tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post1209801116798569792..comments2024-03-29T05:46:39.542+00:00Comments on Penny Red: Can't Stop the BlogPenny Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677315565893516941noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-48969535683345316872021-08-31T13:55:40.220+01:002021-08-31T13:55:40.220+01:00Our collection of premium and basic latest bedding...Our collection of premium and basic latest bedding sets includes <a href="https://www.kambal.pk/bbl-creations/bed-cover-sets?cat=139" rel="nofollow">Bed Cover Sets</a>, luxury bed sets, signature bed sets, bedding sheet and available in <a href="https://www.kambal.pk/bbl-creations/bed-cover-sets?cat=139" rel="nofollow">shop Bed Cover Sets</a>.<br />BBLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831266035309130075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-2103192191745917032009-10-28T16:58:55.063+00:002009-10-28T16:58:55.063+00:00Cheers! :)Cheers! :)Leonhttp://www.pickledpolitics.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-51449257758417902612009-10-26T22:53:36.877+00:002009-10-26T22:53:36.877+00:00Done :)Done :)Penny Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677315565893516941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-16434707072127577072009-10-26T22:51:20.678+00:002009-10-26T22:51:20.678+00:00Will do hon! Sorry, I was writing on the fly and h...Will do hon! Sorry, I was writing on the fly and had no time to ask if you wanted to be anonymously quoted or not. L.xPenny Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677315565893516941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-28637492271860985532009-10-26T22:40:06.944+00:002009-10-26T22:40:06.944+00:00Heh thanks for the quote. Be nice to be attributed...Heh thanks for the quote. Be nice to be attributed though. ;)<br /><br />Leon<br /><br />twitter.com/leongreenLeonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-53568315910009321472009-10-26T22:27:41.608+00:002009-10-26T22:27:41.608+00:00It's a great article.
While I wouldn't go ...It's a great article.<br />While I wouldn't go to far as to suggest it, I wonder what an election held by online voters would look like?Tim Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02470464053181422637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-15462370116857473992009-10-26T07:19:42.988+00:002009-10-26T07:19:42.988+00:00The best blogs are diverting polemical rumour mill...The best blogs are diverting polemical rumour mills; nothing more significant. Blogs don't affect policy or sway public opinion vis-a-vis portentous issues; at their most potent they can sometimes expose misconduct and pour petrol on scandals involving individuals and errant personalities but achieve little else in the real world.<br /><br />To demonstrate the impotence and insignificance of the general run-of-the-mill blog simply peruse the number of comments its readers make to its posts. Unless the blog is very famous or infamous, e.g., Guido Fawkes, comments normally number less than a few dozen, indicating that said blog has been viewed by, probably, only a few dozen, certainly less than a hundred, internet users being optimistic.<br /><br />Blogs and bloggers are totally insignificant in the grand scheme of things.Dragonflynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-36148914749690522262009-10-25T23:06:10.321+00:002009-10-25T23:06:10.321+00:00@Dandelion: Your making a chicken out a feather.
B...@Dandelion: Your making a chicken out a feather.<br />Besides, British is someone who lives in Britain, no?Illogichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988660947978523357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-7067525338482593192009-10-24T17:04:09.621+01:002009-10-24T17:04:09.621+01:00PennyRed, I said parents or grandparents for a rea...PennyRed, I said parents or grandparents for a reason. I was talking about recent imimgration.<br />It's funny how often any reference to recent immigrants, or any desire to differentiate oneself from offspring of recent immigrants gets dismissed with "we're all immigrants if you go back far enough". Totally avoiding the point, and not very respectful of other people's heritage.<br /><br />If what you say about your own family is true, then clearly, the propensity for complaining is not a particularly "British" trait. Or are you saying the family members you refer to suddenly <i>became</i> complainers after they came here? If not, then it totally undermines your argument that it is being "British" which makes people complainers, when by your own admission, recent immigrants display the trait to the same or greater extent than those descended from 400 years or more of non-immigrants. Weird.<br /><br />The notion of "more British than the British" makes a mockery of your argument, because it implies that recent immigrants aren't "British" that "British" is a separate thing which excludes recent immigrants. I'm really not sure that's what you meant to imply, is it? <br /><br />When you use that phrase, you implicitly acknowledge that there is a group of people worth referring to, who don't have recent immigrants in their backgrounds, yet this same group of people aren't allowed to assert or acknowledge our own existance without the "we're all immigrants" being trotted out to deny us.<br /><br />I really think you need to think this through.Dandelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12302932867084357713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-6810808154168081892009-10-24T14:50:48.321+01:002009-10-24T14:50:48.321+01:00I don't think the grandparents of MOST denizen...I don't think the grandparents of MOST denizens of these isles are "immigrants", even if you "go back far enough"? Despite the binary expansion of my family tree into history, I know e.g I am tenth generation "English", crossed with fifth generation "Welsh", albeit on a linear sample?<br /><br />Just as Far-Right's bizarre idea that (perhaps) we are of "Aryan" descent is false, so is the idea that we are generally of "multi-cultural" descent. Heck, if I had Jewish, Isalmic, Brown or Black forbears, I'd be equally PROUD of them too... but factually, I suspect, I do not. :P<br /><br />Good luck with your REFRESHING blog thoughbut. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-64605490850134492212009-10-23T23:40:13.017+01:002009-10-23T23:40:13.017+01:00Britain hasn't been successfully invaded since...Britain hasn't been successfully invaded since 1066. Unless of course you are equating waves of immigration with invasion which would be an unexpected and unlikely trip into racist language for you.<br /><br />Oh and your stats on internet users seem to be wrong. Britain has the 22nd highest rate of internet penetration with 68.6% while Greenland is number one with 92.3%<br />http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-16785645964834994902009-10-23T18:54:21.520+01:002009-10-23T18:54:21.520+01:00Nearly all British people's parents or grandpa...Nearly all British people's parents or grandparents are immigrants if you go back far enough. That analysis, and that aspect of the national character, applies equally to families who immigrated more recently. Indeed, this is only from personal experience, but a lot of my family who are immigrants are 'more British than the British' when it comes to complaining!Penny Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677315565893516941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-3857135981285685962009-10-23T18:30:06.231+01:002009-10-23T18:30:06.231+01:00Slightly OT, but: We have always been a nation of ...Slightly OT, but: <i>We have always been a nation of grumblers, gossipers and whiners. Thirty centuries of being invaded by nearly everyone, ruled over by bloodthirsty fops in stupid tights and incessantly rained on will do that to you.</i>?<br /><br />What about the sizeable number of British people whose parents or grandparents were immigrants? Are you meaning to exclude them or their contribution from your analysis?Dandelionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12302932867084357713noreply@blogger.com