France and UK merging? that almost happened apparently!

El Jarvo wrote:

Doctor? wrote: Actually I think the union flag (it's only the union jack if flown on a ship) only contains England, scotland, and NI, nothing from the leak eaters ( I think).

UK is short for... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Each country within the UK has it's own flag of course.

UK is short for fcuk all.

Had anyone ever genuinely used 'the UK' before t'internet linked the world? I hadn't. I'm English, British at a push. Leave all the Unionist shite to the Royalists and Uber-Prods. Also, puts us right near the bottom on most 'dropdowns'.

Right or wrong, that's the legal definition of the term, and what it says on all government documents.

no fcuking way jose! after the Germans us ENGLISH hate those froggy bastards with a vengeance,same as the yanks really,us brits always pulling frogs and yanks out of the shit!

Would have never have worked,mind you we would have had a better standard of living,our farmers would have had more e.u sibsidies and...........

Na would never have worked...

P.s we do like French Canadians tho!

Then again,we do still "own" Canada

P.P.S i'm not being racist or political' i'm just

wrote: Na would never have worked...

Just the idea of using the guillotine with Her Majesty...

I always assumed that Great Britain started calling ourselves United Kingdom so that we could sit right next the United States at the UN meetings?

BIGINOIL wrote: I always assumed that Great Britain started calling ourselves United Kingdom so that we could sit right next the United States at the UN meetings?

excellent ! you must be right !

Spotnick wrote: For what it's worth... we have lived together for 250 years or so now, we survived

So France and England can live together, we're the proof of that ;)

Which is why Quebec wants to be its own country?

It's only the English (parochial xenophobes) who hate the French (and anyone else from abroad or with a different skin colour). The Scots have always had a European, (indeed a world) outlook, culturally as well as geographically. Find a history book (that doesn't use "British" as a synonym for English) and look up the "Auld Alliance" (yes it's an auld alliance between the Scots and French), Scotland & France have always had a long term freindship.

MIMX wrote: It's only the English (parochial xenophobes) who hate the French (and anyone else from abroad or with a different skin colour). The Scots have always had a European, (indeed a world) outlook, culturally as well as geographically. Find a history book (that doesn't use "British" as a synonym for English) and look up the "Auld Alliance" (yes it's an auld alliance between the Scots and French), Scotland & France have always had a long term freindship.

I always find this fact amazing : On the roads of France, you can see British cars with a Scottish sticker on which is written Ecosse (that is Scotland in French). Also... First match of the world cup held in France in 1998 : Brazil vs Scotland. I found myself in front of the Gare du Nord (French terminal of the Eurostar). I saw light in a pub, I came in. The pub was overcrowded with Scots wearing kilt drinking while waiting for the first train. As I was almost the only Frenchman in this pub, they said me this sentence, engraved in my memory : "We, the Scots, have two national teams. - How that ? - The Scottish one and the one which plays against England !"

And another fact, not concerning Scots. The garden of remembrance in Dublin. It is written in Gaelic and French, not a single word of English...

That Hadrian wasn't such a daft sod.....

Tim wrote: That Hadrian wasn't such a daft sod.....

thought he was a rastafarian with that pronounciation

El Jarvo wrote: Fcuk me, a Scotsman calling the English 'racist'?

Well done mate. 1st to spot the inherent anti-English bias in that post. It's a real problem in Scotland: during the world cup a bunch of teenage assholes in Edinburgh battered a wee boy (11 or 12) for wearing an England football top & a disabled guy was dragged out of his car in Aberdeen and assulted because his motor had a small St George's cross on it. Nationalism a cancer on homo sapiens that needs to be ruthlessly cut out!

In fairness though...the Scots only hate the english ( and oddly, the Welsh only hate the English, and the Irish only hate the English....can't recall any IRA bombs in Cardfiff or Edinburgh). To many English, oh what's that expression in that Tom Sharpe book.....oh yes..."wogs begin at Calais".

However, since everyone[1] in London (the alledgedly rudest place in England) was SERIOUSLY pleasant to me, I've decided to take it easy on Engerlanders for a while :D

[1] including a few folks from lundon underground, who are supposed to be the shock troops of nastiness.

I work for a mostly french company, and since they took us over a few years ago, conditions have improved. ie 35hr week, annual bonus, more family friendly centred policies. Makes me wonder what would have happened if the UK had actually merged with France.

darran clarke wrote: I work for a mostly french company, and since they took us over a few years ago, conditions have improved. ie 35hr week, annual bonus, more family friendly centred policies. Makes me wonder what would have happened if the UK had actually merged with France.

If you want a French point of view... No 35 hours, no annual bonus, together from Suez to Algiers and then to Iraq... 60 millions of French with 60 millions of Brits do not make the balance with the mighty US foreign policy...