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Originally Posted by Hatgirl
Um.... what? Did you just call all English people thieves? Don't get me wrong, as an Irish person it gave me a cheering laugh, but it's not actually accurate.
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TANSTAAFL or "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
A quintessentially American idea. Ref; Heinlein or Friedman
As calling the English people thieves, my point was more to the idea that
they may have been raised to expect that many of the things they want
and/or need, will be provided to them as an entitlement. At least, more so
than those raised in the culture of the USA. (By the way I did say the "UK"
which I guess may be taken by some to have an Irish component.)
Then there is the matter of the fact that many of us Americans have an
ancestry that makes it logical to consider ourselves, in some fashion a part
of the "English Peoples". In my case, my family name came about during the
time my ancestors stopped over in England from 1066 to 1642, in fact quite
a few remained behind and are certainly considered English (assuming they
got over that whole Norman thing, by now).
[OT; Of special interest to the Irish might be Sir Nicholas Malby a distant
relation who had some impact there.
http://books.google.com/books?id=qd4...0malby&f=false
Sir Nick was scheduled for execution for "coining", I guess by chopping off his head, in
those days, but he agreed to fight in Ireland instead. So.. Sir Nick was nearly headless, just an observation.]
Luck;
Ken