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| Ok folks, time to move this out of lugnet.lego.direct. :) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) Yes, but you forget you could buy Scotland for the price of a studio flat down here. And that prices in many shops and for many services are much higher (I only have to compare what I pay in the same shop as my family in the west country or (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) No worse than the Governments (of all persuasions) who consider that whatever policies are good for the South-East of England will be appropriate for the whole country. Some examples; <Ben Elton mode> The folk of Shetland pay the same rate of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
| | | | | Re: Just where is Scotland?
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| (...) Nearly. You need to separate physical geography from political boundaries Geog: Great Britain is the single large island northwest of France. It is often mistaken as the polical boundary - for example in sports events where a UK team is (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) That's because Brits are a surly lot in general (ducking the flames), while Scottish are only surly once they drink enough (REALLY ducking this time) ;-) (I could throw in some sports references here to really rile everyone up, but I don't (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) I know what you mean. These are all the geographical terms I know of for where I live, and some of their definitions: England: Obvioulsly, just England British Isles: Basicly, all the land we own (not including our commonwealth, but the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) I would bet that many folks in England, and even more elsewhere could not tell you what England, Great Britain, or the UK actually represent. Geographically or politically speaking. They are all the same place to many people. E.g. You (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) Nope, only that the UK should be described as the UK (it is now) not "England" as it was a few days ago. Even though the error was corrected, I was bemused by the response of LEGO - so I shared it. As for Scotalnd's FIFA ranking (England is (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) Where is Scotland? 22nd according to FIFA rankings. Lets face it, the average .com considers the UK to be the 51st State of the USA. How many corporates dont have a UK web site and just point you their US one on the basis that we speak the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (URL) my moan above about Scotland Wales and NI being transformed into English Counties I scribbled a note of to LEGO. I got this reply: (...) I am left wondering is LEGO does not understand that the UK, GB, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie)
| | | | | Jessiman Family in Europe
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| Greetings Don and Robyn Jessiman, parents of the late James Jessiman, are travelling to Europe tomorrow. They would like to see if they can meet people in the Lego/LDraw community who live in the UK, Ireland, and Germany on this trip. Since they do (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.announce, lugnet.people)
| | | | | New newsgroup lugnet.loc.eu
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| A new wide-spanning newsgroup for LEGO enthusiasts in Europe (European Union and European countries) has just been created. This will help minimize massive crossposting in the case of wide topic discussions such as a European LEGO Fest. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.cz, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.ee, lugnet.loc.gr, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.hu, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.no, lugnet.loc.pl, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.ru, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.sk, lugnet.loc.si, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.tr, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.loc.il)
| | | | | Dreaming of a European Legofest
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| The great experience of meeting in person other Lego enthusiasts at the MindFest and at some Italian Legofests, makes me dream of a European Legofest. Some remarks about this topic (talking freely): - Saying "European" I use the term in its (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.ie)
| | | | | Eire based lego fans?
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| Well? are there any Legomaniacs based in the Galway region? dave. (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.ie.cn.gal)
| | | | | Re: Eire based lego fans?
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| test David Johnston wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 26-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.ie.cn.gal)
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