The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England

[Docfeelgood]

Ok, ? did we all understand?

[Al B. Sure!]

Are you the only one that had problems with this, Doc? It's very straight-forward.

[Al B. Sure!]

Isn't South Africa part of the British Commonwealth? I thought they re-joined the Commonwealth.

[Al B. Sure!]

Oh wait Commonwealth REALM and British Commonwealth are two different things

[notyoueither]

Isn't South Africa part of the British Commonwealth? I thought they re-joined the Commonwealth.

They were expelled and then they took up radical Jacobin ideas.

[Docfeelgood]

Are you the only one that had problems with this, Doc? It's very straight-forward.

Yes, found it a bit confusing.

[Aeson]

It's a well understood phenomenon that has beens try to rebrand their image to try to recapture some of the lost glory...

[MrFun]

It could have stopped at about one minute and forty-five seconds. At that point, the video has covered the basics.


But I don't understand what part doc found to be confusing. I'm confused about his confusion.

[Docfeelgood]

It could have stopped at about one minute and forty-five seconds. At that point, the video has covered the basics.


But I don't understand what part doc found to be confusing. I'm confused about his confusion.

Oh, i'm sure you all understood every part

[Zevico]

Oh wait Commonwealth REALM and British Commonwealth are two different things

Yes. One involves being part of the Commonwealth of Nations, which means nations (including Republics) that partake in the Commonwealth Games and perhaps the occasional photo opportunity between heads of state. It includes, e.g. South Africa (a Republic).

The second is composed of countries that notionally acknowledge the Queen as their head of state but, in fact, are independent nations that do so on the premise that the Queen is the head of their state, not the head of state of the UK. That's just a happy coincidence. Don't tell me otherwise. LALALALAALA I'M NOT LISTENING.

[Al B. Sure!]

Oh, i'm sure you all understood every part

The UK/Great Britain/England part, certainly. I think everybody knows that. It's not complicated. Great Britain is the island itself which includes England, Wales, and Scotland. The United Kingdom is all that plus Northern Ireland. It's why the UK's official name tells the whole story... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Sorry, Doc. Once again, your Texan education system has failed you, buddy. This is 5th grade geography.


What I actually didn't know (and which was not addressed in the video) is the difference between the British Commonwealth (now known as Commonwealth of Nations), which includes South Africa, India, Pakistan, Kenya, etc. and the Commonwealth Realm which includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica, etc. This whole time, while I was aware Australia, etc. recognized the Queen and India, etc. did not (I actually thought South Africa DID, though, but apartheid should have tipped me off), it never clicked that this distinction mattered and that there are two Commonwealths.

That's something I don't think many Americans know: that there are two Commonwealths.

[Docfeelgood]

The UK/Great Britain/England part, certainly. I think everybody knows that. It's not complicated. Great Britain is the island itself which includes England, Wales, and Scotland. The United Kingdom is all that plus Northern Ireland. It's why the UK's official name tells the whole story... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Sorry, Doc. Once again, your Texan education system has failed you, buddy. This is 5th grade geography.


What I actually didn't know (and which was not addressed in the video) is the difference between the British Commonwealth (now known as Commonwealth of Nations), which includes South Africa, India, Pakistan, Kenya, etc. and the Commonwealth Realm which includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica, etc. This whole time, while I was aware Australia, etc. recognized the Queen and India, etc. did not (I actually thought South Africa DID, though, but apartheid should have tipped me off), it never clicked that this distinction mattered and that there are two Commonwealths.

That's something I don't think many Americans know: that there are two Commonwealths.

Never too late to learn something new.

[Docfeelgood]

come to think of it , I think that was 5th grade. Fuk, lol, that was 1974 for me.

[SlowwHand]

come to think of it , I think that was 5th grade. Fuk, lol, that was 1974 for me.

1974 and I was getting prepped to go to Saigon. Ya punk kid.


I didn't watch the video, but England is a country. I don't need a video, serious or not, to tell me.

[notyoueither]

That's something I don't think many Americans know: that there are two Commonwealths.

It gets better.

There is talk in the UK of ammending the succession law so that Catholics and first born daughters with younger brothers can take the throne. OK, fine.

Thing is, the Queen is sort of important for all the other countries for which she is also the Queen. The Brits want the backing of all of them, but especially Canada (for some reason, maybe the largest, the oldest, etc).

Here's the hitch. It's in our Constitution that 'the Office of the Queen' requires unanimous assent of all provinces as well as Parliament to make changes to. Trick is there is this one province...

Ohh, boy. This could get good.