I was checking out my old contributions to newsgroups (remember those...) and came across one that made me smile...
">Here in england, we have england in the middle of our maps.
JKay "
That was posted 4 August 1999. I mean... 8 years later (Jesus Christ... time is slipping away from me sooo fast) and I still have that same obsession over the whole England/Britain debate.
It gives me a warm tingly feeling to know I've kept my beliefs that I had oh so long ago.
The latest new girl at work was sitting training with me last week when a guy from marketing came in and spoke with me. He mentioned something about "England" and started me off on my "Britain Not England" speech... and my entire team (and I mean the ENTIRE team) all went "Oh God, who mentioned England... Why would you do that around Jae?"
Maybe I should look into letting it go... Nah... My British Thing is defo one of the important parts of the Jae Experience.
P.S. I've made the cut on some dead blog links over on the right... I hate that. Will people PLEASE keep posting... :(
Jim? Off the list? And he never gave me his recipe for that curry he makes for you. Now I'll never get it.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of England...I was in my 50's before I knew the difference between the UK, Britain, Great Britain and England. I asked my limey friends to explain -- in a way I could understand -- and they did.
I will be blogging better real soon. Had a bad reaction to some medication I take and have been feelin' poorly for a week or so. Thank God for Vicodin.