Squorlple@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 6 months agoI am a surgeon!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1320arrow-down115
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minus-squareEvia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoEh, we don’t really use Britain. UK is more inclusive
minus-squareMr_Blott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoYou say “we” but there are an awful, awful lot of people in NI who would disagree with you
minus-squareEvia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoWell certainly but the Brits tend to ignore that part of the UK - it’s a little uncomfortable so we just pretend that NI doesn’t exist
minus-squared00ery@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoIf UK is short for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, wouldn’t UK be inclusive of NI? As someone who is a UK national I did have to google this as I never remember the differences between GB / UK. Ahh, on rereading perhaps you’re talking about NI people who don’t want to be part of the UK!
minus-squareoptissima@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoSo I should call it Britain so colonies are reminded they’re conquered by a foreign parasite.
minus-squareMr_Blott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoSweet joke, have you got any from after the 19th century?
minus-squareMr_Blott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoAre you suggesting Scotland isn’t a joke? Because I have a Glenrothes to tell you about
Eh, we don’t really use Britain. UK is more inclusive
You say “we” but there are an awful, awful lot of people in NI who would disagree with you
Well certainly but the Brits tend to ignore that part of the UK - it’s a little uncomfortable so we just pretend that NI doesn’t exist
If UK is short for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, wouldn’t UK be inclusive of NI?
As someone who is a UK national I did have to google this as I never remember the differences between GB / UK.
Ahh, on rereading perhaps you’re talking about NI people who don’t want to be part of the UK!
So I should call it Britain so colonies are reminded they’re conquered by a foreign parasite.
Sweet joke, have you got any from after the 19th century?
Yeah it’s England
Are you suggesting Scotland isn’t a joke? Because I have a Glenrothes to tell you about