What is Britishness?
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ParkCungHee
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Like I said, awful.
Tahuti
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Remove Britons. Ireland strong!
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
I'm not sure if I should be irritated that this thread isn't really developing, or pleased that the rest of the world shares my feeling that Britain is a joke. 
And does it even exist? Perhaps like all nationalisms it's primarily humbug - a very British word indeed (or is it?).
Quackers
The Frog
The word "Britishness" sums up Gordan Brown's attempt to whip up some popular support leading up to the last election. It is empty political sloganneering to me. Some say the idea of Britain is defunct now the Empire is gone and we cease to have a common cause together. Yet, obviously with the Scottish independence movement on the verge of being rejected in September it appears there is something binding the countries together.
ArneHD
Just a little bit mad
I'm not sure if I should be irritated that this thread isn't really developing, or pleased that the rest of the world shares my feeling that Britain is a joke.
The joke isn't Britain, the joke is Britishness, which I think is fine, since it's the British themselves who have made Britishness a joke.
Or rather, the joke might be Britain, but Britishness is the punchline.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Passive-aggressive sarcasm, dry humor, and curmudgeonry gone amok.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
You can certainly make that argument, that something binds England and Scotland together, but, what? Is Britishness simply the historical inertia of the Union, or is it something more substantial?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
That really has nothing to do with the thread, and I'd rather not open up that tangent.
(Although, to answer your question, yes, the currency would be empty bottles of Barr's Irn Bru, on the basis that is already Scotland's day-to-day medium of exchange.)
(Although, to answer your question, yes, the currency would be empty bottles of Barr's Irn Bru, on the basis that is already Scotland's day-to-day medium of exchange.)
^Of course not. If you cannot print your own cash you are at best a bit of some country. But Scotland would not automatically be in the EUROcurrency zone if it just left the UK, cause the UK is not in the Eurocurrency zone now either.
Kozmos
Jew Detective
Britishness is tea and crumpets, stiff-upper lipness, social awkwardness and eccentricity. Scotishness is drugs, hatred, manliness and depression. Irishness is alcohol, wifebeatingness and catholicnessness. Welshness is sheepshaggery and strangelanguagness. Britishness is probably all of that, but in smaller, better concealed dozes.
MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
I will now forever associate Britishness with taking short, surreptitious naps.
bathsheba666
Fast 'n Bulbous
As an Englishman, I guess the easiest way to depict ourselves is to let Scotland go...
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