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because, england is a country, ales, scotland, and ireland are also countries. Essex on the other hand is only a county...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I like to quote Sunshine from here:

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I have to agree about nr. 2, you're not supposed to just pick one for the look of it; it's for the information, not for the "My flag is just soooo much cooler than yours!" competition.
Even though removing it might be slightly drastical.

EDIT: Woops, tsk tsk at quick quote.

Why's everyone talking about Essex? I'm from Essex There's no Essex flag.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I like to quote Sunshine from here:

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Originally posted by Sunshine
1) It's "The Netherlands"

2) I also think people should stop abusing the flags and only put in the flag of the country they really live in (seriously stop it, the feature might aswell be taken off if you guys don't use it seriously).

3) And what's up with the UK having several like Welsh and Essex, they aren't countries! Should i request a Frisian flag?

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I like to quote myself from here

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Originally posted by alex

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Originally posted by Sunshine
It's The Netherlands!

I also think people should stop abusing the flags and only put in the flag of the country they really live in (seriously stop it, the feature might aswell be taken off if you guys don't use it seriously). And what's up with the UK having several like Welsh and Essex, they aren't countries! Should i request a Frisian flag?

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Wtf, Wales is a country, and there is no flag for Essex anyway, so what's that got to do with anything?

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Wales most definitely is a country, along with Scotland. =/

They are part of the United Kingdom, just as The Netherlands is a part of the European Union.

Essex is not a country, but as kao said they don't have a flag anyway. =/

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Originally posted by Dr4g0n
They are part of the United Kingdom, just as The Netherlands is a part of the European Union.

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That is a bad comparison, since United Kingdom is part of the EU too.

Also, when people say country, usually they mean soverign state, and neither Wales, nor Scotland are soverign states.

So United Kingdom should be the only flag.

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Originally posted by [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
Wikipedia[/url]]The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy comprising four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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They are indeed all separate countries, and so have the right to their own flag.

There should be some common sense applied to everything. Yes technically Wales, Scotland, England and NI are all countries. Just in the same way East germany still exists.

Having Wales, Scotland, England and NI as selectable countries sets a precident. What if members of ETA want the Basque Country as a selectable flag, or someone who has a passport to Sealand wants a flag.

Also, since we are an international forum, more people are going recognise the UK flag, rather than the Welsh flag.

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Originally posted by saralk
Also, since we are an international forum, more people are going recognise the UK flag, rather than the Welsh flag.

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So they can hover over the flag and see what country it is =p

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Originally posted by alex

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Originally posted by saralk
Also, since we are an international forum, more people are going recognise the UK flag, rather than the Welsh flag.

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So they can hover over the flag and see what country it is =p

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But still, they may not know what Wales is, they are more likely to know what the United Kingdom is.

What can I say, i'm a unionist