UK 101
To those who, all their lives, have had the affinity towards valuable information or general knowledge the following facts might not be anything new. However, to me the ALLTIME HERMIT, this info is news for my coming years as being a student and a full-time slacker here in the UK.
UK - short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - was formed from the merger between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland in 1801. Before that, the Kingdom of Great Britain was formed as a result of a merger between the kingdoms of England and Scotland. Currently, the UK consists of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
England in itself is subdivided into three types of areas which are non-unitary authorities, unitary authorities and London boroughs. Since it might take the whole of 2004 for yours truly to explain, you might wanna read about them here.
There, that explains why I always have a headache when I try to associate a particular name of place with its physical location. Mind boggling! You never know whether it's a borough, a county, or a state.
UK's current Prime Minister is Tony Blair, although it might change anytime soon judging from several major events taking place this week. Amongst them are UK's bid for the 2012 Olympics, the report about the murder of Dr Robert Kelly and the military kit shortages problem. At least the Defense Secretary, Geoff Hoon, is definitely under fire since the exposure of serious military equipment shortages by a widow of a military officer who died because he had to give up his body armour as there were not enough to go around.
UK's favorite words, in my books, are KNACKERED, SHATTERED and GUTTED (pronounced in intense, guttural sound). Why do they like to use these words? Beats me! I think they only sound sexy when they are being uttered by cute 'Shattered' contestant Chris. Otherwise, they sound completely British (read: offputting).
Finally, this has got to be UK's ugliest car. No, wait! It's UK's second ugliest car. Put that in yellow and hey, presto! you got yourself UK's BUTT (pardon the rude language) UGLIEST car. Apart from the unimaginative name of 'Ka', its bodystyle has got to be the most uncreative design I've ever seen. What was the designer thinking??!!
On another note, I got this hilarious link from a friend.
Posted in: on January 17, 2004 at at 4:48:00 AM
