Media Thread 2020/21

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KS55 said:
Well, I disagree with this:"they have nothing else".
What is this nonsense?
Just off the top of my head, we have:
THE best contemporary popular music and a fantastic record in the modern era.
An open democracy with enormous freedom.
An multi ethic country which is doing quite well at making the changes necessary
Hand pulled beer of astonishing variety and quality.
The best top football league in Europe.
A brilliant one day cricket team
Wimbledon
The best Indian cooking outside Asia
The wonderfully beautiful Yorkshire dales
Great athletes bound for the Olympics.
And so much more.....
Oh they have great bacon in denmark and......er....
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GortonBlue62 said:
In our favour you could say if we didn't invent and codify the game of association football and then take it around the world the Danes and Germans wouldn't have anything to moan about.

A more pertinent question would be why do people like you loathe your own country?
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....and many of their countrymen too including fellow City fans. All because of daft politics which they should take elsewhere where they can argue as much as they want.
 
GortonBlue62 said:
In our favour you could say if we didn't invent and codify the game of association football and then take it around the world the Danes and Germans wouldn't have anything to moan about.

A more pertinent question would be why do people like you loathe your own country?
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An even more pertinent question would be why do you assume I'm English?
 
GortonBlue62 said:
Ha ha. My mistake.

Are you one of those celts that happily take English tax payers money, but still reserve the right to hate the English?
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No. Not at all. There's more to the world than just the northern hemisphere...

And nowhere have I said that I hate the English. All that post and my follow up did was allude to the fact that sometimes it's difficult for 'insiders' to distinguish why 'outsiders' might have a different view of them.
 
billymumphrey said:
No. Not at all. There's more to the world than just the northern hemisphere...

And nowhere have I said that I hate the English. All that post and my follow up did was allude to the fact that sometimes it's difficult for 'insiders' to distinguish why 'outsiders' might have a different view of them.
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I worked on EU business across 8 countries and talked seriously to hundreds of people.
Some liked the English and some did not. Many respected us and our history, especially the defeat of nazism. But my abiding impression was that we baffled them. They struggled to understand us culturally.
There are several reasons for this of which the most important is exemplified in our completely different legal systems. Theirs is a codified system with roots in Roman law and more recently in Napoleonic codes. Their stance is have a rule for everything, don't worry too much about compliance, but come down hard when a breach results in serious harm. Ours is have as few rules as possible, but comply at all times. In business terms, that made agreement difficult to reach. How on earth do you live without a constitution they would ask. We have one, I would reply, it is just scattered across many common law decisions and some conventions, but you wont find a codified version anywhere.
Finally, they thought we were an old tired power still with a touch of big player arrogance. (I laughed at that coming from the French).
They were genuinely shocked at Brexit and were sure the gov would not implement it. They were happy with May's super soft brexit and Boris just boggled them and confused them with his hard stance. They still cannot quite believe it.
 
BringBackSwales said:
What baffles me the most is why is it”Boris” rather than “That **** Johnson”, the constant Boris references make him sound like some sort of lovable rogue, whereas That **** Johnson says it as it is
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Except that half the country voted for him. And isn't the lovable rogue his carefully constructed image?
 
KS55 said:
I worked on EU business across 8 countries and talked seriously to hundreds of people.
Some liked the English and some did not. Many respected us and our history, especially the defeat of nazism. But my abiding impression was that we baffled them. They struggled to understand us culturally.
There are several reasons for this of which the most important is exemplified in our completely different legal systems. Theirs is a codified system with roots in Roman law and more recently in Napoleonic codes. Their stance is have a rule for everything, don't worry too much about compliance, but come down hard when a breach results in serious harm. Ours is have as few rules as possible, but comply at all times. In business terms, that made agreement difficult to reach. How on earth do you live without a constitution they would ask. We have one, I would reply, it is just scattered across many common law decisions and some conventions, but you wont find a codified version anywhere.
Finally, they thought we were an old tired power still with a touch of big player arrogance. (I laughed at that coming from the French).
They were genuinely shocked at Brexit and were sure the gov would not implement it. They were happy with May's super soft brexit and Boris just boggled them and confused them with his hard stance. They still cannot quite believe it.
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well they wouldn't, because they believe their way is a rule and you should just follow it. How could anyone think for themselves and go against it? (Not an endorsement of Brexit but just an indictment of European collective thinking).
 
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