What is the United Kingdom?

Dead_Eye_Jones

Elmer_Dudd wrote: »

who has forgot that the Welsh (British)once had a kingdom that stretched from Lands End to Dundee including most points between.

Not quite as big as Queen Victoria's empire though, ay !?

moonrakerz

taxi97w wrote: »

I realise that southern Ireland is not in the UK, but it really annoys me how

the conceited BBC weather totally ignores SI when doing a report.

Surely there are NIers and other Britains for that matter travelling, working,

living, visiting, holidaying etc in SI.

In many Continental countries, the weather is for the whole of Europe.

Is this an English thing, or a BBC thing?

Thanks.

The Irish Republic ("not southern ireland") is a sovereign state in its own right - why should the BBC do weather forecasts for there ?
When I travel to Germany I don't moan at the BBC for the lack of forecasts, I look at one of the many excellent websites available, or watch the TV when I get there - I soon realised that "wetter" doesn't mean what you think it might !

DKLS

Just dont say your from Leeds, I usually get "Is that near Leeds Castle", "No thats in Kent about 200 miles away" So now I say I am from Manchester, as most have heard of there.

Yanks have poor geographical knowldege of their own country never mind ours.

marleyboy

taxi97w wrote: »

I realise that southern Ireland is not in the UK, but it really annoys me how

the conceited BBC weather totally ignores SI when doing a report.

Surely there are NIers and other Britains for that matter travelling, working,

living, visiting, holidaying etc in SI.

In many Continental countries, the weather is for the whole of Europe.

Is this an English thing, or a BBC thing?

Thanks.

Ive noticed that too, particularly with the BBC, I live in the North of England, yet the BBC will go into as much dtail as possible for London and its surrounding area, then give a quick scan over the North, merely tickle Scotland, and N. Ireland might get a mention if the weathers crossing over to the Uk, Southern Ireland doesnt even get a look in.

Dave_Brooker

marleyboy wrote: »

Ive noticed that too, particularly with the BBC, I live in the North of England, yet the BBC will go into as much dtail as possible for London and its surrounding area, then give a quick scan over the North, merely tickle Scotland, and N. Ireland might get a mention if the weathers crossing over to the Uk, Southern Ireland doesnt even get a look in.

That's because Southern Ireland is a different country with it's own TV channels.

The other parts of England outside the south east are sparcly populated by northern people so a quick scan is all that's needed up there.

uktim29

taxi97w wrote: »

I realise that southern Ireland is not in the UK, but it really annoys me how

the conceited BBC weather totally ignores SI when doing a report.

Haven't they got their own channels that do forecasts? Why is it up to another country to do their weather forecasts?

taxi97w

I dont' mean it like that.

It doesn't take 5 minutes to get to 'the republic' and a lot of Britons i'm sure have reason to go or be there. So if you were in Liverpool for example and were going to Dublin on business the next day, you would have to guess what the weather was going to be like. They don't even put the word Dublin on the map - it is totally ignored.

superscaper

marcowil wrote: »

Try living In Northern Ireland and having companies advertise "free UK delivery" or just "UK Delivery" only to be told when you order something "oh, sorry we only deliver to England, Scotland & Wales"..

My reply is always - so you deliver to Great Britain not The UK. Most are completely unaware that the UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales (Great Britain) and Northern Ireland.

I can do one better, I ordered a computer component online and after not receiving anything I emailed them to ask. They said they don't deliver to Ireland. Now I'd like to point out at that time I was living in Durham and that's where I'd asked for it to be delivered. So I phoned them and said my order had been cancelled and gave my order number (hoping they'd see the obvious mistake). But no it was the same "We don't deliver to Ireland". But I'm not in Ireland I replied, yes I'm in County Durham but that's not in Ireland. So the guy said "well where is it then?"!!!! He then blamed it on their "computer system" that said it was in Ireland. I only realised later I'd ordered something from the same company only a couple of weeks earlier to the same address without problem.

So never mind them no knowing the difference between GB and UK, some won't deliver if the county "sounds like" it might just be Irish. (I'm assuming because the county actually has "county" at the beginning of the name like County Down that confused them).

Around the same time a colleague was on the phone to a foreign supplier trying to convince them that Durham was NOT in Scotland, the suppliers weren't having any of it, obviously they knew better than the person actually living in the city which country it was in!

kr15snw

Went to a Plymouth Argyle match in Austria a few weeks ago and all the posters advertised us as a scottish team!

Considering we are the one team the furthest away from Scotland in the UK we were a bit, well surprised......

Apparently they got confused about the Argyle bit, when asked 'yeah but do you know where Plymouth is?' We got 'Isnt that in America...??'

Some people just dont know!

chocolatechipcookies

mikewebs wrote: »

Hi there

am fed up with businesses, companies etc saying they are going to 'do a tour of the United Kingdom' and then fail to cross the Severn Bridge into Wales! Isn't wales part of the UK? I know Scotland also gets this treatment and as for Northern ireland - they don't even get things near to them! It's about time the United Kingdom was treated as a UNITED Kingodm and not England alone!

Here endeth the Rant!

Wales is a city outside of London. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

But really, The UK is London according to most Americans. I suppose it's like The US is NY and Florida to people from the UK.