Special Effects

[papasmurf]

English DNA is half French and a Quarter German , you would be strange but true be more English if you were Cornish .

78% of my ancestral DNA comes from within a 20 mile radius of where I was born in Buckinghamshire.

[Nick]

English DNA is half French and a Quarter German , you would be strange but true be more English if you were Cornish .

Not forgetting a sizeable chunk of Roman and Viking. Any town in the U.K. ending in by is Scandinavian, it means town. My people hail from the Vikings, not a bad lot really. 

[Streetwalker]

I am English not British, (my ancestral DNA backs that up.)

English DNA is half French and a Quarter German , you would be strange but true be more English if you were Cornish .

[Nick]

I have now implemented a modification so that the special effects are muted whilst you are composing a post, would hate for anyone to lose their concentration and post a load of nonsense.

[papasmurf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6g9cOg1jQ

This England: from Richard II
William Shakespeare

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,

This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
 Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
 Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
 For Christian service and true chivalry,
 As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
 Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
 This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
 Dear for her reputation through the world,
 Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
 Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
 England, bound in with the triumphant sea
 Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
 Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
 With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
 That England, that was wont to conquer others,
 Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
 Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
 How happy then were my ensuing death!

[Barry]

I am English not British, (my ancestral DNA backs that up.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6g9cOg1jQ

[papasmurf]

You mean you didn't look in the mirror for a whole 2 weeks?  WOW! 

I am English not British, (my ancestral DNA backs that up.)

[patman post]

You mean you didn't look in the mirror for a whole 2 weeks?  WOW! 

Does he actually have a reflection...?

[T00ts]

I have just got back from two weeks in Brittany. Marvelous holiday. Not a British tourist in sight anywhere.

You mean you didn't look in the mirror for a whole 2 weeks?  WOW!   

[papasmurf]

Where have you been for 3 weeks BTW? Being nosy!

I have just got back from two weeks in Brittany. Marvelous holiday. Not a British tourist in sight anywhere.

[Barry]

Where have you been for 3 weeks BTW? Being nosy!

Not Russia, I bet. Somewhere the cheese eating surrender monkeys live.

[Nick]

It is (expletive deleted,) confusing.

Where have you been for 3 weeks BTW? Being nosy!

[T00ts]

It is (expletive deleted,) confusing.

You're welcome! 

[papasmurf]

Everything is called snowflakes cause that was the first mod before I added to it.

It is (expletive deleted,) confusing.

[Nick]

Why was falling leaves called snowflakes?

Everything is called snowflakes cause that was the first mod before I added to it.