QUOTE(guy @ Fri 25th July 2008, 11:19am)
QUOTE(Gold heart @ Fri 25th July 2008, 12:25am)
And New Zealand and Australia are British Isles
They are British islands (not Isles) in the sense that they are former British colonies. How much more then is Ireland a British island in that it was formerly entirely within the United Kingdom, and part of it still is. I welcome Gold heart's agreement with me.
The down-unders still tip their hats at the queen. In a sense it makes them british still. I can see where GH is coming from. The irish get violently ill at the very thought (IMG:
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Imagine the scene from the "life of brian" taking place in dublin?
STAN:
They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
REG:
Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
XERXES:
The red post boxes and Nelsons pillar.
LORETTA:
Oh, yeah. Remember what the city used to be like?
REG:
Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the red post boxes and Nelsons pillar.
MATTHIAS:
And the railways.
REG:
Well, yeah. Obviously the railways. I mean, the railways go without saying, don't they? But apart from the red pillar boxes, Nelsons pillar, and the railways--
COMMANDO:
Hospitals.
XERXES:
Medicine.
COMMANDO #2:
University.
REG:
Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1:
And Guinness.
COMMANDOS:
Oh my God! Yes...
FRANCIS:
Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really have missed, Reg. Huh.
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