Ha Ha! Fooled you - I needed to get back home and pack a toothbrush before I set off for the Wild South and couldn't resist looking in once more time! I am off, honest, SOON. Don't tell the boss I ain't gone yet:-)

Thanks, Tiocfaidh, I had not indeed seen your answer of 6:26 and that is the only answer I could have wanted realy! Very good of you to say it.

Now, seeing as I am realy off this time, I can indeed leave the thread to get on with Britishness in all it's (ex)glory. Quite happy to kick you off in fact.

It's about time the term was dropped. It has nothing but negative connotations across the globe. It harks back to the time when the sun never set etc. I am not, never have been and never will be a Brit. I am parochialy Mancunian and globaly human. All the bits in between are made up by other people wanting to rule my life. The terms 'nigger' and 'yid' are very fortunately now things of the past. Lets make sure that the same happens to brit. Except of course in song where anything goes;-)

Cheers

DtG