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We should stop calling the U.K 'England'

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  • #52
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    holyhead wrote: »
    Are you bored. Really this is a thread?

    I just bought a new dyson hoover.


  • #53
    Edgware
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    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    England South and England North are quite different in and of themselves.

    Remember asking guy in his mid 20s from Manchester how he found London.

    He'd never been.
    So what? Plenty of Cork people havent been in Antrim and vice versa. Similar in every country


  • #54
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,731 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Edgware wrote: »
    So what? Plenty of Cork people havent been in Antrim and vice versa. Similar in every country

    I think the equivalent comparison would be the amount of Cork people in their 20's who have never been in Dublin.


  • #55
    Edgware
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    I think the equivalent comparison would be the amount of Cork people in their 20's who have never been in Dublin.
    What would bring them to Dublin?


  • #56
    FrancieBrady
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    Edgware wrote: »
    What would bring them to Dublin?

    Car, bus, train, aircraft, bicycle, boat, by foot. Plenty of options in modern Ireland apparently.


  • #57
    janfebmar
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Car, bus, train, aircraft, bicycle, boat, by foot. Plenty of options in modern Ireland apparently.

    He or she did not ask what means of transport they would use, he or she asked what would entice them to visit Dublin?


  • #58
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    janfebmar wrote: »
    He or she did not ask what means of transport they would use, he or she asked what would entice them to visit Dublin?

    Actually the sentence was ambiguously phrased.


  • #59
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,731 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    janfebmar wrote: »
    He or she did not ask what means of transport they would use, he or she asked what would entice them to visit Dublin?

    bring definition: 1. to take or carry someone or something to a place



    entice: definition: 1. attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.

    To answer the supplementary question of what would entice them, the same things that entice any citizen to go to the capital of their country.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
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    An Claidheamh wrote: »
    A British Union is an invented term, like the Soviet Union or British commonwealth.

    No one voted to join.

    No intelligent person thinks it is an equal "country".

    It ought to be called England, the same way the USSR was Russia.

    The Scots voted to be told what to do by England, too bad if this upsets them.

    Scotland did vote to join though.

    If the Scots really want independence, they should allow the English to vote on it, they’d love to see the back of the unequal Union.


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  • #61
    Danzy
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    The UK is the England show, they decide , others in the UK can like it or not.


  • #62
    Ash.J.Williams
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Only simpletons refer to the UK or Britain as 'England' anyway. The same kind of people who refer to a 'road tax'.

    We pay for water twice ...peace-full protest


  • #63
    odyssey06
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    He or she did not ask what means of transport they would use, he or she asked what would entice them to visit Dublin?

    Either way, the Dub in me says dont be encouraging them!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #64
    FrancieBrady
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Either way, the Dub in me says dont be encouraging them!

    There'll be plenty of them there on Saturday, big game to 'entice' them and they'll be 'brought' by car, train, airplane, boat and by foot. ;)


  • #65
    janfebmar
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    Edgware wrote: »
    Plenty of Cork people havent been in Antrim and vice versa. Similar in every country

    Good point. So not surprising some oddball from Manchester has never been to London.


  • #66
    kingchess
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    I grew up watching programmes like" Dads Army".the theme song included the lines -"who do you think you are kidding mr. hitler if you think old englands done.
    "IF you can not trust the BBC ,who can you trust?


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  • #67
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,731 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    kingchess wrote: »
    I grew up watching programmes like" Dads Army".the theme song included the lines -"who do you think you are kidding mr. hitler if you think old englands done.
    "IF you can not trust the BBC ,who can you trust?

    It isn't so much a problem that we here might confuse England with the UK, the problem they have now is that England thinks it is the UK.


  • #68
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    According to wikipedia the British army is descended from the english new model army founded in 1660.


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