What is Britain?

[hool10]

I think most people here are confused about their identity. Are you from Great Britain, Britain, England, or just from the UK? Also if you are in the UK, are you British which makes you English? We had this conversation last night during the election in the chat. What concluded was this:

Sam-2k: It's like a sandwich but it has four layers and is made from bark and fox semen.

I also heard that you are not truly British if you are in North Ireland but that doesn't make sense because then you would be Irish. :stare: *Btw some of you take great offense when a dumb American calls you English. Can you tell the dumb Americans on your nationality please?

 

[nurizeko]

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

There, saved everyone else the trouble.

Btw some of you take great offense when a dumb American calls you English. Can you tell the dumb Americans on your nationality please?

Well its simple really.

My passport say's I am a British citizen. The front says United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.


The country is known informally as the UK, or Great Britain.






England on the other hand is a constituent nation of the union, and not the country as a whole.

So if your referring to England and English, you are referring to people from that nation, while if you wish to mention the UK as a whole, the correct term is Britain and British.


Rather simple, I find it curious why American's struggle with this concept so much, I mean you don't refer to America as California, but I guess we'll never know.

 

[Kase]

Well i am From Great Britain even thow i voted for ****ing AWSOME Britain

 

[Eejit]

Northern Irish people have dual citizenship.
We can apply for either an Irish or British (UK) passport (and some have both), so there's no hard and fast rule for us.

 

[Dekstar]

Stupid Americans think that Wales is part of England. This is completely untrue and if you think it, you're a retard. That is all.

Oh and I'm Welsh.

 

[Gemma]

I am nothern Irish and have a British passport so mehh

 

[Emporius]

This thread will come to no good

 

[Phobie]

Police state.

 

[Dog--]

wtf, why not just say what country you are from?

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Because you are a British.

 

[Reginald]

The physical embodiment of a giraffe's orgasm.

 

[Sheepo]

It's not as if they exist in the real world, so who cares?

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Druckles died.

 

[Dog--]

No he didn't, he's tied up right beside me here.

SHUT UP DRUCKLES. BAD! BAD!

 

[Druckles]

There is no such thing as Britain.

I should know, I live there.

 

[Sheepo]

Drookles is mythical. Summoning him does nothing.

 

[Phobie]

I don't understand this thread at all.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

"Britain! Britain! Britain! Land of technological progress, we've had running water for ten years, and underground tunnel that links us to Peru and we invented the cat!"

"Unlike most other countries, Britain have people of two sexes."

 

[theotherguy]

Rather simple, I find it curious why American's struggle with this concept so much, I mean you don't refer to America as California, but I guess we'll never know.

I believe the reason is that in school, Americans are not taught European History as a requirement, and our study of Europe during world history is laughably brief.

The confusion exists because in all the American history courses we take, the British are referred to first as The English, then as The British, and the two terms are often used interchangeably by teachers and students alike.

But this reminds me of a conversation that happened in my geography class in the 9th grade:

Girl: "Where is the United Kingdom again?"
Teacher: "...Northern Europe?"
Girl: "Oh, so, like, France?"
Teacher:"...no. It's located on a set of islands north of France."
Girl: "Oh, I know what you're talking about now. So its in the Carribean?"
Teacher: "..."

 

[hool10]

Yeah there is a famous quote from Paul Revere when the redcoats were coming in. He rode on horseback through Boston and some other towns yelling to the rebels "The British are coming!". Then the whole Austin Powers thing saying he is English. My entire life I have been taught that British and English people are the same. Then all of a sudden I find out they are different and Great Britain are all it's territories and not just Britain which is like it's capital. Still kinda confusing but I kinda understand it now.

 

[Sheepo]

I only understand that I'll never understand it.

 

[The Monkey]

The United Kingdom = Great Britain + Northern Ireland
Great Britain = England + Wales + Scotland
Britain = The United Kingdom (Great Britain + Northern Ireland)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_(terminology)

 

[Kase]

Death to the Enemy's of the British Empire!

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Death to a Britain.

 

[Asknoone]

It is a pulsating sack of shit exuding odors surely not of this Earth.

 

[Phobie]

At least it's not America.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Can we get Druckles up in here to answer this one please?

THIS. GOD YES!

There is no such thing as Britain.

I should know, I live there.

You sir, are one hilarious mother****er

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

At least it's not America.

At least we're not white.

 

[Kase]

At least it's not America.

sick burn :imu:

 

[Evo]

Stupid Americans think that Wales is part of England. This is completely untrue and if you think it, you're a retard. That is all.

Oh and I'm Welsh.

**** yeah!

Here is the shindig guys and gals.

Yuo can call (almost) anyone from England, Scotland and Wales British and they won't have any problem with that. It could cause you trouble if you call someone from Northern Ireland British if they see themselves as Irish.

However if you call someone from Scotland and Wales English, well then that is going to get you in a whole load of trouble. Just because I am from Britain doesn't mean I am English, I am in fact Welsh.

 

[Kula Meenur]

**** that confusion. Just say you're from the UK instead?

 

[Sheepo]

At least it's not America.

Please, as if you're not a figment of our imaginations/government conspiracy to keep us afraid. I bet you wish you were real.

 

[nurizeko]

Please, as if you're not a figment of our imaginations/government conspiracy to keep us afraid. I bet you wish you were real.

Actually we created you, a nightmare made manifest that refuses to fade in the light of day.


:cheers:

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Its just like how I'm an Arizonan and also an American.

It's not exactly the same but a decent comparison is state to country

 

[Eejit]

Well done Rakurai!

Have a cookie.

 

[Bad^Hat]

**** yeah, colonies represent!

The ones without the convicts, that is.

 

[Cormeh]

Ecosse, **** YEAH!

 

[ríomhaire]

Great Britain = England + Scotland + Wales
The United Kingdom = Great Britain + Northern Ireland + The Isle of Man

 

[Druckles]

Its just like how I'm an Arizonan and also an American.

It's not exactly the same but a decent comparison is state to country

Except that Britain does not exist.

 

[Tyguy]

Stupid Americans think that Wales is part of England. This is completely untrue and if you think it, you're a retard. That is all.

Oh and I'm Welsh.

maybe nothing interesting ever happens in wales and thats why people are ignorant about it. so what if you live in a boring country, dont let that get you down :thumbs: