Hello Merlin,

Not all are British here. I'm from the Netherlands, I moved here in
late 2004 for a job at Queen's University Belfast. I wasn't a
particularly active atheist then. But boy oh boy, you become one very
quickly in this distant armpit of the UK. It's mostly quite an ok
place to live in actually. But the religiosity of the place really
needs works. Up to a few months ago, the head of the most rabid
Protestant party (DUP), Ian Pailey, was also our prime minister. Go
figure. And only yesterday evening I was engaged in conversation by
two Mormons as I was cycling back from getting my groceries. So we've
got native religious lunacy along with US import to boot. You
mentioned the British sense of humour. Well, it's good to keep some
sense of humour about this place (again, generally it's a nice place
to live in).

--- In atheismuk2@..., "Dick Richardson"
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> Good morning Sirs, Ma'ams Kiddo's and whatever else lurks here.
> The internet is dominated by Yanks so I was surprised to find a UK list.
> I was doubly surprised to find a UK list about anti-religiosity and
> churchianity. It is only in America that they turn atheism into a
> frigging religion, as they turn anything into a frigging religion, even
> cookies or Jane Austen. Don't get me wrong, I love all the colonial
> gits really, but most of them just drive you up the wall and diminish
> all hope for the species called homo soppy-ones. So, I hope all you
> geezers are British or I shall be excommunicated faster than you can say
> up the spurs or bullshit or gis a beer amigo.
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> Surprised that I am here at all really, for on applying to join there
> was one of these silly little boxes which said tell us about yourself
> and why you want to join the list. So I wrote in it words to the effect
> of sod orf and take it on trust or skip it. But the list owner must have
> a sense of British humour, for I got on it :- ))) They will no doubt
> regret it but there you go. However, given that we are all British here
> (no doubt a silly assumption on my part but we will go with the flow
> until we know) and all very polite, easy going et al, I will answer that
> question here and now, for the record, and which will no doubt not do
> much for my longevity here. I am an uneducated Cockney Celtic git from
> the slums of London back in the 1930's. Tottenham actually. Ever
> been there ? But, and having loved London from day one, by the time I
> was seventeen I took a butchers at what was happening there and said
> **** this and left, and never went back, thank Ker-Riced. I understand
> now that London has become a protectorate of Pakistan whilst Southampton
> is a suburb of Poland. Fascinating how foreigners hate and detest the
> British yet most of them want to come here, innit. Some Hungarian guy
> once said that there were two kinds of human beings: the English and
> Foreigners. And for once some homo soppian was right. He went on the say
> that there were 50 million English people and rest of the billions were
> foreigners; but the second mob don't count. Well, his words not
> mine :- ))) He must have grown up in Tottenham.
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> Did you know that they are doing their nut trying to find intelligent
> critters out there in space. You know why don't you? Tis because
> they cant find any here. Oh, how I empathise with them dammit. Those
> who say that there is no godo are fringing nuts, for there is. He is
> called Mr Cotley and he owns a brewery in Wivvy up on Exmoor. His son is
> called Mr Exmoor Ale, he lives in the same village and has a brewery of
> his own. So, two fine breweries in one of the smallest villages in the
> whole of the shires of Albion. Way to go amigo. But given that the
> sickly morons have banned smoking in pubs then I sit outside under a
> sunshade in the rain and have a pint and a fag in peace and quiet. Great
> stuff, and sod the lot of them. I am English, and I will not be beaten
> or told what to do by idiots.
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> Merlin of Exmoor. (as Dubbed by a Lady from Louisiana, and it just stuck
> dammit)
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