What do the NATIVES call your country?

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Anodyne
Not written by Anodyne, but a pervert:

I like the musrooms of mushy stools.
My twitcher does not like cocoa, so get lost.
I should really eat something new.
Populistic Satan worships me, but I deny and rise for Oblivion.
I am not psychedelic. I am B$Y(H3|)3L|(K.
My world is not thy word, so **** you. To: Jesus.
Please approach and I grab you.
I shall rise but meet will not be intact. Yes, I have been glued to ground. I don't remember how.

RAA RAA SAATAN!
RAA RAA SAATAN SAATAN INFERNALIS!
RAA RAA SAATAN DIABOLIS!
RAA RAA } <-- me metal

I should see the coast without the weed.
My coral is so hard, yeah adult.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

England is a country.
Scotland is a country.
Wales is a principality.
Northern Ireland is a province.
Britain is a geographical location.
The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a nation.

That's kinda backwards isn't it?

England is a nation.
Scotland is a nation.
Wales is a nation.
Northern Ireland is part of the Irish nation.
The United Kingdom is a state (or country if you will).

The United Kingdom is composed of many nations, just as the United States is composed of many nations.

No it's not backwards, simply an attempt to explain the tortuous geopolitical history of the creation of the United Kingdom.

'Ethnic nations' included in the United Kingdom could conceivably be the Cornish (once occupiers of the Cornish speaking kingdom of Kernow) the Welsh and the Scots, and the English. And the Celt/Viking island nation of Man, and the Channel Islands off France, some of whose inhabitants would still be descended from the Norman settlers, and not all ex-Essex eurotrash tax evaders. And of course, the Orcadians and Shetland Islanders, whose islands once belonged to the Crown of Norway.

Since the creation of the Irish Free State, the Irish cannot logically be considered (as an entire nation) to be part of the United Kingdom, and the political entity of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland is neither by ethnicity, or culture or heritage entirely Irish, or part of the 'Irish nation' - having a current majority of the population descended from English and Scots Protestant settlers, who arrived in three main waves of settlement.

In political terms the 19th Century Act of Union bound together the three separate kingdoms/crowns of Ireland, Scotland and England, together with the principality of Wales. So what had been Great Britain (to distinguish it from 'Little Britain', Brittany) became the United Kingdom.

[phoenixcager]

The Malays call us

Singapura ,

which means "Lion City".

It's where we get the English version of the name from.

We've had other names in the past, though:

http://www.sg/flavour/history.asp

[ceroomaster]

Wales (English)/Cymru (Welsh), the native people of Wales speak English and/or Welsh, although some of those that speak Welsh would dismiss those that speak only English as not being Welsh people, just British.
(Used to be called Cambria long, long ago.)

To clear up a technical point from earlier, at the moment Wales is a principality of England, although it does have a distinct language and culture so is a completely different country (a collection of people with similar culutre, ideals, history).

[Meticulous Man]

Originally posted by Anodyne
Not written by Anodyne, but a pervert:

I like the musrooms of mushy stools.
My twitcher does not like cocoa, so get lost.
I should really eat something new.
Populistic Satan worships me, but I deny and rise for Oblivion.
I am not psychedelic. I am B$Y(H3|)3L|(K.
My world is not thy word, so **** you. To: Jesus.
Please approach and I grab you.
I shall rise but meet will not be intact. Yes, I have been glued to ground. I don't remember how.

RAA RAA SAATAN!
RAA RAA SAATAN SAATAN INFERNALIS!
RAA RAA SAATAN DIABOLIS!
RAA RAA } <-- me metal

I should see the coast without the weed.
My coral is so hard, yeah adult.

What the ****?

Oh, and Saxony is "Saksi" in Finnish

[Wilderess]

Sheesh - is Tassadar a Finn? His country in the language of the natives: Sumoi - is it a misprint for Suomi?

But: Finland = Suomi, click on Suomi and you hear it.

[RGBVideo]

What the ****?

I thought the same when saw that, but ah well, it's Anodyne, anyways.

Sumoi - is it a misprint for Suomi?

Inside joke (R).

[Anodyne]

Originally posted by Anodyne
Not written by Anodyne, but a pervert:

I like the musrooms of mushy stools.
My twitcher does not like cocoa, so get lost.
I should really eat something new.
Populistic Satan worships me, but I deny and rise for Oblivion.
I am not psychedelic. I am B$Y(H3|)3L|(K.
My world is not thy word, so **** you. To: Jesus.
Please approach and I grab you.
I shall rise but meet will not be intact. Yes, I have been glued to ground. I don't remember how.

RAA RAA SAATAN!
RAA RAA SAATAN SAATAN INFERNALIS!
RAA RAA SAATAN DIABOLIS!
RAA RAA } <-- me metal

I should see the coast without the weed.
My coral is so hard, yeah adult.

I especially like the last line.
Well, this is what you get when you let a stoned 15-year-old mess up with your computer