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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRetired Beefeater 'ejected from pub for speaking German'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/9027919/Retired-Beefeater-ejected-from-pub-for-speaking-German.htmlTom Sharp, 71, said he was talking to his half-German daughter in the Packhorse pub in the Peterborough village of Northborough when their conversation slipped into German.
Mr Sharp, who also served with the Royal Signals for 26 years during which he met his wife Anni in Germany, said the pub's landlady flew into a rage when she heard the language being used on Wednesday evening.
He claims she told him: "We are white, you are English so you speak English in my pub otherwise get out."
Mr Sharp, who also served with the Royal Signals for 26 years during which he met his wife Anni in Germany, said the pub's landlady flew into a rage when she heard the language being used on Wednesday evening.
He claims she told him: "We are white, you are English so you speak English in my pub otherwise get out."
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Retired Beefeater 'ejected from pub for speaking German' (Original Post)
A777
Jan 2012
OP
Glad I live in America where .... oh wait there are pieces of shit here that expect the same thing
RB TexLa
Jan 2012
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)1. racism" ? Really ? Germans are the same race as the English..
yeah..people in those parts still talk about the War...WWII and WWI..but racism? hardly...
baldguy
(36,649 posts)4. National Front supporter
HipChick
(25,485 posts)9. the National Front is old news..
superseded by the EDL sometime ago...
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)6. Yes, racism
There was a time in this country, when Irish and later Italians were not considered white.
Racism is not about genetics, it's about prejudice.
provis99
(13,062 posts)8. you expect racists to be logical?
There are plenty of English racists who want the Scots and Welsh to leave Britain and go back where they came from.
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)2. Sometimes teh stupid just blubbers out like that.
What an embarrassing display of ignoramia.
Initech
(100,042 posts)3. This is how I would have responded:
RB TexLa
(17,003 posts)5. Glad I live in America where .... oh wait there are pieces of shit here that expect the same thing
people.
NBachers
(17,082 posts)7. Let's see . . . where should we hold the next meeting of the German Beer Drinking Song Society?
GoneOffShore
(17,337 posts)10. Eehh, ah see coach trip t'Northborough in near future lad.
Bring squeeze box and lederhosen.