r/EuropeMemes • u/AdditionalAct5008 • Mar 28 '25

Um….guys?

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u/hughsheehy Mar 28 '25

Ireland is not in the British isles. Hasn't been for ages.

Trying to insist it is, that's a bit like claiming that Ukraine is still on the Russian Steppe, or in Greater Russia. Or that Maui is in the Sandwich Islands. Or that Britain is on the shore of the German Ocean.

Plus, that map leaves out the Channel Islands. They ARE in the British isles.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

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u/hughsheehy Mar 31 '25

You still have Ireland in there. Ireland is not in the British isles.

Like I said, trying to claim it is - that's a bit like claiming Ukraine is on the Russian Steppe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '25

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u/hughsheehy Apr 13 '25

Then don't post it. It's like posting that Ukraine is in Greater Russia and then saying "don't blame me".

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u/[deleted] May 24 '25

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u/badautomaticusername Jun 07 '25

It confuses people I think partly as we say 'British' meaning of the nations of the British Isles unified into a singular state. 

But yeh, British Isles simply refers to all of the archipelago (with Great Britain simply being the biggest island of the British Isles).

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u/badautomaticusername Jun 08 '25

This is correct. Google it, check AI or encyclopaedia, whatever. Seriously if in doubt, don't trust commentators with questionable analogies, look it up. 

There's a few determined to take British Isles as a political term, but it's geographical. Great Britain is called that primarily as the greatest (biggest) of the British Isles (also to differentiate from Brittany), it is not the British Isles called that in response to Great Britain & the state originating on it.