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diver

General

29 May 23 12:59

diver

Joined: 16 Feb 08
Moves: 123649

29 May 23 12:59

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Great Big Stees

Joined: 14 Mar 04
Moves: 213582

29 May 23 13:06

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Are we not men? We are Devo.

Nah…I’m Canadian, though born in Scotland.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 716416

29 May 23 13:11

I am German, though my great-great-grandfather was an alien "Ein Ausländer" according to the church books. All other of my ancestors, of whom I know can be put as German (and Austrian, if that says anything in the 17th century). One ancestor of me emigrated to "Amerika"

Torunn

Gothenburg

Joined: 11 Mar 16
Moves: 30086

29 May 23 13:26

I am Swedish, with a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother. I am an anglophile, I have loved the English language since my first lessons in the fifth grade at school.

FMF

Joined: 28 Oct 05
Moves: 34587

29 May 23 14:46

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I am British. My ancestors were all Irish. I was born in the part of Britain called England but I would never describe myself as English.

Ghost of a Duke

Cats rule the world

Joined: 14 Mar 15
Moves: 36458

29 May 23 16:09

I'm English.

moonbus

Über-Nerd (emeritus)

Joined: 31 May 12
Moves: 9833

29 May 23 18:16

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The state is soulless. My soul is stateless.

I have two adopted nationalities: German and Swiss.

The Gravedigger

Jack Torrance

Overlook Hotel

Joined: 04 Feb 11
Moves: 60787

29 May 23 18:52

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I'm English.

Suzianne

Misfit Queen

Isle of Misfit Toys

Joined: 08 Aug 03
Moves: 37906

29 May 23 20:10

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I'm American, simple as.

My father's side of the family harkens back to England, they settled in the Philadelphia area, while my mother's side of the family started out in Germany, with English threads here and there. They settled in Missouri.

Kewpie

Felis australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 397599

30 May 23 12:52

I was born in Australia and have never considered myself as anything but Australian. My father was born in Greece and became Australian by naturalisation. My mother's parents came from Sweden as small children and became Australian when their respective parents were naturalised. Australians don't usually put qualifiers on their nationality, unless they're descended from the original inhabitants and choose to specify their birth "country".

FMF

Joined: 28 Oct 05
Moves: 34587

30 May 23 13:10

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@kewpie said
Australians don't usually put qualifiers on their nationality, unless they're descended from the original inhabitants and choose to specify their birth "country".

Alan Jones didn't always stick to this when he was sneering at some non-Anglo ethnicity or other on the radio! Ha ha.

rookie54

free tazer tickles..

wildly content...

Joined: 09 Mar 08
Moves: 218522

30 May 23 13:44

genealogy
the final frontier
these are the conversations of the derelict denizens of the forum known as general

who's yer daddy?
and why did yer momma let him boink-a-doink?

i've never had a passport
i have a scottish surname
i was pleasantly surprised to find our clan still exists and has a tartan and everything
then again, that might not be a big deal, prolly everyone has a claim to a random weave of feltish wool
i bought a kilt so i could pretend to be my own ancestor
got a light tan one, with a sporran, to match my desert tactical boots
found out i was supposed to wear the thing commando
but i'm shy, so it hangs in the closet

momma (rest her soul) has a big ole book with lotsa names in it
turns out we're related to english royalty
200-300th cousins to the dang throne

didn't get an invite to the latest shindig tho
oh well