Is the UK a foreign country ?

dd972

Do you regard the UK as a foreign country ?

or maybe the neighboring ex parent state of our former jurisdiction ?

or as ''local as the next parish'', after all, you could jump on a 16 in O'Connell Street head up to the airport and be in Manchester or Heathrow while someone else is barely past Moate on the bus to Galway, ( not a specific example, but you get the idea ).

admiralofthefleet

yes

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BrokenArrows

Yes

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Micky Dolenz

no

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Micky Dolenz

Maybe

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BrokenArrows

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

yes

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Lol. Great minds!

3ndahalfof6

Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep and your back in the room.

Micky Dolenz

Can you repeat the question.

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Chucken

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admiralofthefleet

modern life is rubbish


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Chucken

/over
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summerskin

I'm British and to me Ireland is a foreign country even after over 5 years living here, so I'd say yes.


Now, lets sit back and count how many posts it is until the term "butchers apron" is used.

dd972

I love /thread, got a nice little collection going

AlmightyCushion

Depends what you mean by a foreign country. If you mean in the usual sense then yes.

Chucken

Pippa Middletons arse has spoken.

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3ndahalfof6

butchers apron.

Biggins

Yes.

donvito99

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Chucken

Roger that
Over
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Katunga

yes
Different country.
Different Government.
Don't even have the same currency.:D

Son Of A Vidic

dd972 wrote: »

Is the UK a foreign country?

Here we fúcking go again, do us all a favour OP and learn to use the search function.

3ndahalfof6

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Here we fúcking go again, do us all a favour OP and learn to use the search function.

I like the here we fooking go again bit, I am playing PS manager.

El Guapo!

Just wanna be one of the cool kids
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Of course its a foreign country and as Northern Ireland is part of the UK, it is also a foreign country which happens to have a land border with ROI.

3ndahalfof6

Deleted User wrote: »

Of course its a foreign country and as Northern Ireland is part of the UK, it is also a foreign country which happens to have a land border with ROI.

For now.

Fox_In_Socks

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

yes

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BrokenArrows wrote: »

Yes

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Pippa Middleton's Arse wrote: »

no

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Pippa Middleton's Arse wrote: »

Maybe

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Pippa Middleton's Arse wrote: »

Can you repeat the question.

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Chucken wrote: »

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admiralofthefleet wrote: »

modern life is rubbish


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Chucken wrote: »

/over
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Chucken wrote: »

Pippa Middletons arse has spoken.

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donvito99 wrote: »

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Chucken wrote: »

Roger that
Over
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Dean09 wrote: »

Just wanna be one of the cool kids
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What do you think of my threads? Have enough to knit a sock!

3ndahalfof6

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

What do you think of my threads? Have enough to knit a sock!

And get socked, in a nice way.

3ndahalfof6

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

For now.

True, won't be long til ROI is subsumed into the UK.

Chucken

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

What do you think of my threads? Have enough to knit a sock!

Your name suggests you like socks.
Glad to be of assistance

Chuck Stone

The UK/Britain is the least foreign 'foreign' place from the average Irish person's perspective I reckon.

I don't consider Welsh, Scotch or English people foreign foreign iykwim.
yes Scotch

3ndahalfof6

Deleted User wrote: »

True, won't be long til ROI is subsumed into the UK.

As long as it is subsumed (nice word) into somewhere that know how to run a country, I could not give a fook, and the UK will not be one of them, once Scotland get its independence we will talk, or some country in Africa.

Where To

About us foreign as Dublin to us in the forgotten county.

orestes

Where To wrote: »

About us foreign as Dublin to us in the forgotten county.

Get back under the stairs you :mad:

*pokes with broom handle*

3ndahalfof6

Where To wrote: »

About us foreign as Dublin to us in the forgotten county.

The fooking globe lied.

sink

Yes it's a foreign country, that's a fairly well established fact as it is both a country and also not our country.

Where you are possibly getting confused is that Ireland and Britain share a common culture. While both have definitive distinct cultural uniqueness they have far more in common than what separates them.

Fox_In_Socks

Chucken wrote: »

Your name suggests you like socks.
Glad to be of assistance

Well, a body sock is comfy, I admit that.

LordSutch

Once this state declared its independence everywhere outside the twenty six counties was to become "foreign" including part of this island.

The UK of course includes 'The North' as well as Scotland, Wales, and that oh so foreign place called England, where they have all those foreign shops like Tesco, Next, M&S, etc, and that foreign food like bangers & mash and fish & Chips! and as for their culture & their popular music, its terribly foreign to us

Technically speaking heck even the Isle of Man is foreign, but technicalities aside I don't for one moment think of the the UK (as a whole) as foreign to the ROI. Yes of course parts of the UK really are totally foreign (not just to us), but to other people living in other parts of the UK. I think there are too many deep rooted connections among this little group of islands for us to look at the other parts/islands and claim them to be really foreign. Frame of mind is also a major factor. The French are foreign, the Spanish, the Germans, Greeks . . . . .

Latchy

sink wrote: »

Yes it's a foreign country, that's a fairly well established fact as it is both a country and also not our country.

Where you are possibly getting confused is that Ireland and Britain share a common culture. While both have definitive distinct cultural uniqueness they have far more in common than what separates them.

^ This.

Gran Hermano

Needle

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DEFTLEFTHAND

Technically they are, but there'll always be a connection there which makes them (for want of a better word) less foreign to us than the likes of Greece. We share many links, historically, culturally etc.

3ndahalfof6

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Technically they are, but there'll always be a connection there which makes them (for want of a better word) less foreign to us than the likes of Greece. We share many links, historically, culturally etc.

Yep I agree completely, but it will never make any difference.

woodchopper

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Here we fúcking go again, do us all a favour OP and learn to use the search function.

Ah here, some some respect to other posters. Nobody likes a keyboard warrior Cory boy

mike65

what was the question again?

bluecode

No, after 800 years of whatever or is it 600 of 'oppression.' Then we're not foreign and neither are they.

Frankly have none of you ever been to England? The food's the same. The beer's nearly the same, like going to Cork. They speak the same language. They watch the same TV. They drive on the same side as the road and the taxi drivers complain to you about the bloody foreigners as if you were one of them.

Foreign? Nothing like going to Spain or France or Greece.

The question is stupid because we all know the Britain isn't really a foreign country for all kinds of historical reasons.

The OP is a troll and everyone who say the UK is actually foreign is a troll.

We all know the reality.

EdenHazard

we are to them but they aren't to us. irish know far more about brits than brits know about ireland

Butchers apron.

Yugioh

Their traffic lights go amber before they go green. Weird!

And they have coloured road surfacing.

Bulmers is called Magners and Bulmers is something else entirely.

Rather than whinge about their own country they moan about all of the others.

And their English breakfast is sh*te compared to ours.

...........

Most noticeably though the power of jurisdiction of their government is of a foreign land to ours and are set to different rules, laws and traditions.

Yes we have a lot in common but so we do with a lot of Western countries.

Does your next door neighbour live a different house to you? Yes of course so ergo the UK is a foreign country.