Words

I make them up, so what?  That’s how languages start.  As long as they make sense in the context they’re used in, it’s fine.  Even if I’m not a fan of writing or reading, that can’t stop me being a wordsmith… don’t have a go at me because I used a word you’ve never heard before, whether they’re my own “-isms” or local slang from my native north-west England, it’s not my fault I’m one step ahead of you and the Oxford English DictionaryUrban Dictionary was made for people like me, I’m an English language Revolutionist.  That doesn’t count towards people who deliberately misspell words, either because they’re thick and don’t take an extra second to think about what they’re writing or for “comedic” effect.  They’re class A morons, the pair of them.

No one from outside the north-west knows what this is.

Lots of words together don’t appeal to me, they don’t grab my attention and are bland.  I’m a more creative person, with imagery and that.  I hated English at school and my best subject there was art.  In college, I switched to graphic design because doing it on paper was too enduring.  Didn’t help that my GCSE art “exam” was to do a 10 hour masterpiece, split into three 3 hour blocks and an hour in lesson, ugh.

Which is the catchiest; writing or an illustration?

Britishness

Doesn’t exist.  Great Britain is an island made up of three (well four if you count the Cornish) distinct ethnic groups, each with their own individual traits.  The United Kingdom is a union of these countries plus Northern Ireland.  The only identity the UK has as a whole, as well as the unionists from Northern Ireland since they’re not ‘unique’, is a flag and a monarch.

You get your ignorant foreigners and those with a gran from the Hebrides, which they think automatically makes them experts on the UK, dictating us on whether England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are countries or not.  Well they are; England and Scotland are still pretty much the same entities as they were during their independent pre-union days, Wales was annexed by England in the 1500s and became equal to England once the Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707, and Northern Ireland — who broke away from the entire island’s independence in 1922 to rejoin the union a couple of days later — is an equal part of the UK as the other three so technically, three countries and an often self-proclaimed province, in practice making the UK a supernation.

There’s no more to the UK than this.

The United States of America isn’t a country as its name suggests, it’s a UNION of political ENTITIES on the AMERICAN continent.  Apart from the natives, the mainstream population from those states have no culture, they have no history and their identity is as fake and plastic as a counterfeit credit card.  Mexico and Brazil are examples of United States of America too, even so are Dakota and Carolina (to be pedantic, Virginia is classed as a commonwealth).  Unlike the US, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland covers up all of the land mentioned in its name, the USA merely takes up a portion of North America and an archipelago in the Oceanian region.

What really agitates me is how certain people from abroad sees us, thinking we all speak with that shitty accent which makes me want to punch them, drink tea, know the queen and watch Monty Python all day.  Those who aspire to be British by arse licking us because of their deluded, self-perceived view of “British” culture (aka Johnny Foreigners), usually think that ‘England’/'(Great) Britain’/’United Kingdom’ are all synonymous and, in reality, know fuck all about the place.  Ask any of them what year the UK formed or when Elizabeth II was coronated and they’re stumped.

How to spot Johnny Foreigner.

These people come from substandard countries who try to be western or in the USA’s case, trying to be British — if you love this country so much then don’t come from one who fought it for independence, Canada didn’t and that is by far a better place.  You can’t conform to western values by sucking up to others, that makes you far less civilised and more hated.  Stick to being yourselves instead of others, no one here aspires to be Polish, do they?  It’s usually those from Eastern Europe who think Scotland is oppressed by the British government, wanting to fight for Mel Gibson’s cause at any whiff of the word ‘independence’.  They probably weren’t aware of the existence of Scotland until they saw Braveheart.  Because the Soviets ran your arses for a few decades, it doesn’t mean it’s the same for countries that SIGNED and AGREED to have such a close relationship.