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I think you'll confound and frustrate the Brits with all the stops in play for commercial breaks though - only used to about 1 every half hour on the channels that do have ads, and football only having 1 break in the middle. Still I guess you gotta give those players a rest, not many people can keep up 45 mins of play :)
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As funny and cool as that is, Britain isn't EU, it's UK. British people get quite irate when you call them "European". Kind of like how Canadians do when you call them "American" even though it is technically the same continent. But then again, the very northern tip of Japan is technically on the American tectonic plate.
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[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe[/url]

The use of the term "Europe" has developed gradually throughout history.[6][7] In antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned that the world had been divided by unknown persons into the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Libya (Africa), with the Nile and the River Phasis forming their boundaries—though he also states that some considered the River Don, rather than the Phasis, as the boundary between Europe and Asia.[8] Europe's eastern frontier was defined in the 1st century by geographer Strabo at the River Don[9] Flavius and the Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.[10]

A cultural definition of Europe as the lands of Latin Christendom coalesced in the 8th century, signifying the new cultural condominium created through the confluence of Germanic traditions and Christian-Latin culture, defined partly in contrast with Byzantium and Islam, and limited to northern Iberia, the British Isles, France, Christianized western Germany, the Alpine regions and northern and central Italy.[11] The concept is one of the lasting legacies of the Carolingian Renaissance: "Europa" often figures in the letters of Charlemagne's cultural minister, Alcuin.[12] This division—as much cultural as geographical—was used until the Late Middle Ages, when it was challenged by the Age of Discovery.[13][14][why?] The problem of redefining Europe was finally resolved in 1730 when, instead of waterways, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary, a suggestion that found favour in Russia and throughout Europe.[15]

Europe is now generally defined by geographers as the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, with its boundaries marked by large bodies of water to the north, west and south; Europe's limits to the far east are usually taken to be the Urals, the Ural River, and the Caspian Sea; to the south-east, the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.[16] Because of sociopolitical and cultural differences, there are various descriptions of Europe's boundary. For example, Cyprus is approximate to Anatolia (or Asia Minor), but is often considered part of Europe and currently is a member state of the EU. In addition, Malta was considered an island of Africa for centuries,[17] while Iceland, though nearer to Greenland (North America), is also generally included in Europe.

Sometimes, the word 'Europe' is used in a geopolitically limiting way[18] to refer only to the European Union or, even more exclusively, a culturally defined core. On the other hand, the Council of Europe has 47 member countries, and only 27 member states are in the EU.[19] In addition, people living in insular areas such as Ireland, the United Kingdom, the North Atlantic and Mediterranean islands and also in Scandinavia may routinely refer to "continental" or "mainland" Europe simply as Europe or "the Continent".[20]


Glad to see you back Mouse..... Remember I used to travel back and forth to the "EU" sometimes twice a month? European Union (EU) not Eu as I was apologetic for the typo.
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[quote name='Mimir' timestamp='1327140076' post='51903']Glad to see you back Mouse..... Remember I used to travel back and forth to the "EU" sometimes twice a month? European Union (EU) not Eu as I was apologetic for the typo.
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Different Mouse. Hi, I'm Mouse, I'm new here, and check the Net7 patcher, I've set all the mice free from their cages!
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Well welcome to the Emulator Mouse... I thought it was the "old" (I'm gonna die for that crack) Mouze changing her name. :) And like it or not the UK/Britain is considered in the EU, Europe, European Nations. Pretty sure it is not just us "Ugly Americans" that think this way.
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[quote name='Mimir' timestamp='1327146949' post='51906']
Well welcome to the Emulator Mouse... I thought it was the "old" (I'm gonna die for that crack) Mouze changing her name. :( And like it or not the UK/Britain is considered in the EU, Europe, European Nations. Pretty sure it is not just us "Ugly Americans" that think this way.
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Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Also, that doesn't stop the British people I know from yelling at people when they're referred to as Europeans. Edited by Mouse
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[quote name='Mouse' timestamp='1327180635' post='51936']
Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Also, that doesn't stop the British people I know from yelling at people when they're referred to as Europeans.
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Well just because I prefer to buy my groceries on the day that I cook them does not make me European, but hey your friends may think whatever they want... unless they still think they own the USA. :(
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[quote name='Mimir' timestamp='1327204314' post='51955']
Well just because I prefer to buy my groceries on the day that I cook them does not make me European, but hey your friends may think whatever they want... unless they still think they own the USA. ;)
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No, they don't think they still own the USA. Although one of them pretends like he does.
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[quote name='Mouse' timestamp='1327142130' post='51904']
Different Mouse. Hi, I'm Mouse, I'm new here, and check the Net7 patcher, I've set all the mice free from their cages!
[/quote]No. Oh. No, noo. No no. You did not meet Zathras. You met [i]Zathras[/i]. No, that was not Zathras, that was Zathras. There are 10 of us, all of family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you pronounce. Zathraas, Zathras, Zathras.. You are seeing now? :P
[quote name='Shaddex' timestamp='1327345647' post='52054']
Im British ! Not a European ! Actually im English, but even that is not PC !

SO..



Im English and British :)
[/quote]Isn't like British in relation to the kingdom and English to the ethnicity? Something like that? We say English in the US but for ethnic English here (such as myself), and Brits for you chaps.

They serve tea at the football games there? Tea and Ale, eh? :)
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[quote name='Kyp' timestamp='1327253800' post='51967']
Byakhee refers to all of us as colonists, from time to time.
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He better not call me a colonist. I'm indigenous injun... injunenous? indijunous? yeah, i'm indijunous!
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The English are the last people who should complain about being over-generalized or worry about PC-ness, lol. Also, there's no reason to fight amongst ourselves - our real enemy is those shifty Chinese... :)
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[quote name='ryprx' timestamp='1327360469' post='52070']
Damn you Mongorians!!!
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Hey, my ancestors were Mongorions. They crossed the Bering Strait some 14,500 years ago, but they were from Mongoria! Don't make fun of Mongorians, we're all very good at knocking down walls, and that's a useful life skill, you know!
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[quote name='Shaddex' timestamp='1327345647' post='52054']
Im British ! Not a European ! Actually im English, but even that is not PC !

SO..



Im English and British :)
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OK then we all can play that game...I'm not North American I am a Central time zone, Midwestern, formerly a New Yorker, Michigander, Arizonian.

It really doesn't change the location of where you (I) am located and England/Britain UK are still located in Europe. Not to be mistaken for Eurasia.

LOL It's funny how we label ourselves in the best light.
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Funny, the UK elects one of the three, I guess chairmen, of the EU from the UK each time.. strange that they are part of it and don't like to be called EU. ;)

This group is known colloquially as the 'EU Three' I believe.
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