Hi, are you British?
 

...or is that English? WTH?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained

...maybe...

Euhm, wait, let me grap my morning coffee first, this is going way to fast :timeout:

Edit/ It is enlighting :shucks:

I knew dat! :yep:

*KICK* :nope:

Well, I knew some of dat. Lotsa Islands though.

Something he didn't mention was Great Britain. Well, he did, but he didn't mention where it came from (which was okay 'cause it wasn't part of his agenda, which was to tell us what it's all about, not what it was about a thousand years ago. But I know, and I'm gonna say it anyway).

Back when the Plantagenets ruled (that would be Henry II, Richard I (Lionheart) and Evil King John (who was no worse than his father and brother but gets a bad rap mainly for losing the crown jewels). The Island was called Great Britain because they also owned part of France. In their time it was called Less Britain, and today we call it Brittany. Oh, and John gave away that too.

So there. :sunny:

@ SS: :roll: :O: (J/k, impressed you know that)

Saw this on another site the other day, was very impressed with it. Couldn't figure out how to link it without being really spammy and NSFW. Wasn't a you tube video then.

I did learn alot from it.

And nice avatar Matador! (hey, i got picked on for hte same thing! :P)

TOO MUCH COFFEEEEE!!!!!

We still like the think we are:D.

Bookmarked that for future use.

That is great! :yeah:

I never knew we had Tuvalu :)

:har: Very nice, and very informative. Knew most of it already but had forgotten if Great Britain involved Ireland or not.

Nice choice of colour for Northern Ireland, Orange. :haha:

That clarified a lot for me. Now I know why Jim is the way he is. :DL

Well, that's more than the rest of us southerners know, please do tell. :03:

Hey, I resemble those remarks!! http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1853/angry8ro5.gif

I couldn't help but notice Wales was white in colour....probably to allow all the sheep to blend in :D

OK continuing the history theme.

Here is a clip from the UK TV series Horrible Histories.

The Four Georges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtYmq5qFVA

and the Viking report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MAZz...eature=related

the British Empire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWedT...eature=related

Any one for a quick game of 'former empire top trumps'? lol

Welshman: Are you British? :hmmm:
Englishman: No, I'm English. :O:

On all of these damn 'equality and positive discrimination' forms you get with council paperwork and some job agencies there's about 10 million different ethnic categories to cover every possible variant of race and culture to promote 'inclusiveness', unless you're English... the choice for you is always 'White - British'.
I routinely put my mark next to the box 'Other', then in the space provided write 'English'. I was born in England, not Scotland, Wales, or that other place with all of the trouble :O:
I don't get really bent out of shape by it, but everyone else gets a special label, so why shouldn't I positively discriminate my englishness on the stupid PC forms?
We're a mongrel lot here in the UK anyways, depends on how far back into history you want to take it, but I always go for where you were born as a safe bet on nationality - simplifies things somewhat.

Gotta keep those age old traditions alive, you know... Besides, how would the english know that they were better people than the miserly scots or the sheep-shagging welsh, if we were not constantly reminding ourselves and our western and northern cousins of the fact? :har: :-j

The English are the most downtrodden nation and p****d off with life.

The Scottish are to busy drinking, smoking and eating themselves to death.

The Irish tell great jokes.

The Welsh shag sheep all day long before dieing of some filthy disease.


And the EU rules this country upsetting most of the nation.

We've actually upgraded to *being* a joke now.

We always was, its just gone very public now.

I think the stereotyped-phrase you're looking for is 'to be sure!' :yep: