before opening your mouth compared to after is stark.
I look "African", of course and also tend to dress in such a manner, according to my silly wife, that moves tramps on the street to offer loose change coupled with sincere advice not to spend it all on drink.
However, according to this same foolish wife, my speech is that of exactly the sort of shout-at-foreigners-to-make-them-understand Englishman mentioned earlier. And whatsmore, an extremely carefully raised and expensively-educated sneery, condescending, arrogant one. You know, the speech they have learned over the centuries to despise, yet have made Herr Berlitz etc. billionaires trying to master.
I'm clearly not one of them, though I do get mistaken for your northern spanish or on occasion a portugeezer, but they tend to be very accepting of anybody there no matter what.
Mind you, I've seen few people who would be described as a "negrito" there so what do I know, eh?
The old Yorkshire adage "Ah tek people as ah find em" is a decent maxim to go about being a world citizen with.
After all, there's a reason the English and Englishness travels so much and so well, yet, and at the same time, is so disparaged.
One of the lovely things about jaunts abroad is that nobody ever assumes I'm english. My OH gets german, scandi or dutch and I get people yammering on to me in castillian.
It's very sweet that you believe that, j
they're saying about you.
It can give you pause.
Good for the old ego stroking if nothing else.
Gareh and Phil were certainly having a competition to see who could kick the wee lad the furthest up in the air, but they were surely only following orders.
Is it wrong of me to hope that that rednosed govan ******* dies a slow and painful death?
The w*nk stained mother f*cker
were committed by Edu and Cole on Ronaldo. How innocent we were, eh
Though I must say, Gary Neville wrote a column for the Times, saying how uneasy he was with the tactics employed in that game. Needless to say it was last column he wrote for the Times until he retired
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