Get your fecking hand up  

oh yes they are all english  

Velvet...we're 30 mile off Scotland's border....but I am still proud to be British, even though the North is forgotten about, mainly by Tory Governments, but also by most political parties. 

Hey sandra  

Cannae read between the lines me  

I can read the lines though.

Are you watching BB?  

Worked two people out tonight.

hya am not watching either one lol i just hate that its all GB but if scottish person wins they are british 

 And I'm just over the other side 

Maybe with others, but not with me. We're all in it together remember.........

It's the Olympics sandra.

Not the Commonwealth Games 

Well that was what I thought...

Sandra! Good to see you! 

Obviously not, I remember being in Tenerife and watching the world cup...there was Scottish people behind me shouting for Germany...it works both ways, I support any home country...its just not England that does this. that's all I am saying on the subject, I luv's Velvet to bits, but please do not tar us with then same brush   

I'm Scottish, hubby is English and we are both British.

Team GB in the Yogi household.

Me too.. I really hate that other home country's don't do the same.. it's sad

Do you think people call brits English a lot cos the language is called English,  if people muck up and say English instead of British  I can understand it may annoy some but  doubt offence is intended, tis a slip of the tongue

try being in the Midlands we don't even rate a mention it's either north or south but nothing in between   so I know how the other home nations feel 

I don't think that GB is England, but through force of habit, I've called the GB football teams 'England' a couple of times before correcting myself.  It doesn't mean I think GB = England, just that I'm used to thinking of football in particular, in those terms. 

Put another way, team GB is 'we' or 'us' but usually for the English, 'we' or 'us' is England.  No need for Scots to get worked up about it, I'd expect many Scots make the same slips by referring to team GB as 'Scotland'.

Don't forget the ceremony is principally in London, England, so the references will be heavily biased to London firstly and then England secondly.

I can appreciate that Scots will think it's "England's Olympics" because it mostly is, likewise, those outside London think it's "London's Olympics" because it mostly is. 

If, say, Edinburgh had hosted the Olympics, I wouldn't begrudge the emphasise of the ceremony being placed firstly on Edinburgh, then Scotland and finally GB.

Not that old chestnut, again

It is... it's  "London 2012", not UK 2012.  (I'm a Scot, but I don't think of it as England's Olympics - I think of it as London's)   Does it bother me?  Not one Jot.   It's still got me feeling quite patriotic because it's so close to home, but eternally thankful I don't actually live in London when I see all the travel disruption etc...  Best of both worlds.   Whilst I'm sure the atmosphere must be fantastic, wild horses wouldn't get me there... but that's just me. 

Are the olympics not usually remembered by the place they're held in, i.e. Munich, Seoul, Calgary etc. ?

That's how I see it - still means something to the country as a whole though I reckon

I was up the Khyber without a pass last night Dame  

I don't.

Sorry for going overboard  

Sorry Sprouty too 

Wasn't my finest hour  

I don't have many either