Reply With QuoteWhat are we talking here, an astral plane or a giant woodworking plane?Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
It's simply a matter of your passport, surely? I mean, you're absolutely right, Cliff could have an Indian passport but he's still not fúcking Indian, except that, legally, he'd be Indian.
Consider a chap born in the UK of Jamaican parents. Is he English? Of course he's English, his passport says he's English. British. Whatever.
What are we talking here, an astral plane or a giant woodworking plane?
Who could you mean? It is an odd saying, true, but I guess the point is nationality is to a certain point a matter of choice. One can choose to be English or Irish or Dutch should one have a certain lineage, one cannot choose to be a horse if one desired
Sorry, but this results in absurdities like the Jorges of this world deciding they're Irish despite every iota of external evidence suggesting otherwise. Also, Americans claiming to be Irish. :shudder: Geography has to be something to do with it, I'm afraid.
It's the old arguement that berni and myself have had in the past about certain England cricket players..... also see Chris Froome and Kyle EdmundIt's simply a matter of your passport, surely? I mean, you're absolutely right, Cliff could have an Indian passport but he's still not fúcking Indian, except that, legally, he'd be Indian.
Consider a chap born in the UK of Jamaican parents. Is he English? Of course he's English, his passport says he's English. British. Whatever.
Northern Monkey ... who can't upload a bleeding Avatar
Hold on, surely if Jorge identifies as Irish, he must be Irish? I mean, if he identifies as a woman, he's a woman, so why shouldn't he be an Irish woman? Or a greyhound, come to that?
It's simply a matter of your passport, surely? I mean, you're absolutely right, Cliff could have an Indian passport but he's still not fúcking Indian, except that, legally, he'd be Indian.
Consider a chap born in the UK of Jamaican parents. Is he English? Of course he's English, his passport says he's English. British. Whatever.
So if you'd gone with your initial plan of an Irish passport, you'd be Irish?
Surely we must acknowledge that - as with ships - there is such a thing as a flag of convenience?
And Ireland is certainly a convenience, of course.
I don't know who those people are and I don't wish to know. I don't ask you to consider how Nigel Lamb was allowed to compete for the UK, do I?
I'd legally have been British and Irish, I suppose, what with having two passports.So if you'd gone with your initial plan of an Irish passport, you'd be Irish?
Surely we must acknowledge that - as with ships - there is such a thing as a flag of convenience?
And Ireland is certainly a convenience, of course.
Thank God I drew back from the brink.
Irish. Greyhound. Stereotype.
also, I'm sure I read somewhere that the Irish champion greyhound failed a drugs test.
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
Greyhounds are Irish? What the hell are you talking about, man?
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