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Which Country/Area Are You In.
USA 41%  41%  [ 11 ]
Canada 11%  11%  [ 3 ]
UK including N Ireland 22%  22%  [ 6 ]
Europe including S Ireland 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
Middle East 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Far East (China, Japan, Korea etc) 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Australia/New Zealand 11%  11%  [ 3 ]
South America 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Russia 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Africa 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Somewhere Else 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 27

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04 Dec 2023, 3:10 pm

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Kinda funny that UK gets its own option when it's not a country or continent.


The UK most certainly IS a country.

The sovereign nation that comprises all of Britain (the physical island that contains England, Scotland, and Wales)plus that piece of the top of Ireland...governed from London... is called "the United Kingdom".

:?

Even people from there don’t describe it as a country. That’s like saying the EU is a country. It isn’t.

England is a country. Scotland is a country. Wales is a country. They’re not states or provinces like in the USA or Canada. UK is ?? Not even people from there can explain what level of geographic territory it’s classified as. But there’s no country called United Kingdom afaik.


Gosh. You need to visit planet earth.

There is no nationstate called "England", nor "Scotland" etc..

We dont exchange embassadors with any place called "England" or "Scotland" or "Wales". We exchange embassies and embassadors with ...the United Kingdom. The POTUS meets with the Prime Minister of the whole UK, not the PM of Ulster or Wales or Scotland nor even of England.

There is no English Army etc. The current prime minister is not the head of "England", but of the whole United Kingdom.

When folks in England, Scotland et al march off to war...they do so as member of the armed forces of the United Kingdom.

The entity known as the United Kingdom levies the taxes and has the monopoly on making war by controlling the armed forces. That is the definition of a "nation state".

The United Kingdom is the geopolitical unit that is the equivalent to France, the USA, China, Swaziland, and whatever.

Not "England", not "Wales", not "Scotland".

Legally it is the nation state that folks in Ulster, Scotland, England, and Wales, live in. Pay their taxes to and etc.



Its a federation of several ethnic regions that once were seperate nation states and are still given some autonomy.

It is an odd set up though. The closest thing to it would be the old Soviet Union. Which consisted of "Soviet Socialist Republics" which were more than US states but not seperate countries. And as with the UK it was carelessly referred to by the name of the largest and most dominant unit in the federation (the UK is often called "England" and the old USSR was often referred to as just "Russia").



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04 Dec 2023, 3:18 pm

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Biggest empire the world had ever seen! The Roman empire was about a third of the size and that was big.

Exactly. The Roman Empire at its hieght was as big as the contiguous United States.

The sun literally "never set on the British Empire" at its height because it was in all 24 time zones.

The second biggest modern empire was that of Czarist/Soviet Russia at only 8.5 million square miles. It spanned about eleven time zones. So the Sun almost, but not quite, "never set" on the Soviet empire inherited from the Czars. The sun would be down on the Polish border in the west for a while before it came up again on the tip of Siberia on its east end near Alaska.



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04 Dec 2023, 3:23 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
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Kinda funny that UK gets its own option when it's not a country or continent.


The UK most certainly IS a country.

The sovereign nation that comprises all of Britain (the physical island that contains England, Scotland, and Wales)plus that piece of the top of Ireland...governed from London... is called "the United Kingdom".

:?

Even people from there don’t describe it as a country. That’s like saying the EU is a country. It isn’t.

England is a country. Scotland is a country. Wales is a country. They’re not states or provinces like in the USA or Canada. UK is ?? Not even people from there can explain what level of geographic territory it’s classified as. But there’s no country called United Kingdom afaik.


Gosh. You need to visit planet earth.

There is no nationstate called "England", nor "Scotland" etc..

We dont exchange embassadors with any place called "England" or "Scotland" or "Wales". We exchange embassies and embassadors with ...the United Kingdom. The POTUS meets with the Prime Minister of the whole UK, not the PM of Ulster or Wales or Scotland nor even of England.

There is no English Army etc. The current prime minister is not the head of "England", but of the whole United Kingdom.

When folks in England, Scotland et al march off to war...they do so as member of the armed forces of the United Kingdom.

The entity known as the United Kingdom levies the taxes and has the monopoly on making war by controlling the armed forces. That is the definition of a "nation state".

The United Kingdom is the geopolitical unit that is the equivalent to France, the USA, China, Swaziland, and whatever.

Not "England", not "Wales", not "Scotland".

Legally it is the nation state that folks in Ulster, Scotland, England, and Wales, live in. Pay their taxes to and etc.



Its a federation of several ethnic regions that once were seperate nation states and are still given some autonomy.

It is an odd set up though. The closest thing to it would be the old Soviet Union. Which consisted of "Soviet Socialist Republics" which were more than US states but not seperate countries. And as with the UK it was carelessly referred to by the name of the largest and most dominant unit in the federation (the UK is often called "England" and the old USSR was often referred to as just "Russia").


Oddly, they are seperate countries within the United Kingdom, but because they are within the United Kingdom, they share most of the same rules and laws and use the same currency etc.
It was hillarious when I pranked an ex GF who was from Yorkshire in England. She saw the bi-lingal cash machines and asked for help as she had not come across them before. She said "What happens if I press "Welsh". I said "All your notes will come out written in Welsh". She believed me for a few seconds! :D


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04 Dec 2023, 3:40 pm

This whole monologue about fleeing the turmoil in Venezuela is great.

But you can fast forward to about six minutes in...to get to the part that relates to the topic were discussing. :)


https://youtu.be/w6APTUJo4wQ



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06 Dec 2023, 5:41 pm

North America here.



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06 Dec 2023, 5:43 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
This whole monologue about fleeing the turmoil in Venezuela is great.

But you can fast forward to about six minutes in...to get to the part that relates to the topic were discussing. :)


https://youtu.be/w6APTUJo4wQ


Yes! :D


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07 Dec 2023, 4:47 pm

North American and am native to Oregon.


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