Any Australians?

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I like the English too

You know I actually did not know that. That is pretty interesting b/c before I read that I would not have been able to distinguish.

I dont now what exactly your reffering to, but cool

oh about the celts. I never knew, I knew about them. Just never knew any history on them,

Thats spiffy! I wanna learn more about the European History, probably only history thats actually interesting enough, must love History! I just realized that the Germans always beat the polish, look back at Fredrick Barbarosso, he killed the polish then, few hundreds of years later, Hitler killed the polish, proving...Germans rock!! Celts do too, sadly they have not beat the English.If we look back at the past, the new world was good and fileld with stuff, after they backstabbed us they started to suck, We have modern Americas to prove it...Hey, atleast we are better than 78% of the world..

Hey! What about the Irish!?!?! Whats wrong with us? Us Gaels are pretty damn fine, if I say so myself!There were a good few penal colonies set up in Australasia, and they were mainly filled with Irish convicts as prisons were being filled and it was a more effective long-term solution. And wasn't one of Australia's most famous historical figures an Irish man? Good old Ned Kelly!!

Isnt Ireland the land of drunks and convicts, in all of history of europe thats were the most violence has happend? It may be stereo-typical, but hey sometimse stereotypes are true!, now Bob lets go get drunk and us some leprachauns and unicorns!

No celtic victories against the English? Yes there were. But hey so what!? You cant really talk about Celts like that. "Celt" is not a nation. "Celt" is a cultural discription.

So I'm a Celt. Wohoo. So's bobolicious. Yet our nations have spent a good deal of their history killing one another. Also I will remind that the English ethnic make-up is made up largely of Celtic.

I thought it was Saxons lol oh well, your a old german tribe!, such as the visi goths or goths even the Teutons.

The Saxons did invade England and have left their cultural mark, however ethnicly the English are near as Celtic as me.

In reply to: Fredrick Barbarosso, he killed the polish then, few hundreds of years later, Hitler killed the polish, proving...Germans rock!! Germans rock because they killed polish people?? Hmmm, I will have to let my polish grandmother, who had her entire family killed by the Germans, know this incredible bit of information.Dick.

Nope just shows Polish cannot beat germans...EVER! how many times have they tried...and lost so badly, lost worse than France!

Well, wait no the Saxons are the English, now im confused. on some sites it said that the Saxons came to England then took it for their land, since Fredrick Barbarossa kicked them out after he took the sacred relics from the other German princes. Then saxons came and the celtcs came, huge war, now we got modern UK. its where you guys got essex wesses sussex and forgot how to say north saxon esses is east saxony you know the rest.Anyway, you lost the 100 year war to a 17 year old girl, now that wasn't cool at all, you could have really elimanted the French!

The Celts lived in Britain (as in the whole island off the coast of north-west europe, including the areas of Scotland, England, and Wales). The Saxons came and conquerd England and Southern Scotland. The Saxons then mixed with the Celts and Scotland and England were created, still mostly ethnically Celtic, though the language is more germanic. Thats all there is too it.

The formation of the modern UK would require me to right an essay and I cant be bothered :smirk:

Ahhh lol we will never actually know correctly sadly since its so far back, but anywya explain why its called England and Britain, i never got that, i think England sounds better.

We do know correctly, with absolute certainty. The Celts were. Then the saxons came and mixed with the Celts in England and Southern Scotland. We know this. It would be impossible to have more evidence.Britain is the whole island. England is the bit of the island that isnt Scotland or Wales.

So if a Frenchman says 'Angleterre' does it mean England or Britain?

I dont know

Does it mean you live in Leeds,England,Britain? since britain is the island yea and Englands the country and Leeds is the city?

Yeah thats right. I am a Welshman living in Leeds, Enlgnad, Britain.Britain is also the collectively nationality for the people of this island (ie the Welsh, English, and Scots)