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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..
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Most people don't even refer to those islands as The Netherlands.
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Like you said, "it is complicated". That seems to be the general status 'ere
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Not since I played Pirates. First I looted that place and then I chased the governor away and got a fat reward for getting a new one from Spain.
Arrrr!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Awesome flashbacks - hilarious.
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And isn't the Netherlands part of Spain?
Or at least the National Anthem pledges allegiance to the King of Spain IIRC
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In the time that we were taxed to death by Alva, some Spanish noble. We claimed to be loyal to the Spanish crown, despite being openly revolting against Alva.
At the moment, we are as much part of Spain as of Germany.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: we are as much part of Spain as of Germany
That could confuse him as we also sing about being of German blood 
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OriginalGriff wrote: And isn't the Netherlands part of Spain?
How old were you again?
We ditched Spain over 300 years ago 
Our National Anthem goes a little like... "Wilhemus van Naussau am I of German blood, something something, I have always honored the king of Spain."
And then a whole lot more verses that most people don't know.
For some reason we usually sing the first and sixth verses from a total of fifteen.
I'm not all that chauvinistic though. Last time I sang that anthem was on Queensday back in elementary school.
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William of Nassau,
I am of Germanic blood,
Dedicate undying
Faith to this land of mine.
A prince I am, undaunted,
Of Orange, ever free,
To the king of Spain I've granted
A lifelong loyalty
Verse 1 IIRC
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That was so funny, I actually spat up my coffee. I feel the same way about the US national anthem (Star Spangled Banner). I do remember "O say can you see.." and "land of the free". What's in between I'll fake as best as possible. Considering that it was actually sang as a tavern song with different words long before the US adopted it and its new words, I ain't doing so bad.
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That presumably dates from when one of the Hapsburg's - AKA Habsburg - ruled both Spain and the Low Countries.
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Long live the Empire!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
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