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10-17-2007, 01:56 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #111 | | Newb
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FFS Retro, I'm not here to educate you unless I feel like it. My first reply was 'no, he isn't', then in my second reply I told you that doesn't make him a 1st gen immigrant. What do you want, a ****ing essay on definitions or something? Man up.
| It doesn't take an essay to explain why someone is wrong. A few words would have done.
As I said, you're a prat in situations like this. Just my opinion obviously.
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10-17-2007, 01:57 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #112 | | Newb
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Except of course that Fry never returned to the UK. Keep trying
| No, his mother did, making her an immiganrt and Fry the son of an immigrant.
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10-17-2007, 01:58 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #113 | | Newb
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Awesome spelling there.
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10-17-2007, 01:58 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #114 | | Joe Blow
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<BLOCKQUOTE>And to my mind he's not an immigrant of any generation, as his father was British. He has foreign blood, but that doesn't mean immigrant.
| Which could also be the case for lots of the 'children of immigrants' you mentioned earlier. </BLOCKQUOTE>
No, because then they'd be in the 'mixed race' category which is very small, or lumped in with the 'white' category. Do keep up.
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10-17-2007, 01:59 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #115 | | Joe Blow
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Except of course that Fry never returned to the UK. Keep trying
| No, his mother did, making her an immiganrt and Fry the son of an immigrant. </BLOCKQUOTE>
No, having one parent born abroad does not make you an immigrant.
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10-17-2007, 02:01 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #116 | | Newb
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No, having one parent born abroad does not make you an immigrant.
| I'm talking about his mother. You said being born abroad and coming to the UK makes you an immigrant, which she was (supposedly).
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10-17-2007, 02:02 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #117 | | Joe Blow
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Didn't take long for this topic to go off on about a million tangents.
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10-17-2007, 02:02 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #118 | | Newb
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No, because then they'd be in the 'mixed race' category which is very small, or lumped in with the 'white' category. Do keep up.
| Ah so when you said a quarter of our prison population is immigrants and their kids you meant only those whose parents are both immigrants?
Silly me.
Still bollox though.
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10-17-2007, 02:03 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #119 | | Newb
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Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Retro:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
FFS Retro, I'm not here to educate you unless I feel like it. My first reply was 'no, he isn't', then in my second reply I told you that doesn't make him a 1st gen immigrant. What do you want, a ****ing essay on definitions or something? Man up.
| It doesn't take an essay to explain why someone is wrong. A few words would have done.
As I said, you're a prat in situations like this. Just my opinion obviously. </BLOCKQUOTE>
A few words was exactly what I gave you? </BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh god... you do know what "why" means don't you? Should be presented in pre-school.
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10-17-2007, 02:06 PM
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Saving Bert the trouble... Post #120 | | Joe Blow
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Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
<BLOCKQUOTE>No, having one parent born abroad does not make you an immigrant.
| I'm talking about his mother. You said being born abroad and coming to the UK makes you an immigrant, which she was (supposedly). </BLOCKQUOTE>
Yes, his mother would be a 1st gen immigrant. But he wouldn't be an immigrant at all.
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