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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 04:56 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - sf 04:28 pm EDT 08/14/14

Not that it bears on this conversation really, but it depends on whom you ask. When English people refer to Europe, they generally mean continental Europe and think of it as something apart from themselves.

Whenever I refer to my husband as European, he corrects me that he is English.


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: ukpaul 05:08 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - JereNYC 04:56 pm EDT 08/14/14

There's a strand of politics here whereby some British people don't want the UK to be part of Europe, these are mostly (though not exclusively) on the political right and they'll have a kneejerk reaction to being called European in any situation.

Being English as opposed to British isn't really a political thing though (although being Scottish is!), most people will just use the terms British/English in different situations (British when abroad, English when in Britain etc.) As such, if I am outside Europe then being European would seem to be a good description but not if I was inside it.

Personally, being European is fine for me in any case (because we are, unless somehow we become unmoored from our current position!)


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: Ann 05:17 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - ukpaul 05:08 pm EDT 08/14/14

Doesn't really answer the question asked in Legally Blonde the musical.


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: ukpaul 05:21 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - Ann 05:17 pm EDT 08/14/14

I saw it but I can't remember the question - what was it?


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: Ann 05:21 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - ukpaul 05:21 pm EDT 08/14/14

Is he gay or European?


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: sf 06:11 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - Ann 05:21 pm EDT 08/14/14

As if that's an either/or proposition.


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: ukpaul 05:56 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - Ann 05:21 pm EDT 08/14/14

Ah, yes. I remember now.


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: sf 05:00 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - JereNYC 04:56 pm EDT 08/14/14

"When English people refer to Europe, they generally mean continental Europe and think of it as something apart from themselves."

Really?

I'm English. I am also European, and proudly so. Nigel Farage does not speak for us all.


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re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash"

Posted by: Live_From_London 06:47 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to: re: Idiot reviewer calling Andrew Lloyd Webber "eurotrash" - sf 05:00 pm EDT 08/14/14

"When English people refer to Europe, they generally mean continental Europe and think of it as something apart from themselves."

I agree with that. When someone asks where your from, you dont say Europe. I'm English and have never referred to myself a European.


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