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essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Presently42@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, I hate to be the breaker of bad news, but the UK has left the EU 🤷 Don’t shoot the messenger

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  • whatsisface@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    EU != Europe

    Europe is a continent. The European Union is a group of countries in Europe, no longer including the UK.

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    • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maps like this are the only way my feeble American brain can process complicated European things.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Great Britain and the British Isles are geographical terms, not political ones. Sometimes publications will say Great Britain to mean England, Scotland, and Wales, but not Northern Ireland but they also don’t include things like the Isle of Man in that even though technically Great Britain does include the Isle of Man.

        Unless the conversation is explicitly about geography, and land masses you should not use anything other than the United Kingdom.

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      • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While entirely correct, the Irish get very antsy about being included in the British Isles. It’s a “colonial relic” is probably the nicest version. So yes the map is correct from a British pov but not from an Irish one.

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      • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ukraine is a candidate country, by the way.

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Read the comment. EU - maybe, but not the Europe,how do you leave a continent?

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Give it a couple million years of plate tectonics.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The UK and Ireland are part of the same plate as Europe. Anyway 2 million isn’t even that much time for continental drift, If you traveled back in time to the Jurassic that wouldn’t be a significant difference between the layout of the continents then and the layouts of the continents now.

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      • gianni@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or maybe if everyone jumps up in the air at the same time.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes but not the continent despite what certain people would like

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• Neon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know exactly what was meant.

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You see there was this little thing called Brexit…

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh right, is that when they moved to a different tectonic plate?

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    • gianni@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh I see what you’re saying. Yeah, they probably should have said EU but it’s a little pedantic to pretend you didn’t know.

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Welcome to the internet.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The UK is technically on a few islands, one can use Gibraltar to argue, of course, and historically English crown did possess lots of land in Normandy, Anjou, Aquitaine and even Flanders, also that union with Hannover, but ahem.

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  • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bunch of EU countries have land outside the mainland though

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most of their land you mean? EU yes, Europe has many definitions

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