@markusblaqk
nope. Clones of boris johnson.
8:08AM Tue, July 13 2010
@DeeTeePhoneHome
No, Express readers. Very similar, but with less humour.
8:08AM Tue, July 13 2010
@jefferus
Hinckley
beep beep bleep
8:08AM Tue, July 13 2010
@angusr
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh,
I had my money on David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" but any "last of their species" would do.
8:08AM Tue, July 13 2010
@twistedeuclid
Coventry / Isle of Man
Daily Express readers
8:08AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Shinybiscuit
I have the horrible image in my head that the remaining 4 in 5 are all ethnically smooth. Like Ken.
8:08AM Tue, July 13 2010
@jonplatt89
london/kent
'robot' is an ethnicity you faschist!
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@jamesgraham
Your tweet there betrays deep prejudice against robot culture. Robots are ethnic too!
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Brainmage
I thought it was about the gov't rollout of Philosophy education - 1 in 5 will be Ethicists.
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@gshizzy
The article continues: "4 in 5 Britons will be racist cyborgs sent from the future to destroy a multi-cultural society."
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Phoenix71Bear68
Ramsgate, Kent
ah - they know something we don't... cybermen?
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@matth35
iPhone: 53.1036...
Robots are ethnics too!!!
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@EuclidianBoxes
The remaining 4 out of 5 will be Mail and Express readers which are gelatinous blobs of indignant fury.
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@GilllovesZep
Glasgow
why do you read the Express, you know it's just going to make you angry...
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@rogerdowning
Why yes, I am a generic aboriginal englishman whose ancestors never migrated from anywhere, just spontaneously appeared :\
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@brenstrong
no, it's John Lennon's dream come true. Imagine.
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@krunchie_frog
Love it. I'm white so by default I have no heritage.
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@VulakAerr
Oh no! The overlords have taken us by surprise! "The answer is 3.1412 something something, sir. Do I get to eat yet, sir?"
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@dwlt
Presumably the other 4 will remain proud of the purity of their Anglo-Saxon heritage...
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@georgebergel
Southampton
isn't being a Briton in itself an ethnicity? So 5 out of 5 really. Stupid express
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@sheepdean
Do Americans count as ethnics?
8:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@curiouslyp
London
the remaining 4 in 5 will be ethnots
8:10AM Tue, July 13 2010
@popkiss45
Presumably yes, in same way as only certain food is 'ethnic' & certain music 'world'. Better than just 'foreign', I guess.
8:10AM Tue, July 13 2010
@tigerpixel
Galway, Ireland
Affirmative.
8:10AM Tue, July 13 2010
@alasdairbaird
Edinburgh
1 in 5 will be Ethnic minority....so still very much in the ah erm...minority
8:10AM Tue, July 13 2010
@kilinrax
London
Perhaps they're decrying a future where 20% of the robotic populace will be ethno-bots to meet some EU equality guideline.
8:10AM Tue, July 13 2010
@bonnequin
Plus, we are all ethnic, even "white" people are not one blanket ethnicity.
8:11AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Kardwell
Tell that to Bender Rodriguez
8:11AM Tue, July 13 2010
@HuwOS
Newport
dont u SEEEE its all part of whatever its all part of
8:11AM Tue, July 13 2010
@kierongillen
Isn't this the plot of Robotron 2084?
8:11AM Tue, July 13 2010
@mattmecham
What a terrible statistic! 80% of Britain is British! The horror!
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@egouldthorpe
'artfordshire
i'll say 1 thing 4 the express, it makes me more grateful 4 the life i don't waste reading it with every headline I glimps
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Gareth19791
Aspull,Gtr Manchester
no its certain parts of the press that are robots,constantly spouting sensationalist drivel *cough* Daily Mail *cough*
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@joehmusic
Love the line in its report saying it "will fuel fears of overcrowding" - course it will cause all their readers are bigots
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@RossMc11
Glasgow
A word/phrase probably invented because it fits better in headlines than 'asylum seekers' or 'johnny foreigner'
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@mdenis
If not at work, mostly at home
I just wonder how those stats compare to the Roman and Norman invasions.
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@_njd_
UK
I'm sure the tabloids will suggest that hardworking-white-british will be the 20% ethnic minority. Bastards.
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@JesusONazerath
Last seen on a crisp
- The remain 4 in 5 won't be reading the 'nationalist' Express, so is it a cry for help?
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@curtinparloe
"will be ethnics"? What are they now?
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@hondanhon
Embarrassing name-related cockup fixed.
8:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@joehmusic
And I realise the irony of own slight bigotry in that sweeping statement but I'm probably not far off!
8:13AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Reeeehan
Planet Dust
Colourless inviso-people?
8:13AM Tue, July 13 2010
@heasgarnich
Oh, if only Diana was still alive to sort out this immigration lark!
8:13AM Tue, July 13 2010
@rosie_emma
It's a sad state of affairs when ethnicity becomes a brand as opposed to a by-product of life.
8:14AM Tue, July 13 2010
@DaveJBurgess
Sunny Upminster
I'm an ethnic Celt.
8:14AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ziphavoc
11000 010 1101 100111 1 001100 110 0!!!
8:14AM Tue, July 13 2010
@EddWalsh
Oldbury!
Yeah they're known as 'Plains'!
8:14AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Phil_Rothwell
ÜT: 53.399571,-...
They are Deathnics
8:14AM Tue, July 13 2010
@19thC4d
London
sheet, i saw the same usage in The Metro and put it down to freesheet subnormalisation, but no, you can pay for it too
8:14AM Tue, July 13 2010
@AnthonySteele
As an migrant and a robot I deeply resent your remark that I have no ethnicity at all ;)
8:15AM Tue, July 13 2010
@kevinunitt
Leamington Spa
Need your opinion on the new Tesco lasagne sandwich Charlie. I can almost hear you now.. (though it is actually alright)
8:15AM Tue, July 13 2010
@DJBogtrotter
No, they'll be from other counties like Middlethics and Suthics.
8:15AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Jamie_Denham
Berkshire, UK
They also say there is life after menopause - Who do they think they are!!
8:15AM Tue, July 13 2010
@sandymacd
Absurd. Brit = ethnic mongrel: Norman French, Italian roman, German/Scandinavian Viking and Central European celts!! Ffs!
8:16AM Tue, July 13 2010
@EosChater
I would like it if the Express became ex press.
8:16AM Tue, July 13 2010
@tomnorthwales
Llangernyw, North Wales
or sterile tenderness freaks with see through skin
8:16AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ASOS_Ben
London
never seen invasion of the body snatchers?! :-)
8:16AM Tue, July 13 2010
@faceofboe
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@_njd_
UK
At least by 2050 anyone who moans about "ethnics" will probably be dead, as will Richard Desmond and the crappy Express.
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@tomnorthwales
Llangernyw, North Wales
or sterile genderless freaks with see through skin
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@smallbecca
I can't read those papers they make me feel stabby. bet the aliens don't care that 1 in 5 beings is human.
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Kimstermagnum
At home
I think the fact they say "Will be" hints British robots are in development. Getting them to moan is the problem...
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@IBringTheFunk
Forest Gate, East London
that would be pretty cool. Or maybe zombies. with swine flu.
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@jamie_forever21
Australia
Yep. Guess they are. Sadly, nothing we can do now that can change the past, but it can define us in the future
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Tennis_Matters
best damn city in the world
re Express: 1 in 5 Britons will be ethnics! UK only place in world that says ethnicity when they mean race.
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@bongobeardy
STEAL STUFF FROM WORK AND SEND IT HERE----> Harry Knowles, P.O. Box 180011, Austin, Tx 78718-0011
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@DrCyberBob
The Express will enforce Clearasil-inspired "ethnic cleansing",bleaching us into faceless,homogenised stumps.Just a thought
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@davidpotter67
lol, i suppose we'll just be unethnical.
8:17AM Tue, July 13 2010
@danielrendall
I have rechristened the Express as the Daily Racist following today's headline
8:18AM Tue, July 13 2010
@mynamesaregone
Re: Express "our projections suggest that this trend is set to continue through to 2051" Then what? Robot Apocalypse?
8:18AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Spookieuk
Birkenhead, Wirral CH46 2
Cons? We're fucked!
8:18AM Tue, July 13 2010
@caddymation
Coleshill, Warwickshire
dirty desmond's hatebots will wipe out any trace of ethnicity in 4 out of 5 & replace it with fear of house prices
8:18AM Tue, July 13 2010
@stefanprosser
South Wales
Surely by the pure definition of the word 5 out of 5 will be ethnic just to different groups.
8:18AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Molly_Cupcakes
hey, us robots have an ethnicity too! I was programmed in Japan.
8:18AM Tue, July 13 2010
@jacques_aih
Ethnos is a greek newspaper. Perhaps Desmond tried to buy it and now holds a grudge against its readers?
8:18AM Tue, July 13 2010
@scottsome
South West & London / Brighton
Does that stat include 'pikeys' because that would bring it up to at least 2.5 in 5?
8:19AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ZanderSchubert
Adelaide-ish, SA, AU
Ask the Express if they want any Anglo-Australians back. We want to get rid of some of them.
8:19AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Ilcattivo
Manchester
I fucking hope so.
8:19AM Tue, July 13 2010
@colinelmustard
Fairies, according to the Express headline last week.
8:20AM Tue, July 13 2010
@robonn
London
it's political incorrectness gone mad
8:20AM Tue, July 13 2010
@IncredibleSuit
London, England
"Transvestites = homicidal maniacs" says The Mirror. A typical day in mentalsville for the front pages.
8:21AM Tue, July 13 2010
@AwesomeWelles_
Edinburgh
perhaps they mean that the 1 in 5 are Ethnic Britons, of the Brythonic iron age tribal people?
8:21AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ScarletOHairer
Australia, Arse End Of
try living in Oz - big election issue is the arrival of a handful of "boat people" each year. Um how did we all get here?
8:22AM Tue, July 13 2010
@fragmad
Hey we'd rather be called Robo-Britons!
8:22AM Tue, July 13 2010
@calneeagle
I was thinking more along the lines that some of us are going to BECOME 'ethnic'. Fancy Nigerian myself. Seems fun w/footy.
8:23AM Tue, July 13 2010
@SteveCP
They are the racial melange that has been simmering together on these islands for - 200k years invisible to the Express.
8:23AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Rachel19774
manchester, uk
maybe express readers are robots, they are soulless enough
8:23AM Tue, July 13 2010
@almostandy
Yes the "ethnics" comment is complete nonsense. But then the Express is a paper-based troll. We shouldn't feed them
8:24AM Tue, July 13 2010
@MikeyTRRP
Portsmouth, UK
that could be fun as long as life didn't turn into I, Robot. That film was awful
8:24AM Tue, July 13 2010
@dd_opco
Bedford
Ethnics? Have they been emboldened by having Cons at the helm? Checking my doorstep for burning crosses as i type...
8:25AM Tue, July 13 2010
@murkee
Eddie Izzard's 'mongrel nation' was an excellent doc, as was C4's recent history series subtitled 'Bloody Foreigners'
8:26AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ScienceLaw
Autons maybe. You'd have to be controlled by the Nestene consciousness to be taken in by their nonsense.
8:26AM Tue, July 13 2010
@kevmcveigh
1 in 5? Does that include Irish like me? Or Saxon, Norse, Norman, Huguenots, etc?
8:26AM Tue, July 13 2010
@LuxAdams
Zimbabwe
Answer me this: I'm white (British/French) & we colonized but make up only 0.14% of the country's population. U get 1 guess
8:27AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Caf_babbles
Briz
Excuse me, even robots have an ethnicity
8:29AM Tue, July 13 2010
@dwlt
No probs. It won't surprise you to learn that organisations can get it wrong even when I typed it in on sign up. Astounding.
8:30AM Tue, July 13 2010
@simondyda
The 2010s
Does "ethnics" include those thieving Anglo-Saxon and Norman bastards? Give them an inch...
8:31AM Tue, July 13 2010
@jgramuk
Essex London
yes Charlie 1 in 5 Britons will be ethnics....and that's just the ones squatting on our parents' front gardens! *FUME*
8:32AM Tue, July 13 2010
@_HarryNeil_
Essex, UK
The sad thing is I just read this out loud at work and my boss's response was "yeah...2051 or summing. Fuckin' shame."
8:33AM Tue, July 13 2010
@docpark
Iowa
the British Isles R a bouillabaise of Picts, Celts, Angles, Romans, Saxons, Normans, and Polish carpenters. Mudbloods all.
8:34AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Cadrieu
Nah, there will be bigots in both the 20% and the 80%.
8:34AM Tue, July 13 2010
@neversarah
*groans*. You're right, of course.
8:36AM Tue, July 13 2010
@johnpotterLD
Preston
plus the actual report says that the greatest increase in ethnics will come from France, Australia and the US - dumb paper
8:36AM Tue, July 13 2010
@traxdollhead
UK
express headline written by Marjorie Dawes Fat Fighters...'ethnics' who writes this shite.
8:37AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ciaran_j
lmao saw that myself on the express an hour ago. Assumed it was a joke!
8:40AM Tue, July 13 2010
@aloof_101
Nottingham
the express does know about the rest of the world, right?
8:40AM Tue, July 13 2010
@clownf1st
As a robot, i find that offensive
8:42AM Tue, July 13 2010
@grahamtriggs
No, they will be indigenous immigrants, obviously.
8:43AM Tue, July 13 2010
@redhero
Tokyo
white flavorless substances, like tofu or David Cameron
8:46AM Tue, July 13 2010
@aebeverley
You can thank for that jem
8:47AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ElsieAssap
Nice NORMAL people! Not dirty foreigners with inedible food and strange occult like languages - bastards!
8:47AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ChrisNevett
Ha,check the online article's photo.I'm sure it took some brainstorming to find one that would offend their readers so well
8:47AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Eddie_90
St Albans / Sheffield
why is it 'one in 5' as well, it should either by 1 in 5 or one in five...seems they are indecisive thick racist cunts...
8:49AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Hoopyjoe
United Clingfilm
The remaining 4 out of 5 will have no ethnicity as they are Pedo's.
8:52AM Tue, July 13 2010
@ElsieAssap
I was being ironic, I don't actually think that #deathbytweet
8:52AM Tue, July 13 2010
@aldm
Brighton (Hove actually)
the remaining 4 in 5 will be abstract concepts that have actualised
8:56AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Zonbizoku
Londinium
The twats can't even write a simple statement of hatred. 'Britons' ARE the 'Ethnics' or Britain you daft rascist cockbags!
9:01AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Zonbizoku
Londinium
The twats can't even write a simple statement of hatred. 'Britons' ARE the 'Ethnics' of Britain you daft rascist cockbags!
9:04AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Fannymcslap
some manner of sub human express reader perhaps?
9:23AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Michael_R_Grant
Bristol, UK
Seems that Rory Williams was merely the vanguard of the Nestene Consciousness in EXPRESS WORLD (population: gimps).
9:25AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Semicharmedman
London
maybe the other 4 out of 5 just aren't trying hard enough...
9:37AM Tue, July 13 2010
@lord_dannos
Leeds (sometimes SPACE)
So 4 of 5 people are robots? Seriously, I go out for lunch, and this happens? I want to be a robot :(
9:43AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Jack_Barrington
England
: Oh god, I thought (hoped) I'd just misread that Express headline earlier. I'm off to be depressed for a bit then...
10:02AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Adamskibeats
Mel Gibson and that guy who played Kramer in Seinfeld are set to star as two lesbians in hit spin-off series - The 'N' Word
10:09AM Tue, July 13 2010
@BigTomHatfield
I'm surprise the mail didn't counter with "Express in acknowledging ethnics as Britons shocker"
10:12AM Tue, July 13 2010
@eyeswideshut75
Middlesbrough, UK
oh,fine,so robots don't count now?first peter crouch humiliates them in public,now this.be saying C3PO is gay next...
10:14AM Tue, July 13 2010
@Col_Irrelevant
Europe
I'm a Ginner. Does that count?
10:33AM Tue, July 13 2010
@MrLeeCurtis
Cornwall, UK
so the the Express are claiming that 4 in 5 Brits are robots, what do they think this is: Skynet...
10:33AM Tue, July 13 2010
@christiangibney
Sheffield
Headlines like that make me feel embarassed to be british, or 'ethnic' as the Express would put it, piss poor journalism
10:55AM Tue, July 13 2010
@DeeJayDragon
UK
Also note the sensitive use of the word 'explosive' alongside a picture of muslim women.
10:58AM Tue, July 13 2010
@HenryHatton
London
you see that moron on the lunch time politics show trying to ban the burka?He was basically Hitler and Griffins love child.
11:38AM Tue, July 13 2010
@scottwarb
rochdale
oh fuck ive just seen one of them "ethnics" fuck does it mean to kill me!!! Oh shit (cont) http://tl.gd/2g6sev
1:41PM Tue, July 13 2010
@BobToms100
Aylesbury
Obvsly Express writer is a robot, who'll write anyoltripe 2 pay mgage. Would I stoop so low? Well, stil got mgage to pay...
2:01PM Tue, July 13 2010
@Mogradjinn
Oxford
Robotist bastard! We have culture and stuff, too. That's robots 1010101..
2:12PM Tue, July 13 2010
@Vacuum_Sawdust
I don't know what's worse pakki's or robot's!
4:37PM Wed, July 14 2010
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