Why does Cornwall have its own sub-forum?

[Loki]

It does explain why I think it's ridiculous. The notion that they are somehow separate is ridiculous. They arent.

Why do they fly black flags from their homes instead of the St George's Cross? No other region in England has such a local patriotism as Cornwall.

[Eldritch]

Can we have a separate subforum for Manchester please?

Many of them have Irish heritage, thus making them different to most of England.

You're being a tad duplicitous, Cedric. Anyway, if Mancs were to consider themselves a separate entity from the rest of the English, then perhaps such sub-forum might indeed be justified.

Btw, I don't make the decisions regarding sub-fora here, as I don't administrate the forum, I merely help the admins run it.

[The Lawspeaker]

The big difference between the micks in Manchester and the Cornish is that the Cornish are native to the area whereas the Irish were imported/ came over to work. So we might just as well make a subforum for every bloody English neighbourhood then. I am quite sure that the Paki's and Africans in Hillfields, Coventry consider themselves to be very different from the English in Tile Hill, Coventry, wouldn't you say ?

[Wyn]

Many of them have Irish heritage, thus making them different to most of England.

Steady on there! About 10% of people in Britain overall have 25% or more Irish ancestry.

Either way, Liverpool is England's Irish hub. Followed probably by London and then Manchester. Birmingham's Irish community is quite strong, too.

I say we have a special Irish-English Liverpool-London-Manchester-Birmingham subforum.

[Cedric]

Steady on there! About 10% of people in Britain overall have 25% or more Irish ancestry.

Either way, Liverpool is England's Irish hub. Followed probably by London and then Manchester. Birmingham's Irish community is quite strong, too.

I say we have a special Irish-English Liverpool-London-Manchester-Birmingham subforum.

I am one of those 25%.

I just find the attitude of Cornish people who attempt to convince themselves they are separate from the rest of England rather pathetic.

The point is they are not a separate country and should not be listed as a sub-forum constituent country.

This was never posted in the Cornwall subforum. It was a message to English people that did not require the input of people who do not consider themselves English.

[Osweo]

Can we have a separate subforum for Manchester please?

Many of them have Irish heritage, thus making them different to most of England.

Yay, I can be mod there! Some bugger'll aff te think up a flag for us, mind...

By the way, the Irish presence in some parts of England is far older and more part of us than you might think. Look up the PURELY Irish place-names of Goosnargh, Noctorum, Glasson, and Arrowe on the map, and then the half-Irish ones like Melsonby, Dovenby, Dunkenhalgh, Troutbeck, Airyholme, Melmersby and Kirkbride, and you'll get some idea of the Irish impact made on the North since the turn of the first millennium.

Steady on there! About 10% of people in Britain overall have 25% or more Irish ancestry.

Either way, Liverpool is England's Irish hub. Followed probably by London and then Manchester. Birmingham's Irish community is quite strong, too.

I say we have a special Irish-English Liverpool-London-Manchester-Birmingham subforum.

Getting better and better...

I am one of those 25%.

I just find the attitude of Cornish people who attempt to convince themselves they are separate from the rest of England rather pathetic.

The point is they are not a separate country and should not be listed as a sub-forum constituent country.

This was never posted in the Cornwall subforum. It was a message to English people that did not require the input of people who do not consider themselves English.

I've come to realise, Cedric, that a forum like this can never please everyone, and get everything 'perfect'. The solution here, is more or less to be relaxed about it, and laugh along when the admins decide on a whim to troll their own forum with outrageous subsections and the like.

The Cornish section is little more than a sop to the long established member Beornie (Gods know what he's calling himself today...), so leave it at that.

I live a few miles from the border, actually, and even the weather changes when you get near the Tamar. Cornwall is a world of its own, and black-white yes/no attitudes to its Englishness aren't really appropriate. It is and isn't English. I wish there were a better way to express that politically, but it's clear enough in local identity. I was chatting to a man in Tintagel a few months ago, one of whose daughters insists on not being English but Cornish, while the other readily identifies as both! He himself was less committal, and happy to let sleeping dogs lie.

[Beorn]

Why do they fly black flags from their homes instead of the St George's Cross? No other region in England has such a local patriotism as Cornwall.

You forget the Jolly Roger. That flag has pride of place up and down the West Country.

Anyway, why is there an English, Scottish, Cornish and Welsh section? I find it utterly ridiculous that these political regions of the United Kingdom have been recognised as separate countries.

God damn it! We are British!

[Troll's Puzzle]

You're being a tad duplicitous, Cedric. Anyway, if Mancs were to consider themselves a separate entity from the rest of the English, then perhaps such sub-forum might indeed be justified.

Btw, I don't make the decisions regarding sub-fora here, as I don't administrate the forum, I merely help the admins run it.

wulfhere or w/e considered mercians a seperate ethny.

should we have a seperate forum for mercians?
i say yes (so we can't say he's one of us anymore' )

or should we split the england forum into a 'northern england' and 'southern england' forum? those two different 'ethnicities' often badmouth each other & you can find articles suggesting this is because they were historically settled by different people.

let's take the glowing example of early forum mod 'the crow' / 'beowornwulfwer' to it's natural and just outcome: a cornish forum for brythons, a kentish forum for jutes, an angle-land forum for northerners, and a Saxon forum for the southerners (the only real trve arysk pure English master race).
only then will justice be done

[The Ripper]

Cornish revival movements should hire Mel Gibson to make a film about their struggle for freedom against the English.

[Beorn]

let's take the glowing example of early forum mod 'the crow' / 'beowornwulfwer' to it's natural and just outcome: a cornish forum for brythons, a kentish forum for jutes, an angle-land forum for northerners, and a Saxon forum for the outherners, (the true, pure English master race).
only then will justice be done

I was tempted to seriously ask for the English section to be cut up into sub-sections reflecting the heptarchy, but seeing as how some English react simply to wanting to hold on to the Cornish cocks forever more, the idea of further separating England would send them straight into cardiac arrest.