I am English, not British. QUIT CALLING ME BRITISH! amirite?

Ye... I'm English. It's really annoying.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Yeah I was in Ireland and I had a really uncomfortable conversation with a guy peeing on a public fence: Me: "Why are you peeing on a fence?" Guy: "I pee where I want dickhead, I'll pee on your leg." Me: But, why would you pee on my leg. Do British people pee on legs? Guy: "I'm Irish you dickhead." True story.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Technically, England is part of Great Britain, so you are both English and British. Although I understand why you're annoyed.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I don't. That's like me being mad at someone for calling me American when I'm Arizonan.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

:D

by Anonymous 15 years ago

you are so right! SCOTTISH people... SCOTTISH.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing that SarahMacfarlane posted. Aren't you both? It's like if I said, "I'm from Virginia, not the United States!"

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Actually it would be like people constantly referring to you guys as North Americans, therefore lumping you and Canadians together.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But that doesn't seem annoying at all. Maybe I'm just less annoyed by names though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, that'd be if people were calling them Europeans instead of English. The country is really called The United Kingdom of Great Britain, so I think that the state comparison would be more relevant.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I AM both, but I don't wan't to be CALLED both. It's wierd. To me it's like saying you're from The Earth, instead of saying from the US.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

We all live on earth ... if an alien said that it wouldn't be weird at all (I guess it would be quite weird to have a conversation with an alien though).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you encountered aliens, you would say you are from Earth. If you met foreigners, you would say you are from the US. If you meet someone from a different state, you would say you are from your state. Your introduction of where you from and the way people address your location of origin has to be put in perspective. Therefore, people who are from outside the Great Britain will call everyone from inside it as British. And aliens will address them as Earthlings.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Im English, and I hate when people call me British! It would be like us calling Americans Westerners, it's wierd!

by Anonymous 15 years ago

http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/funny-graphs-united-kingdom-explained.png I think this could be of assistance.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We should call you United Kinglish

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's like an American saying "I'm American, not North American! Don't call me North American!" You may want to be identified as English, but at the end of the day, you're British too, so people calling you British aren't wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay to the Americans-it doesn't matter what state you're from. The US and England are countries. Britain is to America as England is to the US (more so the lower 48)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

American vote overload.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It bugs me when people mix up the English and British flag. I've met people who thought that the British flag was the English flag.

They didn't even know the English flag existed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Alright then, i'll call you dumb ass.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I WANT TO RAGE IN THE COMMENTS, TOO!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, you are both. I don't go and complain when I am called an American when I am actually a United States of America citizen. America technically is both North and South America. There is no country named America. I would much rather you called me a United States of America-ian, okay, thanks.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Am I the only person who doesn't get why this would be annoying?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wales, England, Scotland are all British. Those including Northern Ireland make up the United Kingdom. And Europeans call US stupid...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

DOES IT REALLY MATTER?

by Anonymous 13 years ago