Central Scrutinizer Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Teddy, You asked Faustian, "Read the post again, where do I mention the population of the UK" The quote I showed from you from your post to Mekong is where I suspect Faustian read and was challenging or correcting your numbers of the UK population. In this post from you: 18/12/2007 20:16 - Post#648122 Cent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 but don't forget Jim Fixx never had a medical before starting jogging. i also never had any sort of medical before starting running. wasn't the done thing in those Days. in the Summer i was diagnosed with 3 blood clots in my Pulmonary Artery and was told i was Days away from a stroke or worse. i had no symptoms,as there are none and my condition was only discovered when i visited the Doctor for another complaint. thankfully the MRI Scan picked up the problem. anyone of us could have something potentially dangerously wrong with us and not know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddy Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Cent, I have never mentioned the population of the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 uk population is 60 million, england 50 million plus unaccounted for illegals of course.!...teddy was talking of england population not uk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddy Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Thanks for that, I thought I was going mad there for a second :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 uk population is 60 million, england 50 million plus unaccounted for illegals of course.!...teddy was talking of england population not uk! For us non Brits, England or UK, it's all the same. [even though some gents from the island try to explain that is not ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 you are usually quite pedantic so that statement suprises me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 you are usually quite pedantic so that statement suprises me! Hehe, maybe it's a German thing. We usually say England if we mean UK. I just had to explain to our secretary not to write England on a letter to Edinburgh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIGJAM Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Hehe, maybe it's a German thing. We usually say England if we mean UK. I'm sorry for my Irish, Scottish and Welsh pals (I know how important it is to them) but I think it's pretty common To give another example, in Italy it's the same: when we say "gli Inglesi" (the English) we usually mean "i Britannici" (the British). Inghilterra/Regno Unito - England/United Kingdom Even worse, sometimes those who think to know better would use "la Gran Bretagna" (the Great Britain) instead of "il Regno Unito" (the United Kingdom) thinking them as equivalents while my non-English UK pals have made me notice that "GB" leaves out the Northern Ireland... The complete, correct name is "the United Kingdom of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (or simply UK). I now make it a point of explainin it to whomever I happen to hear incorrectly calling the UK by whichever other name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Teddy, Ah, okay, my mistake then. England, not the UK then it is. Forget sometimes. As another here said, many times some of us do equate UK and England. My bad. No offense to the Irish, Scots, Welsh, intended. :grin: Cent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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