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I hate the racist argument, other countries are proud of their achievements and characteristics and no one calls them racist, seems only the English can be racist in that way

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“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
― Samuel Johnson

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
― Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Patrick O'Brian,

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
― Guy de Maupassant,

“All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.”
― François Fénelon

“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
― Emma Goldman

“Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.”
― Tao Lin,

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Realist...Pstone....You two are a barrel o' laughs...not!

Famous words is it?

Never walk intae an underpass wi' a carry oot,
--Rab C Nesbit.

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I read that as ....... 'never walk into an underpass without a carry cot'

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I do have Scottish forebears but I have no idea what that means,
y' ken ?

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lol....In English...Never walk into an underpass with a carry out (a bag full of booze) Because there's every chance You won't get out the other end with it intact ;~)

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Right ! I shall remember that

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Mind you - I could use the carry cot to carry the booze

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http://youtu.be/CEDsoSaChP0

Mr Nesbit ( for overseas posters) he is the stereotypical British/English gentleman , good looking, well dressed , suave sophisticated man of the times

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BRITISH? ENGLISH???...That deserves a big Glasgow kiss Son

You don't really expect anyone here to understand this do You?...even I'm having a hard time to know what the hell He's saying,heh heh.