[Flipside]

jesus christ


UK is the islands
England is the lower shtitty part of the islands
Scotland is the upper cooler part of the islands
and ireland and wales are on that lill island to the left

I rest my case about what I said earlier..... And yea, Wales is in West, Ireland is to the 'far West', which is nearer than the Middle East...

[an0n]

The UK is the four countries.

Great Britain is a defunct term for the British Empire in the short period between WW1 and it's total collapse. The term is now used solely at sporting events as a pseudonym for the British Isles, so that members of the various teams can be representative of the United Kingdom without having been born within the borders of one of the 4 main countries.

The British Isles are the four main countries and all the neighbouring islands.


Or if you're too stupid to remember that: If it's got anything to do with the Queen, it's Great Britain (or the Commonwealth). If it doesn't, it's the United Kingdom.

[Fineus]

Isn't geography fun?

Anyway.

England is the home of the lager louts, overweight powerhungry jackals (the government), unhappy but timid middle class and rich, snobbish types (mostly to be found in the SE areas).

North Ireland holds those who hate eachother and the English.

Scotland holds those who hate the English.

The other miscellaneous islands have the good sense to keep quiet and pretend they're not involved.

I hate my country. Can you tell?

[Janos]

There is no Ireland

[Unknown Target]

Isn't geography fun?

Anyway.

England is the home of the lager louts, overweight powerhungry jackals (the government), unhappy but timid middle class and rich, snobbish types (mostly to be found in the SE areas).

North Ireland holds those who hate eachother and the English.

Scotland holds those who hate the English.

The other miscellaneous islands have the good sense to keep quiet and pretend they're not involved.

I hate my country. Can you tell?

Where do the crazy poor people who think that everyone in the world will treat them as second class, even before they meet them, simply because they're poorer than they are? (Bad experience with pain in the ass British girl).

[Col. Fishguts]

EDIT: I found it out. When I left to do some HW I left my computer on and "forever" login length set, and so what'd you know? My brother comes in and starts posting my stuff with my handle. So, no hackers on here, thankfully. I would still like this thread to be locked, though, or better yet, deleted all together. No hard feelings?

Haha, your brother is awesome. It's what I'd have done in his place.

[Sandwich]

Ok. I think I got it. England is the capital of London, right?

[Taristin]

Where's the lockage?

[vyper]

Isn't geography fun?

Anyway.

England is the home of the lager louts, overweight powerhungry jackals (the government), unhappy but timid middle class and rich, snobbish types (mostly to be found in the SE areas).

North Ireland holds those who hate eachother and the English.

Scotland holds those who hate the English.

The other miscellaneous islands have the good sense to keep quiet and pretend they're not involved.

I hate my country. Can you tell?

You're a true ambassador for our nation Kal.

[Flipside]

Ok. I think I got it. England is the capital of London, right?

Almost, London is the capital of Scotland....

*runs*

[Splinter]

WHAT? some Brits here even got it wrong??! err well british isles dwellers...

Sandy can testify that I came in because he was laughing at this thread and explained to me what the whole issue was and I told him correctly what each one was as is seen below:

From Wikipedia

United Kingdom:

 is a country and sovereign state that lies off the northwest coast of mainland Europe. Its territory and population are primarily situated on the island of Great Britain and in Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland, with settlements on numerous smaller islands in the surrounding seas.



Great Britain:

Great Britain is also used as a geopolitical term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales, which together comprise the entire island and some outlying islands. (GB DOES NOT INCLUDE N. Ireland! HAH!)



And England is England

Shame on you british isles dwellers who got it wrong!

[Nuclear1]

Ugh, I hate people getting this all confused (I called a Welsh city English once and realized just how stupid it was).

London -- > England
Edinburgh -- > Scotland
Cardiff -- > Wales
Belfast -- > Northern Ireland

E, S, W, NI all make up the United Kingdom. Britain is the island comprising England, Scotland, and Wales, England being the largest country.

Understandable, it's somewhat confusing to non-Brits, but in reality it sounds as ridiculuous as refering to the US by one of its states.

[Polpolion]

Ya' know what, admins and mods? Never mind about the lockage. I would still apreciate it if the posts up until the geography stuff was 'changed' to something lessv revealing of my slight incompitency.

[Flipside]

Problem is, this country has been subdivided so many times, for example, I have a Hertfordshire phone number, a London Postcode, and I live in Middlesex, which doesn't exist any more.

That's why people get confused

Edit : And how many damn names is this thread going to go through?

[Ford Prefect]

It doesn't matter. You all drink lukewarm beer, which is basically on par with terrorism.

[Flipside]

At least we can spell culur




















Yes, that's deliberate.....

[Kosh]

Don't you guys over there have any geography skillz?

[Sandwich]

Thanks, bro.

Ok, now that we know what each physically is, what's the governmental relationships and realm of authorities between them all?

[Flipside]

Our own government would struggle on that one

[karajorma]

Wikipedia has a nice diagram explaining it all here

Yes the distinction between Great Britain and UK can be confusing but there's no real excuse for confusing England and UK.