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Its really simple . The United Kingdom is made up mainly of England , Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland . Where as the island of Great Britain consists of England , Wales and Scotland . And the island of Ireland consists of Northen Ireland which is part of the UK and the Irish republic (Eire) , which used to be part of the UK , but not any more. Now people in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland often consider themselves to have almost dual nationality , Welsh and British , Scottish and British , English and British and Irish and British ( except for a sizeable number of those in Northern Ireland who consider they are Irish ( as in the republic) or British and Northern Irish ). However this is complicated by the English who often use the term English interchangeably with the term British . Which can annoy the Welsh , Scottish and Northern Irish . This is an old habit where the terms used to be synonymous for a period of time , and unfortunately many Americans also talk that way . When talking externally we tend to use the term Brits ( except some in NI) , where as internally we often use Welsh or Scottish . Of course this ignores complexities introduced when talking of the bailiwick of the channel Isles and the Isle of man , and the less said about Berwick Upon Tweed the better .
The Empire tends to get referred to as the British Empire , oddly because that was its name . England never had an Empire in the sense that we know it . The Brits as a whole did . Which for most of the time included all the Irish .
See - simples !
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It seems to me that referring to the smaller entity gives more detailed information.
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I would lay a wager now that it won't be the last time it will be asked, however.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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You Brits are such a touchy lot.
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I agree with that but some of my Dublin friends refuse to acknowledge that Ireland is in the British Isles .
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I am British, I live in the UK.
English is a language, not a nationality, and England, Scotland and Wales are only countries for some sporting purposes.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Fair enough.
Don't remember having those options on the forms I fill out though.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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England would probably lose on penalties, as always.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: England would probably lose on penalties, as always.
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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Okay, I realize I'm late to the party with this realization, but still...
I've stuck with web forms and server side C# for years because it felt like a 'normal' development environment. Now I remember why. I'm in the land of mvc, javascript, jquery, etc., at which point I need to set breakpoints, inspect variables, you know, the things one would expect a development environment to allow.
And you can't set breakpoints or debug javascript in VS 2012. I had to install Firebug in order to get a debugger.
Are you freakin' kidding me?
If the Firefox / Firebug team can debug javascript, then it's clearly possible. So how is it that the VS team is so incompetent that they can't provide this most basic functionality in what's supposed to be a professional class development environment?
Please, for the love of Bob, would someone come up with a cross platform application designed to run global tcp/ip programs (i.e. a replacement for the crappy app VM known as a browser)? Web browsers, html, javascript et al comprise the most amateur hour environment I've ever seen. I had better tools coding for DOS.
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Who is Bob ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Maybe is the same Bob?
Clickety
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Somebody wanna tell him who Bob is?
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I wonder on which Bob Argonia is a male name
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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We cannot tell you.
Everyone must find their own Way to Bob.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Especially when he's in stealth mode.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Everyone must find their own Way to Bob.
One has to follow North, then West, until they see a couple of birds circling in perfect unmotion. That is the one true Way to Bob. And everybody should know it.
This isn't a signature
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One doesn't find Bob...Bob finds you.
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Please, remind me how the green dude in the left top corner (which is now with the 2 bats , the white cloth and the cute bag) was named ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I don't discuss religion or politics in the lounge.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Leslie!
speramus in juniperus
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