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Skilpadde wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
liveandrew wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
Up until a couple of months ago I thought that Britain did not include Scotland or Ireland, and that England was the whole country; Scotland, Ireland and Britain. Then I learnt from my boyfriend that it was the other way around; Britain is the whole country and England is the one that excludes Scotland and Ireland.
I was surprised when I learnt that, because England sounds bigger than Britain.
Funny, the things you learn about the country you have lived in your whole life.
I was surprised when I learnt that, because England sounds bigger than Britain.
Funny, the things you learn about the country you have lived in your whole life.
I wonder how many Brits you have offended with that ignorance because that is a common mistake foreigners make. Most people think England and the UK are the same thing or that Great Britain and England are the same and that UK and Britain are the same.
It's worse than that. Ireland (Eire/Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) is not part of Great Britain or even the United Kingdom! The whole system is bloody stupid and leads to errors because of its complexity.
* England = England (whether or not this includes Cornwall is debatable according to some)
* Great Britain = England, Scotland and Wales
* United Kingdom = Great Britain and Northern Ireland
* British Isles = Great Britain, Ireland (the whole island - Northern Ireland and the Eire/Republic of Ireland), Isle of Man (not part of the United Kingdom) and any other little islands within its waters.
I think that's right
As for answering the question? I didn't think that I was bullied at school as I generally won any fights I had because of it. It was only recently that I realised that I was bullied on a daily basis and whether I won the fight or not was irrelevant.
I hear that if you go to England and call it the UK, they will have a cow about it. But yet they can come here and say they are in the US and we won't have a cow about it just because they didn't say the US state they were in but instead called it the US. My argument is England is part of the UK so therefore they are in the UK like I am in the US because Oregon is part of the US and I am in North America because the US is part of it and so is Oregon. I sometimes like to make fun of that because of how picky they are.
I always knew England was one of the countries in Britain, it's Britain and UK I get confused about. Is UK England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and Britain the same 4 plus Ireland, or was it the other way around? I can never remember which is which. It's so annoying, because I've looked it up more than once.
Off topic but it always annoys me when people mix up Scandinavia and the Nordic countries. Finland, Iceland, Greenland, they were never part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia consists of only 3 countries, the only 3 countries here in the north with similar languages.
ASPartOfMe wrote:
Girls had cooties.
30 years old was really old.
30 years old was really old.
Huh, I had no idea that boys actually believed this. I just thought they talked about cooties to tease girls and the boys who got in contact with girls.
I can remember thinking 12 year olds were really old. Seriously. Actually there was a time when I even thought anyone old enough to go to school were old.
When you are in England you are in the UK. I don't think it means someone is stupid enough to think England is the whole entire UK. They are still in the UK like how Oregon isn't the whole entire USA but it's still in the USA. No one is going to get offended if you come here and say you are in the US because you didn't say Oregon. That is how it looks to me in the UK when the Brits do it because you didn't say Scotland, Wales, or England or Northern Ireland whichever country you are in when you said it.
As an American this is just something that goes over my head because it's no different than say you are in the US and not saying what state you are in. This is just how us Americans talk so I guess the language over ther eis difefrent so it comes off as you guys being picky. It's like getting offended over calling a Nintendo Switch a Nintendo because you didn't call it a Switch. "No this is a Switch, not a Nintendo, how offensive. This is a Nintendo Switch, not a Nintendo."
Sorry Brits bit this is just how it all feels to me so I accept our languages are just different.
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League_Girl wrote:
I thought the reason why I was getting less Christmas presents each year was because I didn't believe in Santa.
No way would Santa diss you because you didn't believe , he is a very forgiving man
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