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Kevin Trapp signs contract extension.

No I'm just being polite. You have a dirty mind.

I thought you were kicking a freestyle then at first..

Yes this is very true. History does shape such rulings. But it always seemed illogical to me that people who had British grandparents(4 such grandparents in most cases) and who were of English stock, were not eligible for British citizenship, if their parents were not British. I have Australian 2nd cousins who found themselves in exactly this situation. But I believe that the law was recently changed for the better here in the UK. Germany like you suggested, has had these laws for good reason. But it's not only Germany, many other countries in Europe have similar laws. Poland for one, also recognises people of Polish ancestry, probably for similar reasons as you gave for Germany. As Poland also gave up some of it's historical lands after the 2nd World War. But many European nations also apply such laws. For Germany though, this law has meant that hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans whose families have lived in other countries for decades, sometimes for over a century, are eligible for German citizenship. Even as far afield as countries like Kazakhstan, where many of the ethnic Germans there can no longer speak German. However, I think that it is apt that this law is maintained, in acknowledgement of their German heritage.

Has partly to do, with the different concepts of nations that apply for those countries: while the UK, was an entity since 1707 and included the most if not all English speaking people, and therefore defined nation as a group of people living in the same state, there were quite qa lot of different states ruling over persons of German language and culture, therefore the German concept orientated on those two criteria rather than the country they lived in. ---this lingers down til today. Also Germany losing land after both World Wars and the aftermath of people, who were born in those parts fleeing to one of the two to three remaining German states made an approach different to the British one inevitable.

Oh you definitely get one.

@Tommy

Today at work a buddy of mine was cleaning parts for kegging with a caustic chemical, a sort of lye. Another guy comes over and starts yapping abs taking paper collars off the kegs, I tell him to be careful because the bucket of lye was resting on top of the legs. And he knocks it over saturating his arm but when the bucket hit the ground it covered my face. I had fucking caustic chemicals splashed on my face, I wore my glasses today so I got lucky with my eyes but I had to sprint over to the eye wash station. I could feel it on my face, it covered my jumper and jeans. I’m so fucking mad I was shaking, I wanted to throttle him.

You could say, he has more passion for it

Panna King Aka Christian has died on the 4th January. Just to inform everyone.