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The 'British' Isles

  • 30-10-2017 09:55AM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭


    A great name. One I have no issues with. Happy Bank Holiday Monday.


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  • #2
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    And why should you, it's the correct name.


  • #3
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,021 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Cool story bro


  • #4
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,897 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Looking to stir a bit of **** are we :)


  • #5
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,618 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    DNUIhBHXkAEt3mv.jpg


  • #6
    BillyBobBS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭BillyBobBS


    Omackeral wrote: »
    A great name. One I have no issues with. Happy Bank Holiday Monday.

    And neither should you OP if you are from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland because that is in fact the British isles. I live in the Republic of Ireland myself.

    Have a nice morning.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    And why should you, it's the correct name.

    I know. Just wanted to type it out. Saw someone suggest they should be called "These Islands" on another thread. That's not gonna work very well in Sri Lanka or the likes.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BillyBobBS wrote: »
    And neither should you OP if you are from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland because that is in fact the British isles. I live in the Republic of Ireland myself.

    Have a nice morning.

    I'm from the Isle of Man.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    pjohnson wrote: »
    DNUIhBHXkAEt3mv.jpg

    Tickle me Poppy Elmo


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,250 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I know. Just wanted to type it out. Saw someone suggest they should be called "These Islands" on another thread. That's not gonna work very well in Sri Lanka or the likes.
    A new British group opposing Scottish independence called itself these islands.


  • #11
    lapua20grain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 828 ✭✭✭lapua20grain


    Is it not also called the north Atlantic archipelago?


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  • #12
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    pjohnson wrote: »
    DNUIhBHXkAEt3mv.jpg

    Traitorous bast*rd, there is still space around his face to add more poppies. If he cared as much as he should he'd put enough in there to suffocate himself. He must love ISIS, and certainly doesn't love the armed forces enough.

    (Note for Daily Mail editor)

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #13
    Malayalam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    The adjective (British) describing the noun (Islands) implies ownership or territorial claim, and is thus incorrect. Why use incorrect language?


  • #14
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    BillyBobBS wrote: »
    And neither should you OP if you are from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland because that is in fact the British isles. I live in the Republic of Ireland myself.

    Have a nice morning.

    We, the Republic, are part of the British Isles.


  • #15
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    No irony at all in giving out about the "British Isles" while using the term the "Republic of Ireland", which is used more in Britain than here.


  • #16
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,449 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Have a jolly good day old bean.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Malayalam wrote: »
    The adjective (British) describing the noun (Islands) implies ownership or territorial claim, and is thus incorrect. Why use incorrect language?

    Explain Irish Sea


  • #18
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,493 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Why do people have a problem with this? It's just an area.

    Like saying the Americas. Canada is in that area but is not part of America.


  • #19
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Who cares what we are called? If we were still ruled by the brits do you really think their gov would hold us in less contempt as our current rulers? Hardly.


  • #20
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    This is the same guy who didn't realise the correct pronunciation of Londonderry.

    The 'London' is silent!!!


  • #21
    FCIM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭FCIM


    Malayalam wrote: »
    The adjective (British) describing the noun (Islands) implies ownership or territorial claim, and is thus incorrect. Why use incorrect language?

    What nonsense. It's a geographic term.


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  • #22
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Malayalam wrote: »
    The adjective (British) describing the noun (Islands) implies ownership or territorial claim, and is thus incorrect. Why use incorrect language?

    You mean 'Why use language incorrectly?'


  • #23
    CeilingFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭CeilingFly


    A geographical name that the Sinn Fein sheep have issues with.


  • #24
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Ireland and The Mainland for me...


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FCIM wrote: »
    What nonsense. It's a geographic term.

    Yes, just like all those centuries of "geographic" British colonial subjugation.

    And sure isn't the swastika just a harmless Asian
    symbol of wellbeing and prosperity    ...


  • #26
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    BillyBobBS wrote: »
    And neither should you OP if you are from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland because that is in fact the British isles. I live in the Republic of Ireland myself.

    Have a nice morning.

    Don't you mean Ireland? Apparently the Republic of Ireland doesn't exist, according to another thread about unimportant stuff that people get really angry about.


  • #27
    Dampsquid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Dampsquid


    Do the British have issues with the "Irish Sea"? Does that mean we have a claim on it. People should grow the f**k up!


  • #28
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,493 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes, just like all those centuries of "geographic" British colonial subjugation.

    And sure isn't the swastika just a harmless Asian
    symbol of wellbeing and prosperity    ...

    Is this Godwin's law?


  • #29
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    It's a geographic term, and you can't stop people from using it.

    I've even heard British people us it to denote Britain and the various islands around Britain, not including Ireland.

    Ireland dosen't recognise the term, 800 years of rule will do that to you.

    However, regarding the use in the OP, that's openly argumentative. Some people get their thrills torturing animals, others get it by other means.

    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.


  • #30
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Malayalam wrote: »
    The adjective (British) describing the noun (Islands) implies ownership or territorial claim, and is thus incorrect. Why use incorrect language?

    True, we need to change the name of the Irish Sea while we're at it, as we don't own all of it by a long way.


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  • #31
    FCIM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭FCIM


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Yes, just like all those centuries of "geographic" British colonial subjugation.

    The Irish don't have a monopoly on subjugation by the ruling classes in London even in this small part of the globe but I assume you do at least acknowledge that Wales and Scotland are part of the landmass known as Great Britain or should that be revised too to soothe the nerves of snowflakes who can't separate non-man made geographical regions with purely man made history?
    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    And sure isn't the swastika just a harmless Asian
    symbol of wellbeing and prosperity    ...

    Depends on its usage, with black legs pointing diagonally clockwise on a white circle on a red background it's the symbol of the Third Reich. In many other contexts it's a religious and/or cultural symbol. It's purely man made though so again the difficulty of distinction between artificial and natural seems to be at play here.
    CeilingFly wrote: »
    A geographical name that the Sinn Fein sheep have issues with.

    Not all Shinners are sheep much the same as not all Irish people can understand that they are part of the British Isles without feeling their rights as direct descendants of Brian Boru threatened :rolleyes:.


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