Hope that offers you a little insight into the boiling couldron of this United Kingdom, although if many people had their own way, Wales would be severed and left to drift towards Dublin.
Don't make me go all Braveheart on you!!!!
Aww, don't be so hard on Wales! After all they gave us Motorhead's Phil Campbell and Tom Jones!
As for the country comment by TimeWarrior and your reply, I hope I didn't offend anyone. Please understand that Americans see all inhabitants of the UK as one in the same, regardless of region,
Thanks for that civics and history lesson. I get a better idea of the makeup of your neck of the woods.Nah not offended in anyway at all, sorry if I gavce that impressions, i was kinda ranting, because I envy the way the US are free to be as nationally proud as they like and its somehting that frowned upon in the United Kingdom....more specifically England.
Unbited Kingdom, the United Kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Stems from when we were all at war with each other.
We had the scots in their little skirts (sorry metallicat....my defence...I'm English) The Welsh with their wooden clogs and the Irish that just fought anything that moved. Whilst the English invaded and oppressed everyone else.
Well in the end, we where united, in fact the united Kingdoms......clever huh? lol well it is original lmao
Great Britain:
Politically, "Great Britain" describes the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales. It also includes the former Celtic nation of Cornwall, and a number of outlying islands such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides, and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland, but does not include the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
Over the centuries, Great Britain has evolved politically from several distinct nations (England, Scotland, and Wales) through two kingdoms with a shared monarch (England and Scotland) with the union of the Crowns in 1603, a single all-island Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707, to the situation following 1801 in which Great Britain together with the island of Ireland constituted the larger United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK). The UK became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922 following the independence of five-sixths of Ireland as first the Irish Free State, a Dominion of the then British Commonwealth, and then later as an independent republic outside the British Commonwealth as the Republic of Ireland.
"Great Britain" is often used to mean the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK). However, Great Britain is only the largest island within the United Kingdom, which includes numerous surrounding smaller islands, as well as Northern Ireland in the island of Ireland.
Terms associated with Great Britain such as Britain or British are generally used as short forms for the United Kingdom or its citizens respectively.
Great Britain and its abbreviations GB and GBR are used in some international codes as a synonym for the United Kingdom, largely due to potential confusion with "UA" or "UKR" for Ukraine
Hope that offers you a little insight into the boiling couldron of this United Kingdom, although if many people had their own way, Wales would be severed and left to drift towards Dublin.
I don't see why you don't celebrate the Glorious Revolution. That was the first step towards the current democratization of the western world. I make sure my students know about the Glorious Revolution because the reasons the American founding fathers revolted was based on the principles of the Glorious Revolution.
I disagree with you on this one. While the ones that paid attention in school know that GB is a part of the UK, and that Wales, England, Scotland, N. Ireland are parts of the UK, they still look at the UK as one nation, and not how our two friends here from the UK look at it as an alliance of nations.
Questions like that are very common in the US. I think most people know that the likelihood is as slim as winning the lottery, but they still like seeing if they can make that connection. I think it's just more of a social game for us. I take it you don't get questions like that from others living in the UK? So, that's got me thinking... Jenna, since you're from Scotland, you wouldn't happen to know Groundskeeper Willie from North Kilttown do you? He's friends with some guy named Angus McCleod.I've had some stupid questions from foreigners, mostly Americans, in my time..."Oh you're from Scotland!! Do you know my aunt Betty who lives in Glasgow???" Um...yeah of course I do!!!
Personally, I like this system. I like the fact that our nation has 50 different states that operate differently. I'd hate for the Pacific states (California, Oregon, and Washington) to have to obey the same social laws of the Deep South states (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana), and vice versa. I've lived in both areas, and I like that although I do not like the state laws of the Deep South, I can move to another state that has laws more to my liking.
I'd hate for the Pacific states (California, Oregon, and Washington) to have to obey the same social laws of the Deep South states (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana), and vice versa. I've lived in both areas, and I like that although I do not like the state laws of the Deep South, I can move to another state that has laws more to my liking.
I remember reading about a farmer in England who's house was broken into by two criminals with firearms, he shot one of the criminals and got life in prison, is this true?
I heard another story about an old British guy who held a criminal at bay that broke into his house, he used a toy gun that the criminal thought was real. Later on at the trial the criminals lawyer convinced the court that his client was traumatized by the gun and the old man got 10 years in prison.
Germany and France now have conservative Presidents, maybe England will follow suit. Sometimes it doesn't do any good though. Even here in the U.S. criminals and illegal aliens have more rights than the hard working citizen. Ahhh.. the greatest nation on earth!
I'm just the opposite, I'm from the northeast and would prefer to live under southern state laws. They have a 2nd Amendment down there
The great thing is that the laws vary state to state, so if one does not like the laws of one state, he can move to another state that is more to his or her liking.
