Why does your country need three names! :mad2:
Printable View
Why does your country need three names! :mad2:
we only have 2 names, England and Great Britain. United Kingdom refers to England, Scottland, Wales and Irland.
But why we have 2 is still a mystery to me. "great britain" is probably a self-defence against anyone who complains about the food and weather here, oh and public transport.
America, U.S, United States :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: There you are. :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: :mad2:
yes but U.S already means United States :D
Because we're awesome.
England, Scotland, Wales etc aren't really countries per se, they're more like US states but with a stronger sense of identity really.
Britain = England, Wales, Scotland.
Great Britain = England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland.
UK/United Kingdom = England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland...and maybe all the other territories we own too, like Gibraltar and Falkland Islands.
It may be wrong, but that's how I like to think of it :D
No it doesn't :mad2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Croyles
lol, give up already :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris
That's right, don't mess with The Jones. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Croyles
Because we're the best country in the world, baring none, hence we need more than one name. Remember America - we made you.
I love how we're the most arrogant nation on earth. :love:
...excluding the French. Oh and the Germans. Americans too, really. And how can I forget Lithuania?
im half english and half german, and i all i can say is this. STOP WITH THE GOD DAMN TRIANGLE OF HATE! Its between the French, Germans and the English, and they all complain how arrogant the other country is, which only makes them more arrogant. :rolleyes2
we have 3 names because we are better than you.
It's just harmless fun, no-one is being upset by it, and diplomatically and economically, France, the UK and Germany are all on good terms which each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Croyles
i know i was just kidding mate
Stupid arrogant Europeans ;)
We're the worst of all, really. U.S., United States... The United States of America? Let's just rename ourselves to Candyland and get it over with. Think about it. Who would want to launch missiles at Candyland?
My country has more than one name and cool people like me come from there. :cool:
Actually the title is, The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. Great Britain is England, Scotland & Wales, Britain is the island. Scotland & Wales are principalities with their own devoved governments & laws. Northern Ireland is that troublesome outcast cousin.
Its because we are cool :cool:
US
United States
America
They're all shortened versions of the same one name of our country.
The United States of America
US : United States of America
United States: United States of America
America: United States of America
England - Just England on it's own
Great Britain - England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom - Cos we used to own half the goddamn planet. :D
But because were so nice we gave most of it back. :p
Northern Ireland ISN'T part of Great Britain.
Yea, but the Federated States of Micronesia wins the longest primary name.
they are three different things.
England is a country
Great Britain is a political and economic union set up in the 18th century between scotalnd and england (wales wasn't considered a seperate country)
United kingdom includes the whole of ireland but had been cut back to just northern island recently.
I hate foriegners who think that Great Britain and United Kingdom mean England.
I think that when countries have different names, it is a good thing. What I mean by this is that instead of saying England, or Great Britain, all I gotta say is UK, and people will understand what the heck I am talking about. It just makes the job so much easier, but it is annoying sometimes to have more than one name.
The People's Republic of China :p China. Zhong Guo. Why can't we just call countries but their real names, that the people in those countries call it?
because i love calling them germany and spain rather then deutchland and whatever the spanish call it.
Because you would have to say Wales as Cymru. And I dare you to pronounce it.
Espania...I thinkQuote:
Originally Posted by gokufusionss1
But i agree that we should call countries by they're real names, its not exactly hard. Nippon instead of Japan for example.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch...s/britain.html
Yea, I hate that. England isn't the only country in the UK! :mad2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
Nippon? What happened to Nihon? I agree though. Most foreing languages... when they say America in their tongue, it at least sounds like America. Amerikana and such. Germany sounds nothing like Deuchtland or whatever. Who the heck decided to name them differently anyway?
Its Nippon its just that the p is very soft.
Actually, it's both, with Nihon being the more common of the two :p
This thread makes me cry. ;_______________________;
EDIT: Not really. ;)
oh ok, my bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by cl_out
Damn arrogant white people.
*wins*
*applause*
Because we feared stupid Americans would forget the one name, like what you do with the rest of the planet. So for ease of use, we made up three. (SPOILER)We're clever like that, we actually have the brains to use other letters except "U" & "S" :)
Unless you need their help or bombing all hell out of it.
"Georgia? That aint a country!"
*laughs*
Wow. At least I was joking.
The original Roman name for the area was Germania, of which German was basically another word for barbarian. Although I'm not sure if the barbarians called it Deutchland back then or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
I think so was I. *checks*Quote:
Originally Posted by ShlupQuack
Oh yeah, I was.
List Of Countries I Love
Good. I hate it when people discriminate against people based on their home country, or beliefs. Lets stick to more concrete things, like the color of people's skin and fatties.
Good One :)Quote:
Lets stick to more concrete things, like the color of people's skin and fatties.
I think most of us in the UK bash the rest of the world just cause we're like that, we seperate ourselves from the rest of the world because we can. We've come up with stereotypes for everyone, and most of the countriesn we've either
a) Shot all the native countrymen when we had all the guns
b) Shot all the native countrymen when we had the big guns
Sadly, I think all countries (except Canada and New Zealand- those people are just lovely) have this attitide now.
History, meh. ^_^ That's why. Oh, my country has a heck lot of names in heck lot of languages. o_O And I only know two of 'em. But there has to be more.
xD
Cuchulainn wins an invisible hat because he is the only person to have got it right. I'm not even British and I still know this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuchulainn
Yeah, that is about right aside from the UK just means the island as well; including the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, and the Scilly, Orkney, Shetland, and Hebridean archipelagosand the Channel Islands: also know as the British IslesQuote:
UK/United Kingdom = England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland...and maybe all the other territories we own too, like Gibraltar and Falkland Islands.
Gibraltar and the Falklands are British dependencies.That would have been the British Empire which has turned into the Commonwealth. Most countries still associted with the Empire (and people join up; Mozambique has no ex-colonial links with the Empire) are part of the Commonwealth of NationsQuote:
United Kingdom - Cos we used to own half the goddamn planet.
At present, the head of state of 16 member countries is the British sovereign, 5 members have their own monarchs, and 33 are republics. All members recognize Elizabeth II as head of the association, although such recognition does not automatically extend to her successor. The full list of members as of 2003 was: the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus, Dominica, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan (currently suspended), Papua New Guinea, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (currently suspended).
© 1993-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
So in effect that means the UK has some control over countries such as Canada, Australia, India and New Zeland.
That's something the Americans can't do!
I remember my friend thought "Ukrainean" was reffering to someone from the U.K. xD
:screwy: :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by DMKA
Viva Le Resistance! :fencing: :chop:
The UK has little to zero control over those countries. They still have the English Monarchy as 'Head of State' but that is a title & nothing more. They remain in the Commonwealth for economic alliances only. It's kinda like NATO, except with tea & cricket instead of guns & commie hating.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomamar04
we do because we kick ass! :D
*laughs at everyone else*
we would rule the world if it wasn't for those pesky kids
I guess that's why the Brits are portrayed as the bad guys in films...
Because we're just that great. :cool: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by theundeadhero
You've got to admit we do it well. Nothing like an inherantly evil badass, except an inherantly evil badass with a suave English accent.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomamar04
They have the Englishmen as villians on all kinds of stuff because they are totally hott, and the accent makes them irresitable. And come on the Villians are supposed to be hott and sexxy so you actually focus on something. Otherwise movie companies would never make any money. Most people in the U.S. alone are Anglofiles. I should know I have a hott English guy he came fully equipped with a job, English accent, and totally hot sexy body. What more can a girl ask for. Oh he's loyal too kinda like a dog lol. Englishmen are a girls best friend lol.
The strereotype for British villains is usually the Evil Mastermind. Not very good at fighting, but always has an escape plan. Then you get the Russian general, the American badass soldier etc.
Except the Geordie accent. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sploddess
I agree with you fully on that one Odaise. But like I said I have one at home so yea I don't have to worry about anything, and if he loses his accent I can send him home to visit for a few months or however long it takes. It's part of my warrenty lol.
lol :D A foolproof plan methinks!
Brittish accents make me want to do violent things. Nothing else in the world does :(
But American accents sound like they all have something stuck up their nose's.
Yeah, thinking about it, it kinda does!
I think the posher the american there closer their accent comes to sounding like they are from Dorset.
Everything brilliant comes from Dorset.
Britain Britain Britain! founded in 1704 by Henry Britain demolished in 1922 and rebuilt a year later
little britain quote lol it rocks
its all british accents the variety pwns american accents
I think it is because we are a rocking country and so much better than you.
If you are reading this, the chances are we used to OWN you.
Therefore, we are Great.
Chaos
Is it me, or have all the American's left us because we were boring them about how great we are?
I've always wanted to go to England/Britain/Great Britian. ^_^
American accents? What accents? o________OQuote:
Originally Posted by TisWas
The accent of the Americans. o_0Quote:
Originally Posted by DMKA
#it is impossible to be bored when we go on about how great we are, the whole world is enthralled.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomamar04
Quote:
All spelling mistakes AND grammatical errors by me are to be corrected via PM's rather then Posts. Thankyou
Thats "the American the"Quote:
I think the posher the american there closer their accent comes to sounding like they are from Dorset.
You used to control the people from countries reading the thread but you were so great that you lost control of them all :p
i think that american accents are weird...i always wondered where it came from.....they don't sound irish...or french...or anything!! you mutated all that is british
(and i shake your hand for it xD)
Hmmmmm if you guys are sooooo Great why did America win the Revolution? Gee I wonder. Probably because we're better :D. You have hott guys and hott accents but we are still better. Britian is the lazy bum capital of the world, did you know that? You have the highest unemployment rating in the entire world. Although Russia and some of the smaller countries like Iran and that come in quite close but still, you all have more money than they do so what's you guys excusses? An I seem to be the only American disputing this one lol.
Ummm... I hate to tell you this but Britian actually has pretty low unemployment now.
And for a few wars we've lost, there has been several we won.
Yes but we have won many ourselves. Okay and on the unemployment I will have to reinform my finace of that considering I guess it changed in the past 2 months. He leaves the country and everyone gets jobs. Amazing. That sad part is though according to studies they have recently done Iran and Pursia still have higher employment rates I wonder how a country SO great can be beat out by smaller countries on that? Also to the person who asked why you guys have so many names England is the name of ONE of the countries in Great Britian, United Kingdom is because of the fact that Scottland, a small part of either Ireland or Iceland, England and Whales are all together as one country. And why its called Great Britian I have no idea because they got beat by a place that had 20,000 less men fighting than they did. All because we through their damn tea in the harbor.
I think this thread is getting out of control.
Calm the close-to-racist arguments. ;)
How are they racist? One I'm making reference to true stuff everything is noted in history books all over the world. It's not like I'm making a judgement based on the fact that I don't like GB. I mean its a cute lil place to visit but I wouldn't want to spend my life there. Racisism is based mainly on opinion mine was on facts,
my point is, take it easy.
plus, i didnt directly mean you, but everyone in this thread, maybe i caused a bit of this to start too, cant remember though.
american accent is cooler than british . but scotland's accent rocks:P lol
You should maybe consider not voicing you intensely inaccurate & uneducated opinions pretty soon. In fact if you wish to save any face at all, I'd probably stop now. This, ofcourse is just a suggestion, you are free to speak about the world outside your bubble anytime you want. I'm just trying to help save your integrity, and, you know, your soul. I suggest a little reading on the subject before you comment, if you are not blessed with the ability to read and/or opposable thumbs, ask a tourist. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Sploddess
ugh
*closes*
Way to divert the thread topic, guys. Good job.