# Would UK Dopers like to stand up and be counted? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969 "2009-10-24T16:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/121 "2009-10-29T17:34:05Z")
I was born in London, I think the hospital no longer exists and left there when I was a young child. My home is now San Diego. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/122 "2009-10-29T18:04:18Z")
> [@Charley](#): > > Is this as intriguing as it sounds? How do you know that you met? Spill … (or make something up, I don’t mind). It’s not that exciting I’m afraid. He’d been at the pub alone, I think, and had started chatting with a couple of friends of mine, who I joined later. The topic of conversation got on to the internet in general and **Staggerlee** mentioned the SDMB. I said that I knew it and he told me his name here. I know this is just me but I found it quite an odd feeling, having the internet intrude into real life like that. Especially since my friends didn’t have a clue what the two of us were talking about. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/123 "2009-10-30T01:05:57Z")
English, born smoggie, kiwi citizenship, living in Manila and working in Italy. ---
**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/124 "2009-10-30T13:37:17Z")
Another Scot here. Anyone keeping count? ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/125 "2009-10-30T13:40:11Z")
> [@jinty](#): > > Another Scot here. > > Anyone keeping count? A rake of English, about 10 Scots and one Doper from Northern Ireland. Nobody willing to admit to being Welsh then? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/126 "2009-10-30T13:46:10Z")
Not from the UK or British but because we get British TV and papers etc. over here I’m pretty much up on British national news, culture etc. and could converse about things like most informed Brit’s. In fact I probably know more about British news/politics etc than their Irish equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/127 "2009-10-30T13:48:55Z")
> [@JoseArcadio](#): > > Nobody willing to admit to being Welsh then? If I were I’d declare it proudly. I love Wales and I love Welsh culture, and think it’s much maligned. Sometimes slagging off the Welsh seems like the last “acceptable” racism\* in England. (I used to do it myself, before I lived there and saw the error of my ways.) \*For a specific definition of racism. ETA: except Swansea. In that case, go for it! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/128 "2009-10-30T13:55:08Z")
They have the internet in Wales now? Just to prove **jjimm** ’s point. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/129 "2009-10-30T13:56:57Z")
> [@JoseArcadio](#): > > Nobody willing to admit to being Welsh then? They’re responding by letter. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969/130 "2009-10-30T14:46:36Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > If I were I’d declare it proudly. > > I love Wales and I love Welsh culture, and think it’s much maligned. Sometimes slagging off the Welsh seems like the last “acceptable” racism\* in England. (I used to do it myself, before I lived there and saw the error of my ways.) > > \*For a specific definition of racism. ETA: except Swansea. In that case, go for it! Just to be clear, I was joking! The nation that produced Manic Street Preachers gets the thumbs up from me. We Highlanders also empathise with the Welsh on account of them being overrun with sheep; we were burned out of our crofts to make room for those woolly bastards. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-uk-dopers-like-to-stand-up-and-be-counted/514969.md?page=6)