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What do you count yourself as? Are you English, Scottish, Welsh, Kazakstani or what? Perhaps you’re a mix. Tell us all about it.
im Scottish.. Man and Boy.
I am, by the way, exactly half Scottish and half English. A half-breed, as Mr Manners once called me. British, I like to think of it as.
i have a double barrel surname and the first half comes from Sweden !! great,great granny was a smorgasbord o Swedish sauna fun LOL. i think i get my milk bottle whiteness from that ! and the ability to call myself Helga, whilst slapping folks with a rollmop herring!
but no i have to state im Scottish , from east and west scotland !
im 100% Scottish, but my dad was Irish of Birth and my Mother is 100% scottish…
Surely you’re half paddy, then, Mary?
my paternal grand-mother was a simple Mexican washerwoman, gainfully employed in Queen Victoria’s service in a role befitting her talents; which were washing and generally being simple. She met a drunken seaman who floated her boat, and who then inspired her to emigrate to Lower Dorking, where they opened the very first Fray Bentos franchise in known existence. They produced my father who spent most of his life denying all knowledge of his upbringing which makes these questions so godamn hard to answer. For a while he insisted he was Princess Anastasia. I googled him once and it made him smile.
I have no knowledge of my mother, apart from the fact that she once hid in a loaf of bread for six months, and then returned to the debtors prison on the wild Orkney coast, where she mumbled about caterpillars and the refusal of her warders to hop in Japanese.
Damn you to Hell. I want ethnicities.
I have some Welsh boyo, so I do (but a long way back)
Other than that, I’m English/British or whatever label you want to attach to a white heterosexual 40 something
@pikey wrote:
Surely you’re half paddy, then, Mary?
no it goes on the place of your birth in my eyes…. if i wiZ Irish id speak like my rellies lol
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