🔥 Australia. Now in Europe.
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The Gibraltarians for example say they are "British" but are more Spanish in culture than the rest of the UK, but won't admit it.
Yeah, the most "British" living being on Gibraltar are the monkeys... and the tax evaders.
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What is more British than Tax Evasion ... the Conservative party seems to endorse it.
As for the British being ape-ish have you seen Malaga on a night out, a bunch of chimps would be more civilised.
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There are still big cultural differences between the scots and the welsh, compared to the English and there is a bit sub-divide between the North and the South and London itself.
Yes, but it's a pretty ultra-nationalist view to say:
I am English, but I never say I am British for the same reason I am not a fucking Scot or a Welshman. No Scotsman would identify as British first instead of Scottish ... FFS
I think that's what (most) people were getting at. I say I'm British first rather than English.
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I think that's what (most) people were getting at. I say I'm British first rather than English.
Why when it is culturally the other way around?
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Although I'm sure there are Kangaroos in Austria too... in a Zoo
I now have a burning desire to visit Austria, purely in order to go to a zoo and photograph myself in front of a load of antipodean wildlife, so I can come home and tell people all about the kangaroos &c I saw in Austria.
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It is a subjective term ...
At least you now admit that it exists, be it in a political or geographical sense. That's progress at least.
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Doesn't mean I am talking shit, and doesn't invalidate anything I say.
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Doesn't mean I am talking shit
Not necessarily, no.
doesn't invalidate anything I say
Except the claim you made and then invalidated it yourself? Sure. Contradicting yourself is a sure sign of internally consistent argument, don't you know?
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Why when it is culturally the other way around?
I think you mean that no true Scotsman would identify himself as British before Scottish.
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The original complaint was something about the British being English.
The point was that the English might be British but there are quite a lot of cultural identities in England itself which mean Britishness for the most part is a nebulous term.
If you are lived in the country and the rest of the UK you would recognise that culturally while there are similarities there are huge differences in our accent, what we eat, and how we view life.
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Most won't and I am aware of the fallacy, the fallacy isn't about about cultural anything and is about who is a "true believer" e.g. "I am a real gamer because I play on platform X".
The fact the there was a referendum on Scotland and if there is a "Brexit" (I hate the term) there will be another one, there maybe a true definition of a scotsman.
Fuck the Isle of Wight is massively different than the rest of country due to the problem of mass unemployment.
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Why when it is culturally the other way around?
Not in my personal view and I've lived in Wales and worked (briefly) in Scotland. I've lived in Germany and that was infinitely more of a cultural shift than you'll find moving between different parts of this little island.
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And there apparently is at least one farm featuring at least wallabies there: see?.
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Yes I would imagine it is. But go from Manchester to say to Dorset (where I live) and it is massive IMO. Though I suppose it is subjective to say the least.
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Seems they're not only on Zoo's
A woman from Upper Austria got the surprise of her life when she spotted a large brown marsupial foraging in her garden on Tuesday.
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I've always used British to mean 'of Great Britain', which is the first meaning in a few dictionaries (this one, for example). So by that definition you can't be English and not British. Some other dictionaries put the political definition first.
However, if you were talking about legally British, then yes, I'll admit there are a few people who are not eligible for British citizenship but still live there and consider themselves English/Scottish/Welsh.
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culturally while there are similarities there are huge differences in our accent, what we eat, and how we view life.
I'm sure you could say the same about Texas vs New York, but both are American.
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@lucas said:
culturally while there are similarities there are huge differences in our accent, what we eat, and how we view life.
I'm sure you could say the same about Texas vs New York, but both are American.
I think some Texans still believe Texas is a separate republic.
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I'm sure you could say the same about Texas vs New York, but both are American.
I remember there was a war fought over that at some point ... much like the Scottish fought the English ... just saying.
G&R made a song about it
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A woman from Upper Austria got the surprise of her life when she spotted a large brown marsupial foraging in her garden on Tuesday.
More evidence of America trying to correct the world to conform to their ignorance.
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So the Isle of Wight is not part of Great Britain ... Don't say that to Pompii supporters on that island.
The Isle of Wight is its own island. “Great Britain” is a physical geographical term and has a precise definition. Fools, idiots and the ignorant may misuse the term, but that's just proving their foolishness, idiocy and/or ignorance.
Nationality is something else, and citizenship is something else again.
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Yes that was my whole fucking point. I thought it would be obvious.
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Personally I've never been able to work out whether the little islands around the edge of GB are encompassed by that term or not. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me?
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“Great Britain” is a physical geographical term and has a precise definition.
that was my whole fucking point.
There is no island of Great Britain you fucking idiot.
I thought it would be obvious.
You have the strangest definition of obvious I've ever seen.
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Explain how the Isle of Wight is part of the "Island of Great Britain"?
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Explain to me who's saying it is?
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Fucking hell! Did anyone get the licence plate of that goalpost? That fucker can move, man.
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FFS, That Onyx guy was trying to make me look like an arsehole for just that.
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You have the strangest definition of obvious I've ever seen.
On a side note, it's hilarious that everyone that disagrees with him over anything is a "fucking idiot."
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There is no Island of Great Britain ... you are a fucking moron.
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It is when they are being idiotic by definition.
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What color is the sky on this mysterious planet that is so like Earth as to have the same political designations but without the usual geographic landmasses?
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Why is is such a hard idea that there are different ideas and identities that exist in a small area?
I live in a place called "Ringwood" in Hampshire and in less than 20 miles they have massively different ideas on Hunting than Bournemouth which is more metropolitan.
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Fucking hell! Did anyone get the licence plate of that goalpost? That fucker can move, man.
1UC45
I think...
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FFS, That Onyx guy was trying to make me look like an arsehole for just that.
I said you were wrong. If that equates to arsehole in your mind I am truly sorry I melted your snowflake.
BTW, this is what you said that I objected to:
BTW there is no such thing as British
And you later contradicted that. So, good job.
There is no Island of Great Britain ... you are a fucking moron.
It's those fucking geographers again, lying to the public! Did you know they also conspired with NASA and are claiming that the Earth is actually a spheroid? The size of the balls on those guys!
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Oh you are right this time at last!
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Do we give speeding tickets on this forum? I just saw it doing it again!
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The "United Kindom" BTW on that map is inaccurate
yeah it really looks more like a rabbit eating a carrot in reality.
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OK, according to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain#Modern_use_of_the_term_Great_Britain]Wikipedia[/url], Great Britain as a geographical term refers to only the big island, but Great Britain as a political term includes Wight and the other small ones around the edges (but not Man or the Channel Islands). For the avoidance of pedantry, Ireland is not a 'small island' in this context.
So there is such a thing as 'the island of Great Britain', and the Isle of Wight is part of Great Britain. Because it wouldn't be any fun if it was straightforward.
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Oh you are right this time at last!
Ah, apparently posting the same thing over and over again does make you right.
But only after a ninja edit, mind you.
So there is such a thing as 'the island of Great Britain', and the Isle of Wight is part of Great Britain. Because it wouldn't be any fun if it was straightforward.
Yeah, I'm aware there's a lot of fuckery there, but I never once argued for anything more than the geographical term anyway.
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Ah, apparently posting the same thing over and over again does make you right.
Posting what?
The point is that culturally a lot of the UK is differs by locality.
There wasn't a Scottish Independence referendum recently because people "felt like it"
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The point is that culturally a lot of the UK is differs by locality.
Has anyone disputed that at any point? (Note that 'the UK differs from Europe more than parts of the UK differ from each other' does not imply that parts of the UK do not differ.)
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How Can Great Britain Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real
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Apparently every fucker on here since I said it originally. That was the whole fucking argument.
"I am from Murica and you are all the same" was the general premise.
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Have you been reading a different thread than I have?
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BTW there is no such thing as British ... otherwise the Scots and Welsh wouldn't want independence.
Except it must exist if they want to be independent of it.