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Geek Culture / How many countries can you think of?

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Scraggle
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 02:18
Quote: "Do you have to show you passport to go between UK and Scotland?"


Scotland is in the UK

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 02:20
Yeah, I think he meant England, not the UK

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 02:24 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2004 02:42
You don't need a passport to pass between any of the countries in the Schengen area but they are still all independent countries.

I don't want this to develop into a flame war but England is a country.

Do England and Scotland have seperate laws? .... Yes, actually they do.

Do they have seperate leaders? .... Yes, since the Scottish devolution in 1998, Scotland has its own parliament.

Do they have seperate armys? ... They certainly have their own regiments. You wont find an Englishman in a Scottish regimentand vice versa but they may fight the same war, just as UK and USA may. And if you put an English regiment in the same room as a Scottish regiment they will fight each other like mortal enemies ... trust me I am a military man, I see it all the time.

Quote: "That's how I define a country"

Unfortunately it isn't how the rest of the world do it.
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 03:05
You don't need a passport to go between USA and Canada

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 03:24 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2004 03:25
Quote: "Scotland is in the UK"


Bah, oops. Meant England.

Quote: "Do England and Scotland have seperate laws? .... Yes, actually they do."


I knew certain bits were separate, but not all.

Quote: "Do they have seperate leaders? .... Yes, since the Scottish devolution in 1998, Scotland has its own parliament."


I know - however Tony Blair (english PM) can order what happens in Scotland. The Scottish don't have a PM and parliament that has outright control over how every aspect of the country is run.

Quote: "Unfortunately it isn't how the rest of the world do it.
England is a country. and here is the proof"


Okay, fine. However, my personal definition of a country is the political sense, and (this is rough logic) if when you fly back from this 'country' to the UK and have to pass customs, then I call it a country. I hope I'm not the only one :/ (edit: it seems CIA world factbook counts the UK as one country)

By your logic, each of America's states could be called a country. That's how I see the UK - a collection of states. Each with their own regiments, laws, leaders and accents

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 03:31
LOL, it's completely untrue...

between the us and canada you don't need a passport, yet they are two very different countries..

Just because you don't like it doesn't make it so

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 04:08
I know there are some exceptions, for example US + Canada, Schengen zone etc. where you don't have to show you passport but in general you do have to show your passport when crossing into different countries, no?

btw, what's untrue? I think I asked (or at least tried to ask) whether you have to show your passport between england and scotland

Bah, I give up. America is acountry made of of states. Canada a country made up of provinces. Uk is a country made up of, god knows. Call them country if you want and if that's the correct thing - I prefer to think of the whole thing as one entity split up into areas.

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 04:14
Quote: "Czechoslovakia"

I think the list needs to be updated.

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 04:32
Hehe, lol. Does it have Yugoslovia on?

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 07:17
Quote: "ou don't need a passport to go between USA and Canada"
Yeah, but who would wanna go to the US, they're kinda....um.....PLEASE DON'T HURT ME WITH YOUR CRAZYNESS!!!!, PLEASE!!

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 07:31
Quote: " Yeah, but who would wanna go to the US, they're kinda....um.....PLEASE DON'T HURT ME WITH YOUR CRAZYNESS!!!!, PLEASE!!"


I'm going to forgive that because you live in little America.

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 07:34
And we're not all Please don;t hurt us.

It's more like, HURT US AND YOU DIE!!!

Or the nerds are all HURT ME AND I WILL ALT F4 YOUR LIFE!!!

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 07:48
Quote: "I'm going to forgive that because you live in little America."
I live in Ca-na-da(like in the location thing). I really think a large percentage of americans are nuts, and can't really "kill" anyone because they'd destroy all their imported resorces. And no, nukes won't keep all the tree's there.

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 08:02
Heh England is made up of Counties (used to be Shires, but not now...i guess)

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Quote: "I live in Ca-na-da(like in the location thing). I really think a large percentage of americans are nuts, and can't really "kill" anyone because they'd destroy all their imported resorces. And no, nukes won't keep all the tree's there"


You watch the Simpsons, what does Homer call Canada?

Thats right Little America.

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 15:25
Quote: "used to be Shires, but not now...i guess"


Names still exist, herefordshire, cheshire etc.

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2004 19:43
Hehe im from County Durham Woooo!

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Posted: 3rd Nov 2004 02:10
Derbyshire!!!


come on Derby, Derby County FC are far the greatest team the world has ever seen!!!



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Posted: 3rd Nov 2004 02:19
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all separate countries in my opinion. The education systems are different, certain laws are, Wales even has it's own language for god's sake!. But to be honest, the UK can be classed as a country too, probably more to people not living in the UK.

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Posted: 3rd Nov 2004 03:01 Edited at: 3rd Nov 2004 03:01
Khakistan.

My cousin Borat lives there, lovely place


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Posted: 3rd Nov 2004 03:12
Quote: "herefordshire, cheshire etc"

Kent!!!

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Posted: 3rd Nov 2004 03:14
Quote: "Kent!!! "


Does that end in -shire?

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no...hence the

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