Yeah, that happens..hahah

Ah, I see. I'm not much of a gamer myself, so I don't know all your urban slang. :)

I'm not American

another question for the americans. why all the water towers?



i saw one that said sandwich on the side that i thought was funny.

For the water...?

you dont have unserground pipes like civilised nations?

They are for building up water pressure, not storing water. The water eventually goes to underground pipes, of course.
Some larger office parks even have their own.

See I always thought the British (Union) Flag was just England's flag, since that's what it always seemed to represent, and assumed England and Great Britain were the same thing. Apparently they're not.

England = England
Britain = England, Scotland, Wales, maybe N. Ireland
UK = Britain + Ireland

?

Fuckin' 'ell.

Right, fucking right.

England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

i thought "Britain" was a brand name invented by New Labor.

get used to it... it's no use fighting geographical terminology. many dutch people would refer to your country just as "engeland" (england) when they actually mean all of britain or uk. bad luck for the scots and the welsh. in the same way many people used to call the soviet-union just russia.

but then again holland isn't the same as the netherlands either, and hardly anyone knows. bad luck for frysians or pretty much everyone living in the north, east and south of the country.

I basically consider all the states to be just "America." So I guess it's the same thing.

Except for Wyoming. We don't really need that...

Haven't we been over this before?
There's a country called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" So that means that Northern Ireland isn't part of Great Britain, is it? Bahvlahvlablah

would you also like for me to explain to the cretinous american fellows around these parts what the difference is between "britain" and "briton"?

britain is the place, a briton is a person from britain.

precisely, briton.

It's fair to say that the great majority of people in any given country are completley ignorant about other countries' geographical positions or divisions etc etc.It's a bit when both in America or even more in England(not Britain,mind) people assume the the great majority of people really give a damn fuck about the past/present or future of pop culture.That's the way it goes.

So why are there MPs from Northern Irish constituencies in the British parliament then?

United Kingdom and Great Britain may have different meanings, but in casual conversation their meanings are usually the same.