If You Can't Make It To Europe this Year

Thanks for the post - I hadn't seen that before. Your last line really made me laugh! Needed that this morning.

The only thing I have found Ryanair to be good for is when you need to get to the out of the way places...

Reminds me of a Ryanair e-mail I got a couple of weeks ago...headlined along the lines of "Want a cheap Fare to Europe?"
All agog with the thought they may have expanded to North America ;) I clicked on the link, only to find that it was for a sale from UK and Irish airports to its other European destinations! Ryanair's geographic knowledge apparently continues to deteriorate, with the UK and Ireland apparently not a part of Europe now!

Good one FrankII :-)

Whether they say they are or not is irrelevant.

Sounds like the "Visions of Europe" DVD series with a motion simulator added. Now that Inbev owns Anheuser-Busch, I wonder if the park will sell any decent Belgian beers to go along with the Budweiser they've always sold there? I found it odd eating in a German-style beerhall but only having the option of drinking Bud or Bud Lite.

The UK will never say they are in "Europe." Its a cultural thing with them we must respect. So Ryan's geography is right, in the British mind.

Absolute nonsense, tosh and piffle.

Anyone over here with an even basic grasp of geography knows exactly what continent we are on. Some people, for political reasons, don't believe we should be in the EU, but that is a different thing.

There are a very, very small, vocal minority here who might say, quite loudly, the the UK is not part of Europe but that's because they are idiots. They have as much connection with reality as your t-baggers and birthers and truthers etc. Unfortunately these people are rather active on the internet...

I think Steve's again shown the weakness of just posting what you can google, rather than what you know.

As an aside, it is common in British (and Irish) English to use Europe as a shorthand for "Continental Europe" so Ryan Air are using perfectly normal English. We can tell, quite clearly, from context when someone means "Europe" or "Continental Europe." It's like how Americans sometime use Irish when they really mean "Americans of Irish decent".

You gotta love a country that uses words like tosh and piffle.

Yes Peter...YOU can tell, but we can't...that's why it was such a hoot to see Ryanair post it that way!
BTW,....I thought that membership in the EU and the channel tunnel had finally put paid to the remnants of the "Little England" movement....or is that why you still have sterling? ;)

u seem to garner many replies so I just want to put in my 2 pence. 2 of the nicest people i have ever met have been from uk. one from leeds one from rodley.