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LOL British Empire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artOXVZxECA)

The fact that they actually did this is ironic and funny. God I love England! :p

The best bit is they played it for the State visit of Jing Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Now that's irony! (and bloody funny!:D)

The best bit is they played it for the State visit of Jing Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Now that's irony! (and bloody funny!:D)

Come to think of it imperial march fits the Saudi government pretty well. :p

Every time someone takes a recording of the Imperial March they leave out the intro... why?

Ha, I wished they would have done that when I was at the Palace. :p

LOL British Empire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artOXVZxECA)

The fact that they actually did this is ironic and funny. God I love England! :p
Ah, the English...truly a larger group of nutty buggers never buggered in nutty ways.

Anything worth doing is worth doing silly. :)

The best bit is they played it for the State visit of Jing Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Now that's irony! (and bloody funny!:D)

I would like to shake the Guard's Director of Music by the hand. Excellent piece of satire.

Ehehe :p great work by the MD.

Amusingly appropriate.

LOL British Empire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artOXVZxECA)

The fact that they actually did this is ironic and funny. God I love England! :p

Priceless. Gallows came on stage to it at Reading this year, in a rather crass pseudo-Smiths moment, but all the same, I live in hope this gets played when Bush next visits the UK.

*titters*

=great

That's absolutely hilarious! :D

Priceless. Gallows came on stage to it at Reading this year, in a rather crass pseudo-Smiths moment, but all the same, I live in hope this gets played when Bush next visits the UK.
Nah. I'd rather that one just sticks a trombone up his arse.

It's a shame we can't play this for the Queen Mother any more though. That would be fantastic.

Nah. I'd rather that one just sticks a trombone up his arse.

It's a shame we can't play this for the Queen Mother any more though. That would be fantastic.

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Does noone in this thread know the difference between Britain and England?

Does noone in this thread know the difference between Britain and England?

Apparently not. Why don't you remedy our ignorance if it vexes that much?

Does noone in this thread know the difference between Britain and England?
Apparently not. Why don't you remedy our ignorance if it vexes that much?
Ahh... TbC. What kind of answer should I give, I wonder.

Should I do the indignant Scotsman schtick, or just let it pass?

I tell you what... I know what I think the answer should be, and - based on your past rantings - I suspect I know what you think Britain is, or at least what you think it should be but, just for the record, care to state it for us once more?

Does noone in this thread know the difference between Britain and England?

Yes, but would pointing it out make the music/joke any less funny. I think not.

Does noone in this thread know the difference between Britain and England?

I'm not sure if "noone" understands as I didn't see his post but the meaning of "Britain" does vary. It's used by the British state to refer to the United Kingdom. However, the term is used also to refer to England, Scotland and Wales.

In the case of "England", that can be a little tricky. You would imagine it meant the part of Britain (as in the island) that is not Scotland or Wales. However, you can find plenty of examples in English literature throughout the ages where the word "England" is used when what is meant is "Britain" (unless there is an island called "England"). "England" was also used for an awful long time in relation to "England and Wales" especially in legal terms.

Besides, you shouldn't get annoyed by foreigners not making the "correct" distinction. After all, a lot of people in the UK wouldn't be able to tell you whether or not the Channels Islands or the Isle of Man are in the UK or not. Even your broadcasters seem to have trouble marking out the border between the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Whilst there are any number of British websites that will refer to "the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the UK".

Finally, it's not as if your nation is the size of Russia, nor even Germany. How many ordinary folk on the London tube could tell the difference between Georgia and Russia?

HUZZAH! (I really don't know what else to say :p)

Does noone in this thread know the difference between Britain and England?

Given that I had to explain it to my students (who for the most part hadn't the foggiest idea), yes, I do.

Does noone in this thread know the difference between Britain and England?

Given that I come from a country who still calls the Netherlands by the name of Holland.

Also given that this same country has the name England being used in common language to refer to Britain.

Yes, I do know the difference, but I can't be buggered.

Changing the topic slightly, but still definitely talking about British eccentricity and imperialism and Arabs, have any of you ever heard about a booklet called "Rules for Raiders"?

Apparently, back when we started running Iraq (or 'Mesopotamia', as it then was) just after the First World War the governor announced plans to stop the nomadic tribes raiding each others' herds.
"Oh no," one of his staff told him, "you mustn't do that, it's their national sport, it's what they do instead of playing cricket or football!"
"Oh, well, that's different," replied the governor. "In that case, I agree, we can't stop it. So, as it's a sport for them, what are the rules?"
And so the administration gathered together (or possibly, for some details, invented?) the relevant traditions -- things like the months during which raiding was allowed, which groups (such as widows, or pilgrims) were immune, maximum sizes of raiding parties, and so on, and distributed copies of these collected rules to the tribes...
And so, for about a year or two, raiding parties were supposed to report to their local police stations before and after the raids, so that their levels of success could be established, and a 'league table' based on those results was published!

(Of course, it couldn't last: Too many of the tribesmen took this approach as meaning that the new government wouldn't stop them raiding at all, and broke the rules, so that they did have to be forcibly stopped... but it must have been fun, in a way, while it lasted... ;))


And then, rather further to the east in the Empire, there was the 'Borneo Head Bank'... ;)

They weren't doing this as a joke, this is actually part of the national identity of Britain that Brown wants to introduce. :D