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UK
Topic Started: Dec 17 2009, 08:43 PM (896 Views)
Michelle
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this was a a popular topic on BG....

UK is my favourite country, tied with Germany, Ireland, France and Romania
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CJ
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As with the China topic, this would be better in Social Sciences, I think. Move it back if you disagree.

It's one of my favourites too, but I suppose I'm biased, since I've lived there for all my life :P .
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Michelle
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but it's geography....
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CJ
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[EDIT: resolved in cbox]

Back on-topic: I've beem to Wales many times, but never to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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Scotland the Brave...



Let Italy boast of her gay gilded waters
Her vines and her bowers and her soft sunny skies
Her sons drinking love from the eyes of her daughters
Where freedom expires amid softness and sighs
Scotland's blue mountains wild where hoary cliffs are piled
Towering in grandeur are dearer tae me
Land of the misty cloud land of the tempest loud
Land of the brave and proud land of the free
Enthroned on the peak of her own highland mountains
Te spirit of Scotia reigns fearless and free
Her green tartan waving o'er blue rock and fountain
And proudly she sings looking over the sea
Here among my mountains wild I have serenely smiled
When armies and empires against me were hurled
Firm as my native rock I have withstood the shock
Of England, of Denmark, or Rome and the world
But see how proudly her war steeds are prancing
Deep groves of steel trodden down in their path
The eyes of my sons like their bright swords are glancing
Triumphantly riding through ruin and death
Bold hearts and nodding plumes wave o'er their bloody tombs
Deepeyed in gore is the green tartan's wave
Shivering are the ranks of steel dire is the horseman's wheel
Victorious in battlefield Scotland the brave
Bold hearts and nodding plumes wave o'er their bloody tombs
Deepeyed in gore is the green tartan's wave
Shivering are the ranks of steel dire is the horseman's wheel
Victorious in battlefield Scotland the brave
Victorious in battlefield Scotland the brave
Edited by Michelle, Dec 18 2009, 10:35 AM.
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CJ
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That's a nice song :) . A variety of interesting pictures too.
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Michelle
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Added lyrics.

It's basically describing my ancestors!!
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CJ
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I suppose it is, in a way.

I'll have to find a nice Viking song about my ancestors :P .
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Michelle
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There's Beowulf. It was possibly written in the UK or maybe Scandinavia.
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CJ
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I suppose so. I really need to read it one day :P .
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Falconhawk
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heres a page about viking instruments. Some of these i think are used today, but most arent(at least i think!)
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CJ
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That's interesting. I think some of those might have been among the artefacts found on board a vaking ship when it was raised a while ago; they're on display in a museum in Norway.
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Michelle
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Oh yeah, that one museum with the Viking longboat?
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CJ
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Yes, that's the one :) .

Have I told you about it before, then?
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Michelle
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I've been there.
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CJ
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Ah, yes. I remember you telling me now. (So, we have both been to the same place...just not at the same time!)

Was this when you were four, though :P ?
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ConfitOfDuck
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I'm going to be biased, too, as I've lived here for 13 years, but the UK is a very special country, and I wouldn't swap Chester for the world. What a shame it is ruined by having the worst democracy imaginable :( .
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FlamingFireExtinguisher
Dec 18 2009, 09:48 PM
I'm going to be biased, too, as I've lived here for 13 years, but the UK is a very special country, and I wouldn't swap Chester for the world. What a shame it is ruined by having the worst democracy imaginable :( .
huh?

and yeah I was... -___________-
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ConfitOfDuck
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In the UK, we don't even elect our own Prime Minister :o . That was what that comment was in reference to.
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CJ
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Exactly. I don't remember ANYBODY voting for Gordon Brown at all...
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ConfitOfDuck
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That's because no-one did :P . We elected the Labour Party with Tony Blair as its head in 1997. Who, after all, in their right mind, would have voted for Labour with GB as its head?
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CJ
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That's probably why there hasn't been a General Election since he became PM :P .
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ConfitOfDuck
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Probably :P ? Surely even he is unaware of his own unpopularity :D .

Anyway, it's such a shame to waste a topic about the UK on Gordon Brown, especially as he won't be in power this time next year. What is your favourite British city?
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CJ
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Oxford is nice, due to all the old buildings at the university (which, I must add, I think it the best in the country!)
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KingsIndian
Dec 19 2009, 08:30 PM
Oxford is nice, due to all the old buildings at the university (which, I must add, I think it the best in the country!)
I'll be honest, I think it's the best damn city <3
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CJ
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Now, we've got someone suggesting that the UK would be better off if London were to become independent:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21934564

To me, that idea seems like madness. The economic disparity they cite as justification won't suddenly disappear if London becomes independent. In fact, if this independent state of London became a tax haven, it could get even worse.

And who would represent the new city-state at the UN? Boris Johnson??? (Actually, I'd like to see that :P )
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Baka
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CJ
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(For anyone who doesn't know, 'Baka' = 'Idiot')

Who? The author of the article, Boris Johnson, or both :P ?
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It's funny because I use baka a lot as an insult, haha.

I live in the U.K. :3
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I don't live in the UK, never heard of such a place. I hear David Cameron is an awesome Queen though?
Edited by Mechanized, Mar 27 2013, 12:58 PM.
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