Steve why have you just repeated what I've posted and run it in with yours? it seems to me you are reading things into my posts that aren't there. when I said about the schools, I went to school in Scotland where the education is different from anyone elses, a fair statement I thought. If you are determined to take what I say the wrong way, I can't stop you. I think it's highly likely you would misunderstand me if what I'm trying to explain ( not well enough by the looks of it) how things are in a country I know well and you don't. Look at the political arguments that go on, we have different thoughts and definitations on many things, take 'liberals' for example, what we know here as liberals is different from what you know as liberals. Just because we both speak English doesn't mean we can communicate any better than if I spoke French and you German.
Chip on my shoulder, not in the least, I'm trying to explain Britishism's to you. it's our history and as for taking pot shots at Americans I haven't. You had a go at my education using exclamation marks and saying I was over emotional! I'm just sitting here trying to explain Britishisms. It's not an easy subject I can tell you. Taking ownership of what? You won't accept that what I tell you about MMA here is true, you want me to say it's all down to the UFC. It's not here it's more down to Pride, with more than a nod to the UFC fair enough but you are telling me we make money at MMA here because of the UFC, my bank manager says we don't. The rules here aren't unified in the least.
We have wrestling here.
Native wrestling... Cornish, Scottish, Lancashire, Cumberland, Northumbria, Devon (they allow heavy boots and kicking),
Pro wrestling... the fake entertainment stuff
Olympic wrestling... thats freestyle and Greco-roman.
I said I thought the style you would be familiar with as catch wrestling was the Lancashire style. We know it as Lancashire wrestling. Catch wrestling is what people call wrestling that's not Olympic or professional, probably wrongly but there you are, there's not many who do wrestling so it's forgiveable. Catch wrestling to most of us is the native type of wrestling. I'm not saying you don't know your grappling, I'm just telling you what we know which as.
Cornish wrestling is practiced in Cornwall only, though confusingly in Brittany, France it's also practised but as Breton wrestling. This is because both the Cornish and the Bretons are Celts with language, customs and genes in common not to mention smuggling. Scottish wrestling you will only find in Scotland, Northumbrian wrestling in the north east of England, Cumberland in the north west of England. Devon is obviously in Devon, a bit of an uncivilised place as it charge you to get back into it after visiting Cornwall.
The professional wrestling was popular on television in the 70's not so much now, the WWE types have taken over and spoiled it. If that's what you consider a slur on Americans I can't help that but the programmes are terrible, all shouting.
Olympic wrestling, we have a small wrestling academy in the north that co-ordinates the Olympic sport. They've run into arguments because they are recruiting foreign wrestlers and coaches. We did get a medal in the Olumpics for wrestling once, silver or bronze in 1984 I think.
There are a great many differences between us that don't show up at first, England isn't the UK, the UK, isn't Great Britain, we have five different governments here, we have parts of the British Isles that aren't parts of the United Kingdom, we have liberals you'd call conservatives and conservatives you'd call socialist. We have counties that are really countries, we have countries that are provinces and protectorates. I read that the UFC had a fight night in Dublin in the UK when it's was a different country altogether - Eire. We call the place pedestrians walk the pavement, we drive on the right, when wrestling you might say you landed on your fanny, to us you don't have one and we'd be offended by the use of that word.
I'd be interested in what colloqualisms you think I use, if you mean twee, it's in the Oxford English dictionary, it's not slang or a regional idiom.
Chip on my shoulder, not in the least, I'm trying to explain Britishism's to you. it's our history and as for taking pot shots at Americans I haven't. You had a go at my education using exclamation marks and saying I was over emotional! I'm just sitting here trying to explain Britishisms. It's not an easy subject I can tell you. Taking ownership of what? You won't accept that what I tell you about MMA here is true, you want me to say it's all down to the UFC. It's not here it's more down to Pride, with more than a nod to the UFC fair enough but you are telling me we make money at MMA here because of the UFC, my bank manager says we don't. The rules here aren't unified in the least.
We have wrestling here.
Native wrestling... Cornish, Scottish, Lancashire, Cumberland, Northumbria, Devon (they allow heavy boots and kicking),
Pro wrestling... the fake entertainment stuff
Olympic wrestling... thats freestyle and Greco-roman.
I said I thought the style you would be familiar with as catch wrestling was the Lancashire style. We know it as Lancashire wrestling. Catch wrestling is what people call wrestling that's not Olympic or professional, probably wrongly but there you are, there's not many who do wrestling so it's forgiveable. Catch wrestling to most of us is the native type of wrestling. I'm not saying you don't know your grappling, I'm just telling you what we know which as.
Cornish wrestling is practiced in Cornwall only, though confusingly in Brittany, France it's also practised but as Breton wrestling. This is because both the Cornish and the Bretons are Celts with language, customs and genes in common not to mention smuggling. Scottish wrestling you will only find in Scotland, Northumbrian wrestling in the north east of England, Cumberland in the north west of England. Devon is obviously in Devon, a bit of an uncivilised place as it charge you to get back into it after visiting Cornwall.
The professional wrestling was popular on television in the 70's not so much now, the WWE types have taken over and spoiled it. If that's what you consider a slur on Americans I can't help that but the programmes are terrible, all shouting.
Olympic wrestling, we have a small wrestling academy in the north that co-ordinates the Olympic sport. They've run into arguments because they are recruiting foreign wrestlers and coaches. We did get a medal in the Olumpics for wrestling once, silver or bronze in 1984 I think.
There are a great many differences between us that don't show up at first, England isn't the UK, the UK, isn't Great Britain, we have five different governments here, we have parts of the British Isles that aren't parts of the United Kingdom, we have liberals you'd call conservatives and conservatives you'd call socialist. We have counties that are really countries, we have countries that are provinces and protectorates. I read that the UFC had a fight night in Dublin in the UK when it's was a different country altogether - Eire. We call the place pedestrians walk the pavement, we drive on the right, when wrestling you might say you landed on your fanny, to us you don't have one and we'd be offended by the use of that word.
I'd be interested in what colloqualisms you think I use, if you mean twee, it's in the Oxford English dictionary, it's not slang or a regional idiom.
By knowing when to bow out, apparently:
I think we are up to 48 or 15, depending on how you count.... 
