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Great Britain Not United Kingdom
Can you please change the name of this subforum to Great Britain or just Britain instead of the United Kingdom. Screw UK.
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.....and where does that leave the folk in NI?
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My advice would be..shut this thread immediately.
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That would be incorrect though. Great Britain or Britain just refers to England, Scotland and Wales. "Great Britain" and the "United Kingdom" are two different places. Northern Ireland is not technically a part of Britain - it is part of the sovereign state - the union - of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (or United Kingdom for short) if you want to be pedantic about it.
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United Kingdom covers British. It covers English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland folk. If it were changed to Britain, it would exclude those in Northern Ireland. That's not fair to them. Would you like it if the English demanded it were changed to England? *After all, we are English so who cares about excluding the Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish folk?
*tongue in cheek before anyone starts. The only way if could be changed to Britain, in my opinion, would be if it were changed to Great Britain and Northern Ireland and that's too long.
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Maybe they do, but it's factually wrong and would upset those in NI.
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On further thought, the only people in Northern Ireland who would get upset would be those idiots who think that they are Irish. Most people in NI regard themselves as British.
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Do you know anything about the 6 counties VK? Only the Prods refer to themselves as British. Catholic call themselves Irish. The 6 counties are actually part of Ireland and as such the people are actually Irish. They are part of the UK but they are not British. Did you see the Commonwealth games, The Northern Irish marched under their own Flag.
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Great Britain specifically excludes them. Great Britain refers to the island comprised of England, Scotland and Wales. You can't rewrite history, turn the clock back to 1800 and cut loose those in NI in the process just because I you don't like the term United Kingdom, any more than we can cut you loose and begin referring to Australia as New Holland. In my opinion.
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Northern Ireland is British and Protestant. As a proud British Protestant, I refer to my country as Britain (Great Britain mostly). I never refer to my country as the United Kingdom. Saying "United Kingdom" feels as unnatural as speaking in Metric. |
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Geographically, you are correct.
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The Irish must not be given into. There is no such thing as the Northern Irish. They are either British or Irish. Further, Tasmania and Australia are two different islands but yet people still refer to Tasmania as Australia and still call the Tasmanians Australians. So, Northern Ireland is not connected to Great Britain and Ireland and Great Britain are two different islands. But people still refer to NI and the rest of Britain as Britain. |
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VK,stop trying to be a smart arse little fuckwit ok. Your not British, your Australian and right now your acting like a troll trying to start a fight
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