It's the UK or the United Kingdom or Great Britain or Britain NOT just England

I know, I got it!

 

You shouldn't have made movies with loads of singin soldiers singin the Yanks are cummin...then mate...One can only take one's example from those that show one the way. British and Proud. Irish by birth. ...Just thought...Stop telling us your a yankee doodle Dandy too on July 4th...Did I just say that lot or think it...Oh bugger.

 

Conquer?...Educate dear boy...educate....

 

You could lump us all together mate and call us passport holders.

 

So I'm one of them...I take exception old chap....Your obviously an us...Them are we...so we are us. Therefore....what was the question...ahhh...yep...who are THEY then? THEY look like us but not like we...Similar to them, but not like us. We and them together become us so bugger me I'm confused...Its not hard.

 

Britishness. http://youtu.be/Y3J59Ii14U4

 

Good tune though...worth singin one more time...

http://youtu.be/i5oWH6JWBJY

 

To us Yankees, Southerners are kind of like the Scots in the UK. We nod and smile and pretend to understand what they're saying, then sell them a Chevy with a blown transmission and try to leave before mosquito season sets in. Some Yankees actually relocate down there because if you get them liquored up they'll sell you an entire trailer park for about $200, with all the dogs thrown in for free. Of course, the air conditioning bills offset the tax savings, but you still end up ahead because of all the free dogs. It's not a bad life if you can keep the dogs out of your liquor cabinet. Those dogs are pretty smart - two or three of them will distract you by humping the mailman's leg, while the rest will jimmy the lock on the liquor cabinet. Other than that, life is pretty smooth. You sit on the front porch and drink sweet tea out of Mason jars (actually, it's not sweet tea, but cheap Bourbon), nod at neighbors and complain about the government.

 

Is that the Wikipedia definition

 

Well, I'm just going by my own experiences back in the late 70's. The war had only been over for 115 years back then, so it was still fresh on everyone's mind down there. Every once in a while, somebody would get upset about my Yankeeness and start ranting about Sherman or some damned thing, so I'd just say "That's a nice dog you got there" and things would mellow right out. If they had no dog, I'd just offer them one of mine and that worked just as well. If Sherman had a trainload of dogs to hand out after he burned Atlanta, they'd be writing banjo tunes about what a great guy we was even now.

 

Only a 150 years since the Civil War. That's nothing compared to Great Britain. We have the Irish 'problem' which started in the 16th c and now the Scots having a referendum this year to regain their Independence since the Union in 1707. You have a whiles to go yet! Bring back flower power I say - peace my brother.

 

Damn yankees....

 

That's a nice dog you've got there...

 

Perfidious Albion is trying to distract us! Lets keep our focus, we're bashing them United Kindomer's

(Then we will deal with those Damn Yankee Bluebelly's)

 

The Brits are a cheerful bunch.

 

You want to see mine with my false teeth out ?

 

The whole thing was commonly just 'England' in 'public official' usage until relatively recently, even after the 1707 Union.
Not that the Sweatys ever would, but, using Kodiak's reference point; them & their degs eh?

I still think the French compliment of Perfide Albion suits us best - got a bit of backbone to it, a motivation to achieve.