How British are you?

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 11:06

Folk wishing to become UK Citizens must now take a test - in English - and get 75% to qualify for Citizenship..



Please take a few of them and decide if you should be "British".. ;)



There's 55 tests so should keep you amused





http://www.hiren.info/life-in-the-uk-test/

Taz666


Joined: 21/12/2008
Posts: 180

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 11:18

My god I'm NOT British

cronos


Joined: 26/10/2008
Posts: 2093

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 11:22

If it entails swearing allegiance to the Queen then I'm out !

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 11:26

re 3 didn't take long to get off topic, then....!

cronos


Joined: 26/10/2008
Posts: 2093

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 11:33

mmmmm....msg 4

was my post off topic?

I didn't click your link...I just assumed that swearing allegiance would be part and parcel of it all.

Please accept my apologies

God bless you ma'am !

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 11:44

re msg 5



Sorry, *I* meant the topic being the test, not the "politics" !



Too late.. the boat trip to "Traitor's Gate" awaits.. ;)

Skogsy


Joined: 15/05/2008
Posts: 339

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 11:58

British and then not British.

There is a 100 pound note in the UK. Scotland big Red one. Got that one wrong as the "correct" answer was 50 pound note. So, on that basis I am not British on that test.

No big deal I suppose.



Sir Skogsy

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 12:01

Definitely British.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 12:42

RE msg 1, MM : (...) Please take a few of them and decide if you should be "British".. ;) (...)



===> I took the test and bloody hell - I'm British..!



PS. For board members who take the test also: too bad that writing proper English on Bulletin Boards isn't part of your test...

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 12:47

PS. For board members who take the test also: too bad that writing proper English on Bulletin Boards isn't part of your test...



Just as well then Dutch - a few of them on here would fail

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 13:23

Hi mmmm

I took this test about 2 years ago and got about 40% during a long car journey.. My missus thought my answer to the question "how many members of the Welsh asembly are there was incorrect as "too bloody many".

In case you are interested if you have reasonable qualifications in learning English you dont have to take the test. Mrs B has 5 certs in ESOL from Cambridge through the local college and got her Citizenship just over a year ago without this stupid exam.

aweverard


Joined: 13/07/2008
Posts: 54

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 13:29

it's blocked from China - guess the Chinese don't wont my wife to be British!

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 13:41

yeh ,i'm British , or should i say welsh { sorry Breezyboy another welsh person , but you can take comfort in the fact that i'm not a member of the assembly }

Simbas

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 13:49

Simbas, they had the same qusetion about the Scottish assembly, same answer from me - 1/4 welsh and work in Wales.

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 13:50

i'm only pulling your leg !

McSteviet



Joined: 11/05/2007
Posts: 1089

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 14:04

Yep... True Brit me....



Mc

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 14:09

oh my god i have passed 5 and im irish. good fun though. perhaps it will keep a few immigrants away now

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 14:15

MM A section of the Home Office has come to a stand still doing this, I'm just in the process of finding out where they came from so I can send them back.

P

cruggs


Joined: 06/04/2008
Posts: 498

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 14:19

===>>>...... juzt taken the tst and u no wat======(i..am double dutch.///

ok------now******* all clap,,,,,,,,,,hands.

dozza67


Joined: 11/07/2008
Posts: 607

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 15:10

defo British

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 15:21

re msg 9



Hans.. you're back ! ;)



Knew you couldn't miss putting us down )))

mmmmmm



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Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 15:40

Hi Breezyboy re 11



Thanks for the reminder - YEP, you can pass English as a Second Language, instead of this test... but would any of us pass, either :D

dickyboy


Joined: 31/12/2008
Posts: 129

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 17:15

I am not British, I am Welsh

mmmmmm



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Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 17:28

Hey Dicky



What does it say on your passport..



Thank you

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 17:34

More importantly is that playboy bunny your pictured with?











PN . I am deleting part of your post as it violates rule 3 --- Simbas

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 17:59

Isn't it funny how the "rude" posters" are faceless and hide their email addresses..



1/ I've got an Oirish one..



2/ If you are referring to the photo in my avatar... I can only imagine you "may" be trying to pay my darling wife a compliment..!

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 18:01

I apologise for the badly worded joke, will try and be more carefull next time.

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 18:03

I was paying your wife a compliment and of course you in having such excellent taste

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 18:49

"Arise, Sir Patrick"

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 19:03

Simbas- it's OK pulling my leg but it gets very serious when 3/4 of you is reaching for the mint sauce and the remaining 1/4 is reaching for the wellies!

Skogsy


Joined: 15/05/2008
Posts: 339

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 19:36

Oy!

I am the only one who was Knighted this year.



Sir Skogs

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
13/01/2009 19:43

Once a king....alway's a king......but twice a kNIGHT......is not enough!!!

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
14/01/2009 13:47

is there a test there for them, to see if they can fill in the benefit claims forums?

(you should get a medal for compleating one of those correctly!)



a great new book' beginers guide to the uk system' it would be a sell out.

ilovemydogs



Joined: 20/04/2008
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
14/01/2009 20:22

one of the questions was very interesting.



How long can you claim dole before you have to go on new deal?.



i got this wrong i said 6 months. apparantly the answer is 18 months.



funny that considering they put my son on new deal after 6 months. seems it's one rule for them and another rule for us.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
14/01/2009 23:34

re msg 34 - New Deal - up to 25 yr old ... 6 months, 25 and over 18 months

ilovemydogs



Joined: 20/04/2008
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
15/01/2009 16:43

AAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh that was not the question though. my son is 21

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
15/01/2009 19:06

YUP.. sometimes the Q's are *dumb*

Cyprusquest


Joined: 09/12/2008
Posts: 428

Message Posted:
16/01/2009 02:24

I must be very British I like fair play, I'd even let the othersdie win. (Well maybe!)

frontalman



Joined: 28/02/2008
Posts: 499

Message Posted:
16/01/2009 10:40

I got 79% but I would think most of these questions cover things you would learn AFTER you become a citizen. Very unfair, maybe the UK govt. is picking up a few tips from the authorities here!

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
16/01/2009 11:48

The latest.. now it could be up to 10 years living in the UK before a legal immigrant can apply for citizenship.. lots of tests, and you will be required to do volunteer work, too.



Of course EU citizens don't need to worry about gaining Citizenship - as they must be treated the same as UK Citizens.



Imagine having to go through THAT to live in "TRNC"... ;)

Marcos



Joined: 10/12/2008
Posts: 14

Message Posted:
16/01/2009 15:07

i only calculated my score by page 3 and i am not british, but on page 4 i am, actually i think i am a colonial lol

Cypfan


Joined: 10/10/2008
Posts: 104

Message Posted:
16/01/2009 17:25

DC:



"PS. For board members who take the test also: too bad that writing proper English on Bulletin Boards isn't part of your test..."



Outstanding.

Cypfan


Joined: 10/10/2008
Posts: 104

Message Posted:
16/01/2009 17:27

Tiggy:



"Arise, Sir Patrick"



Not in a public place, bejaysus.