Posted by Temsonic on 07/02/06 10:38

"Colin Mckechnie" <colin.mckechnie3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "Temsonic" <dim.sp@miau.diolch> wrote in message
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>> "Colin Mckechnie" <colin.mckechnie3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>> Enjoy your night in watching DVD's boys im away out to celebrate
>>
>> As you're obviously a patriotic kind of guy with a fair amount of
>> anti-English sentiment (otherwise why would you see England losing as a
>> reason to celebrate?), what are your feelings on the story that an adult
>> in a Rangers top beat up a 7 year old kid for wearing an England shirt a
>> few days ago? Not to mention the disabled man dragged from his car and
>> beaten for the same offence. Are you proud of your countrymen's display
>> of nationalism there? See:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/5105452.stm
>>
>> Maybe you should take note and learn from the best quote that has ever
>> summed up the relationship between England and the other countries of
>> Britain, taken from Trainspotting:
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>> "Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the
>> other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to
>> get colonized by!"
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> Geez wee bit of banter as for web links? Shall we go down that road
> really??
> Hmm im sure English and Hooligan would bring back more hits than Scottish
> and Hooligan

You can do, as I'm Welsh it doesn't really bother me ;) I just really don't
see the point in xenophobia. To be fair, England have played like shite
since the tournament began and should be pleased they managed to get through
to the last eight, but there's no point in trying to take pleasure from
someone else's misfortune.

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