Happy Europe Day, Everyone!

[Beef Oven]

No, sir; YOU pay attention before writing, as you did in #40 in this thread, "Britain is my 'country', even though technically I am 25% British, "25% Italian, 25% Austrian & 25% Serbian"; those were your words, not mine and I therefore asked you, purely as a matter of courtesy and curiosity, what exactly you meant by the "25% British" part of that statement and how, for you, it nevertheless appears to be compatible with your statement that you are - or at least regard yourself as - "British through and through" (and, for that matter, how many times would anyone have to go "through" exactly what in order to prove to themselves the extent of their Britishness?)...

Look here, don't shout at me and don't call me sir!. Be careful, I know Jiu Jitsu, Karate, Judo and several other Japanese words.

[Beef Oven]

So what gender is this A.T.P. Hargreaves? I've done some searching to find out, & discovered nobody called Hargreaves with those initials, & nothing called 'The Third Season' written by any Hargreaves. Evidence, please, that he, she or it exist?

It was an evil trick that I played on you! He (you were right, he is a man) does not exist!

I made him up because I was bored, and you fell right into my trap!

[Flosshilde]

It was an evil trick that I played on you! He (you were right, he is a man) does not exist!

I made him up because I was bored, and you fell right into my trap!

What trap was that?

[Beef Oven]

What trap was that?

There you go, you didn't notice it! It's the nature of traps.

[Serial_Apologist]

What trap was that?

Winding everybody up, then when cornered dismissing what was posed as a serious point with a joke, then changing the subject.

It's a character trait. My dad, who could never afford to lose an argument, did this all the time.

[Beef Oven]

Winding everybody up, then when cornered dismissing what was posed as a serious point with a joke, then changing the subject.

It's a character trait. My dad, who could never afford to lose an argument, did this all the time.

Yikes! I've been rumbled!!

[3rd Viennese School]

I don't live in Europe I live in Kent!


And work in a hospital.

3VS

[Beef Oven]

I don't live in Europe I live in Kent!


And work in a hospital.

3VS

Careful, people get wound up real easy in this very serious thread!

[Flosshilde]

There you go, you didn't notice it! It's the nature of traps.

I think it's the nature of traps that you don't notice them before you fall in, but surely after you've fallen in you'd notice it? Otherwise you'd just carry on as normal, which would make the trap rather redundant.

[Flosshilde]

Yikes! I've been rumbled!!

Ah yes, time for lunch.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Beef Oven level with us ...Are You S_A'a Pa?

[Beef Oven]

Beef Oven level with us ...Are You S_A'a Pa?

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[ahinton]

Look here, don't shout at me and don't call me sir!. Be careful, I know Jiu Jitsu, Karate, Judo and several other Japanese words.

You know Japanese words as well as "British" ones; well, good for you! I'm not "shouting" at you (it's very difficult to do that by means of a forum thread in any case) and I called you "sir" because that's what some people do call people who are "British through and through" - however, if you'd rather I didn't do so (as seems to be the case) then I shall cease and desist as well as apologise for any unintended offence thereby caused. Why I would need to be "careful" (which I was in any case trying to be) because you happen to know a few Japanese words, is, however, unclear to me. Rather more to the point, though, I note that you continue with your omission to attempt to account for the apparent discrepancy between your statements that, on the one hand, you regard yourself as technically 25% British and, on the other, that you regard yourself as "British through and through".

[ahinton]

Beef Oven level

Are you suggesting that he is some kind of eye-level oven of the kind that one might expect to find integrated into a tall kitchen unit?

Anyway, leaving that aside for as long as it might deserve to be left aside, we're now past 100 posts and counting in a thread which scotty only initiated in order to send good wishes to everyone (or, at the very least, all Europeans) on Happy Europe Day; I don't think that, by "everyone", he had any thought or desire to exclude those who aren't happy, those who aren't happy being Europeans, those who aren't happy about Europe, EU, the Eurozone or any combination of the three, still less those who appear to be technically 25% British while at the same time being British through and through - so why can't we just accept the motivation for his greeting in the spirit in which it was presumably meant and then move on?

[Beef Oven]

You kinow Japanese words as well as "British" ones; well done! I'm not "shouting" at you (it's very difficult to do that by means of a forum thread in any case) and I called you "sir" because that's what some people do call people who are "British through and through" - however, if you'd rather I didn't do so (as seems to be the case) then I shall cease and desist as well as apologise for any unintended offence thereby caused. Why I would need to be "careful" (which I was in any case trying to be) because you happen to know a few Japanese words, is, however, unclear to me. Rather more to the point, however, you continue with your omission to attempt to account for the apparent discrepancy between your statements that, on the one hand, you regard yourself as technically 25% British and, on the other, that you regard yourself as "British through and through".

Difficult to shout in a forum 'in any case' - actually, upper-case is shouting.

Anyway, being British is hard to put into words. But one thing is certain, if you don't want to be British, you don't have to be.

The %ages and the 'through and through business' is oxymoronic, designed to emphasise the point that 'British' is a civic, cultural and voluntary concept, not racial, ethnic or religious.