The british isles and Ireland.

humanji · 13-02-2007 1:29pm

I say we go for the Isle of Man instead. It's smaller, so there'd be less hassle.

Unpossible · 13-02-2007 1:35pm

We could always invade Scotland again. That'd show 'em. Plus we could swap it back for Northern Ireland later, though we might be better off just keeping western Scotland.

I say we go for the Isle of Man instead. It's smaller, so there'd be less hassle.

We can "Liberate" both of these from their vile, baby-eating, road/school/health funding English overlords*.
But what will we call our new domain?
United Republic of Scotland and Ireland ?
The Gaelic League?
The Irish Empire?

*yes all in jest

JaysusMacfeck · 13-02-2007 2:00pm

lol

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 13-02-2007 3:42pm

humanji wrote:

I say we go for the Isle of Man instead. It's smaller, so there'd be less hassle.

Nah. Give it 800 odd years and the ungreatful bastards would be trying to learn their own language and holding out in the local post office and declaring themselves a republic. Unless we plant a huge population in one small corner, then we can split the island in two, give them back the majority and hang on to our little share until war breaks out there and we'll wonder why the **** we every bothered doing them the favour of invasion in the frist place.

ScumLord · 13-02-2007 5:59pm

It drives me up the fuppin wall so it does those feckin tans still won't let us go. We got to call ourselves the republic and then the smug bastards turn around and say "ah but your still part of the british Isles paddy". Feck them!

We should be called the collective of completely unasociated land masses.

Or not, I don't care all that much, or do I? I'd be all for a name change but we might confuse the yanks and get the poop bombed out of us by mistake.

Unpossible · 13-02-2007 8:04pm

Ikky Poo2 wrote:

Unless we plant a huge population in one small corner, then we can split the island in two, give them back the majority and hang on to our little share until war breaks out there and we'll wonder why the **** we every bothered doing them the favour of invasion in the frist place.

Good man, now we are thinking along the right lines. We have to make sure our fella's cause problems in 800 years time so lets make it a group that no-one really wants in Ireland anyway, but they have to be violent and easily excitable. How about those lads who roited in dublin last year? They would be perfect, they barely speak english properly (and will propably claim their own language of "Dubs" ), they break out celtic jearseys at a given notice and are generally subsidised by the government.

violatom · 20-03-2007 1:18am

I'm quite indifferent to the term "The British Isles", much more sensible than "The Western European Isles" or "Those bits that fell off". Geologically, Scotland and most of ireland were well south of england and the south of ireland.
But what does really get up my nose is people calling Ireland (ie the Republic) "Southern Ireland". Living in Scotland now, its something I hear a lot. I have been known to go on monumental rants about martyrs dying for a republic in 1916 etc etc, but more importantly about the fact I'm not from Kerry/Cork etc. (not that there's anything wrong with that..)

Collie D · 20-03-2007 1:22am

Oh, sweet Jesus not again

WindSock · 20-03-2007 1:25am

Are there any Malin heads here that got told they are from Southern Ireland? Thatd be funny.

Unpossible · 20-03-2007 1:30am

seems to be a lot of bumping going on tonight

Thrill · 20-03-2007 2:43am

Oh no. I thought this thread had been done to death.

Mahatma coat · 20-03-2007 3:10am

thrill wrote:

Oh no. I thought this thread had been done to death.

NEVAAAAAAAH!!!

if theres one thing we're great at as a nation its arguin over stupid points of semantice for centuries on end

20-03-2007 5:30am

Mahatma coat wrote:

NEVAAAAAAAH!!!

if theres one thing we're great at as a nation its arguin over stupid points of semantice for centuries on end

Ad infinitum, or forever whichever is the longest.

Have a break, have a wiki you can call 'em whatever you like, whether anyone will understand where you are talking about is another matter!

Unpossible · 20-03-2007 10:22am

Mahatma coat wrote:

NEVAAAAAAAH!!!

KAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNNNNN

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNN

Plissken1 · 20-03-2007 3:39pm

ScumLord wrote:

It drives me up the fuppin wall so it does those feckin tans still won't let us go. We got to call ourselves the republic and then the smug bastards turn around and say "ah but your still part of the british Isles paddy". Feck them!

We should be called the collective of completely unasociated land masses.

Or not, I don't care all that much, or do I? I'd be all for a name change but we might confuse the yanks and get the poop bombed out of us by mistake.

Hard to tell the difference between Ireland and Britain now anyway, on a social and cultural level we have merged into a sort of Britland. We always complain about them and call them "tans", while at the same time we are becoming more and more like them. You visit your local pub or housing estate, only for the accents it would be hard to tell which country your in.