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Slashdot coverage: Worth it for the spectacular ignorance alone!

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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Astounding....One american even thought that we were using the pound sterling, and that we were under monarchial rule. Another (British) person referred to Ireland & the UK as the 'British Isles'. Grrrr :mad: for some reason that's always really annoyed me.


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    Lennoxschips
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Lennoxschips


    The Dutch nearly always call the Irish "Britten".

    Just today on the telly: "O'Leary, een typische Britse manager"


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    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Jesus, what fvckwits :mad:


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    Lennoxschips
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Lennoxschips


    That's the scary thing about Holland, it's not just the average person on the street that thinks Ireland is in the UK, the media (inlcuding the respectable state media) do as well.


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    dragonkin
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭dragonkin


    saw a tshirt that summed this up nicely

    j'NE suis PAS d'angleterre
    je suis d'irlande!
    (I'm NOT english, i'm Irish!)

    as someone who has lived in france I can realate to this!
    I'm NOT English god dammit

    DK


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    it was upon reading this that placed the current newspaper in my hands and bit into it.

    it scares me, it really does


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    this may make u feel better, id made me laugh


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    #9
    DeadBankClerk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭DeadBankClerk


    ireland is geographically part of the brittish isles.


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    explain that DBC, was never much good at geography


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    Lennoxschips
    Registered Users Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Lennoxschips


    The British Isles is the name of the the Islands that make up Ireland and the UK. This name annoys me too, but it is the official geographical name for the area.

    Just like Canada and Mexico are both in North America.


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    GoneShootin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    why dont they just change it ?


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    dccarm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭dccarm


    Why bother? If you don't like it yourself just call it something else. The Irish Isles?


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    koneko
    Registered Users Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Dunno about that. I know a huge amount of Dutch people, having lived there for nearly 20 years, and they all seemed to know Ireland wasn't Britain. Shock horror.


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    mayhem#
    Registered Users Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭mayhem#


    Originally posted by Lennoxschips
    The Dutch nearly always call the Irish "Britten".

    Just today on the telly: "O'Leary, een typische Britse manager"

    Not really, the Dutch generally refer to the British as "Britten" not the Irish.
    They might however refer to O'Leary as "a typically British manager" because a lot of the culture and education here is strongly influenced by the British...


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    daveirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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