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Not a big fan of the new logo; however, I did enjoy the doodle. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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She does realise that the headline and her byeline are both in sans-serif, right?
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A vaste majority of people on the planet do not see any difference between those, and can very well live with it.
The rest are the Brits themselves and the people directly confronted with the problematic (politics, website designers who have to cope with country codes), who both know, forced or not, and the French, who give even less elephant about it than anybody else in the world. 
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The Channel Islands are interesting, Jersey and Guernsey have different statuses, despite having the Queen as their official head.
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Wait until you get to Wales - because it's a principality of England it doesn't have the same status as Scotland. The United kingdom therefore consists of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland rather than England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
On the plus side, in compensation for them being a principality, the heir to the throne is always the prince/princess of Wales. So that's alright then.
And as for Devon and Cornwall putting jam and cream on their scones the opposite way around to each other...
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Then you have the British Isles...
And what of Britain? That should include Brittany, in France.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: That should include Brittany, in France
Don'T you even dare to think about it. 
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Little Britain, Great Britain, all part of Britain! 
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As my Scottish uncle used to say "...Call me anything, but late for dinner"
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"U" as in unattended ...
It got so I'd hear this every gig. Roger'd say "It's too loud". I mean, so I'd say "I'll turn it down". And I turned it down. And we'd go on playing. Then I'd turn it back up, see. And we'd keep playing. I mean ... he wouldn't say anything.
(close to the transcription anyway)
Anyone
Ti:16:22 [Edit] To:10:23 {End Edit}
modified 2-Sep-15 13:25pm.
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I'm trying to fix an issue with conflicting country designations. Specifically, country codes.
We use the country code "UK" internally to mean "United Kingdom". However, ISO 3166 uses the country code "GB", short for "Great Britain". Sort of.
Great Britain is an island comprising England, Scotland and Wales, plus some other bits.
The United Kingdom, more correctly called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, contains the Island of Great Britain plus Northern Island, plus some other bits. i.e. it's bigger than Great Britain.
The country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island, aka United Kingdom, is GB. GB is short for Great Britain. Except Great Britain doesn't mean the United Kingdom. Britain was used interchangeably with "United Kingdom", but not so much anymore.
Following so far?
To recap: Great Britain is an island, not a country. Except that it's made up of 4 3 other countries (except they are independent nations, not actual countries) and some other bits. It doesn't have a country code. The United Kingdom is a Sovereign State and has a country code "GB".
My head hurts just thinking that through.
You guys are complicated.
[Edit: Updated to correct the bits I got wrong. Other bits I've got wrong have not yet been updated]
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 2-Sep-15 8:10am.
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Oh man. I completely forgot about the British Isles and the British Islands.
Doing my head in.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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And it still does not paint a complete picture, since British Overseas Territories are not included.
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Hang on to this picture, Chris. It will save you and the rest of us a lot of grief in the future.
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I think no one ever really thinks about it.
Other than when the English refer to themselves as British and everyone else as English but everyone else refers to themselves as Scottish, Welsh, etc
Except for the address when sent from overseas: then mostly always use UK.
Other than if you live in the Channel Islands; then you need to use Jersey, Guernsey, etc.
Or Isle of Man. Or the Shetland Islands.
Or London which is really its own country these days and is everything inside the M25.
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That would be Greater London 
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Breathe.
Well, just as the U.S. isn't America. America is two continents and several associated islands, comprising a great many countries. The U.S. is a sizable chunk -- make that two sizable chunks -- of North America, but also includes some islands that are nowhere near America.
The United States of North America, Western Canada, and Hawaii ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) (Plus Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands... )
But, yeah, at least the code isn't NA.
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Some years ago I worked (in England) for a US company. We were setting up a new issue reporting system, and the US team were doing most of the design. One of their ideas was to use three letter country codes rather than the internationally agreed two letter ones. Guess what they chose for US based addresses? NOR! Round about that time I really lost interest.
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I recently looked at a tourist guide of Holland, so I'm thinking to myself that's nice for people who want to visit our provinces North- and South-Holland.
And then I see the guide includes other provinces like Utrecht and Zeeland. That's not Holland, that's The Netherlands!
Also, HOL is not a country code, it's NL or NLD.
I know how the UK/GB people feel... Even tourist guides get it wrong 
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Curaçao is part of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, and they don't refer to that as Holland..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Most people don't even refer to those islands as The Netherlands.
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