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Re: Welsh bashing

Post by baloo » 10th Nov, '09, 17:35

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Re: Welsh bashing

Post by Fat Bob » 10th Nov, '09, 18:03

Were you just passing through then?
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Re: Welsh bashing

Post by T2K » 11th Nov, '09, 12:34

FB - They are provinces, prefectures, territories or states. I might call my backyard an empire, and you might call England a country - but it doesn't make it so. Using a term incorrectly is fine I guess, as long as one understands that the term has a unique and non-standard meaning in the UK (or, in my backyard "empire").
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Re: Welsh bashing

Post by Fat Bob » 11th Nov, '09, 18:33

Which official deffinition of a country are you using? Who made that deffinition official? You?

England is a kingdom, which was unified with the Kingdom of Scotland in the 17-18th Centuries. However, there are different legal and political systems in the two places and have been, in some form or another, since unification of the Kingdoms. Same with Ireland/Northern Ireland, which joined in the 18th Century as well (I think).

Many other kingdoms, countries, states (in the non-US version of the deffinition) and republics have unified before, and still stayed different as countries.

Just because the US doesn't have a history dating back less than 300 years, don't deprive the rest of us our history. History didn't start at the declaration of independence. Neither did the countries that recognised each other.
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Re: Welsh bashing

Post by Tas » 12th Nov, '09, 05:58

anyway, moving on from huffer and puffer.

just read in my book forward that Jasper Fforde lives in Wales, that's a pretty good plus...it's not all about Tom, people.
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Re: Welsh bashing

Post by Fat Bob » 12th Nov, '09, 07:09

As long as they beat the English, they don't care.....
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