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Old 12-24-2012, 05:33 PM
 
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No, my ancestors come from Scotland. Not France.
I'm talking about your ancestors as in your roots. Your roots as in from 1000 years ago, not 200

 
Old 12-24-2012, 05:35 PM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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No point in explaining anything to Owen.. he refuses to admit when he is wrong, even if it is blatantly obvious to everyone else, so arguing with him is a futile endeavour if there ever was one.
 
Old 12-24-2012, 05:38 PM
 
Location: London, UK
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No, my ancestors come from Scotland. Not France.
Go back further and your'll find your middle eastern.
 
Old 12-25-2012, 10:56 PM
 
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Finnish people have smaller eyes. Sort of like the Eskimo to me.
 
Old 12-26-2012, 12:45 AM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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I can't say I have ever come across a person who has a smile like Colin Mcrae, from traveling up and down Great Britain. That type of smile looks like the type of smile you would expect of a person who is from the upper classes, and not your average middle class man working in an office cubicle.
 
Old 12-26-2012, 01:33 AM
 
Location: Ostend,Belgium....
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You know that what is now Europe, was all one big lump of land and Great Britain was attached to France at some point, the original English came from France ...People went to what is now Great Britain via land...and because of invasions and travels back and forth the ancestry of all of Europe is mixed. Scots may be more Scandinavian because of its proximity but even there, you have mixed blood and it being an island, there's inbreeding going on for centuries...
 
Old 12-26-2012, 03:14 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Finnish people have smaller eyes. Sort of like the Eskimo to me.
 
Old 12-26-2012, 05:06 AM
 
Location: North West Northern Ireland.
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No offence don but what you are doing with the pictures is kind of like ethnic cleansing. You cant look at somebody whos white and say theyre english theyre irish and theyre brythonic lol...
 
Old 12-26-2012, 05:08 AM
 
Location: North West Northern Ireland.
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I can't say I have ever come across a person who has a smile like Colin Mcrae, from traveling up and down Great Britain. That type of smile looks like the type of smile you would expect of a person who is from the upper classes, and not your average middle class man working in an office cubicle.
What!
 
Old 12-26-2012, 05:54 AM
 
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You know that what is now Europe, was all one big lump of land and Great Britain was attached to France at some point, the original English came from France ...People went to what is now Great Britain via land...and because of invasions and travels back and forth the ancestry of all of Europe is mixed. Scots may be more Scandinavian because of its proximity but even there, you have mixed blood and it being an island, there's inbreeding going on for centuries...

The islands were settled 8.000 years ago by people from a very specific location in the Spanish Basque country. Not from France because after the Ice Age that ended 10.000 to 12.000 years ago, Atlantic France (by then united to the British Islands) was almost completely depopulated. In fact, when those settlers arrived 8.000 years ago, the Isles were depopulated (as most Western Europe) after the Ice Age.

The Celtic culture came 6.000 years later from Britanny, according to diggings in Ireland that show similarity with neolithical shrines in Brittany, France.

Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Vikings and Normans are just recent invaders (starting from the Roman pullout) and a scant minority in the genetic stock of the isles.
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