On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 11:43:47 PM UTC+1, Dr J R Stockton wrote:
In sci.astro.amateur message c47677da-c69e-4563-b452-b142b3368275@googl
egroups.com, Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:01:14, posted:

On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:45:12 PM UTC+1, wrote:

Ireland is a British Isle.

Just as America is a British colony.


The island of Ireland, part of which is the Republic of Ireland, is part
of the British Isles (which is a geographical term, mot a geopolitical
one), and almost all of the rest is the United Kingdom.

The word 'countryside' is a geographical term so I can walk in the Irish countryside or drive up to Northern Ireland and stroll through the British countryside. Academics just don't get it ,they learned things at school as children and history passed them by such as Ireland as a sovereign State with the Irish having no connection to Britain or British no more than any neighboring country.

Of course you are the people who conjure up a solar vs a sidereal day and forgot/ can't comprehend the basic term 'weekday' which equates to one rotation of the Earth and there are 1461 such days/rotations confined within 4 complete circuits of the Sun as a proportion.

The danger to a society is that a prolonged loss of intellectual dignity leads to forms of autism as the centers which produce creative and productive reasoning are limited or shut down altogether. I have noticed this in my time here that participants just don't see the wider reasoning due to an inherited pupil/teacher relationship where errors get passed on from one generation to the next.