If you showed the slightest displeasure in Scotland about anything symbolic there you'd be treated at best like you were an imbecile. I see the spread of St George's flags as normal and healthy. Australia and Israel are (I'd imagine) probably places where you can fly a flag without raising an eyebrow - is that the case?