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Zola Budd represented Britain in the 1984 Olympics, are you saying she was British?
 

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This might help show where the Isle of Man fits into the big picture. It comes under the British Isles but is no more British than Eire is, despite the island of Ireland also coming under the label of "The British Isles".

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This might help show where the Isle of Man fits into the big picture. It comes under the British Isles but is no more British than Eire is, despite the island of Ireland also coming under the label of "The British Isles".

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surely that depends on which line you use on that graphic, presumably taken from your Janet and John Book of Geography?

If you use the red line it is all ‘British’.
 

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surely that depends on which line you use on that graphic, presumably taken from your Janet and John Book of Geography?

If you use the red line it is all ‘British’.
Look in the bottom left hand corner of the image, dopey..... it says "Encyclopaedia Britannica"..... the Google of our generation, only without the bullshit.

"The British Isles" is just a label to describe a number of countries which fall within a certain geographical region. If you're still struggling with the concept then consider the label "North America".....that covers a number of countries and islands (including about half a dozen that belong to us). Canada is one of those and Cuba is another, but I'm sure they'd be as happy about being called American as Squag would be about being called British. The same applies to the Manx.

Now I'd like 100 lines saying "I should have paid more attention in Geography class instead of staring at Emily Smith's ample tits".
 

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Look in the bottom left hand corner of the image, dopey..... it says "Encyclopaedia Britannica"..... the Google of our generation, only without the bullshit.

"The British Isles" is just a label to describe a number of countries which fall within a certain geographical region. If you're still struggling with the concept then consider the label "North America".....that covers a number of countries and islands (including about half a dozen that belong to us). Canada is one of those and Cuba is another, but I'm sure they'd be as happy about being called American as Squag would be about being called British. The same applies to the Manx.

Now I'd like 100 lines saying "I should have paid more attention in Geography class instead of staring at Emily Smith's ample tits".
So The Isle,of Man is British then.

I went to an all boys school by the way.
 
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