Is england overated?

[Titanic]

I tell you one thing England is over rated at - Sport. Such as football, rugby, cricket....

Cant wait for the mauling tonight from Kaka and Brazil. England were good at Rugby in 2003, with Martin Johnson and half the Tigers squad in their team.

[Phobia]

I tell you one thing England is over rated at - Sport. Such as football, rugby, cricket....

Cant wait for the mauling tonight from Kaka and Brazil. England were good at Rugby in 2003, with Martin Johnson and half the Tigers squad in their team.

haha, its gonna be great, predicting England 0 - 7 Brazil

yeah we were good at rugby, but the other week I heard we just suffered our heaviest defeat

as for cricket, well, the word whitewash springs to mind

not much of a tennis fan but also heard tim henman just got knocked out of the open france thing.

in other news, in september im moving school to where micheal vaughan went to

[alex_white101]

have u looked at megarmans profile under interests? wat a geek? has anyone commented that this thread is most probably some jealousy being spouted from a sour welshman whose thinking if i was born a few miles further east i would have a chance at a job when im older.........

[gethine]

have u looked at megarmans profile under interests? wat a geek? has anyone commented that this thread is most probably some jealousy being spouted from a sour welshman whose thinking if i was born a few miles further east i would have a chance at a job when im older.........

don't start another ruckus
a few miles further east would be chepstow which is still in wales anyway.

[mr. incrediball]

i live in england an its shit

get out of my country...

[Dmunster]

I heard a cool band from Wales recently, People in Planes? I think they were called. Wales is cool in my book.

[Titanic]

I tell you one thing England is over rated at - Sport. Such as football, rugby, cricket....

Cant wait for the mauling tonight from Kaka and Brazil. England were good at Rugby in 2003, with Martin Johnson and half the Tigers squad in their team.

haha, its gonna be great, predicting England 0 - 7 Brazil

yeah we were good at rugby, but the other week I heard we just suffered our heaviest defeat

as for cricket, well, the word whitewash springs to mind

not much of a tennis fan but also heard tim henman just got knocked out of the open france thing.

in other news, in september im moving school to where micheal vaughan went to

Heard a great joke on Mock the Weeks before, something like this: "After the 2003 WC, we were thinking of making Rugby our national sport. Then we realsied only 8 countries in the world play it, and 4 of them are us!"

[Stopper]

He's getting on a bit these days though eh?

That's weird you should say that, because actually, I was only reminded of him - for some reason, maybe a newspaper article or something - this year. The last I knew of him was when my granny was a fan, and she died over 10 years ago. So, yes, when I saw his image, I did immediately think he looked a fair bit older than I expected him to.

He could still easily lead a dangerous religious cult just with his eyes, if he wanted to, though.

[gethine]

ithink most DoD theorists refer to his eyes as deadpools nowadays. and like the clown from IT, he can only be hurt by silver. allegedly.

[wallyboy444]

You know this subject is really really really imature and is for the sad little people in life
Who's Empire took up a quarter of the world? Oh yes I remeber BRITAIN!! And who in fact was in control of Britain? Oh I know this one too ENGLAND!!
If you dont know about Wales read an atlass!
Who doesn't know about Scotland!?
The only part of England that Sucks or is rubbish is Bristol and that is because their home football team is Bristol City!
Overated not in a million years, who in fact are the American nationality creators? Oh there we are again, the GREAT BRITISH FUCKING EMPIRE!!! What launguage do the Americans speak? ENGLISH.
Come on people there is even a website which will tell all of this wikipedia!

[Neoteny]

^^ overrated.

[MeDeFe]

I would have thought wallyboy was an Aussie.

[jonesthecurl]

I know Wales, cause I read a book about Robin Hood set in Wales: the author researched Robin hood and thought that he might have been Anglicized, but was actually Welsh. Also it had heaps of information about Wales.

Either you, or the author, probably meant "Twm Shon Catti". Much later than the English one, and not to be confused with.

[t-o-m]

In terms of Population I think England is about 20 times bigger than Wales and 10 times bigger than Scotland.

wales has ~5mil people,
england ~fuk knows

[Fruitcake]

I am of English descent (well, for the last 1000 odd years according to the lineage I belong to so I reckon I am pretty much English)

I really don't think about it unless I am in parts where johnny foreigner runs riot. Then, one of two things happens. Either they hate me (mostly) in which case I hit them with my swagger stick and get them to carry my bags, or they like me (not very often) in which case one of two things happens. Either they do understand me (in which case I just get them to carry my bags) or they do not understand me, in which case one of two things happen. Either I shout louder until they do understand so they can carry my bags or I hit them with my swagger stick and shout at them until they carry my bags.

It is a great experience being both a male and an Englishman, oh yes indeed it is definite case of being blessed twice over.

[suggs]

Im welsh and i belive that england is rubbish its 3 times bigger than wales and took them many years to take it and longer for scotland and ireland and only the north of it, and almost all of there wars where won because of help from other countries

Like your "None of this is true approach" - give Putin a call, i'm sure he's a job for ya.
I'm being a bit harsh - i think you're right about the relative size of the countries.
I love comparing the size of contries, it so endlessly fascinating to shout out "Look texas is bigger than england", "russia is bigger than texas " etc - its a game that works on so many levels.
Do pipe down, boyo.

[AlgyTaylor]

England's a pretty good country to live in. I mean, you do get a load of fucking retards who vote for Boris Johnson on account of him being quite funny on 'Have I Got News For You?', which is hardly the best criteria for choosing an administrator IMO. But generally it's quite a good bit of the UK.

Wales is a fucking great country, though.

[Pedronicus]

I love this green and pleasant land.
Sure it rains far too much, but if it didn't rain so much - it wouldn't be green.

[Dancing Mustard]

Funilly enough though, the surface area of mars is larger than Russia, but is devoid of human life, much like wales.

Continuing in the same vein, the surface of Mars has never been inhabited by intelligent lifeforms. Also just like Wales.

[Gypsys Kiss]

Continuing in the same vein, the surface of Mars has never been inhabited by intelligent lifeforms. Also just like Wales.

Apparently wales is roughly about the same size as Israel, but the happiness level of herd-animals within the latter are thought to be higher.

How can the sheep in Wales be unhappy, what with all the sex they get.

[Minister Masket]

Another thing the Welsh gave us:
Doctor Who!

Well, the new series anyway....

[pmchugh]

The vast majority of this thread is flaming BS so im going to ignore what you all said and just answer the first question.

I think the problem with the Welsh's national identity is that they dont really have anything that stands out about them. When Americans here Scotsmen they can think of some ginger person wearing a Kilt and playing the bagpipes (or Willie from the Simpsons), while this may not be entirely accurate at least it gives us an identity.

Anyone who doesnt realise that the UK is a seperate thing from England and that thinks they are the interchangable is ignorant. Its like saying Canada is part of the US.

I have nothing against English people only their media. Espicially in sport, when England do well all the coverage is on their success and when they do badly its about Englands failures they never talk about how well or badly Scotland/Wales/N. Ireland are doing. For instance when Scotland beat France 1-0 in France the main headline on BBC was about how England had beaten Russia fair enough Russia are a decent side but our result was by far a bigger upset and should have definately been the main headline, Scotland managed second place in an article where they had said the manager was Walter Smith when in fact it was Alex Mcleish. This is a minor example there are many more they are just talked about 24/7 in the press and some are completely arrogant in their nation. Look at the odds for the 2010 world cup, England are third favourites and the favourite European side to win it. This is despite the fact they failed to qualify for the European championships.

Again I would like to repeat I dont have anything against England except from their media in sport.

[InkL0sed]

I think the problem with the Welsh's national identity is that they dont really have anything that stands out about them.

But the Welsh have... well, Welsh! I think that's a pretty distinguishing factor...

[muy_thaiguy]

I thought the Welsh were famous for their longbow men?

[InkL0sed]

Uh... I meant to say Gaelic. The Welsh have Gaelic, because they're awesome.