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Frazzled wrote:
How big is England? Someone can verify its larger than my back yard right.
No, its not bigger than Central America.
While on that subject; can you find England on a map, or Wales, or Central America?
Whats a map?
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Orlanth wrote:There is no uneven exploitation of the Welsh or lower access to rights. Its interesting that JEB seems to have got his idea of English mentality from a Scotsman. Now there is a genuine undercurrent there between the English and the Scots, one that surfaces a lot, and some Scotsmen might - if being unfair - might try and say 'this is what the English think/do' and paint Wales as a playground of human misery. I have relatives in Scotland and being English there is increasingly unpleasant, he is an elected councillor. People are frequently asking online whether English should be tolerated to hold office? If you removed the word English and replaced it with 'blacks' the comments would read as definate cases of racism, but because they are raised against the English its almost seen as alright.
to be fair as much as I agreed with the first part of your essay write up there that part sounds like you've made it up yourself. I not only work up there a hell of a lot but I have family up there as well, who were originally from england also. Yes I get the odd bit of banter, yes I get digged at for liking cricket from time to time. But no, the majority of Scots I have met do not hold opinions towards the english which I would liken to "racism."
Which part of Scotland may I ask. Edinburgh, Stirling and most of SE Scotland is fairly safe for English. Remember the old joke Q. Why is Glasgow fuill of drunks and Edinburgh full of English. A. Glasgow got first pick.
I have a close (English) friend in Glasgow and it can get dicey with the neds.
I have family in Aberdeen who get on well with the majority but do see some resentment that is racism from an increasing minority who will not accept having an Englishman in public office, even if elected by Scottish constituents. And no they are not Tory. According to them there is a trend which shows this sentiment is slowly spreading.
I have family in aberdeenshire and I often work in dumfriesshire. The minority who will take it to that level are just underclass biggots, if he wasn't English they'd probably just find something else to start a fight about. Most people I meet up there are absolutely fine, very friendly people. There is also a sense that a lot of them are proud to be scottish, I work in a design studio for example and we often get requests from Scottish clients to add a thistle, use rangers colours etc. But being proud to be scottish is a totally different thing to what you and whoever you are talking to are making them out to be.
As a matter of fact I know (of) people in newcastle and carlisle who start fights on a friday night with someone if they live in a different district of the same city to them. They're just idiots, they are everywhere. Not just in scotland.
A while back in newcastle some of the same idiots strapped a kid to a park bench and wired a car battery up to it because he was wearing a sunderland shirt. Newcastle, a place often touted in the media as the friendliest city in britian. And it is a friendly city. It's just, as I say, the idiots. You get them everywhere.
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Frazzled wrote:
How big is England? Someone can verify its larger than my back yard right.
No, its not bigger than Central America.
While on that subject; can you find England on a map, or Wales, or Central America?
Whats a map?
Seriously Orlanth, did you forget that some U.S. Americans in our nation don't have maps?
It's not like our education is, such as, South Africa and the Iraq. And everywhere such as.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
Some of the funniest gak I ever saw was a bunch of Americans being asked to find Iraq and North Korea on a map, and pointing to all over the fething place. It's a sad fact that so many of your people are that stupid/ignorant.
I'm not saying it's a greater proportion, necessarily, but it's certainly more raw bodies than the UK.
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I would guess this is what you were thinking of, Elessar:
It is rather entertaining to watch. Obviously it's set up and edited to make Americans seem as dumb as possible, but it's still embarrassing that anyone is as stupid as some of these guys...
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
England 50,346 square miles
Wales 8,022 square miles
Scotland 30,414 square miles
Northern Ireland 5,345 square miles
The United Kingdom 94,526 square miles
Republic of Ireland 27,133 square miles
For comparison
Rhode Island 1,545 square miles
Virginia 42,774 square miles
Texas 268,820 square miles
Alaska 663,268 square miles
Elessar wrote:Some of the funniest gak I ever saw was a bunch of Americans being asked to find Iraq and North Korea on a map, and pointing to all over the fething place. It's a sad fact that so many of your people are that stupid/ignorant.
I'm not saying it's a greater proportion, necessarily, but it's certainly more raw bodies than the UK.
Back in high school there was a German exchange student I was trying to make a move on. Unfortunately she didn't think too highly of Americans and it didn't help when the dude behind her kept throwing up the "heil" salute and the girl next to her asked who the current king of Germany was.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, for what its worth, I only ever took ONE class that I can recall where I studied world maps. That was... 9 years ago? I'm pretty good as far as Europe and Asia go, but if you give me a map of Africa, Ill be able to point out South Africa, Egypt, and Ethiopia, and that's about it.
Im pretty sure the main reason I can locate European countries on a globe is because Ive played so many world domination strategy games. Sure as hell wasn't because of school.
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Yeah, Africa's hard. They just drew lines across it a lot of the time to divide it up. You don't have a big one like China or the Mediterranean Sea to use as a starting point.
Still, you should at least know your goddamn continents.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
Frazzled wrote:
How big is England? Someone can verify its larger than my back yard right.
No, its not bigger than Central America.
While on that subject; can you find England on a map, or Wales, or Central America?
Whats a map?
To you: the wish list, to us: the old receipts.
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
But!
British beer is generally far superiour to guinness. Wrassler's XXXX stout on the other hand is the king of beers, and it has The Big Fella on it.
Lord-Loss wrote:Im finding it increasing annoying that people refer to each other as "Your people" etc.
I mean were all humans, but sadly were all split up into our own little "Countries".
A world united would be a better world.
Unless it was united under a dictatorship of course, which would be the likely government.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Orkeosaurus wrote:I would guess this is what you were thinking of, Elessar:
It is rather entertaining to watch. Obviously it's set up and edited to make Americans seem as dumb as possible, but it's still embarrassing that anyone is as stupid as some of these guys...
Well you can pick an audience like that anywhere. I remember stumbling onto a game show on TV one day and stopping wild eyed while this bikini ditz failed to recite the alphabet.
As a rule Aussies do like to take the piss out of Yanks on this level though. In some ways Australians and Americans are seen as broadly similar, so the Aussies like to imply that the principle difference is in the IQ.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Da Boss wrote:Ah, but what if it was a benevolent dictatorship?
*honks Fraz's nose and runs away*
Vote for Frazzled for President. I'll make the trains run on time.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I don't even think it was really in school I learnt, but a few months ago I was challenged to name as many countries as I could. I got to almost a hundred in the 7 minute limit. I was pretty pleased, until I realised how many of the easy ones I'd missed. lol
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