The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110424   Message #2488975
Posted By: mandotim
09-Nov-08 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
From your post: '"Culturally, WAV, you are not English. You try to be...get a job" (Tim)...yes, as a repatriate rather than a visitor, I "try to be". And you know damn well that, these days, you couldn't get away with talking about an immigrant like that, but with a repat. from that rival country it's acceptable...just as, at interviews, it's okay to say "why ON EARTH did you come back?" or "you must be mad", etc.'

Any comments on the rest of my post WAV? After 'try to be', there is a 'but'. Incidentally, 'these days' I can 'get away' with saying anything I like about anyone as long as it breaks no laws. Recommending someone who is unemployed to get a job, as far as I know, is not illegal. If you find me saying that to you offensive, then the remedy is simple; get a job, you idle layabout.
I still maintain that English culture is something you are not familiar with WAV; an example; when questioning the practice of singing with a finger in one ear, you ask 'is it documented anywhere that, over the centuries, some fishermen, farmers, miners, peasants, etc. did indeed do that...?' Do accountants not sing folk music? What makes you think that doctors don't? How about architects? Priests? Office workers? Once again, your monumental ignorance is on show, coupled with your uninformed prejudice about folk music being either some bucolic idyll or an art form practised by horny-handed sons of toil. It might be where you come from WAV, but not in England.
Why not just accept it WAV; England is never going to be the place your delusions say it is. Either accept the fact, or bugger off to somewhere where racist, sexist wasters are accepted and welcomed.