If you think British wine is mediocre ,and it wins quite a few gold awards etc ,then using that thinking i suppose we must think that european wine is total crap ?
The few times I had British wine it was mediocre at best. You can't argue about taste so if you like it then it's right for you.
My partner drinks Wine and finds this a nice tipple, I can’t vouch for it as I don’t like wine. It’s fairly local to me too. https://www.halfpennygreen.co.uk/
Chapeldown in Kent is award winning sparkling and beat the best French Champagnes in blind tests. Their Chardonnay is really excellent. None are cheap though
I know, I have visited all those countries,but they weren't still lynching and segregating a generation ago
They surely do, actually. In this area, today’s segregation it is mostly based on religious beliefs and lynchings have been replaced by beheadings, as I am sure you have heard. Google Tibhirine for an example in North Africa and boko haram for one in subsaharian Africa. Central African Republic is another hell hole, if you’re interested. But looking at recent killings based on ethnicity and perpetrated by black african people, I suggest you look into what the Hutus did to the Tutsis in Rwanda in 94. No slavery, though. Just genocidal mass murders with machetes. Point being, no matter when or where you look in the history of humanity, pretty much all races and ethnicities have wronged another, at some point. I just find it very naive to sum up human racism by stating that white colonialists wronged black african slaves, most of which were actually captured and sold by rival black tribes to arabic slavers, which in turn sold them to white expatriates of the new world colonies who needed labor. Another era.
That's all glib, but America, self proclaimed land of the free and bastion of democracy had ongoing lynching and institutional racism whilst being ostensibly a fully functioning western democracy. You can quote tribal war and civil war in Africa, but it's not a valid comparison. This debate started as you said you wouldn't take sides between white Vs black racism in the southern states of America. Given the recent history there, I find this staggering. You can, of course, supply all sorts of whataboutery, to justify your beliefs, but I'm actually quite shocked by them. I did not sum up human racism as anything. You made that up for whatever reason (if it makes you feel better, go for it). I expressed a narrow opinion about contemporary black Vs white antagonism in a specific part of a specific country. You replied but but but And supplied random examples of civil war on another continent. Strawmanning at its finest.
not that this has anything to do with eu tax but... while I agree with your general point that groups of humans of all shades have been subjugating each other forever, holding the genocide in rawanda up and saying " look,black people kill other black people and it had nothing to do with european slavery " is pretty disengenous. i suggest you look further back than 94 and I think you will find a it was a direct consequence of Belgian divide and rule colonialism.
@Flatty @funkatronic I think you both missed my point. I wish we could continue this discussion in my langage, so I may be better understood, but I have already wandered too far off topic and for too long, as you mentioned twice now. Carry on!!
Dont worry, if only most native English speakers on the forum had reached your level, we would not need to shout as much.
On subject, just received a pair of prescription Oakley glasses from the UK. No problems... I do not know if they are exempt, below a value threshold (£135, which is why I ordered them, expensive business “lunettes” in France..) or because I paid when the order was placed in December. DPD delivery, they have always been good carriers in my exp.
I bet there will be about 48% of people on here hoping you get shafted for extra everything just so they can wave their little blue flags and say the same old shirt about fishing and passports etc etc.
its a funny old thing that, we have the same issues up here re the big debate. one group hopes and preys for failure to prove their point. so they can continue to wave their red white and blue flags while shouting, please sir, can i have some more.
Any order placed and paid for before 01.01.2021 is dealt with under the old rules. At least this is the case in the UK and I suppose it's the same in the EU.
