How disrespectful!

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I always thought Great Britain was just the big island which has most of England, Scotland and Wales on it, nothing to do with the country of the UK which includes other bits. For some reason we let Northern Irish athletes compete for the Republic of Ireland.
 
Qwerty said:
I always thought Great Britain was just the big island which has most of England, Scotland and Wales on it, nothing to do with the country of the UK which includes other bits. For some reason we let Northern Irish athletes compete for the Republic of Ireland.
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Great Britain is the island we're on, Ireland is a different island, hence United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so GB itself isn't NI.
 
Mr. Nice said:
Great Britain is the island we're on, Ireland is a different island, hence United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so GB itself isn't NI.
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Yeah I get that bit, but why aren't we "Team UK"? Northern Irish athletes represent the Republic of Ireland at the Olympics. Actually I think they can be either, I'm not sure.

Anyway who cares about that, Cork is on. :)
 
Qwerty said:
Yeah I get that bit, but why aren't we "Team UK"? Northern Irish athletes represent the Republic of Ireland at the Olympics. Actually I think they can be either, I'm not sure.

Anyway who cares about that, Cork is on. :)
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Well, we might as well be team England and a bit of Wales in the football.
 
haha england should defo not use jerusalem, so long and boring! at the commenwealth games whenever it was played the commentators were running out of things to say! the athletes looked slightly bored after its 87 minute duration of standing on the podium...
 
The United Kingdom of Great Britain & NI is actually a more complicated affair than one might think. It's usually at points like this that people show their ignorance because, either they have learned the correct configuration and have forgotten it, or have never really learned it, because it isn't quite as straightforward as one might think it. Down through the years, I've found myself forgetting the correct configuration. Luckily, with the Net, one doesn't stay uninformed for long. The first few paragraphs of this Wikipedia article is accurate. Do note that The British Isles is a larger and more inclusive area than the UK only.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

Incidentally, I've just had the misfortune of seeing a newspaper advert on the TV, where several excited faces are telling us they are offering Team GB flags to wave at presumably other excited faces. Frankly, it makes me want to puke. I am so uninterested in that kind of rubbish.
 
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