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Any chance the USA tab could be renamed North America?

asimpson2006 wrote:

I mean even though some parts of Canada are "America Lite", they still are part of NA so I think it does make a bit more sense to include them in the tab and not just something shoved in a corner.

Fair enough. Canadian are a lot like Americans...we just tend to be somewhat lighter.

Moomintroll wrote:

Couldn't we simplify things by getting rid of the Aussie and UK sites and replacing them with a Commonwealth site where our Canadian brethren would be welcome to join us? We could insist on proper English spellings on our refined Commonwealth forum and maybe set the site up to automatically play God Save the Queen at 1:00am (GMT) every night, just like BBC Radio 4. Doesn't that sound cosy?

Last I checked, Aussies don't care much about being in the Commonwealth.

I have no problem with Canada at all

madmangohan wrote:

Moomintroll wrote: Couldn't we simplify things by getting rid of the Aussie and UK sites and replacing them with a Commonwealth site where our Canadian brethren would be welcome to join us? We could insist on proper English spellings on our refined Commonwealth forum and maybe set the site up to automatically play God Save the Queen at 1:00am (GMT) every night, just like BBC Radio 4. Doesn't that sound cosy? Last I checked, Aussies don't care much about being in the Commonwealth.

Yay proper spelling! madmangohan's right though, we don't. Well maybe more accuately I don't - the last referendum (1999) was a let down. No state's majority voted 'yes' for the change and the majority of the population generally followed suit. Ironically the ACT (where our federal parliament is based) did vote yes.

I disgress, I mostly wanted to point out that Moomintroll's post made me laugh.

it's just nice to have a respectable members club for the English speaking peoples of the world to hang out in that has a big sign on the door reading "Smart dress only, no dogs except guide dogs for the blind, Americans prohibited".

Pffft, Oz can have the Commonwealth Games. Canada won the most gold medals of any country ever at the last Winter Olympics - the only sporting event that truly matters.

Blood- wrote:

Pffft, Oz can have the Commonwealth Games. Canada won the most gold medals of any country ever at the last Winter Olympics - the only sporting event that truly matters.

Blatant lies. Summer Olympics ftw.

I'm sure if it was up to Australia it would be more like "We are only here to kick your asses at the Commonwealth Games again"

Ah, yes, but in the Commonwealth Games, Britain splits up into its constituent parts in order to give everybody else a fighting chance.
Add the 2010 medals for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man together and you get 199 to Australia's 177. I grant you, even looked at that way, Australia still wins on gold medals but it's hardly an arse kicking.

Oh, sure, if you are going to include Medal Powerhouse Isle of Man...

And by that theory, we could just add New Zealand and go back to the arse kicking line.

And, hey, most of the member nations don't even have the Queen as head of state. If it's the playing God Save the Queen at 1:00am every night thing that's worrying you, I have absolutely no problem with replacing it with Waltzing Matilda every third day or so. One must move with the times after all...

"Smart dress only, no dogs except guide dogs for the blind, Americans prohibited".