Has the Queen died?

[equationgirl]

And please quote a more reputable source that Wikipedia, which as you know can be edited to say anything you want it to.

I expected higher standards from you, sir.

 

[brogdale]

Norman Davies suggested The Isles as a less loaded descriptor of the archipelago.

 

[Serene]

Whut?

I made it up.

 

[not a trot]

She might not be dead yet, but she has changed skin colour View attachment 297556

 

[Idris2002]

"North Atlantic Archipelago" - that's another one, coined by Charlie Haughey if memory serves.

 

[A380]

"North Atlantic Archipelago" - that's another one, coined by Charlie Haughey if memory serves.

Soon we will have to add Dogger Land to the list of islands.

 

[Pickman's model]

And please quote a more reputable source that Wikipedia, which as you know can be edited to say anything you want it to.

I expected higher standards from you, sir.

I look forward to you quoting something that gives the term a different meaning than the archipelago.

 

[Pickman's model]

Soon we will have to add Dogger Land to the list of islands.

One of teuchter's least favourite places

 

[spitfire]

I've always seen British Isles as a purely geographic term, speaking as an Irish Republican (a bit of a wet one), it doesn't bother me.

Don't be saying mainland when referring to Great Britain though, there lies trouble.

(People saying Eire gets on my tits tbh. Yes I know it's on the stamps but it's not the name of the country. The Republic, ROI, Ireland, all fine.).

 

[spitfire]

Irish isles would be preferable, I think - British isles can be a somewhat loaded term.

But yeah we can go with this as well.

 

[Raheem]

If we dump "British Isles" now, we'll never be able to say "Formerly British Isles".

 

[krtek a houby]

I've always seen British Isles as a purely geographic term, speaking as an Irish Republican (a bit of a wet one), it doesn't bother me.

Don't be saying mainland when referring to Great Britain though, there lies trouble.

(People saying Eire gets on my tits tbh. Yes I know it's on the stamps but it's not the name of the country. The Republic, ROI, Ireland, all fine.).

"Free State" to these ears was sounding all archaic and dismissive in a unionist way.

Mainland is a fucking disgrace and anyone who uses it should be put in the stocks.

 

[Aladdin]

If we dump "British Isles" now, we'll never be able to say "Formerly British Isles".

FBI...

 

[platinumsage]

Ireland can be South Rockall, GB can be South-East Rockall, and the British Isles the Rockall Islands. This shouldn't piss anyone off except Iceland.

 

[Pickman's model]

Ireland can be South Rockall, GB can be South-East Rockall, and the British Isles the Rockall Islands. This shouldn't piss anyone off except Iceland.

It'd make the atlas makers ecstatic

 

[Pickman's model]

"Free State" to these ears was sounding all archaic and dismissive in a unionist way.

26 cos

 

[Carvaged]

Free State implies the rest of the Isles is unfree of the Tory yoke. Which is true

 

[spitfire]

"Free State" to these ears was sounding all archaic and dismissive in a unionist way.

Mainland is a fucking disgrace and anyone who uses it should be put in the stocks.

Funny I always associated it more with the more hardcore republicans dismissive view of the 26 Co “interim administration”.

But yeah can also see a spittle flecked unionist in a bowler hat raging about the dirty free state.

 

[Pickman's model]

Free State implies the rest of the Isles is unfree of the Tory yoke. Which is true

Free state implies the 26 cos is a land of liberty, a claim belied by the history of the polity

 

[Carvaged]

Free state implies the 26 cos is a land of liberty, a claim belied by the history of the polity

Is it even possible to be free? Are we ever free? Are we even free of ourselves? Oh for thee once blah blah deep philosophical blah blah ethereal blah deep deep thought provoking blah blah

 

[Pickman's model]

Is it even possible to be free? Are we ever free? Are we even free of ourselves? Oh for thee once blah blah deep philosophical blah blah ethereal blah deep deep thought provoking blah blah

Free from or free to?

 

[A380]

Is it even possible to be free? Are we ever free? Are we even free of ourselves? Oh for thee once blah blah deep philosophical blah blah ethereal blah deep deep thought provoking blah blah

Apparently yes. Unless you are saying a pizza lied to me…

 

[A380]

Anyway, we can’t change the name of the Islands or the tittle of this great artwork wouldn’t work anymore…

 

[not-bono-ever]

The piss archipelago

 

[A380]

Airstrip One

 

[krtek a houby]

Anyway, we can’t change the name of the Islands or the tittle of this great artwork wouldn’t work anymore…

View attachment 297636

Mean, yeah, sure.

But overall, look how green and awesomely beautiful the Republic is.

And no royalty involved, either.

 

[extra dry]

Will she make it to christmas?

 

[not a trot]

Will she make it to christmas?

Bit of a dilemma for the family. Do we buy her a pressie or not ?

 

[platinumsage]

Will she make it to christmas?

I read that she will record her Christmas message to the nation before Christmas, so presumably not.

 

[brogdale]

Blithering on about her anus mortem, I expect.