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Quote from: rooster on April 30, 2012, 12:43:04 PM

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Must be tough seeing your lands invaded by the superior nginx tribe from Russia, huh?

shuddup u nerd

I'm a quarter British, a quarter British and half British.

What does that make me?

I would venture to say you are most likely Ukrainian.

I am an African.

I am an African.

Gross, no you're not.

I am also an African.

Quote from: Around And About on April 30, 2012, 04:13:05 PM

I am an African.

Gross, no you're not.

Continentalist much?

I'm a quarter Scottish, a quarter Welsh and half English.

What does that make me?

Very similar to me.

.25 Irish
.25 Welsh
.25 English
.25 Cornish

Very similar to me.

.25 Irish
.25 British
.25 British
.25 British

Also Ukrainian, although not as pure as DDDDDDDDDDDDAts.

Quote from: DDDDAts all folks on April 30, 2012, 10:26:19 AM

I'm a quarter Scottish, a quarter Welsh and half English.

What does that make me?

Very similar to me.

.25 Irish
.25 Welsh
.25 English
.25 Cornish

Breaking it up like this makes no sense at all.

I was born in England. That makes me 100% English
Pick a different generation. My mother is English and my father is English. I'm still 100% English
My grandparents are Irish, English, English and Australian. Now I'm only half English, a quarter Irish and a quarter Australian.
How does that make any sense? why is my grandparents more important than my parents?
My great grandparents are Australian, English, English, English, English, English, Irish, Irish. Now I'm back up to 5/8 English.

However my passport says I'm English. I have one passport. I have never been to Australia and am not eligible for a passport. I am in no way a quarter Australian. If you keep chasing my family tree you'll find all those Australian relatives will revert to English anyway from the time before any of my relatives were deported for crimes to Australia.

So no, you aren't .25 Welsh and .25 Irish and pro-tip Cornwall hasn't yet declared its independence. You're English as boring as that sounds. You may have Celtic traits (I have Morton's Toes - A Celtic trait with a foreshortening of the footbone leading to the big toe - lots of sprinters have this and it doesn't mean ugly feet like the picture they found. Most renaissance paintings and sculptures have these type of feet) but I'm not a quarter Irish. Genetics don't work that way and it was very arbitrary that you picked your grandparents and not your parents or great grandparents to make the decision.

Great Britainish?

Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on May 01, 2012, 04:40:32 AM

Quote from: DDDDAts all folks on April 30, 2012, 10:26:19 AM

I'm a quarter Scottish, a quarter Welsh and half English.

What does that make me?

Very similar to me.

.25 Irish
.25 Welsh
.25 English
.25 Cornish

Breaking it up like this makes no sense at all.

I was born in England. That makes me 100% English
Pick a different generation. My mother is English and my father is English. I'm still 100% English
My grandparents are Irish, English, English and Australian. Now I'm only half English, a quarter Irish and a quarter Australian.
How does that make any sense? why is my grandparents more important than my parents?
My great grandparents are Australian, English, English, English, English, English, Irish, Irish. Now I'm back up to 5/8 English.

However my passport says I'm English. I have one passport. I have never been to Australia and am not eligible for a passport. I am in no way a quarter Australian. If you keep chasing my family tree you'll find all those Australian relatives will revert to English anyway from the time before any of my relatives were deported for crimes to Australia.

So no, you aren't .25 Welsh and .25 Irish and pro-tip Cornwall hasn't yet declared its independence. You're English as boring as that sounds. You may have Celtic traits (I have Morton's Toes - A Celtic trait with a foreshortening of the footbone leading to the big toe - lots of sprinters have this and it doesn't mean ugly feet like the picture they found. Most renaissance paintings and sculptures have these type of feet) but I'm not a quarter Irish. Genetics don't work that way and it was very arbitrary that you picked your grandparents and not your parents or great grandparents to make the decision.

Oh, relax. Usually I would just say 'English' or 'British' or 'European' depending on the conversation (in case you didn't notice, my avatar was St George's flag for about a week) but in a conversation like this, I think it's vaguely interesting to see people's immediate heritage. Grandparents are as arbitrary as any other point to start looking at it from, but people may not know the nationalities of their great-grandparents--I don't know those on my mother's side.

Cornwall may not have declared independence but I know a few people who prefer to recognise it as one of the Celtic countries, distinct from the rest of the land of the Angles. I quite like it, it adds a touch of the silly and eccentric to life.

What's got you so agitated today?

Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on May 01, 2012, 04:40:32 AM

Quote from: DDDDAts all folks on April 30, 2012, 10:26:19 AM

I'm a quarter Scottish, a quarter Welsh and half English.

What does that make me?

Very similar to me.

.25 Irish
.25 Welsh
.25 English
.25 Cornish

Breaking it up like this makes no sense at all.

I was born in England. That makes me 100% English
Pick a different generation. My mother is English and my father is English. I'm still 100% English
My grandparents are Irish, English, English and Australian. Now I'm only half English, a quarter Irish and a quarter Australian.
How does that make any sense? why is my grandparents more important than my parents?
My great grandparents are Australian, English, English, English, English, English, Irish, Irish. Now I'm back up to 5/8 English.

However my passport says I'm English. I have one passport. I have never been to Australia and am not eligible for a passport. I am in no way a quarter Australian. If you keep chasing my family tree you'll find all those Australian relatives will revert to English anyway from the time before any of my relatives were deported for crimes to Australia.

So no, you aren't .25 Welsh and .25 Irish and pro-tip Cornwall hasn't yet declared its independence. You're English as boring as that sounds. You may have Celtic traits (I have Morton's Toes - A Celtic trait with a foreshortening of the footbone leading to the big toe - lots of sprinters have this and it doesn't mean ugly feet like the picture they found. Most renaissance paintings and sculptures have these type of feet) but I'm not a quarter Irish. Genetics don't work that way and it was very arbitrary that you picked your grandparents and not your parents or great grandparents to make the decision.

Well it wasn't meant to be literal. If it were then I'd  have a bit of African and German in me somewhere. I was just trying to show that I have strong 'immediate' links to Wales, Scotland and England.

What's got you so agitated today?

As you ask, I spent 2 days getting stuff ready to apply for a job which had a closing date of 10 May. Today I went to submit all the crap they requested and the job had been removed. 
Also they appointed Woy Hodgeson as England manager today and if there was an FA S&C I would be bawwing all over it right now.
I wasn't aware however this was coming through my post. I have never understood the whole "I'm a quarter German" thing and genuinely thought someone might at least explain the origin of this fairly common claim.

Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on May 01, 2012, 04:40:32 AM

Quote from: DDDDAts all folks on April 30, 2012, 10:26:19 AM

I'm a quarter Scottish, a quarter Welsh and half English.

What does that make me?

Very similar to me.

.25 Irish
.25 Welsh
.25 English
.25 Cornish

Breaking it up like this makes no sense at all.

I was born in England. That makes me 100% English
Pick a different generation. My mother is English and my father is English. I'm still 100% English
My grandparents are Irish, English, English and Australian. Now I'm only half English, a quarter Irish and a quarter Australian.
How does that make any sense? why is my grandparents more important than my parents?
My great grandparents are Australian, English, English, English, English, English, Irish, Irish. Now I'm back up to 5/8 English.

The way I figure it, if you go back far enough then we're all kin.  I tend to think of myself as an American of Polish descent (even though my grandparents were probably born at a time when there was no Poland on the map).

Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on May 01, 2012, 07:48:03 AM

What's got you so agitated today?

As you ask, I spent 2 days getting stuff ready to apply for a job which had a closing date of 10 May. Today I went to submit all the crap they requested and the job had been removed. 
Also they appointed Woy Hodgeson as England manager today and if there was an FA S&C I would be bawwing all over it right now.
I wasn't aware however this was coming through my post. I have never understood the whole "I'm a quarter German" thing and genuinely thought someone might at least explain the origin of this fairly common claim.

Ahh that's shite, you got anything else lined up?

Don't much care for football, though.

I think the 'I'm a quarter 'x'' comes from a desire we all have to place ourselves neatly alongside our ancestors nd gives the impression of roots. I'm English but I have an Irish surname and my mother has a Welsh one, it just gives people a more immediate picture of where your heritage lies at a glance.

I'm 45% Portuguese, 20% Italian, 20% Russian, 14% Romanian, 1% Indigenous (possibly)

By birth, I am a South African. By citizenship, I am an Australian. If you consider my grandparents (or even just my parents), I'm half Irish and half South African. However, my South African ancestry eventually traces itself back to Ireland and (judging by my paternal grandmother's maiden name) Wales. Therefore, I consider myself predominantly Irish by recent ancestry.

By birth, I am a South African. By citizenship, I am an Australian. If you consider my grandparents (or even just my parents), I'm half Irish and half South African. However, my South African ancestry eventually traces itself back to Ireland and (judging by my paternal grandmother's maiden name) Wales. Therefore, I consider myself predominantly Irish by recent ancestry.

The rest of us consider you an alien.

Quote from: Parsifal on May 01, 2012, 02:10:44 PM

By birth, I am a South African. By citizenship, I am an Australian. If you consider my grandparents (or even just my parents), I'm half Irish and half South African. However, my South African ancestry eventually traces itself back to Ireland and (judging by my paternal grandmother's maiden name) Wales. Therefore, I consider myself predominantly Irish by recent ancestry.

The rest of us consider you an alien.

Irrelevant.