78% of Brits under surveillance?
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ance-year.html

Is this not a little extreme? I wonder what our number would be?

No no, not 78%, 1 in 78 people; i.e. 1.3%.

Still, I bet that's more than here. Or maybe not. ;)

WOW! I just had a serious case of the stupit!

It's okay, Dana and Sundae Girl say that's a typical side effect of reading the Daily Mail. :)

Quite correct. According to Hate Mail headlines, 350 Britons ARE going to die every day from swine flu. Hasn't happened yet. And despite the handcarts I see in the street all the time, my arrival in hell has been greatly exaggerated.

BTW, Griff - I get that you read the statistics wrong, but way to load a poll! Tell me again, why do you hate Britain?

Oh, the usual Irish stuff. :)

By Merkin standards, I'm half Irish. So ppppft :p

merkin = unkind :sniff:

why of course.

Now we all know you're not all evil, and not all of you are evil either. ;) In fact, I'm inclined to think the worst thing about some Americans is their single mindedness, which is not always a bad thing. Far from evil though.

I don't mean "merkin" as an insult! It's a comical abbreviation. However, if you view it like Chink or Spic I may have to desist...

My comment was simply because in England, we expect to be mongrel. Very few of us claim to be half this, half that, a quarter the other. (There are some of course, but we snicker about them.) We know we have a mixed heritage, and unless someone has a different language, or an insistent parent, it's just accepted that you're here because you're here because etc etc. What's the point of tracing your family back? You'd only end up finding your female ancestors were rogered by some sort of invader (Viking, Roman, French etc).

So my Irish heritage is of no use to me - so what if Grandad came from Ireland? Three Grandparents were Londoners.

I know this is a light-hearted thread and I really didn't mean this divisively. Just I wan't quite sure what the comments meant and trying to cover all bases :)

[yanking] We know. [/yourchain]:)

I sorta thought so.
Just feel I have to be super-careful these days.
I'm scared the Anti-Merk Death Squad have my address...

:DI ain't scered of those guys...

You available for sniper duty?

Yep. Already loaded and ready to travel.

They're not scarey anyway SG. Mostly full of piss and wind with the odd stinky fart thrown in for good measure. ;)

I know the merkin thing is an inadvertent contraction to a cod piece. Just being a wise acre. All my ancestors were from Ireland but of course they were from who knows where before that. And you know they left for a reason. ;) hmmm... genome project might shed some light on the prehistory stuff... Anywho, I love the Brits even if I have no idea what you're talking about 1/2 the time.

Don't worry - neither do I...

Aaaah, the pictures* of yore: "Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?"
:p

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*movies

I saw that at a drive-in. ;)

I'm still trying to figure out what the article is talking about. I better get my ration today or I am going to be upset.....:)

From the article, thankfully, not from a Dwellar.
Do they? Really?
Shit, best tell them that chopping up brooms doesn't really mean they all come to life carrying water.

Honestly.