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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If Northern Ireland decided to leave the UK and join Ireland, I would not suddenly find myself living in "Great Britain". I'd then be in "The United Kingdom of Great Britain".
Only if the Scots decided to go their own way would I no longer be living in the UK. Then I'd probably be living in "The Kingdom of England and Wales". Until and unless the Welsh wanted independence too...
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But if the UK were suddenly invaded by an alien race who looked human but wore coloured macintoshes to distinguish between the sexes and got intoxicated on curdled milk and found a particular Welsh singer so sexy they renamed his home country after him and for whom the word "Scot" was a very vulgar term not to be spoken within the hearing of women and children and thereby designated the northern folks by other means it would probably be called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Tom Jonesistan and
The Hairy Kilt Wearing Men Who Throw Logs and Might Pummel You if You Speak With a British Accent"
Of course these aliens, who become known as "The Pink and Yellow Macintosh People" (acronym PYMPs) would not be particularly well liked. And their practice of eating 10 day old salmon on saltines with their curdled milk-tinis frequently gets them pummelled by Scots.