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[littlebabybird]

how old do you have to get to have been bred somewhere?
do you have to do all your childhood?
lbb

I think 16 is the legal age to start breeding. But you are not any age at all when you are bred, Still a twinkle in your fathers eye.

It should really be born and raised in an area to qualify as a native. I was born and raised in captivity, contrary to popular belief. ;D

so if i was bred in germany, born in ryde(iow)
raised in nottingham 2 years norfolk the rest
what does that make me?

on second thoughts i dont want to know
lbb

[littlebabybird]

[Mr Smith]

I love the people of Birmingham I think they are warm, friendly and kind, its just the white B------s I did'nt get on with, being serious Brummies are the salt of the earth and I include the Blacks and the Asians, worked in Brum and never had a problem ;)

[valmarg]

I'd love to go to Cuba if you're offering tickets, Smithy...

I'll start collecting for you for a one way ticket Ollie.  Much as I would miss your postings on here, I think you might be in for one hell of a rude awakening,

valmarg

[OllieC]

I'd love to go to Cuba if you're offering tickets, Smithy...

I'll start collecting for you for a one way ticket Ollie.  Much as I would miss your postings on here, I think you might be in for one hell of a rude awakening,

valmarg

Oy! I only want to go for a week or so. Having known a real refugee from there, I have no idealist blinkered concept of what life is like there to live!!!

[Hyacinth]

I love the people of Birmingham I think they are warm, friendly and kind,  being serious Brummies are the salt of the earth and I include the Blacks and the Asians
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Sorry to amend your posting Mr.S......agree with all that and don't exclude my white friends too.

I've got great friends in Brum - and I'd miss them all ;D ;D ;D

[redimp]

Redclanger, in your world this country is shti, why don't you fkcu off to   China, Russia or North Korea, and send me a post card when it all goes tits up, if you  ever decide to go to Cuba give me a shout and I'll pay the air fare air fare but I'll  be there with you love the place

Hmmm- methinks I hit a nerve.  Where does that actually respond to my post like mine does yourx. Also, I think it will you be sending me a postcard when you find a time machine to send you back to Nazi Germany, to my beautiful Utopian Britain of the (very) near future ;D

[Mr Smith]

Redclanger, I would prefare being sent back to fascist Italy, prefare the country, prefare the food and love the women ;D

[Melbourne12]

I endorse Melbourne's comment about 'casual racism' in Birmingham and I've lived here 24 years now - God help us all if this level of perceived white superiority is endemic over-the-board in England.  My horror is that I hear it from 40-yr old acquaintances who forward 'jokes' which aren't even fit for Watershed; those of my own age;  and also from the majority of my clients in their 70s-80s. My shock is that they all assume that I, of course, also endorse their narrow bigotted and ignorant views without even attempting to find out if I am 'like-minded'.

So what do I do?

I don't comment, is what....how the heck can I even begin to change such deeply-entrenched views?

If 'ignorance' is bliss, it is more than folly to be perceived to be 'wise'.

My actual friends don't have these views - they're educated, travelled and hey! even admire those of a different colour/race who are more knowledgeable than them, but I've more acquaintances than friends.. 

Thank you for that posting.  Exactly the same thing used to enrage us.  I regret to say that occasionally, just occasionally, when someone made a particularly offensive comment about "Pakis", I'd respond straight faced, "Ah well, it could be worse.  They could be Spics."  They'd be a brief silence and look of puzzlement, but they normally took the hint and changed the subject.

[valmarg]

We seem to have gone off topic a bit, from open season on Brummie bashing to racism.

I think political correctness breeds more racism.  When you get Scarborough banning Easter and Christmas in its Coastal College, 'for fear of offending non-Christians', it causes more trouble than it solves.  The local muslim clerics, hindus, sikhs, et al will be up in arms,  They are not offended.  They feel they are being held as scapegoats, and of course such action strengthens the hand of the BNP.

Britain is not a multi-cultural society because political correctness will not allow it to be.  It divides, and put barriers where there arn't/shouldn't be any.

valmarg

[Hyacinth]

Agreed, Valmarg!

Back to Birmingham,  and whoever will forget the Christmas we had Winterval... ::) ;D  Who the heck in the Council House thought up that little gem!

[valmarg]

Yep Hyacinth, I think its about 10 years since that bit of PC stupidity.  You will find that the ethnic minority religions did not want it and were more upset about it than the Christians, hence the fast backtracking.

The problem is the PC gestapo have learned nothing.

They kowtow to the minorities, whether it be religion, or whatever.

Whatever they do they divide rather than unite.

valmarg

[Melbourne12]

Yep Hyacinth, I think its about 10 years since that bit of PC stupidity.  You will find that the ethnic minority religions did not want it and were more upset about it than the Christians, hence the fast backtracking.

The problem is the PC gestapo have learned nothing.

They kowtow to the minorities, whether it be religion, or whatever.

Whatever they do they divide rather than unite.

valmarg

This is indeed true.  :(

But we must remember that "multiculturalism" doesn't mean that we all live together in one marvellous eclectic mix.  That's "cultural diversity".  Our PC friends actually want many separate cultures - ghettoes in other words.  Divisiveness and suspicion are meat and drink to them, and of course generate huge numbers of jobs to inflate their bureaucracy.

One of the funniest PC-gone-wrong stories was the Huddersfield school that renamed its panto "Three Little Puppies" instead of "Three Little Pigs".  In their ignorance, they didn't realise that if there's an animal considered more unclean in Islam than pigs, it's dogs.  ;D

[Pesky Wabbit]

We seem to have gone off topic a bit, from open season on Brummie bashing to racism.

I thought this post was open season on ACE & IoW.  :(

PS still can't work out what a 'Spics' is/are.  :(

[redimp]

A person of Spanish origin

[Flunky]

A person of Spanish origin

Nah, they are Deigos, I thought Spics were Eyeties ? or from Itlay ? its them thar forinners, I ate. Come over ere' steal our jobs blah blah blah, nuttin like a good ole bit'a racial tolerance. Hey ? wereeeeeelllll the're all the, same aint they ?  ;D

[grawrc]

hiSPanICS

.. and even if you think your comments are "tongue in cheek" and "only a joke", Flunky, I should let you know that I find them deeply offensive and quite out of place in this forum. This is the Shed, not the Watershed. My goodness they'd be out of place in the Watershed too.

[redimp]

Twas always Spanish round here:  Spics (Spaniards) and Eyeties (Italians) were the terms of choice of all the over 70s and the apprentice BNP members when I was growing up.  A quick look on Wikipedia suggests anybody of Hispanic descent so that would be Spaniards and Portuguese I assume - pologies to all the Italian, Spaniards and Portuguese frequenters of the site btw!!!

[Flunky]

hiSPanICS

.. and even if you think your comments are "tongue in cheek" and "only a joke", Flunky, I should let you know that I find them deeply offensive and quite out of place in this forum. This is the Shed, not the Watershed. My goodness they'd be out of place in the Watershed too.

Stop being so precious. I suppose a joke about and englishman, irishman and scotsman would be offensive if you looked hard enough. This is where the problems lies. Everyone jumping up and down at the slightest point made. I am not posting in stuff like this anymore.

I live in a SMALL town where there are lots of people from all over the world, i embrace them fully. i would not want to change it. They have each contributed in some ways. I find you deeply offensive with your opionated ways. I read a few of your posts and some are bordering on school ground bullying :-

grawrc
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[Amazin]

When I was growing up, the term 'Paki' was an abbreviation of Pakistani. Nothing more. 'Spic' and 'Eyetie' as well. If you find them offensive, how do you cope with being called a Scot? And what about nicknames: Taff or Jock for instance? Any name, in fact any subject at all, can be made derogatory simply by adding the prefix 'effin'.

When we think about diversity we need look no further than our own doorsteps. Think of the local rivalries in our own areas - Yorkshire and Lancashire for instance. These have been with us for years - way before any modern day immigration or race relations act. We've had God knows how many separate kingdoms throughout history. The fact is, these tiny islands of ours have always been intensely tribal.

Me, I'm perfectly happy with my Cockney rhyming slang title - being both Scottish and disabled - and you can call me a Sweaty Raspberry any time you like.

;D

[valmarg]

Well, they've all buggered off back from whence they came. ;D ;D

valmarg