Thread: Is England an island?

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

You pommies don't know if you're coming or going,so how the fcuk u work out what is an island and what is a continent is beyond me.....

I explained it in post 92

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Not in the context of Goidelic nomenclature

i have no idea what you are talking about but i agree with your right to quote the best bits of shakespear without reserve

Originally Posted by reinvented

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Not in the context of Goidelic nomenclature

i have no idea what you are talking about but i agree with your right to quote the best bits of shakespear without reserve

He means in Gaelic the word is defined differently to the word in English.

everything is defined differently in Gaelic cf English

even the word "Englishman" apparently

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Englishman

is "englishman" a word or just a shortened version of "pommy git' ?

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Originally Posted by baldrick

is "englishman" a word or just a shortened version of "pommy git' ?

Is this along the same line of thinking as 'Kate' is short for 'Bob'?

Engerland is an ISLAND.

^ No, Engerland is a dump. Koh Chang, that's an island.

Technically England is no longer an island thanks to the great work of the invading French when they built Euro Tunnel

Originally Posted by Plan B

No, Engerland is a dump.

I usualy find that expats who enjoy slating the UK are the ones that were unsuccessful in their home countries.

Same thing for Thailand, the people who live here but moan on and complain about the country and her people are usualy quite unsuccessful in life here.

Same same but different.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Originally Posted by Plan B

No, Engerland is a dump.

I usualy find that expats who enjoy slating the UK are the ones that were unsuccessful in their home countries.

Same thing for Thailand, the people who live here but moan on and complain about the country and her people are usualy quite unsuccessful in life here.

Same same but different.

Why would Aussies, Americans etc be unsuccessful in their respective countries because they slag off the UK?

As to your second statement . . . nonsense, complaints are borne out of frustration. Show me that, and how, it is not frustrating to get things done here.

^^Sad to hear you're not do so well here.

Originally Posted by Plan B

^^Sad to hear you're not do so well here.

You should do stand-up

^ Though it would have made Dunkirk a fair bit easier.

^
A tunnel was started in 1881 but the English got cold feet about a possible french invasion and abandoned the idea. About 4km of tunnel was dug. I think the entrance is still there.



Channel Tunnel

Originally Posted by November Rain

However, I'm sure all English thank their lucky stars that the invading French didn't build that tunnel () 50 years earlier. Otherwise we would have had real problems when the heroic French Govt quietly downed weapons and let the Germans move in to their country, wouldn't we?

If the tunnel had been made pre-1939 their would have been no world war II.

Originally Posted by Plan B

Though it would have made Dunkirk a fair bit easier.

Goring was the one who saved the Brits life there, and surely a tunnel would have been convenient

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Originally Posted by November Rain

However, I'm sure all English thank their lucky stars that the invading French didn't build that tunnel () 50 years earlier. Otherwise we would have had real problems when the heroic French Govt quietly downed weapons and let the Germans move in to their country, wouldn't we?

If the tunnel had been made pre-1939 their would have been no world war II.

I'll bite. Why?

^Because when Germany invaded Poland they would have found the place was empty, all the poles would have been driving taxis, fixing toilets and painting houses in the UK.

Personally I think it's nice to see the UK's becoming more polished.

It's a cold rock with colder people.

piss off and die bitch

England is not an island, but the people are insular.