Comments on: All Ethnic Minorities Are Immigrants

By: BlackBob

BlackBob — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:44:10 +0000

Ethnic minority = a future definition for British people.

By: dairy

dairy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:08:18 +0000

so when does an immigrant change status…? does it depend on a certain period of time or number of generations spawned? do ethnic minorities cover both immigrants and citizens…? and what about asylum seekers….??
questions, questions……

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:36:51 +0000

hehe…good one chenier. To those genial bosses who say “my door is always open” I say “so’s your window. Kindly leap from it to a wet, red noisy death in the car park”

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:09:46 +0000

Same old, same old, Magnetite.

I sometimes wonder whether it was worth inventing the FTL drive; at least when we were stuck at sub light speed it took so long to talk to Management about anything at all that we’d either killed each other, or made it up over a few bottles of whatever the synthesiser decided to inflict on us, long before the ‘my door is always open’ people stuck their oars in…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:01:09 +0000

A larger car park is being built at Ross 249, chenier. Touble is the Park and Ride shuttle buses are always full.

By: chenier

chenier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:31:05 +0000

Last time I heard from the workforce out at Tau Ceti they were complaining that those plonkers from Ep Eri were using all the parking spaces…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:25:38 +0000

The Guardian is read on Europa, satellite of Jupiter, So I don’t think you would worry, Percy, about the opinions of those living upon moons removed from us by an unimaginable distance. After all, ex-pats in Saudi Arabia can vote on our leadership and governance, even though they themselves can’t enjoy a pint and a shag on the beach without something getting shopped orf.

By: Percy Stilton

Percy Stilton — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:02:53 +0000

sorry Anorak can you please remove my posts as they are irrelevant…..I don’t think eastern europeans are classed as ethnic minorities…yet…and so were never polled by YouGov……or were they?

By: Percy Stilton

Percy Stilton — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:32:43 +0000

If this poll had been taken in Poland I think the result might have given an indication to attitudes to immigration…..in eastern europe.

By: Percy Stilton

Percy Stilton — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:21:07 +0000

I wonder if this polls results have been contaminated by asking our eastern european immigrants about immigration .

By: magnetite

magnetite — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:20:35 +0000

It’s possible…just possible, that those who came here during the Windrush years may be so institutionalised by the rampant xenophobia inherent in the British psyche that they themselves now fear the Poles, the Turks and the (insert name of new country that once was a conglomerate entity artificially held together by distant Soviet might, but is now separate and warring like guard dogs in adjoining gardens with those who yesterday were their neighbours and friends) enough to join in the ranks of people who should know better than to fear the influx of new blood to a diseased entity that desperately needs an infusion of new blood in order to keep on living. It’s also very, very depressing.

[It's suppposed to be a 'T' shape isn't it - to do the job properly? Just cutting across the wrist is a half-arsed cry for attention, right? I just want to make sure, in case the situation gets any worse.]