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[case]

While we're doing scientifically-unsound polls, might as well do this one too!

[Poll #1636721]

Only separated out the major/predominantly English-speaking nations because there are probably way more of even one of those than any of the others combined.

This isn't about politics, it's about geographical, physical location. You don't have to identify as an American to be from the US! Chill!

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[trialia]

Not in my case. I don't like the term "UK" either - I live in England, or Great Britain for preference. The so-called United Kingdom is profoundly disunited on the inside, which makes "UK" seem ludicrous to those who know all the differences...

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Mm, but the question wasn't "how do you prefer to identify?" I don't identify as from the UK either as a first preference, but that doesn't change the fact the United Kingdom exists as a state, and it is where I happen to live, and it also happens to be part of the continent of Europe.

If the ticky box had just said "Great Britain", Northern Ireland would either have been excluded, or would then need its own tickybox. And the ticky box had said "England", Wales, Scotland and NI would have needed one too, and then it would have made no sense to have *four* ticky boxes for the UK, and just one for all of mainland Europe; you have to make one for all those individual countries too, and that really wasn't the point of the poll in the first place...

[trialia]

/me rolls eyes

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that was enlightening.

[trialia]

Wasn't meant to be. I'm tired and half-stoned on meds and I'm sick of explaining myself.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

I was being sarcastic.

I'm not denying your basic points have merit, I just can't really see how this particular poll, considering its purposes and limitations, could have been expected to express it better.

[trialia]

I knew you were being sarcastic, I just thought it was about a different aspect of the situation.