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awemawson:
Yes

I believe it comes from the Arabic / Persian backsheesh (sp) which is a tip or gratuity. Land at Cairo airport and the air is full of the word.

I suppose it's a bit more of our Colonial Heritage. :ddb:

BTW the tax is still due on that tea you dumped in Boston Harbour :lol:

vtsteam:
Well it was Englishmen doing the dumping, don't forget! A change in implementing what was in fact a tax reduction plus the addition of a colonial representative in parliament, and Starbucks would be serving mostly tea now, under a different flag! :beer:

awemawson:

--- Quote from: vtsteam on June 08, 2014, 10:28:46 AM ---Well it was Englishmen doing the dumping, don't forget! A change in implementing what was in fact a tax reduction plus the addition of a colonial representative in parliament, and Starbucks would be serving mostly tea now, under a different flag! :beer:

--- End quote ---

...mmm not quite my understanding. It was rebellious colonists who dumped the tea as I was taught in school very many years ago, and wiki seems to back me up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

vtsteam:
Yes Andrew, but weren't they still British subjects, primarily English extraction, retaining citizenship, and flying the British flag at the time, despite increasing disaffection? And wasn't it that they wanted closer ties -- acknowledgement as citizens through representation in Parliament that caused the rift? Rather than the tea tax itself.

Perhaps I have it wrong -- had British colonists been severed from citizenship because of their relocation to America at some earlier point in time? If so then America existed as a foreign national entity much earlier than the revolution.

I was taught what you were Andrew, in school. But much of that I later learned was simplistic.

awemawson:
No idea about the citizenship issue. I had assumed as they had upped sticks and left home for a new life they'd effectively revoked any such ties, but that's just me assuming ! After all the Pilgrim Fathers took to the boats to escape religious persecution as I understand it, so weren't too bothered about 'the old country'

. . . now just pay up the outstanding taxes (with interest) and you can have as many seats in the European Parliament that you want :lol:

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