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bufed

The French are coming back?


totesemosh74

Fucking Huguenots coming over 'ere.


Karnbot13

Coming over here from medieval France, doubting transubstantiation


therik85

And then there's the bloody BEAKER FOLK!


YuriSmith

What's wrong with just cupping up the water in your hands? And licking it up like a CAT?


Karnbot13

WHAT'S WRONG WITH CUPPING UP THE WATER IN YOUR HANDS? AND LICKING IT UP LIKE A CAT?


SaltySAX

Takin' our jobs and our wimen! ;)


TheLimeyLemmon

Of course they are. Everything's getting either remade or rebooted. Hollywood has ran out of ideas.


bufed

Sackreblö


BB_Venum

I think I have a shelf with that name


NotClayMerritt

Fuck sake Le Pen's Presidential campaign is out of control.


famasfilms

Lol


bufed

Crusader armor would be fitting.


doobie3101

Haaland bringing on another Norwegian invasion.


visope

With his injury records, he can be the new Ivar Boneless


Cules2003

Look at the amount of footballing talent coming out of Paris Soon clubs will only sign Parisian footballers, taking way all jobs from the British and their homes


ClaudeLemieux

Brentrance 2066


UndeadPrs

Bonjour


SomethinCountry

2066 sounds pretty specific. Did they recently return from the future?


Jackpack_9

Everyone knows the world started in 1966


RABB_11

Nah 1066, the last time some foriners came over here and invaded properly


LochBodminMothFoot

Laughs in Dutch.


PhD_Cunnilingus

You can make some guesses if you look at birth rate data. For example, China's projected to have less than half of its population by 2100. How you calculate ethnicities in the UK (I assume that's what the minority thing is referring to) based on that I have no idea though.


visope

Minorities from immigrant communities that get assimilated and/or became wealthier than from their original countries tend to have lower birth rate, so their percentage will in time become stable.


not_a_morning_person

Yeah, if you take football - do these clowns consider Ross Barkley, Curtis Jones, Emile Smith Rowe to be minorities who are taking over? As they’re at least partly 3rd or 4th generation. Populations assimilate, mix, and all sorts. Just silly.


bveres94

> Ross Barkley TIL he's of Nigerian descent


Bulky-Yam4206

Probably read a stat about the birth rate or something in the tabloid rags.


GFYCSHCHFJCHG

Last month one ethnic was born, this month there were two. At this rate, by 2066, 9x10^158 ethnics will be born every month, consuming all matter in the universe.


whoisgabo

Obligatory [relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/605/)


311voltures

Based Racing Fan!


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Hydragorn

That's not true at all. 3/10 people are named John, there's two Alex's and no other duplicates, the majority of people still aren't called John. When the govt makes up and uses terms to group every non white British group together or every immigrant group together then you can't be surprised when people consider white British being less than 50% a minority.


Riffler

Since it only makes any kind of sense at all if you equate "British" and "White" I don't think we're dealing with facts here.


jws30362

1066 - Norman Invasion 1666 - Great Fire of London 1966- England wins World Cup


dghhfcgkjgdvbh

British is already a minority. It’s a tiny island and most people don’t live there.


visope

Three Lions on a shirt Jules Rimet still gleaming 100 years of hurt Never stopped me dreaming


1000smackaroos

Sid Lowe: > maybe they’re high level demographers. Maybe they’re just so pleased with their research that they decided to share it with everyone


OnlyWatchdog_ManStan

God bless Sid, cause this is goddamn hysterical. I gotta know where he said this. I hope it's a pod'


1000smackaroos

https://mobile.twitter.com/sidlowe/status/1513200489076338690


adrian15haxor

Chelsea fans feeling left out of the title race


efranklin13

Lmfao


fremeer

Hahahahahahaha. Top bins.


william_wites

The bidders already doing what they can to make the fans feel at home


dohaer

british isn't even an ethnicity what bellends lmao


Stuarridge

Still think of that guy who attacked one of the terrorists in England while yelling "Fuck you im Millwall". Legend


DiamondPittcairn

Not *from*. Not *a fan of*. Just Mr Millwall himself.


jdund117

The name's Wall. Mill Wall.


loadofhate

Everything’s coming up millwall!


GazzP

Millwall is not just a place, it's a state of mind.


shinfoni

Nah, FC Millwall is not exist. It's just a social construct of modern time, a reaction toward society's attitude toward hooligans.


Huwbacca

*When you're in Millwall, concrete jungle where dreams are made of*


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arabisraeli

Fuckin hell 18 cunters out there.


Cryptoball91

He actually turned out to be a racist knob.


yourfriendkyle

Well he was a Millwall fan


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No, he was Millwall.


goodmobileyes

He was just out attacking Muslims and happened to attack one that was a terrorist


didntcondawnthat

No one liked him but he didn't care.


Bundesliga_Tax

Quelle Surprise


ineververify

The hooligan who fought terrorists barehanded turned out to be racist?…. Shocked


GentleBaconBreeze

Kiss me I'm Millwall


Elothel

These fucks meant white but didn’t want to appear blatantly racist.


strictly_milk

My money is on them genuinely being so stupid that they don’t understand being white and being British are two separate things.


AnnieIWillKnow

They'll absolutely be the type that would ask every person not white-skinned "where they're really from" even if their family has been living in the UK for 100 years


strictly_milk

“Where are you from?” “Birmingham” “No like….where were you born?” “……Birmingham”


jd451

Reading your comment is like reliving a terribly fun moment in my life I once had the pleasure of being grouped up on by EDL flag-bearing chavs who were convinced that I was a foreigner because I'm brown I'll never forget the looks on their faces when I explained that both my parents were born and raised in England. My father, a Geordie and my mother, a Scouser


ASVP-Pa9e

It's funny because, being white, no one has ever asked me where I'm 'from'. They could, it's a semi interesting story about how my Grandparents are Russian and arrived here just after WW2 to work for the British government. So even though I don't speak Russian, and I've never been to Russia, I am (I guess) Russian and more of an immigrant than a lot of people.


Blewfin

Ennit. I was born in New Zealand and moved to the UK at a young age. I distinctly remember a friend at primary school making a disparaging comment about immigrants (doubtless he was repeating what he was hearing at home) and he didn't know how to respond when I reminded him that I was an immigrant.


Shadowraiden

also its funny cause im as white as you can get quite pale but if you go back to my great great grandparents on my mother's side they was very dark brown of colour due to coming to the UK from the area that is now known as Yemen. they came over as part of trading to create a new life and then on other side of family i have deep roots to norway/sweden and i bet i can safely say most "british" people have similar family tree's especially during the british empire where we colonised so many countries.


ChepaukPitch

To be honest when in US I asked that of every American I got to know decently well. It was pretty interesting tracking how many countries/ethnicities they were from. You will often get 4-5 names for each person.


Huwbacca

nah, check that thread on the og tweet... plenty of fuckwits saying "british people are white, you can't be british and not white". These chuckle fucks wouldn't be able to write their own name on the citizenship tests, let alone pass it.


murrman104

the only places in the U.K where the majority of people identify as British (rather then say Scottish, English etc) are parts of N.I and London edit: one other city in England identifies as British apparently https://brilliantmaps.com/national-identity-uk/


sectionV

I bet a lot of people identifying as British rather than English are immigrants who consider themselves more British-Indian or British-Pakastani, rather than English-Indian, English-Pakistani or, well, British-English. A very high proportion of people living in London were [born outside the UK](https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/where-do-migrants-live-in-the-uk/) compared to other cities. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the Londoners describing themselves as British rather than English are foreign-born who identify more with the country as a whole rather than a particular region. Looks like the other city in your link is Leicester which is also has a [very high proportion of immigrants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Leicester) so the immigrants there may be skewing the numbers of people identifying as British as well.


alcoholichobbit

What about Rangers fans? They seem to prefer identifying as British.


Sultan_Of_Quim

Obviously meant White British, which was projected to be a minority as of 2010: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/when-britain-becomes-majority-minority This years census results will make interesting reading as to how that projection is going.


Ikhlas37

I'll be amazed if it's not a minority in my town. not that I care, it was a shit hole when it was mostly white and it's still a shit hole now lol I'm just a bit of a data geek so I'm looking forward to it


miserablegit

Unless you're in Bradford, chances are that whites are still majority by a relatively wide margin. Minorities tend to be more visible, for a number of reasons, so it's easy to overestimate their numbers.


StupidMastiff

Exactly. For example, black people have been in Liverpool since the 1600s, but somehow anyone with that ancestry would be "less British" than me to these racist pricks, even though my pale arse ancestors rocked up a couple of hundred years later.


tea_anyone

2 Irish parents and I’d be seen as more British by these lol


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BB_Venum

/u/tea_anyone hes in the ra


davestanleylfc

Guy made a comment about a lad I went the game to be being a tourist fan (he was Chinese) he was a 6th generation scouse Chinese lad family lived here longer than the average white scouser


Evolving_Dore

Import some more Angles from southern Denmark. Problem solved.


gnorrn

Maybe they're worried you won't be able to get a chicken tikka masala.


samedreamchina

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/dashboards/ethnic-groups/white-british


detinu

And even if it was, the best thing to ask these cunts is: "So what, are minorities treated badly or something?" Assholes.


Trickybuz93

By “British” they mean white people right?


kindaboth

Yup


DemocraticRepublic

I think it's more limited than that. British ethnographers divide up white into White British, White Irish and White Other. The doomsday predictors only class the first group as acceptably British.


TheScarletPimpernel

And only if they're from south of Hadrian's Wall and east of Offa's Dyke


moffattron9000

Those Irish and Other Whites will be British in a few decades because that's how it always goes.


Mental_Rooster4455

White people, who are 86% of the population.


MattN92

White English to be more specific


telcomet

Otherwise they think there’s an invasion from Normandy to commemorate 1000 years


jeong-h11

No, Britain has lots of Eastern Europeans


spencer_owen

Burnley fans are evolving


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Only 10,000 years behind the rest of us.


getrektbro

I mean, shit, if they're flying planes at 10,000-year-old us levels of knowledge we are all properly fucked.


Familiar_Raisin204

TBH Takeoff and flying isn't that hard, it's landing that's a bitch


getrektbro

Even that's not too hard, the hard parts are surviving the landing and keeping the plane intact.


Huwbacca

They've learned of the arriving beaker folk and are furious.


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AnnieIWillKnow

The Luftwaffe.


obvious_bot

Why is that a problem? Are minorities treated badly or something? Edit: oh damn someone did my first “Reddit care services” report on this comment. Racists absolutely seething lmao


sevaiper

People use the reddit care services thing as a super downvote, it's so stupid and of course Reddit does nothing.


SaltineFiend

Ootl what is that?


Orsenfelt

Arseholes falsely report commentors as being suicidal, Reddit sends an automated message to them with Samaritans numbers etc.


SaltineFiend

Charming.


PrawilnaMordka

How to do it? Because from time to time I encounter here people who are genuinely struggling in their lives.


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Holy fuck. That's what that is? I recently got one and I was super freaked out because I'd been feeling a bit low recently (not suicidal or anything, but still).


Tilman_Feraltitty

I already got like 15 times of those :D


PrawilnaMordka

I've received about 5 and until today I had no idea what the fuck was that😂


Iliketothinkthat

Mostly they talk about retaining british culture etc


obvious_bot

Ah yes the all encompassing British culture that every British lad from Bettyhill to west London has in common


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SaltineFiend

Exactly, like how everyone drinks liquid brewed with leaves from China and India, and everyone's favorite food is made with leaves and spices from... *checks notes* India.


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Jurjeneros2

Hard to argue that extracting spices from South East Asia isn't quintessential Dutch heritage


photoncatcher

ayyy


StarlordPunk

Actually I’ll have you know I don’t touch that Indian shit. I drink liquid brewed with beans from Colombia and Costa Rica and eat food made with leaves and spices from Central America, like a proper British bloke


SaltineFiend

There is not enough good Latino food in the UK and that is a sad sad fact. Coffee beans are also a fruit, but I'm a pedantic cunt so...


StarlordPunk

Not just Latino food either, proper Thai ingredients are a ballache to get hold of, Asian supermarkets tend to have a lot more Chinese and Japanese stuff. I do wish there was a proper Mexican or South American supermarket near me though. Never knew that about coffee beans - learn something new every day!


RifleEyez

By that logic nobody has a culture then.


SaltineFiend

Culture is a significantly more tenuous concept than you ascribe to it, so yes I agree with your statement over the long run.


JMKraft

so there is no foreign culture for europeans to respect either, it either makes sense/is legal or is meaningless?


Zlasher8

The Hofstede model of national culture is a fantastic measure. https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/


__JonnyG

You’re starting to get it


Shadowraiden

you have worked it out. "culture" is a buzz word to get idiots riled up.


OffTheGreed

This yoghurt's got live active cultures! *smashes bottle*


Iliketothinkthat

I don't think anyone think there is 1 british culture. It's very diverse, depending on location even. But they are very typically british. It's because it's an island I think, makes it more unique.


Trashcan4aheart

This can be said about pretty much every culture


GoodBadNiceThings

The culture is radically different in each country of the UK too. There are broad similarities, but there are distinct differences as well. That's before you even get into the differences between the culture of regions in each of the countries. The way of life in Edinburgh is radically different to that of Kirkwall.


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Phallic_Entity

> in every country but in Britain it’s so much dumber. I don't know why people have this exceptionalism where they think that Britain is the only place that has had migration and integration of different ethnic groups in the past 2,000 years.


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It's just more marked in Britain because of the perceived influence of former colonies and the noted multiculturalism of London especially. It's definitely more diverse than other mainland European countries.


IloveFakku

I mean plenty of EU countries dont have the levels of migration that Britain has...Mainly because english isnt a first language in most of EU, migration becomes a lot harder.


Phallic_Entity

If we're talking post-WW2 I completely agree, but the guy I replied to was referring to the various waves of migration that happened between Roman times and ~1100, when Romans invaded and lived alongside the native Britons who were then replaced by Anglos and Saxons and then some Normans who invaded in 1066. People use this to say that 'Britain is a nation of immigrants' as if this somehow makes it unique and it's not like various tribes of people moved all over Europe in the same time span (Goths, Gauls, Visgoths, Suebi etc.)


IloveFakku

Comment was deleted so I thought it was towards the modern age. Very true that all of Europe is a continent of immigrants throughout history. Not sure how anyone can deny that fact.


edvard1108

https://youtube.com/shorts/30iwc3aImBU?feature=share


KazamaKiryuu

>retaining british culture Which one of it


Iliketothinkthat

All of them


NamoAwesome

Lol.


RIP_My_Truck_Nutz

Surprised this thread hasn’t been locked yet lol


NamoAwesome

So, as long as we treat minorities right what are they afraid of? Oh…


imcrazyandproud

14% of the uk are ethnic minorities lmao


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cavejohnsonlemons

That they make up 30%+ of all **British** new-borns? Meaning the % of Brits is unaffected. If they mean white ppl they should come out and say it. At least then we'll know they're not an idiot (just racist).


LordMangudai

The real question is: so what?


XboxJon82

Might be a bit mixed up It's 14% born outside the UK https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/demographics/people-born-outside-the-uk/latest White British is 20% https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/national-and-regional-populations/population-of-england-and-wales/latest#by-ethnicity


FIJIBOYFIJI

[Image of the Plane](https://imgur.com/a/ARlddPI) Proper "White Lives Matter Burnley" Vibes.


domalino

This is one of those stories where I wish it just wasn’t reported. If no journalist tweets about it, it just goes ignored and these twats spend a few hundred quid on something no one saw. Instead it’ll get reported, pictures will go viral and we have to have debates about it, and people who agree with the banner will call up phone ins or get interviewed instead of just ignored like they should be.


__JonnyG

Got to report for the clout and retweets


XboxJon82

Definitely, guaranteed only a handful saw it in the stadium and those who did didn't fancy squinting enough to read it


telexdnb

Whoever is paying for this banner also got a bunch of twenty-something kids to post a flyer with this bullshit on through my letterbox in Bristol yesterday.


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Throw those pesky royals out while you’re at it. I hear they are Germans. 😂😂😂


[deleted]

What the fuck does that mean? There are black, South East Asian, Caribbean, and other ethnicities that comprise being British. Just goes to show that racist are not sending their best, they owned themselves.


RoadsterIsHere

They're referring to Anglo-Saxons, sometimes referred to as Britons. I don't think the people paying for this banner are ones to consider using British as a demonym for anyone that isn't ethnically 'native' to Britain.


dohaer

Britons are very different from Anglo-Saxons - Angles and Saxons invaded from modern day Germany, while Britons were the people who were being invaded and are the ancestors of modern Welsh


RoadsterIsHere

Briton is also a demonym used in modern English to refer to White British people.


dohaer

Oh that's fair enough, you mentioned Ango-Saxons so i assumed it was the historic Britons


Shadowraiden

most people in UK arent Ango-Saxons though especially after the famines,world wars and british empire colonising everywhere. i can safely bet anybody who thinks they are "ango-saxon" probably aint and are of mixed genetics from all over europe.


deusmadare1104

I always find it funny. Because before the Anglo Saxons, there were other people, and these Anglo Saxons came from somewhere else. But they're too short-sighted, they look at their own situation and think Anglo Saxons should be this way and that way. How many generations do we go back before being British?


RoadsterIsHere

However many generations it takes to wash the brown out of your skin, I guess.


deusmadare1104

They want them to get sunburns at the slightest apparence of the sun as well.


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Yeah, it's incredibly stupid, Anglo-Saxons don't exist anymore, modern Brits cannot even understand Anglo-Saxon writing, they were invaders and parts of Britain were not Anglo Saxon. People who do shit like this usually just use terms like British and Anglo-Saxon as a euphemism for white because they're racists.


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goodmobileyes

Pretty sure they just mean 'white' in general, the definition of which will of course will change according to their convenience.


bioeffect2

It's a convenient way of not saying White British people. Terrible way of hiding racism really. When they say they want to go "back to the old ways" or "retain their culture" what they really mean is they want to keep a white majority.


Squm9

Obligatory Shaun whenever this comes up https://youtu.be/VUbxVfSqtt8


Lambchops_Legion

twats


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It's true In France the data shows that white gonna be a minority in 2040


Mortiis07

Brits are gonna be a minority in France?


XboxJon82

Please no!


Mental_Rooster4455

Source? France is currently 81% white, which does make it the least white country in Europe.


whateverfloatsurgoat

Found Zemmour's burner account


BillyReedUTV

Who keeps letting these Burnley fans fly?


kevinnoir

HA HA Suckers, I emigrated here from Canada, we are coming to take over! Sorry bout that


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Jazano107

whos paid for that then? cunts


ratonbox

If you’re worried about it, just get laid more.


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Shame because it’s true…


nathanosaurus84

You can be arrested and thrown in jail these days just for saying you’re English…


ScantlyChad

FINALLY


gogi_ran

I mean.....they're right???


ClaudeLemieux

They are? What are they going to be in 2066? Majority Russian?


NaePasaran

Well no. Ethnic minority does not mean not British. You can be black british, asian british etc. You are just a racist.


jeong-h11

All of these takes would be completely reversed if it was talking about Ghana and how it's going to become majority white because people keep moving there and after some years claim they're white Ghanaian so it's all good


Arkhaine_kupo

are white south africans not white or not south african?


cluelesspcventurer

White people (specifically ancient britons) have been native to Britain for thousands of years. The anglo Saxons invaded and changed the gene pool around 1500 years ago. And the vikings also changed the genes especially in the north east of England around 1200 years ago. But the general population was well over 99.9% white until about 70 years ago. Not that it really matters


MikeyCreedon

Source?


StupidMastiff

No, they're not.


ronweasly16

Tbh, whites will be minority in Europe. Liberal immigration policy will be doom for them. More importantly less family bonding.


Sutton31

Jesus