How European are you?

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Daft question, of course, but the BBC has a big feature on Europe at the moment, and I decided to take their quiz to test people's European credentials. Apparently, I'm an enthusiast. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/how_euro_are_you

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Me too!

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Yep, same here.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Me too too!

I didn't think I was a euro enthusiast - I'm dead against the Euro and think we should stay out of any EU defense system. There's a difference between liking Europe politically and liking Europe culturally, I guess.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm Mr. and Mrs. Chiantishire, I guess. Europe is OK for culture, but I wouldn't want to get politically involved with it.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

haha, I am Mr and Mrs Chiantishire too, I like trying all things european

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

More Chiantishire here as well, although I've never been to Italy!

― andyjack (andyjack), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Mr & Mrs Little Islanders

This group are the Euro Phobes. They want Britain to pull out of Europe. They think that it is a waste of money and that we.re better off on our own.

TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP y'all

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

i had to take the non-flash version of the test so it may well be different

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

This is me too ... Mr. and Mrs. Chiantishire

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

chiantishire

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Chiantishire

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

ditto

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Mr. and Mrs. Chiantishire, but I'm American.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I can't be bothered, but I am enthusiastically for Europe on political, social, economic and cultural levels, and probably any more levels you want to name too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Chaintishire again.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

When considering Europe, are you:

A An ILXOR?
B Something else?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

i'm mr. and mrs. costa del sol (the euro sceptics).

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I had to give up on this, because it was all going too fast :(
After saying "Don't know!" on four questions because the bar had almost reached the bottom before I'd even read the question I felt so embarrassed I couldn't continue.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Um.

Mr. and Ms. Costa Del Sol
This group are the Euro sceptics. They fell we've gone too far already. They want Europe for trading purposes and holidays but nothing more.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

it's funny: americans taking this "test"

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

I personally took this test for "fun".

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

It's hilarious, me being an American, taking this test, 'Mr. Chiantishire' that I am (though secretly thinking more of Dordogneshire, the inheritance of the Angevins more, n'est-ce pas, than of grotty Italy) but why not? Europeans, even those of the English persuasion, feel entitled to sound off about America all the time, and I am not adverse to their learned commentary, am I? Que vive l'Europe!

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

why not? I didn't say not--I don't want you to not take the "test" because you are american

all the questions are, like, "who are our best friends in europe?" and stuff like that. completely geared to a UK PoV, I mean, which makes it a kind of funny

I wasn't thinking, at all, that you should keep your "opinions"/"test" results to yourselves. although (or not), I think we probably hear more about american stuff, than americans hear about european stuff

what did you put as your nearest city?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

Yes, melton mowbray, it did go by fairly swiftly, but I think I managed to read all the options. Those questions about our closest friends in Europe were pretty poorly framed.

Did anyone watch the programme with Andrew Marr?

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

i didn't see it, but he was hosting it with dara o'brien. who was in my shop today, chatting on his phone about how he didn't think it would "herald a new career in current affairs" for him. oh, and he was on crutches. well, one crutch. my celebrity spotting is so lame. ( i'm now trying to think of a thread in which i can bring up the fact that jordan and peter andre were in filming their 'reality' show last week).

i was mr. chiantishire also. for what it's worth.

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Chiantishire

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Mr. and Mrs. Chiantishire

(I put "I am outside of the UK" as my closest city because I wasn't sure which UK city was furthest west. I also wasn't sure if the French hated the Brits more than the Irish but I figured "Hogan's Heroes" wouldn't lie to me.)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Dan here, an euro enthusiast.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Up with Europe, down with Little Englanders. Europe isn't perfect, but the benefits far outweigh the problems. What are we to do? Despite what the right wing press will tell you, Britain has far more culturally, socially, economically and politically in common with Europe. The neo-liberal triumphalism about the "failure" of European social democracy is ill-founded. Germany and France's economies may be stagnant, but at least they have a proper welfare system and a social infrastructure that will see them through the hard times.
The EU has actually strengthened the nation state and made war in Europe unthinkable. These are not minor achievements. The current system needs democratised for sure, but then so does the archaic Westminster parliament and the first past the post system.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

i thot i would be more of skeptic, but apparently i am an enthuist

― anthony, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

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